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Nice month Barry. Must have been eerie to finish the Alice Sabo series if the flu is part of the storyline! I’ve been having The Stand flashbacks lately.
Having stopped reading Randy Wayne White fit a while I am curious, do you like the old or the new Doc Ford better?
Pretty good month! I agree with Ann, The Stand flashbacks for sure!
I have been watching the Corona virus news and flashing to "A Changed World". Certainly all the reporting is scary enough to draw the parallel. Less so to the Stand where killing off the world was just a device to set up the story to follow.As for Doc Ford, I liked the old one (Travis McGee light) where you wondered what he was about, not the new one where is is sort of a beach bum uber assassin. Tomlinson is beyond annoying, and a lousy friend, and RWW does not do his women very well.
I guess all of Cussler will be “ghost written” now.
I think some day I’m going to have to read The Stand just so, after 20 years, I’ll finally know what y’all are talking about.Maybe I’ll put it on next year’s determination list in the category of “books I never dreamed I’d read.”
Might still wind up on "books I thought I'd read this year but did not get to". Every re-release gains 400 pages.
Barry wrote: "Might still wind up on "books I thought I'd read this year but did not get to". Every re-release gains 400 pages."Stick with the original!! You can't improve upon a masterpiece, IMHO!
Ann wrote: "Nice month Barry. Must have been eerie to finish the Alice Sabo series if the flu is part of the storyline! I’ve been having The Stand flashbacks lately.
Having stopped reading Randy Wayne White ..."
I am reading the Changing World series too, but not as far in as you. It does seem apt for the times now, I should move on the # 2 when I finish my current books.
I went for Changing World because they did not feel the need to populate the book with zombies.
Barry wrote: "I went for Changing World because they did not feel the need to populate the book with zombies."I like how the people mainly seem to stay nice too and not suddenly all become evil.
Barry and Bonnie: Both are good selling points, thanks!Bonnie wrote: "I like how the people mainly seem to stay nice too and not suddenly all become evil."
Barry wrote: "I went for Changing World because they did not feel the need to populate the book with zombies."
A Grey Man book. Nonstop action from the start as the world’s deadliest assassin tries to stop a human trafficking ring. (A)
Lessons Learned: Alice Sabo
Book 4 of Changing World, where the settlers have established a stable colony, but surviving politicians arrive to try to take it away. (B)
Desperate Measures: Alice Sabo
Last book of the Changing World series. As it has for the last 11 years, the flu strikes again, but seems different this time, causing more mutation than death. Perhaps humanity will survive. (B)
The Precipice: Paul DOrion
Killers can stalk the Maine woods too, even a place as well travelled as the Appalachian Trail. The wardens and police race to solve the mystery of people that are not making it to the end of the trail before more bodies pile up. (B)
The Names of the Dead:Kevin Wignall
Spy type book, burned spy must clear his name with the help of some unusual friends. (B)
The Fixer: Joseph Finder
Well, you can tell it is a novel right off, since a contractor shows up on time with an estimate,e then starts work that night. Beyond that, Finder still manages protagonists that are kind of on the stupid side. But hey, if you can believe that a 20 year old dot matrix printer would still have ink, you might just believe anything. As always though, the protagonist manages to overcome all obstacles by the end of the book, and though broken and bloody, sort of prevail. (B)
Ghost Ship: “Cussler”
Ghost written is more like it. Cussler does make his ghosts conform to some of the elements of his own writing, like the hanging end at every chapter, but is much less likely to slip himself into a cameo in the tale. Here we have another nefarious villain who is bent on robbing the world banking system blind. (B)
Salt River: Randy Wayne White
White has slowly been morphing Doc Ford from the Travis Mcgee figure he used to be to much less mysterious and deadly individual. As Ford deals with the result of Tomlinson;s sperm bank children, he tries to right some wrongs as well, sometimes a bit below what the law would allow. (B)
The Bear Trap: Paul Dorion
Short story. Old Maine guide tells of how he was caught by a murderous hermit in a bear trap and managed to live to tell the tale. (B)
Shock: Robin Cook
Clearly not his finest work. A couple of college girls give eggs to a clinic that would pay them for the harvesting. A few years later, they become curious about what their eggs yielded. When the clinic tells them that confidentiality does not allow such disclosure, they change identities, get jobs there and hack their servers finding that there were nefarious things going on. Twas a bit much for me. (B-)