Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

What thrillers are you into?

son of witless

My reading is off and on. Because of certain circumstances presently, I have blocks of time where I can read. I love old stuff. The older the better. I would have been better off having lived pre 20th Century.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Hi CD,, been a few days... forgot about this..

I was going to list a long bunch of books I liked but seems a lot of trouble.. but some authors are always good..

John Sandford... best for me.. his first dozen of so books were set in places I knew like the back of my hand, Even one he wrote up in NW Minnesota was near Thief River Falls, my Big town for Christmas shopping all the years up there..

Michael Connelly....Harlan Coben.....Lee Child.....Preston/Child...David Baldacci... C.j. Box.... Steven King.. yes, king is good but a few of his books I could not manage to read.. bad on bad.. but not many.

Turns out, Thrillers may not be what all the books are but close enough..

bunch more.. it can be said I read nothing very good. But did find a bunch of interesting History books at B&N on Saturday..

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Think of this Son, if you had been born back then, we could not have these feuds on OPP... and you could not play on the internet... Both big losses..LOL

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Some good authors there...

I agree about King... Couldn't get past page 30 of "Gerald's Game"... And I've failed to read both "Firestarter" and the second Carrie book a couple of times...

Love to read... Great way to pass the time...

debeda

Tho the second Shining book wasn't bad. I'm reading an A.G. Riddle book "P******c" right now. Started it last night. With what's happening around the world it might've been a bad choice

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

They just made a movie about that book... "Doctor Sleep".... It wasn't great...

But so few of the King movies hold up to the books....

P******c? That'll help your imagination

debeda

Yeah....but very different from now, international bad guys, blah blah.
I really love James Rollins' stuff. I've read every book he's written. I remember his first - it was like strapping in a roller coaster ride His writing has improved of course, as it tends to with all, but he still knows how to write action scenes

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Ive read s few of his... Long while back... Nothing new...

Most writers improve with time.... Few take risks... That's one thing King is good for... He likes to experiment...

debeda

I always check out new authors. Sadly, I'm so old that a lot of the "new" authors I've read over the years include king, koontz, Steele (whose first book was good, but then she wrote it over and over), rollins, etc, etc.
Of the established (when I was young) writers, loved all the classics, but never missed a Walter Farley

son of witless

The olden days had their versions of what we do here. Old men have always gathered somewhere to solve the problems of the universe. Maybe it was in the saloon, or the checker tournaments, or poker games, or barber shops. I go into different McDonald's and listen to them go at it.

Of course geezers can be down right ignorant. Not you or me or course. I mean geezers in general. I was standing at a McDonald's counter just the other day. I was waiting for my food and I reached for the supply of Cream and sweetners they had in a corner for my coffee. Suddenly my arm was pushed away. At first I did not see who pushed my arm away, and I thought perhaps I had inadvertently crowded someone behind me so I gave way. I turned and looked as some rude old POS was grabbing where I had been first.

A younger me might have scolded him or thrashed him to within an inch of his life, but I just watched him and stood back stunned at his audacity. He then went back to his fellow geezers as if he was not an ignorant POS, as if nothing had happened. I wondered how he had reached such an advanced age given his total lack of courtesy. I would hazard to guess that he likely drives his car the same way he behaves at counters.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Clearly, you have it figured out.. and me too...LOL..

son of witless

I always like to have someone tell me the history I did not know. Thank you.

debeda

Lolololhahahaha love the meme. Can't get kids to crack a book anymore, for the most part

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

I found that picture very amusing... had never thought about anything such as that before.. just imagine, as you say,, today kids don't even read.. yet we make similar remarks about them for screen time..