Cmdr Shepard's favourite books on the Citadel
I was a much more avid reader in my youth... before the days of PCs and gaming consoles. Now I find myself working in a job filled with long, slow periods of extreme boredom (punctuated by brief spells of intense excitement) which gives me a lot of time to pick up my reading again.
The only thing that I curse is my near-eidetic memory when it comes to books that I have read which can ruin my future enjoyment and re-reading of many of my favourite books (I tend to skip the 'slow, boring bits'). As a result I find myself mentally forcing myself to read each page slowly and carefully whenever I re-read a book to prevent myself from jumping forward to the more exciting parts that I remember.
Presumed Innocent
Who killed Carolyn Polhemus, the beautiful, opportunistic and successful Deputy prosecuting Attorney whose body was found nude and bound in her fashionable apartment?Scott Turow is a praticisng lawyer (and former assistant US attorney in Chicago) who was a Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at stanford before he graduated from Harvard Law School. It is these experiences that lend his writing its elegance. The characters are vivid, with a depth that can only come from the attention to detail of one who makes a living from watching and analysing people daily.
No matter how many times I have read this book, the plot still grips me from start to finish. I still recall that feeling of surprise when, in the final chapter, the murderer is not only finally revealed but their motives are discussed and dissected.
