What Are You Reading?

[booklover72]

He really is. The kind of things he comes up with must take a lot of time and research into different fields and thoughts.

Michael Crichton was a brillant writer, he was originally studying to be a doctor, wrote a book to pay for his studies and the rest is/was history. I love Timeline and pirate latitueds(?) you know the one about the pirates. great writer. i agree he could write any genre.

 

[Haunted]

Finished Killer by Jonathan Kellerman and have just picked up Dust by Patricia Cornwell.

 

[EMARX]

Finished Killer by Jonathan Kellerman and have just picked up Dust by Patricia Cornwell.

I've read Kellerman from way back and in my opinion he manages to keep Delaware fresh. I don't know how Scarpetta is doing as I haven't read one them in a long while.

 

[Haunted]

I've read Kellerman from way back and in my opinion he manages to keep Delaware fresh. I don't know how Scarpetta is doing as I haven't read one them in a long while.

I lost interest in her for awhile, after that FBI girlfriend scandal, she seemed to lose her punch. Have read a few pages of Dust and it grabbed me. I will let you know whether its worth your effort.

 

[EMARX]

I lost interest in her for awhile, after that FBI girlfriend scandal, she seemed to lose her punch. Have read a few pages of Dust and it grabbed me. I will let you know whether its worth your effort.

Thanks. H
As an author it must be daunting to try and keep up the quality for an extended period.

 

[HollyGolightly]

Sadly I am going through a reading dryspell. I don't know what's wrong with me. I get 90% through a book or story and then can't go on. It's very frustrating.

 

[Haunted]

Sadly I am going through a reading dryspell. I don't know what's wrong with me. I get 90% through a book or story and then can't go on. It's very frustrating.

OBOY OBOY do I know that dreadful feeling. ((((Holly Golightly)))) it will pass. Maybe some short stories?

 

[skimom2]

Reading The Returned and am gobsmacked that the author hasn't been sued off his arse. Same story idea as the French TV series (even down to the age of the main Returned kid), but pubbed just this last Dec. The TV show first aired in 2012 (according to IMDb), though, and was itself based on a film called They Came Back, which came out in 2004 (and was really interesting--I liked it when I saw it). The book itself is 'meh'--interesting story (if told TWICE BEFORE), so-so writing. Seriously don't think he could have gotten away with such a blatant rip off of a US author--international copyrights are hinky to prosecute, I understand. Weird.

 

[Haunted]

I've read Kellerman from way back and in my opinion he manages to keep Delaware fresh. I don't know how Scarpetta is doing as I haven't read one them in a long while.

I never pass up a Kellerman including Faye's Decker series.

 

[MadamMack]

Sadly I am going through a reading dryspell. I don't know what's wrong with me. I get 90% through a book or story and then can't go on. It's very frustrating.

I had to take a break from reading a few years back . . .all of the characters started to hang out in my head too much. It was a trip!

. . .English really sucks cooties sometimes! Brake . . .break . . .ah damn . . .

 

[MadamMack]

 

[HollyGolightly]

I had to take a break from reading a few years back . . .all of the characters started to hang out in my head too much. It was a trip!

. . .English really sucks cooties sometimes! Brake . . .break . . .ah damn . . .

Ah - maybe that's it. I started reading The Gunslinger last year and am finally 90% through with DT7, but I just can't go on. I'm reading some short stories and it helps. Maybe when summer gets here and life slows down a bit I'll get back in it.

 

[bigkingfan91]

Started Duma Key tonight, got through 66 pages and found a good stopping point.
Can't wait to re read more of the classics but still have way too much catching up to do, followed by some Joe Hill somewhere in the near future!

