#Lincoln child

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 102

Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

“Every sixty to seventy million years or so…there is a population explosion of the successful life forms. Then, suddenly a new species appears out of the blue. It is almost always a predatory creature, a killing machine. It tears through the host population, killing, feeding, multiplying. Slowly at first, then ever faster.”

[samduqs]

A Dead Djinn in Cairo, The Angel of Khan el-Khalili, The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark (novellas)

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark 💫

Héroes Mitológicos by M. R. Padilla

Lord of Swans by Amberlyn Holland

King of Beasts by Amberlyn Holland

The Forgotten Room by Licoln Child

Full Wolf Moon by Lincoln Child

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood

The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne 💫

[timotey]

I started re-reading the Pendergast series by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child and I. can't. get. enough. I don't even feel like watching anything, all I can think of - outside of RL related stuff, of course - is the book I'm reading right now, Relic, the very first book in the series, and I must say, wow. Their writing just gosh darn flows, you know?

You see, when someone says "it’s impossible," I have this very bad habit, I can’t help myself, I immediately contradict that person in the most positive terms possible. A very bad habit, but one that I find hard to break.

The plot, the action, the setting - The American Museum of Natural History in New York which is much scarier than any haunted house - and the characters, Pendergast, D'Agosta, Margo Green, they all feel so real and so likable and I'm enthralled and smitten! 🤗

[uwlmvac]

Bill Gresens’ Archaeology Book Review for February 2024

Diablo Mesa by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (4/4)

Archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI agent Corrie Swanson face grave danger in the wilderness associated with Area 51, Roswell, New Mexico and alien abductions! Read the entire review at:   https://www.uwlax.edu/mvac/book-reviews/?review=285037

[e-b-reads]

I want to know about books 11, 22, 33, 44 and 55 💫

Thanks for asking! Lol, typically for me, every one of these is a mystery, but they're all pretty different!

11. Light Thickens, Ngaio Marsh - The final Roderick Alleyn mystery (not that they need to be read in order). This does actually have some characters return from a mystery set (and written) several years before this one; they have aged, but Alleyn apparently has not. It's a good stand-alone mystery set in a play house (one of Marsh's favorite things to write about), with various references to Macbeth.

22. The Redeemers, Ace Atkins - This is book 5 in the Quinn Colson mystery series, I spent a lot of the beginning of last year tearing through them (11 total), slowed down only by waiting for library holds to come in. The sort of arc of the series (which does take place over 10 or so years, each book set ~when it was published) is that former Army Ranger Quinn Colson comes back to his hometown in Mississippi and then runs for sheriff so as to get rid of the old corrupt sheriff - and then takes down a crime lord, and has to quit being sheriff, and gets voted back in, and another crime lord takes over... Anyway, they're grittier/more violent than a lot of the mysteries I read, but I was hooked. All the characters felt very well-rounded - all the good guys have significant flaws, but I love them anyway, and (almost) all the bad guys have moments where they're sympathetic, if not redeemable.

33. The Night She Died, Dorothy Simpson - OK, so I can't think of anything particularly wrong with this book, but I forgot I read it until looking #33 up for this list. The first in yet another mystery series (published 1980, set in England), and it was...fine? I didn't read any others in the series, but I did finish the book, so it was gripping enough for that!

44. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, Agatha Christie - A Poirot book; Poirot goes to the dentist, and then later in the day, the dentist is found murdered! If you've read any Poirot stuff, then you have an idea where things go from there. This was a reread, I like the more domestic Christie books (as opposed to international intrigue).

55. Relic, Douglas Preston with Lincoln Child - This is also first in a series, called the Pendergast series. I actually remember why I read this - I saw several books from the series in the library, and was intrigued, so when I got home I found the first one on Libby. Honestly not sure that "mystery" is the best description - maybe a combo of horror and thriller and some supernatural elements. I did like this first one - it's gripping, and Pendergast is a charismatic character. There's some funky pseudoscience in this one (think Jurassic Park) to explain some pretty fantastic things, but it's made to sound reasonable; I read two more in the series, but when it looked like Pendergast was actually starting to time travel with the power of his mind in the third one, I decided not to read the other 19(!).

