Beautiful.
Recent reads:
Goddamn Scary Monsters, by Rick Gualtieri - the fifth book in the
Tome of Bill series. Hilarious and still very much on form. I love Bill the Vampire. A real antidote to the Twiglet vamps.
usually I get the audiobooks because the narrator is kickass. But, I couldn't afford it this time so got the kindle edition - loved it - and the narrator's voice was clear enough in my mind that i could basically hear him telling me the story
Mort (The Fearlanders), by Joseph Duncan
A zombie apocalypse take with a difference. Great book - funny and tragic by turn. Also:
Cattle set in the same Fearlanders world but around ten years later - possibly one of the darkest books I have read in a very long time. Genuinely disturbing in a way that most zombie fiction really isn't. Ten years after the outbreak and some of the zombies have regained their minds and memories - but not their emotions. They have won the war - humans are few and far between. The new clever zombies have taken to farming humans for meat.
It's beautifully written and doesn't pull its punches. I haven't finished it yet - needed to take a break from the tension. I highly recommend this book.
Wilt, by Tom Sharpe - I've read this book several times over the years but it's probably over a decade since I last revisited Henry Wilt. I still love him. it's a brilliant book. The cat and mouse game between Wilt and the Inspector (who is convinced he has killed his wife) still makes me laugh out loud and cheer him on. The man with the jackrabbit mind indeed.
There have been a bunch of others that I can't be arsed listing (some zombie apocalypse, natch, also some space exploration type stuff) might come back to at some point.
Currently reading:
Last Night, by Stephen Leather - the fifth book in the Jack Nightingale series. As with the Tome of Bill, I'd previously listened to these on audio but went with a kindle edition this time - and again, I can clearly hear the narrator which is great.
Nightingale is a great character - and the books are a nice mix of crime fiction and supernatural shenanigans. None of them quite hit like the first - which was spooky as hell and really got under my skin, but they're still good fun and well written.