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Good books to read this summer

  • Anyone on here read?
    I always read a few good books over the summer. I am just starting the new Michael Connolly-'The Drop'.( the movie 'The Lincoln Lawyer', with M. McConahay was a book by Connolly. So was 'Blood Work' with C. Eastwood) He's one of my favs.
    I also have a new one by Lee Child, and Harlan Coben. I love James Lee Burke, but I am afraid he is done with the Robicheaux series.

    Anyone have any suggestions for good one's?

    PS, I know I should read T. Haney's book on our baseball NC's.

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  • do you only read contemporary fiction like that? how do you feel about sci fi, fantasy, historical fiction, documentaries, etc?

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  • steve miller said...

    Anyone on here read? I always read a few good books over the summer. I am just starting the new Michael Connolly-'The Drop'.( the movie 'The Lincoln Lawyer', with M. McConahay was a book by Connolly. So was 'Blood Work' with C. Eastwood) He's one of my favs. I also have a new one by Lee Child, and Harlan Coben. I love James Lee Burke, but I am afraid he is done with the Robicheaux series.

    Anyone have any suggestions for good one's?

    PS, I know I should read T. Haney's book on our baseball NC's.

    If you like spy/police/terroist type novels look up Nelson Demille. Read the John Corey series (NYPD guy wounded in line is retired and turns anti-terrorist task agent). I've read... well more correctly listend to about 5 other novels by him and they're all pretty good. I just finished Goldcoast which is interesting. This guy wrote the novel "The General's Daughter" from which the movie sprang. The movie IMO sucked. The book however was good. Audbile.com is great if you travel a lot.

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  • If you are into fantasy, I'd suggest George Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. It is the basis for the show Game of Thrones. Very good and the five books will take a bit of time to go through.

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  • Wind through the Keyhole comes out soon. Stephen King's latest addition to the Dark Tower series.

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  • Historical fiction is entertaining to me. I'm working my way through one right now. American Tabloid by James Ellroy (wrote LA Confidential and Black Dahlia).

    It's set from the late 50's through the 60's combining JFK, RFK, J Edgar, Howard Hughes, The Mafia, and Cuba with the rise of Castro. The story follows the lives of 3 fictional characters (CIA, FBI and a mercenary) and the crime, power and corruption they face or induce.

    It's based on some of the most interesting subject matter of our history to me. Ellroy's writing style can be somewhat awkward and can take a little while to get used to but it's intriguing.

    As far as new best seller authors, I think Vince Flynn has some good stuff with his Mitch Rapp character.

    Also, another good book in the drama/thriller category is The Quiet Game by Greg Iles. You'd have to do some hunting to find it in hard back but it's at every book store in paperback. Quiet Game is based in Mississippi and is about an attorney turned author investigating a civil rights era death in Natchez, Mississippi. I thought it was quite good.

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  • SwanseaGCOCK said...

    If you like spy/police/terroist type novels look up Nelson Demille. Read the John Corey series (NYPD guy wounded in line is retired and turns anti-terrorist task agent). I've read... well more correctly listend to about 5 other novels by him and they're all pretty good. I just finished Goldcoast which is interesting. This guy wrote the novel "The General's Daughter" from which the movie sprang. The movie IMO sucked. The book however was good. Audbile.com is great if you travel a lot.

    I also like Demille's books. I've read a lot of them.

    The John Corey books are entertaining. I like his sarcasm and disdain for standard operating procedure. Plum Island, The Lions Game Nightfall, Wild Fire are the ones I've read and they are all good books. I liked nightfall the best though simply because it dealt with a real historical event.

    The Gold Coast was a great great book. More of a drama than his typical thriller/action books. It's his more moden take on the romanticized era of the Great Gatsby.

    The Charm School was good. It certainly peaked my interest Soviet era Russia.

    Up Country was also good. Very long and detailed but its a mystery following an Army detective of sorts sent back to Vietnam to investigate a war crime.

    His books are lengthy but very well researched and he definitely let's you know it. He gets long winded in his descriptive parts. But, there is no denying that after I read them, I had to exhaust all info on the various settings and subject matter.

    I'd go, of the ones I've read:

    Gold Coast
    NightFall
    Up Country
    Wild Fire
    Charm School
    Plum Island/Lions Game

    I've got Word of Honor downloaded on my phone but have too many other books to get through first before I get to that one.

    Goodreads.com is a good website for searching books and authors and reading reviews/write ups on just about all boosts. Kind of like a poor man's IMDB website.

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  • Just finished Ken Follett's "Fall of Giants," the first novel in his trilogy on the 20th Century. Not great literature, but an entertaining read, and I learned a couple of things.

