faithinthecharm Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 They're trash and I can read one in three hours but I love the stephanie Plum novels any idea when 'thirteen...' comes out, or what it might be about or called? What's 'visions of sugar plums' like? I haven't been able to get hold of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sofia Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 I love the stephanie Plum series. According to her site...."book thirteen" is due to be released June 2007. I read "visions Of Sugar Plums," it was ok....but I wouldn't go out of my way for it. You can check it out here: http://www.evanovich.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maureen Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 I read a couple too. They were ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarahrob Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 Love the normal books, but didn't really get on with Visions of Sugar Plums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrathofkublakhan Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 I've read them all! I love Stephanie Plum and I love laughing out loud! Remember when the gangsters try to kidnap Bob the dog? He'd just eaten something gross and was puking all over the car .... I fell over laughing at the story. The characters are great; from grandma packing a .45 to Joe Morelli the cop to ...oh my .... Ranger..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosegarden Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 I've listened to the first in the Stephanie Plum series 'One For The Money' which I loved. I think I gave it 9/10. Very funny I immediately got hold of the next 2 in the series from the library, downloaded them to my laptop and they are ready and waiting on my slowly growing 'to be listened to' list Carole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugar Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 I have devoured all the Steph Plum books (including Visions of Sugar Plums and Plum Lovin' at the start of this year). The numbers books are my favourite, and Lean Mean Thirteen is coming very soon now! The between the numbers novels (Visions and Lovin') are a bit weird - with magic and fantasy aspects to them, and I wasn't keen. I also read the 2 Barney books - Metro Girl and Motor Mouth - and while I enjoyed them and would read more, Barney is a little too like Stephanie Plum, and the chap whose name escapes me is a little too like Morelli. (Even the dogs seem the same - Bob and Beans!). Grandma Mazur is the best! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrathofkublakhan Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Yep, I read Plum Lovin' and the other 'tweener. I also read Motor Mouth and Metro Girl but felt they didn't capture the same Stephanie Plum spirit. Personally I hate the titles for one simple reason: I forget where I'm at in the series. I think I'm waiting for 12 in paperback. I completely gave up on those mysteries A is for Arsenic and B is for Blood (Sue Grafton maybe?) just because I'd stand there with eleventy-some books in front of me and sadly feel befuddled and experience low-level anxiety that I don't know which is what from when. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 I've loved Janet Evanovich's books for a few years ago - ever since doing a dissertation on feminist crime fiction and having her name suggested by a lecturer (for which I am very grateful to him). I was hooked from the moment in the first book when Grandma Mazur shot a chicken in the gumpy. I thought that I had read most of hers, although I still prefer her Stephanie Plum novels, and I was waiting eagerly for number 13. I even have Visions of Sugar Plums, but now I find that I am not as up to date as I thought - I've never heard of Plum Lovin'! Is it worth getting? And please don't tell my fiance, but I think that I would have a real problem if I had to choose between Ranger and Morelli.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrathofkublakhan Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 And please don't tell my fiance, but I think that I would have a real problem if I had to choose between Ranger and Morelli.... Babe ... it's gotta be Ranger (at least on the weekends) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Tons of people have recommended JE to me...maybe she'll be my next read.... KW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captiva Dreaming Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 I have read To the Nines -- and it made me laugh out loud at times! I also cannot think about (why would I, you ask)..or see a tin of vaseline in a chemist's shop, without thinking about Punky Balog ...or come to think of it, see tight and bright lycra outfits without thinking of Lula! Ranger vs Morelli -- hard to decide, really! Anyway, I would definately get another book by Janet E... at some time in the not too distant future! I like her sense of humour.... and light hearted style of writing. Easy to read - and enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essexgirl Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 I've seen them in the library but never tried them. I think I'm going to have to after reading the comments here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sofia Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Lean Mean Thirteen is finally coming out June 19....nice birthday gift to myself!! (uk release on june 20) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrathofkublakhan Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Lean Mean Thirteen is finally coming out June 19... Just finished it five minutes ago - it somehow got bumped to the top of my TBR pile and I zoomed through it; such an easy read, such a fun read! It IS just out, so I bought a hard bound copy -- my arm is killing me from holding that sucker up: and it was a slim volume. Give me a paperback any day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Just finished it five minutes ago - it somehow got bumped to the top of my TBR pile and I zoomed through it; such an easy read, such a fun read! Me too! I had to put on hold the other book that I was reading, as I couldn't wait any longer to read it. I couldn't find it in any of my local shops until Wednesday, and I had to finish it before I went to bed on Thursday. I loved the exploding mutant three-eyed squirrel ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess Orchid Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 I picked up the first one in a Bangkok airport - I think I just bought the only 2 English language titles they had in the news stand! The other one was David Eddings' first in the Sparhawk series. Anyways, I loved it - the Stephanie Plum novels are shamelessly trashy, and I do finish them within hours, but that's beside the point! I like that the details are just weird and quirky enough to stop short of the bog standard chick fiction we see so much of these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Butter Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 I've read all the Stephanie Plum books too, in numerical order (sad or what?). Like most posters, I think they're a bit trashy, fun and easy to read. I'm up to number 12, which is going on holiday with me next week. Personally, I'm a big Lula fan ..... I found that, around about the sixth one, they started getting a bit formulaic, and I was going to give them a break (I thought the same about Robert Rankin's "Brentford" novels, and I never did get back to them!). I stuck with Stephanie, though, and found that they started to pick up again. Having said that, I thought "Eleven On Top" was back in a bit of a rut ... one of the problems of writing a series, I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosegarden Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Another JE fan here :eek2: I've read One For The Money and Two For The Dough and loved them Carole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrathofkublakhan Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Another JE fan here :eek2: I've read One For The Money and Two For The Dough and loved them Carole Fun books! The question is: Ranger or Morelli? Wooohoooooooo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplegrape Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 hi! im new!, lol well, i love the stephanie plum novels. i'll read them in class and lough out loud and normally get in trouble:lol: its unstopable though. my aunt is bringing number13 with her when she comes to visit next month and im super excited! this woman is a genius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 I'm reading a Stephanie Plum novel for the first time, it was a $1 ex-library book. She's so funny, a bit trashy...yes, a light read but very enjoyable. Are the numbers in the titles the order they were written? As far as Morelli or Ranger goes, I'm rather taken with Bunchy and Briggs, the dwarf (sorry, little person) in the one I'm reading - High Five. But Rex, the hamster has got to be the star, he's so cute Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Butter Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Yes, poppy, the book titles do reflect a sequence, but to be honest you don't miss much if you read them out of order. Evanovich tends to explain the key relationships and events in each of the books anyway. Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Thanks Roland. I'm enjoying it so much and getting such a giggle out of her that I'm going to try to get another one out of the library, tomorrow. It's good to know that some of the same characters keep appearing in her books, they're already starting to feel like old friends. Gran is a scream Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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