What are you reading?

Discussion in 'The Chatterbox' started by oscar11, Nov 22, 2012.

  1. wchnu

    wchnu Duck Season!

    I am rereading all the original Sherlock Holmes. It has been several years since I read them.
     
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  2. Bookworm

    Bookworm Well-Known Member

    Oooh - you reminded me. There's actually a compilation of the "competitors" of sherlock holmes. I think I have it, I just have to get the right name, it's not coming to me.
     
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  3. MoAllen

    MoAllen King of Unscented

    I enjoyed the Tony Hillerman mysteries, set on the Navaho reservation. Great mystery story telling in a foreign cultural setting. I haven't listened to the audio versions of the books, but I see good reviews on Audible.

    If you ever change your mind about SciFi mysteries, I heartily recommend Jack McDevitt's Alex Benedict stories. I would start with "The Seeker". Not a space opera! The central character is a controversial antiquities dealer who solves a historical mystery even as people try to stop him. I like the story telling. The story is told as a first person opinionated memoir by a strong female character, Chase Colpath, who is the central character's assistant. The Audible reader is Jennifer Van Dyke, who makes the character come alive.
     
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  4. PLAla

    PLAla Bit Shy of a Full Puck

    Thanks! The Alex Benedict books sound interesting!
     
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  5. Boojum1

    Boojum1 Valet Parking Available Here

    My summer '17 books so far are:

    Don Winslow - The Force

    Lee Child - Night School

    John Sanford - Extreme Prey

    David Baldacci - The Fix

    John Grisham - The Whistler
     
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  6. hamoncan

    hamoncan Member

    Pretty much everything by CS Forester is great.

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  7. hamoncan

    hamoncan Member

    There's also a series by Laurie R. King set in the Holmes world that I remember quite liking. The main character is a younger woman he marries when he's older. I think Holmes is usually kept in the background one way or another.

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  8. hamoncan

    hamoncan Member

    Currently reading /listening to the 3rd book in the Misadventures of Max Bowman by Joel Canfield. Laugh Out Loud Funny! especially if you listen to the audio book which is narrated perfectly. Max does makes very liberal use of 4 letter words but in a dry humorous way IMO. I think the ebooks go on sale regularly for 99 cents on Amazon as he is a relatively new writer.

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  9. David W650

    David W650 Active Member

    The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
    With a Foreword by Graham Greene

    Just about finished with the section entitled
    "The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder"

    If you enjoy short stories you may want to give this book a look.
     
  10. RetLEO-07

    RetLEO-07 likes his penguin deep fried, with pink sparkles

    Just finished "Captain Blood: His Odyssey" by Rafael Sabatini. And surprisingly enough, the 1935 movie of the same name stuck pretty close to the book.
     
  11. stingraysrock

    stingraysrock PIF'd away his custom title

    Free Women Free Men by Camille Paglia.

    Wow. Just. Wow.

    I am blown away by her mind.

    I cannot find an argument with her and do not wish to.
     
  12. RetLEO-07

    RetLEO-07 likes his penguin deep fried, with pink sparkles

    "A War Like No Other(How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War)" by Victor Davis Hanson.
     
  13. Keithmax

    Keithmax Breeds Pet Rocks

    Sapiens: A Breif Hstory of Mankind
     
  14. David W650

    David W650 Active Member

    ATHEISM for DUMMIES

    While reading it on my commute to work on public transit a person on the train asked me if I was an atheist.
    I replied in my best dead-pan tone, "No, but I'm a dummy.":p
     
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  15. cmorris357

    cmorris357 catching flies.........

    I know the publisher would never go for it but I always wanted to write: The Complete Idiots Guide to Books for Dummies.
     
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  16. swarden43

    swarden43 "It's your shave. Enjoy it your way."©

    Louis L'Amour Lando
     
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  17. Primotenore

    Primotenore missed opera tunity

    Article Team
    Beginning again. This time books in hand. (First time through the 5 novels, I listened to them on CD)
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  18. Primotenore

    Primotenore missed opera tunity

    Article Team
    Love LL. The Sackett's Series is outstanding.
     
  19. mrchick

    mrchick Odd, Terrible Avatar

    This is an excellent book. I'm about halfway through and finding it fascinating. [​IMG]
     
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  20. RetLEO-07

    RetLEO-07 likes his penguin deep fried, with pink sparkles

    Since I'm HERE
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    all week, I brought in "On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill. If I finish it(only 96 pages) before the end of the week, I'll bring in the book I'm reading by Victor Davis Hanson.
     
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