What's Everyone Reading

[Mike]

Finished The Enemy, by Lee Child. Not quite as much fighting as in some of the other novels, though a good read, none the less.
Which one to read now

 

[Steve williams]

I read it

Have you read The Affair.

 

[Mike]

I read it

Have you read The Affair.

No. I'll see if I can get it.

 

[Ronm1]

I know this will sound ungracious. I was hugely pissed when he had his accident and nearly died. Consider: He had been writing his Dark Tower series for years with a new addition every two years or so. He did not seem to have a schedule and no one knew when or how it would end. We who followed the series waited with bated breath for the next installment. He had no right to die!!! The story had not ended!!!

Sparky

late on a reply, reading through gettiing ideas on material while the Tokyo String Quartet spins again....
I suspect that's how a number of readers may have felt about Stieg Larson's Millenium series.

 

[MylesBAstor]

Finished "Switch" and now onto "The Happiness Hypothesis, Mindless Eating and One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way." Going to be a roller coaster of a ride through some new ideas on changing human behavior!

 

[mep]

I just finished "The Affair." I have a weakness for the Jack Reacher series.

 

[Steve williams]

I just finished "The Affair." I have a weakness for the Jack Reacher series.

I read it last month. I thought it was one of the better recent Reacher novels

 

[DaveyF]

Patrick Lee... The Breach and Ghost Country.
A mix of sci-fi and action....great read.

 

[rbbert]

A great but relatively unheralded writer of low-key mystery/thrillers, William Kent Krueger.

Scifi by Neal Asher, Alistair Reynolds, Peter Hamilton and Richard K Morgan (why do so many of the best SF writers continue to be British??)

English police mysteries by Jill McGown (who had the great misfortune to die with so many loose ends left in her series) and her spiritual successor, American Deborah Crombie.

More English police procedurals by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (the Bill Slider mysteries)

John Lescroart

Robert Crais

 

[jazdoc]

A followup to earlier in the thread, my Dad and I went to a lecture tonight by Erik Larson, the author of "In The Garden of Beasts". Fabulous speaker with a very good sense of humor. Added some interesting insights to the book and his writing process.

 

[JackD201]

Patrick Lee... The Breach and Ghost Country.
A mix of sic-fi and action....great read.

I downloaded these books after your recommendation Davey. I finished The Breach in a day. This would make one hell of a movie. It's extremely visual. Thanks!

 

[andi]

Hi,

Harry Belafonte "My song".

Andreas

 

[carolkoh]

The Art of Video Games: From Pac Man to Mass Effect 2 - companion to the current exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

An overview of the evolution of video games in the past 40 years.

 

[DaveyF]

I downloaded these books after your recommendation Davey. I finished The Breach in a day. This would make one hell of a movie. It's extremely visual. Thanks!

Jack, I agree that The Breach would make a helluva movie, I'd be first in line to see it.
Ghost Country is pretty amazing also, have you read that one yet?

I've ordered the third in the trilogy...Deep Sky, which promises to be a great read also.

Who would you nominate to play Travis Chase? Paige Campbell?

 

[jazdoc]

Just received and devoured Robert Caro's 4th volume of his monumental LBJ biography "The Passage of Power".

I'll admit to being favorably predisposed, as I've enjoyed the first three volumes. I believe that one day Caro's LBJ will be regarded as highly as Manchester's "Churchill" or Churchill's "Marlborough" in the realm of political biography. Caro is criticized for the length of work, but to me it's part of the glory. Caro takes the time to flesh out the other major players that shaped LBJ's time. In this volume, the rivalry between Bobby Kennedy and LBJ that helped define an era in American politics takes center stage. Caro shows how profoundly JFK's murder changed his brother.

The last half of the book focus on first 7 weeks of his presidency. LBJ was able to suppress his darker instincts, win an anxious country's confidence, and use his formidable political skills to push through JFK's stalled legislative agenda. But as Caro foreshadows, LBJ will not be able to tamp down the unsavory aspects of his character forever...

My only complaint: I read the book in 7 days and I'll have to wait 7 years for the final volume. Enthusiastically recommended.

 

[Steve williams]

Why 7 year wait.

 

[jazdoc]

The books are exhaustively researched and lengthy. That's been the average wait between volumes.

 

[carolkoh]

I don't suppose anyone is interested in the "chick lit" I am currently indulging in.

 

[Steve williams]

I don't suppose anyone is interested in the "chick lit" I am currently indulging in.

"Shades Of Gray" I am betting

 

[carolkoh]

You are thinking of "50 Shades of Grey" and you know... Ew! Twilight fan fiction?? No thank you! That's what is evolved from anyway... "Masters of the Universe" and I was put off enough not to want to pick it up.

To tell you the truth... I'm indulging in Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Plum for those who really want to know. She's a... not very good bounty hunter (she hides her gun in her cookie jar because she's afraid of guns) with awful bad luck with cars but awful good luck in stumbling over clues and putting them together. Very amusing. Having a few hot leading men doesn't hurt either.