What's everybody reading nowadays?

Finished Stephen Hunter's new one (I,Sniper) last week. This week it's Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. Next on deck...Douglas Preston's Impact.

Jeff
 
I enjoyed The Lost Symbol - pretty good read.

"I, Sniper" is on my to-read list!

Dan
 
Working on 3 at the moment:

Everville by Clive Barker
Sooky 8 by Bob King
The Associate by John Grisham

I usually have 3 going at the same time in different places like work, home and always one in my backpack.
 
Just read S. M. Stirling - The Emberverse 01 - Dies the Fire. Cracking read and I've got the next 5 in the post.

Before that I read for about the 10th time One second after. I just love this book!
 
I recently finished the Reacher series. I enjoyed them. I know this is nit-picking, but in "Echo Burning" Reacher repeatedly diisengages the safety on an H&K P7M8, which bugged me like a sand burr in my sneakers since that particular pistol doesn't have a safety to engage. A small thing, but annoying to me.

Andrew Vachhs writes great stuff. I love his work. He just released a new story on his website, btw. The new tribe as presented in "Haiku" shows a lot of promise, though I don't know if he plans to make it a series.

I finished re-reading the Travis McGee books by John D. McDonald last week. Always nice to visit old friends.

Right now I am in the middle of Elmore Leonard's "Riding the Rap". After that is a re-edited version of Stranger in a Strange Land which includes 60k words edited from the original release. Then I'll re-read the Gunslinnger series from Stephen King.

I'm a big fan of post-apocalyptic settings, as well as dystopiias. I enjoy things like "Neuromancer" immensely. I also like the books of Roberrt Parker, who died last month, and John Sandford.

I have a strong urge to go back to Raymond Chandler and Hemingway.

I recently read and enjoyed "Beat the Reaper" by Josh Bazell.


I need to pack up a bunch of paperbacks and send them to Walter Reed Hospital.
 
Just finished One Second After

Next will probably be Lights Out and a friend is gonna let me read Patriot's after he finishes.
 
I just finnished listening to the audiobook of Bill Bryson - A Walk in the Woods. I'm now going to send of for the funny book.
 
GOEBBELS the man who created Hitler.
Mr. Turko you might like this one, Joeseph Goebbels was an interesting fellow and a propaganda genius.
Mr. Koster the Art of War is a must have for the book shelf. I reference back to my copy frequently.
 
Just finished No Place To Hide by Gerry Carroll (Vietnam). Want to read his others, North SAR and Ghostrider One, when I can find them.

Just starting The Protector's War by S.M. Stirling. Already read Dies The Fire.
 
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Always nice to meet another Chuck Palahniuk fan. At the moment I am reading "ISniper" by Stephen Hunter and "Less Than Zero" by Bret Easton Ellis.
 
just finished "gone tomorrow", a Reacher novel on display at the grocery store. A rollicking book, but again Child needs a fact-checker. In one scene he uses a Benchmade 3300, and in commentary mentions that switchblades are illegal in all 50 states except for police/LEO/military.

This kind of stuff woud not bother me, except that Reacher as an ex-cop should know better.

But I still pre-ordered the book coming out in May.

I am interested in what you found as anti-american/freedom, Rooikat. I'm not throwing down a gauntlet, just curious.
 
Surry.Net....

humm I can make a darn good guess where you live.

know any of the Brintles?
 
jonesjp@surry.net said:
I recently finished the Reacher series. I enjoyed them. I know this is nit-picking, but in "Echo Burning" Reacher repeatedly diisengages the safety on an H&K P7M8, which bugged me like a sand burr in my sneakers since that particular pistol doesn't have a safety to engage. A small thing, but annoying to me.
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Your not nit-picking that might make me not finish it.
A book "nit-pick" I have is when the names used are weird to the point that every time you read it you can't resolve the pronunciation.
 
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Surry.Net....

humm I can make a darn good guess where you live.

know any of the Brintles?
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uh-oh, you do have me fairly pegged. I live quite close to one of the warehouses.

I've met a couple --it is hard not to around here-- but I woulodn't say I know any.
 
superfluities said:
Your not nit-picking that might make me not finish it.
A book "nit-pick" I have is when the names used are weird to the point that every time you read it you can't resolve the pronunciation.
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Ahh, but I am a reading junkie, and can't help myself. I can't recall getting involved with any book and not finishing, no matter how dreadful. I've had to get up to fetch one or two after throwing them across the room in disgust, but once I am in more than 10 pages or so, i am committed. Sometimes I laugh at how badly written they are, wonder that they have been published at all, and acknowledge that the author was more motivaated than I, who has written nothing longer than a few stories and a couple of dissertations long long ago.

Hmm, suddenly I'v become nostalgic for John Carter and the moons of Barsoom.
 
Dated a Brintle back in college, sweet girl. She lives up there now and teaches school. If you see her tell her I said hello
 
I'm bringing this back to the surface. It's always a good resource for my "to read" list. I'm currently finishing up McCarthy's Border Trilogy with Cities of the Plain. Great stuff.

Jeff
 
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Here's what I've finished since the post above:

I, Sniper - ****
Kill for me - ***
Bad Moon Rising - ***
The Whole Truth - ****

(out of 5 stars)



And currently reading "The Time Traveler's Wife"

How's that for an eclectic mix?....:D


Dan
 
Finished the Time Traveler's Wife.


Pretty good read. Definitely a new twist on time travel. Not for sci-fi fans, though...:D


Reminds me of reading Fight Club - how it was a new twist on the split personality idea (Jekyl/Hyde). I would rank it the same quality.

Dan
 
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