What's Everyone Reading?

[JakeElwood]

Stephen E. Ambrose - Pegasus Bridge
Stephen E. Ambrose - Wild Blue
Nigel Steel & Peter Hart - Passchendaele

"Pegasus Bridge" and "Wild Blue" were great, I read them along with "Band of Brothers" after they started re-issuing Stephen E. Ambrose's books in the UK following the popularity of the "Band of Brothers" TV series.
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I've just finished "The Getaway" and "The Grifters" by Jim Thompson.

Next up I'm starting "Mildred Pierce" by James M. Cain it's in a five novel omnibus that also includes "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and "Double Indemnity".

 

[YukonJack]

Just finished reading another master piece by Lawrence Block: "Small Town".

 

[ByTheRiver]

Being ADD - got several books on the go...including Maps of Narrative Practice by Michael White, Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson et al and Mindset by Carol Dweck.

 

[AnnaG]

Still reading "The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: Runes of the Earth". There are two more books beyond that one I have yet to read.
After that I have "Across a Great Divide : Continuity and Change in Native North American Societies, 1400-1900"
University of Arizona Press, 2010.
But I may just read the anthro book next.

 

[Risus]

"The Longest Crawl" by Ian Marchant, A great yarn about the longest pub crawl from the most southerly pub in England to the most northerly in Scotland.

 

[JakeElwood]

'Cadillac Beach' by Tim Dorsey - his series starring Serge A. Storms is one of the funniest/craziest out there.:lol:

 

[EagleSmack]

"Sharpe's Fortress" by Bernard Cornwell

 

[YukonJack]

"Bitteroot" by James Lee Burke

 

[JLM]

"Blood Song" by Hank Searls.

"Bitteroot" by James Lee Burke

That author sure rings a bell, I'll be checking him out at the library for sure (and maybe checking out a book too) :lol::lol:

 

[JakeElwood]

James Lee Burke

"Bitteroot" by James Lee Burke

Have you read the other books in Burke's Billy Bob Holland series?

I enjoyed "Cimarron Rose", "Heartwood" and "Bitteroot". I've just got to find time to read the 4th in the series "In the Moon of Red Ponies", and then there's also the rest of Burke's Dave Robicheaux series, I've only read as far as #11 "Purple Cane Road".

My favourite is still the first one I read "In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead". I've no idea why I started with the 6th Robicheaux book, because I usually start at the first book of a series.

I haven't seen the movie 'In the Electric Mist' (Tommy Lee Jones stars as Robicheaux), but I did like 'Heaven's Prisoners' (starring Alec Baldwin as Robicheaux).

 

[Risus]

"The Poe Shadow" by Matthew Pearl

 

[gopher]

The latest issue of Yankee magazine.

 

[YukonJack]

Re: James Lee Burke

Have you read the other books in Burke's Billy Bob Holland series?

I enjoyed "Cimarron Rose", "Heartwood" and "Bitteroot". I've just got to find time to read the 4th in the series "In the Moon of Red Ponies", and then there's also the rest of Burke's Dave Robicheaux series, I've only read as far as #11 "Purple Cane Road".

My favourite is still the first one I read "In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead". I've no idea why I started with the 6th Robicheaux book, because I usually start at the first book of a series.

I haven't seen the movie 'In the Electric Mist' (Tommy Lee Jones stars as Robicheaux), but I did like 'Heaven's Prisoners' (starring Alec Baldwin as Robicheaux).

I have read most of the Dave Robicheaux novels, but "Bitteroot" is my first with Billy Bob Holland as the main character.

I have not seen either movies you mention and I could not visualize either actors in the role of Robicheaux.

BTW, if you like James Lee Burke, you would like C.J. Box.

 

[selin]

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, really moving ...

 

[JakeElwood]

"The Poe Shadow" by Matthew Pearl

Have you read his first book, "The Dante Club"? A great read, it inspired me to read Dante's "The Divine Comedy".

I have read most of the Dave Robicheaux novels, but "Bitteroot" is my first with Billy Bob Holland as the main character.

I have not seen either movies you mention and I could not visualize either actors in the role of Robicheaux.

BTW, if you like James Lee Burke, you would like C.J. Box.

Thanks for the recommendation, I haven't read anything by C.J. Box. :thumbup:

:study: I'm currently reading "The Night Gardener" by George Pelecanos.

 

[Stretch]

I'm currently reading a book titled "Discover The Power Of Meridian Tapping" A Revolutionary Method For Stress Free Living, accupuncture without needles, and works on heaps of stuff, try it on anything......

 

[mayety]

I just finished "the road" about a journey a man and his son take in post apocolyptic America- No civilization, the entire country looted,starvation,except for the rampant cannabalism, and a nice nuclear winter thrown in for good measure. Very distubing, but a page turner.

Lester.. I just watched the movie and I found it very disturbing, depressing, so gray and bleak. :crybaby:

I have 'Illuminati', Henry Makow, on the go in the living room and Dean Kootnz in the bedroom!

 

[earth_as_one]

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, really moving ...

I read this book recently. I understand it was made into a movie.

If you liked that book, you might like this one:

The Lemon Tree
One house, two families' dreams / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

 

[Starscream]

Halo Evolutions. A collection of original stories from various authors set in the Halo universe.

 

[JLM]

Bad Water by Clinton McKinzie- Excellent novel so far.