What are you reading?

[Mustang]

"The Dog Stars" by Peter Heller

Published Aug 2012, 319 pp

The Dog Stars by Peter Heller - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists

 

[koshergrl]

Right now I'm working my way through all the Dean Koontz novels, which are crime/suspense. His plots are, so far as I can see, are flawless, and he is a master of some really fine prose. I find him using words strung together in quite lovely and moving combinations.

I love Stephen King and tried sooo hard to like Koontz just as much, because Koontz is just as prolific...

But I don't like his work. I find his writing stale and his stories boring.

It's funny how different people can view the same thing completely differently.

 

[koshergrl]

Currently:

I've read it before, but I have run out of new stuff and so picked it up again a couple of days ago.

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[Mustang]

"The Blind Assassin" by Margaret Atwood

Published 2000, 521 pp

 

[Swagger]

The third in Manda Scott's Boudicca trilogy: Dreaming the Hound.

I started reading the first one about five years ago but ended-up throwing it across the room halfway through after I got tired of all the in-depth explanation of pagan ceremonies and "dreaming".

The following two novels, however, focus more on the Roman invaders and how they ruthlessly went about subjugating the native Celts.

 

[asaratis]

Winston Churchill

 

[Mustang]

"The Crossing" by Cormac McCarthy

It's the second in McCarthy's Border Trilogy series. The first is "All the Pretty Horses" which I read last year. The third book is "Cities of the Plain."

Published June 1994, 426 pp

 

[American Horse]

The third in Manda Scott's Boudicca trilogy: Dreaming the Hound.

I started reading the first one about five years ago but ended-up throwing it across the room halfway through after I got tired of all the in-depth explanation of pagan ceremonies and "dreaming".

The following two novels, however, focus more on the Roman invaders and how they ruthlessly went about subjugating the native Celts.

Ah, Roman Britain. Try Robert Harris' "Imperium" and "Conspirata" both excellent novels of Roman politics and statesmanship written by an Englishman.

Good reads about political blood-sport!

 

[SFC Ollie]

Alternate history of WW2...... interesting what if.......

"Fox at the Front"

 

[Montrovant]

I'm currently on the second book of the Black Jewels trilogy by Anne Bishop. It's one of those random picks I sometimes do in the search for new authors.

 

[skye]

I just started reading Man Ray: American Artist by Neil Baldwin.

 

[westwall]

Catherine the Great by Massie...very good biography!

 

[skye]

It's a miracle that some of us read books... paper books .... a miracle ....

 

[percysunshine]

What am I reading?

At the moment, an interesting thread on USMB.

Go figure...

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[Noomi]

Skin, by Mo Hayder.

 

[Connery]

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

 

[Missourian]

Catching Fire....ssshhh, don't tell anyone...

 

[percysunshine]

Zen, and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

 

[Dajjal]

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Here is the whole thing, free to read online.

The Prophet

 

[Dajjal]

Zen, and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Here is a pdf file of the book.



http://design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/pirsig.pdf