Segue Myles Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 http://thesubstanceoffaith.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/The-Stand-Stephen-King-Book-Cover.jpg This book is flawless. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusicHead Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Catherine and Segue, you are both correct!! :D I've been reading The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus Vol. 1 (Vol. 2 pending), with Stephen King's IT as my go-to novel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caspag Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 I am reading The Sellout by Paul Beatty. Very interesting.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catherine Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 (edited) I am preparing to begin A Song of Fire and Ice series. I have successfully avoided them but my oldest son got me the box set for Christmas to guilt me in to reading them. :laughing guy: I hope I don't die (or really that George R.R. Martin doesn't die) before he completes the last two. Game on! Edited January 10, 2017 by catherine 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willowroolz Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 I am preparing to begin A Song of Fire and Ice series. I have successfully avoided them but my oldest son got me the box set for Christmas to guilt me in to reading them. :laughing guy: I hope I don't die (or really that George R.R. Martin doesn't die) before he completes the last two. Game on! Oh gawd! I read the first three. Then I re-read them when the fourth book came out. Then I re-read the first four when book five came out. It was so long in between that I couldn't remember where everyone was and what was going on. I won't be reading them again, and have already decided I won't bother with the next book, if it ever comes out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclonus X-1 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 I am preparing to begin A Song of Fire and Ice series. I have successfully avoided them but my oldest son got me the box set for Christmas to guilt me in to reading them. :laughing guy: I hope I don't die (or really that George R.R. Martin doesn't die) before he completes the last two. Game on! Cool. It's been an up-and-down series for me so far--A Storm of Swords is insanely good, while A Feast for Crows is mostly dull--but I've definitely enjoyed it for the most part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catherine Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Thanks for the feedback guys. I sort of started the first book last night but fell asleep before I read more than a few pages. Not a statement on the book so much as the fact that I was really tired I hope. :laughing guy: I am only committing to the first book at this point. If it doesn't grab me by page 100 I may just say I gave it a fair shot and call it quits. I'll let you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue J Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 The Nixon Defense, by John Dean I've always appreciated Dean's perspective with regard to Watergate. He was unfortunately hamstrung in the middle of some dastardly circumstances. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaportrailer Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Just finished "Highways to a War" by Christopher Koch. He also wrote "The Year of Living Dangerously" which I really enjoyed. Well researched, and well written. "Highways to A War", while being well researched, dragged in several spots, and could've lost 50-75 pages of background material.It tells the story of a missing war photographer and of his work in Vietnam in the 60s, and Cambodia in the 70s. I was really looking forward to reading this, and was mildly disappointed with some of the author's choices/indulgences.Still, some great descriptions. Koch has a very good eye for detail, but sometimes becomes a bit overwrought. Reading "Buddha in the Jungle", which is about Buddhism in Thailand in the 19th and early 20th century. So far, so good!Also about to start "Vulture's Peak" (John Burdett) as a palate cleanser of sorts. A detective novel involving "the international body parts trade". I love reading! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catherine Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 I am almost 100 pages in on Game of Thrones. It's a bit of a pager turner I guess, but I am not totally in with both feet if you know what I mean. I am not usually much for books like this. It's a guilt read. :laughing guy: See my post above for an explanation of that. Anyway, I do not get the comparison to Tolkien in the least. Tolkien out classes this guy by a long mile. I may not even finish this one, much less the other 4 books. The jury is still out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 I am almost 100 pages in on Game of Thrones. It's a bit of a pager turner I guess, but I am not totally in with both feet if you know what I mean. I am not usually much for books like this. It's a guilt read. :laughing guy: See my post above for an explanation of that. Anyway, I do not get the comparison to Tolkien in the least. Tolkien out classes this guy by a long mile. I may not even finish this one, much less the other 4 books. The jury is still out. Tad Williams Memory, Sorrow And Thorn is the series that Martin was inspired by. And that is a 10/10 fantasy series. Very epic and complete and far less dependant on shock tactics to get the story moving. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catherine Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 (edited) I am almost 100 pages in on Game of Thrones. It's a bit of a pager turner I guess, but I am not totally in with both feet if you know what I mean. I am not usually much for books like this. It's a guilt read. :laughing guy: See my post above for an explanation of that. Anyway, I do not get the comparison to Tolkien in the least. Tolkien out classes this guy by a long mile. I may not even finish this one, much less the other 4 books. The jury is still out. Tad Williams Memory, Sorrow And Thorn is the series that Martin was inspired by. And that is a 10/10 fantasy series. Very epic and complete and far less dependant on shock tactics to get the story moving. The thing is that I am not particularly drawn to fantasy as a genre. I love epic stuff like TLOTR, Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, etc. but not the genre itself. I have just passed the 100 page mark and it's not looking good for GoT, LOL! I would rather dig into some Nathaniel Hawthorne to be honest. I have had a re-read of The House of Seven Gables on my TBR list and I think that's what I am on to now. Edited January 18, 2017 by catherine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod in Toronto Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Started reading this: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bean-tor Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citizen of the World Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catherine Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Just finished The House of Seven Gables and starting a re-read of Ghost House by Peter Straub for a change of pace. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue J Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 A Fairly Honourable Defeat, by Iris Murdoch 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mosher Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Packing For Mars -- Mary Roach She's exceptional at researching and imparting the science behind the lesser traveled paths of popular interest. In this book she discovers and explains the challenges that living in space would entail, beyond what we typically talk about. Our bodies really suck at being out there and at being out there in close quarters. It isn't an exciting area of study and she graphically explains why. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaportrailer Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 Just finished "Private Dancer" by Stephen Leather. A cautionary tale about bar-girls and foreigners in Thailand.A repetitive and cynical book, marred by an apparent lack of an editor. Seems to be heavily influenced by real-life events, but told in an uninteresting and unconvincing way using 2-dimensional characters. Was hoping for more insight as well as local colour. Read it in two days and glad to be done with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fordgalaxy Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleMoon Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 (edited) Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis by Anne Rice. Edited February 5, 2017 by EagleMoon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbine Freight Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 The Problem With Socialism - Thomas J. DiLorenzo. Excellent primer for anyone wanting to learn why socialism is & always has been a complete cancer on society. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catherine Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 On a Peter Straub kick I guess; I finished Ghost Story and started Shadowlands. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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