This one from seawasp.

1) What author do you own the most books by? Not sure. With the weekend's acquisitions, I have 32 Saint books, so that's probably the highest.  The Agatha Christie and Nancy Drew collections surpass that, but both are jointly owned by my mother and I. And the majority of the Louis L'Amours are Nathan's.

2) What book do you own ( Read more... )

This time I'm quick with another Alistair MacLean review!  In the past year I've pretty much exhausted his pre-1970 books.  Now I'm working my way through the later ones. (Complete list and links here.)  I'm not bothering to read them in order, since by most accounts their quality, although uniformly poor in comparison to his previous excellence, ( Read more... )

I've had a few friends-list additions (Yay!) since I last wrote about Alistair MacLean, one of my Favorite Authors Evah. To sum up, since explaining would take too long, he wrote action/adventure/spy novels from the 1950s to the 1980s. They particularly appeal to me because they (1) are really exciting, (2) are complexly and carefully plotted, (3) ( Read more... )

Smith and Schaeffer have just torched a German train station, sort of accidentally on purpose.

Schaffer said:  "They're not going to be very pleased."

"I shouldn't think so."

"They're really going to go after us now.  They've Doberman pinschers up at the castle and I've no doubt they have them at the camp too.  They've only to bring them to the ( Read more... )

I read Dracula for the third time over the the trip last week.  I guess maybe it's time to buy my own copy instead of frequenting the library, no?

This is not a genre I seek out.  Dracula is the extent of my exposure, excepting some OTR episodes I was unwary enought to listen to.  And although I like the book; in fact it kept me up until I got ( Read more... )