what are you reading?

[IFF]

currently:

khaled hosseini - a thousand splendid suns [bought this second hand. i read the kite runner last year]
glen duncan - the last werewolf [one of my personal favourite authors. it's dissapointing that i've been a month without having read all his books (this having been published in april)]
ernest hemingway - for whom the bell tolls [this is the first book of his that i'm reading]

[seekerofvisions]

I'm currently reading a book on Fatty Arbuckle and his problems with the rape charge that cost him a brilliant comedy career...

i just looked that case up; looks interesting. thanks for the post.

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i'm reading body of lies by david ignatius. cant believe i'm going to say this, but i think i liked the movie more.

[Shandril105]

Just finished the newest book in the Sookie Stackhouse-Southern Vampire Mysteries series. One month, 11 books, its all good.

[Libs.R.Entitled]

Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy.

[Farnsworth,Luther P.]

i just looked that case up; looks interesting. thanks for the post.

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i'm reading body of lies by david ignatius. cant believe i'm going to say this, but i think i liked the movie more.

You're welcome, and the book was good, too. All the politics and intrigueing behind the scenes was interesting. And, I think it makes a great case for his complete innocence.

[seekerofvisions]

... most of the 'new' writers of detective fiction are mostly writing filler around pat formulas, without hiding the formula outlines too well.

have you read dennis lehane, mystic river, gone baby gone, etc? i really enjoy his work. i'd stay away from the kenzie-gennaro novels unless you want more "light" reading, not that the others could truly be called "heavy."

who have been your favorite mystery writers?

i love mystery.

[Farnsworth,Luther P.]

have you read dennis lehane, mystic river, gone baby gone, etc? i really enjoy his work. i'd stay away from the kenzie-gennaro novels unless you want more "light" reading, not that the others could truly be called "heavy."

who have been your favorite mystery writers?

i love mystery.

I never read Lehane, but the movie 'Mystic River' is one I watch every time it airs; great movie, and Penn is excellent in it. Is it based on the Lehane book? I don't know.

As for mystery writers, I liked Raymond Chandler's work, Dashell Hammet, read a lot of the Perry Mason and early Agatha Christie stuff when I was a kid, my parents and grandparents had whole shelves of her books, then moved on to spy stuff and crime novels, Elmore Leonard, Eugene Izzi is a favorite, Stephen Hunter, James Elroy, John LeCarre, Fredrick Forsythe's work I like a lot, some of Ken Follet's books are good, some bad, Daniel Silva's got a few good ones, the ones with the 'art restorer' Gabriel something in them, and recently a friend just recommended David Ignatius's few spy novels to me as good reading and 'realistic', though I haven't started one yet and don't know. I guess those may be 'mysteries' but I don't consider them the same genre.

I don't read much fiction any more, except to scan historical novels from the 1900's-1920's for historical tidbits here and there.

[seekerofvisions]

I never read Lehane, but the movie 'Mystic River' is one I watch every time it airs; great movie, and Penn is excellent in it. Is it based on the Lehane book? I don't know.

As for mystery writers, I liked Raymond Chandler's work, Dashell Hammet, read a lot of the Perry Mason and early Agatha Christie stuff when I was a kid, my parents and grandparents had whole shelves of her books, then moved on to spy stuff and crime novels, Elmore Leonard, Eugene Izzi is a favorite, Stephen Hunter, James Elroy, John LeCarre, Fredrick Forsythe's work I like a lot, some of Ken Follet's books are good, some bad, Daniel Silva's got a few good ones, the ones with the 'art restorer' Gabriel something in them, and recently a friend just recommended David Ignatius's few spy novels to me as good reading and 'realistic', though I haven't started one yet and don't know. I guess those may be 'mysteries' but I don't consider them the same genre.

I don't read much fiction any more, except to scan historical novels from the 1900's-1920's for historical tidbits here and there.

mystic river, gone baby gone and shutter island are all movies based on dennis lehane novels. he's a great writer. not so much mystery, but great fiction.

i really like raymond chandler and elmore leonard. you ever read jim thompson? he's more of a pulp fiction writer than anything it reads a little dated, but still a good read.

im currently reading david ignatius. he's alright. the plot is pretty good but his attempts at the side love story are a bit thin. i dont know if he felt forced to include it, but i think i would have enjoyed body of lies more without the side story; the main plot was interesting enough to keep me reading.

