Fiction Reading Ideas for Christmas

self | 12/2/08 | LS

[LS]

Bill Pullam might be ok. But it would have to be someone really different. Gary Oldham?

[retrokitten]

Oooo...Gary Oldham is a good choice I hadn’t thought of.

[mathluv]

I enjoyed the first two books about Pearl Harbor, and can hardly wait for the next. Of course, it is a personnel thing for me, since I was born 4 days after that event.

If anyone is into Christian fiction, Colleen Coble and Dee Henderson are very good. There are also some series about the war in the middle East that are good - Don Brown has the Navy Justice series; Chuck Holton is another.

[mathluv]

Whenever I want to check on the order, etc of an author’s books, I go to http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/

[LS]

Good tip.

[LS]

He plays a lot of vampires, so that kind of fits (I see Pendergast as nearly a vampire!). Perhaps Edward Norton, though not imposing enough. OOhhh. I got it! Keith Carradine. He played an FBI agent on “Dexter.” A tad old, but tall enough, can be sophisticated enough,

[firebrand]

I just read Toni Morrison's Mercy, her latest. It was a bit difficult for me to keep all the characters straight at first, but after that it was easier. A marvelous work, her best yet I think.

[LS]

Ok, “Still Life With Crows” was exceptional. Reading “Monster of Florence” now. OK, though not the pulse-bending mystery that the Pendergast books are.

[LS]

Gotta say, on the advice of a Freeper, I”m working on “Prayers of the Assassin,” and am finding it tough sledding. “The Monster of Florence” is pretty good, though nothing like the Preston/Child murder mysteries.

[saminfl]

I discovered the mystery series by P.J. Parrish a few months ago. They are absolutely fabulous. Everyone I know who has read them is hooked. Be sure to start with the first one and go in order. The author’s bio will completely surprise you. Dark of The Moon is the title of the first book.

[retrokitten]

No, but the story is so bizarre that it kept me reading. If it were fiction, no one would believe it.

[firebrand]

It's kind of late for this, but you can always put a card under the tree announcing the subscription: I gave my little brother a subscription to Analog: Science Fact, Science Fiction magazine when he was 14 and he has been continuing his subscription ever since. He ended up getting his computer engineering degree courtesy of the USNavy, so it took! Great last-minute gift idea for kids that age. It's here.