What Are You Reading? Part Deux

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currently reading The Testament by Eric von Lustbader, who took over the Bourne series after Ludlum passed and wrote like 6 more books for it, although i haven't read all of those. I think I read the first four of those he did, which before this was my only exposure to him. The concept sounds interesting, history mixed with modern action, which i'm always a fan of. recently caught up to all but the last book of the Jane Hawk series by Koontz, and a couple books in the Iron Druid series by Kevin Hearne, which is an interesting take on Gods and magic and other supernatural things. I could update you on the other books i read while away from here but i don't know if we have that kind of time :biggrin2:
 
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Wayoftheredpanda said:
Started I am Legend by Richard Matheson, am really enjoying it so far and am determined to finish it. Unfortunately the mysterious Alex O. who owned my copy before me annotated the hell out of it, hard to read with lots of pen underlining and brackets around paragraphs along with text scribbled in the margins.
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...stick with it bubba, it’s worth slogging through doofus’s leftovers....
 
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Although I'm not a big fan of Young Adult books, I find many of them awfully struggling to handle sensitive topics and relate to the audience at the same time, many of them trying to be too relatable or overly edgy and they just are set up to age badly, regardless, judging a book merely by it's age recommendation is pretty stupid. The worst of them are the horror novels, I've seen some very laughable concepts at book fairs (Haven't read them though, maybe they're actually good), I remember one that was basically "What if tweeting killed people :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:", you can make a book relevant to todays problems or society and relate to todays audience without setting them up to age that badly.
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I haven't actually tried many outside of Harry Potter, although some of them have definitely sounded intriguing
 
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recitador said:
currently reading The Testament by Eric von Lustbader, who took over the Bourne series after Ludlum passed and wrote like 6 more books for it, although i haven't read all of those. I think I read the first four of those he did, which before this was my only exposure to him. The concept sounds interesting, history mixed with modern action, which i'm always a fan of. recently caught up to all but the last book of the Jane Hawk series by Koontz, and a couple books in the Iron Druid series by Kevin Hearne, which is an interesting take on Gods and magic and other supernatural things. I could update you on the other books i read while away from here but i don't know if we have that kind of time :biggrin2:
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...the Koontz wrap is tasty....
 
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recitador said:
I haven't actually tried many outside of Harry Potter, although some of them have definitely sounded intriguing
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it's not often you see a popular young adult author write a book about a serial killer who's calling card is lyrics from your favorite slightly obscure band. Speaking of killer calling cards, my friend has a great idea for a mystery novel, a killer who leaves gingerbread house recreations of the crime scenes.
 
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it's not often you see a popular young adult author write a book about a serial killer who's calling card is lyrics from your favorite slightly obscure band. Speaking of killer calling cards, my friend has a great idea for a mystery novel, a killer who leaves gingerbread house recreations of the crime scenes.
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....already done on CSI:Las Vegas....or close enough to be the same thing....
 
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i know some people feel shaky about him but i've never been too disappointed, and he usually is solid with these little mini series of books he does. i'm a sucker for some mind control/invasion of the body snatcher type stuff so i'm in
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....the penultimate moment came from a completely unexpected direction for me....appreciated that muchly....because he has done some very formulaic novels...still his character series have been welcome detours from that...
 
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which was based on the Nutshell Studies by Frances Glessner Lee.

Great documentary on these called of Dolls and Murder hosted by John Waters

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ah, thanks. I remember watching a short documentary of this on youtube. I think the aspect of gingerbread is creative enough, I mean, the detectives can snack on it while investigating.
 
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Wayoftheredpanda said:
ah, thanks. I remember watching a short documentary of this on youtube. I think the aspect of gingerbread is creative enough, I mean, the detectives can snack on it while investigating.
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...thanks Deej, that’s what my memory wasn’t coughing up....
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The documentary is worth your time, IMO. Fascinating things, murder and death.
 
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Tery said:
The CSI take was a recurring bit. The killer was personally after Grissom for some reason I can't recall. The Miniature Murderer was what they called her.
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I've always thought it's weird how ballsy both fictional and real serial killers get when it comes to taunting law enforcement. I watched a video documentary on the BTK killer earlier today and he went as far to send drawings and a barbie doll model, ironically his day job included installing burglar alarms, that a lot of people were putting up because they were afraid of the BTK killer. I suppose attention is what gets a lot of sociopaths off at night
 
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Wayoftheredpanda said:
Started I am Legend by Richard Matheson, am really enjoying it so far and am determined to finish it. Unfortunately the mysterious Alex O. who owned my copy before me annotated the hell out of it, hard to read with lots of pen underlining and brackets around paragraphs along with text scribbled in the margins.
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Read on as best you can.
 
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