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[alansplace]

Originally Posted by Gazella

...I suddenly get bored from reading? I don't feel like reading? I don't know what it is exactly...

Originally Posted by alansplace

I've been battling the same problem for more than a month now. I really hate it.

I seem to be finally getting over my disinterest in reading (knock on wood). I've found a book that is holding my interest. It's The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1) by Agatha Christie! I sure hope that I'm able to maintain this interest.

[Gazella]

Originally Posted by alansplace

I seem to be finally getting over my disinterest in reading (knock on wood). I've found a book that is holding my interest. It's The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1) by Agatha Christie! I sure hope that I'm able to maintain this interest.

Same here! I've been reading and enjoying the books I've so far read! The Mysterious Affair at Styles is an excellent book. All of the books I've read by Christie thus far were page turners and compelling.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Just finished the May MobileRead Book Club Mystery/Thriller selection, The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling). It was quite enjoyable, well plotted, and I really enjoyed the chemistry between the protagonists. The only downside was that it seemed to me to be a bit padded.

Now it's on to the Mystery/Thriller that was nominated, got my vote, but lost: Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood, the novel in which he introduced Miss Phryne Fisher to the world. Oddly enough, a few days ago I inadvertently watched the TV episode produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for their "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries" series while looking through Netflix for something worth watching.

I'm also doing a (re-)reading of Cocaine Blues. After abandoning two books in a very short time, it's time for a known pleasure.

[PurpleStar]

I finished up Die Trying by Lee Child. Good thriller. I will read the next book at some point, whenever I decide to get it!

Moving on to Rescue Mode by Ben Bova & Les Johnson. Been looking forward to this one.

[MickeyC]

Jut finished Sycamore Row by John Grisham and it was a typically good Grisham read.

Next up Arctic Wargame by Ethan Jones, the third in the Thriller Thirteen deal

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by CRussel

I'm also doing a (re-)reading of Cocaine Blues. After abandoning two books in a very short time, it's time for a known pleasure.

Ah, what a pleasure that was! I think I'm going to just plough right on and read the next, Flying Too High.

[orangedotgreen]

This weekend I finished Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson and started The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by orangedotgreen

This weekend I finished Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson.

While I love his work, I'm just not willing to start a long series with only the first two published.

Originally Posted by pdurrant

The Mammoth Book of Time Travel Stories edited by Mike Ashley.

Just what it says on the tin. Although I could have done without "A Very Slow Time Machine". (I hate the ending.)

Next is the latest in the Grantville series, 1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies, by Eric Flint and Charles E. Gannon.

Nice to have the plot advancing again. Looking good so far.

[CharredScribe]

I'm (re)reading Dean Koontz's House of Thunder. I read it several times as a teenager, but it has been long enough that I have mostly forgotten the ending. I can kind-of, sort-of remember it, but not fully. I was going to move on to one of my African fiction books, but I (inadvisedly) tried to start it on the tram. It was full of loud tourists and a bumpy ride, and concentrating on the beginning of what looks like a beautiful but complex and multilingual story proved beyond me. I shifted to something with a simpler narrative, and am enjoying my journey to my teen years. Nice and creepy book, too

[HarryT]

Recently completed two SF books from my Baen backlist:

"My Brother's Keeper" by Charles Sheffield.

Lionel Salkind was a concert pianist. His twin brother, Leo Foss, was a researcher in government work that he couldn't talk about. Then the helicopter they were flying crashed. When he woke up, Lionel learned that both he and Leo had sustained fatal injuries, and he was only alive because the surgeon had used organs from Leo to repair Lionel's slightly less damaged body. More than half of Lionel's brain was gone, and had been replaced with Leo's. Lionel gradually starts to experience memories from Leo, and is drawn in to Leo's world of espionage. A good thriller.

"An Oblique Approach" by David Drake and Eric Flint.

The first book of the 6-book "Belisarius" military SF series.

In northern India the Malwa have created an empire of unexampled evil. Guided or possessed by an intelligence from beyond time, with new weapons, old treachery, and an implacable will to power, the Malwa will sweep over the whole Earth. Only three things stand between the Malwa and their plan of eternal domination: the empire of Rome in the East, Byzantium; a crystal with vision; and a man named Belisarius, the greatest commander Earth has ever know. . . .

