# Whatcha Readin' December 2011 Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 30, 2011, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-december-2011-edition/604613 "2011-11-30T21:19:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-december-2011-edition/604613/121 "2011-12-30T02:26:12Z")
Hey, guys and ladies! I just wanted to recommend Jeff Bennington’s novel, Reunion. Without telling you too much, it centers around a shool shooting and morphs into the supernatural. IMO, this guy puts King and Koontz to shame. It’s available on your Kindle, but don’t count on finishing it in a week! I finished it in one night. It’s _that_ good! Thanks Quasi ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-december-2011-edition/604613/122 "2011-12-30T02:27:22Z")
Just started The Given Day by Dennis Lehane, one of my favorite crime authors. Also read Peter Straub’s Dark Matter (I love Straub and have done since Ghost Story was published many many years ago) and Murder Machine, the story of Gambino made man Roy De Meo and his murderous underlings by Gene Mustain and Jerry Capeci. ---
**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-december-2011-edition/604613/123 "2011-12-30T02:57:14Z")
Just finished Showdown… by Thomas Smith. It’s the story about how the Kennedy Admin forced the Washington Redskins and their owner George Marshall to integrate the team… very good read… ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-december-2011-edition/604613/124 "2011-12-30T09:55:40Z")
Just finished _The Hunger Games_ today. I liked it a lot. It was a quick, fun read and I’m going to start the next one as soon as I can. Earlier this month I read _Death in the Long Grass_ by Peter Capstick. It’s a great read–true stories about deadly encounters with African wildlife, told by one of the “white hunters” from the 60s and 70s. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-december-2011-edition/604613/125 "2011-12-30T22:56:25Z")
> [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > I was actually about this close to buying \*Drood \*today at Half Price Books. But I didn’t. I’ve only read the first two \*Hyperion \*books by Simmons. They were good, and I do like Dickens, but I’ve heard a lot of reviews similar to **Khadaji’s**. I haven’t read \*Drood \*yet, only because I haven’t read much Dickens and I’d never heard of Wilkie Collins, so I’m afraid I wouldn’t appreciate the book. I really liked Simmons’s \*Hyperion \*series, and his novel _The Terror_ was probably my favorite read of 2011 - and I don’t even like horror novels, usually. I’m still reading Anne Perry’s books (murder in Victorian England) and I’m still making my way through the Vlad Taltos novels, by Steven Brust. Individually they aren’t exceptional, but overall I quite like the series. I just finished _Dragon_, and it’s one of my favorites so far. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-december-2011-edition/604613/126 "2011-12-31T12:09:57Z")
[New Year’s Thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14618838#post14618838) ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-december-2011-edition/604613/127 "2012-01-05T12:30:23Z")
_Tetralogy of Fallot_. It’s a heart-pounder. Thanks Q [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-readin-december-2011-edition/604613.md?page=6)