Edit: I put it up there with Michelangelo's "David" in Florence, the Eiffel Tower and Teotihuacan's Pyramids of the Sun and Moon in Mexico as 3 "must sees" for anyone.

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EDIT #2: Now on to heavy "discipline reading" in Nobel Prize winner in astrophysics George Smoot's "Wrinkles in Time". A little Big Bang and proof by cosmic background radiation detection. We shall see if it ranks up there with one of my favorite biographies, Walter Isaacson's "Einstein".

@londonbrown said:

Coben is great if you like those see if you can find books by English author Mark Billingham and his Tom Thorne series. They’re excellent. 

He has a series called the five on British TV. We just watched it!

I will look for the other  fellow.

Also watching British TV series line of duty. Really good stuff.

WSS

Now just started "Origin" and when that's done I move on to a real "thriller", Wrinkles in Time by George Smoot. I like to sprinkle in Science and History with fiction. My dad used to call it, "Discipline reading". It's how I keep an active mind rather than just an entertained one.

@texasag1969 said:

Just now starting "Tell No One" by Coben and then plan to read "Origin" by Dan Brown because it takes place in Spain including places I have been in Madrid and Barcelona. My brother older went there with me and says I will love the book.

I have read Origin.....it starts out in Bilbao, then moves to Barcelona.

@westside-steve said:

Actually I started a long long time ago and I got deal breaker on cassette. He has a series of books starring Myron bolitar, a college basketball star who blew out his knee first day in the pros. Went to law school became a sports agent and has a series of adventurous with some of his clients accused of crimes. He also writes stand-alone books and tell no one is a good one. The reason I like him so much is that so many authors just pull attending out of their butt but his last two chapters are intricate and put the whole thing together.

WSS

Just now starting "Tell No One" by Coben and then plan to read "Origin" by Dan Brown because it takes place in Spain including places I have been in Madrid and Barcelona. My brother older went there with me and says I will love the book.

Who's your favorite character? 

Mine is Thomas because even though he knew Jesus personally, he was still allowed to doubt even after the resurrection.

One of  the most spiritual experiences I have ever had was in the Gothic Cathedral in Barcelona, Spain. My grandmother was the most spiritual person I have ever known even though her first born daughter died at age 3 from the Spanish flu epidemic and her first born son (for whom I was named) died at age 17. My son lost his first son at 5 1/2 months in vitro. So as I'm walking through the cathedral I am looking at the panels inside that depict the life of Jesus and I'm thinking about my Catholic grandmother & my son with those lost children and I come to the panel showing doubting Thomas being allowed to feel the wounds of Christ. Like I said he has always been my favorite and just as I recognize it I hear for the first time the start of singing from the children's choir and I knew that it was my grandmother's way of telling me there is hope for us all. Because I was named for her deceased son, we had always had a very special bond.

I am also in the middle of listening to The Secret Adversary....by Agatha Christie.  It was written in like 1922.  I do go in for this sort of "fluff" if you want to call it that at times....especially in CD books.  It takes me like a month or 6 weeks to get through these sometimes because I continuously fall asleep listening to them.  Which is fine.....and sometimes why I get them.

@westside-steve said:

If you are a fan of mysteries I don't think anyone is better than Harlan Coben.

WSS

Coben is great if you like those see if you can find books by English author Mark Billingham and his Tom Thorne series. They’re excellent. 

@diehardbrownsfan said:

My favorite:

Should get the Pulitzer for Fiction!

"Saddle Boys" western novels. Never heard of them before. The pony boys novels are not written well, but the saddle boys were, and were fun to read.

   Still working on my novel. Have tended to only work on it in the winter. Went three years without touching it, LOL.

Almost done. Over 34,000 words, 120 pages, but not structured for publication or anything yet. Like conversations between different people are on separate lines, the correct font/size, etc. We see if I can finish it before May.

Reading '19 Minutes to Live" as well

@texasag1969 said:

Tell me a little more about Harlan Coben-which is your favorite book from him?

I just ordered a good used copy of Tell No One for $5 that included shipping thru Amazon.

Any other you would highly recommend?

Actually I started a long long time ago and I got deal breaker on cassette. He has a series of books starring Myron bolitar, a college basketball star who blew out his knee first day in the pros. Went to law school became a sports agent and has a series of adventurous with some of his clients accused of crimes. He also writes stand-alone books and tell no one is a good one. The reason I like him so much is that so many authors just pull attending out of their butt but his last two chapters are intricate and put the whole thing together.

WSS

@westside-steve said:

I go through a lot of them, audio books. My vision is weird so it prevents me from reading the printed word well enough to enjoy a novel. Mostly crime Thrillers and Mysteries or legal drama. With the occasional heavyweight or classical literature tossed in.

If you are a fan of mysteries I don't think anyone is better than Harlan Coben.

WSS

Tell me a little more about Harlan Coben-which is your favorite book from him?

I just ordered a good used copy of Tell No One for $5 that included shipping thru Amazon.

Any other you would highly recommend?

@the-gipper said:

It would not be for books.  It would be for movies, TV series etc.  For "streaming books"  wouldn't Kindle or some such thing do that basically?

You can get books and magazines if you have amazon prime, I've never used it but it appears there.

I just clicked on prime:

1-16 of over 1,000 results for .........kindle&prime.......  "prime books free for members"   (I had to kill the link)