What book are you reading?

Newch91

I've run out of shelf space for my books. :x

I need a library for my house when I get older.

F Me In The Brain

Started this yesterday, I like it so far...

Born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday arrives on the Texas frontier hoping that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him to health. Soon, with few job prospects, Doc Holliday is gambling professionally with his partner, Mária Katarina Harony, a high-strung, classically educated Hungarian whore. In search of high-stakes poker, the couple hits the saloons of Dodge City. And that is where the unlikely friendship of Doc Holliday and a fearless lawman named Wyatt Earp begins— before the gunfight at the O.K. Corral links their names forever in American frontier mythology—when neither man wanted fame or deserved notoriety.

leekstokie

The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett

tybird

Just finished "The Wild Duck Chase: Inside the Strange and Wonderful World of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest" by Martin J. Smith. A very entertaining and enlightening read about the Duck Stamp Contest and the history of the Duck Stamp itself.

catefrances

the snows of kilimanjaro - hemingway.

catefrances

Dissidentman wrote:

he needs to write another book.

Dissidentman

catefrances wrote:

Dissidentman wrote:

he needs to write another book.

Yeah, it's almost like it ends right in the middle of a good story.


Just started "Waging Heavy Peace" Last week.

Indifference71

kw18

I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this story. I have three more short stories to go the book, and then I'm going to read:



Guess I'm kind of on an "older book" kick, these days.

F Me In The Brain

kw18 wrote:

I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this story. I have three more short stories to go the book, and then I'm going to read:



Guess I'm kind of on an "older book" kick, these days.

Really enjoyed The Island when I read it a few years back. Not Jaws, of course, but good. (Disappointing movie adaptation however.)

kw18

F Me In The Brain wrote:

Really enjoyed The Island when I read it a few years back. Not Jaws, of course, but good. (Disappointing movie adaptation however.)

I read Jaws when I was a kid and really enjoyed, so I figured this would be fairly good. You can't go wrong with pirates!

Dissidentman

kw18 wrote:

F Me In The Brain wrote:

Really enjoyed The Island when I read it a few years back. Not Jaws, of course, but good. (Disappointing movie adaptation however.)

I read Jaws when I was a kid and really enjoyed, so I figured this would be fairly good. You can't go wrong with pirates!

I've seen a movie like that once...

Jeff Murray

Finished Cormac McCarthy's All The Pretty Horses last week. Not really my cup of tea. I really wished I had a Kindle for that book, I'm a typical English speaking only American and I wasn't about to look up translations to all the dialogue in Spanish that popped up randomly. Also he tends to lean more on the literary side of writing than I'm used to, I prefer more story and less description for my simple mind. I doubt I'll complete his trilogy, his style just didn't grasp my attention enough, I seriously had to work through this book. But to each their own!

After that I needed an easy reader... so now I am easily plowing through Lee Child's Die Trying. Even though I'm late to this series, I don't imagine Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher in my mind as I'm reading.

Thoughts_Arrive

Just started reading ''Scar Tissue' - Anthony Kiedis''

afroannnie

Just finished The Black House...and I really like it.

I'm going to start this tonight...

Jeff Murray

afroannnie wrote:

Just finished The Black House...and I really like it.

I'm going to start this tonight...

The Black House by Peter May? I have that in my Saved for Later list on Amazon... too many books on my coffee table to read first.

afroannnie

Jeff Murray wrote:

afroannnie wrote:

Just finished The Black House...and I really like it.

I'm going to start this tonight...

The Black House by Peter May? I have that in my Saved for Later list on Amazon... too many books on my coffee table to read first.

Actually the Black House by Stephen King & Peter Straub...

What's the Black House by Peter May about?

Jeff Murray

It's the first in a detective trilogy based in Scotland... here's the review from Amazon... I'm a detective book fan and I like reading stories set in countries/towns I'd like to visit sometime.

