>>Surely this forum needs a diversion, and maybe even an opportunity to pick up a good tip. Michel was kind enough to create this section for us and we hardly use it. What are you reading these days?
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>>This is posed as a straight question, not an invitation to impress everyone with how refined your tastes are. Personally I read a wide range of authors, from potboilers to writers who are as good as it gets. To prove the point, the book of the moment here is "The October List" by Jeffrey Deaver. Stylistically it is a steaming pot of poo. But I keep reading to see how it turns out.
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>Like Naomi, I go to the library and find a book in the "New Best-Seller" section. If I like it I get as much as I can from the archives, trying to read a series in sequence.
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>Very little of what I read has anything that would qualify it as a Literary Masterpiece. It's mostly mystery with some science fiction thrown in. Over the past two or three years I've found
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>James Patterson - Women's Mystery Club / Private
>Johnathon Kellerman - Alex Delaware series and others
>Harlen Coben - Myron Bolitar series and others
>John Sanford - "Prey" series, although I've stopped this
>Stuart Woods - all of it
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>I also continue the stuff I've been reading for years.
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>W.E.B. Griffin
>Harry Turtledove
>Robert Parker (and his "heirs")
>Dewey Lambdin
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>David Weber - Honor Harrington, etc.
>David Drake
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>With an occasional "good" book thrown in every once in a while.

We definitely have Harlan Coben in common. I think I have read all of his books. My favorite character (of course) is Win. Like Clete Purcel in the Dave Robicheaux series or Joe Pike in the Elvis Cole series, when he shows up all hell breaks loose.