To me, one of the great joys in life is picking up a trashy thriller at the airport and channeling any flight/travel anxiety into said Read the full post.
Aug 28
2008
02:59 PM ET
Nightstand Inspection: What was your last book impulse purchase?
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“Child 44″ by Tom Rob Smith (maybe on the author). Very good book.
Apathy and other Small Victories by Paul Neilan. I was drawn to the cover, which is a sketch of one of those “men’s bathroom” sign figures holding a gun to its head. It turned out to be the darkest, funniest, smartest book I’d ever read that wasn’t written, say, forty years ago.
After watching “the Running Man” movie for the 100th time, I decided to pick up the book. It was the first and only Steven King novel I’ve read.
Despite the often less than subtle contempt Steven King seems to have for cities and people of color (seriously King, what’s the deal with your oddball love/hate/mass stereotyping of Black people?), I couldn’t help but love this book.
King’s novel described a future where “reality tv” keeps the masses from looking out their windows and seeing actual reality. Much like William Gibson predicted the internet in Neuromancer, King nailed the concept of reality tv right on the head. Could it be Mark Burnett’s secretly a “Running Man” aficionado?
After a summer of heavy-ish reading, “The Shack”, “Three Cups of Tea” I found myself needing something light and airy for a 5 hour flight from Phoenix to Philly. I picked up Marian Keyes’ “Anybody Out There?”. It was fine – I completed it before the plane landed. It worked.
I plan to take “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” off of the nightstand and crack that this Labor Day Weekend.
Oooh, DawnLD, I love Daniel Silva. In fact, while I was at Borders, I recently picked up Moscow Rules, the newest. I debated about it, because even though I got a decent discount on it, it was still rather expensive as a new hardcover.
In the last week I also spontaneously purchased The Messenger (also by Daniel Silva), Alibi Man (by Tami Hoag), The Treasure of Khan (by Clive Cussler), and The Bancroft Strategy (by Robert Ludlum). What can I say? The bargain books section always sucks me in. (The worst part is that the book I actually was supposed to get wasn’t there, so I only ended up getting the “extras”, not what I originally needed!)
I try to support my local library since, hey, the books are free, and besides that, I’m running out of shelf space. So lately I think long and hard before I actually make a purchase. But awhile back I impulsively picked up (at a supermarket, no less) Steve Martin’s autobiography, Born Standing Up, and I’m so glad I did. It’s a really fascinating look at his early career and the time and effort it took him to craft his “wild and crazy” persona and achieve his so-called “breakout” success.
I can’t get on a plane without a James Patterson novel and I can usually finish it by the time I land. Easy reads and always good stories. Another author I have recently discovered is Steve Berry. The Amber Room is great as is the Romanov Prophecy. A lot like Dan Brown, Fiction based on Historical facts. Love those types of books!
When I read EW’s preview about the movie “The Road”, I ended up buying the book during a Target trip a few weeks ago. Wow…. What a read.
Anything by Sandra Brown is great for trashy novels reading.
I was in the airport and bought Onyx and Crake by Margaret Atwood and Thursday Next, First Amongst Sequels by Jasper Fford. I started to read the Fford book but put it down because I felt guilty because it felt like I was just avoiding finishing The Last Temptation of Christ. Sigh.
Forget airport buys. How about joining an entire book club? Talk about summer madness – my whole summer has mostly been filled with romances (book-wise, that is). Thank Tod I also managed to read The Remains of the Day and The Wives of Henry VIII (Antonia Frasier). Must admit, though, I enjoyed the romances!