You probably already knew there’s a new movie based on the book: Never Let Me Go (2010 film) - Wikipedia. Mixed reviews so far.
holy rusted sheetmetal, batman. he’s up to 13 now? i have a ways to go yet. just finishing up book six and i’ve been working my way through the dresden files since october 1st!!! for the second time. 
Just finished Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth, which I mentioned earlier. A great action-adventure novel about a vampire working for the U.S. Government, our last line of national defense against supernatural threats. There are in-jokes about Frankenstein, H.P. Lovecraft, Night of the Living Dead, Halloween, and veiled “secret history” references to the Nuremberg Trials, Watergate, the 1981 Reagan assassination attempt, etc. It’s fun and clever and very readable. Could make a great movie. Check it out.
I think I’ll start a thread about it for vamp-lit readers who aren’t regularly reading this thread.
I’m always on the lookout for a good vampire novel that is neither pure horror nor frivolous romance. I’ve read about that one before, and it didn’t sound interesting, but if you say it’s good I’ll put it on my list.
I’ve just finished Red Seas Under Red Skies, which is the sequel to The Lies of Locke Lamora. It’s almost as good as the first book, although perhaps it suffers a little bit from being too similar, especially in the beginning. Therefore I’m not upset at having to wait for the unpublished sequels, because this seems like one of those series where it’s better to wait a long time between books.
I’ll be interested to know what you think. Hope you like it, too.
I read “The Princess Bride” for the first time. It was good, but I like the movie better.
I am now starting “Superfreakonomics.” I really liked the original “Freakonomics.”
Speaking of vampire fiction, I have not started it, but I have checked out from the library “Vamped” by David Sosnowski. It’s about a vampire dominated world where a vamp adopts a human girl and raises her as his daughter. It’s written in a satirical voice.
Totally agree. The book was OK, but the movie was better. I wonder if I would feel the same if I had read the book first.
Dennis Lehane’s latest, Moonlight Mile. It catches up with Kenzie and Gennaro a few years after they’ve closed up their private investigations business. I’m enjoying a lot, and remembering what a terrific writer Lehane is.
I just finished *The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness, Love and History of the World From the Periodic Table of the Elements * by Sam Kean. An excellent read even if you have no interest in chemistry. He manages a nice balance between the science and everything else.
Finished Monster Hunter International.
Owen Zastava Pitt is attacked by werewolf and upon recovery is invited to join MHI. There he learns to fight and kill monsters along and finds himself in a battle to save the world itself.
It was recommended to me because I like Butcher’s work and Glen Cook’s work. If you like long detailed descriptions of gun battles and guns, this can work for you. I found it maybe a little too long on the battles, and I’m unsure if I’ll read the others in the series.
However, I am thinking of trying Hard Magic: Book I of the Grimnoir Chroniclesby the same author.
The best of her fiction IMHO is her first novel, Postmortem. Well written, interesting characters, atmospheric, and a really good puzzle.
Some of her other earlier books are pretty good too. After the first batch, though, they become increasingly bizarre–characters becoming totally erratic, plot points that make no sense, political polemics, you name it. But Postmortem is well worth a read, coming as it does from Cornwell’s Sane Period.
I ended up skimming through most of the book about the New York World’s Fair, it just wasn’t that interesting.
Monsters of Men, the third and final in Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking trilogy, was pretty good (and read with a box of Kleenex by my side at all times). Overall, a terrific series, but I think the first book is still the best.
I’m about halfway through Blackout by Connie Willis, and trying to avoid the Cafe Society thread about it until I’m finished.
The apartment building where we live as has a table where people put out used books for others to pick up … mostly it’s a lot of self-help that I’m not too interested in, but I did grab a 1970s paperback of The Winds of War that I’ve been reading during my commute. It’s goofy, but in a satisfying way.
I agree wholeheartedly with Ulf about Patricia Cornwell, her fiction starts out as solid thrillers, and gets increasing weird and whiny. You’re probably safe for the first three or four books at least before she goes off the rails.
You know that *Blackout *ends without any resolution, right? You’ll probably want to start on the second book, All Clear, pretty soon afterward. After finishing *Blackout *you can safely read that thread up through post #38, to see how some of us felt about being left in the lurch for months. Great books, though.
Elendil’s Heir, I’m 100 pages in to Aztec, and - I don’t know. I’m not thrilled by it, but I’m not ready to abandon it, yet, either. I can’t say exactly why it’s not clicking with me.
Fans of Rothfuss, The Signed Page is going to have a book signing of his next book.
Apologies, my lady of Aquitaine. Maybe it’s A Guy Thing…? Hope you’ll stick with it, but I’ll understand if you don’t (I can hardly complain - I give up on any book that hasn’t hooked me after 50 pages).
I’m halfway through it and enjoying it immensely. But then, I’ve enjoyed it right from the start.
Good to know, I’ll put that on hold at the library ASAP.
I am reading…The Great Gatsby. I’ve never read it before. Its interesting. In fact, I’ve never read Fitzgerald before. I don’t know how I managed to skirt around any of his books as someone whom majored in English in college, but there you go.
I read Gatsby in college as an assignment and it didn’t thrill me. Maybe I was too young? So much to read now, I doubt I’ll ever take another stab at it.
Lately I’ve read The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer, which I’ve discovered is not the basis for the new Johnny Depp movie of the same name, damnit; I Drink For A Reason by David Cross … funny, but short; and now I’m reading *The Gun Seller *by Hugh Laurie. Yes, that Hugh Laurie.