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Jozef Brandt
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Just remember that Storm Front was Butcher's first book and it's a little rough compared to the books later in the series. He has gotten better with each new book, and the most recent ones are amazing IMO.
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Ronald Joseph
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Just remember that Storm Front was Butcher's first book and it's a little rough compared to the books later in the series. He has gotten better with each new book, and the most recent ones are amazing IMO.
If this one is considered rough compared to its successors, then I definitely have some great reading ahead of me. The opening page grabbed me and made me feel "right at home."
It's the little things like this - a good book - that make me a very happy man. I pity those who don't (or won't) read.
*edited for typos
Edited by Ronald Joseph on 28 August 2013 at 10:20am
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Jan Bentzen
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You should try the "Agent Pendergast series" by writing team Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child - I think the writers call them "techno-thillers". These are simply the best books I have ever read.
Edited by Jan Bentzen on 29 August 2013 at 5:05am
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Robert Cosgrove
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It strikes me that I neglected to mention a couple of great series simply because they're a few years old now and the authors are no longer with us. But I heartily recommend the 87th Precinct books of Ed McBain and the Travis McGee books by John D. MacDonald.
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Joe Smith
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I like the CLIVE CUSSLER Dirk Pitt Adventure books.
Cussler was the actual deep sea salvage liaison for the Navy or some
such, and reading him romanticize the tech used in his books
mesmerized me the way JBs tech drawings do.
Plus, his pacing is excellent in my opinion.
I started with TROJAN HORSE or ARCTIC DRIFT, I believe.
The stories always mix a bit of Indiana Jonesish treasure hunt with an
equal parts of ecological preservation and heroic sacrifice.
My father and I trade books on and off, comparing notes as we finish.
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Kevin Brown
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I have one book on order at the library to pick up (If Kennedy lived: the first and second terms of President John F. Kennedy) and then I'm back to looking for something new to read. So I came back to this thread! Longmire is next on my reading list. However, I wanted to make sure I was going to read the books in order and I came across this website: http://www.orderofbooks.com/ As far as I can tell, if you're looking for a series of books to read, it has a large variety to choose from.
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Greg McPhee
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James Patterson's Alex Cross series of books. The later ones aren't as good as some of the previous ones in the series, but they all move at a good pace and contain a great amount of twists and turns. They are designed as entertainment, so do not go in thinking of them as a procedural type of novel.
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Jesus Garcia
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Took a break from reading The Shadow novels to read Perry mason novels.
There's something like 80 of them but they're a lot of fun for people who dig mystery fiction from the middle pulp era. I'm only on the third but I'm hooked.
I also find that these novels are remarkably modern despite being published in 1933/34. About the only thing that reminds me of their date of publication is when someone has to put money in a pay phone, start their cars by cranking, or worry about water in the car's radiator.
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Stephen Churay
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I'm a big fan of the Destroyer series by Warren Murphy and Richard
Sapir.
For some old time adventure I'd recommend the Doc Savage series by
Lester Dent.
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Donald Miller
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Wildcards....edited by George RR Martin.
I really enjoyed these books...Imagine a gene bomb goes of over New York City and causes widespread mutations in the populace....Some get powers, and some are just cursed,,,it a fun comic book read in novel form.
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Matthew Chartrand
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The Harry Bosch detective novels by Michael Connelly is a favorite series of mine.
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