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Wink
Member
10-06-2000
| Saturday, July 30, 2005 - 11:24 pm
Bluejax I just finished The Conviction last week. Found it a little heavy on the technical legal lingo but it was a fascinating story. I was in tears at the end and that doesn't happen to me very often.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Sunday, July 31, 2005 - 10:50 am
I envy you mamie..I laugh so hard at Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum...and you have all those ahead of you. I have to wait for the next release! Maybe I will just start over again!! Sometimes I feel like I need something to make me laugh and then I try to balance it out with a more serious subject. Just got Robin Cook's new book "Marker" The first chapter was very interesting...so hope the rest is as good.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Sunday, July 31, 2005 - 12:52 pm
Saggkl, I've not read any of the authors you listed. I'll put them on my list -- I've got enough books to read, I could last until Christmas! LOL
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Saggkl
Member
07-17-2002
| Sunday, July 31, 2005 - 6:02 pm
I am so running out of authors. Looking for some new ones. I wait for new ones to come out by my favorites. i guess I will go to the library and try Janet Evanovich. Could use something funny for a change. I like anything that is well written.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Sunday, July 31, 2005 - 6:26 pm
Janet Evanovich's series with Stephanie Plum start with "One For The Money" You will laugh so much...I promise!!
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Tashakinz
Member
11-13-2002
| Monday, August 01, 2005 - 6:56 am
I just finished the new Eve Dallas mystery "Origins in Death" by J.D. Robb. Good beach read. On to "Ten Big Ones" by Evanovich.
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Bluejaxrock
Member
04-23-2004
| Tuesday, August 02, 2005 - 8:46 pm
Wink, I was crying too, and that has never happened to me. Crying over movies - all the time. I will definitely get more of his novels. He made me care about the characters, even though the crime itself sickened me. Now I want to re-watch the movie about David Gale (The Life and Death of David Gale?) Great movie...one that makes you re-think your position on the death penalty, for and against.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Tuesday, August 02, 2005 - 10:33 pm
Must be the week for tears - -just finished "A Prayer for Owen Meany" and had a good cry. Haven't done that over a book for a few years. WONDERFUL book by the way! I've only read Cider House Rules by Irving, but after this one, I think I'm going to have to get them all.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, August 02, 2005 - 10:36 pm
I just finished Sophie Kinsella's new book, The Undomestic Goddess and I highly recommend it. It was just a lot of fun! The last few books I read, were just so so but this one is at the top of my list!
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Wink
Member
10-06-2000
| Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - 10:03 am
Bluejax, Richard North Patterson has a lot of very good books and most are not as full of technical lingo as this one. I was managing a book store when John Grisham was the hot new author to read and being the ornery type person I am decided not to jump on the Grisham band wagon(not that he needed me ) and started recommending Patterson to everyone who bought a Grisham. I have been a Patterson fan ever since. Also for anyone who likes the forensic type books like Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme's books, and Patricia Cornwall, Kathy Reich has a bunch of great books in that genre.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - 10:53 am
I just picked up Balance of Power by Patterson (gotta' love Barnes/Nobles cheap books -- HC for $6!) Wink -- Can you remind me which previous book this is a sequel of? I know I read it (and probably have it on my shelf), but I don't remember which one. I like to read Patterson during the school year -- it's interesting but "light" enough that I can read in shorter bouts.
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Wink
Member
10-06-2000
| Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - 11:56 am
Teach Balance of Power is the third one in the series with Kerry Kilcannon. The first was No Safe Place and the second Protect and Defend. I think I read that he's only doing 3 with Kilcannon as the main protaganist. I hope he changes his mind.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - 3:31 pm
Yikes -- I've only read "No Safe Place" -- guess I'll be going to Amazon soon. 
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Saggkl
Member
07-17-2002
| Thursday, August 04, 2005 - 11:13 am
I really liked Pattersons Kerry Kikcannon series also. Wink, I have not heard of Kathy Reich. I like Patricia Cornwall, Michael Crichton, Robin Cook,All of Deavers books. I guess I will try Katy Reich. Thanks.
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Wink
Member
10-06-2000
| Thursday, August 04, 2005 - 1:51 pm
Saggkl Kathy Reich is an actual forensic anthropologist and her books are great. Her lead character is Temperance Brennan and this character is based on Kathy's own life. Her first novel is Deja Dead and it's a good idea to read her books in order because Temperances' life progresses in order thru the books. Not that they can't be read out of order because each has a basically stand alone plot, but I always find the read much more satisfying just to see the evolution of the personal life of the main character.
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Finqwik
Member
09-23-2000
| Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - 8:57 am
wink I second your recommendation on Kathy Reich. I especially like her device of having Temperance Brenner work out of Quebec and N Carolina giving us a compare and contrast opportunity re the cultural differences between the two places. I am not familiar with Deaver's Lincoln Rhymes books I will look out for them.
