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Feb. 13th, 2010 09:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tvordljFloor shopping with Mom today. She took a few samples home but wasn't happy with them once in the house and in the kitchen. Back to the old drawing board.
I stopped into Pennington's and hit a sale and got some bras and underwear on for quite cheap and picked up some tshirts as well. Buying two or more they were 20 dollars each.
2010 Books:
4. The Devil's Punchbowl - Greg Iles
This was a bit of a brutal book to read. It's about gambling, abuse and dog fighting and it's not pretty. Sometimes disturbing in the descriptions and events in the book, the story itself is good but you can't be an overly sensitive soul. It's definitely an action flick type of book, about the mayor of Natchez who's best boyhood friend warns him about the owners of one of the riverboat gambling casinos who also runs hookers and illegal dogfights. His friend is soon murdered and he's realizes he didn't take his friend as seriously as he should have. The "hero" of the book is Penn Cage and i think probably he has appeared in Iles' books in the past though i've not read any of them. He calls on a couple of old friends that he can trust, one of whom is ex Special Forces, another is a crack sniper and there's an ex military chopper pilot. His ex-girlfriend, a reporter, gets involved as well. We see the story from Penn's point of view and also from some of the other characters such as some of the victims of the manager of the casino. As i said, it can be disturbing at times but if you've got a strong stomach for the violence, it's not bad.
I stopped into Pennington's and hit a sale and got some bras and underwear on for quite cheap and picked up some tshirts as well. Buying two or more they were 20 dollars each.
2010 Books:
4. The Devil's Punchbowl - Greg Iles
This was a bit of a brutal book to read. It's about gambling, abuse and dog fighting and it's not pretty. Sometimes disturbing in the descriptions and events in the book, the story itself is good but you can't be an overly sensitive soul. It's definitely an action flick type of book, about the mayor of Natchez who's best boyhood friend warns him about the owners of one of the riverboat gambling casinos who also runs hookers and illegal dogfights. His friend is soon murdered and he's realizes he didn't take his friend as seriously as he should have. The "hero" of the book is Penn Cage and i think probably he has appeared in Iles' books in the past though i've not read any of them. He calls on a couple of old friends that he can trust, one of whom is ex Special Forces, another is a crack sniper and there's an ex military chopper pilot. His ex-girlfriend, a reporter, gets involved as well. We see the story from Penn's point of view and also from some of the other characters such as some of the victims of the manager of the casino. As i said, it can be disturbing at times but if you've got a strong stomach for the violence, it's not bad.
