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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #275 on: November 28, 2011, 06:45:46 PM »
'A Feast for Crows' was sooooo boring.  Finally got a copy of 'A Dance with Dragons' (book 5) and I'm a couple hundred pages into it.  OMG, is teh best. :drool:

The new Rick Riordan book came out last month.  That's next on my list.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #276 on: November 28, 2011, 07:00:47 PM »
I borrowed like 12 books last week... Just finished "Cold Ridge" by Carla Neggars.  Good author...writes alot about small town mysteries and New England..Lives in Quechee, Vermont(beautiful place btw)
 Does anybody read the Christine Feehan Series??
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #277 on: November 30, 2011, 01:17:20 PM »
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #278 on: November 30, 2011, 02:21:28 PM »
Just finished WEB Griffin's Final Justice which is in his "Badge of Honor" series. As it turns out, it ain't Final after all, as he wrote another final book in the series called The Traffickers. I'll start on that one tonight on my Kindle.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #279 on: December 02, 2011, 06:46:49 PM »
Quote from: Rainbow Rising on October 08, 2011, 01:49:31 AM
I just finished The Burn Farm by Michael Benson.  It's a true crime story about Sheila LaBarre, a disturbed woman who murdered at least two of her lovers after subjecting them to physical and mental torture and making them play her sick sexual games.  She then burned their bodies on her farm.  (Remains of a third person were found but not identified as of the book's publication.)  Somehow Benson manages to make this intriguing story incredibly dull.  About half of the book is devoted to LaBarre's trial and the efforts of her defense attorneys to prove that she was insane at the time of the murders.  Benson doesn't leave out a single detail, and after a while the parade of witnesses becomes a blur. He even covers the jury selection, describing the voir dire of countless prospective jurors, but to what end?  Okay, we get it: picking jurors in a sensational case is difficult.  No need to drive the point into the ground.  It seemed as if he was padding the book.

The story of Sheila LaBarre is bizarre and compelling.  The portrait that emerges is one of a dangerously disturbed and violent woman who made everyone's life miserable for years.  The early part of the book, which details her background, her crimes, and the police investigation is well-written and very interesting.  Unfortunately the book gets bogged down in the minutiae of the trial and becomes quite tedious.  His more recent book Killer Twins is much better.

I am a true crime book afficionado and had picked up Burn Farm at my library; couldn't finish it due to that minutiae of which you speak.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #280 on: December 02, 2011, 06:53:10 PM »
Whoa.  That might be worth checking out.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #281 on: December 02, 2011, 07:36:02 PM »
Reading The Devil in the White City, about America's first serial killer and lots of history about the 1893 Columbian Exposition.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #282 on: December 02, 2011, 07:40:09 PM »
Quote from: Duke Nukum on December 02, 2011, 07:36:02 PM
Reading The Devil in the White City, about America's first serial killer and lots of history about the 1893 Columbian Exposition.
H. H. Holmes?
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #283 on: December 04, 2011, 12:35:39 AM »
Quote from: Boudicca on December 02, 2011, 06:46:49 PM
I am a true crime book afficionado and had picked up Burn Farm at my library; couldn't finish it due to that minutiae of which you speak.

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who disliked that aspect of the book.  I love a good true crime story, but I can't stand a book that gets too "cluttered."
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #284 on: December 05, 2011, 12:40:16 PM »
Quote from: Duke Nukum on December 02, 2011, 07:36:02 PM
Reading The Devil in the White City, about America's first serial killer and lots of history about the 1893 Columbian Exposition.
That looks good, will write down and see if my library carries it...
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #285 on: December 08, 2011, 12:13:07 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on November 28, 2011, 06:45:46 PM
'A Feast for Crows' was sooooo boring.  Finally got a copy of 'A Dance with Dragons' (book 5) and I'm a couple hundred pages into it.  OMG, is teh best. :drool:

I read the first four books in the series, within a months time.  I've been on 'A Dance with Dragons' for two months... Sigh...
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #286 on: December 08, 2011, 12:24:11 PM »
Quote from: Gratiot on December 08, 2011, 12:13:07 PM
I read the first four books in the series, within a months time.  I've been on 'A Dance with Dragons' for two months... Sigh...
Same here.  I got to read a few more pages while I was doing laundry yesterday, but that was it.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #287 on: December 12, 2011, 11:36:53 PM »
Quote from: seahorse513 on November 28, 2011, 07:00:47 PM
I borrowed like 12 books last week... Just finished "Cold Ridge" by Carla Neggars.  Good author...writes alot about small town mysteries and New England..Lives in Quechee, Vermont(beautiful place btw)
 Does anybody read the Christine Feehan Series??

