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sisoon (original poster moderator #31240) posted at 6:41 PM on Saturday, March 23rd, 2013
W & I were in grad school when we got married. I couldn't do much reading in my field because I needed to take language courses, while she was studying for comps during our first year together. That meant late nights studying for her and lots of free time for me.
So I read lots of novels, especially murder mysteries and tales of international intrigue. One of my favorite authors was Eric Ambler.
I picked up one of the paperbacks the other day, and he seems like a better writer today than he seemed 45 years ago - and the novels were published in the late '30s.
If you like stories of intrigue, I urge you strongly to go to your local library and demand any Eric Ambler novel your system has.
If you're a chick snooping around, you might like Helen MacInnes, but Ambler is a lot more realistic....
fBH (me) - on d-day: 66, Married 43, together 45, same sex apDDay - 12/22/2010Recover'd and R'edYou don't have to like your boundaries. You just have to set and enforce them.
Mikey56 ( member #38063) posted at 6:13 PM on Sunday, March 24th, 2013
Try John D. McDonald
...The Travis McGee Series
sisoon (original poster moderator #31240) posted at 4:11 PM on Thursday, March 28th, 2013
McDonald/McGee ... memories....
fBH (me) - on d-day: 66, Married 43, together 45, same sex apDDay - 12/22/2010Recover'd and R'edYou don't have to like your boundaries. You just have to set and enforce them.
PippaPeach6 ( member #37523) posted at 4:22 PM on Friday, March 29th, 2013
Funny, thought this would be about guys' equivalent of chick lit, and thought of Matt Dunn 
But classic and gritty intrigue - Dashiell Hammett is my go to guy. And the 007 James Bond books by Ian Fleming are COMPLETELY different from the movies! They really do his writing a disservice . . . 
Us: 50ish, madhatters, married 20 odd yrs
TT: May 2009 'til June
DDay for both: June 17, 2009
Me: 2x, same person, 1991
Him: 1.5 year PA (EA?) 2007-2009
Reconciled
Honey Badger don't care. - Randall
PippaPeach6 ( member #37523) posted at 4:33 PM on Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
Sissoon, ouch! The Eric Ambler books are $$ for Kindle, but I'm downloading The Light of Day. . . Sounds great!
Am reading the Russell Blake JET series. She is the kicka$$ female version of Jason Bourne, only prettier. And probably a better aim.
Us: 50ish, madhatters, married 20 odd yrs
TT: May 2009 'til June
DDay for both: June 17, 2009
Me: 2x, same person, 1991
Him: 1.5 year PA (EA?) 2007-2009
Reconciled
Honey Badger don't care. - Randall
StillGoing ( member #28571) posted at 5:34 PM on Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
Glen Cook, Dan Abnett and Steven Pressfield are my go-to authors for "I need something without kissing parts." Some of them have fucking parts. But it's almost all in the Garret Files series and he mentions it like a passing conquest, "then me and the redhead demigod had a three way with the gangster lords daughter. Man, I have a headache today."
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