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At present, Patricia Cornwell is the author that I'm listening to. Anyone like her books? I'm in the middle of one of her series about an ME named Scarpetta. I've got three of her books that I'm listening to while making my rounds. In the past three or four months, I've downloaded or ripped from CD several books and have found a great way to keep me occupied while walking my rounds. Our state libraries have a great web site that one can download books, four at a time for a week each, and there are several web sites that you can also download books of all genres. I also check out books from the library and can rip them to my mp3 player. I've got a long list of authors that interest me, mostly thrillers. If anyone has a good author they like that isn't among the top writers, let me know.

BTW, in case anyone doesn't know, the books "Hunger Games" is rather popular right now. Our digital library has about nine or ten of each of them and there are 330 people waiting in line to download the first one. Something like 180 waiting for the second one. I guess I'll wait until there is a copy available before I give them a shot.
 
buckaroo - guess you haven't visited the thread I started about The Hunger Games. all three books of the Trilogy were ranked #1, #2, and #3 nationally for about a year. I read all three and together with the Dragon Tattoo Girl I had some very good reading.

I either download my reading from the library to my kindles for free or download them from Amazon for a very low cost compared to the hardback cost.

if you enjoy detective type books try reading some of James Lee Burke. He is a great writer and his writing is hard hitting, fast moving, and not for the queasy. Read his Dave Robicheaux series. almost gurantee that you will like him. Check out some of the reviews on Amazon.

btw, I am not a fan of Scarpetta Burke and Baldacci are more to my liking.

This is a description of one of Burke's earlier books...."Heaven's Prisoners:"......
Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective's badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of Louisiana's bayous. But a plane crash on the Gulf brings a young girl into his life -- and with her comes a netherworld of murder, deception, and homegrown crime. Suddenly Robicheaux is confronting Bubba Rocque, a brutal hood he's known since childhood; Rocque's hungry Cajun wife; and a federal agent with more guts than sense. In a backwater world where a swagger and a gun go further than the law, Robicheaux and those he loves are caught on a tide of violence far bigger than them all....
 
Thanks muggle, I'll look into Burke's works. I've read a few Baldacci books and he is on my list.
 
I've read an awful lot of the Scarpetta series from Cornwell. She is a very good writer. I actually like some of her stuff that are not from the Scarpetta series, Hornet's Nest comes to mind. I just don't care much for Scarpetta as a character. She seems a little too preoccupied with wealth and reputation and her neice Lucy just seems a little too hard to believe. Marino seems a little too stereotypical, particularly his dialogue (Yo, etc.). The funny thing is though, that the stories are always really good and well worth overlooking the characters.

John Sandford is really a great writer. His Prey series, staring Lucas Davenport, is some of the most entertaining of books I've ever read. It would help if you get them in some sort of chronological order. He acquires different partners, family members and other things as he goes along and Sandford does a great job of developing the characters as he goes along.

Michael Connelly is great too. The Harry Bosch series is my favorite. He wrote a few books that have become movies, the Lincoln Lawyer, most recently. The Lincoln Lawyer is not part of the Bosch series. Bosch is a homicide detective in Los Angeles. He is a Vietnam vet who has an intensity, and grasp of the darkness that exists in the world, that drives him through some pretty intense stuff.

I like David Baldacci as well. I also like Lisa Scottoline for a change of pace. Scottoline's books are mostly all about a small group of women lawyers who work together. Her books are good, but not as dark as many of the others we've talked about. There is just enough humor in them to make them more enjoyable but not less intense.

You might like the book I'm writing, but I may never finish it. I am a better procrastinator than writer. Even if I do finish it, it will probably never get published. I'm not really writing it to get published anyway. Don't get me wrong, it would be great, but just writing is pretty enjoyable to me and I am realistic about how hard it is to get published.

I hope this helps.
 
BO, thanks for the heads up on the authors. I'll add them to my list too.

Funny you should mention writing a book. For close to 15 years now, I have had an idea about a sci-fi book. I never did anything about it until late last year when I told a friend of mine at work about it. He said it was a great idea and that I should work on it. I told him that I would welcome his input on the story. For a while we both did some brain storming and then we stopped. I did however, more or less, make a rough diagram of my idea and then did some research. Once I got some facts, it was clear to me that my idea was about as possible as it is for me to jump over the moon. Still, many sci-fi stories are far fetched, but the research made me stop and re-think my idea. But like you, I know my story would never get published unless I paid for it.

Scarpetta...I'm about to finish my third novel with her as the main character. What has bothered me with her, and I wonder if it is common with Cornwell's other stories, is that so many of the people keep secrets from others. I know about doctor/patient relationships, but it seems to go much further than that. I am enjoying the novels, but have found that I can solve the "crime" before it is revealed. But then again, I have always been pretty good at that.
 
Okay, I'm getting the first two books from the Bosch series and will listen to them after Port Mortuary, one of the last Scarpetta books. Muggle, Burke's works seem to be unavailable right now but I'll keep looking. Looks like something that I'd love. As for your prior thread about the Hunger Games, I did see that. I was just showing how much attention has been given to the novels since the release of the movie. With more than the usual copies available, there is more than normal on the waiting list. I will not get on that long list and will wait till the novel has been forgotten.
 
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Okay, I'm getting the first two books from the Bosch series and will listen to them after Port Mortuary, one of the last Scarpetta books. Muggle, Burke's works seem to be unavailable right now but I'll keep looking. Looks like something that I'd love. As for your prior thread about the Hunger Games, I did see that. I was just showing how much attention has been given to the novels since the release of the movie. With more than the usual copies available, there is more than normal on the waiting list. I will not get on that long list and will wait till the novel has been forgotten.
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Cool. Let me know what you think of the Bosch series. There is kind of a funny story there with me. The first book I read in this series was one of the first books I ever read. It was called Angel's Flight. I hated it. I thought it was a horribly dark and depraved story. After I had been back into reading for a few years, I read another, not realizing that it was the same author. I didn't even recognize the Bosch character until I was pretty far along in the book. I thought that book was really good. I liked it so much I read another, and so on until I'd read just about every one of them.
 
