I'm re-reading the entire Kinsey Millhone "alphabet series" of detective novels (A is for Alibi, etc) by Sue Grafton.
Grafton started writing these novels in the mid '80s, back when I was in gradual school. I read most of these so long ago that, by & large, they're new to me.
It's fun to read about what was commonplace, and what was considered "high-tech", back then. For instance, Kinsey seems to spend a lot of time looking for pay phones.
I am reading the biography of Steve Jobs that my son purchased and did not get around to reading yet.
Part are interesting, however, I am now into the part of the book that deals with his w**k years.
I keep asking myself why I am reading about someone else's w**k experiences.
I'm reading the bio of Steve Jobs, too. So much is very interesting and was unknown to me. He was apparently a very difficult man for those who had to work with him.
I worked in Silicon Valley for 25 years. There are a lot of brilliant but disturbed types there. There is lots of wealth created and who's to say that's good or bad. I don't know about Jobs but do not believe the hype. Full disclosure, I never was an Apple fan and do not believe in worshipping any corporate type and/or product.
That is not to say that reading a Steve Jobs bio is not a good thing.
It being Thanksgiving already here, today is the perfect day to post that I just read I am Pilgrim, a thriller along the lines of the 1980's Bourne books. The book's main plot is around Middle East terrorism, but there are lots of subplots in different parts of the world. At Amazon there are many rave reviews and a handful of equally negative reviews. I was one of those who liked the book a lot!
I'm reading Erik Larsen's new book Dead Wake. It's about the Lusitania. I really enjoy his books.
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I re-read A Walk in the Woods before seeing the movie, and like them both.
Nexus is a nanotechnology that allows human minds to link up. But rogue scientists are using it to turn ordinary people into killers (shades of Richard Condon’s classic novel The Manchurian Candidate). The American government recruits—in other words, blackmails—Kade Lane, a grad student who’s been known to tinker with Nexus, to get close to the suspected leader of the mind-control program. But, as Kade soon discovers, one man’s villain is another’s visionary, and he’s forced to choose sides in a hurry, before someone else decides he’s too dangerous to stay alive. Naam has set himself a difficult challenge here: he’s telling a story in which much of the action and dialogue takes place inside the characters’ minds. But he succeeds admirably: one scene, in particular, in which a character races to make changes to the Nexus system by reprogramming it inside his own head, is nail-bitingly tense, when it could easily have come off as preposterous. The dialogue might be a bit raw in places, and there might be a slight overuse of exclamation points, but those are minor rookie mistakes. What matters here is the remarkable scope of the story and its narrative power. --David Pitt
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson. Very interesting history, well told.