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the taking

This is another recent one from Dean Koontz. I don’t know if his writing has gotten better in the past few years or if I just needed a break from him, but I really enjoyed the last two books I read of his. This book was seemingly about an alien …

the colorado kid

Stephen King has a new book out. So much for retirement. This book was published in paperback from Hard Case Crime. One of Brian’s coworkers had the book otherwise we probably wouldn’t have heard about it. It was a story about a man who died on a beach and how …

odd thomas

I finished reading this novel yesterday while waiting for Jake at his karate lesson. I rather enjoyed it. It’s the first book from Dean Koontz that I’ve read in a while and I was wondering how it was going to be. After reading a bunch of his books, I noticed …

honeymoon

This was a book by James Patterson and Howard Roughan. I finished it this past week. While I would hardly call it a literary masterpiece, it was a pretty quick read, so it must’ve had something going for it. It more reminded me of Sidney Sheldon rather than James Patterson. …

mary, mary

I just finished reading this book last week. It was ok. There was a “plot twist” at the end that I saw coming from about 100 miles away. I do enjoy Ed McBain books, though, and I did enjoy this one. It’s just not a “must read”. Ed McBain is …