(Send me a number 1 - 206 and I'll tell you about a book I read in 2023!)

[feedergoldfish]

It was a mess that was about to become a fucking mess.

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Sergeant D'Agosta in Brimstone by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

[londonspirit]

I finished The Cabinet Of Dr Leng and this was my actual reaction (well, obviously not OUT the window but def through the room!)

I SOOO had to stop myself from skipping to the last pages (as I often did in the past) and FUCK ME, it was soo worth it for THAT ending!!!!

Well done, Gents, sooo very well done - even though I now have to wait probably another year or so (but then again, I’m used to it by now)!

So sooo good!!! After the last one which was CHAOTIC towards the end because of the subject, this was just as gripping and amazing as I hoped it’d be!!!

I have thoughts but it’s late and I am still sleeping like shit so that has to wait until I find the time to sort them more awake!!

But DAMN, I did NOT see that coming!!! *bounces around in delighted agony*

*just a reminder to self for later:

- perfect use of parallelity (yes, that’s a word, shush) - makes all this soo much easier! - WTF was the use and meaning of THOSE italics??? my brain very much wants to go into a supernatural direction which would explain A LOT but also raises a LOT more new questions... - THE FUCKING ENDING!! I haven’t had my entire world turn around with only a few sentences in a VERY long time!! - THEM meeting felt like ex-lovers (yes, I may have been reading fanfic in between the book, hush now!)

I soo need to re-read the corresponding book(s) again, just to be up to date for the next one!

*screams into the void some more and bounces of to bed*

[maudebogbody]

Ok honestly I think something that makes Lincoln Child books “fun” is that the guy does homework. He does a lot of homework, and a lot of writers don’t!!! So much of fiction writing is about doing your homework!!! These things read like corporate espionage thrillers set in an episode of How It’s Made.

Anyways nonfiction is the great friend of fiction. Fiction doesn’t have to be real but it absolutely has to be true.

Not saying he always deploys his research well. Like any books of his that deal with indigenous cultures have some very inadvisable parts. Child’s like “I did my research on their beliefs” but usually fails to escape from the shadow of the noble savage school of anthropology. Like at best he’s got messages about how indigenous people are the experts on the places where they live but at worst he’s playing a littttttle too fast and loose with “mythology.” Live by the homework sword die by the homework sword etc.

[bravecrab]

Secondhand horror book haul

[the-random-sentence-library]

"Jessup seemed about to say something else."

Quote randomly selected from page 40 of Lincoln Child's novel Full Wolf Moon.

Quote was selected at random from a book chosen at random from the Willowick Public Library.

[n1ghtc4wl3r]

This has been haunting my dreams since the first time I saw it… this feels like the target audience. This is in the lab I’m working in rn and there’s something about it that draws me in.

I was actually reading “Deep Storm” by Lincoln Child when I first saw it and lost my mind bc that’s all the whole book is and I NEEED someone to understand what I’m talking about

[cattatonically]

Bloodless - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (Pendergast, book 20)

Synopsis

In this latest installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling series, FBI agent Pendergast faces the strangest, most challenging puzzle of his career, when bodies—drained to the last drop of blood—begin appearing in Savannah, Georgia.

A FABULOUS HEIST On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305—Portland to Seattle—with a fake bomb, collected a ransom of $200,000, and then parachuted from the rear of the plane, disappearing into the night…and into history.

A BRUTAL CRIME STEEPED IN LEGEND AND MALEVOLENCE Fifty years later, Agent Pendergast takes on a bizarre and gruesome case: in the ghost-haunted city of Savannah, Georgia, bodies are found with no blood left in their veins—sowing panic and reviving whispered tales of the infamous Savannah Vampire.

