I'm reading World War Z. I don't know why I didn't finish this when I started it a year or two ago. I loved what I read then. Life just got in the way, I suppose.
fiver
09-02-09, 08:36 PM
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"Red Riding Hood" by Naomi Kramer
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Born to Run
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Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty
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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
We'll see which of these I actually finish.
fiver
09-03-09, 10:29 PM
"Dead(ish)" by Naomi Kramer
movieking
09-04-09, 09:04 AM
First of all, Alex Cross's Trial was a horrible book, so skip it. I honestly think that James Patterson sold the rights to the name "Alex Cross" for use in the title, and had nothing else to do with the book. Alex Cross is in the book for two pages (which is the prologue I believe), and has nothing else to do with it. With another Alex Cross book coming out in a couple of months, this was no doubt just a cash grab.
I saw this at Costco and picked it up on a whim. I've read the first book in the series, but none of the others, so while I might miss some things, for the most part I don't think that it will matter.
Having read all of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, I'm now working my way through the similar
Nightside
novels of Simon R. Green. I like them for the most part, especially the variety of unique magickal characters (unique as in there's only one of them in the Nightside universe). Only thing I don't like is that it seems like
Taylor is a little overpowered. "We thought we were done for. Then I used my gift to see the thing that was keeping our enemies alive, and it was the easiest thing in the world to stop it so they all died or disappeared at once." He's like Superman to Dresden's Batman, imho. In the first couple books, the unnamed threat was enough risk, but now that I've read like six books and he's still alive, it's less of a threat.
Still, they're fun enough and fast enough, and there's enough other interesting stuff in the universe (the Lamentation, for example) that I can usually deal with that.
I checked out My Word Is My Bond: A Memoir by Roger Moore from the library, so that's next up for me. After that, I just found Sideways by Rex Pickett at Half Price Books, and I'm excited to finally get to read it.
How is this, I keep thinking I should reserve from the library
Thought it was great, and I pretty much hate running... Gives you a new perspective on running, and posits some pretty good theories on how we evolved to our current state. Plus the "characters" in the book are all pretty interesting.
lattethunder: Let me know what you think of Between The Bridge And The River. I'm a big Ferguson fan, and wonder how he is as a novelist. His autobiography is coming out in a few weeks as well.
fiver
09-19-09, 07:23 PM
More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James
"The Wailing Well" by M.R. James
"Scroogled" by Cory Doctorow
lattethunder: Let me know what you think of Between The Bridge And The River. I'm a big Ferguson fan, and wonder how he is as a novelist. His autobiography is coming out in a few weeks as well.
I love the guy, but I was disappointed. It's very funny at times, but it's also self-consciously quirky, messy, familiar, overlong, and filled with obvious satire that doesn't work.
movieking
09-26-09, 01:15 PM
That's too bad. I plan on picking up his new autobiography in the next couple of weeks, so I'll report back on what I thought as well.
lattethunder
09-26-09, 01:22 PM
That's too bad. I plan on picking up his new autobiography in the next couple of weeks, so I'll report back on what I thought as well.
The parts that have been read on the show have been funny, so I imagine it will be much better. It's plotting and character that trips him up.
Just finished I Lived to Tell It All by George Jones and Tom Carter, after having finished off My Word Is My Bond by Roger Moore. I think I'm going to take a break from the memoirs genre with my next read, which will be Sideways by Rex Pickett. I loved the film, and was ecstatic to find a copy of the original novel recently. The only thing that concerns me is that, thanks to my Crohn's, I've had to give up drinking and I just know this book is going to make me want some wine....
Ginwen
09-28-09, 02:36 PM
Just about done with this
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