elwoodblues
12-23-2003, 09:07 AM
Just curious about everyone's favorite (non-poker related)
pleasure reading?
Mine (just to start things off):
Favorite book - Johnny Got His Gun (I try to read this once a year or so)
I really like the Vince Flynn novels (the first one was just okay ---- his stories get progressively better.) Flynn writes about similar themes as Clancy (though, I tend to like the Mitch Rapp character in Flynn's novels better than Jack Ryan in Clancy's).
I've been reading and enjoying the James Patterson novels (movies Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider are based on his books). The only thing that bothers me is that he seems to always want a twist ending and the twist is almost always that it's a bad cop who's the real killer.
Philip Dick novels (writer of Minority Report - I think he also wrote Blade Runner and Total Recall). I read the book "A Scanner Darkly" a while back and highly recommend it. Basic plot is about an undercover narc agent who is taking drugs and begins informing on himself because of the effects of the drugs. It has some truly hilarious scenes (during one scene a couple of guys high on drugs think that someone stole 3 gears off of their 10-speed bike because there are only two in the front and 5 in the back).
Larry Millett's Sherlock Holmes novels...set in historic St. Paul, MN so if you are from around here, they are kind of fun to read.
pleasure reading?
Mine (just to start things off):
Favorite book - Johnny Got His Gun (I try to read this once a year or so)
I really like the Vince Flynn novels (the first one was just okay ---- his stories get progressively better.) Flynn writes about similar themes as Clancy (though, I tend to like the Mitch Rapp character in Flynn's novels better than Jack Ryan in Clancy's).
I've been reading and enjoying the James Patterson novels (movies Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider are based on his books). The only thing that bothers me is that he seems to always want a twist ending and the twist is almost always that it's a bad cop who's the real killer.
Philip Dick novels (writer of Minority Report - I think he also wrote Blade Runner and Total Recall). I read the book "A Scanner Darkly" a while back and highly recommend it. Basic plot is about an undercover narc agent who is taking drugs and begins informing on himself because of the effects of the drugs. It has some truly hilarious scenes (during one scene a couple of guys high on drugs think that someone stole 3 gears off of their 10-speed bike because there are only two in the front and 5 in the back).
Larry Millett's Sherlock Holmes novels...set in historic St. Paul, MN so if you are from around here, they are kind of fun to read.