Bob Woodward is an award-winning investigative journalist and author. His best-known work is probably the book All the President’s Men, which he co-wrote with Carl Bernstein, about the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Nixon 
Soft horror - an easy read. Lush descriptions of an English endless summer. Three girls go on a road trip to Almanby which everyone knows you shouldn’t. There’s a strong whiff of the film Midsommer. Well written, but all three of the central characters are irritating and behave in rather set ways. The ghosts behave like zombies and can kill you with a stick if they catch you. Atmospheric, but ultimately unsatisfying. This is touted as a potential cult novel and won a fiction prize.
WTF have bunnies ever done to you!
Takes me back to my student days when it was claimed that bones were dated by the fossils found near them, and vice versa. Carbon dating has come a long way in forty years.
Just finished “2666.” Trying to fit all the parts together.
Finished the novel last night. Won’t go so far as the say I adored it, but liked it enough to consider it a good read. Can see why it won’t appeal to everyone though.
Way too long, I thought. And the apparent cultural differences about women are too vast for me to ignore.
I was bought this for Christmas and just got round to reading it. First in a series of five, so far. It’s piffle but great fun and I can see why the sales have been high.
A film of the first book is in production with a serious cast:
- Helen Mirren as Elizabeth Best, a retired spy
- Pierce Brosnan as Ron Ritchie, a retired union leader
- Ben Kingsley as Ibrahim Arif, a retired psychiatrist
- Celia Imrie as Joyce Meadowcroft, a retired nurse
- David Tennant as Ian Ventham
- Jonathan Pryce as Stephen Best, Elizabeth’s husband
- Naomi Ackie as PC Donna De Freitas, a local police officer
- Daniel Mays
- Henry Lloyd-Hughes
- Richard E. Grant
- Tom Ellis as Jason Ritchie
Something I read made me look back at old English sci-fi writers. I read most of Edmund Cooper and John Wyndham in my teens, but lost a lot of the old paperbacks in a fire nearly 20 years ago. I looked on ebay for Wyndhams The Chrysalids but they were not much less than the Kindle version, so I opted for that. The foreward was new to me and written in th 1970’s by M John Harrison. It was very interesting, showing that a book written in 1955 was still relevant 20 years later. And, as I read that, I can see it is still relevant today. Also, no filler in those old books, they may be shorter but everything flows.
I would have skipped that foreward as a teenager, but it was insightful.
That takes me back. An avid teenage reader of Wyndham, my first was a library copy of The Kraken Wakes, swiftly followed by most of his work in his main name ( he published also under variations of his many middle names).
I think I read most that I could get hold of, but my favourite was Th Chrysalids. I think it may be 50 years since that last read, and I am enjoying it immensely.
Thanks all for the inspiration. Just purchased The Chrysalids on Kindle.