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[Bev]

Lisa wrote: "Eileen wrote: "Hair is over rated.... bald is beautiful!"

It sure is...you've got Bruce Willis, Vin Diesel, Sean Connery, Patrick Stewart, Ed Harris, etc., etc..."

Oh swoon........

[Jim]

Just started and am 25% in. This one is gritty and edgy. Steve's got another winner with this one!

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

Bev wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Eileen wrote: "Hair is over rated.... bald is beautiful!"

It sure is...you've got Bruce Willis, Vin Diesel, Sean Connery, Patrick Stewart, Ed Harris, etc., etc..."

Oh swoon........"

and that chick from the first Star Trek Movie...

[Mark]

Ctgt wrote: "Just finished Gun Church which I really liked. Starting Winter's Bone."

Mike wrote: "Finished Rain Fall by Barry Eisler last night. Really enjoyed it. Looking forward to reading more in this series."

I'm half way through Eisler's The Detachment, and really enjoying it.

And Gun Church sounds like a great premise, kind of a Fight Club with guns idea?

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

I snuck a short Fantasy Story in there The Wizard Takes the Cake which turned out to be very good, actually, humorous (to an extent) and a surprise (if sad) twist at the end. Fun short story by Red Tash clearly designed to be the first of a series of shorts staring the Wizard and his young apprentice.

Upon finishing that, I picked up Thunder by Anthony Bellaleigh (Action/Aficionados Member Author). I wasn't sure what to expect but, so far, I'm glad I picked it up. It was a bit "shuffled" scene wise in the begining (but, that worked for me too) and now it's opening up into a really interesting story (fitting this genre).

Oh, and, I don't know how much of a Heroine Role she'll have, but he's got one heck of a good Lady Cop-Heroine type. (Very nicely done.)

[Jim]

I finished The Hunter, the first of the Parker novels. Quite good, although I had a few issues with it. My review is here:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

[Ctgt]

Mark wrote: "Ctgt wrote: "Just finished Gun Church which I really liked. Starting Winter's Bone."

Mike wrote: "Finished Rain Fall by Barry Eisler last night. Really enjoyed it. Looking forward to reading mor..."

Exactly. I'll be interested to hear what some of the authors in this group think of the book. What do you do to get the creative juices flowing?

[Eileen]

From all the above comments....bald is beautiful... male or female! ; )

If someone has a problem with baldness, just tell them...

....You're taller then your hair!

[Eileen]

Seeley wrote: "Eileen wrote: "Jim wrote: "I just started Operator by David Vinjamuri. I can't put it down!! The writing is VERY good and the story is compelling. Looks like this one will be a Good Ride.

Operator..."

Great review, Seeley!

[Michael]

I'm currently reading Cuba Libre by Elmore Leonard and God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew. Two very different books.

[Lisa P, My weekend is all booked up!]

Just finished Zero Point by Tim Fairchild...great job Tim!

Now off to start Shift Omnibus Edition (Shift 1-3) by Hugh Howey. It's the continuation of Wool Omnibus. Actually its the prequel, was written after Wool, gets a little confusing but I know it will be good!

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

Lisa wrote: "Just finished Zero Point by Tim Fairchild...great job Tim!

Now off to start Shift Omnibus Edition (Shift 1-3) by Hugh Howey. It's the continuation of Wool Omnibus. Actually its the prequel, was ..."

That's on my "Next Read" short list! I've wanted to read that since I heard it was a Clive Cussler contest finalist.

I'm enjoying Thunder by Anthony Bellaleigh. This is very different from Firebird, darker, much darker. It's also a good read! I'm liking it.

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

Eileen wrote: "Seeley wrote: "Eileen wrote: "Jim wrote: "I just started Operator by David Vinjamuri. I can't put it down!! The writing is VERY good and the story is compelling. Looks like this one will be a Good ..."



Yes,Seeley, Eileen's right, thats a good review (you rebel you).

Thunder is a thriller told in first person-present tense too, in parts, not the entire story. Sometimes that bugs me, but Anthony's using it well. Rather than a flash back, it's almost like a flash forward.

[Renee]

I'm reading The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan. Quite the page turner and the best part is that this is book 1 of a trilogy, so I got 2 more to look forward to.

[Jim]

Eileen wrote: "Seeley wrote: "Eileen wrote: "Jim wrote: "I just started Operator by David Vinjamuri. I can't put it down!! The writing is VERY good and the story is compelling. Looks like this one will be a Good ..."

And it is a good ride. Don't miss this one!

[Ctgt]

Finished Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was and am starting Walking the Perfect Square.

[Mark]

Ctgt wrote: "Exactly. I'll be interested to hear what some of the authors in this group think of the book. What do you do to get the creative juices flowing? "

Ironically, given our other discussion, I just went to find Gun Church and it's $12 (£7.49)! I'll watch out for it going cheaper...

