#Douglas Preston

[charliejaneanders]

So freaking excited to be part of FOURTEEN DAYS, an anthology edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston, featuring so many of my fav authors and benefiting the Authors Guild. The book comes out on Feb. 6 and check the #WhoAmI tag for clues about some of the #bookish contributors...

#books #writing #anthologies #margaret atwood #douglas preston

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 040

Extinction by Douglas Preston

“Do not talk to me about Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park was bad fiction AND bad science. What we do here is real!”

#books #2024 reads #extinction #booklr #lit edit #douglas preston

[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

#archaeology fiction #archeology fiction #Diablo Mesa #Douglas Preston #Lincoln Child #Nora Kelly #Corrie Swanson

[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!)

#books of 2023 #I promise I read other genres - but probabilistically this makes sense #gonna tag the books now #light thickens #ngaio marsh #quinn colson #ace atkins #the night she died #dorothy simpson #one two buckle my shoe #agatha christie #relic #douglas preston #lincoln child

[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.

#brimstone #douglas preston #lincoln child #special agent pendergast

[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*

#personal #books #douglas preston #lincoln child #preston and child #the cabinet of dr leng #pendergast novels #agent pendergast #aloysius pendergast

[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! 🤗

#aloysius pendergast #douglas preston #lincoln child #books #book quotes #mé

[the-bookmark]

Relic

Pendergast #1

by Preston & Child

In this thriller, we are introduced to FBI Agent Pendergast, though we don't meet him until chapter 14.

The New York Museum of Natural History is planning a big celebration to introduce their new exhibit, Superstition, and there's no way they'll let a few grisly murders interfere with their big bash.  So when the police lieutenant and Agent Pendergast order the gala postponed until after the murderer is found, the museum director picks up the phone and dials Albany to call in a few favors.  As a result, the gala goes on as planned, and the result is an unmitigated disaster.

This kept me on the edge of my seat—and the twist at the end was totally unexpected!

#books #book reviews #Relic #Preston & Child #Douglas Preston #Lincoln Child #fiction #mystery #thriller

[kammartinez]

#books #writing #journalism #douglas preston

[kamreadsandrecs]

#books #writing #journalism #douglas preston

[inabooknook]

Extinction by Douglas Preston

This book was so surprisingly good. Not that I didn't think it would be good, but I didn't realize the level of research that had gone into it, until I read the afterword. The book is a great thriller in the vein of Jurassic Park with fun twists, interesting turns, and just an all around great cast of fun characters. However, the story itself was also interesting because it touches on the age old idea of we have the power, but should we do these things. The story follows a park where animals have been de-extincted, but then calamity occurs. I would recommend this as a super fun read that you will rip through fast, and for a fun summer beach book.

This ebook was provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

#reading #books #netgalley #book recommendations #booklr #book reviews #fiction #book review #bookstagram #thriller #douglas preston

[kramlabs]

#current book #douglas preston

[wednesdayshadow]

#stephen king #neil gaiman #dean koontz #douglas preston #lincoln child #brian lumley #issac asimov #Instagram

[esonetwork]

'Bloodless' Book Review By Ron Fortier

New Post has been published on http://esonetwork.com/bloodless-book-review-by-ron-fortier/

'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.

#A Pendergast Novel #Aloysius Pendergast #B.D. Cooper #Bloodless #book review #Douglas Preston #ESO Book Review #Grand Centeral Publishing #Lincoln Child #Pendergast Novel #Pulp #Pulp Adventures #Ron Fortier

[africapie]

#medibangpaintandroid #medibangapp #drawthisinyourstyle #dibujo #medibangpaint #draw #speedpaint #fanart #dibujodigital #pendergastseries #aloysius pendergast #douglas preston #Preston & child #versosparaunmuerto

[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).

#Douglas Preston #Lincoln Child #Cold Vengeance #Aloysius Pendergast #Lamont Cranston #The Shadow #Tom Sizemore #Peter Hyams #The Relic