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Only 20 books to go, plus loads of toasted cheese.

I've tried most of Lee Childs recommendations usually disappointed, they don't have the elusive Reacher thing. Unfortunately they are making /have made another film. Best to look upon them as a Tom Cruise vehicle with a slight reference to a Reacher story.

Just finished rereading the 19 Reacher books, halfway through the 20th, Make me. Lee Child.

Why do you have to get passed their privileged background? That is what enabled them to take part in all these adventures and instilled in them duty, service and sacrifice, for our benefit and theirs. Even today most of the adventurers dead and alive are from a similar background. Anyway thanks...

Am halfway through. Up to his usual standard. I have erased from my mind the filmic debacle with the midget.

Alistair Maclean's first book, and the best IMO.

A good one to you too Glas. At the moment I am reading, 1000 years of annoying the French. By Stephen Clarke. It's teaching me a lot of French History in a humorous way.

1365........Bernard Cornwell. Third or forth in a series written with a background of the wars in France. Knights and English Archers leading to the battle of Potiers, the lesser known one after Crecy. Standard Cornwell adventures written around factual history. Makes you want to buy a Longbow!

Persuader is 7th in the series. I've warned before about these books, since finishing the series I have not found any other books as readable as Lee Childs character, so I have gone back to the beginning and started again.

Don't do it. Slow down. I brought the 10 or so from Amazon I hadn't read and now because they are such a very good read, I am finding it difficult to get into any thing else. I shall wait a couple of weeks and start them all again.

Gullhanger on the Lappy. Bloody awkward reading in bed. Also Micro by Michael Crichton, finished by Richard Preston as Michael was unable to finish it, on account of dying.

There is also a book The Real BravoTwo Zero by Michael Asher. He's quite well qualified to write about it. Quote on the back cover. "Infuriating" Andy McNab.

I have been working through all the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. It's a big pile. Just about to start The Affair, the latest.

Bit OT. Was watching King Arthur last night and on seeing one of the actors, had a thought That's Jack Reacher. Ray Stevenson. Went to the IMDb website and appears I'm not the first to think it. Better than the midget they have actually got to play him.

Worth Dying For. (Reacher) Lee Child.

How many have you read? If this is the first, stop, start with Master and Commander and work your way through the 20 odd series. Well worth while doing them from the beginning and in the order they were written. Brilliant writer.

I have just finished The Last King of Brighton by Peter Guttridge. He appears to be writing a series based in Brighton, this is the second one. Stories not bad, he tries to use real places, although the Bath Arms is in the Laines and not the Lanes, And the first mention of the King Alfred calls...

Just finished The Girl that kicked The Hornets Nest. That's the last of the three The Girl series, there won't be any more. :down: I really enjoyed them, a good read.

Read them all. It's mostly the local factor that makes them a good read. Try Graham Hurley, does the same thing for Portsmouth (yes I know) but there is a bit more with the back stories and sub plots. You will enjoy them if you like Peter James. Up to date there are 10 of them, start with...