Vaguely similar to the "General" series, but MUCH better, IMHO. If you like military SF, this is a "must read".

[samhy]

Originally Posted by samhy

I'm 38% into The Shining and I would have never guessed how much I'm enjoying it.
When I was a teenager I read Misery and The Green Mile but I wasn't impressed. At all. Maybe I was too young. Maybe... I don't know.

Fast forward to The Shining: even though I've seen the movie several times, the book is a pleasure to read, the story is flowing nicely and the suspense is building steadily

It took me longer than expected but I've finished The Shining. What a great book! Right away I've started The Cuckoo's Calling. I'm close to the one-third mark and so far I like the story. It's very easy to read and entertaining. By the way, this is the first J. K. Rowling book that I'm reading

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by HarryT

"An Oblique Approach" by David Drake and Eric Flint.

The first book of the 6-book "Belisarius" military SF series.

[...]

Vaguely similar to the "General" series, but MUCH better, IMHO. If you like military SF, this is a "must read".

I agree with the "must read" label. The outline by david Drake, written by Eric Flint is a great combination.

The six-volume series is available as a $20 bundle of the six books from Baen

It's also available as three omnibus editions, which might be a better buy if using a good coupon at Kobo.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Recently completed two SF books from my Baen backlist:

"My Brother's Keeper" by Charles Sheffield.

Lionel Salkind was a concert pianist. His twin brother, Leo Foss, was a researcher in government work that he couldn't talk about. Then the helicopter they were flying crashed. When he woke up, Lionel learned that both he and Leo had sustained fatal injuries, and he was only alive because the surgeon had used organs from Leo to repair Lionel's slightly less damaged body. More than half of Lionel's brain was gone, and had been replaced with Leo's. Lionel gradually starts to experience memories from Leo, and is drawn in to Leo's world of espionage. A good thriller.

"An Oblique Approach" by David Drake and Eric Flint.

The first book of the 6-book "Belisarius" military SF series.

In northern India the Malwa have created an empire of unexampled evil. Guided or possessed by an intelligence from beyond time, with new weapons, old treachery, and an implacable will to power, the Malwa will sweep over the whole Earth. Only three things stand between the Malwa and their plan of eternal domination: the empire of Rome in the East, Byzantium; a crystal with vision; and a man named Belisarius, the greatest commander Earth has ever know. . . .

Vaguely similar to the "General" series, but MUCH better, IMHO. If you like military SF, this is a "must read".

Originally Posted by pdurrant

I agree with the "must read" label. The outline by david Drake, written by Eric Flint is a great combination.

The six-volume series is available as a $20 bundle of the six books from Baen

It's also available as three omnibus editions, which might be a better buy if using a good coupon at Kobo.

I remember reading My Brother's Keeper somewhere in the early '80s and enjoyed it.
I also agree that the Belisarius Series is a must read for Military Science Fiction fans.
Apache

[Yapyap]

Yikes. It's been a while since I posted in this thread, so I won't even attempt to catch up!

Last week I finally got around to the second Rachel Morgan / The Hollows book by Kim Harrison - I read the first one, Dead Witch Walking, quite some time ago and enjoyed it enough that I intended to continue but not really enough to be in a hurry to do that. In the meantime, I'd been picking up the next books in various Amazon sales, so now when I realised I have the first nine, well...

I enjoyed the second book The Good, the Bad and the Undead more than the first one (which IIRC suffered from massive infodumps in the beginning) and once I was done, moved straight on to the third book, Every Which Way But Dead. I'm about halfway done with that and liking it - although I think after this one I'll take a break again for something else.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Ah, what a pleasure that was! I think I'm going to just plough right on and read the next, Flying Too High.

Completed and enjoyed. Better than the first, and from here on out they mostly keep getting better as the characters develop over time.

Now reading The Chinese Shawl by Patricia Wentworth. This is #5 in the Miss Silver series and I'm enjoying it. That's good, since I abandoned #4 as being hopelessly annoying.