pickThis series is the only exception to my “read it before you see it” rule. Gary Oldman is phenomenal as Jackson Lamb—I love the way he plays the character—and having now read three of the books, I can say that the tv show does a great job of adapting already great stories. Laugh out loud funny, tense (even though I knew what was going to happen), and filled with more flatulence you would expect in a spy novel, this was another fantastic story.
What a great series. I love the characters, who are, definitely characters. and Lots of action!
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pickReal Tigers is the third in the Slough House series, and it does not disappoint. I love these characters, and I enjoy spending time with them. The TV series is excellent, and I can watch the third season now that I have read the third book! I listened to the audiobook, and the narrator is superb.
pickTwisty and outrageous. Impossible to detail without spoilers, but Herron continues to deliver.
Multi-layered machinations vs a group of people who have made mistakes before and continue to make them, and yet make it through when it counts. Which is not to mislabel this book as uplifting. 1/?
Asking the important questions...🤔😅
A different way of looking at that common phrase. 🤨
1. I'm the exams officer in an international school in Thailand. It's a fricking nightmare with closures looming, and kids and staff in quarantine all over the place. And my parents had booked to come out in a few weeks and I don't know if they can still come. Yeah... it's been an anxious few weeks here.
2. I think so. Thai loos have bum guns
3. Nope
4. Tagged!
5. Not a film person, but I'm enjoying Locke and Key on Netflix
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pickI am loving this clever, entertaining, and blackly humorous series of spy thrillers!
pickThird in his Slough House series starring the heroically rude and flatulent Jackson Lamb and his crew of "Slow Horses". The plot is full of so many twists, turns, backstabbings and double-crosses that the reader has little option than to sit back and enjoy the ride, safe in the knowledge that all will become (reasonably) clear on the last pages, and delight, above all in the multitude of ways in which Lamb insults and belittles his hapless crew.
pickStill going strong, this is such a great series, and I‘m not normally someone who likes these kinds of stories.
"Taverner said, “This is not the sort of juggernaut you want to walk in front of, Jackson.”
“Oh, I don‘t know. Don‘t forget, I have my team to consider.”
“Really? That‘ll be a first.”
“They have a natural respect for me.”
“That‘s not respect. It‘s Stockholm syndrome.”
pickThird in the Slow Horses series, which remains excellent. One of the the Horses is kidnaped and as Jackson and team investigates they are forced to peel away layer of MI5 departmental and Downing St politics. This series is inventive fun and has that edge of tension which arises when an author proves himself more than willing to kill characters in the service of the story. And Jackson Lamb remains a reprehensible human being.
pickOutstanding third entry in the series. Herron has already established that no one is expendable - heroes and villains can be dispatched at any point. He backs this up with the strongest plot so far with the slow horses of Slough House caught up in an internal war within the security services played out with real spooks and soldiers. The set pieces are executed with panache and it's fun, with at least one moment when I laughed out loud.
This is a double Litsy hit. Not only was I enjoying Mick Herron's hugely entertaining 'Real Tigers', I was also having breakfast in the Cranford Cafe in Knutsford. This is the modern descendant of Miss Matty's Tea Room from Mrs Gaskell's classic novel 'Cranford', which was based on the small town of Knutsford in Cheshire.
pickFor anyone who enjoys spy thrillers as in the Le Carre mould this series is a modern day take. Not quite as subtle as le carre and a few bangs and crashes that stretched credibility but overall a real page turner, so good i had to finish before I turn on the dreaded computer - still its Friday, happy weekend reading everyone!
pickThe third book in Mick Herron's JACKSON LAMB SERIES is a tense, twisting thriller that shows the development of the Slough House crew, brings in some old faces, expands on Catherine's back story and is peppered with black comic one liners so good that I kept turning the pages until the ending, which promises changes for the next book.
One of my favorite U.K. Television series is Spooks, was it on the States? Real Tigers is in that vein and just finished tearing through it. Now must go back and get the earlier two books about Jackson Lamb, overseeing a crew of misfit, burned out, messed up operatives who are assigned to soul killing make-work so that they will be driven to quit. But noooo!
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