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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8941148" data-attributes="member: 508">I was on a week-long business trip this week, so I got through two novels, start to finish.The first was Diablo Mesa by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, and I'm happy to report with this one they're back on form.&nbsp; It's a novel about an archaeological dig in the &quot;Area 51&quot; Groom Lake area, and it's part murder mystery, part police (or FBI) procedural, and dips heavily into both the thriller and science fiction realms by the end.&nbsp; A very good read.Sadly, not so much for the second book I brought along: Ruthless, by Lisa Jackson, an author whose works I've enjoyed in the past.&nbsp; Ruthless is actually three of her early novels: With No Regrets, Double Exposure, and D is for Dani's Baby.&nbsp; I finished the first novel on the plane on the way home today, and much to my great disappointment, it barely even qualified as a thriller - seriously, I think if I had to plunk it into a genre, it would best fit as &quot;romance novel&quot; - not at all my cup of tea, and not something I would have brought as my primary form of entertainment for a week-long business trip.&nbsp; There was still about an hour left on my flight when I finished With No Regrets, but I was so disinterested in starting up the second novel and hoping for the best that I opted to put it away and mess around with a book of &quot;Star Battles&quot; (a puzzle book dealing with placing X number of &quot;stars&quot; in a grid such that there are X number of stars in each row, each column, and each bordered-off shape, with none of the stars touching each other).When I got home, I placed Ruthless back on my &quot;to be read&quot; shelf for a future time when I'm desperate and willing to give it a try.&nbsp; In the meantime, I'm going back to my Conan compilation (a book much too large to make for easy packing and airplane reading).Johnathan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richards, post: 8941148, member: 508"] I was on a week-long business trip this week, so I got through two novels, start to finish. The first was [i]Diablo Mesa[/i] by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, and I'm happy to report with this one they're back on form. It's a novel about an archaeological dig in the "Area 51" Groom Lake area, and it's part murder mystery, part police (or FBI) procedural, and dips heavily into both the thriller and science fiction realms by the end. A very good read. Sadly, not so much for the second book I brought along: [i]Ruthless[/i], by Lisa Jackson, an author whose works I've enjoyed in the past. [i]Ruthless[/i] is actually three of her early novels: [i]With No Regrets[/i], [i]Double Exposure[/i], and [i]D is for Dani's Baby[/i]. I finished the first novel on the plane on the way home today, and much to my great disappointment, it barely even qualified as a thriller - seriously, I think if I had to plunk it into a genre, it would best fit as "romance novel" - not at all my cup of tea, and not something I would have brought as my primary form of entertainment for a week-long business trip. There was still about an hour left on my flight when I finished [i]With No Regrets[/i], but I was so disinterested in starting up the second novel and hoping for the best that I opted to put it away and mess around with a book of "Star Battles" (a puzzle book dealing with placing X number of "stars" in a grid such that there are X number of stars in each row, each column, and each bordered-off shape, with none of the stars touching each other). When I got home, I placed [i]Ruthless[/i] back on my "to be read" shelf for a future time when I'm desperate and willing to give it a try. In the meantime, I'm going back to my Conan compilation (a book much too large to make for easy packing and airplane reading). Johnathan [/QUOTE]

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