What are you reading now?

[gherkin]

The Last Samurai by Helen De Witt (it has nothing to do with the Tom Cruise movie). I had to force myself to put it down in order to go to sleep.

Speaking of guilty pleasures, I actually like the Tom Cruise Last Samurai movie.

[gherkin]

Earlier, I mentioned watching the baddish Britbox version of Agatha Christie's Murder is Easy. We very recently made the inexplicable decision to watch a recent remake of her Ordeal by Innocence. I found it deeply objectionable right from the start, but mrs. gherkin prevailed on me to continue watching. It was deeply, truly, horrifyingly awful.

On the reading front, I've kind of hit a brick wall. I finished rereading the Lord Peter Wimsey stories, which are great fun, and have finished rereading the various Agatha Christies that I didn't know so well. I have read a couple of the Father Gabriel mysteries, which are not bad at all, and need to try to get ahold of the rest. I dunno how many there are. Maybe 4 total, so that won't last long. Good mysteries are hard to find. I like cozy mysteries, not like Dashiel Hammet stuff.

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Nero Wolfe?

[Tired]

Going to try your suggestion with "Jurassic Park".

Ohh, yay! I hope you like it! The book is fun. You need to put yourself back in the late 80s/early 90s before computers were so ubiquitous.

[Tired]

One of my other (somewhat) recent favs is Ready Player One. There were maybe 2 pages early on with a slight at God/religion in general and then another 2-3 pages later on (about sex) that didn't improve the book in anyway and could have just been left out. They seem out of place and not sure why the author put them in. But I think that book is a lot of fun.

More on the religious side, I'm going to start reading Army of Angels again. I really like the author's prose and style.