BOOKS THREAD

Finished Gillian Flynn's (Gone Girl) two other books; Dark Places and Sharp Objects.
I liked both better than GG.
I didn't care for the Dark Places solution. Too much of a stretch.
Sharp Objects was very good, dark and surprising.

Flynn has a knack for developing characters - leads - that are 1: Not good folks and 2: Not someone you want to root for. All the characters are flawed. And awful.

 

Kent Babb's Iverson book shipped today. Pretty excited about that.

That's all.

 

Move to Kansas and the leave that's gone with it has re-kindled my reading flame. Going to be doing a lot of fiction as well as sports stuff.
My current reading list (try not to laugh):
"All In: One Decision Can Change Your Entire Life" by Mark Batterson
"Star Wars" (the original book) by George Lucas
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (never finished the whole series) by J.K. Rowling
"Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight" by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
"Rules of Prey" by John Sandford
"Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

 

Rules of Prey is fantastic. OK, any Sandford book is fantastic.

 

The new Don Winslow book, The Cartel, came out today. I'll start reading it this afternoon on the train home.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/books/review-the-cartel-by-don-winslow-continues-a-drug-saga.html

 

Reading the Game of Thrones series. Tore through the first two books in 2 weeks, and I'm several hundred pages into the third book but life is getting in the way. Overall, very interesting story. I'd like to read them all before I watch the show.

 

Nick Offerman's Gumption is an enjoyable read, as is Colin Quinn's new book.

Reading Ian Frazier's Great Plains right now and it is tremendous.

 

"Cartel" is a sequel to "Power of the Dog," which was stunning in its breadth. All of Winslow's books save one ("Isle of Joy") are truly good. "Dawn Patrol" and "California Fire and Life" are especially good.

 

Just went back and read the Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy. An oldie but a goodie if you're a fantasy fan...

 

I read a ton and forget to come by this thread but the new Billy Martin bio by Bill Pennington is highly recommended.

 

Starting the Girl on The Train this week and Rhonda Rousey's My Fight/Our Fight

 

Pencil some show watching time in for 2030 then, as that may be when Martin's animated white walker corpse finishes the series.