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MickeyC · 10-06-2010, 06:40 AM

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Originally Posted by SneakySnake

I started readingt Shutter Island. Again! :sigh: Is is because I start this book when I am too distracted by life? Or is it just difficult to get into? I really enjoyed Mystic River. So I am going to give it a good go before I give up.

Hang in there SneakySnake. It's worth it.

poohbear_nc · 10-06-2010, 08:04 AM

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I was just told that I had to read this series....well, at least I know I'll probably enjoy the first ones, right?

Shel -
Yes - the Bryant & May mysteries 1-6 are wonderful! They get serious (death of a squad member) in #7 (On the Loose) and #8 (On the Rails) for me was a dud.

poohbear_nc · 10-06-2010, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by SneakySnake

I started readingt Shutter Island. Again! :sigh: Is is because I start this book when I am too distracted by life? Or is it just difficult to get into? I really enjoyed Mystic River. So I am going to give it a good go before I give up.

Once I started reading this I literally couldn't put it down! Try again!

poohbear_nc · 10-06-2010, 08:41 AM

In her Three Pines mystery series, Louise Penny has created a spiritual Shangri-La populated by deeply flawed misfits who have withdrawn from city life to inhabit a town not found on maps. Her detective, Armand Gamache, and his team of honorable but flawed homicide detectives visit this town during the course of their investigations into a wide range of murders. Gamache belongs to the class of detectives I call "decent men trying to function in a corrupt world by following their consciences."

Each book in this marvelous series (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/louise-penny) explores and develops the characters of both the townsfolk and the detective squad -- they meet, interact, and grow together as they learn to trust one another.

In book 5 (The Brutal Telling) Penny shattered the idyllic town by having a main character arrested by Gamache and convicted of murder [as if Jessica Fletcher had deduced that Dr. Hazlett was a murderer, and had him arrested by Sheriff Metzger and then convicted and jailed].

Her newest book, Bury Your Dead, incorporates this old case into a new case that has devastated Gamache and his squad. Now both the inhabitants of Three Pines and Gamache and his squad are shattered and need to find a means for healing and forgiveness.

This is a long-winded way of explaining why I regard "Bury Your Dead" as a truly magnificent work. Penny's writing is spare and intense. Her descriptions of winter in Quebec capture the bone-chilling sounds and sensations. Her description of a police funeral cortege in the snow will have tears pouring down your face. She can link her readers to the emotions of her characters as few mystery writers can. There are many mysteries running through this book, past and present. She makes you care about all of them.

This is the finest mystery novel I have read in 2010.

FlorenceArt · 10-06-2010, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

In her Three Pines mystery series, Louise Penny has created a spiritual Shangri-La populated by deeply flawed misfits who have withdrawn from city life to inhabit a town not found on maps. Her detective, Armand Gamache, and his team of honorable but flawed homicide detectives visit this town during the course of their investigations into a wide range of murders. Gamache belongs to the class of detectives I call "decent men trying to function in a corrupt world by following their consciences."

Each book in this marvelous series (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/louise-penny) explores and develops the characters of both the townsfolk and the detective squad -- they meet, interact, and grow together as they learn to trust one another.

In book 5 (The Brutal Telling) Penny shattered the idyllic town by having a main character arrested by Gamache and convicted of murder [as if Jessica Fletcher had deduced that Dr. Hazlett was a murderer, and had him arrested by Sheriff Metzger and then convicted and jailed].

Her newest book, Bury Your Dead, incorporates this old case into a new case that has devastated Gamache and his squad. Now both the inhabitants of Three Pines and Gamache and his squad are shattered and need to find a means for healing and forgiveness.

This is a long-winded way of explaining why I regard "Bury Your Dead" as a truly magnificent work. Penny's writing is spare and intense. Her descriptions of winter in Quebec capture the bone-chilling sounds and sensations. Her description of a police funeral cortege in the snow will have tears pouring down your face. She can link her readers to the emotions of her characters as few mystery writers can. There are many mysteries running through this book, past and present. She makes you care about all of them.

This is the finest mystery novel I have read in 2010.

Great review, thank you, I'll have to look for books by Louise Penny.

I'm sort of between books now, as far as serious fiction is concerned. Still reading the book on the crusades/jihad, plus a manga I borrowed at the library, and also some short stories by Olivier Rolin, a French author I discovered recently and enjoy a lot (as well as his brother Jean). In the first of his short stories he mentions Julien Gracq's The Opposite Shore, which looks good but seems a bit hard to find. I hope they have it at my library, but I'll have to wait till this week-end to get it.

WT Sharpe · 10-06-2010, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

Ok, we'll go with creepy. Creepy in how dull it was. Gothic as in somebody playing at being goth and getting it all wrong.

Jeeze, Jon, cut poor Mr. Stoker some slack. Lake of Sorrow, Cradle of Filth, Draconian and the rest of the Goth rockers weren't even around in his day to show him how it's done!

columbus · 10-06-2010, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Just got and started the new Jack Reacher novel, Worth Dying For (by Lee Child).

Enjoying it a lot so far (like the previous 14 in the series)!

Where did you get that from? -did not think it was available yet
(or have you been a naughty boy!?

)

pilotbob · 10-06-2010, 10:28 AM

I'm reading the MRBC selection _Risen_... so far so good.

BOb

dfigueroa · 10-06-2010, 10:33 AM

I'm currently reading The Reversal by Michael Connelly. I'm about 20% into it, so far, so great. I have to hank my best friend Marcia for that, she sent me a GC from Amazon so that I could buy that one, since $15 is WAY out of my price range.

