A Good Thriller discussion

This thread is where you can chat about all things PIFM, ask questions and once books have been read, review your selected reads. A complete free for all.

PLEASE NOTE:

PIFM is meant to be FUN and not to be taken seriously. I would appreciate it if all participants just chilled and not get worked up about voting, who votes, who doesn't, etc. Please bear in mind that some will just want to vote, many don't come on everyday and most of us have time constraints. I just want a relaxed approach to it all and for you all to just enjoy the process! I'd really appreciate your courtesy in this matter. Many thanks.

Ann,
I've seen Dance with the Enemy on your list. Are interested in a buddy read should it win?

It might be fun to put up a list for March too.....

Gosh I've been having a hard time posting on Good Reads, it keeps bogging down with traffic. Reading more and posting a new year's resolution for people?

Patricia wrote: "It might be fun to put up a list for March too....."
I agree unfortunatelly I still have no idea what I'll read in February so I don't even try to think about March yet *grins*


Perri wrote: "Gosh I've been having a hard time posting on Good Reads, it keeps bogging down with traffic. Reading more and posting a new year's resolution for people?"

That's what I thought too, though after I wasn't able to access my read shelf for two days I contacted the GR service and learned they have another major bug in the programming and it's making our lives difficult.

Technology...can't live with it, can't live without it.

Just finished the book picked for Jan and very glad to have read it-so interesting to put yourself in other's shoes to better understand different experiences and cultures https://www.goodreads.com/review/edit...

Great review Perri. It sounds interesting. I don't think I have read a book from that perspective culturally.

Vicki Willis wrote: "Great review Perri. It sounds interesting. I don't think I have read a book from that perspective culturally."

It reminded me of one of Amy Tan's books.

It's looking like is going to win for me with 4 votes at the mo - it will be my first Linwood Barclay if it does, looking forward to it

Mandy wrote: "It's looking like is going to win for me with 4 votes at the mo - it will be my first Linwood Barclay if it does, looking forward to it"

I have really liked all the books by Barclay I've read. I am definitely going to look for this one.

Mandy wrote: "It's looking like is going to win for me with 4 votes at the mo - it will be my first Linwood Barclay if it does, looking forward to it"

That does look good. I added it. So it is a 2 book series?

The Truth Factory won for me this month. I really liked the first 4 books and I have had this one for a while now, so I am glad it won.

Vicki Willis wrote: "Mandy wrote: "It's looking like is going to win for me with 4 votes at the mo - it will be my first Linwood Barclay if it does, looking forward to it"


On here it appears so but on Fantastic Fiction it's listed as a stand alone novel. I have No Safe House too on kindle so I may read it after.

looks like I am reading threads of silk one of my oldest kindle unlimited books; when I first borrowed this I read the first few pages and it sounded interesting so looking forward to finally getting to it.

Looks like You for me-ha!

My winner is . I have had this sitting on my book shelf for several years and just haven't gotten to it. Thanks for the pick.

Can't wait to hear your thoughts Perri! It was a little off for me, but a lot of people love it. I do want to read the second one for some reason though... maybe because it is being turned into a TV show

Looks like I'll be revisiting my childhood next month and reading The Hidden Staircase.

Perri wrote: "Looks like You for me-ha!"

I really liked this one.
@Mandy I didn't know it was going to be a show. I guess I will have to read the second one as well.

I have read almost half of .

My stack for March is sitting next to me asking to be listed. I am tempted.

Anne,
I noticed you have a tie between Dance with the Enemy and Lost Girls. Do you want to read both or only one of them? In case you'll read Dance with the Enemy - are you interested in a buddy read?

My books are pretty closed this time:
3 votes: I like this new cover much more, than my original one :-)
2 votes: &

I hope to read all of them this month :-)

I am closing my votes. Whatever's got the most votes.

Second and third place books came from the three books that each had 1 vote.

I loved this book, a great author.

Vicki Willis wrote: "Perri wrote: "Looks like You for me-ha!"

I really liked this one.
@Mandy I didn't know it was going to be a show. I guess I will have to read the second one as well."

:-)

Sean wrote: "

I loved this book, a great author."

Good to hear it will be my first Linwood Barclay and I'm looking forward to it

Already finished the Fail Nation book.

I've just finished Lost Girls by Angela Marsons.
It was a good one.
Here's my review -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

hello Agnieszka - sorry - I only just saw your message.

Have you already started Dance with the Enemy?

Yes, I'd be interested in a buddy read (as long as you're not too far through it already...)
Let me know.

I'd like to put one of David Baldacci's on my March list.
Anyone here a fan of his?

I'm wondering if any of you have a recommendation/favourite?
thanks :)

Ann wrote: "hello Agnieszka - sorry - I only just saw your message.
Have you already started Dance with the Enemy?
Yes, I'd be interested in a buddy read (as long as you're not too far through it already......"

I waited on you so I didn't start it yet. When do you want to start? I could start either now or by middle of next week again since I'm starting two buddy reads Monday and would like to take enough time to read and comment on the book - but I'm not sure if I can do it with three books at one time :-)
any time - one of my book buddies got the flu so I'm flexible.


