Jimmy Neutron Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 (edited) Finishing up A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - one of my wife's favorites. Decent writing - total girl book. I have a bunch coming from Amazon - Christmas early. Some new (to me) authors I'm checking out are Larry Brown and Gabriel Garcia Vasquez. Also some stuff coming from one Benjamin Franklin. One I'm not sure of - Thomas Pynchon's Gravities Rainbow. Edited July 1, 2010 by Jimmy Neutron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebellab Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 Finished the Big Short by Michael Lewis. Interesting to say the least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Cid Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 Norton performs very well here in Missouri. It only survived prohibition in Missouri, we killed it off here in VA. Prior to prohibition Missouri was the number 1 wine producing state thanks in a large part to the Norton grape. There is also another name for it, it is sometimes called Cynthiana. They thought this might be a second species but genetic testing has shown that it is identical to the Norton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiley Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 It only survived prohibition in Missouri, we killed it off here in VA. Prior to prohibition Missouri was the number 1 wine producing state thanks in a large part to the Norton grape. There is also another name for it, it is sometimes called Cynthiana. They thought this might be a second species but genetic testing has shown that it is identical to the Norton. Yeah, I've had cynthiana. Has a little tart / bite on the back end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiley Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 Rollins announced that Devils Colony is being pushed back to 2011. He'll have 3 books out that year and the Sigma concept has been opted for a script with a totally new storyline that won't follow any of the books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaP'N GRuNGe Posted July 6, 2010 Author Share Posted July 6, 2010 (edited) Rollins announced that Devils Colony is being pushed back to 2011. He'll have 3 books out that year and the Sigma concept has been opted for a script with a totally new storyline that won't follow any of the books. Yeah, I saw the movie deal. Hope it works out. Just finished Deep Fathom and really enjoyed it. I could have seen him using that crew for a series as well. (Though Lisa does show up later in the Sigma books.) Going to do Mount Dragon by Preston & Child next. Edited July 7, 2010 by CaP'N GRuNGe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Neutron Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 Re-read Of Mice and Men and read Cannery Row. Both easy reads that lean toward brilliant. Love Steinbeck. Read my first Larry Brown book this week - Big Bad Love. Interesting, there is probably more there than I got out of it. Brown writes about lowly figures with great compassion. Now working through Vasquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splotchman Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 The Girl with the Dragoo Tatoo - Stieg Larrson The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larrson The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larrson The World to Come - Dara Horn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil_gop_liars Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driveby Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 Do you usually read one book at a time all the way through or jump around? Lately I find myself reading a book for a chapter or two and then losing interest for a bit and picking up a second or even third book before finishing the first one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDFFFreak Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 The Girl with the Dragoo Tatoo - Stieg LarrsonThe Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larrson The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larrson The World to Come - Dara Horn I'm surprised that this was the first mention of this series in this thread. I read the first two last December and was totally hooked once I got through the first 150 pages of the first book. To read the description of the books, they sound like nothing special, but they really suck you in for a quick read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Neutron Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 The Girl with the Dragoo Tatoo - Stieg Larrson Picked this up this week - it is off to a good start. Also read Anthony Bourdain's Medium Raw - loved it. If you like his commentary on No Reservations, you'll like the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yo mama Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 Just finished "Phantom of the Opera." The opera loses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myhousekey Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 Finally getting around to reading Youth in Revolt (been on my list for about 15 years now..). Pretty funny so far. Also just picked up Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FWmaker Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 Reading Under the Dome by Stephen King. Much, much better than my last read of his - The Regulators. Funny, The Regulators was the companion book to Desperation. Desperation was a far better work, imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vote Quimby2 Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Been reading the Passage by Justin Cronin. About 500 pages in and I've been enjoying it. It's like the Road, if the Road was more fun to read, with vampires mixed in. Fortunately, these vampires don't talk about their emotions they just mess you up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSSteve Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Our Sacred Honor - William J. Bennett Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown The Power of Body Language - Tonya Reiman The Quaran I like the kindle and iPad kindle app and get as many books as I can that way. I've found them to be less expensive and easier to deal with once you are accustomed to the function of the devices. I'm reading the Quaran so I can try and make some sense of what's happening in our world these days. I'll probably have to go through it more than once but so far it's a really "peaceful" book...I don't agree with everything, but it's peaceful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSSteve Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Re-read Of Mice and Men and read Cannery Row. Both easy reads that lean toward brilliant. Love Steinbeck. Read my first Larry Brown book this week - Big Bad Love. Interesting, there is probably more there than I got out of it. Brown writes about lowly figures with great compassion. Now working through Vasquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. You'll love 100 years..., it's fabulous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Neutron Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Larry Brown - Father and Son - early on, but great so far... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yo mama Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Just finished "Phantom of the Opera." The opera loses. Now reading a compilation of novellas by Henry James. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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