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#242128 12-Oct-2018 12:09

Hi.

I am away for a week coming up, and I like to read when I am on Holiday.

The new Lee Child book is going to be a month later than that, so I can't take that.

I am after a real page turner. I like thrillers, but ones that aren't super deep with details so they are chore to read.

Authors I have been enjoying are Robert Crais - Elvis Cole, Lee Child, Grisham (I enjoy a decent legal thriller). I have previously enjoyed the super natural stuff that was early Koontz, but most of his more recent stuff isn't as interesting.

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#2106675 12-Oct-2018 12:12

I also like post-apocalyptic stuff, so long as it's not too crazy and out there.

I particularly enjoyed the first two hunger games books....

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#2106678 12-Oct-2018 12:20

Have a look at the Scott Mariani books - I enjoy them for not too cerebral 'Jack Reacher' style thrillers. They are based on a historical, usually religious, event or item, but set in the modern day. Ben Hope is his protagonist.

I'm churning through Clive Cussler's novels at the moment. I don't find their stories as gripping, but they are quite similar.

Another one is Vince Flynn.

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#2106716 12-Oct-2018 12:26

I used to love the older Clive Cussler - Dirk Pitt books, and the older Wilbur Smith books based in Africa, I think it was the courtenays. I read some of his newer stuff and just couldn't get invested the same way.

I'll take a look at the Vince Flynn and Scott Mirani books.

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#2106717 12-Oct-2018 12:26

My picks atm are :

Red Rising (Pierce Brown) - Hunger games meets Warhammer basically - read the trilogy multiple times :)

Alex Cross series (James Patterson - Good crime/thriller reads

Adrians Undead Diary (Chris Phillbrook) - good Zombie read, done in the style of a diary - story does start to get a bit odd and the ending was just "WTF" but otherwise, I really enjoyed it.

Ive read probably all the Clive Cussler Dirk Pitt series, a good read if you like history and Indiana Jones style adventures :)

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#2106728 12-Oct-2018 12:31

Read the Brilliance Trilogy by Markus Sakey?

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#2106729 12-Oct-2018 12:36

Other stuff I've read recently and enjoyed that (sort of) fits your requirements:

- Hugh Howey Wool Trilogy and Sand (stand alone) - I actually preferred Sand to Wool.

- Brandon Sanderson Many Lives of Stephen Leeds

- Dan Simmons Hyperion novels

Stuff that is perhaps less particular on point, but I enjoyed very much (more candy floss escapism)

- Drew Hayes Super Powereds series

- Scott Meyer Off to be the Wizard / Magic 2.0 series

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#2106731 12-Oct-2018 12:37

And finally (should have thought through my post better), SF Signal's flowchart is an indispensable resource for your geeky reading needs:

https://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2011/09/flowchart_for_navigating_nprs_top_100_sff_books/

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#2106732 12-Oct-2018 12:41

Barry Eisler. John Sandford.

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#2106734 12-Oct-2018 12:49

might want to have a look at The Ninja series from Eric Von Lustbader, he who picked up the Bourne series after Ludlum.

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#2106735 12-Oct-2018 12:52

You could try the Lewis Trilogy by Peter May, set in the Hebrides.

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#2106742 12-Oct-2018 13:03

Really Enjoying the new Ian Rankin In a house of lies

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#2106750 12-Oct-2018 13:22

if you liked the cole/pike books , then check out the Myron Bolitar series by Harlan Coben , almost a carbon copy of each other,. also what i think are the best detective series are the Dennis Lehane (Kenzie and Gennaro series).

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