Ann wrote: "I'd like to put one of David Baldacci's on my March list.
Anyone here a fan of his?

I'm wondering if any of you have a recommendation/favourite?
thanks :)"

There're some books I love and others I just can't stand. My favorite one is Absolute Power - a political thriller (and was made into a movie with Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman). Personally I think his political thrillers are way better than the 'plain' mystery driven (King & Maxwell). I still not started his assassin series Will Robie (book 1: The Innocent) but heard good stuff about this one as well and would like to see how I like those.

Ok, I gotta admit that there's one particular image in The Time of the Wolf I will NOT forget: Hereward rising from a blood filled lake looking like a minion of Lucifer in the process... .

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK! I don't scare easily, or so I used to think but this scene scared me as much as both that scene in the 1953 version of The War of the Worlds when the Martian hand comes down on Sylvia's shoulder or the face melting Nazis of Raiders still scare the bejesus out of me.

I found a quote from Edmund Wilson to be pretty profound. "No two persons ever read the same book". I had to think about this for a few minutes before I could agree. I have been reading which happens to include this quote.

Patricia wrote: "I found a quote from Edmund Wilson to be pretty profound. "No two persons ever read the same book". I had to think about this for a few minutes before I could agree. I have been reading [bookcover:..."

Sounds interesting, thank you for the recommendation!

And I agree with the quote.

Just for your information - I just got an interesting recommendation in another group and though you could love it (plus it's available in a GR-giveaway): The Charm of Revenge by Tom Secret

Six years ago, Brad and Lola Fairweather ran through the hospital corridors searching for a doctor to save their baby, Daisy, but they ran into cops. They gunned Brad, dragged him away like a slab of meat, while Daisy died in her mother’s arms.

Now they have another daughter, Lilly. She’s four and their son, Jack, is eleven. They’re the reason Brad and Lola keep going. But when a bogus tax demand arrives, it triggers a chain of events that forces the Fairweather family to take the law into their own hands, with devastating consequences. As events unfold, they discover their names are on a sinister government list, and their enemy wants to finish what he started, all those years ago.

With the dead bodies piling up, Detective LT. Donatello hunts for the vigilante killer the press are calling "a hero," but finds himself caught in a complex web of organized crime, kidnapping and murder, with the evidence pointing to just one person, and that's bad news, for him!

hi Agnieszka,

I'm ready to start next week for the Dance with the Enemy buddy read - sounds like a great idea!

How do you want to do it? And where shall we discuss the book - on this thread?

Amber wrote: "Ok, I gotta admit that there's one particulkar image in The Time of the Wolf I will NOT forget: Hereward rising from a blood filled lake looking like a minion of Lucifer in the process... .

EEEEEE..."

For me it was the ending of the 1970s remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers with Donald Sutherland making that noise. *shudders*

*shudders* Yikes.

Ann wrote: "hi Agnieszka,

I'm ready to start next week for the Dance with the Enemy buddy read - sounds like a great idea!

How do you want to do it? And where shall we discuss the book - on this thread?"

I just started a new thread for the buddy read. I've written a starting date of February 15th but that's just an idea :-) We can start anytime you wish.

Sounds good. I plan to start it next weekend, or maybe later this week if I'm lucky...
Looking forward to the discussion!

Dana (Ca),

looks like you have a clear winner for March.
I heard so much great stuff about Before We Were Yours and my vote won't change anything so I decided to go for this one - it was so lonely ;-)

Long time it looked like I'll have not clear winner (6 books all with one vote) so I'm glad I have now one with 3 and one with 2 votes. I'll read these and will see how many of the other I'll manage to read as well :-)

If no more votes come my books for March will be &

Thanks! I have too, so I think I will still try to squeeze it in :)

I started my Feb read, The Truth Factory.
I had read the others in the series a long time ago and was really looking forward to this one, but either it has changed or my preferences have changed. It isn't as good as I remember the rest of the series.
I am only 20% in though, so maybe it gets better.

Vicki Willis wrote: "I started my Feb read, The Truth Factory.
I had read the others in the series a long time ago and was really looking forward to this one, but ..."

I too started this series years ago and plan to read the next one this year, I wonder if I will feel the same as you.

Looks like I have clear winner with 6 votes Still Missing which will be my first Chevy Stevens book (don't know why it's taken me so long to get around to them)

I am reading my first Chevy Stephens right now

On audible.
It is great. I was thinking the same thing about what took so long!

I wonder if all her books though are the same and that I will get bored if I read too many of them.

I'm over halfway through my Audible copy of The Hidden Staircase, the 2nd Nancy Drew. Nancy was one of my first literary loves, right after Dr Seuss.

Audible does a great job on these. The first few are narrated by the great Laura Linney (who played Abigail Adams in the HBO miniseries). They also have incidental music and are really well done.

What amazes me is how I still enjoy them after all these years. I first read them in grade school (1970s) and thought they were written in the 1950s. Imagine my surprise in finding out they were written in the 1930s!!

Originally written in the 1930s and rewritten n the 1950s, actually.

Well, I'm only on #2 ... it was written in the 1930s. If anyone is interested in the history, there's a great "biography" of Nancy Drew out there:

Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak