This week I have been reading

The Light of Day - Eric Ambler. Later the inspiration for the film Topkapi. A crime caper which is well paced and quite fun. The ending is a little underwhelming but even so it’s a very decent, light read and well written. From the Penguin Modern Classics collection. 

cafc4life said:

Reading 11.22.63 currently and really enjoying it.

Only other Stephen King book I’ve read was Fairytale and it was batshit mental.

Anyone got any other good recommendations on his other books?

Stephen King is probably one of my favourite authors, yet I still wouldn't class myself as a horror fan... just something about his style of writing that hooks me.

11.22.63 one of my favourite books of all time. My other King recommendations would be:

It, The Stand, The Shining - all up there with his best (and best-known) but definitely more like Fairytale than 11.22.63, in terms of the horror/mental stuff, and the first two are very lengthy! Under The Dome is another one that I enjoyed that falls into this category (all of these are much better than Fairytale IMO which was great at the start but just got more and more crazy to the point I started to lose interest!).

The Mr Mercedes trilogy - great books of his that aren't horror (the first in the series is currently 0.99p for the Kindle version, on Amazon)

Cujo - not one of his best known but one I recently read which I'd recommend! And much shorter than a lot of his books. It's still got an underlying supernatural/horror theme (involving a dog!) but nowhere near as ridiculous as the likes of Fairytale.

"Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue and Art - A Philosophy of Beauty" (2022) by Michael B Gill, professor of Philosophy at Edinburgh.
A short and brilliant exposition of one of the most important thinkers of the early 18th Century, whose works demonstrate the synthesis of left and right brain hemispheres at its best.

Cheers @Rufus is a dogs name

yeah I wouldn't say I'm a horror fan either. Much more of a crime, SAS/Army fiction type reader really but looking to branch out a bit.

Ive added Mr Mercedes and Billy Summers to my TBR list as they seem to be a bit more my kind of writing but intrigued to see what others suggest too.

Ill take a look at Under the dome and Cujo!

Ben Macintyre , any true spy book if that interests you would be my recommendation, standouts would be 
operation Mincemeat and Agent Sonyia.

All of his spy stories are good though.

Finished 11.22.63 last night. What a book!

Next up is A Short Stay in Hell - Stephen Peck

Afternoon Delight said:

I read Tommyknockers by Stephen King many years ago. I think it's possibly the hardest read I've ever had, really didn't like it.

Agree, AD.