I'm reading "An inquiry into the nature and the causes of wealth on nations" by Adan Smith.

I've just finished The Great Derangement, by Matt Taibbi. Thank you, Helice.

My favorite commuter reading is Robert B. Parker's Spenser books. I just finished "Now and Then" which is his latest to come out in paperback. The Spenser stories feature an industrious, tough, moral, intelligent private detective (Spenser) who is never called by his first name.

Parker also writes novels featuring two other detectives, Jesse Stone, a former LA cop now the chief of a small town Massachusetts police department, and Sunny Randall, also a small town officer.

The books are real page turners, peopled with characters you wish were on your side, like Spenser's sometime associate Hawk, the coolest guy to ever appear in fiction, or Vinnie, who can shoot bad guys while he's eating dinner.

If you like private eye novels on the model of Philip Marlow, with a touch of Mickey Spillane, you will like the Spenser books, there are many in paperback and in libraries, and I recommend them to you as great page turners.

A difficult book to get through, isn't it?

P. J. O'Rourke wrote a book called "On Reading Wealth of Nations" which he does presumably so you won't have to, in which he makes clear most of Smith's points. It makes a hard study easier.

I just started reading... All I Want To Do Is Kill- by Dale Hudson... I love true crime books!

I've read two book by Philip Roth recently, Indignation and Operation Shylock.

Indignation is a short novel about a young boy growing up in New Jersey, son of a butcher, who has higher aspirations but can rarely move beyond the limitations of his family. He does break away to some degree and attends college where is finds himself fascinated by a young woman who is totally inappropriate for him.

The various events in the book represent the theme of random incidents changing people's lives in profound ways. Well worth reading.

Operation Shylock is an author's trick, a fictional work pretending to be biography, but Roth is up to more than that. He confuses reality and fantasy in such ways that whatever seems real may be fantasy but then again may not be. You know, just like life. It's often polemic in nature so if you are not already a Philip Roth fan, this is not the book to start with.

In fact, if you have never read him, I'd recommend Goodbye Columbus and Portnoy's Complaint as starters.

Faithful, I'm a true crime fan as well, and will put the Hudson book on my list.

What are your favorites?

My favorite true crime book is "Small Sacrifices" by Anne Rule The story of Diane Downs...I'm honestly thinking of reading it again.

Thanks.

I like In His Garden, by Leo D'Amore, it's one I think you'll enjoy..