What are you currently reading??

**kingcap72** · July 18th, 2009, 10:28 AM

^^It's the first in a series of books about this teenager Daniel who is an alien hunter. He has these strange powers that he uses to help him hunt down different aliens including the alien that killed his parents, who were also alien hunters.

I wasn't sure about the premise when I picked the book up, but I like James Patterson's writing so I gave it a shot. Once again, he didn't disappoint.

**McJag** · July 18th, 2009, 10:54 AM

Just started reading Julie & Julia. OMG! This is one of those books you can just crawl into. Can't wait to see the movie. Just treat yourself & go get it now.

**kingcap72** · July 18th, 2009, 04:11 PM

I couldn't find 'Renegade' at any of the places I went, so I ended up buying Obama's book 'Dreams From My Father.' It's pretty good so far.

**Colonel Hyde** · July 19th, 2009, 07:33 PM

Just going through my "Collection" and found this gem:

Score Nov 99:
featuring the bustiest slim-n-stacked score-girls of all time!

A crackin' good read.

**kingcap72** · July 19th, 2009, 09:13 PM

Hmm, I'm sensing a pattern here.

**calcifer** · July 20th, 2009, 05:25 PM

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i'm reading 'the informers' by juan gabriel vásquez.

**BBDSP** · July 21st, 2009, 05:19 PM

Originally Posted by calcifer

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i'm reading 'the informers' by juan gabriel vásquez.

Strangely enough, I am reading 'The Informant' by somebody or other Eichenwald. It is a stranger than truth story about an FBI operation that relied on a cooperating witness at Archer Daniels Midland (huge corporation). It is fascinating. I think it's being made into a movie now.

**calcifer** · July 22nd, 2009, 05:54 AM

^ it has good reviews on amazon, i see.

i've been so busy that i've only read a couple of pages of 'the informers' so far.

When Gabriel Santoro publishes his first book, A Life in Exile, it never occurs to him that his father, a distinguished professor of rhetoric, will write a devastating review in a leading newspaper. The subject seems inoffensive enough: the life of a German Jewish woman (a close family friend) who arrived in Colombia shortly before the Second World War. So why does his father attack him so viciously? Do the pages of his book unwittingly hide some dangerous secret? As Gabriel sets out to discover what lies behind his father's anger, he finds himself undertaking an examination of the duplicity, guilt and obsession at the heart of Colombian society in World War II, when the introduction of blacklists of German immigrants corrupted and destroyed many lives. Half a century later, in a gripping narrative that unpacks like a set of Russian dolls, one treacherous act perpetrated in those dark days returns with a vengeance, leading the reader towards a literal, moral and metaphorical cliff edge. With a tightly honed plot, deftly crafted situations, and a cast of complex and varied characters, The Informers is a fascinating novel of callous betrayal, complicit secrecy and the long quest for redemption in a secular, cynical world. It heralds the arrival of a major literary talent.

copied from amazon.com.

**Mel1973** · July 23rd, 2009, 11:35 AM

I'm reading that damned True Blood Series... Vampire porn

**Valley Doll** · July 23rd, 2009, 11:50 AM

The Sleeping Doll by Jeffrey Deaver. It's pretty good--here's a quick summary from Amazon:

Kathryn Dance, an investigator with the California Bureau of Investigation, returns from Deaver's The Cold Moon (where she was a secondary) in this post–prison break pulse-pounder. Dance is the lead cop handling the escape of psychopathic killer Daniel Pell, dubbed "Son of Manson" by the press for his "family" of young runaways and his most horrendous crime, the murders of computer engineer William Croyton, Croyton's wife and two of their three children. The only child left alive, nine-year-old Theresa, is known as the Sleeping Doll. Pell, charismatic and diabolically intelligent, continually eludes capture, but Dance, a specialist in interrogation and kinesics (or body language), is never more than a few suspenseful minutes behind.

**witchcurlgirl** · July 23rd, 2009, 12:16 PM

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century- Barbara Tuchman.

It's quite good, follows the life of one man (Enguerrand de Coucy)through the 14th century. She wrote The Guns of August, which is non fiction classic.

**kingcap72** · July 23rd, 2009, 07:59 PM

'Sail' by James Patterson. Great mystery, page-turner.

Basic story: A wealthy widow goes on a boat trip with her brother-in-law and kids and somebody tries to kill them. Lots of twists and turns.

**cmmdee** · July 28th, 2009, 11:21 AM

^ I like his books.

Just finished reading Living the Vida Lola by Misa Ramirez.

I enjoyed it.

**kingcap72** · July 28th, 2009, 02:21 PM

^^Which of Patterson's books have you read. We can compare notes.

**cmmdee** · July 28th, 2009, 03:47 PM

^ I have read a couple of them.
My favorite was Kiss the Girls, Cat & Mouse, The Quickie, some others. I was reading that series about the women's murder club, too.
The first sentence in Kiss the Girls book freaked me the eff out. I was terrified yet couldn't put it down. I had to make sure to read it in places where lights were on in my house, etc. Haha. This was before the movie came out.