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re: SECrOTB Book Club: I need a good book to read
Posted on 1/6/15 at 12:41 am to UMRealist
Posted on 1/6/15 at 12:41 am to UMRealist
James Patterson is always good for an awesome read.
My favorite, however, is the Scarpetta series authored by Patricia Cornwell...especially if you enjoy superb suspense novels.
My favorite, however, is the Scarpetta series authored by Patricia Cornwell...especially if you enjoy superb suspense novels.
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Posted on 2/17/15 at 10:45 pm to Carolina_Girl
Bumpin' this biatch.
I am in Houston and forgot a book for the Hotel.
I've been slacking this year just due to nice weather and kids, but my busy season is firing up and I usually knock a lot out during that.
Tonight I picked up devil in the white city. I meant to read this last year but never found it. Heard nothing but good things.
I also got a David Balducci, Daniel Silva, annnnnd the first Wheel of Time book by Robert Jordan.
I don't know if I want to do this series (I read the first years ago), but it'd be nice to have a long series to go through for a while. I get tired of waiting for GRRM to poop out another book.
I am in Houston and forgot a book for the Hotel.
I've been slacking this year just due to nice weather and kids, but my busy season is firing up and I usually knock a lot out during that.
Tonight I picked up devil in the white city. I meant to read this last year but never found it. Heard nothing but good things.
I also got a David Balducci, Daniel Silva, annnnnd the first Wheel of Time book by Robert Jordan.
I don't know if I want to do this series (I read the first years ago), but it'd be nice to have a long series to go through for a while. I get tired of waiting for GRRM to poop out another book.
This post was edited on 2/17/15 at 10:46 pm
Posted on 2/18/15 at 2:25 am to UMRealist
house of leaves
Posted on 2/18/15 at 8:51 am to betweenthebara
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house of leaves
looked it up. seems like a super intersting concept. another book in the same vein is "S" by JJ Abrams. i've heard good things, but it only comes in a $40 hardback and that's hard to swallow.
Posted on 2/18/15 at 9:14 am to 3nOut
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annnnnd the first Wheel of Time book by Robert Jordan.
God speed. I hope you like hair pulling.
I just spent half the night reading half of Golden Son the sequel to Red Rising by Pierce Brown.
The Red Rising was awesome. And so far the Golden Son is better.
Posted on 4/15/15 at 8:43 am to BloodSweat&Beers
Finally finished Devil in the White City.
Cannot say enough how much i loved that book. I don't remember if it was Belle, but whoever recommended it on here i greatly appreciate it.
took a while to get through due to a busy spring, but absolutely fantastic read. Made me fall in love with Architecture and psychopathic killers at the same time.
In the airport i was looking for a new book and i remember somebody extolling Greg Greg Iles so i grabbed Natchez Burning at LaGuardia . Obviously i'm coming in the middle of a series and don't know everything going on, but i really enjoyed it and knocked out about 300 (out of about 800
) on the flight home. Really gripping stuff.
Cannot say enough how much i loved that book. I don't remember if it was Belle, but whoever recommended it on here i greatly appreciate it.
took a while to get through due to a busy spring, but absolutely fantastic read. Made me fall in love with Architecture and psychopathic killers at the same time.
In the airport i was looking for a new book and i remember somebody extolling Greg Greg Iles so i grabbed Natchez Burning at LaGuardia . Obviously i'm coming in the middle of a series and don't know everything going on, but i really enjoyed it and knocked out about 300 (out of about 800
) on the flight home. Really gripping stuff. 
Posted on 4/15/15 at 9:00 am to 3nOut
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looked it up. seems like a super intersting concept. another book in the same vein is "S" by JJ Abrams. i've heard good things, but it only comes in a $40 hardback and that's hard to swallow.
I've read bits and pieces but it's a very tactile reading experience that just doesn't translate to eBooks.
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Cannot say enough how much i loved that book. I don't remember if it was Belle, but whoever recommended it on here i greatly appreciate it.
I haven't gotten around to In the Garden of Beasts.
I'm getting ready to start on one called "The Center Cannot Hold" by Elyn Saks. It was mentioned in a psych assignment I was working on and it's a Southern Cal law professor who is also a Vandy/Oxford grad who has schizophrenia.
This post was edited on 4/15/15 at 9:06 am
Posted on 4/15/15 at 9:04 am to BluegrassBelle
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I've read bits and pieces but it's a very tactile reading experience that just doesn't translate to eBooks.
i have a friend about to move to the UAE i need to snag it from before he leaves.
Posted on 4/15/15 at 2:47 pm to 3nOut
I bought House Of Leaves late last summer, but had to put it down due to a litany of factors. I think I'm about to pick it back up.
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief was fascinating. The HBO documentary of the same name didn't do the book proper justice to just how messed up Hubbard really was. He hated Jews, was paranoid, etc.
If you liked the Killing... series that has O'Reilly's name on it, check out some of the other stuff that his co-author (and the guy who probably did all the work) Martin Dugard has written. Into Africa is about the search for Livingstone in the 1870s, and is awesome. He absolutely did his homework on that one.
I greatly enjoyed King Leopold's Ghost, about the Belgian colony of Congo. I've always been fascinated by colonial Africa, and this is, by far, the most readable book about the subject that I've found.
As far as simple novels are concerned, I really enjoyed the two most recent Crichton novels I read. Next and State of Fear aren't coherent novels so much as they are well-researched theses about genetic engineering and climate change, respectively.
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief was fascinating. The HBO documentary of the same name didn't do the book proper justice to just how messed up Hubbard really was. He hated Jews, was paranoid, etc.
