OK, I just finished Donald Westlake’s “What’s the Worst That Could Happen?” The writing was OK, but it was the best damn edited book I’ve ever read!
Just started the bizarre and delightful “Collected Tales and Fantasies” of Lord Berners, recommended to me by Ukelele Ike.
I loved Focault’s Pendulum for it’s language and the obscure Knights Templar conspiracy theory. But I can appreciate David’s disappointment in the book’s climax or lack thereof.
I’m a huge Donald Westlake fan. A Westlake book can be a great read – humor and crime all in one.
I started Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood yesterday. the wife got it and I picked it up and started browsing. Not nearly as girlie as I thought it would be.
Plunging like stones from a slingshot on Mars.
Welp, finished Pratchett’s Fifth Elephant and am now starting on Holt’s Who’s afraid of Beowulf and rereading Tolkien, and Applied Cryptography
>>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.<<
—The dragon observes
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Magnificent to behold - Greatly to be praised.
Just finished The Hobbit for the first time. I just never got around to reading it earlier. It was really good, and someday, when I have the time, I’ll read the rest.
Currently working my way through all of the Dorothy Dunnett books – I’m on book three. Also reading “The Rosewood Casket” by Sharyn McCrumb – I love reading her books, she writes like a folksinger. Just finished “Friday the Rabbi Slept Late”. I’m sort of in a mystery mode right now, working on the Dorothy L. Sayers books, too (just finished “Busman’s Honeymoon”)
Goldmines & Guttersnipes By Mark Twain.
A collection of Twain’s humorous newspaper articles from his day living in San Francisco in the 1860’s. Funny and historically enlightening.
YO-HO, ME HEARTIES! ALL HANDS ON DECK FOR THE MUSICAL BATTLE AT SEA!