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Our Kind of Traitor - John LeCarré. The master at work again. Suspenseful to the end and definitely worth it.
 
A letter of Mary, Laurie R King :star4:
Shakespeare's christmas, Charlaine Harris :star3: I love a cozy mystery and I'm glad someone recommended this author on BAR. Will be reading others.
 
Faces of the Gone by Brad Parks - very good debut and very funny book. :star4:

Void Moon by Michael Connelly - another winner from Connelly and very good even without Harry Bosch.:star5:
 
ricko said:
How was the last patriot ?
ricko
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Scot Harvath and a handful of people who didn't believe the lie that Islam is a religion of peace and that it doesn't want to dominate every nation that it is in like a cancer.

Yeah, it was an apocalyptic nightmare that would have given Glen Beck a warm tingle.
 
Cleopatra, A Life by Stacy Schiff

Although I found it a slow starter, Cleopatra is certainly well worth reading. Schiff weighs all the reports given of Cleopatra, not an easy task considering they were all written by her enemies.
 
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis. Wasted lives, wasted early, in and around Hollywood and Beverly Hills.
 
Andrez said:
Nice one! Re-read that again last year. Impressions?
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Andresz, It was believable and unbelievable at the same time. I lived in Los Angeles for a while, and the locales and landmarks in Less Than Zero sound completely authentic and believable. And, within the stretch of fiction, I might imagine the lives of (some) wealthy parents being pretty much as described in the book, especially when viewed though a teenager's eyes. But to imagine young people so completely aimless and wasted in realiity was very hard to imagine and relate to personally. Of course, I've seen people, young and old, who are "out of it" as a result of drug or alcohol abuse, but the depiction of a total youth culture hacking around and doing nothing but obliterate itself was very hard to accept. Such a waste, if so.

So I would say the book had a very powerful and convincing writing style, which the author maintained thoughout the book, and a "plot" which mirrored the aimless lives, but which ultimately left me shaking my head somewhat incredulous.

I'll get around to reading The Rules of Attraction sometime -- it is already on my shelf -- and then we'll see what.

Your thoughts? :flowers:
 
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