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Not1worry
Member
07-30-2002
| Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - 9:20 am
I am almost sure that I saw a promo for a new show on Fox called "Bones" that is based on the Kathy Reich books. Sounds very interesting.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - 1:59 pm
Just finished "Twelfth Card" by Jeffery Deaver. The latest Lincoln Rhymes. It is hard to put down and even harder to figure out "who done it". It takes a lot of will power not to turn to the last page!
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Saggkl
Member
07-17-2002
| Wednesday, November 23, 2005 - 8:58 pm
Jeffery Deaver is another of my favorite authors. Can't wait for his novels to come out.
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Riviere
Member
09-09-2000
| Wednesday, November 23, 2005 - 11:42 pm
While I enjoy tv show "Bones" and Kathy Reichs is a producer, I haven't enjoyed her novels. Too much conversation, maybe. Thanks to her when I browse paperbacks I flip thru pages and if they have endless quotation marks page after page, I pass! I have the Sue Grafton series and while she has dropped the ball on a few books her detective Kinsey Millhone is interesting enough to keep me going back until she writes "Z Is For....." Donald Westlake's series re Dortmunder and comic caper pals are laugh aloud funny! His "Drowned Hopes" is one of the best but I'd have to really say read "The Hot Rock" first to meet the gang. It was also made into a Robert Redford film so I put the actors' faces on the book characters for added enjoyment. Another dark humor crime author is Carl Hiassen. My librarian in Alaska watched me scarfing up Westlake novels and told me if I liked the genre then new author Hiassen was for me! He'd been a Miami reporter, novels based on the Florida scene. His "Strip Tease" was much funnier than the Demi Moore / Burt Reynolds film of it. I've got some Patterson legalese books and find them better than Grisham's works too, Wink!

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Finqwik
Member
09-23-2000
| Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 6:22 am
Thanks for that tip Riviere I love Carl Hiassen and will look out for Donald Westlake also may I suggest a British writer in the same vein Christopher Brookmyre. Thanks to previous recommendations here I've been reading Jeffery Deaver and am about a third of the way into Vanished man. I am trying to read them in sequence as they turn up at the library but I'm enjoying them very much.
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 7:23 am
I love Lee Child's books about Jack Reacher, the vagabond ex-MP. I have recommended this series to a number of people and they have all loved the writing as well.
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Mameblanche
Member
04-13-2005
| Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 11:42 am
This must be where all the NICE people hang out. (grin) Well, I just started reading Evanovich's Metro Girl. I like her lighthearted style. I recently enjoyed her re-issued Back to the Bedroom. I also like her FULL series, Full House, etc. I haven't really gotten into her Plum series much, but I know I will once I run out of all her other stuff. Cuz once I like a writer, I read EVERYTHING they've written, if I can get my hands on it. Its just that I'm not really a mystery-genre fan. I just finished Alexander McCall Smith's In the Company of Cheerful Ladies. Boy I sure luv those unique characters. Of course I adore my Nora Roberts... (Not J.D. Robb so much.) And this past year I discovered Cathy Kelly, who I love. She writes these big, fat novels that take place in Britain.
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Harsbars
Member
09-15-2005
| Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 6:54 pm
Overall, I prefer to read historical romance novels or chick lit. But one day I was feeling unusually restless so I went to the library and I was sort of browsing around and I came upon the name of this author. And, I found his name to be pretty funny. It's Harlan Coben by the way. So I read the back and basically it was a about a former sports star turned sports agent/FBI-ish. Anyway, I was thinking 'Yawn. Snore. Not my type of book at all' But I checked it out anyway. To my surprise, I pretty much cruised through the end. The writing was swift and interesting. It wasn't really what I expected. And the character themselves are so intricate and fresh. I didn't know who to love more the main character who was so lovable but yet so clueless, the tough spanish lesbian associate, or the millionaire playboy who's not what he seems. It sounds really cheesy but it isn't. Well at least, I didn't think so. But he also came out with a really good one called, 'Tell No One' It's about a doctor who loses his wife/lifelong best-friend on getaway trip for the two of them. Anyway, 8 yrs later he receives an email with a video showing an unfocus woman who appears to look like his supposed dead wife. Cue: music. dun dun dunnnnn. If you like suspense/thriller with a few good twists. Then I completely recommend this book. 
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Finqwik
Member
09-23-2000
| Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 8:26 pm
Thanks harsbars I will add that writer to my list sounds quirky
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Saggkl
Member
07-17-2002
| Sunday, November 27, 2005 - 10:34 am
I have read Harlan Coben. I like his later books better than his earlier ones.
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Cricket
Member
08-05-2002
| Monday, November 28, 2005 - 7:31 pm
I like many of the authors mentioned above. Patterson and Cornwell are my favorites. For quick light reading a couple of books I've read in the past few years grabbed my attention and didn't let go. They were Future Homemakers of America, by Laurie Graham and Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik. Both were great reads.
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