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[cornerofmadness]

I could not sleep last night. i went to bed at my normal time. I was still awake at 2 Am and woke up every hour there after. Ugh. Shoot me.


Also, I can not catch a break when it comes to finding something to read. Everything I've taken out of the library this year so far has utterly sucked. case in point, I grabbed a book written by a forensic artist for the FBI about a mystery centered on a forensic artist for the FBI. I was wondering how this rather limited role job could handle a mysery....

let me ask you would you buy into a character who gets drawn into the mystery because she believes she got her friend into it and got her killed (she didn't. another gov. agency did and now he's regretting not telling the artist but yet he does NOT tell her and get her off the case), solves the identity issue inless than 24 hours (while the other dude had to use her service) by using regular police work then lies to her superiors to hop a plane to follow this man and the crime scene to Italy where it gets into Knights Templar (now so overused it makes me wince)? Yeah I couldn't either....


So what are YOU reading? I'm looking for something good. I mostly read mystery, urban fantasy and a little horror/ SF (don't do romance).

Comments

[going-not-gone.livejournal.com]

If you haven't read Lois McMaster Bujold, I strongly recommend her stuff, especially the Vorkosigan series. It's SF, but with well rounded characters, a very fleshed-out alternate universe, and great plots. Her other stuff is good too, but the Vorkosiverse is my favorite.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that's a series i've been wanting to read. people keep reccing it so I have to see for myself

I've read her Star Trek stuff

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you might enjoy Queen Victoria, Demon Hunter? I'm not that far into it yet, but it begins with a gentleman's invention of photographic porn being interrupted by a zombie attack.

"Really, Perkins," snapped Quimby, "what is the meaning of this?"

"Sir, it's the zombies, sir, " Perkins managed, breathing heavily.

There was a crack of lightning from outside, a rumble of thunder.

"Yes?" said Quimby, still irritated. "What about the zombies?"

"Sir, they're eating the prostitutes."

For some reason I wondered if this might be up your alley. :-) I think there's some Victoria/Albert later in the book, though.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I've seen that one but haven't tried it.

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

OMG this sounds fantastic. Must read now.

[winters-queen.livejournal.com]

I haven't read it yet but I heard it's pretty funny. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that one i had read. it was okay thanks

[sp23.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'll buy a lot of unrealistic crap in my books, but sometimes, they just get completely OTT.

Right now, I'm reading Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo (http://www.amazon.com/Sworn-Silence-Burkholder-Linda-Castillo/dp/0312374976/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265904373&sr=8-1-spell) which takes place in Ohio's Amish country and features a former Amish woman who is the current Chief of Police of a fictional small village. There a serial killer on the loose who may or may not be the same guy who killed four women in the village sixteen years ago. I'm really liking this book.

And, dude, I so sympathize with the sleeplessness. I've done that waking up every hour or two so very often, and I really hate it.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah I mean the person writing the book IS in the profession. I wanted to see something realistic. how realistic is it she's going to lie to her bosses and sneak out of the country?

Oddly enough Ohio Amish (any Amish) are suddenly hot topics in mysteries. I'll see if the library ahs that one

once i got the memory foam bed, i stopped doing this wakingup crap except once a month. When my levels of progesterone get high this happens

[salomesensei.livejournal.com]

I recommend the following novel passionately. Michael Chabon is one of my all-time favorite writers.

Michael Chabon, Yiddish Policeman's Union

Israel fails after WWII and Jews are given a chunk of Alaska. That's the backdrop for a hard-boiled detective novel about a loser detective, his not-loser ex-wife, and a murder mystery. It's brilliant.

I also recommend Rex Stout if you haven't read the Nero Wolfe novels. Awesome escapism and wit.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I've read all the rex stout books, mostly in h.s. and college. I did love them.

I'll see if the library ahs that since that is definitely a different sounding mystery (I'm pretty sure I've read something by Chabon before)

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

...bad Shojo manga titled, "Mixed Vegetables"?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

nothing good?

[hierath.livejournal.com]

I just finished "Flood" by Steven Baxter. Pretty good, but some of the characterisation was a bit thin...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

don't know him i don't think. The mystery that I'm finishing (not the piece of crap above) has thin characterization which is going to be the topic of my next writer post

[enemytosleep]

Um, I'm quite obsessive and tend to read my favorites a bajillion times over and over. Right now it's FMA and Harry Potter.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

haha those I've already read I used to be a re-reader but no longer

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to try and make you read a 700 page Dickens novel again XD, so my second favourite novel of all time (after Our Mutual Friend) is Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye. You might have read it but if not, it's awesome. It's a mystery, gorgeously written and it makes me cry for reasons I can't really reveal without spoiling the plot. It's about a complicated friendship between two guys (no funny business unless you're mining the subtext, though) and - gah, it's amazing. Helen is reading it right now, because I made her.

I'm not very good on modern SF, I need to read more, but I love a bit of H.G. Wells - The Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, The Island of Dr. Moreau. If you want some insane dark sexy fin de siecle Gothic (you do like Dru) there's Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan. Cool, very pervy and very nuts.

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

Oh and sorry to hear about the sleep thing. I've been there, and it sucks.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure i read the long goodbye but since i have no memory of it, it could be time to look it up

I've read just about everything Wells wrote

now the Machen thing is new to me so I'll put it on the look at the library list

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I just finished "To Kill a Mockingbird", which is a wonderful book but doesn't really fit into any of your categories ... have you tried the Stephanie Plum novels? They're technically mysteries.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i have tried them but honestly I didn't care for the Plum books. I've read To Kill a Mockingbird several times

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

I read V for Vendetta recently and loved it, but I'm not sure you would because it's written by Alan Moore and you hated Watchmen, as I recall.

Oh and I also read the first volume of Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. It was moderately amusing but I wasn't left with a overwhelming urge to keep following it.

Right now I'm reading Buyology, which is a book that uses neuroscience research to investigate how marketing affects us. Unfortunately the way it's written it seems to be really pretty dumbed down; I'd like more hard facts and information rather than anecdotes.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I've read it and didn't like it but V is about the closest I've gotten to liking anything by Moore.

Kurosagi corpse delivery service? now that sound interesting

[rain-oubliette.livejournal.com]

Oh God! That book sounds TERRIBLE! Ugh. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth and I haven't even read it.

I just started American Brutus a book about John Wilkes Booth, the Lincoln Assassination, and JWB's run from the law. I'm not sure but I think the author may also discuss the conspiracy theories about whether or not JWB got away and was never apprehended. (That last bit I think is bullshit, but I will have to read the book further to see if it is even mentioned.)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

It was. it's just like WTF?

Hmm I'm not sure that book would appeal to me either