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Welcome Suzanne! Working nights is tough. Enjoy the group :)
Thanks, Malina! Yeah, working nights is tough, but I'm pretty used to it by now. I've been doing it for almost 6 months now. :)
Hi Suzanne, welcome. Thanks for joining the group.
Hey, Suzanne. Welcome to the group. Hope you find it an interesting place to spend time. :0)
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Welcome Suzanne. I'm a former shift worker. Took me years to recover from it! I like to read before bed too. I have the same problem as Nancy though... A good book will see to it that I don't sleep.
Hey guys.. Hi! I'm kinda new here too; I joined yesterday. So, I guess I could do with a little bit of a welcome myself.. :P Seriously, as cliched as what I'm about to say is going to sound, it is indeed great to be a part of this group. Cheers!
Hey thanks. Will certainly do :-)
Hi Abdul, thanks for joining us.
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Hi! And what are your favorite crime/mystery/thriller books?
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I did read Clive Cussler, years ago, but the writers that churn out his stuff now have put me off.
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Hello, Alan, and welcome.
You're not going to end up in a server's memory, not in this group.
If you're hard to please, then I'm even worse. I am super-duper picky in my crime fiction reading. So don't feel alone.
Hi Alan. Nancy's right... there is always someone here to talk with.
I liked the Reichs books, but stopped after the first four (mostly because it's difficult to find them where I am). I am super picky too, and often fall back on my first loves: Dorothy Sayers, PD James, Dick Francis (although his stories have not dated well).
And oh, how I agree with you when you say "I am paying". The story needs to be decent, and it needs to be well written (and free of typos, please). My pet peeve is commercial messages in the prose. I get it, really, that it is sometimes necessary. But when every page has a sponsored message on it, I get really angry. I have been known to close a book in the middle of a paragraph and put it away when there are too many.
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I liked the Reichs books, but stopped after the first four (mostly because it's difficult to find them where I am). I am super picky too, and often fall back on my first loves: Dorothy Sayers, PD James, Dick Francis (although his stories have not dated well).
And oh, how I agree with you when you say "I am paying". The story needs to be decent, and it needs to be well written (and free of typos, please). My pet peeve is commercial messages in the prose. I get it, really, that it is sometimes necessary. But when every page has a sponsored message on it, I get really angry. I have been known to close a book in the middle of a paragraph and put it away when there are too many.
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Welcome Alan! No one gets ignored in this group, have fun!
Hi Alan:I recently started participating more in Goodreads and also just joined this particular group. Everyone seems very welcoming here.
And I agree that the reader has every right to be very picky. The truth is that we have infinite choices as to how we choose to spend our precious reading time.
Hayes: I'm curious. What do you mean by commercial messages in the prose? Product placement references? I do not think that advertising has ANY place in fiction!
Yes, I really enjoy reading and writing historical mysteries and indeed love British mysteries in general. My series is set in Regency England, but there are no lords and ladies or ballroom scenes since my focus is elsewhere (darker). I hope you do try out this genre, Alan.And I love the British TV series such as Endeavour, which I am just getting to now. You might also like this series based on the young Inspector Morse.
I'll have a look for the John Day book you mention. That's a new author for me. Thanks for the recommendation!
S.K. wrote: "Hayes: I'm curious. What do you mean by commercial messages in the prose? Product placement references? I do not think that advertising has ANY place in fiction! "
It happens all the time, really. My dad was in advertising, so perhaps I am more aware of it than others are, but I particularly hate it when the private detective pours himself a shot of X whiskey (can't he just pour a drink?), or the character eats a Y candy bar (can't he just eat a snack?), or someone in the story just can't resist going into the Z store to buy A product...
One of Cornwell's books was so bad that I literally shut it in the middle of a paragraph and did not finish it.
It happens all the time, really. My dad was in advertising, so perhaps I am more aware of it than others are, but I particularly hate it when the private detective pours himself a shot of X whiskey (can't he just pour a drink?), or the character eats a Y candy bar (can't he just eat a snack?), or someone in the story just can't resist going into the Z store to buy A product...
One of Cornwell's books was so bad that I literally shut it in the middle of a paragraph and did not finish it.
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It happens all the ..."
I have been known to switch off a tv show for the same reason.
Right?
The James Bond movies are full of it, but I can almost forgive it there, because the movies are so camp anyway that it sort of feels like it's making fun.
I love this clip from Wayne's World:
http://youtu.be/KjB6r-HDDI0
The James Bond movies are full of it, but I can almost forgive it there, because the movies are so camp anyway that it sort of feels like it's making fun.
I love this clip from Wayne's World:
http://youtu.be/KjB6r-HDDI0
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The James Bond movies are full of it, but I can almost forgive it there, because the movies are so camp anyway that it sort of feels like it's making fun.
I love this clip from Wayne's Wor..."
I have to show that to my husband. He'll laugh.
Funny clip, Hayes. I haven't noticed the product placement problem as much as you have probably because I like to read historical mysteries. But actually writers include them in that genre too, though for a different reason--to add authenticity and show off research perhaps. These references can sound too forced to me.
Welcome ALL you newbies!Once you get used to the format, goodreads is quite fun. As I am currently unemployed and awaiting interview results I spend WAY too much time on this site.
I am always plugging this group's State Challenge and UN Challenge. It is a good way to discover authors. (The good and bad).
I sometimes check out other peoples likes and friend them if they have similar tastes.
I look forward in reading all of your posts an reviews.
Wendy wrote: "Welcome ALL you newbies!Once you get used to the format, goodreads is quite fun. As I am currently unemployed and awaiting interview results I spend WAY too much time on this site.
I am always pl..."
I always feel with Goodreads that there's so much more I don't know about. What is a "State Challenge and UN Challenge"?
Hi S.K.,
If you go look at the threads it is fairly self-explanatory. It's a simple list of the 50 states, and the other is a list of International countries, and you try to read through all of them.
You could read books that take place in the countries/states, or were written by an author from the countries, or whatever you want. It's a way to broaden your reading horizons.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
If you go look at the threads it is fairly self-explanatory. It's a simple list of the 50 states, and the other is a list of International countries, and you try to read through all of them.
You could read books that take place in the countries/states, or were written by an author from the countries, or whatever you want. It's a way to broaden your reading horizons.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Thank you, Hayes. I'll have a look at the threads.
I do read outside of this genre, but I find myself coming back to it more and more lately as a favored genre.
As for me as a person, I am 30, and married, and I have 2 kids. I work nights, and sleep in the mornings, so I don't get as much reading time as I would like, but I always try to read before bed. It relaxes me so I can sleep.