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Me, too. Or me, neither.
Try Robert B Parker.
Yes, the fellow who writes the Spenser" series. Parker was an English prof. at Harvard (think it was Harvard...) and his writing is economical with 3D characterization.
He also writes the Jesse Stone (starring Tom Selleck movies) and Sonny Randall series of novels.
Fluff crime, you gotta read Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series.
I don't like fluff stories, but these are hilarious. Stephanie's got a ex-ho partner named Lula, a Hungarian grandma who wears spandex from a very traditional Italian-Hungarian family who does not at all approve of her job as a bounty hunter. Which is ok, because she doesn't, either.
I just finished The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie.
Robert Ludlum meets the Marx Brothers. Sort of, but not really.
Try Robert B Parker.
Yes, the fellow who writes the Spenser" series. Parker was an English prof. at Harvard (think it was Harvard...) and his writing is economical with 3D characterization.
He also writes the Jesse Stone (starring Tom Selleck movies) and Sonny Randall series of novels.
Fluff crime, you gotta read Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series.
I don't like fluff stories, but these are hilarious. Stephanie's got a ex-ho partner named Lula, a Hungarian grandma who wears spandex from a very traditional Italian-Hungarian family who does not at all approve of her job as a bounty hunter. Which is ok, because she doesn't, either.
I just finished The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie.
Robert Ludlum meets the Marx Brothers. Sort of, but not really.
The Plum series is worth tracking down, it really is. Best if you begin at the beginning with One for the Money and go from there, it all makes more sense. In an Italian, New Jersey sort of way....
The Gun Seller is great. Smart and smart-assed. A worthwhile read.
I read this morning it's, 13 years after publication, still very popular in France.
If it were not for the Jeeves & Wooster series, I never would have gotten my daughter to read PG Wodehouse.
And how can you go through life without reading Wodehouse.
It's great fun when a 13-year old blonde Joan Jett answers the door in her Jeeves voice. Which she does, quite often. Scares the hell out of the pizza delivery guy.
The Gun Seller is great. Smart and smart-assed. A worthwhile read.
I read this morning it's, 13 years after publication, still very popular in France.
If it were not for the Jeeves & Wooster series, I never would have gotten my daughter to read PG Wodehouse.
And how can you go through life without reading Wodehouse.
It's great fun when a 13-year old blonde Joan Jett answers the door in her Jeeves voice. Which she does, quite often. Scares the hell out of the pizza delivery guy.
Thanks for the tips Trish (& superfurryandy too). I've got the first Plum book out of the library, I'll have a look for the Gun Seller too.
I agree about the Wodehouse books, but I think that at the time (when I was a teenager) I might have read too many of them. A little Bertie Wooster goes a long way!
I agree about the Wodehouse books, but I think that at the time (when I was a teenager) I might have read too many of them. A little Bertie Wooster goes a long way!
Bertie's okay, he's just bee-bopping along on the highway of life and is stuck on an off-ramp.
It's Aunt Agatha I could with less of. And Gussie. Gussie of the book(s) is nowhere near as dim-witted as Gussie of the show.
Dotise, keep reading the Plum books. If only for Ranger. ;0)
I used to work with a guy who is Ranger. Not in looks, really (blue eyes, fair hair), in the way he is.
I hated my bosses, but I loved that job. Yes, indeed....
It's Aunt Agatha I could with less of. And Gussie. Gussie of the book(s) is nowhere near as dim-witted as Gussie of the show.
Dotise, keep reading the Plum books. If only for Ranger. ;0)
I used to work with a guy who is Ranger. Not in looks, really (blue eyes, fair hair), in the way he is.
I hated my bosses, but I loved that job. Yes, indeed....
Richard Dawkins is a good writer some of the time, at other times he just seems to like the sound of his own voice.
I agree with his views on religion in The God Delusion, but I think the way he puts them across is designed to deliberately antagonise people. Yes, when something is hurting people you should speak out strongly against it, but a lot of the time religion doesn't hurt anyone, so why not live & let live? He invalidates much of what he says which is a shame.
I agree with his views on religion in The God Delusion, but I think the way he puts them across is designed to deliberately antagonise people. Yes, when something is hurting people you should speak out strongly against it, but a lot of the time religion doesn't hurt anyone, so why not live & let live? He invalidates much of what he says which is a shame.
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I am re-reading books I found in our storage unit. Currently, it is Christmas Ghosts edited by Mike Resnick adn Martin H. Greenburg. It was published in 1993 and it is sooo kewl. It is like reading it the first time. 
I got a kick out of the Introduction where they are explaining the frustrating job of trying to get Sci-fi authors to write "Inside the box" and they kept trying to figure out ways to get around the publishers directive.
I got a kick out of the Introduction where they are explaining the frustrating job of trying to get Sci-fi authors to write "Inside the box" and they kept trying to figure out ways to get around the publishers directive.
At last, I finally finished Dune: The Butlerian Jihad by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (after 3 tries !!!)
It's the same works with the preludes to Dune, the chapter are very small and there are less reflexion compared in the original Frank Herbert. But this univers, (more long time before Dune) is very intresting ! And i'm happy to rediscovered this world.
Now i starts A hat Full of Sky (translate in Un chapeau de ciel = A hat of sky" in french).
(i'm on late !!! Wintersmith come on the 30th June in France, Argh !)
It's the same works with the preludes to Dune, the chapter are very small and there are less reflexion compared in the original Frank Herbert. But this univers, (more long time before Dune) is very intresting ! And i'm happy to rediscovered this world.
Now i starts A hat Full of Sky (translate in Un chapeau de ciel = A hat of sky" in french).
(i'm on late !!! Wintersmith come on the 30th June in France, Argh !)
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