I've always been a fan of true crime, hope that doesn't sound weird, but it's the truth. A lot of folks are fascinated by it, not that they are a fan of murder, they are just fascinated by the whole thing. I haven't done much reading books when it comes to true crime, mostly internet reading and a lot of youtube lol. JFK, Manson & Zodiac Killer are 3 cases I've always been fascinated by and have devoted a ton of time to each. I'm by NO MEANS a manson fan or follower, just interested in the entire case, from the crime side of it to the now paranormal side of it ( victims ). Found Helter Skelter online for $1 so I ordered it, can't wait to read it! I've found there are all kinds of videos, documentaries, etc online and all of which are interesting but it's so aggravating to see so many different sides to the story, and see it changed around somehow in nearly every one. That's what makes it sort of fascinating, trying to get to the truth, or at least what you would be happy yourself with calling the truth. I figured, why not give the #1 bestselling true crime book in history a chance, since from many accounts it seems to be the absolute best if you're looking for pure factual information on most of what really happened. I don't agree with Vincent Bugliosi on the JFK case at all, which makes it almost difficult to read anything by him, but I agree on a lot of his other topics. I wish there were a book about the paranormal side of the case though, tired of watching videos about it! It's a very strange and eerie thing, what goes on nowadays just yards from where the Tate house stood.. And for those that don't believe it even possible for some of those victims to still be around somehow up there, you have to look at the nature of the crime. It was definitely brutal, sudden, dramatic and tragic enough to leave PLENTY of paranormal fallout, add to that the fact of the lady being pregnant, the incomplete/unfinished feeling left behind by her not getting to have the baby ( which is also a reason for a spirit/energy to either not cross over or leave plenty of negative energy ) and you could have a hell of a hotspot for that kind of fallout. Add to all of that the possibility of much of the location dealing with an indian burial ground, and some of the neighboring property being a "geo magnetic anomaly", and WOW.

 

[Dana Jean]

Helter Skelter is a very good book IMO. My mom was very fascinated with true crime, and yet she wouldn't read Stephen King. A week before she died, she asked me to bring her Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption to read -- her first Stephen King. She didn't get it read.

 

[HollyGolightly]

@bigkingfan91 Duma Key is great! Enjoy that one!
True crime scares me, can't read it , can't even watch 20/20 when that's what it's about.
@Dana Jean She would have loved him, don't you know? My mom won't read him because she "doesn't like vampire stories". She did read 11/22/63 and I about died.

 

[kingricefan]

@bigkingfan91 Duma Key is great! Enjoy that one!
True crime scares me, can't read it , can't even watch 20/20 when that's what it's about.
@Dana Jean She would have loved him, don't you know? My mom won't read him because she "doesn't like vampire stories". She did read 11/22/63 and I about died.

I can't read true crime books either. I don't want to know that there are people out there that do these horrible things. I won't watch any of the 'true crime' shows either. I did read Helter Skelter way back in the late '70's. In the Bugliosi book the bodies of the victims have been cut out of the real photos. All you see is a white image of where their body was. I think that is even more horrible than seeing their actual lifeless bodies. There's alot of creepy stuff in that book- from the way that Charlie was able to so easily brainwash his followers to the way that the songs/lyrics from the Beatles White Album seem to coincide with the madness that Manson was spouting to his flock. Keep in mind that Manson was spouting his madness for quite a long time before the White Album was released. Not saying that any of the Beatles were involved with these murders, just that it is so creepy that there is a connection.

 

[Tery]

I'm a reader of true crime. I find human psychology fascinating. Yes, I'm a bit morbid... but you knew that.

I'm reading The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling's first adult book. She's still good at characters and creating a sense of place.

 

[EMARX]

This is pretty much the way I live, except I don't look good in that kind of dress.

 

[EMARX]

I never pass up a Kellerman including Faye's Decker series.

I've read a few of the Decker novels as well and I found the family dynamic and their Jewish faith interesting.

 

[EMARX]

I had to take a break from reading a few years back . . .all of the characters started to hang out in my head too much. It was a trip!

. . .English really sucks cooties sometimes! Brake . . .break . . .ah damn . . .

I used to find myself in the same predicament, and I found having a goodly selection of genres and a wide array of authors, I can usually find something to fill the need.