Eat any good books lately?

[Besticus Maximus]

The Bodysnatchers by Jack Finney. It's way, way, way better and creepier than you're expecting.

Also finished up A Kiss Before Dying this week. Ira Levine is one of the great popular post-war novelists and this is his debut novel, written when he was very young. Whereas Rosemary's baby and the Stepford Wives live in the popular consciousness this is the one that the book snobs advance as his best work and I'm not sure I agree. It's a textbook thriller but it was written before textbook thrillers were a thing, so it sits somewhere between a modern pulp paperback and an old fashioned noir story. The characters are straight out of American Graffiti and the anti-hero of the novel is somewhere between the Fonz, Indiana Jones and Norman Bates. It has a particularly silly ending and the plot is advanced with a number of contrived deductions and revelations, though it does have a decent twist that comes halfway through the novel. I much preferred the Boys From Brazil and Rosemary's Baby but if you like thrillers/mystery novels/noir then it's one of the best early examples.