I haven’t actually “read” a book in years since I started using Audible, and I just finished The Rock Hole by Reavis Z Wortham. It’s a mystery set in 1964 in north TX/Hugo, OK area.
I listen to a lot of books on Audible, too. The OHP frowns on actually reading books while driving...
Alright you talked me into it. I put a hold on it in Libby.
I wasn’t a fan of the Gray Man series at first but gave it another try…..really glad I did because it’s a very good series.
I’m also kind of a nerd and track what books I finish……grand total of 67 for me in 2022. I can’t do the audio books though. I end up too distracted and have no clue what is happening LOL
American Psycho.
It's waaaay better than the movie.
It's waaaay better than the movie.
Absolutely, but if a person is sensitive to graphic imagery it might be a pass. The internal dialogue captured in a book versus on the screen has a huge impact on the story being told.
If you like science fiction, I've burned my way through a couple of series lately that I love. It's easier to give the author for one series because Daniel Gibbs has multiple series set in the same world. He writes military scifi but with the addition of an interesting take on religion. The backstory is of a war between a group of humans who escaped from an Earth that had been taken over by the League of Sol, a communistic regime. The Terran Coalition has decided that there's more that unites them than separates them so Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and others fight sided by side to stop the spread of League socialism. The best part is that the religious aspect isn't heavy-handed and doesn't intrude on the overall story. I'd recommend that you start with Fight the Good Fight, the first book in his first series, Echoes of War.
The second series is Backyard Spaceship, by J.N. Chaney and Terry Maggert, is a series about a man who inherits his grandfather's farm in Iowa. In the barn, he discovers a spaceship and a snarky birdlike "Combat AI" that were his grandfather's partners in a galactic police force call the Peacemakers. And yes, I said "partners" as the ship also has an AI. There's eleven books in this series with the final book due in February. It's hilarious and full of action at the same time. If you have Amazon Prime, you can even borrow the first book, also named Backyard Starship, for free.
The second series is Backyard Spaceship, by J.N. Chaney and Terry Maggert, is a series about a man who inherits his grandfather's farm in Iowa. In the barn, he discovers a spaceship and a snarky birdlike "Combat AI" that were his grandfather's partners in a galactic police force call the Peacemakers. And yes, I said "partners" as the ship also has an AI. There's eleven books in this series with the final book due in February. It's hilarious and full of action at the same time. If you have Amazon Prime, you can even borrow the first book, also named Backyard Starship, for free.
I’ll check these out!
I'll have to go look for your first series, and second you on your second! Reading the11th now. And I'll add another series on Amazon, Bob's Saucer Repair (1st title), by Jerry Boyd. I've bought all 30 of them, so far. I keep hoping they turn out to not be fiction, too! I want to work for Bob's Saucer Repair!
I've got Kindle Unlimited, and Backyard Spaceship and Bob's Saucer Repair series are both available to read free, there.
I don't see it in here, so I'll add Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. It's hard sc-fi, about a future where a person's "consciousness" is loaded into a device called a "cortical stack" ("stack" for short) at the base of the brain, which can then be downloaded into a body (called a "sleeve"). Humanity has colonized other star systems through the use of wormholes, and the UN keeps the peace with sleeves kept in storage on the far-flung planets and elite troops, called Envoys, whose stacks can be downloaded to them and be ready to fight in a matter of hours (despite the wormholes, there's no FTL transportation).
The protagonist, Takahashi Kovacs, was formerly one of those Envoys who is now living on the other side of the law. At the beginning of the story, he was killed and sentenced to long-term stack storage (basically, limbo), but a very rich and powerful man pulls strings to get him out and hire him as a private investigator to investigate his (the rich man's) murder. The rich man was murdered in a way that destroyed the stack in his sleeve, and he had to have his stack restored from a backup, so he has no memory of the murder or the events immediately preceding it.
It's not for the kids--there's a scene that can best be described as pornographic, a scene where Tak is re-sleeved into a woman's body and tortured, and an implied scene of disgusting deviancy (even by today's standards of normalized deviancy), but it's a pretty decent mystery and tackles some interesting concepts and ideas about what it means to be human in a world where you could conceivably become immortal or inhabit the body of another.
The protagonist, Takahashi Kovacs, was formerly one of those Envoys who is now living on the other side of the law. At the beginning of the story, he was killed and sentenced to long-term stack storage (basically, limbo), but a very rich and powerful man pulls strings to get him out and hire him as a private investigator to investigate his (the rich man's) murder. The rich man was murdered in a way that destroyed the stack in his sleeve, and he had to have his stack restored from a backup, so he has no memory of the murder or the events immediately preceding it.
It's not for the kids--there's a scene that can best be described as pornographic, a scene where Tak is re-sleeved into a woman's body and tortured, and an implied scene of disgusting deviancy (even by today's standards of normalized deviancy), but it's a pretty decent mystery and tackles some interesting concepts and ideas about what it means to be human in a world where you could conceivably become immortal or inhabit the body of another.
FYI, this week’s episode of Jack Carr’s Danger Close podcast is Ray Porter (the reader for all of the Terminal List books on Audible) reading the Prologue to Carr’s upcoming novel, Only the Dead.
It’s probably easier to listen to it in your favorite podcast app, but here it is on YouTube.
It’s probably easier to listen to it in your favorite podcast app, but here it is on YouTube.
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