I need to read these! You’ve also got some great fantasy books on your list! Mistborn and Stormlight Archives will completely fulfill that escapism need. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell has been very entertaining so far. I’d also recommended The Priory of the Orange Tree. It’s stunning! I recommend it to Jeremy Anderberg as well and he seemed to also love it!
Sam Sifton or David Leonhardt mentioned Mick Herron in a one line “wow!” aside in his column in NYT. Intrigued, I have now listened to the first five or six books, then went back and re-listened to the first two. What a discovery. And his droll English humor slid by me as purposeful for quite a while. I thought this guy says such funny things in his writing but so casually that I thought only I was hearing the humor. No. He’s good and he’s funny!
I’m hoarding the balance of this series… I don’t want it to end for me.
I feel the same way. I can't wait for the next book but want to savor them. "Hoarding the balance" is a great way to describe it.
You're so right about the humor too. Here's a line that made me laugh out loud from Dead Lions: "He produced an unbranded packet of cigarettes: stubby, filterless, lethal. A health warning would have been like subtitles on a porn film. Utterly beside the point."
I need to read these! You’ve also got some great fantasy books on your list! Mistborn and Stormlight Archives will completely fulfill that escapism need. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell has been very entertaining so far. I’d also recommended The Priory of the Orange Tree. It’s stunning! I recommend it to Jeremy Anderberg as well and he seemed to also love it!
Sam Sifton or David Leonhardt mentioned Mick Herron in a one line “wow!” aside in his column in NYT. Intrigued, I have now listened to the first five or six books, then went back and re-listened to the first two. What a discovery. And his droll English humor slid by me as purposeful for quite a while. I thought this guy says such funny things in his writing but so casually that I thought only I was hearing the humor. No. He’s good and he’s funny!
I’m hoarding the balance of this series… I don’t want it to end for me.
I feel the same way. I can't wait for the next book but want to savor them. "Hoarding the balance" is a great way to describe it.
You're so right about the humor too. Here's a line that made me laugh out loud from Dead Lions: "He produced an unbranded packet of cigarettes: stubby, filterless, lethal. A health warning would have been like subtitles on a porn film. Utterly beside the point."
I need to read these