A CASE LIKE NO OTHER As the mystery rises along with the body count, Pendergast and his partner, Agent Coldmoon, race to understand how—or if—these murders are connected to the only unsolved skyjacking in American history. Together, they uncover not just the answer…but an unearthly evil beyond all imagining.

My Thoughts

As with every Prendergast mystery, we start off with intrigue. But what really caught my attention with Bloodless is that we start far before the beginning of the case with an infamous mystery – the tale of D. B. Cooper. By now, we all know my passion for true crime. And I couldn’t wait to figure out just how this unsolved mystery would tie into our mysterious murders in Savannah, Georgia.

As usual, we go through twists and turns at a bit of a maddening pace. The pieces of the puzzle take a bit of a roundabout way before fitting together to create a full picture. And, as per usual, at the heart of it all is Pendergast with his riddles, and the, quite frankly, mystifying way his mind works.

I love watching Pendergast work his magic. It’s riveting, and, I’m not gonna lie, I get a little bit of petty gleefulness when he runs circles around people who try to thwart him, or otherwise try to throw their weight around. And while his partner, Coldmoon, could probably go with never seeing Pendergast ever again, he’s a really fantastic counterpart to Pendergast’s rather eccentric methods.

With all that said, I could never have predicted where this story would take us. One revelation after another, I kept repeating to myself: “No, there’s not fucking way”. And every time, I was mistaken. There was a fucking way, apparently.

I’m used to these books taking the strangest of strange turns. I’m used to having to suspend my understanding what is possible, and what is reality. But this one. This one really, really went above and beyond. And I honestly have no idea how we’re going next, or what could possibly happen.

Honestly, as much as I adore this series, and these characters, this might have gone just one step too far for me. And that’s saying something, coming from me.

[samduqs]

May Reads

I didn't have much time to read this month because I had to study for my finals but here are my readings :)

(I also started the Iliad and Dracula Daily)

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'Bloodless' Book Review By Ron Fortier

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'Bloodless' Book Review By Ron Fortier

BLOODLESS A Pendergast Novel By Preston & Child Grand Central Publishing 385 pgs

As we said dozens of times before, our favorite new pulp series today is the Pendergast novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. “Bloodless” is the twentieth in the adventures of Special FBI Agent Aloysius Pendergast and probably one of the most blatantly outrageous yet. This is saying something as this series kicked off with Pendergast dealing with a mutated jungle monster loose in the Museum of Natural History to be followed by his encounter with a mysterious young lady well over a hundred years old but still retaining her physical youth. As we said, outrageous, and yet Preston and Child have so much fun telling these stories, the reader is instantly swept along for the ride and leaves all rationality behind.

In “Bloodless” the story begins with a retelling of the FBI’s most famous and still unsolved cases; the plane highjacking by the man known as D.B. Cooper who, after being paid his ransom, parachuted out of a plane over the Northwest and was never seen again. From this prequel, the book then springs to Savannah, Georgia today and the body of a murdered man washed up along the banks of the river…without a drop of blood in it. Pendergast, his ward Constance Greene and partner Agent Armstrong Coldmoon are assigned the case. Before too long, a second bloodless corpse literarily falls out of the sky one night nearly crushing a tourist couple out for a stroll. As events continue, the case simply becomes more and more macabre until our heroes are faced with the possibility that the killer may not be of this world.

Like all such long-running series, the Pendergast adventures have had their ups and downs. Some tales were a bit awkward and clumsy while others were spot-on thrillers with panache. “Bloodless” may possibly be the finest since our personal favorite, “The Cabinet of Curiosities,” book # 3.  Not to be missed, pulp fans because this is really what great pulp writing is all about.

[thegreatwhinger]

Cold Vengeance

I completed Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's Cold Vengeance last night and enjoyed it, which is typically the case when I read about the adventures of intrepid Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast.

By the way, it's worth mentioning that Peter Hyams' The Relic is a really good movie, with a great performance by Tom Sizemore, but the movie excised Pendergast entirely.

Though what's particularly interesting to me is that I didn't notice before was that he feels very reminiscent of Lamont Cranston (otherwise known as the Shadow).