Very old and a so-so read. The author has all of the prejudices of his time.

Mailer being Mailer, it's by turns horrifying and entertaining.

We are reading all the Tony Hillerman books in order. He improves over time. Highly entertaining if you like the subject matter.

I've read all of Tony Hillerman's books, although it's been awhile now. I can't remember which title I picked up first in a matter of random chance, but as soon as I read that one book I set out to read all the way through his entire oeuvre in order, starting with his first book.

Great plots, wonderful characters, and the incredible landscape of the Southwest woven in throughout. They are beautiful books!

I was very sad when Hillerman died, he seemed like a truly good soul. And I will miss never being able to follow Leaphorn or Chee through another new mystery again. I will always treasure the journeys those books took me on.

That incredible landscape.

My dad totally loved it, he had never been in that part of the country before. I'd only been in New Mexico one time years before, so it was a wonderful trip of discovery for both of us. And while we did not travel on the sorts of back roads we would have needed to follow in order to enter into the heart of the Navajo reservation and Tony Hillerman territory, just being close was great fun.

I will always have the image in my memory of when we came around a curve of the highway and I could see Ship Rock in the distance. It was so awesome - we were far away, but there it was all the same, like a dream made real.

I'm glad your dad loved it. My mother is gone now, but when we were young she used to tell us about the beauty of the Southwest. We had visited our aunt in Phoenix by car when we were just babies. That would have been in the early 1950s.

It really was reading Tony Hillerman that made me start dreaming about going to see that part of the country. Reading all those wonderful books made me so hungry to be there I finally couldn't NOT go.

I've really enjoyed our little exchange.

The Returned by Jason Mott. The new ABC series "Resurrection" is based on it.

The book was for me, ultimately unsatisfying. It's not a plot spoiler to say that the set up is that people start returning from the dead. In the book at least, a lot of questions that should have been obvious to the most casual observer were never asked, such as, were the bodies of the returned still in their graves?

It will be interesting to see how they do the series. Unfortunately, like most series on U.S. networks it's undoubtedly conceived as being open ended. The Brits will take something and do a deliberately limited series and that to me is much more effective.

It's a good book (if you like sagas that include magical themes) ... and it is a long book. I'm almost finished.

Most recently recommended book from my book club - The Martian by Andy Weir. Folks are really liking that one!