Great minds think alike! I have Slaughter House Five on the docket to be read before the end of the year (hopefully). I finished a couple other Christie books this last week. Also finished some chunky nonfictions: Napoleon (Andrew Roberts) and A World Undone (G.J. Meyer) and I am close to finishing Edison (Edmund Morris). All of them have been 5 star reads for me. I have been trying to clear out the docket heading into the end of the year. Sometimes I get too many books started at one time. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend.
Hi Bill, interesting to see all your new titles. I've read both Black Coffee and The Unexpected Guest; found both at my local library and really enjoyed them. Both originally plays by Christie and her estate had them adapted as novels. Black Coffee was the first play she wrote. She had let someone else adapt her Poirot novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd into a play called Alibi which actually was quite successful and helped make a star of the actor Charles Laughton, but she didn't like it and decided to write her own Poirot play, Black Coffee, which was also successful. Since I drink lots of coffee ☕ and drink it black, it appealed especially to me! The Unexpected Guest, which didn't feature any of her famous detectives, was also entertaining.
Hey Ricky! Good to hear from you. I have been super busy and not able to answer messages these last couple of weeks, sorry about that. I read Black Coffee a few days back and really enjoyed it. It was a classic Poirot story. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend.
College in the sixties (history major), Vonnegut and Heller both popular. Have several Ed McBain, Stephen King mentioned somewhere that he liked to read him, RIP Ed McBain. The Hercule Poirot series on PBS is enjoyable, especially a Christmas episode. A Grandpa loved to read Zane Grey and Louis Lamour, it makes me nostalgic to read them, which is a good thing. Finished Never, a chunkster from Follett, several different character lines, a good think, not for the faint of heart. Enjoy your reads.
I am excited to jump into the Ed McBain book. Everybody says he is good. It will be my first time reading him. I really hope that one of these days I run across the PBS Poirot series, I want it. I may even ask for it for Christmas. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend.
Hey Bill, great video. I was so happy a couple of days ago when my wife surprised me with 83 Agatha Christie facsimile editions from Harper Collins! I've always been a fan of Agatha Christie
Oh my! What a GREAT surprise. I am jealous. I hope that you enjoy those. Do you have a favorite story of hers? Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend.
@@billruttenberg I'd be a big fan of "The murder of Roger Ackroyd" but so many I have enjoyed over the years. Very hard to pick favorite. Keep up the good work.
Hello Mr. Ruttenberg! Crimson tipped me off awhile back about your channel and I enjoy the book hauls, reviews, commentaries! Were you able to read Camino Ghosts over the summer? I was a bit disappointed that Bruce was not a main character. But any and all Grisham books are worth reading! I’m looking forward to the release of Framed in October.
Thank you Mrs. Gran! She had told me that you had started watching the channel. Thank you for the support! I appreciate it. I look forward to the time we can meet. I did get a chance to read Camino Ghosts. I liked the book, but like you, I would like to have seen Bruce have more involvement. I hope to get the new book Framed for my birthday. It releases two days later. I hope that it is him doing a lot of the writing. He has a co-author on this one and I hope that it doesn't become like the Patterson books where he just puts his name on it. What have you been reading lately? Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend.
@@billruttenberg I agree about Patterson. Every new book of his has a co-author so I pass. This month I have read Freida McFadden’s The Perfect Son and Lisa Jewell’s None of This Is True. Strictly entertainment and I can read those type of books pretty quickly! Right now I’m reading Just Tyrus, which is a memoir about Greg Gutfeld’s cohost, sidekick. I usually don’t like memoirs but I love the story of how Tyrus went through a lot in life. I’m on the waitlist for the new O’Reilly book Confronting the Presidents. I think I’ll probably get it within a month.
I found a Lincoln children's book you might not have heard of. Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln by Margarita Engle. It looks like the story of an immigrant girl. Have a great week!
Thanks Mellissa. You are right, I haven't heard of that one. Sounds like an interesting book. Hope you enjoy it. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend.
Hey Bill. I'm looking at science books for the science challenge and I came across a book you might be interested in. It's called The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson. It's about science, religion, and the American revolution.
All right! I love me some mass market paperbacks! They're cheap, tattered, and embarrassing like me. And they too are prone to the corrupting absorption of musty odors and mysterious substances. And they share the pain of having found themselves huddled at the bottom of a basement moistened cardboard box full of assorted junk that's even less likely to be purchased than that classy ceramic figurine of a bikini-wearing anthropomorphic frog lounging on the next table over. But I think I digress. Glad you've enjoyed reading and collecting the Agatha Christie stuff so much. I really dig Slaughterhouse-Five, but I'm not sure it'll be your jam. Eh, I don't know; you might like it. There's an interesting historical backdrop involved, but there's also a disjointed story structure, some fantastical elements, and a lot of goofy, cynical humor. Guess it was Vonnegut's interesting way of processing and writing about his war experience. Thanks for the video, and have a good one!
Thanks Bryan. I am interested to see if I will like Slaughterhouse Five. I liked Catch-22. It had a lot of interesting humor in it and the story jumped around a lot from character to character. We'll see. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend. Oh, and don't worry, you're musty odors are ok ... you live out in the country, nobody can smell you.😆
We have similar tastes. I have also recently picked up Passenger to Frankfurt, Slaughterhouse Five and Matagorda. Happy reading 😊
Great minds think alike! I have Slaughter House Five on the docket to be read before the end of the year (hopefully). I finished a couple other Christie books this last week. Also finished some chunky nonfictions: Napoleon (Andrew Roberts) and A World Undone (G.J. Meyer) and I am close to finishing Edison (Edmund Morris). All of them have been 5 star reads for me. I have been trying to clear out the docket heading into the end of the year. Sometimes I get too many books started at one time. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend.
