Fiction
Related: About this forumWhat are you reading the week of November 3, 2013?
The Cuckoos Calling By JK Rowling ~ Strike #12013 Book # 121
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)A really scary novel.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)boston bean
(36,529 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)Well-plotted and written.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)Just started it so don't yet have an opinion on if it's good or not. But I've never read a Baldacci book that I didn't enjoy.
pscot
(21,041 posts)This was published back in the 50's as a 3000 page series of 12 novels. Critics called it Proustian, but Proust is a humorless bore while Powell has an ironic bent and a taste for satire. There's a lot of humor, but it's very British, and therefore sometimes hard to detect. The series follows the lives of 4 men from Public School through late middle age. There's a strong sense of life as it's being lived, seen through the eyes of one of the men, Nick Jenkins. If you like the idea of spending a month or so in another time and place, these may appeal to you. My library only had volume 1 of 4. I bought the rest on line for an average price of about $1.50 plus shipping, for 3 apparently unread and brand new trade paperbacks.
Just finished Stormfront by John Sandford, his latest (I think) of the Virgil Flowers series. The funniest one yet.
Also, in the middle of listening to The Circle by Dave Eggers. Simultaneously hysterically funny, probably prophetic, and downright scary. It gets a bit tedious - I'm about halfway through - but it is a fun read. Oh, maybe it's also biting satire. A little of everything. Really takes some major swipes at social media and Google-like companies.
Moe Shinola
(143 posts)...did finish Mindplayers, by Pat Cadigan. My Booklikes review:
http://moeshinola.booklikes.com/post/682048/mindplayers-review
Mz Pip
(27,939 posts)Where'd You Go Bernadette. Then read a cute cat mystery, Cat on the Edge.
Just started The new Donna Tartt novel, The Goldfinch.
Paladin
(28,979 posts)Very dark, but very worthwhile.