Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[MickeyC]

Just finished Heat Wave another great police procedural by Richard Castle (or whoever the actual author is.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by cassidym

Just finished Heat Wave another great police procedural by Richard Castle (or whoever the actual author is.

Following that one there's Naked Heat and then Heat Rises. IMHO they get better each time.

[kusunoki]

I just finished reading the first Doc Savage novel The Man of Bronze (a lot of fun) and The Great Influenza (an interesting but deeply flawed book) and I've just started on 1984 (never read before, but am enjoying immensely). I've got a lineup of about 20 more that I'm aiming for after that. It's tough to balance the enjoyment of the current book with the excitement for the next...

[Nyssa]

I'm currently reading Sex on Tuesdays by June Whyte.

I originally nominated it for the February selection of the MRBC, but I'm very glad it didn't win. It is definitely more mystery than romance, and a luke-warm one at that.

I'm about a third of the way through. The mystery itself is interesting (if a bit gruesome), but the main character, Dani, is just "eh." Her self-deprecation is neither cute nor charming and her obsession over soon-to-be turning 50 is down right annoying. I'm liking her, obviously telegraphed, "future" love interest more than her, at the moment, even though he started the book out looking like a jerk.

[MickeyC]

Originally Posted by alansplace

Following that one there's Naked Heat and then Heat Rises. IMHO they get better each time.

Absolutely! I inadvertently read Heat Rises first and it was very good. Anyway, I'm looking forward to Naked Heat. And I'm starting to suspect Michael Connelly may be the author. This because, in his latest book, The Drop, he mentions Castle or, actually, has one of the characters mention Castle.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by cassidym

Absolutely! I inadvertently read Heat Rises first and it was very good. Anyway, I'm looking forward to Naked Heat. And I'm starting to suspect Michael Connelly may be the author. This because, in his latest book, The Drop, he mentions Castle or, actually, has one of the characters mention Castle.

Well it's more than likely to be one of Rick Castle's poker buddies, I always kinda' figured that Steven J. Cannell wrote Heat Wave, then when he died I guessed that Dennis Lehane probably took over and wrote the next two.

[The Terminator]

Well I finished War Of The Worlds today. 3/5 stars

I would have liked a bit more dialogue and action. But it was written over a hundred years ago so I wasn't exactly expecting it to be a riveting SciFi book. But I'm not much into Sci-Fi either, I enjoyed The Count Of Monte Cristo more (Which, by the way was a great book)

Now to start Endless Night by Agatha Christie.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I bought it from Amazon.

I just checked and had no problem finding it in the U.K. store. The Kindle edition was apparently published in June 2011 (Inkmesh doesn't seem to have take notice yet). I still can't find a Kindle edition in the U.S. Kindle store, though.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Evil under the Sun by Agatha Christie, her 37th book.

And it was another good Hercule Poirot murder mystery. Although I remembered the main plot points, it was still fun watching it come together.

Next: Voyager In Night by C. J. Cherryh, which doesn't seem to be available as an ebook at the moment. (I got it at fictionwise in 2008.) A standa-alone SF story, apparently.

[AlexGrama]

Originally Posted by Chi Cygni

just finished "Kristin Lavransdatter" by Sigrid Undset, 1000 pages in 6 days. My oh my, was that a good piece of literature. I need a little break after I read something really good to let it sink in before I start a new one. Sigh...

This sounds very good. Will definitely read it.

[HarryT]

Just finished "Thraxas and the Warrior Monks" by Martin Scott, the 2nd book in the "Thraxas" series (it's published by Baen as an omnibus edition in the same volume as the first book, "Thraxes"). Thraxas is a down-at-heel private investigator, failed sorcerer, and former mercenary in the hopelessly corrupt city of Turai. This book sees him take on the case of an apprentice sculptor accusing of murdering his master, and try to find the religious statue which disappeared at the time as the murder. In the course of the investigation Thraxas gets caught up in the rivalry between two rivals sects of Warrior Monks who are both looking for the statue and think that Thraxas knows more than he's letting on.

Another fun fantasy romp. Well worth reading, especially considering that you get both this and the previous book for $6, DRM-free, from Baen.

[orlok]

Originally Posted by The Terminator

I enjoyed The Count Of Monte Cristo more (Which, by the way was a great book)

I read this as part of my 2011 challenge, and it was excellent. Don't know why it took me so long to get round to it.

Nearing the end of Dresden in Fool Moon, and debating whether to go straight on to Grave Peril or read Taken by Robert Crais, the new Elvis Cole and Joe Pike novel which has been calling to me .

[The Terminator]

Originally Posted by orlok

I read this as part of my 2011 challenge, and it was excellent. Don't know why it took me so long to get round to it.

Nearing the end of Dresden in Fool Moon, and debating whether to go straight on to Grave Peril or read Taken by Robert Crais, the new Elvis Cole and Joe Pike novel which has been calling to me .

The Unabridged version of Monte Cristo is pretty long, the abridged versions did away with most of the sub plots (There were tons of them if I remember correctly).

Definitely his best book in my opinion, I read The Three Musketeers and it wasn't nearly as good, and I couldn't get into the sequels to it.

[tecweston]

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami just popped into my inbox from the library.


Currently reading:

- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (69%)

- A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin (60%)

- A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin (40%)

- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (5%)

- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (~20%) [on hold]

[orlok]

Originally Posted by The Terminator

The Unabridged version of Monte Cristo is pretty long, the abridged versions did away with most of the sub plots (There were tons of them if I remember correctly).

Definitely his best book in my opinion, I read The Three Musketeers and it wasn't nearly as good, and I couldn't get into the sequels to it.

Yes, the version I read was 1400+ pages long, which knocked me back on my progress towards my 100 book challenge last year. Interesting in what you say about The Three Musketeers and sequels, because I have all of them lined up to read. May move them further down the TBRL now...