What Are You Reading?
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Killers are my Meat-by Stephen Marlowe
Killers are my Meat-by Stephen Marlowe
finished Playback...and I think I've read all seven novels that Chandler wrote...now it's The Maltese Falcon, Hammett and some poetry Sonnets on the Common Man from Lentz. ooga booga. Chandler rocks the casbah. But I remember the Hammett movies more so than the Chandler movies. Oh, la.
I am so *not* reading right now. I was tearing through books like mad a couple months ago and then I was just read out!
I kinda do the same thing with movies or games....I get on a jag where it's all I do and then it's just over for a while.
Sometimes I am that way when I read an especially good book too. It's like nothing can top it and so I just have to rest for a bit. I read all the maze runner books one after the other and then I read one of that author's other novels. They were all good reads.
I kinda do the same thing with movies or games....I get on a jag where it's all I do and then it's just over for a while.
Sometimes I am that way when I read an especially good book too. It's like nothing can top it and so I just have to rest for a bit. I read all the maze runner books one after the other and then I read one of that author's other novels. They were all good reads.
I haven't been able to read as much lately as I usually do. I don't know if anyone else has this issue, but reading is more difficult when your eye lids keep closing. I'm almost halfway through my Dickens biography and I just started The Black Prince, by Iris Murdoch.
Trial by Fire by J. A. Jance is what I am gnawing on now.
I found it sort of... ok. What do you think?
A re-read of To Kill a Mockingbird. Must be the 4th or 5th time. Great book. What else can one say?
I love Jance's JP Beaumont books! I lived in the Seattle area for about 30 years so I love it when she writes about a place that I've been. She's great to see in person, too.
I'm a little over 200 pages into Tabby's The Book of Reuben, and honestly....not loving it. I dunno. I'm not a prude by any means, but daaaang her books are sex-driven. It seems like everyone jumps into bed with everyone else. It gets a bit tiring.
She's a great author, don't get me wrong. It wasn't until I read One on One that I started having this problem with her stuff. (Thoughts, kingricefan ?)
She's a great author, don't get me wrong. It wasn't until I read One on One that I started having this problem with her stuff. (Thoughts, kingricefan ?)
I think after One On One that she went abit porno. I get that her characters are adults (mostly) and that there is going to be sex in the story at some point, but, yeah, she does overdo it abit in the later books. Have you read Pearl? There sex in it but I don't think it was overdone. Come to think of it, she had alot of sex in her first book Small World.
Yeah I've been reading her books in order. So now all I have left is 150 pages or so in Book of Reuben, Survivor, and Candles Burning. Pearl is my favorite.
It just bothers me because her books (at least, One on One and TBOR) are just page after page of sex. It's like, can anyone in Nodd's Ridge keep their pants on for two minutes? lol.
There's something in the water, my friend.
So, what did you think of Caretakers? I liked it but the timeline was confusing to me. Sometimes I would be into a chapter and after two or three paragraphs realize it was set in the past, not the present like I had thought. It was weird, but I loved the story.
I had the same thoughts as you-- liked it, but it got a bit confusing at times. I want to go back and re-read it now that I'm fully aware of what all is going on in Nodd's Ridge. I think I'd enjoy it even more on a second read.There's something in the water, my friend.
What do you think of Survivor and Candles Burning?
Survivor was alright, not my favorite. Warning- there's alot of sex. Candles Burning was good, but it could have been better. I've read all of Michael McDowell's (the co-author) books (even the non-de-plume ones) and I could tell where he left off and Tabby finished it.
Ya think anyone's noticed yet? NAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH......................Imma put that on my to-read list.
I just began Cell.
I don't think so, Cappy. For a 15 year old, you are sooooo cunning.
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