Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-35094757-20180517232827/@comment-33215561-20180519031236

Chris, not everyone gets my sense of humor either. My aunt calls it dry. Lol. I’m pretty sure I’ve read something from everything that can be called a genre. Especially if there is murder involved. Murder, not suspense so much. Everyone knows the hero won’t be killed, except maybe in a James Lee Burke or in the “Dexter” series (books not tv show). Love mysteries from Marjorie Allingham to Rex Stout to Dame Agatha to Burke to John Sandford (love that f$&@ing Virgil Flowers) to Elizabeth George, Carroll O’Connell, Charles Paris and even Janet Evanovich (yes and I’m proud of it.) Right this moment I’m reading Reflections on the Celebration of Violence: Popular Crimes by Bill James. About crimes famous in their times but now forgotten. Lots of biographies (especially 70s rock stars (love you Ozzie and Keith Richards)) and old movie stars. Others too but the political figures tend to put me to sleep. American southern writers even if they are morose (I read Big Woods by Faulkner to my son as a child: it rolls of the tongue like poetry). Btw: of all the books I read aloud to our son Huckleberry Finn and Thomas the Tank Engine were the hardest. Conversational English American 1860 or British (can’t remember date but the original Rev. Andry not the PBS show) do not roll of the tongue of this 21st century American southerner (from Virginia - the r is silent to us lol) And true crime: the good, the bad and the terribly written. Capote, Rule, Bugliosi, Rother, Phillip, etc. I will not name the terrible. Because at least they have written a book and I have not. Enough. It could go on forever. Thanks for asking! Enjoyed seeing responses.