What are you reading?

[mtdmind]

Originally Posted by rdeane

I am finishing up 50 Great Books to Read Before You Die, or something like that. I just finished Robinson Crusoe. I didn't ever hear before that he was on his island alone for 23 years and then with Friday for 4 years. I missed a lot of classic novels in my younger days, and now I'm trying to play catch up.

"Robinson Crusoe" was a great book. I liked the ending where he was back in civilization and was attacked by wolves in the snow.

[Lauren_WarEagle]

Finally getting around to reading Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. It’s been sitting on my shelf for over a year!

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[Jeff Scott]

[Don W]

John Hersey "White Lotus"

[jansch101]

Haven’t scanned all replies so maybe already mentioned, currently reading. “American Dirt” by Jeanine Cummins, very very good ,and although a work of fiction it accurately portrays the freight trains the migrants in Central America ride on their quest to reach the US, excellent character portrayal .
Some You Tube clips of the train they call La Bestia .

[MinorKey]

Finished The Touch by F Paul Wilson, now reading Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz

[MinorKey]

Originally Posted by mtdmind

"Robinson Crusoe" was a great book. I liked the ending where he was back in civilization and was attacked by wolves in the snow.

I finally got a copy of that recently! Always been curious about it.

[tinnitus]

Some here may be familiar with the raucous Hap & Leonard series penned by Joe R. Lansdale. I tried to get them in the order written, but library availability is sporadic so I just take 'em as they show up, which doesn't diminish anything. Always clever with vivid characters, reckless action and funny smart-mouth dialogue between dysfunctionally flawed good guy partners, Honky Tonk Samuraii is a fun book to start with.

A couple Hap & Leonard books showed up as 5-6 episode mini-series on Nextflix. Seldom happens like this, but it turns out the actors they cast were almost exactly who I already pictured from reading/listening to audiobooks. Rowdy entertainment.

Lansdale's non-Hap & Leonard series novels are great too. The Bottoms was profoundly good, winning the Edgar Award. And I just sat up late the last few nights finishing a 1958 small-town page-turner, A Fine Dark Line.

Lansdale did not write War and Peace or Moby Dick. He's just a fun, entertaining author.

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by MinorKey

Finished The Touch by F Paul Wilson, now reading Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz

I have just about every Dean Koontz book. I'm finishing up the last book in the Jane Hawk series now and then I'll move on to another one of Dean's novels.

Fear Nothing is a great book. The main character reminds me a lot of Odd Thomas (another Koontz series). There's also a second book after Fear Nothing, Seize the Night.

[MinorKey]

Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

I have just about every Dean Koontz book. I'm finishing up the last book in the Jane Hawk series now and then I'll move on to another one of Dean's novels.

Fear Nothing is a great book. The main character reminds me a lot of Odd Thomas (another Koontz series). There's also a second book after Fear Nothing, Seize the Night.

Yes I have the sequel too. There was supposed to be a third but he never got round to it. My partner also has the Odd books

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by MinorKey

Yes I have the sequel too. There was supposed to be a third but he never got round to it. My partner also has the Odd books

You should read Odd Thomas after you read the sequel. It's a great series.

[MinorKey]

Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

You should read Odd Thomas after you read the sequel. It's a great series.

I'll probably take a break after reading these two big books.

[offkey]

Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of An Infantry Officer. Wonderful prose from the war time poet.

[Dotneck]

I've been re-reading John Updike's Rabbit series. Read them 40ish years ago...wow a handful of decades really changes your outlook on life. These books seem out of step with current values...

[yairimann]

Hotel Florida:Truth,Love,and Death in the Spanish Civil War. by Amanda Vaill.
Much better than I thought it would be. Paints a flattering picture of Capa, not so much of Hemmingway and Gellhorn.