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[hammerhedd11]

No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

 

[Victarion]

The Sellswords, Book II: Promise of the Witch-King by R.A. Salvatore.

The Sellswords should be a duology; Servant of the Shard has no connection to Book II or III aside from the protagonists. SOTS worked better as the third volume in the Paths of Darkness storyline.

 

[Bruce Banner]

Portions From A Wine-Stained Notebook- Charles Bukowski

 

[moviedoors]

Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

It was alright. Didn't really inspire much enthusiasm but it was a damn sight better than The Wheel of Darkness.

Brimstone by Robert B Parker

Why did Parker have to die? I need more than four books worth of Cole and Hitch stories.

 

[ChickenScratch]

Morrell - First Blood.

 

[GoblinWhirlwind]

Apocalypse of the Dead - Joe McKinney

 

[hammerhedd11]

Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

The Final Solution by Michael Chabon

 

[nite-owl]

Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

 

[El Bastardo]

The Sellswords, Book II: Promise of the Witch-King by R.A. Salvatore.

The Sellswords should be a duology; Servant of the Shard has no connection to Book II or III aside from the protagonists. SOTS worked better as the third volume in the Paths of Darkness storyline.

Yeah. I found it odd that they retroactively did that, especially since it seems to have been done for no better reason than to make everything into trilogies.

Add to it that they never re-released it as a hardcover, so I have this sucky and beat-up paperback right in the middle of them.

Anyway.

Cursor's Fury, by Jim Butcher.

Again I state: any fan of fantasy should read Butcher's Codex Alera series.

 

[Yodaman]

Dragongirl by Todd McCaffrey

 

[moviedoors]

Cold Vengeance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Not bad. I think I've more or less outgrown this series, but I can't resist seeing what Pendergast gets into next.

Blasphemy by Douglas Preston

Ambitious, but awful. Paper thin characters, mustache twirling villains, contrived, predictable plot. Pretty dreadful stuff.

 

[childeroland]

Caesar: Life of a Colossus, by Adrian Goldsworthy

 

[Scarecrow_King]

JD Salinger's collected 9 Stories.

 

[Victarion]

I'm holding off on Cold Vengeance until the end of my Fall semester, but Fever Dream surprised me. The dustjacket blurb led me to think the authors were struggling for plotlines to use with Penderghast, but I actually enjoyed it quite a bit.

 

[Max J Power]

The Final Solution by Michael Chabon

I love Chabon.

 

[Draculea]

"Vlad: Dracula's last confession", and "The Art of 300".

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

I love Chabon.

He is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors, after having read only two books from him (the other book was The Yiddish Policemen's Union). I've been planning to read his Pulitzer prize-winning book The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay for a long time, so I'll definitely read that one next.

 

[Max J Power]

Kavalier & Clay is incredible. One of the best reading experiences of my life. The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a masterpiece too. Gentlemen of the Road is really good too, even though it didn't floor me like those two.

 

[Scourge2099]

Art of War by Sun Tzu.

 

[moviedoors]

I'm holding off on Cold Vengeance until the end of my Fall semester, but Fever Dream surprised me. The dustjacket blurb led me to think the authors were struggling for plotlines to use with Penderghast, but I actually enjoyed it quite a bit.

Fever Dream was a return to form. Dense plotting, intense detective work, great locations oozing with atmosphere. It hit all the check marks for a Pendergast novel without the "been there, done that" feel of the last few.

 

[squeekness]

Hannibal ~ Thomas Harris

 

[BobJM]

Protect and Defend - Vince Flynn

 

[Yodaman]

The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England edited by Nigel Saul

 

[Captain_BluTac]

Gypsy Boy by Mikey Walsh. By far the best autobiography I have ever read, I ended up reading the whole thing in pretty much one sitting. I honestly cannot quantify just how brilliant book this is.