A Novel Idea

[montanafan]

Anyone want to suggest some good novels for me to read at the beach?

I'm not looking for anything to inspire or challenge me. I do a lot of heavy historical reading most of the rest of the year. I want something interesting, suspenseful, with a little love, humor, and sex thrown in.

I just finished reading On Secret Service by John Jake and House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III. Both were good, but not that great. I'll be reading Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells next and then Welcome to the World, Baby Girl by Fannie Flagg. After that, I'll need a new supply.

Anyone read anything good lately?

 

[RussianSoldier]

Jack London's Iron Heel

(I'm pretty sure thats the name)

 

[Alienwho]

I had to read "The Bourne Identity" for school a few months ago, and it is the kind of book you were describing.

 

[ChrichtonsGirl]

If you want some funny novels, check out either Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series or Joan Hess' Maggody series. They're both in the mystery/thriller section and are very entertaining, IMO. The Evanovich books (there are six, with a new one coming out in a few days) have a main character (female) who's a bounty hunter - there's a lot of humor, some mild suspense and some light sex. The Hess books (the only series of hers I like is the Maggody one) are full of sarcastic humor - the lead character is a female sheriff in some nasty backwater, inbred town.

I just finished the new P.D. James book, "Death in Holy Orders," and it was pretty good. A nice, complicated English/Scotland Yard thriller - not a lot of sex and no humor, but still good.

I guess it depends on your taste - I don't go for any great literary masterpieces for my recreational reading either, but I like mysteries/thrillers/police procedurals and that's usually what I end up reading.

 

[CromNogger]

"Disclosure"

 

[Helpless]

Penthouse Forums

 

[Sophia]

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature)

Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman

The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal
(okay, that one is non-fiction and maybe not beach reading)

 

[Helpless]

btw, I see you, too, are in Virginia...planned on hitting VA Beach today, but this stupid weather kept me at home BBQ'n and drinking

 

[montanafan]

I've been checking out the titles I'm not familiar with on Amazon.

Iron Heel looks good, thanks RussianSoldier.

The Bourne Identity sounds like the sort of book I'd enjoy, thanks Alienwho.

ChrichtonsGirl, those books sound like they're exactly what I had in mind for summer reading, thanks.

trippy, already read it, but thanks.

Helpless, don't believe I'll be reading them, but if I did, would I find one signed by Helpless? BTW, I'm not in Virginia right now, but I hope to get back for a visit next week. Sorry your beach plans got rained out, but it sounds like you had a pretty time anyway.

Sophia, I'd heard good things about Einstein's Dreams and it looks like something I'd be interested in. The other one sounds good, but it also sounds like it might bring me down, I'll have to find out more about it. Thanks.

:Q:Q

 

[nateholtrop]

whoops! i thought you said novell...hehe

nate