Just saw your post and heck yeah, I love Feehan's Carpathians.  I do, however, wait until they come out in paperback.  I read an enormous amount of paranormals, including Kenyon, Ione, Frost, Briggs, to name a very few authors.

Book I finished tonight though was After American by Mark Steyn.  I always enjoy listening when he hosts Rush Limbaugh's show; he refers to himself as "your undocumented radio host". :-)
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #288 on: December 13, 2011, 08:39:39 PM »
Reading 1974 by David Peace.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #289 on: December 19, 2011, 09:30:07 PM »
I finally finished 'A Dance of Dragons'.  It only took me a month to read it. :thatsright:

Excellent as always... amazing story.  Now I have to wait until next year for the next one.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #290 on: December 20, 2011, 06:55:10 PM »
Finished 1974, great crime novel, very grim and vulgar. The plot didn't always make sense to me but the vulgarity and grim sense of gutterness gave the novel a kind of continuity.

Started 11-22-63. While Stephen King's Candy Land politics is sometimes grating, there is no denying he is a great story teller.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #291 on: December 30, 2011, 07:30:15 PM »
Quote from: Boudicca on December 12, 2011, 11:36:53 PM
Just saw your post and heck yeah, I love Feehan's Carpathians.  I do, however, wait until they come out in paperback.  I read an enormous amount of paranormals, including Kenyon, Ione, Frost, Briggs, to name a very few authors.

Book I finished tonight though was After American by Mark Steyn.  I always enjoy listening when he hosts Rush Limbaugh's show; he refers to himself as "your undocumented radio host". :-)
Just finishing reading Feehan's Dark Demon. awesome....
Dark Prince just came out in paperback!!!
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #292 on: December 30, 2011, 07:58:55 PM »
I just finished The Drop by Michael Connelly.  I loved it as I have loved all of Connnellys' novels, especially the Harry Bosch series.  My father turned me on to Harry Bosch about 6 months ago and i have read them all from 1st to last.  I just started on the latest James Lee Burke novel, Feast Day of Fools.  I'm liking it a lot so far.  I am looking forward to reading the upcoming Robert Crais novel Taken, I have it preordered for my Kindle.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #293 on: December 30, 2011, 08:11:23 PM »
After finishing 11-22-63 I decided to get It next. I'm thinking of getting Brave New World next even though I have a couple of other books in my library.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #294 on: January 02, 2012, 03:14:18 PM »
I just finished One Second After.  The story was great and provoked a lot of thought.  It wasn't the best writing ever but I would read another of his novels.  Now I have a companion to my irrational fears of a zombie apocalypse with my new fears of multiple EMP bursts.

I love Stephen King before 2000.  After that he kinda got the crazies.  Favorites are The Talisman, The Dark Tower series, The Stand, and It.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #295 on: January 03, 2012, 12:25:27 AM »
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Finished Rob Lowe's book, then had to end up getting Melissa Gilberts book Prairie Tales to spill about all the dirt Rob Lowe refused to spill LOL. Now reading World's Scariest Places and Most Haunted Locations.
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« Reply #296 on: January 03, 2012, 12:26:48 AM »
Reading Simon R Green's Deathstalker War. Larry Corriea's Spellbound is on deck
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #297 on: January 03, 2012, 12:28:41 AM »
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

by some Swedish Dude.



very good book. The Swedish movie was good too. Haven't seen the new one.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #298 on: January 03, 2012, 12:14:30 PM »
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

by some Swedish Dude.



very good book. The Swedish movie was good too. Haven't seen the new one.

Stieg Larsson.

If you like these books you may like The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler which is a Swedish book attempting to ride the coattails of The Girl Who books. I took the chance and found it a good read.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #299 on: January 03, 2012, 12:33:46 PM »
Quote from: Duke Nukum on January 03, 2012, 12:14:30 PM
Stieg Larsson.

If you like these books you may like The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler which is a Swedish book attempting to ride the coattails of The Girl Who books. I took the chance and found it a good read.

The Girl Who has some Big Damn Issues.

Liked the book, BTW. Nicely written plot. One hopes they didn't $*&@ it up translating into Engrish.
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