Good light reading vacation books

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A few more excellent thrillers:

Bad Men - John Connolly
Without Fail - Lee Child
Bones of Coral - James W. Hall
Silent Prey - John Sandford
Prince of Thieves - Chuck Hogan
City of Bones - Michael Connelly
Purple Cane Road - James Lee Burke

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I read silent prey which I thoeught wa real good, and another prey which i thouhgt was just "eh". City of bones was the only connely book I read and thought it an average read, I was told that the earlier Bosch books were better.

Ill check out the others:)
 
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If you haven't read The Kite Runner already, then go with A Simple Plan by Scott Smith.
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Ok, here's my deal with Kite runner. Everybody who Ive spoken to that has read it highly recommends it. Amazon has it at 41/2 stars, those 2 factors alone is usually enough for me to get the book. However, the subject matter just doesnt appeal to me, and maybe I am generalizing. I get the idea that the book is about a boys life in Afghanastan(sp), please let me know what is it that appeals to so many, tx.
 
I read silent prey which I thoeught wa real good, and another prey which i thouhgt was just "eh". City of bones was the only connely book I read and thought it an average read, I was told that the earlier Bosch books were better.
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Most of those books are in series, so yeah, the quality will vary book-to-book. I usually find that when an author I like has a series, the first couple of books are usually pretty good, then they will really hit their stride and there will be several excellent ones, after that they kind of lose some of their originality and the quality is kind of hit-or-miss.

I haven't tried Huggins or Smith (but A Simple Plan was an excellent flick), I'm putting them on my list. I'm always looking for more good mystery/thriller/action writers.

More! More! Surely there are other ET'ers that like this genre?

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Because the it could've been set anywhere. The story much more about relationships than setting.

Read it....you won't be disapointed.


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Ok, here's my deal with Kite runner. Everybody who Ive spoken to that has read it highly recommends it. Amazon has it at 41/2 stars, those 2 factors alone is usually enough for me to get the book. However, the subject matter just doesnt appeal to me, and maybe I am generalizing. I get the idea that the book is about a boys life in Afghanastan(sp), please let me know what is it that appeals to so many, tx.
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Early Wilbur Smith, especially The Sunbird and When the Lion Feeds.

Trevanian - Shibumi

David Morrell - The Brotherhood of the Rose, The Fraternity of the Stone, The League of Night and Fog.
 
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