I have the most tedious process for getting ideas - washing up. Yup, the most tedious job in domestic administration is usually where I have my best ideas. Unless the missus has Big Bang on the tv, in which case I listen to that instead... :-)

[Scott]

I finished Mistborn: The Final Empire yesterday. Then I started reading Night Shift.

[Ctgt]

Mark wrote: "I have the most tedious process for getting ideas - washing up. Yup, the most tedious job in domestic administration is usually where I have my best ideas"

Makes sense. I'm usually on auto-pilot when I'm cleaning up :\

[Eileen]

Jim wrote: "I finished The Hunter, the first of the Parker novels. Quite good, although I had a few issues with it. My review is here:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/..."

Because of your review I added the audio book to my list, thanks.

[Eileen]

Renee wrote: "I'm reading The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan. Quite the page turner and the best part is that this is book 1 of a trilogy, so I got 2 more to look forward to."

There's been mixed reviews about this series. I've read the series and I thought they were excellent. I'll be interested to hear what you think when your finished with the trilogy.

[Eileen]

Jim wrote: "Eileen wrote: "Seeley wrote: "Eileen wrote: "Jim wrote: "I just started Operator by David Vinjamuri. I can't put it down!! The writing is VERY good and the story is compelling. Looks like this one ..."

So many books... so little time!

Another book goes on the list.

[Lisa P, My weekend is all booked up!]

Renee wrote: "I'm reading The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan. Quite the page turner and the best part is that this is book 1 of a trilogy, so I got 2 more to look forward to."

This one sounds intriguing...added it to my ever growing list!

[Dipanjan]

@ Lisa - Please tell me the antidote to this obsession. How do I stop this "ever-growing" mania/ I just saw that I have around 5273 books on my Kindle Cloud which I am yet to read. I manage to read about 50 a year. SOS. Help!!

[Ctgt]

Dipanjan wrote: "@ Lisa - Please tell me the antidote to this obsession. How do I stop this "ever-growing" mania/ I just saw that I have around 5273 books on my Kindle Cloud which I am yet to read. I manage to read..."

Wow! I thought I was in bad shape and I'm only pushing 300 on my Kindle. Probably have 150 dead tree books laying around. Good Luck!

[Eileen]

I'm with you, Ctgt! I have around 300 books I "really" want to read soon, lol. I try (not so well) to only add books I hope to get to someday.

[Lisa P, My weekend is all booked up!]

Dipanjan wrote: "@ Lisa - Please tell me the antidote to this obsession. How do I stop this "ever-growing" mania/ I just saw that I have around 5273 books on my Kindle Cloud which I am yet to read. I manage to read..."

Wow Dipanjan, I thought my Kindle was bad with 700! The only antidote I can think of is to stay off of Goodreads...but that wouldn't be any fun :) Maybe we just need to take a speed-reading class! I guess if we're going to have an addiction, books is a good one to have :)

[Mike (the Paladin)]

....I know I don't have an Ereader. My books are all paper or audio from Audible or the library. I have a house full of double loaded book shelves.

[Kimberly]

I'm starting

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I've said this before but the title of this thread always puts me in mind of a country song (get passed the advertisement:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3umaLe...

[Dipanjan]

@ Lisa / CTGT / Eileen / Mike - Instead, let us ponder over the thought of Immortality. Every book you read gives you 10 days of extra life. (At least let us all gang up and tell my parents that. They are FED UP of books entering the house more than me staying in one city for long)

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Well...I'm not sure if that's true but I've asked God if I could live till I read all the books I have waiting. Of course I doubt He'll go along with that as I keep buying books.

[Dipanjan]

@ Mike - Did you promise to him in exchange that you will NOT buy anymore books? Bigger question - is that even possible?

[Melissa]

Lisa wrote: "Dipanjan wrote: "@ Lisa - Please tell me the antidote to this obsession. How do I stop this "ever-growing" mania/ I just saw that I have around 5273 books on my Kindle Cloud which I am yet to read...."

Free books on Kindle... the ultimate in over-consumption :)

after reading that, I had to check. I'd deleted a bunch last week after deciding the free-99 cent books were mostly NOT worth reading. Now I have 60 left TBR.

[Dipanjan]

@ Melissa - I bought only one 99 cent book. And it sucked so bad that I quickly rushed back to the premium-priced ones. As if King Kong was chasing me.

[Travis]

Slowly due to lack of time making my way through still in the background part but have high hopes

[Lisa P, My weekend is all booked up!]

Dipanjan wrote: "@ Melissa - I bought only one 99 cent book. And it sucked so bad that I quickly rushed back to the premium-priced ones. As if King Kong was chasing me."

