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Hey, What Ya Reading??? A book???
Lynne:
Jess - when you get some time, post some of top fave Sci Fi reads - I haven't read much of it and wouldn't know where to start, but I'm always out of something to read. I *love* Douglas Adams, though - Hitchhiker's Guide should be required reading, IMO.
michaelflanagansf:
I hear people suggest Robert Crais a lot - I haven't read him yet, but I did put one of his books on a 'Summer Reading' table today.
Right now I'm reading Thomas Savage's 'Power of the Dog' and quite enjoying it. Terse narrative and at least on strange western character (Phil Burbank, one of the brothers who is at the center of the novel).
I'd like to read Orhan Pamuk's 'Snow' - I read 'My Name is Red' and liked that a lot (although the way the narrator switched from chapter to chapter was very confusing).
mvansand76:
I'm reading Bill Bryson's the Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid!!!!
Bill Bryson is my favorite writer. You cannot read his books in Public Transport, because you would make a fool out of yourself by laughing so hard and not being able to stop! LOL!
This book is about him growing up in Des Moines in the 50's. God, my boyfriend is so fed up with me now, I cannot stop laughing hysterically at it.
Has anyone ever read anything by Bill Bryson?
:)
Lynne:
--- Quote from: michaelflanagansf on July 15, 2007, 04:09:15 am ---I hear people suggest Robert Crais a lot - I haven't read him yet, but I did put one of his books on a 'Summer Reading' table today.
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Hey there, Michael!
If I were you, I'd start with LA Requiem or The Two Minute Rule. Crais has matured with age! I'll make a note of the others to add to my list...
-Lynne
southendmd:
Here's some great summer reading: Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin.
It's sort of an epilogue to the six, very popular Tales of the City books that he wrote in the 70s and 80s. (The first three were turned into TV miniseries with Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney.) The original stories were written in old-fashioned serial form in the San Francisco Chronicle, one little chapter a day, later compiled into books. I have a beat-up legal file full of clippings that would become Further Tales of the City.
I was fortunate to meet him at Harvard in the 80s and he signed my book "to Paul love, Armistead". :)
The story picks up almost twenty years since the last one, Sure of You. Michael is 55, has found new love with a younger man. Maupin works in all the other characters to a greater or lesser extent. Michael is dealing with the older and younger generations in his life. Hilarious and moving. I don't want it to end, because I fear it's necessarily the last one.
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