What are you reading the week of April 22, 2012?

[DUgosh]

Twisted By Jonathan Kellerman - Petra Connor book#2

2012 book# 68

[NEOhiodemocrat]

1. James Patterson

Last week read books 1,2,3,5,8 and 9 of the murder club mysteries. Have # 10 to start tomorrow. Other numbers not in at library so sort of jumping around.

[MaineDem]

2. THE TOURIST by Olen Steinhauer

So far I like it. Thankfully, it's not the same story as the recent movie.

[MaineDem]

18. I really liked this.

This and The Innocent by David Baldacci were very good reads.

[JitterbugPerfume]

3. Radio Free Albemuth PK Dick

,GOOD Sci Fi

[Little Star]

19. You love sci-fi, I can tell.....

I had a girlfriend who really loved it and rarely read anything else. She tried to get me interested but I just never got there.

It's funny how we can all have different tastes in reading material isn't it?

I'm just glad you are enjoying yourself!

[JitterbugPerfume]

21. Star, it would be a boring world if we were all the same!

[getting old in mke]

4. _Every Dead Thing_ by John Connolly

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Went to a signing last week where he was and picked up a couple of this. Entertaining man in person.

[Little Star]

7. I haven't read any of his books yet...

Did he seem nice? He looks like he would be nice. I know his books must be good because so many here mention his work.

[LWolf]

5. Some free junk on the new Kindle,

while I try to figure out how to make it work. It was a bday gift.

So far, I can get free stuff I already have in hard copy, and have already read, some newer free stuff that has been bad enough not even to list, and I'm trying to figure out how to maneuver back and forth through the book smoothly, which has not been working well.

[SheilaT]

6. Watergate by Thomas Mallon.

It's excellent. I was an adult living in the DC area at the time, which makes it all the more interesting to me.

[Little Star]

8. I watched that whole hearing. That was something...

I bet that is a good book.

[SheilaT]

9. It's amazing, but then I love everything I've

read of his. An early novel, Henry and Clara is simply one of the best I've ever read.

In Watergate he has you inside the heads of lots of the main players in the drama. Yes, it's fiction, and who knows WHAT Pat Nixon might have been thinking, but it feels incredibly real. There is an authenticity in a good novel, especially in a good historical novel, that comes when the author really does his research, and doesn't just make up whatever he feels like making up. Mallon is one of those.

[fadedrose]

10. NOW YOU SEE ME (2011) by S. J. Bolton

Lacey Flint, a young detective constable in London, England; first book in this series. Second book due out 6/5/12. Sort of scary....


http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/B_Authors/Bolton_S-J.html

Book 35 of 2012

[fadedrose]

16. Recommended....

Suspense from the beginning to the end. All meat no filler.....

Would never have known how it ended if I didn't know there was a 2nd book coming out in June....

[YankeyMCC]

11. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

[WCIL]

12. Finished Spoon River Anthology today

going to start either The Expats by Chris Pavone or Give Me Back My Legions by Harry Turtledove tonight.

[ohheckyeah]

13. I just finished

Extinction Point by Paul Jones

It's not the perfect post-apocalyptic story but I enjoyed it and can't wait for the sequel.

Reporter Emily Baxter has a great job, an apartment in Manhattan, and a boyfriend she loves. All that changes the day the red rain falls from a cloudless sky. Just hours after the first reports from Europe, humanity is on the brink of extinction, wiped from the face of the earth in a few bloody moments, leaving Emily alone in an empty city. As she struggles to grasp the reality of her situation, Emily becomes the final witness to the end of our world... and the birth of a terrifying new one.

The world she knew and loved is dead and gone. Now Emily must try to find a way out of New York as the truth behind the red rain is revealed: the earth no longer belongs to humanity.

[dimbear]

14. Stefan Zweig "Invisible Collection."

Heartbreaker. Everything he wrote seems to be good.

[fadedrose]

15. COWBOYS & ALIENS (2011) by Joan D. Vinge

This book is a novelization of a movie screenplay.

"Blockbuster filmmaker Jon Favreau directs Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford in an event film for summer 2011 that crosses the classic Western with the alien-invasion movie in a blazingly original way..."


Old Codger tipped me off on this one last year. I did not know that Cowboys & Aliens was out in book form...


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=208&topic_id=26585#26589

Book 36 of 2012

[fadedrose]

17. A FALSE DAWN (2009) by Tom Lowe

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/L_Authors/Lowe_Tom.html

Only 2 books in this series so far....

