--I'm reading Easy Riders Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind. The number of JAW DROPPING moments are uncountable.
--Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games. If you're a fan of The Wire, this book is a bit like The Wire in Mumbai. Insanely good.
--I went on a crime novel jag recently:
By Dennis Lehane: A Drink Before the War, Prayers for Rain. (Seamus award winner!)
By James Lee Burke: Just read one. They're all the same.
By Castle Freeman Jr.: Go With Me. A brief, weird, violent fantasy. Read it in an hour and think about it forever.
Best in Show: Friends of Eddie Coyle. George V. Higgins. He makes it hard to read ANY other crime novelists.
Note: I expected to like The Mad Ones by Tom Folsom and Seriously Funny by Gerald Nachman and thought they were over stylized.