What you reading?+favorite books/characters?

right now i'm about a quarter way through Michael Crichton's Congo. I'd say he's among my favorite authors, along with Peter Benchley. I've never read a book by either of them that i didn't enjoy.
 
Barry Eisler's John Rain character is an assasin in Japan.

Good series for Americans right now suffering from our media malaise.

Japan's public debt as % of GDP is 176%.

United States and Germany's are 60-65%.
 
marknga said:
Great thread. I didn't see anybody list him but if you like Lee Childs you will really like James Lee Burke's material. The series takes place down in the bayous of Louisana and the main character is Dave Robicheaux who is one bad dude. Great story lines and wonderfully written.

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Burke also has a series going with Billy Bob Holland, a lawyer and ex-Texas Ranger in Montana that is excellent.

Burke is a prose poet, he draws word pictures that pull you into the scene like no one else that I know and his characters are multidimensional, complex badasses.
 
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I revisiting an old friend you might say, I have started to re-read the entire Sackett saga by Louis L'amour.
 
Laid up after knee surgery on Monday. Felt it was time to catch up on a few classics I missed as a kid. Reading Flaubert's Madame Bovary and following up with Look Homeward Angel.



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If you want historical fact in a fictional account, try Wilber Smith. He writes mostly about South Africa, the Boars and the settlement and development of that area, he researches his history very well and has a lot of action. Outdoorsy sort of thing.

For Military adventure fiction look up Andy McNabb. Good fiction written by an ex SAS NCO.

I like Clancy too, but I don't like books that are co written.
 
I'm currently listening to the unabridged version of Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell. It's a debut novel. There's been (confirmed) rumors that Leonardo DiCaprio has secured the movie rights for this book. I'm almost halfway thru it and it's awesome so far. The main character is a flawed guy, well, a drug snorting ex-mob hitman to be exact. His "rock and a hardplace" situation starts early in the book and develops in the mist of flashes of back story. Quite a writing style for a rookie novelist. I'm impressed. Can't wait for the movie. DiCaprio is perfect for the role. Highly recommended reading. Don't pass on this one folks.
 
I've got two in the works at present. One is Greg Bear's newest; The City At The End Of Time. Bear is one of my favorites; he's on my "read without review" list.

Second is a fantasy number, the first book of Terry Goodkind's Sword Of Truth series.
I started watching the TV series based on this, "Legend Of The Seeker", which is a sort of Xena-flavored sword & sorcery number.
Folks said (as is often the case) that the books were decent, so I decided to give it a try. Undecided so far....
 
I'm now reading Dean Koontz "Your Heart Belongs to Me".

On deck is "Intrepid" by Robert Gandt (with a forward by John McCain).
 
The new Bob Lee Swagger novel is due out Tuesday folks. Don't miss it! Bob Lee teams up with Nick Memphis. There's some advance reviews posted over at stephenhunter.net and they look pretty good. The webmaster over there says it's Hunter's best since Point of Impact, which is what we've all been waiting for. POI was a flash of brilliance! Can't wait!! :cool:
 
Just finished The Road for the second time this year. Unfortunately the movie didn't show here so I haven't seen it yet.
 
Presently working on John Sandford's "Mortal Prey".

An old gal loaned me a couple of those "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" books and they were a lot more entertaining than I expected.

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Harry Callahan said:
The new Bob Lee Swagger novel is due out Tuesday folks. Don't miss it! Bob Lee teams up with Nick Memphis. There's some advance reviews posted over at stephenhunter.net and they look pretty good. The webmaster over there says it's Hunter's best since Point of Impact, which is what we've all been waiting for. POI was a flash of brilliance! Can't wait!! :cool:
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Not familiar with those, and will have to check them out.

Last night I read a Patrick McManus book that I got for Christmas. Not his usual slapstick routine, which I expected, but "A Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery/The Double-Jack Murders". Turns out it's his third. It was ok. Got some humor and a lot of outdoorsman content, but all his characters are some kind of supermen in their own right, which makes the whole thing seem immature, regardless of the story line, or the author's age.
Also got the newest Dean Koontz book, "Breathless", that I may start momentarily. I didn't buy it when it came out, having dropped Koontz from my "automatic buy" list. Go figure, there's a freaking dog on the cover:rolleyes:
Somebody gave me Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue", too, so it will probably be next.
There's a new Bernard Cornwell title coming out in January. Book 5 of the Saxon Series "The Burning Land", which means I'll probably reread the first four before reading it.
 
Novels
Repairman Jack series by F Paul Wilson
Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi Series

Comics
Anything by Warren Ellis, Mark Millar, Geoff Johns, Gail Simone and Brian Michael Bendis
 
Just about done with my Christmas present:thumbup: Sarah Palin Going Rouge;):thumbup: Read it, effing Media I despise them!!! now even more and the big "P"MACHINE :thumbdn:
 
I'm reading "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer, it's pretty damn good.
 
right now im reading Underworld by Don Delillo. its a big ol 800+ page monster of a book. its set in like the 50s-late 80s in cold war america. and it goes through the lives of all these people and how theyre all intertwined and what not. it's kind of hard to explain the plot without getting into a lengthy explanation, but it is a good tough, read.
 
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