Book Recommendations

[Judowolf PE]

His middle period is where I started reading his work and loved it...he seemed to shift slowly from a technological thrill writer to a more middle of the road thrill writer(appeals to a broader public maybe)...I really enjoy his writing style and his character development

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

Most of what I've read of his are very believeable sci-fi thrillers. There's something about the way he writes that gets you thinking, "that might actually happen," which makes it that much more of a thriller.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Since the arly nineties, he went into a 'man on the run with a gun, an Explorer, and a golden retriever teams up with a beautiful, witty woman to solve the mystery behind why he is being chased and deal with it.'

Then he went into the Odd Thomas thing and the guy who was an albino that could only go out at night. Like Clive Cussler, I keep reading his stuff because he used to be good, and I hope he returns to it one day.

 

[Judowolf PE]

I haven't taken time to read any of his later works, I own several and have the hopes of taking time to read them, but I get way too involved with the kids sports and school activities to take time to read many novels...I can't pass by a rummage sale or used book event with a John Saul, Koontz or King book without snatching it up, thus how I have all the Frankenstein books without the first one...too many hobbies, not enough time!

 

[mudpuppy]

I just started reading The Silmarillion on my tablet... never tried an ebook before.. It's interesting to see the "history" and lore of Middle Earth, even if it is the typical Tolkien style... I've read The Hobbit and the LOTR trilogy before, so it's nice to see the before...

I never made it through the Silmarilion. . . it's just way toooooooooo sssslllllllloooooooooooooooowww for me. Much more so than LOTR and Hobbit. I kind of equate it to sitting down and reading the bible, what with all the Bob, son of Joe, son of Tom son of . . . . etc.

 

[Judowolf PE]

^I have to agree with Mp on this...my books have like a week test, if I can't read it cover to cover in a week, it probably isn't gonna get finished

 

[OSUguy98]

I just started reading The Silmarillion on my tablet... never tried an ebook before.. It's interesting to see the "history" and lore of Middle Earth, even if it is the typical Tolkien style... I've read The Hobbit and the LOTR trilogy before, so it's nice to see the before...

I never made it through the Silmarilion. . . it's just way toooooooooo sssslllllllloooooooooooooooowww for me. Much more so than LOTR and Hobbit. I kind of equate it to sitting down and reading the bible, what with all the Bob, son of Joe, son of Tom son of . . . . etc.

I'm only 80 pages into it (of 315ish).... I can't read more than 3 or 4 pages without falling asleep.... how much of that is the book vs how much is the 2 yr old effect, I'm not sure... but yes, very slow... having trouble dealing with the 3 or 4 names for each person/god/etc... I'm hoping that the history of how things came to be soon becomes the recollection of something slightly more interesting than "this is why the mountains are here"

 

[Judowolf PE]

I believe that's the reason I never got thru that book...too slow to keep my interest

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Just got finished with Columbine.

http://www.amazon.com/Columbine-Dave-Cullen/dp/B003UHUBW2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361547570&sr=8-1&keywords=columbine

The book was OK, jumped back in forth in time with seemingly no logic until the last section. The amazing thing was how completely wrong the media got things (shouldn't be a surprise, though). No trench coat mafia, no bullying, just a psychopath who had been planning and documenting his attack for over a year. He actually wanted to exterminate the human race, but figured all he could do at this point would be some big bombs and destroy a school, picking off the survivors as they came out the school.

Reading it made me realize how lucky they were that Eric Harris was a crappy bomb maker. If his bombs in the caf had gone off, the death toll would have been around 500.

Also, the police cover-up and the exposure thereof is a good lesson in how you ALWAYS loook bad when covered up material comes to light.

 

[snickerd3]

totally bummed

now that we pay library fees as part of our property tax we got a library card. Their fiction section for adults sucks. They had a grand total of 5 steven king books, not even the complete dark towers series, only books 6 and 7. They only had 4 michael crichton books. They have a huge romance novel (Blah) selection.

 

[Master slacker]

Anything digital? Through our library, I get a free subscription to Road & Track, Car & Driver, Consumer Reports, Maxim, Hot Rodder, etc... I don't know about the digital book selection because books don't have enough pretty pictures to keep my attention.

 

[snickerd3]

^HA! Now that's funny. Nope. Although the have a decent movie selection...but they don't pay attention to the movie ratings. Mickey mouse dvd movies were on the shelf right next to the Magic Mike dvd.

 

[Ble_PE]

Can you request books from other libraries? Our library is a part of a state-wide network and I can place a hold on a book online and they'll email me when it's ready to pick up. I've had books from libraries all over the state.

 

[blybrook PE]

That sucks Snick. Our local library has a large online presence with digital books in all formats. We can also get books from other libraries if they don't have it on hand.

As for current reading materials, I restarted the Dark Tower series just over 2 weeks ago, currently in book 4. Wanted to reread them with the new book "Wind in the Keyhole" in the proper place.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Just finished this history of A&P: http://www.amazon.com/Great-Struggle-Small-Business-America-ebook/dp/B004WJN7HI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1387473529&sr=8-1&keywords=the+great+a+%26+p+and+the+struggle+for+small+business+in+america

VERY interesting book. Apparently, A&P was the Walmart of its day, and, like Walmart, faced claims that it was ruining local merchants, selling subpar goods with brand names, and was guilty of unfair business practices.

A&P was even sued by the government under the anti-trust act (despite owning only 10% of the market) because its profit margin was too low.

Meanwhile, because of A&P's efficient business practices, food prices came down, and nutrition went up.

A&P was also the first retailer to hit $1 billion in sales (Sears was less than a half billion at the time) in 1930.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

We used to shop there when I was a kid. Must be a Northeast thing since we don't have them here.

I've been reading murder mysteries lately. One is the Harry Bosch series by Michael Connelly which is a graphic, by the book police procedural. The other is the lighthearted Chet and Bernie series by Spencer Quinn which is about a PI and his canine assistant, from the perspective of the pooch.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

VT, I've never read it, but this might be right up your alley: http://www.amazon.com/Art-Racing-Rain-Novel/dp/0061537969/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387484292&sr=1-1&keywords=art+of+racing+in+the+rain

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

Thanks. The funny thing is that I have less time to read books about dogs right now owning a puppy!

 

[Chucktown PE]

Well my wife has been into the mommy porn books. That's been working out great.

Any of you ladies of EB.com read that garbage?

 

[Dleg]

^Mommy porn???

Chucktown, did you ever get to "Blood Meridian" by Cormack McCarthy?