Wool started out as a 99cent book on amazon last year, and now it's turned into Wool Omnibus and Shift Omnibus Edition, as well as just sold the movie rights...so I would say some of them can be very good. And if you haven't heard of Wool, I highly recommend you check it out!

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

Lisa wrote: "Dipanjan wrote: "@ Melissa - I bought only one 99 cent book. And it sucked so bad that I quickly rushed back to the premium-priced ones. As if King Kong was chasing me."

Wool started out as a 99ce..."

I second that, and in the era of Indie Pubs, as much as I liked Wool, dark dystopian and very interesting, I found the Spinward Fringe Series as good or better and in a different direction (being future based, space oriented sci-fi). First book is also an "Omnibus" Origins and the rest of the group is around $4 or less.

Between Wool and Spinward Fringe I have high hopes for Independently published sci-fi (and Dystopian Novels). I was just checking out Jeffery's book. Looks really good too...

[Dipanjan]

@ Lisa & Curmudgeon - I am sending out an Assassin for the both of you. This is a conspiracy. Both of you are EQUALLY responsible for adding YET ANOTHER five books to my "bought-but-yet-to-read" count. With friends like you, I so nee Immortality. Grrrrr!

[Lisa P, My weekend is all booked up!]

Dipanjan wrote: "@ Lisa & Curmudgeon - I am sending out an Assassin for the both of you. This is a conspiracy. Both of you are EQUALLY responsible for adding YET ANOTHER five books to my "bought-but-yet-to-read" co..."

Glad I could help :)...oh wait, I didn't help...but I'm not sorry either, because I think you might enjoy them!

[Sharon]

Dipanjan wrote: "@ Melissa - I bought only one 99 cent book. And it sucked so bad that I quickly rushed back to the premium-priced ones. As if King Kong was chasing me."

I always read the description and only if it sounds like something I might like, do I download it. I also do the same with library books by authors I don't know and while probably don't finish more of the free downloads than the new-to-me library books, I'd say probably a third of the library books are DNFs for me as well.

Again, as far as finding new authors I like and want to read more of ... those I want to keep to re-read, not just ones that are 'readable' ... I can only give the stats.

I added 4 new books from library book introductions to my 'must buy' list in the 5 years before I bought my Kindle. In the 14 months I've had my Kindle I have now added 6 authors to that list and the introductory book of each author/series was a free download.

Pre-Kindle I didn't buy books I didn't know for sure I would like to read and want to keep and now, post-Kindle, I see no reason to change that.

[Lisa P, My weekend is all booked up!]

I agree Sharon, some of the best series/authors I have found have started from a free Kindle download.

[Dipanjan]

@ Sharon / Lisa - My problem is, if I like one book in a series or by an author, I promptly buy the entire series/bibliography immediately after reading it. Being a Business Grad, I inevitably land up asking "why is this free?. If it's fantastic, it should be premium." Therefore, let someone sample free books and recommend and I shall pick it up. If not, I stick to following the dollar.

[Lisa P, My weekend is all booked up!]

Dipanjan wrote: "@ Sharon / Lisa - My problem is, if I like one book in a series or by an author, I promptly buy the entire series/bibliography immediately after reading it. Being a Business Grad, I inevitably lan..."

There's nothing like a good recommendation...that's my first go to spot for books. I can't tell you how many good books I have discovered just from our little group here at AAA. I never would have read Monster Hunter International if it hadn't have been recommended so highly here (side note: another to add to your reading list). Such a great find!

[Travis]

I daily check the daily deals on kindle. It allows me to find many of the high dollar books on sale therefore allowing me to buy more brand name authors at a fraction of a cost. It also allows me to find new authors which I have an addiction to looking into any action type book that has a swatzika on the cover. Throwing nazis into the mix almost always yields good results in action and thrillers.

[Dipanjan]

@ Lisa - Side Note: Tell me where you live. Assassin must visit. (Sigh, my credit card should be taken away)

[Dipanjan]

@ Travis - Avoid . Pretty mundane stuff, even with a Swastika on the cover.

[Travis]

Dipanjan wrote: "@ Travis - Avoid . Pretty mundane stuff, even with a Swastika on the cover."

will make note thanks

[Lisa P, My weekend is all booked up!]

Dipanjan wrote: "@ Lisa - Side Note: Tell me where you live. Assassin must visit. (Sigh, my credit card should be taken away)"

Ha Ha...again, so sorry! I also find that recommending books is just as addicting as finding books!

[Dipanjan]

@ Lisa - Agree. Totally. Keep them coming. As long my clients buy my marketing ideas, the dollars shall flow from my card into the books. My "WILL" shall mention your name as the owner if I pop it before you.