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Riptide
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A library book. This is a good ole pirate-treasure-hunters story by the author of _The Lost City of the Monkey God_, one of his thrillers written with Lincoln Child.
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Eek! I stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish this, then was too keyed up from the excitement to sleep for a while afterwards. This is my first Preston/Child novel and I'm told it's not their best offering; however, I gave it five stars because it has everything I look for in escapist fiction: adventure, fast pacing, intriguing characters, and a great setting.
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Eek! I stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish this, then was too keyed up from the excitement to sleep for a while afterwards. This is my first Preston/Child novel and I'm told it's not their best offering; however, I gave it five stars because it has everything I look for in escapist fiction: adventure, fast pacing, intriguing characters, and a great setting.
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May 18, 2017
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May 19, 2017
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May 21, 2017
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May 19, 2017 08:13AM
I enjoyed it, too. Not one of my all-time favourites (even for the authors), but parts of it still resurface whenever any related topics come up in books or movies.
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That's why I always have two or three books on the go. I have had to put aside certain books after 9 pm because I know if I read them at night I won't sleep at all!
Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) wrote: "I have had to put aside certain books after 9 pm because I know if I read them at night I won't sleep at all!"Same, here. But I just lose the sleep, usually.
Oh yeah--I sleep badly anyway. But that also means I don't need something that's going to keep me awake thinking about it. Like fr'instance The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices or The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up
There have been times in my life when I was prone to nightmares and, in those times, if I was reading a particularly horrific horror novel, I would find something else to read approaching bedtime.The especially gruesome novels didn't prevent me from sleeping, of course... they just contributed a tad too much to the sleep-time "entertainment".
:-) That's a good way of looking at it, James. Horrific books don't make me lose a bit of sleep, nor do I have nightmares, and I am blessed with being able to sleep soundly. Hard labor at my farm every day is responsible for that. While I'd like to read 'round the clock, my reading time is limited to snatches during the day between horsey chores and a few hours at night. I often drink a cuppa at 9:00 or 10:00 pm to stay awake and read, but even that doesn't help much. I want to read EVERYTHING!! (all the time)
"Horsey chores." I like the sound of that! ;)
