Posted on 11/05/2011 6:59:21 PM PDT by EveningStar
No, no, no..........I was not offended at all by your post. It when you express something in a nice way & someone doesn’t respond that it seems really rude.
Also, you cleared up the F——ing Flowers thing & now I am laughing & feel stupid! Now I have more books to put on my list.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Wow. Bob Lee Swagger. Or his father, Earl Swagger (i'd truly like to see "Hot Springs" as a movie).
Who would you cast in the roll of either Bob "The Nailer" or Earl Swagger?
God, good parents and teachers, and a lot of practice blessed me with the ability to read quickly and a burning desire to read.
I go through three or four books a week.
I read a lot of nonfiction as well as fiction and I don't mean to be presumptuous, but if gave me an idea of some authors you enjoy, or genres, I may have some suggestions.
I love the feel of real books (as Mrs. Scoutmaster would say, "unfortunately," as she counts the number of bookshelves and bankers' boxes in the basement), and I'll reread a good book. I had to live out of two five days a week for a client one, for an extended period. The small town had only a Books-a-Million. I'd drive in on Sunday afternoon and buy my books for the week. At the end of that first year, I was surprised to receive a personal letter from the President of Books-a-Million, telling me I was a Gold Millionaire's Club member - one of the 100 individuals who bought the most books from BAM during the year.
Not only did I receive a fancy card, but I received something like an additional 20% off all books in the store (above and beyond the best-seller rates, and the 10% for being a BAM member, and the President's pick discounts), and a free pound of Joe Muggs coffee each month. And whenever I checked out of a BAM store, my card would register an alert. The cashier would genuflect, the manager would be called . . . I'd be asked if I wanted a pastry, staff members would come to say hello . . . I'd be given free copies of remaindered books and we'd all have a Gold Millionaire's party.
Unfortunately, that only lasted for a year. But I'm still in the computer as a former member. I rarely to to a BAM (they're in small towns), but if I do, the manager is still alerted the moment I give them my name and phone number to receive my regular discount. I'm . . . BAM royalty.
I actually started in the middle of the Child novels....quite by accident....and have started collecting the others.
Now that’s impressive, LOL!
My husband wanted to buy a Kindle, but I'd rather go to the bookstore and pick out the book and just have the pleasure of the bookstore experience.
That’s a great question. I am not much in tune with who the younger actors are these days...it might have to be somebody currently ‘unknown’.
I’m sure you’ll agree - Stephen Hunter’s books are superb.
A good book if you like historical novels with Holocaust-related themes. Two different viewpoints and it looks at a occupied France, which is a nice angle. A little sad, but I think a worthy read in that genre.
I understand "the bookstore experience." They also need to make a Nook that smells like a hardcover book, that has pages and the heft of a hardcover book, and that gives the same rush when you first open the cover.
I agree. I thought The Affair may have been Lee Child's best. Maybe it was simply so satisfying because it answered so many long-unanswered questions in believable ways.
Do you like Randy Wayne White and his Marion"Doc" Ford series? What about Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child and the Aloysius Pendergast series (although the last few "revenge my wife" books have fallen off, and Cold Vengeance completely flipped the genre from "Pendergast knows the obscure/the evil is slightly eerie" to a "Pendergast is a Clive Cutler character (ack!)/the evil is of this world")?
The Doc Ford Series is one of my favorites. Well-written with full characters and often subtle in touch. The first 10 or so I highly recommend to all our customers. Night Vision, the latest one, however, was awful.
The Preston/Child Pendergast series had its moments (Still Life with Crows being a favorite), but I lost a bit of interest in the last 2. Indeed, Pendergast lost his veneer of mysterious agent and went boilerplate. I’ll give it one more shot.
I still go back to John D. MacDonald for some great Florida reading. Also, I recommend a look at the James Rollins Sigma Force novels. Pretty good action/adventure/mysterious happenings books.
They are. When you get past the Swaggers (although there's a link), Dirty White Boys is a good read.
Of the Swagger family books, I was disappointed in "Night of Thunder" - the killer who used the car on narrow roads. It just didn't seem to fit with the Swagger family chronicles (except that, once you harm Bob The Nailer's daughter, you can expect Bob won't just turn the other cheek).
But who would play Bob? Tall, thin, weathered, slit-eyed, completely placid and slow moving unless absolutely speed is necessary, a man of no wasted motion or words who talks and looks like he came from Blue Eye, Polk County, Arkansas.
You can put him in a tux on a yacht and he looks like a master sniper from Blue Eye, without saying a word.
If you enjoy “smart-alecky detective books” as I call them, I like Robert Crais’ Elvis Cole novels. It has a Hollywood/LA setting with plenty of wise-cracking and a silent sidekick. No Susan though.
Sanford just flat pisses me off. Ultralib, smug a$$hole with the bland assumption that the police are there to shield him from the politically undesirable.
One of the most glaring things I read of his is where some "bad guy" is barricaded in a hospital room. The "good guy" has a police sniper hiding behind a towel cart in a corridor a few feet away and behind from the good guy. The sniper fires. The good guy then proceeds to carry on a normal conversation, instead of rolling around on the floor in agony, making wheepling noises, from his almost burst eardrums...
Sanford is the kind of twobit Liberal bumrammer that gives a revolver a safety catch , for his hero to play with when he's nervous.
Well, I remember the days before Susan Silverman . . . the woman in advertising in the window across the street. I remember when Susan was a guidance counselor at a private high school where Spenser was 'sleuthing.' In the days before Pearl I.
I guess that dates me.
I even remember when Hawk and Spenser met, when Hawk was trying to kill Spenser.
That's back in the days when every Robert B. Parker character was introduced with a brief description of what they were wearing . . . and in those days, it often included a white belt and a maroon leisure suit. He carried on that tradition, but it was a crutch for him with his early writing.
I'll give Robert Crais a shot.
Does it seem to you as if we've been crossing posts quite often lately?
Thanks!
...I thought I would need to find the first Child book to get the whole 'backgound story' of why he was such a loner....(which I intend to read anyway)
..so I guess The Affair is a prequel, eh.
Yep, if you read Killing Floor first it doesn’t really have any in-depth background into why Reacher is who he is...the Affair gives the whole story...
If I recall you were perturbed about the trashing of the Cain accusing women as I was. It’s a disturbing trend on FR recently...
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