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有朋友请我在飞机场买几本英文书带回来。她的需求是
1）nonfiction类
和
2）谋杀探案类

我不知道能买什么，请大家指教。谢谢。

笑嘻嘻 wrote:2）谋杀探案类

洛洛，快来

1,我什么时候被贴上这个标签了？---这里任何一个人，看得都比我多。不好意思地说，前阵子准备考试，看的书只有小k说的 a personal history停止在123页。
不过leslie glass的a killing gift还不错，说的是一个纽约退休警探中了彩票然后被杀的是，女主角就是华裔的april woo.

笑嘻嘻 wrote: 2）谋杀探案类

高产作家Lee Child的书啊! 机场书店肯定有。很通俗很通俗！

一定要在飞机场买么？不可以逛书店买么？

那我就去书店好了，顺便也给自己置办几本。我自己看的书也请大家推荐。我想了想，我好像没有什么品种要求。

哈，这就好办了，谋杀探案的书老子还是颇看过些个的。
轻松快乐喜剧型的，推荐 Janet Evanovich作Stephanie Plum系列
One for the Money (1994)
Two for the Dough (1996)
Three to Get Deadly (1997)
Four To Score (1998)
High Five (1999).
Hot Six (2000).
Seven Up (2001)
Hard Eight (2002)
To the Nines (2003)
Ten Big Ones (2004).
Eleven on Top (2005）
Twelve Sharp (2006)
当然头几本儿比较好看，后面越写越中年妇女yy。
推荐评论：The Fall Of The Stephanie Plum Empirehttp://www.mrsgiggles.com/books/soapbox/steph_plum.html[/url][/intro]

推荐thursday next 系列。大人的harry potter。

硬汉型，
肥皂剧式推荐Robert P Parker.　他写有３个系列，一曰：spenser，一曰：sunny randall，一曰：jesse stone.　他的书水平比较平均，sunny randall系列我不是很喜欢，因为主角是个女人，作家是个自以为了解女人的男人。很多时候觉得他瞎扯。jesse stone是一个新开的系列，相对spenser，我比较喜欢这个系列的第二本书，非常干净利索的一个故事。到后来jesse stone的前老婆又跳出来做主要人物，就有点儿让我腻味。
真正硬汉型当属hammet，作品部部精品，可惜太少。
后面还有Ross McDonald和Raymond Chandler，我个人比较喜欢前者，当然jun恐怕有不同意见

写的比较文学作品的就有Henning mankell，jun的偶像，写的真好。
还有最近在看也是jun介绍的那个著名黑人作家Walter Mosley，我记得阿大你有次说有个黑人作家上fresh air还是car talk的节目，呱嗒呱嗒收不住嘴，我怀疑就是他。

非小说类，我比较喜欢那一套光荣与梦想，美国近代史，写的真好。

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Oh boy. I like Robert Parker as well (Robert B Parker?). Spencer is pure entertainment. Short, choppy dialogue, sharp characters, funny and witty, fast read. Jesse Stone series have a lot of psychology in it, which I like, but may not be everyone's cup of tea. Just pick whatever in the series, no need to worry about which one.

I like almost every book in Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander series, but it's probably best to start from the beginning because of the continuity of the characters' lives. IIRC, the chronological order is sort of, like, "The White Lioness," "Dogs of Riga" (the only one I don't like much), "Sidetracked," "The Fifth Woman," "Firewall"... I'm missing some, can't remember now. You can google Mankell or look in amazon.

The same thing with Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins series. It's probably best to start with "Devil in the Blue Dress" and move on to later installments ("The Yellow Dog", "Cinnamon Kiss"...).

I think I recommended Jonathan Kellerman's books before. A lot of psychology and child psychology elements mixed in thriller structure.

