Posted on 08/04/2018 8:31:02 AM PDT by Eagles Field
If you like thrillers and haven’t read it, get “I Am Pilgrim,” by Terry Hayes. Best thriller I’ve read in a long time. It’s his only book, as far as I know.
Can’t stand Patterson. In fact, when Laura Bush was once asked who her favorite author was and she said Patterson, I lost a lot of respect for her.
I’ve rec3ently discovered a really good author, I’ve liked all his books; they’re mysteries with a psychologist named Joe O’Laughlin as the main character. The author’s name is Michael Robotham.
Note, if you like books such as “Memoirs of a Geisha,” or “The Goldfinch,” you probably won’t like the books I recommend.
Thanks for the tip. Who wouldn’t like an author who says in his bio that he believes there is such a thing as dressy flip-flops.
Thanks for the suggestion on this book. I’ve put a hold on it at my local library. Sounds interesting and the author has lots of books so if I like “The Extraordinary Life..” there’s a whole bunch more to choose from by this author.
I’ve read this, in fact I own it in both paperback and hard back. It’s wonderful. If you haven’t already read it and can find it, I highly recommend “Coming Out of the Ice” by Victor Herman. I actually liked “Ice” better than Dolgun’s book, if that’s possible.
Truly amazing what the Soviets did to American citizens they stuck in their gulags.
I’m reading “American Betrayal” right now and the author brings up a point that I’d never thought of about the Neuremburg trials and how they had Soviets as judges and administrators judging the Nazi’s on things the Soviets were doing right alongside the Nazis... and continued to do.
Another that you might find interesting--and one that I haven't gotten around to reading yet--is Black on Red: My 44 Years inside the Soviet Union by Robert Robinson (Washington, DC: Acropolis, 1988). This is the story of a black American who found himself in Stalin's Soviet Union and somehow survived the purges. When he was interviewed at the time the book was published, the author spoke with a Russian accent.
Looks like we have the same reading list. I’ve read “The Forsaken,” in fact, I own it and bought two copies to give away. Yes, it’s incredibly good.
And I just recently read, in the last month, “Black on Red.” I’d had it on my reading pile for some time. When I first started it I thought, “Oh no, another ‘I’m black and white people don’t like me’” type book but it was surprisingly good. Considering he was elderly when it was written and he’d been through hell in Russia, in the sense of not being able to leave and having to keep to himself to stay alive, he is commended for undertaking such a daunting task as writing the book to tell his story.
Thanks for the conversation about this. It’s an interest of mine that no one I know shares.
"The Essential Dracula: The Definitive Annotated Edition of Bram Stoker's Classic Novel" by Leonard Wolf, Editor.
"The Tinner's Corpse" by Bernard Knight (A Crowner John Mystery)
"The House of Smoke" by Sam Christer
"The Jekyll Revelation" by Robert Masello
And on my Kindle:
"Murder Houses of London" by Jan Bondeson (non-fiction)
As a side note, I'm presently watching a very good movie. It's based on a book (which I didn't read), but will mention it since it has to do with a bookclub that had been formed during WWII on the Isle of Guernsey during German Occupation. The movie is titled:
"The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society"
It's kind of a Downton Abbey reunion as several of the actors/actresses who starred in the series, are in this movie. It's coming to Netflix on August 10th. Beautiful scenery, funny, and heartwarming.
Sorry, I don’t generally read non-fiction.
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