John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' is arguably my all time favorite book. However, for sheer enjoyment at turning each page, I'd have to go with 'BOY'S LIFE', by Robert McCammon. I read it once many years ago, and am now re-reading it once again. It's fairly massive and I'm midway through it's 608 pages. The writer works magic here and he effortlessly will transport you to being a 10 year old boy in 1964 and all the wonders of being a boy can offer. Absolutely a Summer read!
Quite a lovely read indeed. Such great writing.
I'm now on to Pandora's Star by Peter F Hamilton. Not sure yet what I think but it is a nice change from his previous trilogy that I finished (starting with The Reality Dysfunction and ending with The Naked God).
Excellent book once again by David Maraniss. Well researched and well written narrative. I've enjoyed his past works on Roberto Clemente and Vince Lombardi. A fascinating period in sports history as well as world history.
If you liked the movie "Gravity," you may want to read THE MARTIAN by Andy Weir. It is quite a survivalist story. It is pretty scientifically technical, but it was a thrill ride.
To BRM and Dan the Man: the next smartass political commentary you insert into a FSM thread will be your last. Do it again and you're banned for 30 days minimum. I am TIRED of you two running into threads and taking a dump in the corner as if nobody will notice. It's been going on far too long and my patience is at an end. KNOCK IT OFF.
Love the series and am sorry to see that it is ending, I still have 3 novels and the Night Prince spin-offs to read, and there is another one of those in the pipeline according to a recent posting on Facebook by Ms. Frost. There are also several short story/novellas out there featuring Cat and Bones which I need to read.
All of the above qualify as humorous genre type reading. The books by Carriger are a mash-up of Cyberpunk and urban fantasy with a dose of P.G. Wodehouse. The Bakkian Chronicles remind me of the Harold Shea series by L. Sprague DeCamp and Fletcherr Pratt.
Burnout at the speed of light. This is ultimately how I think of MJ. The strange thing is that he was a shining part of the feel-good landscape while it lasted. That spirit of optimism is gone.
If you haven't read the Toby Peters series and you like Golden Age Hollywood, give this series a try. Those are the first two in the series. The first has Peter trying to save Errol Flynn from blackmail, the second follows immediately after as Peters gets a call from Judy Garland that a Munchkin has been found dead on the set that was used in filming Wizard of Oz.
Burnout at the speed of light. This is ultimately how I think of MJ. The strange thing is that he was a shining part of the feel-good landscape while it lasted. That spirit of optimism is gone.
2 more from the recent backlog of recent reads that didn't get posted.
The absolute joyous insanity that is Terry Pratchett's Discworld series started with these two books. What a pleasure it was to re-read them after more years than I care to remember.
