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John Irving recommended The Scarlet Letter in Books (curated)

 
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1850 | Fiction & Poetry
6.8 (24 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, those churchwomen gossiping about what they would do to Hester - not mark her clothes but brand her forehead, or kill her - would later drive me to make sexual explicitness and sexual minorities features of many of my novels."

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Torbjorn Flygt recommended Child Wonder in Books (curated)

 
Child Wonder
Child Wonder
Roy Jacobsen | 2011 | Fiction & Poetry, Travel
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"If you ask me, Jacobsen is Scandinavia’s best now living novelist. “Child Wonder” is a gripping tale about a boy’s upbringing in Oslo with his single mother. If you read any one of Jacobsen’s novels you’ll become a member of his fan club."

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Sarah (7800 KP) rated The Snowman (Harry Hole #7) (Oslo Sequence #5) in Books

Oct 16, 2017  
The Snowman (Harry Hole #7) (Oslo Sequence #5)
The Snowman (Harry Hole #7) (Oslo Sequence #5)
Don Bartlett, Jo Nesbo | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
7
7.7 (10 Ratings)
Book Rating
A very good crime thriller
Crime thrillers are very common, especially series, but I really think the Harry Hole books are better than your average crime novels.

The Norwegian setting is a nice change from your usual UK or USA set novels. Harry Hole is an intriguing and flawed protaganist, even if he is a little bit cliched. The plot of this novel itself is very interesting, although it does wander slightly into disbelief at times. This doesn't stop it from being a very good read and probably one of the better stories in the Harry Hole series that I've read so far.
  
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Gisell Middleton (189 KP) rated Strike - The Cuckoo's Calling - Season 1 in TV

Jul 14, 2018  
Strike - The Cuckoo's Calling - Season 1
Strike - The Cuckoo's Calling - Season 1
2017 | Crime
9
8.3 (3 Ratings)
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Casting is great! (0 more)
Should have been longer (0 more)
Well made adaptation
I love Robert Galbraith’s (J. K. Rowling’s) novels and was very excited when I found out they were adapting it for tv. That excitement bittered a bit when I learned each “season” would only be 2-3 episodes long and would cover an entire book. There is a lot of material in the rich and detailed novels that would have lent themselves to a full length season. That being said, the show was very good. The casting, in my opinion, is excellent. I wish there was more!
  
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Dianne Robbins (1738 KP) rated Plain Truth in Books

Sep 3, 2018  
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Plain Truth
Jodi Picoult | 2000
9
8.3 (6 Ratings)
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This is what novels should aspire to be. I read this when it first came out and it went into a box where I recently came across it again. With many novels, it's one and done. I read it once and there is no point in reading it again. But not this one. This is one to savor again and again because each time you read it you come across some gem that you missed before. The suspense is palpable. The drama is real. The heart and soul are apparent on every page. I highly recommend it.
  
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David McK (3562 KP) rated The Loki Sword (Fireborn #3) in Books

Sep 18, 2022  
The Loki Sword (Fireborn #3)
The Loki Sword (Fireborn #3)
Angus Donald | 2022
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I'm not sure why, but for some reason I haven't really connected with Angus Donald's 'Fire Born' novels, finding them to be the weakest of his three series that I have read (The Outlaw Chronicles and the Holcroft Blood series).

I don't know why that is; it's just one of those things.

However, I'll still read these novels, just not be in as much of a rush to do so as with the others.

This is the third in his FireBorn series (after both The Last Berserker: An action-packed Viking adventure and The Saxon Wolf: A Viking epic of berserkers and battle) and is also, for my money, the best of those three novels. That may be because of the nature of this - a band of travellers setting out on a quest, leading to a battle and a return home, with the author himself admitting the influence of the works of JRR Tolkien on this particular entry.