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New last book you read thread
« on: January 06, 2010, 02:21:41 PM »
I hate having to wade through really long threads so I thought we could break it up a little.

I just finished The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown and started The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell.  I got maybe 50 pages into it and took it back to the library.  I am done with her, she does nothing but irritate the living shit out of me now. I don't know what it is about her now but it is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

I am reading Dave Ramsey's book Total Money Makeover and starting Dean Koontz Breathless tonight.  I love Dean Koontz!


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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2010, 02:29:58 PM »
I hate having to wade through really long threads so I thought we could break it up a little.

I just finished The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown and started The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell.  I got maybe 50 pages into it and took it back to the library.  I am done with her, she does nothing but irritate the living shit out of me now. I don't know what it is about her now but it is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

I am reading Dave Ramsey's book Total Money Makeover and starting Dean Koontz Breathless tonight.  I love Dean Koontz!




Koontz's Odd Thomas series is great reading.  Fun and Scary.

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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2010, 03:32:11 PM »
I hate having to wade through really long threads so I thought we could break it up a little.

I just finished The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown and started The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell.  I got maybe 50 pages into it and took it back to the library.  I am done with her, she does nothing but irritate the living shit out of me now. I don't know what it is about her now but it is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

I am reading Dave Ramsey's book Total Money Makeover and starting Dean Koontz Breathless tonight.  I love Dean Koontz!




It's the total moonbat in her coming our in her Carpetta novels that's doing it...I had a similar reaction last time I read one of hers.

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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2010, 03:49:02 PM »
I have Scarpetta to read and haven't yet....took me forever to finish Book of the Dead....

I'm reading Lisa Jackson's Chosen to Die....it's a sequel to Malice... this guy is causing women driving alone through the snowy mountain passes in Montana to wreck their cars...rescues them, gets them healthy, then leaves then naked tied to trees in the forest where they freeze to death. That all happened in Malice. Now, in this one....he's captured one of the female detectives investigating the murders....
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2010, 04:34:34 PM »
It's the total moonbat in her coming our in her Carpetta novels that's doing it...I had a similar reaction last time I read one of hers.

I passed on it as well after reading a review indicating that she spends the first third of the book bashing the Bush administration.......too bad, I used to really enjoy her stuff.......

Stephen King is another one that has gone the same way.......jumped the shark.

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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2010, 09:18:05 AM »
Helter Skelter... I never did read it, and found it on top of a "free" pile while walking the dog.  (I can't resist a free book).  WOW, I can't believe I went my entire life without reading that book.  Insane!
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2010, 07:53:39 PM »
I have the same feelings about Patricia Cornwell...can't remember the last book of hers I read, but it was boring as I recall.....I am about done with Sarah Palins book now, and parts of it were very interesting, some parts boring....But I feel bad for her, the way she has been treated....Danged MSM.....I have the book "I Alex Cross by James Patterson to read next, that my daughter got me for Christmas.....Love all of his books..
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2010, 08:09:59 PM »
I feel the same way about Cornwell!!! Her last few books have been off the rails. I seriously think she should have retired the Scarpetta series a long time ago. I've got every single book and was really disappointed at how she treated the charactors not to mention the moonbattyness. I think she lost her marbles after her fact finding mission to reveal who Jack the Ripper was went down in flames. She invested a small personal fortune in looking at the evidence and her resulting book was a dud.

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Cross by James Patterson
Trial by James Patterson
Level 26 Dark Origins by Anthony Zuicker (creator of CSI)
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2010, 11:44:00 AM »
The problem that I have with James Patterson is that he doesn't really write novels........he writes novellas.......

He cranks out about one a month in league with some other writer (who, I suspect does all the work), and when they are published, they are double-spaced, with chapters that are about a page and a half long.  If you take all of the blank paper out of one of his books, you have about a hundred pages, that I can go through in about two hours........I like a 400 page book that is a challenge that I can sink my teeth into.

This is why I usually buy the Patterson books that I read off of the "publisher's overrun" table at Barnes & Noble for $5.75.......they just are not worth paying full (or even discounted) price for, in my opinion......

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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2010, 12:27:01 PM »
yeah he's fast food to me too. Makes it easy to whip through them though.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2010, 01:05:34 PM »
Half of Glenn Beck's "Arguing with Idiots"....well....son is reading it but on every other page he's going "Hey Dad, read this".....and while I was drinking coffee at the store after school yesterday he was reading his Glenn Beck book and an older gentleman gave him Bill O'Rielly's "Cultural Warrior"....I guess I'll have to read half of it too.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #11 on: January 08, 2010, 01:25:39 PM »
Started James Patterson's Sail.....
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #12 on: January 08, 2010, 01:44:26 PM »
Half of Glenn Beck's "Arguing with Idiots"....well....son is reading it but on every other page he's going "Hey Dad, read this".....and while I was drinking coffee at the store after school yesterday he was reading his Glenn Beck book and an older gentleman gave him Bill O'Rielly's "Cultural Warrior"....I guess I'll have to read half of it too.

so I guess Glenn Becks book is worth the read then?? I have looked at it several times, but passed it up.....
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #13 on: January 08, 2010, 02:44:44 PM »
so I guess Glenn Becks book is worth the read then?? I have looked at it several times, but passed it up.....

