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Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
First, I am breaking the first and second rules of Fight Club to talk about Fight Club. Second, this is not an unbiased review. I loved the movie Fight Club. I've lost count of how many times I've see...
Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor
This was not the book I expected to read. I chose it because the topic of it was reported to be before and after apartheid in South Africa. That's not a subject about which I know very much, so I thou...
Present Value by Sabin Willett
Present Value is a novel about a lot of things. It's about corporations, accountants, lawyers, Blackberries, CEO's, Wall Street, bankruptcy, ethics or lack of them, politicians, marriage, family, pare...
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Someone once told me that Cormac McCarthy was impossible to read. The reason, as I remember, had something to do with trying to be too intellectual and as a result his stories were impossible to follo...
Dreamland by Kevin Baker
Dreamland by Kevin Baker was published in 1999 and was named a New York Times Notable Book. It is part of a trilogy Baker has written about the city of New York and its history as viewed from 3 separa...
A Is For Alibi by Sue Grafton
What a difference a few decades makes! I read my first Sue Grafton mystery years ago when the series first began. I'm fairly certain I read this particular book, although that's a whole lotta books ag...
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Atonement by Ian McEwan won the 2005 NBCC Award. At first the story seems to be about an incident witnessed by 13 year old Briony Tallis. At the time, she believes she has witnessed an act of brutalit...
The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson
The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson won the 2007 Edgar Award. It is the fictional story of John Wells, an American and agent for the CIA. He is also the first and only American to have joined the ranks ...
About Richard Price
I have never met Richard Price, nor have I read Lush Life. Further, I do not intend to read Lush Life. So, why then bother writing a post about him and his new book? Trust me, I've got reasons.As I sa...
The Straw Men by Michael Marshall
I chose The Straw Men by Michael Marshall as my book to satisfy the "Thriller" Challenge for the Readers In Thongs Amazing Page Race Book Challenge. Stephen King's blurb on the cover assured me this b...
Bubbles Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer
If you are looking for a book to tell you how to dye your hair green using unsweetened lime Kool-Aid, this is the book for you.Or maybe you're wondering what on earth you can do with that very ripe av...
Murder Book by Richard Rayner
Billy McGrath is a 15 year veteran of the LA Police Department. Billy has a wife, from whom he's divorced, and a daughter to whom he is devoted. The failure of his marriage is all his fault, and he a...
The Woods by Harlan Coben
I've read other books by Harlan Coben, and The Woods continues his tradition of mysteries that make for very good, very suspenseful reading.As the book opens, Paul Copeland is an acting county prosecu...
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
Humpty Dumpty is dead. Was he murdered or was it suicide? It's up to Jack Spratt and Mary Mary to find out what really happened to Humpty as he sat on that wall in The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fforde's f...
The Kite Runner
I am probably the last person in the civilized world who had not read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. I can't really explain why I was saving it, but when I saw an ad at Amazon.com claiming that t...
Players and The Sculptress
Players by Clay Reynolds is a complex story about Eddy Lovell, a guy who can't seem to stay on the right side of the law no matter how he may try to do it. While in jail, Eddy takes Moria Mendle under...
A Spot Of Bother by Mark Haddon
I love books that defy traditional reviews where the reader describes the plot points without giving away spoilers, and then handily sums up with an opinion that may include reader defined stars or th...
Triangle by Katharine Weber
Triangle by Katharine Weber is a historical novel based upon the Triangle Shirt Factory Fire in New York City in the early 1900's. The story Weber tells is the recollections of the last surviving pers...
Simple Genius by David Baldacci
In my next life I've decided I want to come back as the female part of a crime investigating duo that also features a hunky, sensitive, in-love-with-me-but-doesn't-know-it kinda guy. I want to know wh...
Wet Work by Christopher Buckley
Wet Work by Christopher Buckley refers to killing your victim at close range -- close enough to get "wet".Charley Becker's grand-daughter is found dead in her apartment, the victim of an apparent over...
All Encompassing Trip by Nicole Del Sesto
I found out about All Encompassing Trip by Nicole Del Sesto the same way I find out about a lot of books these days: through Shelfari.com. I was surfing around visiting new groups and people on my Fri...
Pieces Of My Sister's Life by Elizabeth Joy Arnold
Elizabeth Joy Arnold is a member of Shelfari.com which is how I came to know about her book and its release date earlier this month. The premise of the book sounded good to me -- identical twin girls ...
Mrs Kimble by Jennifer Haigh
Mrs Kimble by Jennifer Haigh won the 2003 PEN/Hemingway prize for first novel. Mrs Kimble is about 3 women who are all at one time or another married to Ken Kimble. The first Mrs Kimble is Birdie. She...
After The Plague
I just finished reading After The Plague by T C Boyle. This time he's written a book of short stories which is not my favorite genre, but the book was chosen by a reading group in which I participate ...
The Bus Ride, Part 2
"Each week, 3WW will post three (or more) random words. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write something using all of those words. It can be a few lines, a story, a poem, anything. ...
Judgment Of The Witch
Judgment Of The Witch by Robert McCammon is the first half of a two part novel called Speaks The Nightbird The second part, Evil Unveiled finishes what Judgment Of The Witch started. I like the way Ro...
Quarantine and Being Dead
Author Jim Crace writes books that sound as though they'd be very interesting reads.In the first book of his I read, Being Dead, a middle aged couple takes the day off from their lives so they can go...
I've Been Koontz'd
I joined the Dean Koontz Group at Shelfari. Shortly after that I began reading two Koontz books: Odd Thomas and From The Corner Of His Eye. The group collectively is reading Odd Thomas. Right before t...
The Adventure Continues... Ribmz Part 2
Ribmiz took one look at the would-be burglar sprawled out in the street and was horrified. Sure, she'd saved Mother Kisky from harm and kept her handbag from being stolen, but in the process she'd hur...
The Snot Rocket Queen, The Beginning
Before I knew about 3WW, I found Writing Fix, a place that is full of ideas for writing prompts. While I was there I was fooling around with the various novel ideas they've got, and I generated a chal...