What Are You Reading

[DNO]

I do love to read, it is a good way to learn, take a "mental vacation", and to see into a picture of words the author takes us into.

I just happen to remind myself of some of the best books I have read for just entertainment reading. The author Leon Uris. So far, everything he has done, I have found worth my time to read. And some of his books have become icons of film.

May he rest in peace.

Absolutely. QB VII was an excellent book.

 

[Tommy]

Finished up the "Naked and the Dead" by Norman Mailer. It was worthwhile, didn't know what the expect, very readable, and a good WWII American pacific theater novel.

 

[Connery]

Robert Ludlum "The Tristan Betrayal"

 

[shazzabanazza]

Handle With Care - Jodi Picoult

What a fantastic story, I cant put it down!

 

[Esme]

Bring on the Empty Horses sounds good. I can't believe I haven't read it before.
I am smack dab in the middle of Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Liking it so far. Pretty good.

 

[davidraphael]

Currently reading Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence.
I'm really getting a kick out of Maugham at the moment. Anyone have any favourite Maugham novels?

I'm also anxiously awaiting the imminent translation of Haruki Murakami's 1Q84. Waiting on tenterhooks! Only a few days to go!
I've read everything by Murakami and consider him one of the best living writers.

 

[dnjan]

Currently reading "The Queen's Necklace" by Dumas. Having previously read Dickens' rendition of the French revolution ("Tale of Two Cities"), I wanted a French version of those time. Dumas has a four (?) volume series that I am now starting.

 

[DNO]

Just finished Impact by Douglas Preston and have started Revelation by C. J. Sansom. I quite enjoyed Impact and so far Revelation is interesting.

 

[rue]

Originally Posted by rue
Bernard Shaw and Mrs Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence
Interesting read........


Finally finished this book! I only had time to read it for about 10 minutes every night, so that's why.

Anyway, it was a great book, but the ending just ended and it made me want to know what happened. I guess that's the way with letters.... one day they just end [huh]

 

[Fletch]

Waste (1924), by Robert Herrick. A social-realist novel that talks about a lot of the Big Issues in American life that we still talk about today (unless we're novelists - the social novel is good and dead), and that we still don't have any answers for.

 

[DNO]

Dark Fire by C. J. Sansom

 

[Diamondback]

Just finished Dead Six by Larry Correia & Mike Kupari (dunno why Larry gets top billing, he actually joined the project halfway through--yep, that's right, a novel born from a gun-forum Creative Writing thread!LOL) and now moving onto Larry's Spellbound: Book II of The Grimnoir Chronicles. Magic + machine-guns + pirates + ninjas + zeppelins in an alternate 1930s = head-splitting awesomeness...

 

[Hawkcigar]

I just picked up a copy of Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails. I just started thumbing through it but am excited to find some new recipes or maybe I should say new to me.

 

[BigFitz]

"L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City" by John Buntin, non-fiction. A great read so far, especially makes a good companion piece if you like James Ellroy's L.A. quartet.

Recently finished Ken Bruen's "Headstone", another installment in the Jack Taylor series set in Galway, Ireland.

 

[lolly_loisides]

I'm reacquainting myself with Raymond Chandler. I've started off with The Little Sister.

 

[St.Ignatz]

Speed Duel.

 

[moustache]

Threads by Joseph Abboud.

 

[Alex Oviatt]

"Thrones, Dominations" which is the postumous Peter Whimsey. Given that it was co-written after the fact, it is quite good. Plenty of Dorothy Sayers in there.

 

[LordBest]

Inventing the Louvre by Andrew McClellan, a history of the development of that (second) greatest of world museums.

 

[Tommy]

working on Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.