Awesome book!  All of his are though!

My daughter just read James Patterson's Witch and Wizard.  The last time I saw her devour a book like this it was Harry Potter.  I can't wait to read this one.  I am almost finished with Breathless.  A great book if you are an animal lover or a Dean Koontz lover. 
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #14 on: January 08, 2010, 02:49:14 PM »
Awesome book!  All of his are though!

My daughter just read James Patterson's Witch and Wizard.  The last time I saw her devour a book like this it was Harry Potter.  I can't wait to read this one.  I am almost finished with Breathless.  A great book if you are an animal lover or a Dean Koontz lover. 

Thanks so much for your review of these books...I love James Patterson's books.....I was leery of Becks book, I just am not one of his biggest fans, but, might give it a try...I have never read a Dean Koontz, don't know why...
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #15 on: January 08, 2010, 03:08:07 PM »
I hadn't read it in over 20 years, but I just re-read Gone with the Wind.  I came away thinking that if our country could survive that era, we can survive this and take it back.  I also found many attributes of Scarlett that I admired very much.  I have a craving to see the movie again!

I got Stephen King's "Under the Dome" for Christmas, and am just starting it.  No moonbattery yet or anything, it's starting pretty good. 

I'd never even heard of that Cornwell woman, I'll be leaving her be. 

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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #16 on: January 08, 2010, 03:25:12 PM »
Would like to have a general idea what Dean Koontz and Stephen Kings books are like before I buy any....Are they mysteries, sci-fi or what can one expect....

And Karin. The Cornwell lady, used to write really good books, and then, she went bad somewhere along the line, and it isn't an enjoyable read anymore.....
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #17 on: January 09, 2010, 09:27:14 PM »
Read James Patterson's Sail last night and this morning....quick read.....and thoroughly enjoyed it.

It was implausible...but had a quirky ending that I didn't figure out.

Getting ready to read Linda Fairstein's new paperback with Alex Cooper....a female DA with the Sex Crimes unit in Manhattan. I like her books. The other half has already read it and he's read the others, but said this one was a disappointment. I'm still going to read it.... :-)
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #18 on: January 11, 2010, 12:11:20 PM »
Read James Patterson's Sail last night and this morning....quick read.....and thoroughly enjoyed it.

It was implausible...but had a quirky ending that I didn't figure out.

Getting ready to read Linda Fairstein's new paperback with Alex Cooper....a female DA with the Sex Crimes unit in Manhattan. I like her books. The other half has already read it and he's read the others, but said this one was a disappointment. I'm still going to read it.... :-)

Yeah the ending of Sail kinda smacked me upside the face too.  Another of his books with a great twisted ending is Beach Road.

Softballgramma  Dean Koontz writes a lot of different books.  He has some scary books and some mystery books.  Most of his books are supernatural in theme though.  Some of my favorites are The Odd Thomas series (Odd Thomas reminds me so much of our Franksolich for some reason!), Relentless, Intensity, and The Good Guy.  I have heard great things about his Frankenstein series too.

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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #19 on: January 11, 2010, 12:16:50 PM »
Stephen King isn't an international best seller for nothing.  Until his near death experience of getting run over by a van his books were some of the creepiest, scariest, and down right messed up books I have ever read.  After the crash he got kinda moonbatty and lame. The best of the best of his are The Stand, Talisman (with Peter Straub), The Gunslinger/Dark Tower Series, It, and Misery.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #20 on: January 11, 2010, 02:19:32 PM »
I read all of Dean Koontz up to Murder- something or other....his books were just creeping me out too much. I started the Murder one and couldn't get past the first couple of chapters.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #21 on: January 15, 2010, 10:57:19 AM »
I think Dean Koontz went from creepy scary to mysterious.  His books don't creep me out anymore like they used to. 

I am reading Ann Rice's Angel Time now.  It is about a hitman who gets recruited to do God's work by his guardian angel.  It is as weird as it sounds but the second half of the book is soooooooooooo good!  She has written some really great books since her conversion from dark goth vampire life to Christianity!  She wrote an amazing book about how she saw Jesus in his childhood years.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #22 on: January 16, 2010, 05:49:30 PM »
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #23 on: January 18, 2010, 02:53:24 AM »
I read more than 1 book at a time. It's a habit I developed in college. Got Vince Flynn's new book for Christmas but my husband grabbed it first. I'm almost finished with Going Rogue. I'm also reading a book about cold joins for mixed media artists, Star Wars Revenge of the Sith, and As I Lay Dying. I keep one in each bathroom and one in the family room and one in the living room.

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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #24 on: January 18, 2010, 10:49:39 AM »
I'm about half way through Stephen Coontz's The Desciple......which is about Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions, and its so real that it is truly scary......particularly as it relates to the actions (or lack thereof) of the American president, and congress......

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