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Please recommend something very, very fast-paced

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TheCatOfAthenry · 21/01/2018 19:39

Hello all! I read quite a lot. I'm open to anything and everything.

Have become much busier in recent weeks and this is likely to go on for some months.

I'd really appreciate recommendations for page-turners without too much extraneous detail (this makes a book harder to get into, for me) so I can continue to read.

All help very much appreciated!

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SnapesTears · 29/01/2018 16:48

The Jack Parlabane books by Chris Brookmyre.

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TheCatOfAthenry · 27/01/2018 15:05

Thanks all - just had a kindle shopping spree - I prefer to hold a real book but our house is already full of them.

Looking forward to all of them.

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StealthPolarBear · 24/01/2018 07:07

Oh there it is ignore me

DoraChance · 24/01/2018 06:18

I bought Lullaby by Leila Slimani yesterday and I've almost finished. Stayed up far too late last night as couldn't put it down.

noodlezoodle · 24/01/2018 06:16

I'm not sure these count as fast paced, but have you ever read the Tales of the City series by Armistead Maupin? They were originally published as a daily serial in a San Francisco newspaper starting in the 70s, so they are very short chapters and very easy but compelling reading - quite soap-like in many respects. I read them first as a student and re-read and enjoyed them all over again in the last few years.

StealthPolarBear · 24/01/2018 06:03

I can't see lizzles first post, am I missing something

StealthPolarBear · 24/01/2018 06:01

Stuff by Jane Fallon (chick lit) is what I read when I'm too busy to hold a story in my brain

Theducksarenotmyfriends · 24/01/2018 05:59

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer is very fast paced, reads like a film (I think it is being made into a film actually)

lizzlebizzle33 · 24/01/2018 05:24

😂 no but if that's your dads sense of humour then he should meet my dad

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TheCatOfAthenry · 23/01/2018 20:47

@lizzlebizzle33 are you my dad? Grin

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lizzlebizzle33 · 23/01/2018 20:32

Running 😂

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TheCatOfAthenry · 23/01/2018 20:26

Yes, I like Sacks. Fascinating stuff.

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Piggywaspushed · 23/01/2018 15:56

I second sacks but if you are a doctor you have probably read him?

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat is brilliant.

The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of a Window and Disappeared is long but jaunty.

Allthecake · 22/01/2018 23:47

Re: The Miniaturist - was an amazing book and a very quick read for me too. So much better than the tv version, I thought that was pretty poor. Please don't watch it if you want to read the book, as half of the beauty of the book is that it's full of layers of secrets, sort of like a literary onion Grin

Allthecake · 22/01/2018 23:41

Glad to see I've pinpointed your style OP! Do you like non-fiction too? If so how about...
Biography:

  • Maya Angelou, I know why the caged bird sings or Me and Mom and Me
  • Helene Hanff, 84 Charing Cross Road
  • Cathy Rentzenbrink, Last act of love
Smart Thinking
  • Jon Ronson, The psychopath test
  • Oliver Sacks, Hallucinations
  • Freakonomics (can't remember author, don't be put off by title, it's not about economics)
Kids (but still great reads)
  • R J Palacio, Wonder
  • Judith Kerr, When Hitler stole pink rabbit (semi-autobiographical)

Fingers crossed there are some you haven't read there OP Wink

Pashazade · 22/01/2018 22:04

All the Jack Reacher books are a good engrossing read. Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan if you can handle some sci-fi. Plus the crime series by PJ Tracy

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TheCatOfAthenry · 22/01/2018 22:00

I also loved This Is Going To Hurt. It genuinely did. (I'm also a doctor, some of it gave me horrible flashbacks!)

Thanks for all these. I like the sound of the rude book too. Grin

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lastqueenofscotland · 22/01/2018 21:51

Restless by William Boyd
I literally couldn't put This Is Going To Hurt down and read it in anight

Piggywaspushed · 22/01/2018 21:40

And agree that Eleanor Oliphant is a quick read.

Piggywaspushed · 22/01/2018 21:39

Just finished An Almond For A Parrot. It's very rude but don't let that put you off. It is set in Regency England . It would be demeaning it to call it a bodice ripper but it is certainly a quick read. There's bit of a mystery to solve and some magic and some rakes and courtesans. And maypoles....

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TheCatOfAthenry · 22/01/2018 20:36

Thank you lovely people! These all sound like things I could enjoy.

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Onlyaprawn · 22/01/2018 19:58

How about Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine? I thought it was a real page turner and finished it in two sessions!

AtlantaGinandTonic · 22/01/2018 19:48

The Miniaturist is very good and if I recall, fairly fast-paced.

Miloarmadillo2 · 22/01/2018 19:47

The Power, by Naomi Alderman.

AtlantaGinandTonic · 22/01/2018 19:47

I second 'I Am Pilgrim' for fast-paced.

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