Confessions of an Economic Hitman - by John Perkins
This is one of the ones I haven't finished yet - it's interesting but I have a terrible time accepting it as non-fiction. While I have no problem believing in greedy individuals and greedy corporations screwing the people of the 3rd world, I just can't believe in an organized conspiracy between corporations to do same.
Tales of Fallen Malazan, beginning with Gardens of the Moon and through Reaper's Gale by Steven Erikson
It's a seven book sword-and-sorcery series. Which pretty much sums it up. Fat books with too many characters and too many plots but still enjoyable. I'm about halfway through the series.
Hunter's Run by George Martin, et al.
Basic man-hunts-man story but with several twists, including the fact that the protagonist is a thoroughly disagreeable SOB hated by everyone including the woman he leaches off of. Not bad.
Duma Key by Stephen King
Bought it for Mike who loves Stephen King. Been meaning to read it, but lent it to my mother who's been stuck at home with a broken foot for the past 8 weeks.
Hellboy Animated, Volumes 1-3 including The Menagerie
Not bad kid-friendly comics that I buy to share with Mary.
HellBlazer trade paperbacks including The Devil You Know
Yow. Speaking of anti-heros. Very disturbing stories but also compelling. I think I'm going to end up buying a lot of these.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier by Alan Moore
This was a major disappointment. The pop-culture references were cute but no more, and the plot was just... missing...
B.P.R.D. graphic novels up through BPRD: Garden of Souls
Yummy. I eat these up like potato chips (and the the Hellboy books, too).
52 graphic novels up through 52, Vol 4
The ending was a disappointing mishmash, but up til then, it was a great ride.
The Cityof Dreaming Books by Walter Moers
I got this to read aloud with Mary. Easily as much fun as The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear.
The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman
This one is sitting next to my bed, I'm reading a chapter a day before bed. Like all of Hillerman's books it's a good read.
The Red Horseman by Stephen Coontz
My bedside book before The Shape Shifter. God, what an awful read. Not because it was badly written but because it's horribly dated. Somehow I don't want to read about how military adventurers save the world anymore.
Under Orders by Dick Francis
You know, I'm having a hard time telling you what this was about, except that it involved horses and Sid Halley, who is Francis' best recurring character. Somebody got killed, I think. Not a bad book, but it's just kind of blended together with all the other Dick Francis books I've read.
I feel like I'm forgetting something, but I think this is most of it.
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