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>>>Glad you liked it. I suppose my next Littell recommendation would be The Company. Pretty much his magnum opus
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>>>http://www.amazon.com/Company-Novel-CIA-Robert-Littell/dp/0142002623
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>I am back to the classics. Graham Greene and Raymond Chandler. And Lorrie Moore just for fun. You can tell from her writing that she would be more fun than a barrel of monkeys.

Funny you should say that. i just picked up the 6 Charlie Chan books by Earl Derr Biggers. I also have all the Fu Manchu stories by Sax Rohmer. I haven't read them yet. I think I'll save them for when I retire. Same with Ngaio Marsh, I've been buying (and not reading) her stuff at used book stores for years, and I think I now have everything. Naturally, they're now re-publishing all her stuff in three story volumes.

I tried reading Mickey Spillane, but I find I just don't much care for his books. It's the same thing over and over again and I get really bored with it.

The old classic stuff can be a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to a lot of good reading some day when I finally decide I'm done with commuting.