Ho'ing for book recommendations

[adpfromga]

Why we pay for cable  I'm not sure.  Because there is hardly anything ever on.  Even the free movie channel list things I've either never heard of with actors I've never seen - or movies that I know I'll hate.

Yet I cannot convince R we need to just turn it off.  Or make it basic.  I think he holds out hope that one day, something, on some channel

Comments

[kathryntact]

Nelson DeMille and Pat Conroy are two verbose men who write in pretty prose that usually tends to work for me. And because their careers have been pretty long, most of their work can easily be found in the library. Conroy doesn't have book to book characters for the most part, and DeMille doesn't do series but some of his characters do move from book to book.

Also, I've found Tony Horwitz's books decent. Non-fiction, but with enough edge to keep your interest on an odd assortment of things. And Mary Roach wrote BONK and STIFF which are two good non-fiction books, the first about sex and the second about corpses. She's pretty amusing.

If you're looking for a little something dark, I'm going to suggest Jeff Lindsay. He has three books out currently in a series, Dexter. Yes, his books are the books that inspired the Showtime series. The books are much darker, and Dexter is much harder to relate to because he really IS a sociopath in the book (which he really isn't in the show). And if you like the three books (which will be quick reads for you, I'm sure), you can try the TV show which is pretty entertaining.