What are you reading? Right now!

[Mike Brock]

David Bernstein, We Were Really There. Superb

 

[Oyster28catcher]

Just got it on Kindle. I'm a huge Crichton fan and read nearly everything he wrote including his crime novels (which he wrote under the pseudonym, "John Lange").

I did the range too. And a few medical journals. His style of writing definitely engages. A great technical writer. I believe, after Eruption, James Paterson will complete another piece of his started and prepared projects.

 

[Bowyers Sausages]

Just finished Catch 22, or rather it’s just finished me.

I am now reading Answered Prayers - England and the 1966 World Cup by Duncan Hamilton. Wonderfully insightful and elegantly written.

 

[mimicmickmickdoyle]

David Bernstein, We Were Really There. Superb

Just finished David Bernstein's We were Really There , great read ,highly recommended if you were Really there.

 

[mackenzie]

The Yuba County Five.
About the very odd disappearance of 5 disabled/mentally compromised young men who went missing in 1978.
Most were found deceased, but it's the manner of their final car journey that is odd.

 

[PinkFinal]

Under A Rock by Chris Stein (Blondie)

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

This thread.

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

Anyone reading, "The Book of Elsewhere", by Keanu Reeves and China Mieville?

Mieville writes dense prose which is not to the taste of most readers. Yet I very much like all of his novels to date.
The Reeves-Mieville collaborative novel though has me wondering... is the novel any good at all?

Anyhow, if you've read this novel, please respond with a review.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

The Bluemoon Forum

 

[Resurrection Joe...]

 

[ballbag]

Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky
2nd of a trilogy. Pretty bloody good.

 

[Marklr]

Just started to read Human Kind. A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman.
I was recommended it after the recent race riots that led me to believe humans are shits. Apparently, we're not.

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

Con Iggulden "Nero".
Agrippina (Nero's mother). Jeez, talk about "deadlier than the male!"

 

[Out on blue 6]

James Lee Burke - Flags On The Bayou

 

[JRockBlues]

Started on a re-read of The Castle books by Steph Swainston in preparation of getting to book 5 of which I'd missed the release when it came out

 

[Pedestrian]

Just started to read Human Kind. A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman.
I was recommended it after the recent race riots that led me to believe humans are shits. Apparently, we're not.

I’m half way through that. Good read.

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

I'm currently working my way through Eruption. So far, (1/2 way through), it's OK... but not great.

By way of contrast, every single one of Michael Crichton's novels authored exclusively by him have been far, far more engaging.

For me, Eruption is a James Patterson novel based on some notes/a rough draft from Michael Crichton.

And this is in marked contrast to Pirate Latitudes - a posthumous Crichton book credited only to Michael and, presumably, a product only of Michael's writings (plus whatever, presumably small, changes an editor might have made);
and to a much lesser extent Micro, a novel based primarily on Michael's writings but finished by Richard Preston.

Crichton, IMO, is a far better writer than either Patterson or Preston, and the posthumous works finished by these authors are markedly less engaging than works authored solely by Crichton.

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

Still plugging away through Eruption...

It's honestly a bit of a chore - the writing isn't near as good as an actual Crichton novel. Still, I'll finish the novel in spite of already knowing the ridiculous ending.

 

[Out on blue 6]

Just finished The Spider by Lars Kepler
Just starting Going Infinite by Michael Lewis

 

[ballbag]

All You Need is Kill - Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Its what that Edge of Tomorrow film is based on. Short story (200 pages). Enjoyable.