Recently Finished

[Peder]

Therapy - Sebastian Fitzek. Incredibly complicated psychiatric thriller told in a rather flat style. Is that oxymoronic? Yes, but seems so.

 

[Abecedarius]

The Inheritance of Loss: Kiran Desai

 

[soonerthebetter]

Electric Barracuda, by Tim Dorsey.

Anyone read him? He's like Carl Hiassen on acid. His books feature a loveable serial killer called Serge Storms, who travels around Florida with this stoner sidekick, Coleman and gets mixed up with various drug dealers, mafiosos, developers and other lowlifes and usually ends up killing them in various creative ways.

 

[Peder]

The Big Bang - Joseph Silk. "The creation and evolution of the Universe."

Detailed and comprehensive (as of 1980). Superior beyond excellent, although there may be more up-to-date treatments by now that I am unaware of.

 

[Libra]

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

 

[Abecedarius]

Pale Fire - Nabokov
The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls

 

[Tai_Mai_Shu]

I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore -

I thought the movie was actually better than the book.

 

[brk_3]

The Lincoln Lawyer - Michael Connelly

 

[SFG75]

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

I concur! A wonderful read, definitely a great pick for the month of february. And to think, D. wasn't that bad of a guy!

 

[beer good]

The first volume of Mircea Cartarescu's Orbitor, which is absolutely astounding. A huge, messy, laser-guidedly sprawling autobiographical novel that shifts seamlessly from realistic depictions of growing up in communist Romania to Lovecraft-meets-Cronenbergian horror with enough physical themes to make Freud's head explode.

 

[753C]

Electric Barracuda, by Tim Dorsey.

Anyone read him? He's like Carl Hiassen on acid. His books feature a loveable serial killer called Serge Storms, who travels around Florida with this stoner sidekick, Coleman and gets mixed up with various drug dealers, mafiosos, developers and other lowlifes and usually ends up killing them in various creative ways.

Yup. Dorsey is always entertaining, and these books are hillarious and also (thanks to Serge) packed with interesting bits of Floridian trivia.

 

[scribeswindow]

The art of detection Laurie R King
The passage, Justine Cronin

 

[ricko]

The Passage is one of the best ghoul books I've read- I can't wait
for the second book. It was well written, especially for a first book.
Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

 

[eclair]

How Late It Was How Late - James Kelman. I don't usually fare well with Booker books, this was a delight. Stream of consciousness. Scottish dialect. Originality.

 

[shadforth]

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

 

[Polly Parrot]

Dame Siriþ, author unknown (written circa 1272-1283)

 

[beer good]

Jean Giono - Hill Of Destiny

One of those books that's probably better than I give it credit for if read in context. But as early ecological eschatology goes, it's fascinating and gets a lot done in 150 pages.

 

[Abecedarius]

Yellow Dog - Martin Amis

Horrible, really horrible. Amis just doesn't pull it off at all. A jumbled mess of irrelevant side plots and predictably "sexually charged" themes that have all been done to death already.

 

[Missyannlala]

D.H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover (sometimes beautiful, sometimes ridiculous)

This is one of those books that I always seem to be attempting to finish.

I read that you've recently finished Jane Eyre and given it 5 stars, I totally agree with your approval.
Can I ask what you liked about Jane Eyre? Favorite parts? Characters? Scenes?

 

[Tai_Mai_Shu]

The Relic by Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston