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June 13, 2006
Reading List
read a mention of the great Robert Crais over at Pun Salad. If you've never read Robert Crais, especially his Elvis Cole P.I. series, you're in for a treat. Cole is an L.A. Private Eye, with an apparently brutish friend named Pike, who likes Mickey Mouse and getting into trouble. Crais is a top-notch writer, and if you want a line on where to start, go to his page at booksnbytes.com and start with The Monkey's Raincoat.
This past week I started a couple new authors (for me). Stuart Woods and W.E.B. Griffin. I've known about both for a while, but because of my tendency to start from the beginning of an author and work my way through, I had some to finish up, like Lee Childs, another great writer with his Jack Reacher series.
I've already read the first two Stone Barrington novels by Woods. I have the rest in a stack. I'm now in the middle of the first The Corps novel, Semper Fi, and enjoying the hell out of it. It starts in Shanghai, 1941, where I'll be in a few days, in space if not in time. I'm going to take several more Griffin and Woods books with me on these next two trips.
If you like mystey/military/PI/justice kind of books, these are all good reading. I should also throw in Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone books, which I just ran through a few weeks ago. The writing and character is very similar to Spenser, but still good reading.
Posted by witnit at June 13, 2006 2:32 PM
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