What are you reading? What was the last book you enjoyed?

Rob2716 said:
Recently finished Deception Point by Dan Brown. Another entertaining book. I really like the way this guy writes. Not up to the standards of Angels & Demons or Da Vinci Code, but what is? I'm on the library's waiting list for Digital Fortress and can't wait to read that one.
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The stories are fun, but I think Dan Brown's writing style sucks... particularly in A&D. Either it improved by DVC, or I got used to it enough not to notice.

I'm reading this:

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I wish someone would post medium sized book cover pics. They are either gigantic, or too small to figure out what it is.
 
I'm in a John Grisham phase....again....

I just finished reading "Skipping Christmas". Short read, pretty predictable storyline. I don't know if I'll spend the money to watch the movie, even though it was the preview that propelled me to read the book.

Now I'm reading
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Fooferah said:
The stories are fun, but I think Dan Brown's writing style sucks... particularly in A&D. Either it improved by DVC, or I got used to it enough not to notice.
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Perhaps it's just a matter of taste, but it takes a bit for an author to really hook me and get me to find time to read his story or to stay up til 2/3am because that's the only time I can find to keep reading. I've done that with the three Dan Brown books I've read, and we'll see if that continues when I get Digital Fortress. I read Da Vinci Code first and it took me a little while to get into it, so maybe his style does take some getting used to. As soon as I started reading Angels & Demons, I couldn't put it down.

I don't think I've read a single John Grisham book. Have a particular favorite, Licerony?
 
Finishing this...

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Very riveting. Better than the movie.

Next is...

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Just started "The Da Vinci Code". It grabbed me right from the start. Mystery, intrigue, interesting characters, descriptive environments and I'm only on page 30.
 
I finished Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle. The story is basically the lives of two couples and how the two worlds perceive each other. One couple is upper-class white, the other Mexican illegal immigrants. Yes, stereotypes galore with the white couple's big problem in life is seemingly the devaluation of their property due to a day labor meeting area near their neighborhood. The lives of the Mexican couple could have been a part of Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events. Everything that can go wrong, does go wrong. It was quite an annoying read.

Anyway, on to better... I got to read Digital Fortress by Dan Brown this weekend. Once again, he gets my attention with his story and has me reading practically non-stop. It's about as good as Deception Point. Something entertaining to read, but doesn't have that thought-provoking element in Da Vinci Code. I've read and enjoyed all four of his books, and now I must wait until his next book comes out.. assuming he's working on one.

I don't know what is next on my reading list. Perhaps it's time to browse through this thread again and try one of the books you guys have read recently.
 
Rob2716 said:
I've read and enjoyed all four of his books, and now I must wait until his next book comes out.. assuming he's working on one.
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He is. It will be set in DC, about the founding fathers and the freemasons.
 
Started reading Friday Night Lights - i want to read it before seeing the movie
then purchased Trace by Patricia Cornwell yesterday. didn't realize a new Scarpetta novel had come out and i had to have it. i figure i'll plow through it in 4 days and then finish up the other one.
 
Might as well weigh in.....

Right now its Slaughterhouse 5 by Vonnegut and a bit of Keroauc's Desolation Angels. Just finished Bukowskis Post Office.

I really need something new to read just havent had time until recently.
 
Finished "He's Just Not That Into You" by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo. A great book that every woman should read.

Reading "The Voodoo Queen" by Robert Tallant that I got in New Orleans. It's a novel about Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau and her life in New Orleans.
 
So I'm gonna jump on in:

Just read this week James Patterson's London Bridges.. I've been reading his stuff for over 10 years and it gets better and better.

Also just finished today "Memoirs of a Geisha". Really well writen. I didn't realize it was fiction until after I finished it.
 
Combat: WWII-The War With Japan and The Finishing School-Earning the Navy SEAL Trident.
 
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The Story of World War II : Revised, expanded, and updated from the original text by Henry Steele Commager

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...=lpr_g_1/104-0243419-7089538?v=glance&s=books

Every chapter has many entries from those involved in each battle. It makes for a chilling and vivid account of WWII. I just read a several page account of a crewman that was trapped in the capsized USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor. He was one of the 32 that was rescued after being trapped for 25 hours. He even wondered if he got out, if the Japanese had taken full control of the harbor...There are accounts from infantrymen, to special agents...Russian, Englishman, Japanese, American, German.
 
Just started reading Dune. The plan it to read the whole series (minus those his son wrote)...
 
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