    My favorite two novels within the past year are "Matterhorn," by Kieth Marlantis, about a Marine platoon in Vietnam in early 1969, and "Doc," by Mary Doria Russell, about Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers in Dodge City.

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  • I enjoy Neal Stephenson, particularly Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash. More recent from him include Anathem and Reamde, as well as a trilogy called The Baroque Cycle.

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  • For you Celts: "How the Scots Invented the Modern world" by Arthur Herman

    History Buffs; "A History of the American People" by the British author Paul Johnson

    An historical glance at a current serious world problem:" Worlds at War" discussing the 2500 year struggle between East and West by Anthony Padgen.

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  • BCSCock said...

    For you Celts: "How the Scots Invented the Modern world" by Arthur Herman

    I'll have to check that out.

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  • jshusc said...

    Wind through the Keyhole comes out soon. Stephen King's latest addition to the Dark Tower series.

    That sounds like a good adult movie.

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  • jshusc said...

    Wind through the Keyhole comes out soon. Stephen King's latest addition to the Dark Tower series.

    This makes me excited.

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    This makes me excited.

    Yep. Takes place after the Wizards and Glass before he chases the man in black. W&G was the best of the series IMO, so I'm excited for this.

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  • 11/22/63 by Stephen King is an excellent fictional take on the JFK assassination. Long book but a smooth read that I couldn't put down.

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  • If you havent read them, read the Girl W/ the Dragon tattoo trilogy.

    I'm about to start reading "Merle's Door" which i hear is excellent.

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  • steve miller said...

    Anyone on here read?
    I always read a few good books over the summer. I am just starting the new Michael Connolly-'The Drop'.( the movie 'The Lincoln Lawyer', with M. McConahay was a book by Connolly. So was 'Blood Work' with C. Eastwood) He's one of my favs.
    I also have a new one by Lee Child, and Harlan Coben. I love James Lee Burke, but I am afraid he is done with the Robicheaux series.

    Anyone have any suggestions for good one's?

    PS, I know I should read T. Haney's book on our baseball NC's.

    Locked On by Tom Clancy.hard core action from start to finish.The whole Lincoln Lawyer series is great.

    COCKADOC

  • Jefferson/Bass books are good reads. I just knocked out Hunger Games over the weekend. Thought it was worth the $.

    jdab08

  • I'm going to rip through the Harry Potter series this summer.

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  • ceece said...

    As far as new best seller authors, I think Vince Flynn has some good stuff with his Mitch Rapp character.

    That's always my first suggestion to anyone. I've read all of Flynn's books at least twice (his newest ones are prequels and the last two times, they've made me want to read his stuff chronologically, and it was just as good when read again).

    I've read some Nelson Demille too and enjoyed it. I also recently finished an interesting autobiography called American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in US Military History.

    And if you're into some more cerebral (some will read as "boring") along the lines of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (different, but just as cerebral), read some of Ken Wilber's books. They're very interesting to me. His best is probably A Brief History of Everything, though he has several good ones.

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  • The Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn is really good. Along the lines to Clancy's early work like Red October. Good stuff!

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  • ceece said...

    Historical fiction is entertaining to me. I'm working my way through one right now. American Tabloid by James Ellroy (wrote LA Confidential and Black Dahlia).

    It's set from the late 50's through the 60's combining JFK, RFK, J Edgar, Howard Hughes, The Mafia, and Cuba with the rise of Castro. The story follows the lives of 3 fictional characters (CIA, FBI and a mercenary) and the crime, power and corruption they face or induce.

    It's based on some of the most interesting subject matter of our history to me. Ellroy's writing style can be somewhat awkward and can take a little while to get used to but it's intriguing.

    As far as new best seller authors, I think Vince Flynn has some good stuff with his Mitch Rapp character.

    Also, another good book in the drama/thriller category is The Quiet Game by Greg Iles. You'd have to do some hunting to find it in hard back but it's at every book store in paperback. Quiet Game is based in Mississippi and is about an attorney turned author investigating a civil rights era death in Natchez, Mississippi. I thought it was quite good.

    I have read all the Greg Isles books, he is very good. He writes at his own pace, though.

    I also like Stephen Hunter. The movie 'Shooter', with Mark Wahlberg was based off of a book of his.

    This post was edited by steve miller on 4/23/2012 at 2:33 PM

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  • COCKADOC said...

    Locked On by Tom Clancy.hard core action from start to finish.The whole Lincoln Lawyer series is great.

    I've been wanting to pick that up. Is it following the Jack Ryan line (I think it was his son in the recent ones)? I'd read all of the 80's/90's Jack Ryan novels and they were my favorite until Vince Flynn came along. I was wondering if Locked On was going to be worth it since his books have been so few and far between lately.

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