What Are You Currently Reading?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Mate who also had recommended Thomas Ligotti told me about this chap and yet again the 1st 3 books just fell in my lap ... ahem the inside flap advertises a 4th volume I see.
Ligotti he ain't
But that's ok.

Which chap?

[Demoncrat]

Ben Aaronovitch.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Ben Aaronovitch.

I'd have thought he would have been someone you'd have been aware of previously, D. What with his Doctor Who connections and having an 'original' name.

Perhaps you never read the Virgin New Adventures novels at the time.

[Demoncrat]

I knew he had written Remembrance. Just not that he had written novels.
No, I've only recently started to read them (New Adventures) as no one local ever stocked them .... such is the life of a teuchter

[Demoncrat]

Well now I'm onto Moon Over Soho (2nd in series)
Slightly different tone to this one, but I'm only 4 chapters in .....

[Demoncrat]

Whispers Underground (3rd in series)
Shenanigans in the sewers this time. Death Line gets a mention
Enjoying this one more of the trio. Moon's denoument felt a bit rushed imo. This is shaping up a lot more organically. I keep seeing Kevin McNally as his mentor
Will see about getting 4th shortly I suppose

[Justin101]

I'm reading Sherlock Holmes for the first time!
A Study in Scarlet was a great start, threw me off guard a bit Act 2 when it was suddenly 10 years ago in the Utah Salt Plains but it got it's mojo back pretty quickly after that! I'm now midway through Sign of Four and I'm enjoying this one a great deal more. No spoilers, I don't know how this one ends

I have this ridiculously good value edition from Wordsworth Classics, it includes everything!



https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sherlock-Ho...herlock+holmes

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

I also 'read' the Sherlock Holmes stories this year or, more accurately, they were read to me by Stephen Fry.

They are brilliantly constructed and very clever detective mysteries, so it's no wonder they were incredibly popular at the time they were printed and Sherlock Holmes became such a beloved character that many people even wore black armbands when he died.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I also 'read' the Sherlock Holmes stories this year or, more accurately, they were read to me by Stephen Fry.

They are brilliantly constructed and very clever detective mysteries, so it's no wonder they were incredibly popular at the time they were printed and Sherlock Holmes became such a beloved character that many people even wore black armbands when he died.

When you say died do you mean at the Reichenbach Falls in The Final Problem?

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

When you say died do you mean at the Reichenbach Falls in The Final Problem?

Yes, not when Doyle died.