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    Like title says I’m looking for more large stand alone books which are fast paced enough so I don’t bored and not so much world building that it gets bogged down.

    Some books I loved:

    11.22.63 by King

    The Stand by King

    the passage by Cronin

    Fairytale by King

    Some of these I liked but didn’t love

    Babel by KF Kuang

    The Rise and Fall of DODO by Stephenson

    The deluge by Markley

    Under the Dome by King

    Magpie Murders by Horowitz

    Longer books that I DNFed (too slow)

    Jonathan Strange & Mr Newell

    Termination Shock by Stephenson

    The Bee Sting by Murray

    Any suggestions? Thanks!

    by CalmCelebration9888

    3 Comments

    1. Matthew Reilly Ice Station (1st in the Scarecrow series)

      AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GLOBE,

      Anarctica is the last unconquered continent, a murderous expanse of howling winds, blinding whiteouts and deadly crevasses. On one edge of Antarctica is Wilkes Station. Beneath Wilkes Station is the gate to hell itself…IN THE COLDEST PLACE ON EARTH, A team of U.S. divers, exploring three thousand feet beneath the ice shelf has vanished. Sending out an SOS, Wilkes draws a rapid deployment team of Marines-and someone else…THE HEAT IS ON…

      First comes a horrific firefight. Then comes a plunge into a drowning pool filled with killer whales. Next comes the hard part, as a handful of survivors begin an electrifying, red-hot, non-stop battle of survival across the continent and against wave after wave of elite military assassins-who’ve all come for one thing: a secret buried deep beneath the ice…

    2. Only 310 to 400 pages but just throwing in Pirate Latitudes. A Pirate heist novel by Michael Crichton.

      Fast paced and pirates in the golden age of piracy.

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