[Farnsworth,Luther P.]

mystic river, gone baby gone and shutter island are all movies based on dennis lehane novels. he's a great writer. not so much mystery, but great fiction.

Ah, okay. I've heard of all those, but never read the books.

i really like raymond chandler and elmore leonard. you ever read jim thompson? he's more of a pulp fiction writer than anything it reads a little dated, but still a good read.

I think I've read a couple of Jim Thompson's years ago. He's something of a cult fad, at least he was a couple of years ago. They've made several movies from his books.

im currently reading david ignatius. he's alright. the plot is pretty good but his attempts at the side love story are a bit thin. i dont know if he felt forced to include it, but i think i would have enjoyed body of lies more without the side story; the main plot was interesting enough to keep me reading.

The two I have are from 1994 and 1997, Firing Offense and The Bank Of Fear, one about a Russian mole in a major Washington newspaper, and the other about secret Iranian bank accounts in London and stuff, according to the jacket blurbs. I haven't got into them yet.

[Farnsworth,Luther P.]

Just picked up Henry Kissinger's Diplomacy and Power Rules by Leslie H. Gelb, on American foreign policy. Also Gorky Park, for a re-read of an old 'classic' from the early 1980's. Still finishing up David Ignatius'sA Firing Offense and starting on the second one, The Bank Of Fear, tomorrow. It's '20'% off' weekend at Half Price, so I may go back tomorrow if we're passing by and pick up Nixon and Mao and a bio of Benny Binion I saw today.

[86Dùde]

Oooh, foreign policy, I like it.

I'm reading the militaries old improvised explosive devices handbook. I highy recommend it.

[Farnsworth,Luther P.]

Kissinger is an asshole and a traitor but his books are very much worth reading, even if he leaves out a few of the details; those can be filled in elsewhere. His influence is still a major influence on the State Dept., just as Soros views on economics and 'Globalism' are important, except that Soros is far more open and frank, as he has nothing to hide re his investment decisions, being too big a player these days to be sneaky about what he's all about.

[Pappy&Me]

I,m currently reading ...

Derrick Handbook of Petroleum vols. 1 and 2.

The Electric Railway Handbook

The Judgement of Paris

The Buyout of America

Western Europe in the Middle Ages

Don't read much fiction, except for historical novels that have some real historical anecdotes in them. I tried to finish reading Joseph Wambaugh's latest last week, but only made it through about half of it and gave up. I can't even remember the title, it was about Hollywood's police division and whatnot.

I like business histories mostly, especially 18th and 19th century finance and economics.

I got Re-Electing Lincoln a couple of weeks ago, but haven't started it yet, and an Aaron Burr biography.

We rented 'Battle In Seattle'about the WTO.Bunch of tree huggers but on this issue they were right.Too bad morte did'nt join them.

I've always loved history,but not so much into that anymore because its the future we need to work on.

Also when I read books now its mostly comedy'Lewis Grizzard,Erma Bombeck types'and some non fiction.

Books I read a few years ago...Taking Back America,Rules For Radicals[know the enemy],George Washington'was over 1000 pages'great book.

[IFF]

currently -

the vagrants - yiyun li
jasper jones - craig silvey
daughter of fortune - isabel allende

my views on the previous ones i read

khaled hosseini - a thousand splendid suns - wasn't feeling it but the last few chapters made it a great read
glen duncan - the last werewolf - while not the finest book from glen duncaan, it's excellent, entertaining and well written
ernest hemingway - for whom the bell tolls - i just found it disappointing.

[seekerofvisions]

just started the harry bosch novels by michael connelly. they seem okay, so far. good night time reading.

[garyd]

Okay like it or not the best political satire since Guliver's Travels is written by Terry Pratchett. If you have not read any of the Disc world novels you are missing more belly laughs than any human being should have go throguh life without.

[Sparkly Mary]

An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon.

[Shadoglare]

This one. Been taking me friggin' months though, time to read has been hard to come by lately.

[queenlillian1962]

Bible book of Luke.

[Corpsecorps]

DUNE

Years haven't diminished it.