If you liked the Killing... series that has O'Reilly's name on it, check out some of the other stuff that his co-author (and the guy who probably did all the work) Martin Dugard has written. Into Africa is about the search for Livingstone in the 1870s, and is awesome. He absolutely did his homework on that one.
I greatly enjoyed King Leopold's Ghost, about the Belgian colony of Congo. I've always been fascinated by colonial Africa, and this is, by far, the most readable book about the subject that I've found.
As far as simple novels are concerned, I really enjoyed the two most recent Crichton novels I read. Next and State of Fear aren't coherent novels so much as they are well-researched theses about genetic engineering and climate change, respectively.
Posted on 4/15/15 at 3:00 pm to RoyalAir
I'm a little over halfway through with a storm of swords. This shite is tedious.
Posted on 4/15/15 at 4:07 pm to UMRealist
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I'm a little over halfway through with a storm of swords. This shite is tedious.
SoS may be one of the best books i ever read. top 5 no doubt.
fortunately i knocked it out before season 3 so i didn't have anything spoiled.
Posted on 4/15/15 at 4:15 pm to RoyalAir
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As far as simple novels are concerned, I really enjoyed the two most recent Crichton novels I read.
i call those my burner novels as i can usually burn through them in about 3 days, 1 if i'm traveling or on vacation. good stuff, but not great works of literature by any means.
Burner reads i recommend:
Lee Childs
Michael Connelly
Clive Cussler
David Baldacci
Brad Thor
Vince Flynn (RiP)
James Patterson
Daniel Silva
Grisham
Posted on 4/15/15 at 6:55 pm to 3nOut
I think that's my problem. I know what's coming through this book for the most part. It's a struggle.
Posted on 4/15/15 at 7:21 pm to 3nOut
I've been slightly disappointed with ASOIAF. At least relative to the "best ever" tag line people are want to give it. Great series, certainly top 10, but I don't know about hands down best ever.
Have you read the malazan books?
Also I see you started wheel of time and it is my absolute favorite series. Everything people say about it is true, but the world and everything created isn't rivaled by anyhing I have found. It's definitely the classical side, but with the strong points of WOT, that allows you to focus more on the writing IMO.
Books 3-7 or so (I haven't read the series in a few years) are my favorite stretch of anything in the genre I think.
Also I would recommend name of the wind by rothfuss. I read it recently and very good, two books out in the series thus far but I've only read the first
Have you read the malazan books?
Also I see you started wheel of time and it is my absolute favorite series. Everything people say about it is true, but the world and everything created isn't rivaled by anyhing I have found. It's definitely the classical side, but with the strong points of WOT, that allows you to focus more on the writing IMO.
Books 3-7 or so (I haven't read the series in a few years) are my favorite stretch of anything in the genre I think.
Also I would recommend name of the wind by rothfuss. I read it recently and very good, two books out in the series thus far but I've only read the first
This post was edited on 4/15/15 at 7:54 pm
Posted on 4/15/15 at 9:29 pm to CheeseburgerEddie
ASoIaF dragged on book 4&5 to me. I hear that. I just thought Clash of Kings and Storm or Swords were amazing.
Haven't started WoT yet. Just have the first one. Devil in the White City just took me 2.5 months.
I love Routhfus and the NotW series. Qvothe is my homeboy. Sad he's taking the GRRM route of taking forever for the Doors of Stone.
Haven't started WoT yet. Just have the first one. Devil in the White City just took me 2.5 months.
I love Routhfus and the NotW series. Qvothe is my homeboy. Sad he's taking the GRRM route of taking forever for the Doors of Stone.
This post was edited on 4/15/15 at 9:31 pm
Posted on 4/15/15 at 9:31 pm to 3nOut
What is it, would you say, that you guys get out of these pop-mainstream books?
Entertainment, above all?
Entertainment, above all?
Posted on 4/15/15 at 9:40 pm to 3nOut
I don't know how difficult of a read evil in the white city is, but malazan books are "difficult" in that if you aren't paying attention closely it's easy to read 5 pages and then realize you have no clue what he was just talking about so they take a minute.
WOT is easier but the series gets somewhat bogged down - although it wasn't as bad the second time around without waiting for the books to be written. Like I said all the criticisms you see are true, strange character quirks and relationships between men and women, classic epic (prophecy, Dark Lord, etc), some slow sections, but the whole thing is so well thought out and balance I don't think ill ever find anything i like quite the same.
WOT is easier but the series gets somewhat bogged down - although it wasn't as bad the second time around without waiting for the books to be written. Like I said all the criticisms you see are true, strange character quirks and relationships between men and women, classic epic (prophecy, Dark Lord, etc), some slow sections, but the whole thing is so well thought out and balance I don't think ill ever find anything i like quite the same.
Posted on 4/15/15 at 9:42 pm to hipgnosis
Absolutely. and unashamedly.
It's no different than saying I like the avengers. You ought to be able to turn your brain off and just enjoy something, be it a movie, TV show, or book.
Don't get me wrong I like more difficult and hearty reading as well.
It's no different than saying I like the avengers. You ought to be able to turn your brain off and just enjoy something, be it a movie, TV show, or book.
Don't get me wrong I like more difficult and hearty reading as well.
Posted on 4/15/15 at 9:46 pm to hipgnosis
The ones I've mentioned - pure entertainment. The other stuff I read isn't really something I would recommend to someone looking for "a good book to read".
Posted on 4/15/15 at 9:47 pm to hipgnosis
Try a Peter Straub book, Koko or The Throat are two good ones. He wrote two books with Peter King. Both are excellent .The Talisman and Dark House.
Give one a try, you may enjoy.
Give one a try, you may enjoy.
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