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being old myself i hope lucas stays active i'm trying to remember just how old he is,but i can't recall any mentioning i've always seen him as a front-edge boomer(now approaching 60),especially during whatever prey novel it was that he was picking out a top 100 songs for his new ipod as a...

it certainly does the judge is one evil mofo it's being made into a movie,and some movie forums are arguing who should play the judge i went with john goodman

lol very few do,at least to the point of 'out loud' however,a book i just recently read did so i started a thread about it somewhere in here the diceman luke rhinehart

library library i stopped buying books about 20 years ago,as i found i just had too many for my smallish apt i donated many cartons to the library,mostly paperback i have both a city and a county card the city is larger,but parking sux the county branch is smaller,one town over, but has a...

bookmark the latest library receipt for late fees

brits ian rankin's john rebus series

i read both of those guys as they come out how about michael connely's harry bosch series john d macdonald's entire 21 book travis mcgee series i just read the latest john sanford he's introducing a new character and i think,but hope not,that he's sending lucas davenport out to pasture...

by luke rhinehart,pub 1971 i just finished it a few days ago i became aware of it thru an argument in a movie forum re: 'no country for old men',the novel, being derivative of a 1997 film 'american perfekt',in which the bad guy uses a coin toss to determine his actions( along with a few...

read all the opinions positive and negative i think it may be the best book i've ever read i like mccarthy's language,i like the way he makes words up,turns nouns into adjectives and vice versa,makes you hit the dictionary i'm just glad my library hadn't yet put an oprah sticker on it

try 'blood meridian' many mccarthy fans consider it his best,tho i put it in second place behind 'the road' i discovered him last sept and have read all his stuff except 'suttree',which i just got thru interlibray and will read this weekend

i think it was third grade i know it was'the alexander graham bell story',probably gotten from the school library a real page turner,i recall being caught and chastised by mom for reading under the covers with a flashlight and told i'd go blind i became a reader for life a couple of...

since october i've been on a cormac mccarthy kick,trying to read all his stuff did no country for old men twice,the road twice border trilogy,blood meridian,child of god almost finished outer dark,with the orchard keeper sitting here suttree on order in between in between did the latest...

books read i never really count,but i'd say between 60/80,maybe more some years some i've read twice,so i don't know how to count that i read at least one a week,often two,on vacations three this year i may have done less @#%&#@$ TV went HD,with hundreds of channels that box sucks you in

re tony hillerman,one i forgot and couldn't edit back in tried some pd james,must not have gotten into it for i never went back d sayers,never tried i just might set off a gender war here,but for whatever reason i have a hard time with female writers have tried many,they just don't...

dexter read the first two about a year ago recently finished the third and i'd have to agree with those who say the series is better than the books i just got showtime awhile ago and watched the whole first season in a weekend on demand i'm following the second season and see that the...

new here,only have a few posts,was able to edit some,but earlier posts didn't have an edit option is there a time limit? or am i doing something wrong? thanks

i agree strongly i've read some books as many as ten times,though 2,3,4 are more realistic numbers i started a thread in 'authors' listing many sometimes i pick up books at the library and don't realize until many pages in i've read it already

being new here i've just bumped some old threads of writers i consider favorites instead of going through an awful lot of bumps i'll just list those i consider faves,most of whom i've read multiple times i probably average 70/80 books a year cormac mccarthy just discovered, in the midst...

mccarthy just discovered him a few months ago via a no country for old men movie review am in the midst of reading all his work started with no country the road(read twice in two days,currently residing on my list of all time best) the border trilogy blood meridian,a masterpiece child of...