Finished Port Mortuary (Scarpetta series) today and didn't care for it as much as the other two. Just too much drama for me I guess. Started the first of two Bosch novels today, The Black Echo, which is about the 13th book of the series. So far I really like it, but wish I had the background for the character. Once I've finished this book, probably Tuesday, I'll start on The Brass Verdict. Bosch seems to just keep getting into trouble, nothing that he did.
 
I just read Port Mortuary a few weeks ago myself. I didn't care much for that one myself.

Yeah, old Harry seems to stir up a lot of stuff in his pursuit of the truth. He seems to understand the political parts of his job but he seems to figure that, if people don't want things exposed, they shouldn't have done whatever it was in the first place.
 
Checked out three more book to listen to during the day. Got "The Goliath Bone" by Mickey Spillane and read by Stacy Keach, then I got "The Beach House" by James Patterson and read by Gil Bellows and finally "Honeymoon" also be James Patterson and read by Hope Davis and Campbell Scott. I love Mickey Spillane and Keach does a great job as Mike Hammer.
 
I have only read one book by James patterson and thought it was ok. I plan on trying a couple more of his to see if I really like his writing.

Buckaroo, be careful that you don't walk into a pole while listening to the audio books. You still gotta pay attention to where you are going.
 
I'm reading a pretty good book by James Patterson right now, it's called Private. I've read many of his books with varying enjoyment levels. Some have been very good, a few have been not so good, and one was just downright awful, Cradle And All.
 
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Buckaroo, be careful that you don't walk into a pole while listening to the audio books. You still gotta pay attention to where you are going.
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Funny you should mention that. But the opposite is true. Many times I have chatted with patrons and miss what has been read. But in the overall scheme of things, I usually understand what I missed.
 
A book that I really enjoyed from David Baldacci is "Wish You Well". It is much different than most of his books. It will make you laugh, make you cry, make you sad, and make you mad. All in all though I thought it was a great read.

This book is for both adults and kids. Benevolent One, i am sure that your kids would enjoy this book.

The year is 1940. After a car accident kills 12-year-old Lou's and 7-year-old Oz's father and leaves their mother Amanda in a catatonic trance, the children find themselves sent from New York City to their great-grandmother Louisa's farm in Virginia. Louisa's hardscrabble existence comes as a profound shock to precocious Lou and her shy brother. Still struggling to absorb their abandonment, they enter gamely into a life that tests them at every turn--and offers unimaginable rewards. For Lou, who dreams of following in her father's literary footsteps, the misty, craggy Appalachians and the equally rugged individuals who make the mountains their home quickly become invested with an almost mythic significance:
They took metal cups from nails on the wall and dipped them in the water, and then sat outside and drank. Louisa picked up the green leaves of a mountain spurge growing next to the springhouse, which revealed beautiful purple blossoms completely hidden underneath. "One of God's little secrets," she explained. Lou sat there, cup cradled between her dimpled knees, watching and listening to her great-grandmother in the pleasant shade...​
 
muggle not said:
A book that I really enjoyed from David Baldacci is "Wish You Well". It is much different than most of his books. It will make you laugh, make you cry, make you sad, and make you mad. All in all though I thought it was a great read.

This book is for both adults and kids. Benevolent One, i am sure that your kids would enjoy this book.

The year is 1940. After a car accident kills 12-year-old Lou's and 7-year-old Oz's father and leaves their mother Amanda in a catatonic trance, the children find themselves sent from New York City to their great-grandmother Louisa's farm in Virginia. Louisa's hardscrabble existence comes as a profound shock to precocious Lou and her shy brother. Still struggling to absorb their abandonment, they enter gamely into a life that tests them at every turn--and offers unimaginable rewards. For Lou, who dreams of following in her father's literary footsteps, the misty, craggy Appalachians and the equally rugged individuals who make the mountains their home quickly become invested with an almost mythic significance:
They took metal cups from nails on the wall and dipped them in the water, and then sat outside and drank. Louisa picked up the green leaves of a mountain spurge growing next to the springhouse, which revealed beautiful purple blossoms completely hidden underneath. "One of God's little secrets," she explained. Lou sat there, cup cradled between her dimpled knees, watching and listening to her great-grandmother in the pleasant shade...​
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That's funny Buck, I remember reading the beginning of that book, but I don't remember much else about it. I seem to remember that I liked it. I've read a lot of his books. Split Second is one of my favorite books, not only of his, but of all of the books that I've read. Have you read that one?
 
BO, sorry that you thought I read that book, but I haven't, at least that I can remember. Just finished Brass Verdict, one of the Harry Bosch series books. I enjoyed this one better than Black Echo, but then again, Brass Verdict wasn't about Harry. I'll start my Mickey Spillane novel tomorrow. Low his stuff.
 
BO, just about finished "Nine Dragons". Not bad but kinda sad for poor Harry. I finished a couple of Nelson DeMille's books, "Night Fall" and "Wild Fire". "Wild Fire" is about twice as long as "Night Fall" and pretty much follows it in history with the first dealing with the downing of TWA flight 800 and "Wild Fire" dealing with the downing of the twin towers. If you haven't read them, they are a part of the John Corey series, 3rd and 4th. Now I have to read/listen to the first two if I can find them.
 
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