Hi Bill, interesting to see all your new titles. I've read both Black Coffee and The Unexpected Guest; found both at my local library and really enjoyed them. Both originally plays by Christie and her estate had them adapted as novels. Black Coffee was the first play she wrote. She had let someone else adapt her Poirot novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd into a play called Alibi which actually was quite successful and helped make a star of the actor Charles Laughton, but she didn't like it and decided to write her own Poirot play, Black Coffee, which was also successful. Since I drink lots of coffee ☕ and drink it black, it appealed especially to me! The Unexpected Guest, which didn't feature any of her famous detectives, was also entertaining.
Hey Ricky! Good to hear from you. I have been super busy and not able to answer messages these last couple of weeks, sorry about that. I read Black Coffee a few days back and really enjoyed it. It was a classic Poirot story. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend.
College in the sixties (history major), Vonnegut and Heller both popular. Have several Ed McBain, Stephen King mentioned somewhere that he liked to read him, RIP Ed McBain. The Hercule Poirot series on PBS is enjoyable, especially a Christmas episode. A Grandpa loved to read Zane Grey and Louis Lamour, it makes me nostalgic to read them, which is a good thing. Finished Never, a chunkster from Follett, several different character lines, a good think, not for the faint of heart. Enjoy your reads.
I am excited to jump into the Ed McBain book. Everybody says he is good. It will be my first time reading him. I really hope that one of these days I run across the PBS Poirot series, I want it. I may even ask for it for Christmas. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend.
Hey Bill, great video. I was so happy a couple of days ago when my wife surprised me with 83 Agatha Christie facsimile editions from Harper Collins! I've always been a fan of Agatha Christie
Oh my! What a GREAT surprise. I am jealous. I hope that you enjoy those. Do you have a favorite story of hers? Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend.
@@billruttenberg I'd be a big fan of "The murder of Roger Ackroyd" but so many I have enjoyed over the years. Very hard to pick favorite. Keep up the good work.
Hello Mr. Ruttenberg! Crimson tipped me off awhile back about your channel and I enjoy the book hauls, reviews, commentaries! Were you able to read Camino Ghosts over the summer? I was a bit disappointed that Bruce was not a main character. But any and all Grisham books are worth reading! I’m looking forward to the release of Framed in October.
Thank you Mrs. Gran! She had told me that you had started watching the channel. Thank you for the support! I appreciate it. I look forward to the time we can meet. I did get a chance to read Camino Ghosts. I liked the book, but like you, I would like to have seen Bruce have more involvement. I hope to get the new book Framed for my birthday. It releases two days later. I hope that it is him doing a lot of the writing. He has a co-author on this one and I hope that it doesn't become like the Patterson books where he just puts his name on it. What have you been reading lately?
Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend.
@@billruttenberg I agree about Patterson. Every new book of his has a co-author so I pass. This month I have read Freida McFadden’s The Perfect Son and Lisa Jewell’s None of This Is True. Strictly entertainment and I can read those type of books pretty quickly! Right now I’m reading Just Tyrus, which is a memoir about Greg Gutfeld’s cohost, sidekick. I usually don’t like memoirs but I love the story of how Tyrus went through a lot in life. I’m on the waitlist for the new O’Reilly book Confronting the Presidents. I think I’ll probably get it within a month.
I found a Lincoln children's book you might not have heard of. Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln by Margarita Engle. It looks like the story of an immigrant girl. Have a great week!
Thanks Mellissa. You are right, I haven't heard of that one. Sounds like an interesting book. Hope you enjoy it. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend.
Feeding the algorithm for you Bill 🔎 nice haul
Thanks Justin! I can use all the help I can get. Have a great weekend. Thanks for watching.
Hey Bill. I'm looking at science books for the science challenge and I came across a book you might be interested in. It's called The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson. It's about science, religion, and the American revolution.
Thanks Mellissa. I will go and look it up.
All right! I love me some mass market paperbacks! They're cheap, tattered, and embarrassing like me. And they too are prone to the corrupting absorption of musty odors and mysterious substances. And they share the pain of having found themselves huddled at the bottom of a basement moistened cardboard box full of assorted junk that's even less likely to be purchased than that classy ceramic figurine of a bikini-wearing anthropomorphic frog lounging on the next table over. But I think I digress.
Glad you've enjoyed reading and collecting the Agatha Christie stuff so much. I really dig Slaughterhouse-Five, but I'm not sure it'll be your jam. Eh, I don't know; you might like it. There's an interesting historical backdrop involved, but there's also a disjointed story structure, some fantastical elements, and a lot of goofy, cynical humor. Guess it was Vonnegut's interesting way of processing and writing about his war experience. Thanks for the video, and have a good one!
Thanks Bryan. I am interested to see if I will like Slaughterhouse Five. I liked Catch-22. It had a lot of interesting humor in it and the story jumped around a lot from character to character. We'll see. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend.
Oh, and don't worry, you're musty odors are ok ... you live out in the country, nobody can smell you.😆