Books I've Read

Five stories crime: The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson; The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith; Pick-Up, by Charles Willeford; Down There, by David Goodis, and The Real Cool Killers, by Chester Himes. I used Mr. Ripley in separate entry, but I finally finished the whole 892 page book. Which is set in 10 point Linotron Galliard. The paper is Ecusta Nyalite. And lite it is! Way too thin. And 10 points is way too small!! The stories are ok, except for Mr. Ripley, but I am not excited by them. Maybe I\'m just not a noir kind of guy.

The life of James Williams who worked with elephants in Burma before and during World War II. Excellent story, I learned a lot about elephants.

Pretty good story, this is books #18 of the series. Very hard to keep track of who is who. I was seriously considering make a list of characters.

A happless gang tries to rob a museum. Very Westlakeish.

Man moves to the country to write a novel. Chevy Chase movie. 2005

If you like alcohol drinking, drug using, cussing and people getting beat up...by the HEROES, you'll like this book. Now I gotta read the rest of them!

P.I. Sughrue takes on a ten-year-old missing persons case Adult themes. Lots o' drinking, cussing, violence, etc. I always appreciate an author who kills off the most sympathetic character in the last four pages after everything has turned out ok. Sorry, just forget I said that. They were already dead, anyway...oops that gives even more away!

P.I. C.V. Sughrue searching for a kidnapped woman, drinking all the alcohol and using all the drugs in Southwest. Not to mention the sex. On the title page somebody wrote "TRASH!" Yeah, but it's really GREAT trash!

Art teacher Quin dumps her boring coach boyfriend. "Fairly explicit sex" the review says. I would say so.

Bob Mayer is joint author. Lucy fills in for a movie director who had a heart attack at the request of her stunt co-ordinator ex-husband, falls in love with a Green Beret, and meets an alligator named Moot. And a really bad pun at the end.

Nell gets divorced and starts working for a detective agency.

I never thought Id say it, but I couldnt finish this book because it had too much sex. The first story, Hot Toy by Jennifer Crusie, was pretty good. The second story, Christmas Bonus by Lori Foster, was pretty boring and too much sex. The third story, Naughty Under The Mistletoe by Carly Phillips, was boring and looked like it was going to have too much sex, eventually. So I quit!

A woman find some unmentionables (not hers) in her husband's car. Very good funny tale, some hot sex, funny lines.

Two women go to Temptation to make a movie. Very good, funny, and sexy!

In 1700s Scotland a girl, posing as a boy, is kidnapped by "spiriters" to colonial America and sold into bondage. Good story with interesting historical background.

I wish I knew more about writing so I could figure out why the second half of the story didn't work for me, but I don't and it didn't. Anyway, a young girl is sent to stay with a relative in a strange old stone house in New Hampshire while her mother is on her honeymoon with her new husband. Charming jacket illustration.

A family goes to Birmingham. Good story.

Analysis of the Mass Media, with applicable Best Of FARK comments. I did not find it "drop-dead hysterically funny", but it was interesting.

A journey of self-realization for a medieval girl. Interesting insight into health care way back then. Yikes!

Enjoyable story of orphan train girl Rodzina traveling west.