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Sep 4, 2009 - 10:28 PM |
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So far this year I have read 96 books and tomorrow I will finish number 97. So I will take this moment in time to list a few books I have read so far this year that I found interesting in one way or another, good or bad.
Baal by Robert McCammon
This is McCammon’s first book. And you would think with a title like Baal, it would be about Baal, but no, Baal is more of a secondary character as the book focuses more on man chasing after him. Not a bad book, but not a great book. One of his first 4 books he won’t allow back into publication.
The Watcher in the Woods by Florence Engel Randall
If this book had cost me more than a penny (not counting shipping costs) then I would be really angry for wasting my time on this book. I know that when books are made into movies more often than not, changes big and small are made, but this book was nothing like I remember the movie to be.
The Deep Blue Good-by by John D. MacDonald
This is the second book I have read by MacDonald, the first was Cape Fear aka The Executioners back in 2001. Forget the 8 year gap, I never considered reading MacDonald because it never occurred to me. But a friend owns a shop down the road and she had three Travis McGee books so I figured I would give it a go since I hear great things about it. Of course the books she had were not the start and I had to buy the first book elsewhere and will have to get the rest because the used bookstore I like has had only one MacDonald book each of the last two times I visited.
Anyways, very good story, McGee is like James Bond, but better.
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
This is not a book for people who are easily offened. Lamb is a funny take on Jesus and his life, and completely far fetched, but hey, who’s to say what Jesus, sorry, Joshua really did between life and death.
Grave Descend by John Lange
John Lange is a pseudonym of the late Michael Crichton, he used back in the 60’s and 70’s. Like Zero Cool, Grave Descend were re-released as part of the Hard Case Crime, and both are adventure-type books, and both fun reads.
Confessions of a Teen Sleuth & Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
Two completely different types of books. Teen Sleuth is suppose to be a funny parody that I found amusing in some parts, but altogether was just a good read. Heartsick was just as good, and has a really sick and evil girl as the bad guy, and she’s in prison the whole book, her evil is told though flashbacks.
The Cabinet of Curiousities by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
The third book in the Special Agent Pendergast series and the first to have Pendergast as the main character. The first book Relic and the second Reliquary Pendergast was secondary. Each book has been better than the one before and ‘The Cabinet of Curiousities’ doesn’t just offer a new story for the characters to show up in but flesh them out even more. Pendergast is not just an FBI agent, but an enigma even to his friends because the more they know about him, the more that realize they don’t know.
The Vanished Man by Jeffery Deaver
Fifth book in the Lincoln Rhyme/Ameila Sachs series and again one of those series that gets better with each book. Book is about Magic, the showbiz kind.
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