Love Connelly, it seems he just can't write a bad book.

And I'm also in the midst of re-reading Portal, the first of the Portal Chronicles by Imogen Rose. I read it in April, but with the release of Quantum coming up, I wanted to refresh my memory. Read Equilibrium in July. Although YA isn't supposed to be my genre (I'm hardly a YA myself), I'm finding several that grab me.

Hated Twilight (that will get me flamed), but there are so many really good YA books out there.

Bilbo1967 · 10-06-2010, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by columbus

Where did you get that from? -did not think it was available yet

Hmmm...it's legally available in the UK; see the link below:

http://www.waterstones.com/waterston...ook29/8048369/

I'm guessing it would be geographically constrained though if you tried to purchase it

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Originally Posted by columbus

(or have you been a naughty boy!?

)

How dare you sir, as if I would!!

columbus · 10-06-2010, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Hmmm...it's legally available in the UK; see the link below:

http://www.waterstones.com/waterston...ook29/8048369/

How dare you sir, as if I would!!

So it is! & it's not geo restricted to UK only (maybe just Europe) pub date US is 19 Oct I think. going to grab me a copy

Bilbo1967 · 10-06-2010, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by columbus

So it is! & it's not geo restricted to UK only (maybe just Europe) pub date US is 19 Oct I think. going to grab me a copy

Excellent - glad that somebody found that information useful.

Quake1028 · 10-06-2010, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

I've read The Last Coyote and it was a very enjoyable read.

I finished it sometime last week and agree with you. Solid stuff, probably the 2nd best of the first 4 Bosch novels.

jgaiser · 10-06-2010, 12:37 PM

Finally finished "Barrayar" by Lois McMaster Bujold. It's one of a several partly finished books I've promised myself I'd finish this month.

Actually enjoyed it quite a bit. I'll have to look at others in the series.

Next in line to finish is "The Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi.

BearMountainBooks · 10-06-2010, 01:01 PM

I started reading "Who is Mark Twain?" by Mark Twain. It's quite good--exceeeeept...these are unfinished works (mostly) by Twain. So they are going along really well and then...stop. Or start to have a paragraph here and a paragraph there with unfinished thoughts.

I really like Mark Twain's wit and writing, but I don't know that I'll be able to stick with this. I get too disappointed to find it unfinished.

10-06-2010, 10:33 AM	#6594
dfigueroa La Guera en Manzanillo Posts: 33 Karma: 50 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico Device: Kindle 2 Global	I'm currently reading The Reversal by Michael Connelly. I'm about 20% into it, so far, so great. I have to hank my best friend Marcia for that, she sent me a GC from Amazon so that I could buy that one, since $15 is WAY out of my price range. Love Connelly, it seems he just can't write a bad book. And I'm also in the midst of re-reading Portal, the first of the Portal Chronicles by Imogen Rose. I read it in April, but with the release of Quantum coming up, I wanted to refresh my memory. Read Equilibrium in July. Although YA isn't supposed to be my genre (I'm hardly a YA myself), I'm finding several that grab me. Hated Twilight (that will get me flamed), but there are so many really good YA books out there. Last edited by dfigueroa; 10-06-2010 at 10:35 AM.

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10-06-2010, 08:41 AM	#6589
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,467 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	In her Three Pines mystery series, Louise Penny has created a spiritual Shangri-La populated by deeply flawed misfits who have withdrawn from city life to inhabit a town not found on maps. Her detective, Armand Gamache, and his team of honorable but flawed homicide detectives visit this town during the course of their investigations into a wide range of murders. Gamache belongs to the class of detectives I call "decent men trying to function in a corrupt world by following their consciences." Each book in this marvelous series (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/louise-penny) explores and develops the characters of both the townsfolk and the detective squad -- they meet, interact, and grow together as they learn to trust one another. In book 5 (The Brutal Telling) Penny shattered the idyllic town by having a main character arrested by Gamache and convicted of murder [as if Jessica Fletcher had deduced that Dr. Hazlett was a murderer, and had him arrested by Sheriff Metzger and then convicted and jailed]. Her newest book, Bury Your Dead, incorporates this old case into a new case that has devastated Gamache and his squad. Now both the inhabitants of Three Pines and Gamache and his squad are shattered and need to find a means for healing and forgiveness. This is a long-winded way of explaining why I regard "Bury Your Dead" as a truly magnificent work. Penny's writing is spare and intense. Her descriptions of winter in Quebec capture the bone-chilling sounds and sensations. Her description of a police funeral cortege in the snow will have tears pouring down your face. She can link her readers to the emotions of her characters as few mystery writers can. There are many mysteries running through this book, past and present. She makes you care about all of them. This is the finest mystery novel I have read in 2010.

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jgaiser Omnivorous Posts: 3,283 Karma: 27978909 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Rural NW Oregon Device: Kindle Voyage, Kindle Fire HD, Kindle 3, KPW1	Finally finished "Barrayar" by Lois McMaster Bujold. It's one of a several partly finished books I've promised myself I'd finish this month. Actually enjoyed it quite a bit. I'll have to look at others in the series. Next in line to finish is "The Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi.

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BearMountainBooks Maria Schneider Posts: 3,746 Karma: 26439330 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Near Austin, Texas Device: 3g Kindle Keyboard	I started reading "Who is Mark Twain?" by Mark Twain. It's quite good--exceeeeept...these are unfinished works (mostly) by Twain. So they are going along really well and then...stop. Or start to have a paragraph here and a paragraph there with unfinished thoughts. I really like Mark Twain's wit and writing, but I don't know that I'll be able to stick with this. I get too disappointed to find it unfinished.