>>Surely this forum needs a diversion, and maybe even an opportunity to pick up a good tip. Michel was kind enough to create this section for us and we hardly use it. What are you reading these days?
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>>This is posed as a straight question, not an invitation to impress everyone with how refined your tastes are. Personally I read a wide range of authors, from potboilers to writers who are as good as it gets. To prove the point, the book of the moment here is "The October List" by Jeffrey Deaver. Stylistically it is a steaming pot of poo. But I keep reading to see how it turns out.
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>Farewell my lovely Raymond Chandler. Read it before but always enjoy those stories.
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>I'm always torn when not liking a book on whether to finish it or not. The last I disliked was The Blind Assassin which I finished and hated from the first word to the last.
Raymond Chandler, the master. He practically invented the form of noir detective fiction, in particular Los Angeles when it was still a relatively small major city. As a person he was a toilet bowl but he wrote like an angel.
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