BOOKS THREAD

Read Killing Pablo a couple months ago. It's a great read. Bowden did a hell of a job reporting and writing it.

 

Right now, I'm reading Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project. Fascinating stuff.

 

Bowden's beyond golden in everything I've ever read by him. There's a History Channel documentary on Escobar that uses Bowden and his info throughout.

To advance things, just finished reading "Mockingbird", the Harper Lee biography by Charles Shields. Very good. Helps to have read Capote's "In Cold Blood," as you'd expect, but the biography was a very good read.

 

Just a couple of chapters in with Pablo, but I really enjoyed Black Hawk Down.

 

Bookmarks Magazine has compiled a list of book lists from 2008: http://www.bookmarksmagazine.com/taxonomy/term/696,736

Also, I just finished reading Three Cups of Tea. Such a great book, highly recommended.

 

I just finished Very Strange Bedfellows by Jules Witcover, which was about the relationship between Nixon and Agnew. Despite not being that long (350+ pages), it really dragged in parts. It started well and some of the stories about Nixon's infatuation with Big Jawn Connolly were good, but it felt really stretched out. It could have been a very good 200 page book.

 

Sirs, Madames,

Can't recommend Joseph O'Neill's Netherland highly enough. Struggling to get through Sentimental Education.

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Reading Roth's "Indignation" now. Surprisingly, Phil's struggling to keep my attention.

Richard Price's "Lush Life" is next on my list.

 

Halfway through Wally Lamb's "The Hour I First Believed" and loving it. Man has written only 3 novels and hits a home run everytime.

 

I can echo this.

 

Been eyeing this for a few weeks, FOF-less. Really looking forward to it, and will probably not be able to wait to see if someone gets it for me for X-mas.

 

I received Cormac McCarthy's The Road for Christmas and just started it. I like the genre, so I assume I will like this one.

This one reads much different then his other books. Much choppier writing and less Faulkner like, so I feel I can actually take a breath while reading it.