Elizabeth George is great. Her stories tend to be complicated and dense but are very worth the effort.

I'm slowly making my way through Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell.

The Manhattan Hunt Club by John Saul

Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo - Aviad E. Raz

Very interesting sociological study of how Disney made it's home in Japan.

I've just started Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld. It's about a small town girl who gets accepted to a fancy boarding school on scholarship. The character, Lee, has a good voice in describing the catty politics in her school.

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman....man, I am wishing for a night where I can stay up and really take a bite out of this. I never get tired of Alice in Wonderland-style fiction, especially as dark and rich as this.

I've finally finished Foucault's Pendulum. I really really liked it, BUT...

1) It's just too long, and it really didn't need to be. I mean, I understand that he really was trying to impart the whole process of thought these characters went through, but he could have done it without the excrutiating detail of the historical "facts". I got the point after the first meeting with the colonel, everything after that could have been FAR less detailed. By the end, I was so crammed with so many names and dates and connections that when things from the beginning of the book were brought up again, I couldn't remember what they were.

2) There was one thing I just didn't get, maybe someone who's read it can help me...

Dang it! I want more books! But alas, I was bad and now have a library fine! :eek:

I think it was either GD or CP that was talking about 'The Phantom Tollbooth' on another thread. It made me want to read it. I like it so far. I'm right in the middle. I thought I had read it in the past, but I was mistaken.
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Me likes.

Probably me. I've probably read it 20 times, it's a wonderful book.

GD: I've run into that a few different times, especially with older and/or European authors. The only thing I could think of was that it was to represent a generic place and not commit them to the specifics of any actual place. But I'm just making that up, so who knows.