I've finally got through my back log of reading material, and I'm looking for some new books to read. This happens usually every winter when I'm out of work, but recently I've become rather bored with mainstream literature. I'm tired of all of the paint by number literature that has been put out in the last five years or so. It seems to me that many authors are telling the same story with different characters. To really get any good reading, I've had to look through small publishers and classics, because those books are much higher quality.
If you notice I'm seldom posting here, because I'm either working or reading these days.
My last book was Pandora's Box by Wesley Brian Williams. It wasn't a great book, but I know the author (fellow Raleigh resident) and I'm friends with one of the guys helping him promote it. As an author he has some potential, but it was his first publication. There was some good character development, and the characters were named after people that I know in real life. It was amusing watching their fates in the book.
Before that I finished "Beneath A Northern Sky by Woodworth". Before that I read "Notes on Spain and Spaniards in the Summer of 1859, With a Glance at Sardina" by James Johnson Pettigrew (modern reprint). So I read across the spectrum.
Any suggestions?
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