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Originally Posted by on2wheels52
If I haven't found something at the library after ten minutes I check if I've missed anything by Elmore Leonard. No TV, so 3 or 4 books every two weeks.
Jim
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I like Elmore Leonard. Check out the tv show "Justified" which is based on his characters and has a lot of the same attitude; combines two of his strengths - crime and westerns.
I like Chandler and Hammett as well, but my favorite modern is probably Lawrence Block, the Scudder and Rhodenbarr books. I also like Walter Moseley.
For action, I like Stephen Hunter's "Sniper" series with Bob Lee Swagger. The first book was recently made into the movie "Shooter" with Mark Wahlberg, which didn't do it justice.
For fun, nothing cracks me up like PG Wodehouse, but I've got a lot of SJ Perelman, too.
And while the first book I downloaded to my iPad was "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," what I re-read almost every year is "The Razor's Edge" by W Somerset Maugham. Trivia: BIll Murray only did the Ghostbusters sequel to do a(nother) movie version of it (which was awful, btw).