Posted on 05/05/2009 8:55:46 AM PDT by edcoil
I read Ken Follett's Book Pillars of the Earth last year and this year just completed his: World Without End.
Since summer is coming, I recommend either of these books for your vacation read.
Vacation?
What’s that?
I thought Pillars of the Earth was dreadful. I could not get past the first 100 pages or so.
And I’m a medievalist!
I’m been reading a few books, but I’ve also been listening to a dramatization of Neal Donaldson’s ANATHEM. Not bad. A little odd, perhaps pretentious at times, but not bad as entertainment thus far.
I would highly recommend books by Sharon Kay Penman. I read “The Sunne in Splendour” while on vacation in Orlando. It was a tough call each day: WDW or Sunne?
I read the 900 page book in a week. I am now reading “While Christ & His Saints Slept,” which is actually the first book in the series... Sunne is the last, but you don’t need to read them in order for it to make sense.
That’s my book recommendation du jour.
Hmmm... I haven’t read anything extremely good lately, but I can at least warn you all to stay away from Stephenie Meyer (unless you’re into sickeningly-cute yet squeaky-clean teenage romance drivel) cause she can’t write her way out of a paper bag, and really stay away from Dan Brown because even if you don’t mind the Catholic-bashing in his books, he makes Meyer look like Shakespeare in comparison to his attempts at writing.
However, I am looking for good, preferably fiction, book recommendations, so fire away.
Those look intriguing.
If you want a real page turner, go with “Dr. Mary’s Monkey.” It’s the true story about the murder in New Orleans of Dr. Mary Sherman, a nationally renowned medical researcher. I am from N.O. and actually know/knew some of the people involved so I am prejudiced but, notwithstanding that, it is a terrific read. (BTW, I have no financial interest, directly or indirectly, in the book or this rec - wish I did.)
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