What are you reading the week of July 4, 2010?

[DUgosh]

Absolute Certainty by Rose Connors - Marty Nickerson series book #1

[msongs]

1. lady chatterly's lover by dh lawrence - hard core for its day lol but tame now nt

[davidinalameda]

2. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

[Liquorice]

4. That's a really good read. I just started onThe Girl Who Played With Fire. nt

[ashling]

3. Essays on Constitutional Law by the students in my Govt classes

I think that's a pretty good way to spend the holiday.:shrug:

[Chulanowa]

5. "The coming of Conan the Cimmerian"

A collection of Robert E. Howards' own Conan stories, rather than the pastiches others are familiar with.

'Cause sometimes, you just want to read about steely thews, nubiles in scanty silks, and depraved demons from beyond the end of time.

[Liberation Angel]

6. war by sesbation junger - mindblowing

like "dispatches" from the vietnam war

the troops are in an insane situation and need to be brought home now.

This book makes it clear.

We cannot win this insane and brutal war.

[Mojambo]

7. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Phillip Pullman.

It's pretty good.

[Common Sense Party]

8. "Black Light" by Stephen Hunter

Nice mystery/gun thriller

[fadedrose]

29. I remember that I liked BLACK LIGHT,

but can't remember details of the book - it was a few years ago. I liked POINT OF IMPACT, which I remember more vividly since it was my first Hunter book.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Human Smoke. by Nicholson Baker.

A history of events leading up, and during, WW2,
as told via snippets from newspapers, personal diaries, memoirs, etc.

The reader gets a look at what people, famous and not famous, were doing and saying during events and
various dates from 1920's thru the war.
Fascinating detail which is often not found in the "typical" history book.
Churchill does not come off well.

[Bobbieo]

11. 'Kisser' by Stuart Woods - Checked out his bio. . Bills himself as a "life-long bachelor".

From his lifestyle, as Stone Barrington, I would have keyed him as a hard-ass consevative but he says he was anti-Bush.

[fadedrose]

10. 61 HOURS by Lee Child

l/3 through - so far, good....

[Paladin]

22. I Just Finished It, Thought It Was Very Good. Enjoy. (n/t)

[matt819]

26. Just finished it

Kept me up late, which is typical of the Reacher books. He is one of my favorite series characters in fiction. I mean, how can you not like a guy who travels with nothing more than a toothbrush, if even that, and buys new clothes when he needs a change. What a guy. The only mystery seems to be how he gets his money. This was addressed some time back, but you'll notice that he never uses an ATM card or accesses wire transfers. It's kind of like gunfights in the old westerns from decades ago - there seemed to be endless ammunition with no apparent effort made to get more, count shots, etc. In any case, you can't go wrong with any of the Reacher books, and this is one of the best.

[fadedrose]

30. I read all of Reacher so far

and sort of remember some guy, was it a general?, leaving his estate to Reacher, who could not stay in one place, sold it and the money/pension comes every month. There was a book, can't remember which one, that told how he got his money/bank/etc. Anybody recall that book?

[Paladin]

31. I Thought He Carried An ATM Card, But I Wouldn't Swear To It. (n/t)

[tulsakatz]

12. an innocent man by John Grisham

it's an excellent book!

[Skink]

13. Last Words- George Carlin.

Actually I finished it. Great read. Little snippets of history worked in which for me is what I look for in books.

[mahina]

14. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen

again.
So great! I hope Petreus and Pres. Obama have read it.

[ZombieHorde]

15. Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle. I am in summer school. nt

[abluelady]

16. Plan to Start

"The Postmistress" by Sarah Blake today.

[saltpoint]

17. Colum McCann's LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN.

Folks, it is a treasure of a read.

[hippywife]

18. I really enjoyed it.

:hi:

[saltpoint]

19. Hi, hippywife.

That guy can put a sentence together.

I'm only a third or way into it, but I ain't stoppin' for nothin'!

:hi:

[azmouse]

20. "Bite Me, A Love Story" by Christopher Moore

Very funny.

[japple]

21. I've abandoned Last Night in Twisted River, which just fell flat

about halfway through. I found a copy of Margaret Atwood's Blind Assassin at a used book store and have started that--good, so far.

[JitterbugPerfume]

23. Still reading Travels With Charley

Steinbeck

I had lots of company , lots of activity last week and didn't get to my reading.

[MaineDem]

24. "Death Echo" by Elizabeth Lowell. n/t

[MountainLaurel]

25. Godless by Dan Barker

Very different than the Ann Coulter book of the same title.

[closeupready]

27. Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman.

Better than I'd anticipated.

[Onceuponalife]

34. I read that a couple of weeks ago.

Thought it was good, not great. Gaiman is a cut above Terry Pratchett (who he reminds me of) but that's not saying that much. I still want to read all of Gaiman's books but so far none of them have been real keepers. I guess I enjoyed Good Omens the best.

[fadedrose]

28. THE JURY MASTER by Robert Dugoni

I liked this book.

Fell in love with a character (not the main one) named police Det. Tom Molia. Funny guy. Main guy is named Atty. David Sloane. By page 77, I checked to see if the library had any more books by Dugoni and they had 2, which I've since picked up. Fingered thru to see if Molia was in either of the two and it appears that he isn't.

There's 438 pages. Some of you might enjoy this book.

[Enthusiast]

32. Until I Find You by John Irving.

So far, I like it. Like the other John Irving novels Until I Find You is populated by unusual characters. I guess this is part of his appeal.

[hamerfan]

33. Kill Me

by Stephen White. I'm about 50 pages in and so far, so good.

[fadedrose]

35. There's a whole bunch of books that precede KILL ME..

Have you read any of them - listed at this site?


http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/W_Authors/White_Stephen.html

[hamerfan]

36. Thanks for the link!

No I haven't read any others. This is the first one and it's a good one. Have you read any of the others? Are they all as good, in your opinion?
Thanks again! :hi:

[fadedrose]

37. No, haven't read any, but

everytime somebody suggests a book, I look to see if it's a mystery, and especially, if it's a series book (I love series books). If there are books before the suggested book, I like to read them first...the library usually has the oldest, but sometimes you may have to borrow through inter-library to find them.

[vixengrl]

38. Here's some of what I *did* read--

http://strangelyrandomstuff.blogspot.com/2010/07/answer-to-long-hot-summer-read.html

(Quick capsule reviews of Mieville's Kraken. Grahame-Smith's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Stross' The Fuller Memorandum. All recommended.

[fadedrose]

39. WRONGFUL DEATH by Robert Dugoni & almost BODILY HARM

Liked his first book, THE JURY MASTER, very much. Found WRONGFUL DEATH to be without humor and was tedious. Skimmed through BODILY HARM and found 3-4 pages with my favorite character from THE JURY MASTER, Det. Tom Molia, and figured that little of him wasn't worth reading the whole book.

IMHO, author'd do better to have Molia in every book, and lots of him..