We are all about the David Rosenfelt books these days. [link] Mysteries built around a lawyer, his girlfriend, a former police detective who is now a PI ,and his dog, Tara. Smart, funny as hell and really well-plotted. Everyone I know who has read them, loves them.
I got stupid. The money was too good.
Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Scrappy - Mar 11, 2011 7:46:19 am PST #14072 of 28287
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
le nubian - Mar 11, 2011 8:24:40 am PST #14073 of 28287
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Scrappy,
what an interesting recommendation. I'm always looking for new mystery books to read. Do you have a particular novel you recommended we start with? Should I start from the beginning?
Scrappy - Mar 11, 2011 8:29:45 am PST #14074 of 28287
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Start with the first one ("Open and Shut")and read in order, as they each definitely build on the previous book.
le nubian - Mar 11, 2011 8:33:19 am PST #14075 of 28287
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Okay, I downloaded a sample.
I need to leave the book I just started reading anyway because I don't like it.
sumi - Mar 11, 2011 11:36:29 am PST #14076 of 28287
Art Crawl!!!
Harper Collins blurb for A Dance with Dragons.
Polter-Cow - Mar 11, 2011 9:33:10 pm PST #14077 of 28287
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Allow me some vicarious excitement.
Late Eclipses is #32, making my friend Seanan McGuire officially a New York Times bestselling author!
le nubian - Mar 13, 2011 6:52:27 am PDT #14078 of 28287
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
We went to see a movie last night and I saw the trailer for Lincoln Lawyer based on the Michael Connelly book.
The full trailer spoiled the ENTIRE book. I could not believe it. There are scenes from the movie in the trailer that happen very late in the book.
sumi - Mar 14, 2011 6:18:01 am PDT #14079 of 28287
Art Crawl!!!
Contributers to Teeth talk about whether they'd like to be a vampire for a month. (And there are two videos at that link.)
§ ita § - Mar 14, 2011 2:50:56 pm PDT #14080 of 28287
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Are book genres being replaced by affinity clusters? An IO9 reprint.
Of a guy who's never heard of Barbara Cartland or Harold Robbins. And who misspells Gaiman and Rowling.
I, however, had not heard of George Simenon.
Amy - Mar 14, 2011 4:04:02 pm PDT #14081 of 28287
Because books.
I hadn't heard of Simenon, either.
I wonder how old (young) the author is that he had never heard of Cartland or Robbins.