Dog On It by Spencer Quinn.

Bernie and Chet make up the Little Detective Agency. Chet, the narrator, is an observant and reasonable fellow - unless distracted by a parrot or cat. Chet is a mixed breed, K-9 school dropout. (There was that unfortunate incident with the cat)

It's a fast read and I found it to be thoroughly lovable - and a good detective story. If you like this sort of thing, this is just the sort of thing you would like.

Whether by accident or intent amazon.com recently had most of the Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events books available for free download.

So I downloaded all of them. I am swiftly working my way through them.

If it was an accident, read 'em fast. Can't Amazon undownload things for your convenience?

I've just finished reading Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn.

It's the story of Fred and Rosemary West and the house of horrors.

I found the story interesting, but I can't believe the poor writing style exhibited by the author, and the editors should be shot for letting it pass as it was. I almost stopped reading it because it was so poorly written, but I really wanted to know what motivated them to be as they were.

I've got that.
I liked it.
Then again I was drinking pretty heavily back then...

As I read a lot that's quite a few books, so here we go :

Manuel Puig - El beso de la mujer araña (Spanish)
Jean M. Auel - Shelters of stones (English)
David Weber - At all costs (English)
Frank Thilliez - L'anneau de Moebius (French)

I'm currently trying to get through Paradise Lost by John Milton.

French being my native language.

Neverwhere- Neil Gaiman

Dresden Files #12: Changes
 

I just finished the 12th Dresden files book. Absolutely awesome! Very very dark, with flashes of gallows humour and snarkiness. A lot of loose threads were tied up (burned, slashed, shredded) and the hero took another onslaught of suffering and pain. Pathos, passion, and absolutely cold-blooded ruthlessness are mixed with epic conflict.

I could barely put it down.

Awesome.:thumb:

Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game

An old one but still good

'The Right Man' by David Frum (great bedtime reading):zzz:

(recently) 'War of Gifts' by Orson Scott Card :turd:

Who the hell names their kid 'Orson' anyway?

Orson Welles and Orson Bean

And let's not forget Mork's boss.

It was indeed a stinker. Just 'cause Ender is in it, doesn't mean it's any good. I read it to my daughter, because we'd read a couple other Ender books together, and she was also not impressed.

Just got my new Sookie Stackhouse book, "Dead in the Family." Pre-ordered from Amazon for $10. I mean -- you can barely get a paperback book for $10 these days.