Finished Simmon's Hyperion cantos - and didn't really care for it other than the first book.

Read Fight Club - excellent.

I think I'll start Lamb by Christopher Moore next.

Last night I finished Brass by Helen Walsh. What a brilliant, amazingly written book. But so dark and desolate. Parts of the book feel like it's sucking out part of your soul as you read it.

This morning I read the entirety of Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart in its entirety. Hilarious...especially the opening essay about the Kennedys. A welcome reprieve after finishing Brass last night.

I'm starting Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel by Susanna Clarke tonight

Just finished Shoe Dog by George Pelecanos. Starting Headhunter by Michael Slade.

SPEER: The Final Verdict

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Joachim Fest

Brother Assassin--Fred Saberhagen [Berserker novel, with a weird concept of fightning the Berserker war by going back in time.]
Arrogance--Bernard Goldberg.
Tomorrow's Crimes--Donald Westlake
and a 'Best SF of the Year' anthology in each car.

Just finished Pacific Beat by T. Jefferson Parker.

Next up, Off Season by Jack Ketchum.

Finished Michael Connelly's The Black Ice.

Next up is The Waste Lands - book 3 in Stephen King's Dark Tower Series.

Just finished the DaVinci Code and was sorely disappointed. Currently reading Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith (which is an extreme, odd sci-fi novel). Also, while I've got this little soapbox, let me urge anyone looking for a good read to pick up "The Straw Men" by Michael Marshall (same author as above, but it's a different style of writing, so he drops the "Smith"). It's an amazningly intense book, with an odd style of writing. Highly, HIGHLY recommended. It's not sci-fi, just a very dark, moody thriller that deserves more recognition than its received so far. Also, if you enjoy it, pick up the follow-up book "The Upright Man."

Finished Off Season by Jack Ketchum last night. Wow, what a chilling book. :up:

Also started Michael Crichton's latest State of Fear.

Reading Matthew Lewis' The Monk, not as shocking as I expected, but it is 18th century...
Next up is probably some history stuff. Damn, I have too much to read.

I just read "The Courtneys" over x-mas weekend - a three volume collection of "When The Lion Feeds", "Sound of Thunder", and "A Sparrow Falls" by Wilbur Smith. Now I'm probably going to quickly read "The Protector" by David Morrell (picked it up at our local garbage dump's free book swap area) before moving on to one of my unread non-fiction books. I've still got a huge unfulfilled wish list full of books on amazon, and I just sold my old car, so I'm probably going to be focusing more on adding unread books to my collection than reading this week.

Just finished: Confederates in the Attic and Fahrenheit 451


Next up: Either

Ender's Game

Lincoln's War : The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief

American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964

Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death

I am having trouble deciding,, I am leaning towards American Caesar, but who knows...

So many books....so little time

...starting a new thread for the new year...