"Sean O’Brien, a recently widowed former Miami homicide detective, now living with his dachshund Max on the St. John’s River, in Florida"

I think mvccd1000 just read this book - how'd you like it, m?



Book 37 of 2012

[mvccd1000]

23. Not great

Enough adventures to be downright implausible in places, and a lot of the dialog was stilted and awkward. He needs to read some Elmore Leonard before starting his next manuscript.

That said, it was nonstop action from start to finish.

I read the second one, too, and it's not as good as the first. I had to switch to a Brett Battles before I try the third book in the series.

[fadedrose]

24. "Not great" is too generous..

This book sucked big time. Leslie just got shot, thank goodness, and I closed the book, ne'er to open again..

I see the sequel, The Twenty-Fourth Letter, is written in narrative style, while The False Dawn is written in the first person. The author, a former newsman, has to hang out with some real cops and robbers if he intends to keep writing police procedurals, and has to stop having 2 sentences in every short paragraph.

Not going to bother with the sequel. Now to figure out what to go to next.

[mvccd1000]

30. Well, yes, it truly sucked.

I'll probably give it 2 stars (out of 5) in my rating system.

I didn't want to color your opinion while you were still reading it, though.

I've struggled through the first two, and I already have the third downloaded, so I guess I'll make my way into it soon.

I might have to add the one you recommended below to my list, though. (I still have "Ice Station" by Matt Reilly waiting for me; wasn't that one of yours?)

[fadedrose]

31. I feel so bad

That's the trouble with giving an opinion. It should always be good so you don't hurt someone's feelings, and I hate myself for what I said about this book. Please erase everything I said - maybe I should delete it all - think?

The Reilly book is the first of his that I read. Reilly is an Australian, and quite young. He was only about 23 when he wrote Ice Station. I enjoyed the wildly insane situations and the bonus bogus drawings that showed how it was all really quite possible. All his books were exciting, but his first was my favorite.

But don't feel bad. I have pushed my favorite James D. Doss and Charlie Moon down everybody's computer, and out of 206 subscribers to Fiction - guess how many read him - nobody.

So if my opinion hurts your feelings, it shouldn't. Nobody else here gives a hoot about what I think and neither should you.

luv ya m

[mvccd1000]

32. No, not at all!

I enjoy hearing all of the opinions about the books. I just meant that I didn't want to leave you with any preconceived notions before you had a chance to read Lowe's books, so I tempered my review a bit.

[fadedrose]

36. I picked up his second book by Tom Lowe

The 24th Letter. Will give him a fairer hearing this time...I ordered Spin from on a library loan. It's a political thingy, takes place in CA...

Amazon lists A Butterfly Forrest but no library has it - in all of MI....

which ones are you reading again?

[mvccd1000]

37. I thought the second was worse than the first.

And if I hadn't already purchased the third, I wouldn't have bothered at that point.

As it was, though, the third was a pleasant surprise and I'm glad I read it.

I'd skip the 2nd, though.

[fadedrose]

33. Have you started ICE STATION yet?

I don't recommend the whole series - too fast-moving and you can't catch your breath.

But I enjoyed this first one. You mentioned you don't miss the north - hells bells compared to Ice Station, Canada is like Florida...

Try to read this one mv, it'll make not finding a good book not a problem compared to the Seals in this one...

[mvccd1000]

34. Not yet

I had it on my screen to order for a long time, then I read somebody's (yours?) reviews of his later books and it dropped off my radar.

I think I'm going to go through the rest of Joel Goldman's Lou Mason books next; I like that first one.

[fadedrose]

35. Reminded me of Mission Impossible, the tv series

After a while it gets tired, program after program, book after book, but it was slick. I read 4 of them and have one now, Seven Deadly Wonders. Don't know if I'll read it or not - not part of the series...

[fadedrose]

29. Try the one I just posted by Jussi Adler-Olsen

It's as good as Lowe's book was bad...

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/A_Authors/Adler-Olsen_Jussi.html

Some funny lines, great situations so far...Denmark...

[MaineDem]

20. THE SECRET SOLDIER by Alex Berenson

Another in the John Wells series.

[Little Star]

25. MaineDem did you add this series to fadedrose's thread...

A to Z fiction series authors?

[MaineDem]

26. It's already there

I just checked.

[Little Star]

27. Thanks. I guess I could have checked first, duh! :)

[MaineDem]

28. I'm glad you made me look

I had forgotten about the link to the cozy mystery site. It's been very informative.

[closeupready]

22. Pharos Initiative, and non-fiction, The First Tycoon (Cornelius Vanderbilt's life)

First Tycoon won the Pulitzer, and it's really good.