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Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon June 20, 2022 3:05 am
by JuanHamm
I started and finished Hombre by Elmore Leonard today. It was a perfect vacation read.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon June 20, 2022 3:21 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon June 20, 2022 1:31 pm
by wease
tragabigzanda wrote:JuanHamm wrote: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
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon June 20, 2022 7:55 pm
by JuanHamm
Just cracked open Miami Blues by Charles Willeford and their is an introduction by Elmore Leonard. How's that for continuity?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon June 20, 2022 9:20 pm
by wease
Nice
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue June 21, 2022 1:39 pm
by 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...
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue June 21, 2022 1:46 pm
by epilogue
I bet wease has some ideas for you, Tommy.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue June 21, 2022 2:43 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue June 21, 2022 2:51 pm
by 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.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue June 21, 2022 9:59 pm
by bart
Valdez is good but his short westerns are the best things he wrote. For his contemporary novels I like Rum Punch.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue June 21, 2022 10:06 pm
by wease
JuanHamm wrote: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.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue June 21, 2022 10:11 pm
by JuanHamm
I switched gears and am now reading Cockfighter by Willeford
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue June 21, 2022 10:17 pm
by 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.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed June 22, 2022 11:47 am
by wease
bart wrote: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?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu June 23, 2022 5:05 pm
by JuanHamm
JuanHamm wrote:I switched gears and am now reading Cockfighter by Willeford
This book is really great. Fascinating, but a little grim.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri June 24, 2022 1:50 am
by 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.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri June 24, 2022 2:30 am
by BurtReynolds
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri June 24, 2022 6:12 pm
by 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.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat June 25, 2022 2:56 am
by 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
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat June 25, 2022 3:14 am
by dad
BurtReynolds wrote:
do you ever dabble in danielle steele for fun?