TIME magazine has an article detailing 24 books you'll want to add to your fall reading list. It might better be called "24 books you don't want to add to your fall reading list", but that's just me judging a book by its cover. It's mostly chick-lit and some niche stuff.
The yawn-inducing list includes Patti Smith's FOURTH autobiography. Maybe she's just living a lot longer than she thought, but I'm thinking by the fourth autobiography you're starting to get into "and for lunch I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich" territory. You need to really be somebody, or apparently really think you are, to write four books about your life.
She's a 78-year-old former punk rocker from the seventies whose biggest hit, I use the term loosely, reached number 13. If she can do four autobiographies, then Carl Douglas is certainly worth five. Who is Carl, you ask? Only the Jamaican writer and performer of one of the best-selling songs of all time - Kung Fu Fighting in 1974.
The only book on the list that really caught my eye was by Salmon Rushdie, a collection of five stories - three novellas and two shorter tales. But I probably wouldn't get to it until the fall of 2065, good Lord willing.
The Gemini book looks interesting if you're into space travel and such. I'm not.
TIME snobs snub their noses at mystery and crime writers with books coming out this Fall, like: Dan Brown, John Grisham, Walter Mosley, David Baldacci, Janet Evanovich, James Patterson, C.J. Box, Don Winslow and my latest obsession, Ian Rankin.
With all those possibilities I think I'll just wait for Patti Smith's fifth autobiography. I hear hip replacements are exciting reads.
