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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 7928352" data-attributes="member: 508"><p>I was on a business trip all week so I had lots of time to read on planes, in airports, and in my hotel room at night. As a result, I finished the following:</p><p></p><p><em>The Scar</em> by China Miéville - A good read, with some great worldbuilding, so much so that I'm definitely going to track down <em>Perdido Street Station</em> by the same author, which is the book before this one. However, as much as I liked this second book, with its fascinating world and its multitude of awesome ideas, I kind of wish it had had a stronger ending than it did.</p><p></p><p><em>Verses for the Dead</em>, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, the latest in the Agent Pendergast series to hit paperback. (My hotel room had a Barnes and Noble within walking distance - score!) The Agent Pendergast series is on my list of books I'm willing to pay full-price for, sight unseen (although I wait until they hit paperback, as all of the rest of the series I have in paperback and I don't like paying full price for hardcover books - I'll just wait the half a year until they come out in paperback). But this was an enjoyable read - Pendergast is kind of like a Fox Mulder in a world where the weirdness is constrained to the more technically plausible - so he investigates weird killings but you aren't going to encounter space aliens or Bigfoot or anything. This one dealt with a strange rash of murders of people who lived in Florida but were killed outside the state and made to look like suicides.</p><p></p><p><em>The Cutting Edge</em>, by Jeffery Deaver, the last book (so far) in the Lincoln Rhyme series (now I have to wait for his new book every second year, like all the rest of his fans - drat!). This one dealt with a series of murders involving people in the diamond trade, from those who carve diamonds to those who simply bought a diamond engagement ring. It had the typical twists and turns in the plot that I haven't ever seen any other writer pull off better.</p><p></p><p>And now I'm reading <em>Unsub</em>, by Meg Gardiner. It's about a serial killer who went off the grid for 25 years and then all of a sudden picks back up where he left off, although the lead detective from the first string of murders has retired and now his policewoman daughter has been taken from her drug enforcement duties and assigned to the team trying to track down the killer (a psycho called the Prophet, who carves the symbol of Mercury into his victims). It's the first book I've read by this author and I'm less than a hundred pages in but I'm enjoying it - not so much that I'd necessarily go seek out her other works, but if I see her name on a book at the library book sale I'd probably pick it up.</p><p></p><p>Johnathan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 7928352, member: 508"] I was on a business trip all week so I had lots of time to read on planes, in airports, and in my hotel room at night. As a result, I finished the following: [i]The Scar[/i] by China Miéville - A good read, with some great worldbuilding, so much so that I'm definitely going to track down [i]Perdido Street Station[/i] by the same author, which is the book before this one. However, as much as I liked this second book, with its fascinating world and its multitude of awesome ideas, I kind of wish it had had a stronger ending than it did. [i]Verses for the Dead[/i], by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, the latest in the Agent Pendergast series to hit paperback. (My hotel room had a Barnes and Noble within walking distance - score!) The Agent Pendergast series is on my list of books I'm willing to pay full-price for, sight unseen (although I wait until they hit paperback, as all of the rest of the series I have in paperback and I don't like paying full price for hardcover books - I'll just wait the half a year until they come out in paperback). But this was an enjoyable read - Pendergast is kind of like a Fox Mulder in a world where the weirdness is constrained to the more technically plausible - so he investigates weird killings but you aren't going to encounter space aliens or Bigfoot or anything. This one dealt with a strange rash of murders of people who lived in Florida but were killed outside the state and made to look like suicides. [i]The Cutting Edge[/i], by Jeffery Deaver, the last book (so far) in the Lincoln Rhyme series (now I have to wait for his new book every second year, like all the rest of his fans - drat!). This one dealt with a series of murders involving people in the diamond trade, from those who carve diamonds to those who simply bought a diamond engagement ring. It had the typical twists and turns in the plot that I haven't ever seen any other writer pull off better. And now I'm reading [i]Unsub[/i], by Meg Gardiner. It's about a serial killer who went off the grid for 25 years and then all of a sudden picks back up where he left off, although the lead detective from the first string of murders has retired and now his policewoman daughter has been taken from her drug enforcement duties and assigned to the team trying to track down the killer (a psycho called the Prophet, who carves the symbol of Mercury into his victims). It's the first book I've read by this author and I'm less than a hundred pages in but I'm enjoying it - not so much that I'd necessarily go seek out her other works, but if I see her name on a book at the library book sale I'd probably pick it up. Johnathan [/QUOTE]
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