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BOOKS THREAD

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Moderator1, Apr 22, 2005.

  1. HC

    HC Well-Known Member

    I enjoyed Steve Martin's "Shopgirl" very much. He also wrote a play called "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" which has been produced a number of times.
     
  2. OTD

    OTD Well-Known Member

    Just cleaned out my bookshelves to send some stuff to the church rummage sale. All of the Grisham legal books except The Firm and A Time to Kill went. Those two, especially Time to Kill, are pretty good. The rest all kind of run together for me.
     
  3. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    Fife, I read a Cornwell book last year — 'The Isle of Dogs' — and absolutely hated it.
     
  4. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    Her first three books were pretty good. Not great but enjoyable and they showed some promise.

    Then she got like $25 mil for three books and become unreadable. Started mailing it in. She wrote a couple outside her Scarpetta series that were just plain fucking awful. A friend nicknamed her Cornball.

    I've stopped reading her drivel. Too much good stuff out there to waste time.

    Grisham, at least, seems to have recovered from the "I'm a big time author now so quality doesn't matter" blues. His last few have been pretty good. But not as good as A Time to Kill.
     
  5. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    I have a Cornwell nonfiction that I haven't read yet. I'm interested in the Jack the Ripper case (I'm not a serious buff, but I've read abit about it), so my father got me Cornwell's 'Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper — Case Closed.'
    My father handed me the book last year and said 'Case closed? Kind of an arrogant title, isn't it?'
     
  6. Bill Horton

    Bill Horton Active Member

    sort of like the people who post an opinion on SportsJournalists.com and follow it with "end of thread?"
     
  7. Ledbetter

    Ledbetter Active Member

    I read a couple of books while on vacation, Ugly Americans and In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat.

    Ugly Americans is about the Ivy League guys who made millions playing the Japanese stock market. It was written by the same guy, Ben Mezrich, who wrote Bringing Down the House, the story of six M.I.T. students who made a fortune counting cards in Vegas. Ugly Americans was interesting, especially for those interested in investing, but I felt like there were a bunch of holes in the story.

    In the Company of Soldiers, by Pulitzer winner Rick Atkinson, chronicles the months he spent covering the war in Iraq for the Washington Post. Specifically, he was covering Major General David Petraeus. This was a lot different from Generation Kill, which I loved, but very interesting and entertaining.

    In a used bookstore in San Francisco I found the 1994 BASW, which I'm currently enjoying.
     
  8. n8wilk

    n8wilk Guest

    I just got a 25% off coupon at Borders and was thinking of getting Hornby's "A Long Way Down." I've seen nothing but good reviews so far but I was interested in hearing some of your opinions. Thanks in advance and don't give away too much, save that for the Book Club thread.
     
  9. NDub

    NDub Guest

    Wow, this thread is huge. Honestly, I haven't looked through all of it, so I'm not sure if this is a second or third or whatever to a book.

    I'm reading "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror" by Richard A. Clarke and it is very interesting. It is just as the title reads, its Clarke's experience with America's war on terror for the past 20 years. If you want to know some inside stuff about the war and the way things were handled before 9/11, then read this. Its like the 9/11 Commission report, but not as confusing.
     
  10. three_bags_full

    three_bags_full Well-Known Member

    I have a copy of the 9/11 report, but haven't delved into it, yet.

    If you're into that stuff, read "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War On America."

    It's a pretty good insight into his mind and operations.
     
  11. NDub

    NDub Guest

    Actually, I find it quite interesting to read books like this.

    Thanks for the title.

    By the way, the 9/11 Commission report is very detailed and requires a long attention span. Ha. For real, I'm about a 1/3 of the way done and had to take a break for a while because it is a lot of information to take in. However, I do suggest in reading it. I think every citizen who wishes to be informed should.
     
  12. FuerteJ

    FuerteJ Active Member

    So is the 9/11 report something very interesting to read or do you have to be really interested in the subject to find the book interesting?

    Also, I'll second or third or fouth what's been said about A Time to Kill. By far the book that I most enjoy by Grisham. It was probably the first book like it (law-type thriller) that i was able to just blow through in like 3 days.
     
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