BOOKS THREAD

[Herbert Anchovy]

Not crazy about the tone -- awkward exclamations mar the narrative in spots -- but Cokie Roberts' Founding Mothers is a decent read. It's a good idea that has much more room for exposition.

 

[Huggy]

I finished "Searching for Bobby Orr" this weekend.

It's among the five best books I've read.

Looking forward to reading that. I think Brunt's the best sports columnist up here but his books are very good too.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Just about finished Michael Lewis' new book "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game." It is a great read.

 

[Del_B_Vista]

1) I can't imagine growing up Augusten Burroughs after reading his memoir, "Running with Scissors." Pedophilia, child neglect and flat-out bizarre -- actual non-existent -- childrearing strategies lead to a bunch of interesting anecdotes in a really good read.
2) I can't imagine what the movie is going to be like. There are some huge names in it, and I don't know how half of it will make it on the big screen. It's going to be coming out later this month.

 

[Bolo]

I finished Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" last night.

Not his best work, but damn good. Nobody says more with fewer words than McCarthy.

 

[D-3 Fan]

I tend to shy away from the best sellers and talk-about novels and veer towards lesser-known finds.

Currently, I'm reading "The Celebrity" by Robert Elmer. It's about a pop singer who becomes disillusioned about his celebrity life and on the heels of his mother's death, he "escapes" to his mother's hometown to intern her ashes and assumes a new name and starts living a nomadic life. He meets and fall in love with his new boss' daughter, who also comes home, after suffering a serious head injury after a drunken driver slams into her car.

Mainly, it's about second chances in life.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

EL Doctorow's The March has had me up late three nights running now.

 

[Huggy]

Wrapped up Michael's Connelly's The Lincoln Lawyer the other day. Terrific stuff. Got The Closers on deck after I finish Lifeless, a thriller a friend of mine passed on by a British writer named Mark Billingham about a killer targeting the homeless in London. Highly recommended to fans of the genre.

 

[Duane Postum]

Finishing up Ron Suskind's The One Percent Doctrine (superb), to be followed by Woodward's latest and Frank Rich's Greatest Story Ever Sold. Any other recommendations along these lines? Fiasco? Hubris? Any other essentials I'm missing?

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Hubris is better written, but Fiasco's got some really good stuff on how utterly pissed off the professional military is.

 

[Duane Postum]

Hubris is better written, but Fiasco's got some really good stuff on how utterly pissed off the professional military is.

Thanks!

 

[Birdscribe]

EL Doctorow's The March has had me up late three nights running now.

Fenian, I wasn't enamored of this at all. An overwritten mess, IMO.