Posted on 07/25/2008 3:01:11 PM PDT by Stephanie32
(My first thread, hope I'm doing this right!)
Thank you, I would love to read some books set in that area because I’ve never been there but would like to and I do love mysteries. They sound really great!
Yes, I do know what you mean. Everyone has a preference about how to read a story or learn something and the different genres work for different people. I just have no experience with reading Sci Fi and I do want to change that.
That set looks like it will be on my Christmas list if I haven’t read it before. Thank you!
Ok, sounds very compelling. Thank you!
I know I will love reading this. Thank you again. !
This sounds really fascinating. Thanks for posting it. I love these threads.
The Sound and the Fury
I think I was one of the only kids in my American Lit class who read all the books and this one was my favorite.
These sound really great. The one by Jacques Lusseyran sounds riveting especially being that it is true. Thank you for sharing all of those with me and everyone here. I’m thinking that I could be reading from now until the end of time with all of these wonderful sounding recommendations!
Love your last line. ;-)
Thank you, sounds like something everyone should read!
Thank you, I’ve heard that this is mesmerizing. I think it’s out on tape in a set too.
Ok, I will check it out further but I think it would be great. My book club is really always up for anything open to all different things.
Everyone has recommended such great books! I enjoy the Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Agent Pendergast series, Cabinet of Curiosities, Still Life With Crows, Book of the Dead, Wheel of Darkness, etc. I haven't read them all. They aren't deep literature or anything, but they are crime stories with a little bit of a supernatural twist. Still Life With Crows is my favorite.
Douglas Preston just wrote a true crime book, The Monster of Florence and if you like true crime I highly recommend it.
You mentioned you like nonfiction that reads like fiction, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote practically invented the genre and it's still one of the best. I downloaded it on audiobook and the narrator is incredible.
I’ll second saminfl on the C.J. Box books. The Joe Pickett series is really great. Just don’t start reading them too late at night, because you might have a hard time putting the book down, even at 3am!
I’d forgotten about “Just Another Sunday.” It was pretty good.
Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll check into it.
Speaking of recommendations, check out Charles Todd and his murder mysteries with Inspector Ian Rutledge. They’re set post WW1 England.
I’m a Civil War buff and have an ever growing collection of books on the subject. Right now I’m working on volume 2 of the “Battles and Leaders of the Civil War” series. This is a compilation of articles written for Century magazine by the veterans.
We have a large CW collection too, lots of biographies.
I don’t know if we have that series and hubby is Sun napping in the den where the books are. Will have to check later :)
I just got a reprint of Hardee’s Tactics for Infantry and recommend it to any CW historian.
Thanks! Will do. :)
These books sound interesting and like they would inspire much discussion. Thank you!
I will look them up, sounds like a mystery series. Thank you!
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