Scottish novelist May (whose series include the Enzo Files, starring a Scottish forensic scientist working in France) starts a projected trilogy, again with a Scottish sleuth, with a shotgun blast of a debut. Two bodies are found hanging from trees: one in Edinburgh, the other on the Isle of Lewis, the most northerly isle in the Outer Hebrides. Edinburgh cop Fin Macleod, originally from Lewis, is assigned to the case for no more reason than that he speaks Gaelic. Two narratives vie with each other. One involves Macleod’s struggles with confronting people whom he left behind years ago. The other, which eventually informs the first, is Macleod’s first-person memories of his life on the island. The reader knows that Macleod, against all odds, overcame poverty and bad schooling to win a spot at the University of Glasgow and that he threw it all away in his sophomore year and became a cop, a decision he’s regretted ever since. The two narratives are brilliantly executed until they converge in an absolute stunner of an ending. The isolation and desolation of Lewis is an apt metaphor for Macleod. For once in crime fiction, a detective confronting demons from his past is not merely a stock plot device. May gives it an urgency that, by novel’s end, makes perfect sense. A gripping plot, pitch-perfect characterization, and an appropriately bleak setting drive this outstanding series debut.

Enkidu

Jeff Murray wrote:

It's the first in a detective trilogy based in Scotland... here's the review from Amazon... I'm a detective book fan and I like reading stories set in countries/towns I'd like to visit sometime.

Scottish novelist May (whose series include the Enzo Files, starring a Scottish forensic scientist working in France) starts a projected trilogy, again with a Scottish sleuth, with a shotgun blast of a debut. Two bodies are found hanging from trees: one in Edinburgh, the other on the Isle of Lewis, the most northerly isle in the Outer Hebrides. Edinburgh cop Fin Macleod, originally from Lewis, is assigned to the case for no more reason than that he speaks Gaelic. Two narratives vie with each other. One involves Macleod’s struggles with confronting people whom he left behind years ago. The other, which eventually informs the first, is Macleod’s first-person memories of his life on the island. The reader knows that Macleod, against all odds, overcame poverty and bad schooling to win a spot at the University of Glasgow and that he threw it all away in his sophomore year and became a cop, a decision he’s regretted ever since. The two narratives are brilliantly executed until they converge in an absolute stunner of an ending. The isolation and desolation of Lewis is an apt metaphor for Macleod. For once in crime fiction, a detective confronting demons from his past is not merely a stock plot device. May gives it an urgency that, by novel’s end, makes perfect sense. A gripping plot, pitch-perfect characterization, and an appropriately bleak setting drive this outstanding series debut.

I'm almost embarrassed to say that I read The Black House and then had to read the other two books in the trilogy. The Chessmen and The Lewis Man. They're not perfect, but they were good reads. I think the setting is the best part.

afroannnie

Jeff Murray wrote:

It's the first in a detective trilogy based in Scotland... here's the review from Amazon... I'm a detective book fan and I like reading stories set in countries/towns I'd like to visit sometime.

Scottish novelist May (whose series include the Enzo Files, starring a Scottish forensic scientist working in France) starts a projected trilogy, again with a Scottish sleuth, with a shotgun blast of a debut. Two bodies are found hanging from trees: one in Edinburgh, the other on the Isle of Lewis, the most northerly isle in the Outer Hebrides. Edinburgh cop Fin Macleod, originally from Lewis, is assigned to the case for no more reason than that he speaks Gaelic. Two narratives vie with each other. One involves Macleod’s struggles with confronting people whom he left behind years ago. The other, which eventually informs the first, is Macleod’s first-person memories of his life on the island. The reader knows that Macleod, against all odds, overcame poverty and bad schooling to win a spot at the University of Glasgow and that he threw it all away in his sophomore year and became a cop, a decision he’s regretted ever since. The two narratives are brilliantly executed until they converge in an absolute stunner of an ending. The isolation and desolation of Lewis is an apt metaphor for Macleod. For once in crime fiction, a detective confronting demons from his past is not merely a stock plot device. May gives it an urgency that, by novel’s end, makes perfect sense. A gripping plot, pitch-perfect characterization, and an appropriately bleak setting drive this outstanding series debut.

Thanks!! Sounds interesting...