The more classical mysteries, I do like Dashiel Hammet: "The Thin Man" and "Maltese Falcon" are the only two novels I've read, I think. Another novel he wrote "The Glass Key" was adapted by Akira Korusawa into some Samurai movie, which was later adapted again into "Last Man Standing". But the novel has a couple other movie renditions, "Miller's Crossing" by Coen brothers and an Alan Ladd movie from the 40s but I cannot remember the title.

Of course, Raymond Chandler is my first love so it's hard to be objective about it. I've read all his Philip Marlowe novels: The Big Sleep, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Farewell My Lovely...

If you prefer the more armchair detective style a la Agatha Christie, I'd say try Dorothy Sayer's Lord Peter Wimsey series. Kind of fun read.

I don't read a lot of nonfiction books and my interests are limited to a few topics only. Depends on what you or your friend is interested in. In popular science, the two books by Malcolm Gladwell "Blink" and "The Tipping Point" have been enormously popular. You can pick up any Dave Barry's book in a store and have a good time (in the Humor section) or get a compilation book of the online magazine The Onion.

In police procedural type of mysteries, I kind of like Maigret series, but it's an acquired taste.

Do NOT by James Patterson's books, even though he's written a gazillion books. They are CRAP!

And of course in nonfiction I recommend Freaconomics.

Phillip Marlowe! yeah, he is good too, although I haven't read as many of his books

Philip Marlowe is the central character in Raymond Chandler's novels, the hard-boiled detective who fancies himself a "knight in the shining armor."

is he now? boy, I got the charactor and the writer confused again!

and TOTALLY agree with Jun on James Patterson. But another James, James Elroy, is ok.... well, his L.A. Confidential can be read as a textbook of how and where to insert F---ing in regular words, but he usese a lot of verbs and almost no adj./adv., which I like a lot

Oh, BTW, talking about Jame Elroy. He wrote a novel "Black Dahlia" before LAConfidential, based on the real murder case of the Black Dahlia in the 30s? 40s? in Los Angeles. They've made a movie which is coming out soon, but I don't know if it's based on the novel.

I recently read 2 novels by Stephen McCauley, which I like very much -- "Alternatives to Sex" and "The Object of My Affection." One of these days I should write a review about them.

哦，对，那个写神秘河的家伙，我就看过他一本书，文笔真好。

Agreed! Dennis LeHane!

Yup, "Black Dahlia" the movie (opening soon) is based on Ellroy's novel and stars Josh Hartnett and Aaron Eckhart as a pair of detectives caught in both the crime investigation and a love triangle with a woman (Scarlett Johanson). Hmm... Sort of like Bud White and Ed Exley?

我真8喜欢scarlett johanson简直讨厌linsy logan。
不过james elroy我有点儿腻了，９一个调调，不如mankell和Mosley的书来的，咋说呢，活。

白金你说的那个光荣与梦想英文名字是什么? 听你说好, 我就想去找找了.

谢谢各位。

tiffany wrote:我真8喜欢scarlett johanson

我也是真不喜欢她，其实一部她的电影也没看过，大概就是不喜欢那模样，尤其嘴唇。上回海岸同学给推荐《Matchpoint》，几乎要去找碟了，一搜是她主演就罢了。

简单 wrote:白金你说的那个光荣与梦想英文名字是什么? 听你说好, 我就想去找找了.

The Glory and the Dream--a Narrative history of America(1932-1972) by William Manchester

笑大你最终有无接受我的推荐看过月亮与六便士？如果还没有，不妨去买来读一读。

我买了，还没有读。

谢谢白金

Jun wrote:

I recently read 2 novels by Stephen McCauley, which I like very much -- "Alternatives to Sex" and "The Object of My Affection." One of these days I should write a review about them.

这是那个小姑娘硬要把弯男人掰直的故事吗？我看过同名的电影。。。

The movie I have not seen and heard is no good. The book is very good and not at all what one may presume.

Just saw "The 40yo Virgin". One of the best comedies I've seen in recent years. Highly recommended.

Jun wrote:The movie I have not seen and heard is no good. The book is very good and not at all what one may presume.

这个电影是挺一般的，也还能看。