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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look for "Coming Back Alive" on my next outing. Your best source of good reading is first of all someone who's a regular reader; and secondly, someone with similar tastes. When The Da Vinci Code was off the charts, people were raving about Dan Brown. I've read most, if not all of his books, and I still do not consider him a great writer. Listening to the raves, you have to wonder, if this is the only book they've read since high school.

I mentioned that I've read my share of losers; and some books that were just so-so. Lonesome Dove and The Perfect Storm come to mind as some of the so-so books. Maybe they were well written but they seemed like they went on forever.