David B Fildes
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on a pod today & got a friendly intent gotcha question - had to name my fav RECENT American crime novels
my panicky answer 👇 (good books but none that recent)
The Secret History
The Cartel
American Tabloid
No Country For Old Men
Gone Girl
Blacktop Wasteland
Bluebird Bluebird
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@adrianmckinty @dcsandbrook Really good. Like an episode of The Rest is History, with even more details, in a book.
What could be better than that?
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one of the reasons I love these books is because of the serious attention @dcsandbrook pays to cultural history as well as the politics
6 pages on Beyond The Fringe
18 pages (!) on the James Bond phenomenon
a couple of chapters on the BBC
its good stuff
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Shocked, awed, and floored for the second time in two weeks. Thank you, @thrillerwriters, for awarding THE BIG EMPTY the ITW Best Series Novel award of 2026. You guys are AWESOME!
(Elvis and Joe thank you, too.)
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Only 1% notice the hidden pattern. Are you the 1%? 3 = ?
Your answer says a lot about your iQ
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@robertcrais Well deserved, that book, is top shelf sir. I completely forgot I was sitting in a chair.
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My editor, Daphne Durham, snapped this pic moments after THE BIG EMPTY won the Edgar award for Best Novel at the annual Edgar Awards banquet in New York City. I was lying on my living room floor with my busted ankle packed in ice when I found out I won.
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@adrianmckinty Well worth rereading, often.
Great series of exceptional books
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Eric Idle on the road is doing what all sensible Pythons, non Pythons and 2 former Presidents do
re-reading the DI Duffy books from book 1
good man, sir!
Eric Idle@EricIdle
So I hear you say what are you reading on the road? Well I’m re -reading the entire Inspector Duffy series by Adrian McKinty with great relish. He has now replaced my love of Maigret. Sadly I’m on the last. Try them. I think they’re brilliant.
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People keep guessing, but no one gets it right. Do you know what this is?
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A lot of people are in town for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. @latimesfob Welcome to LA.
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What is your favorite song from The Beatles’ debut album, “Please Please Me”? 🤔⬇️⬇️
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@adrianmckinty @dcsandbrook I love Dominic and Tom Holland on 'ThebRest is History podcast they are so good together. Great researched history and an engaging, numerous delivery, everyone should check it out.
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feels like I'm in a cult now
this 👇is 3500 pages and there's a middle book (1970 - 1974) I don't have...but am gonna get
for those who like their history well researched, funny & always engaging
somewhere Robert Caro is muttering that @dcsandbrook must be stopped
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Is "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" a perfect album? 🤔
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@adrianmckinty My favorite part of the episode was Spock watching the live feed says "yes" as James T starts to assemble the ingredients and explains what is happening to Bones, great scene in a great episode.
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this episode "Arena" debuted in 1967 & was in constant reruns in the 70s/80s
Kirk defeats the Gorn by making gunpowder & a hand cannon
in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian written in the 70s & 80s the Judge makes gunpowder in a similar desperate situation
was Cormac a Trekkie?
SweetMarie@Oceanbreeze473
Everything I know about fighting lizard men I owe to William Shatner.
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