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  1. saliotthomas

    Recently Finished

    Dean Kootz-Breathless :stars1: Quite bad, the only thing he does well is describing psycho killers, but let in loose, like here, on the theory of evolution and pucking is what comes to mind.
  2. saliotthomas

    Challenge: Are all thrillers based on the lone hero premise?!!

    Try George Pelecanos, Derek Strange and Terry Quinn Series, starting with Right as Rain
  3. saliotthomas

    Your Best Books of '09

    The Classicheavyweight Lawrence Durrell-Justine/Balthazar Umberto Eco-The name of the rose Isaac Bashevis Singer - The Slave Mika Watari-Nuori Johannes Evelyn Waugh-Brideshead Revisited Miklos Banffy-They were found wanting Marguerite Yourcenar-A coin in nine hand Marguerite...
  4. saliotthomas

    What did you read in December?

    Pierre Michom- The origine of the world 5 Scott Lynch-The gentlemen Bastard-Lies of Locke Lamora 3 Amin Maalouf-Identités Meurtières 4 Pierre Michon-L'empereur d'occident 5 Dino buzatti-Le desert des tartares 5 Richard Stark-FlashFire 4 Philipe Roth-Americain Pastoral 5 Simenon -The...
  5. saliotthomas

    Recently Finished

    Arto Paasilinna- la douce empoisonneuse :stars3: Not as good as the year of the hare, if i read this first, i would not have bothered with more Paasilinna
  6. saliotthomas

    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In a barn, i just shot my twin brother in the face and twice in the chest. Breathless - Dean Koontz
  7. saliotthomas

    Recently Finished

    herr...and that get it only one star ?
  8. saliotthomas

    A book about a doctors experiences..

    Nice, and i forgot about A country doctor by Honore de Balzac Honore De Balzac - The Country Doctor (1833) Quite nice and a bit more chearfull.
  9. saliotthomas

    Recently Finished

    Thomas Savage -The power of the dog :stars5::stars1: Very very very good, very dark too.
  10. saliotthomas

    A book about a doctors experiences..

    A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov. A bit dark, it tell's of his slow addiction to morphine, but also very intersting.
  11. saliotthomas

    Dino Buzzati: The Tartar Steppe

    The last time i read The tartar steppe, i must have been the age of Drogo when he first reach the fort, my final year in college. And like Drogo life was a vaste open steppe before me and time limitless. Buzzati has a way to make the emptiness of the landscape, the silence of the fort...
  12. saliotthomas

    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In Helsinki, Finland, i'm an old lady getting very interested in poisons and mixing poisons. La douce empoisonneuse-Atro Paasilinna
  13. saliotthomas

    My New TBR List for 2010 and beyond...

    And so what? You alway think that book are like clothes carlos and that because you have a good selection in you wardrobe,it will make you look good. It does not. Or like a "book DJ" doeing a specialy nice mix that will get us all clapping like mad sea lion. The difference is, a DJ know the...
  14. saliotthomas

    Which books did Santa leave for you?

    Well not Santa but my parents. Frans Gunnar Bengtsson- Long Ships 2 volumes recommanded by the eminent BG, can't wait to start it.
  15. saliotthomas

    The same to you. Feliz anio. All the best Thomas

    The same to you. Feliz anio. All the best Thomas
  16. saliotthomas

    Recently Finished

    Whoa... so you have read all these in the past few weeks ? Finished Gomorrah- Roberto Saviano:stars3: Promise of Dawn-Romain Gary :stars4:
  17. saliotthomas

    Well, Are We?

    Whoa Carl , i didn't know they gave you the mature discussion card ,congrat ! I shall got to the garden of the 1000 good looking yet virgins, with rivers of wine, yet of sparkling shinny water on wich reflected the emerald yet sky. Then sit my naked bum under a majestic yet humble agedless...
  18. saliotthomas

    Recently Finished

    Gomorrah-Roberto Saviano :stars3:+
  19. saliotthomas

    Your best books of this year.

    It's now or never. What are they, or just the one? Here is mine. The Classic heavyweight Lawrence Durrell-Justine/Balthazar Umberto Eco-The name of the rose Isaac Bashevis Singer - The Slave Mika Watari-Nuori Johannes Evelyn Waugh-Brideshead Revisited Miklos Banffy-They were...
  20. saliotthomas

    Current Non-Fiction reads

    Gomorrah-Roberto Saviano Scarry stuff, like hundred and one way to be killed horribly. Hardly a Chrismass read, well appart from the red of hemoglobine i s'ppose.
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