What Are You Reading? (February 2016)
02-22-16, 12:56 PM
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Re: What Are You Reading? (February 2016)
02-26-16, 09:36 AM
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Re: What Are You Reading? (February 2016)
I read 11/22/63 last year and liked it a lot.
Currently reading a mystery by a local author, but just finished Aesop's Fables and Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris.
Currently reading a mystery by a local author, but just finished Aesop's Fables and Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris.
02-26-16, 03:53 PM
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Re: What Are You Reading? (February 2016)
currently reading:
02-28-16, 10:17 AM
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Re: What Are You Reading? (February 2016)
Bertha Cool and Donald Lam book 8: Cats Prowl at Night
Bertha Cool and Donald Lam book 9: Give 'Em the Ax
More violating of genre conventions. Most hard boiled detectives have to deal with hostile police detectives. This homicide detective wants to marry Bertha Cool.
In Give 'Em the Ax, the least likely person is the murderer. Erle Stanley Gardner makes it the least, least, least likely person, someone who had nothing to do at all with the main story. I was amused.
Bertha Cool and Donald Lam book 9: Give 'Em the Ax
More violating of genre conventions. Most hard boiled detectives have to deal with hostile police detectives. This homicide detective wants to marry Bertha Cool.
In Give 'Em the Ax, the least likely person is the murderer. Erle Stanley Gardner makes it the least, least, least likely person, someone who had nothing to do at all with the main story. I was amused.
03-03-16, 02:03 AM
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03-08-16, 02:47 PM
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Re: What Are You Reading? (February 2016)
I give it a solid "B". This is the second book in a trilogy.
On the upside:
- the book is filled with well written action
- the main character is fairly interesting and nuanced for genre fiction
- there are some delightfully surprising twists in the exposition that expand on hints dropped earlier and help explain what's actually going on in the universe depicted in the trilogy.
On the downside:
- the book's pace is very uneven
- the author is prone to fantasy tropes and a few of the main characters are paper thin
