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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 6949823" data-attributes="member: 20564">Went on a 11 day cruise for our 15 year wedding anniversary.&nbsp; I'm an early riser and my wife and kids ... are not, so I got in a lot of relaxing reading outside in perfect weather.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Finished American Gods.&nbsp; Very good and I love his writing style.&nbsp; I brought with me four more books (had more ordered from Amazon but they didn't arrive on time).I have to admit that I am negligent in reading much of our late beloved Sir Terry Pratchett.&nbsp; So I brought with me the first three guards books:&nbsp; &quot;Guards, Guards&quot;, &quot;Men at Arms&quot; and &quot;Feet of Clay&quot;.&nbsp; Delightful, though not as HGttG-esqe aburd-wacky as I remember the Rincewind books being way back when.&nbsp; Still quite solid.Last as Neil Gaiman's Coraline, which I didn't realize was so short.&nbsp; Really liked it, and then lent it to me 10 y.o. daughter.The ship had a library and I borrowed from there.&nbsp; First was Micro by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston.&nbsp; A very Crichton book - pick one technological advance, introduce it and see what waves it makes.&nbsp; Wrap a story around it that has a lot of exposition to act as a travelogue to this brave new world.&nbsp; Refreshing in that it broke one of the most common tropes, but I won't spoil it.&nbsp; It passed the time.Next was my first John Grisham: Rogue Lawyer.&nbsp; It was entertaining, but in some ways like a bunch of short stories woven together instead of a full-length novel.&nbsp; And little character development.&nbsp; More enjoyable for me then Micro.So Coraline was the only new book I'd call great, though the Diskworld were not far from the mark and it may have been just mistaken preconception.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 6949823, member: 20564"] Went on a 11 day cruise for our 15 year wedding anniversary. I'm an early riser and my wife and kids ... are not, so I got in a lot of relaxing reading outside in perfect weather. :) Finished American Gods. Very good and I love his writing style. I brought with me four more books (had more ordered from Amazon but they didn't arrive on time). I have to admit that I am negligent in reading much of our late beloved Sir Terry Pratchett. So I brought with me the first three guards books: "Guards, Guards", "Men at Arms" and "Feet of Clay". Delightful, though not as HGttG-esqe aburd-wacky as I remember the Rincewind books being way back when. Still quite solid. Last as Neil Gaiman's Coraline, which I didn't realize was so short. Really liked it, and then lent it to me 10 y.o. daughter. The ship had a library and I borrowed from there. First was Micro by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston. A very Crichton book - pick one technological advance, introduce it and see what waves it makes. Wrap a story around it that has a lot of exposition to act as a travelogue to this brave new world. Refreshing in that it broke one of the most common tropes, but I won't spoil it. It passed the time. Next was my first John Grisham: Rogue Lawyer. It was entertaining, but in some ways like a bunch of short stories woven together instead of a full-length novel. And little character development. More enjoyable for me then Micro. So Coraline was the only new book I'd call great, though the Diskworld were not far from the mark and it may have been just mistaken preconception. [/QUOTE]

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