What are you currently reading?

[JuanHamm]

I started and finished Hombre by Elmore Leonard today. It was a perfect vacation read.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[wease]

I started and finished Hombre by Elmore Leonard today. It was a perfect vacation read.

Have been meaning to read this one for a while.

It’s great. Highly recommended

[JuanHamm]

Just cracked open Miami Blues by Charles Willeford and their is an introduction by Elmore Leonard. How's that for continuity?

[wease]

Nice

[JuanHamm]

I am almost finished with Miami Blues and then it's either on to A Man Named Doll by Johnathan Ames or another Elmore Leonard book. I really loved Hombre.

Does anyone have any recommendations for my second Elmore Leonard book?

I guess there's also the possibility of more Hoke Mosely as well...

[epilogue]

I bet wease has some ideas for you, Tommy.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[JuanHamm]

I think I'm in the mood for another Western. Right now I'm leaning towards Valdez is Coming.

I'm also considering starting the Raylon Givens series because the first book is only $2 on Kindle.

[bart]

Valdez is good but his short westerns are the best things he wrote. For his contemporary novels I like Rum Punch.

[wease]

I think I'm in the mood for another Western. Right now I'm leaning towards Valdez is Coming.

I'm also considering starting the Raylon Givens series because the first book is only $2 on Kindle.

The Raylan books arent necessarily a connected series. You sure won’t go wrong by reading them tho.

3:10 to Yuma is pretty boss if you’re still wanting a short western.

[JuanHamm]

I switched gears and am now reading Cockfighter by Willeford

[JuanHamm]

But thank you all for the recommendations. I'll probably get to most of them eventually.

I don't read much when I'm not on vacation and I'm hoping to change that.

[wease]

Valdez is good but his short westerns are the best things he wrote. For his contemporary novels I like Rum Punch.

Did you read its predecessor, The Switch?

[JuanHamm]

I switched gears and am now reading Cockfighter by Willeford

This book is really great. Fascinating, but a little grim.

[JuanHamm]

Finished Cockfighter this evening. It was excellent. I think I'm going to round out the vacation with another Willeford book. I just need to decide which one.

[BurtReynolds]

[JuanHamm]

I just did a search and my posts appear to be the first mention of Charles Willeford.

You all need to check him out. Cockfighter and Miami Blues were both excellent.

[Malloy]

in bleak moments, days, weeks, or generations, we must grasp what is good. and this thread has reminded me that french theorists have fallen and remain out of fashion

[dad]

do you ever dabble in danielle steele for fun?