(btw: how do you grab images from Amazon when they have a "look inside the book" feature?)
Geofferson
10-01-09, 04:18 PM
Gonna start on this epic for the first time:
http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&isbn=0553573403/LC.GIF&client=selcp
I recently picked up a 1st edition of this at a garage sale (have not read it either). I'll likely get to it as the premiere date for the HBO show approaches.
But I'm giving up on it. I just don't care anymore. It's no Dresden Files, it's not even a Nightside. I liked the short story by her in Mean Streets, but this book is not fun for me. The writing style is a little off, the plot is a little jumbled, I skip over the descriptions of the Grey, Harper's characterization is inconsistent, and while I'm not a total purist, I don't really like the portrayal of the vampires. Back to the library with you!
Now to pick from the current On-Deck"
Simon R Green: Shadows Fall
Alan Dean Foster: The Mocking Program
Simon R. Green: Deathstalker
Dante: Inferno
Robert Asprin: Phule's Company
Hermann Hesse: Demian or
Lovecraft: Complete Fiction
Or I could break into the box of 100+ old pulp SF paperbacks by authors I never heard of, I got for 5 bucks from the library book sale last year.
The Tide of Victory by Eric Flint and David Drake. Fifth book in the Belisarius series. Thought the fourth one, Fortune's Stroke, was the best one yet.
[If you are going to post images, it would be nice to also list the title and author since images are very slow to load on dial-up.]
fiver
10-04-09, 11:39 AM
"Sweet Dream, Silver Screen" by Moxie Mezcal
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Michael
xmiyux
10-04-09, 09:16 PM
I am wrapping up this book now. What a phenomenal fantasy series!
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I totally forgot that this was released in the UK last week. Now I might have to order it. Crap! Please post what you thought of the book. I loved the first two of the series.
Awesome! The whole series is good and i'm continually surprised when each new book continues to be just as good. Enjoy!
DonTHX1378
10-07-09, 03:11 AM
Never read anything by Dennis Lehane, so I started with
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going to work my way then to
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Also need to read
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movieking
10-07-09, 07:18 AM
I am only a short way in but I'm already enthralled with the book. I know some of the history, but couldn't wait to read this book (it's still appallingly priced for an ebook though):
I was looking at this book at Borders just yesterday. Let me know how it is. The whole bit about each chapter having a short video clip online to flesh out the story sounds really interesting...
Finished up The Sorcerer:Metamorphasis and started on book 7 of the Camulod Chronicles:
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Hell F'n YES !! Guess nobody else here is excited for this book as me & my pal Zombie Captain America :(
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I really enjoyed Lost Paradise by Kathy Marks, but it felt like it was very repetitive (also, the subject matter was very difficult to read about).
After reading a couple of non-fiction books, I've decided to start back on fiction. Got a bunch of Michael Connelly books to read, have most of the Sookie Stackhouse books from my sister, bought a few ebooks (Columbine, Survivor's Club, etc) but for now, I finally decided to start on the Bond series, which I've had kicking around for quite a while.
I'll have to go find that in the book store so I can read the new introduction by Adams. My battered copy is at least 25 years old.
mike45
10-16-09, 09:50 PM
Cover Up by Peter Lance
iMigraine
10-17-09, 12:22 AM
Finished "The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-1945" by Stephen E. Ambrose
Starting "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" by Malcolm Gladwell
MinLShaw
10-17-09, 12:52 AM
Last night, I started (and finished) Bodies of Water by Rosanne Cash. It's a very short collection of short fiction--calling them short stories is really too strong; they're more a collection of vignettes. The margins were huge, and the 133 pages would easily have only been about a third of that in regular paperback form. As a 30 year old, childless male, it was hard to relate to much of it but I would recommend it for middle-aged mothers who prefer stream-of-consciousness.
Lateralus, would you let me know your thoughts on The Sex Lives of Cannibals? My wife has almost bought it about a dozen times now, having been fascinated by the back cover text but unwilling to take the plunge without a trustworthy referral. After you turned me on to Robert Morgan's Boone: A Biography, I'd put you in the top tier of people whose recommendations I would take seriously.
iMigraine, let me know what you think of Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. My wife and I bought a copy for a friend of ours whose nickname is "Blinky" and is notorious for acting without thinking. It seemed as though God Himself wanted us to find that for him, but we've yet to hear anything from him about it--despite his genuine excitement over receiving it.
Also, I envy movieking and PAG for entering Ian Fleming's world of Bond books. I started in the 1990s, and have permitted myself to read just one Fleming Bond novel annually, to account for the fact that he won't be publishing any more. I'm up to The Man with the Golden Gun, the penultimate entry in the series (and the last of the actual novels, as the only thing left are a few short stories) and I just haven't been able to make myself start it yet.
One suggestion, if I might, is that you invest in a copy of John Griswold's astounding companion piece, Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming's Bond Stories. Griswold provides a glossary, a chronology and an explanation of every obsolete reference Fleming makes throughout his fourteen volumes. If you read Moonraker and have no idea what's going on in the bridge game, Griswold walks you through it, hand by hand, explaining the rules of the game in the process.
It's a print-on-demand work now in its second edition. I believe I paid $25 for mine from Barnes & Noble. Because Fleming's style is very much of his times, Griswold has become indispensable to me as I have tried to get the fullest from my reading of these greatly enjoyable yarns.
I'm currently reading an old paperback copy of The Light At The End by John Skipp and Craig Spector.
Giantrobo
10-18-09, 07:30 AM
Just finished this book and it was -THE- worst book I've read thus far in life. The main character was in it twice and the rest of the book read like a term paper on how to organize Student protest groups in 1960's Japan. I mean they went into great detail on the subject and it was not good. And then in the last parts of the book, the writer gets into conspiracy stuff dealing with the Vatican, Powerful Families who run the world, and the Jews and tries to tie it all together to give us the origin of Saya the Vampire. Utter disappointing crap:down:
Just picked up Hannibal's Last Battle- Zama & The Fall of Carthage
I'm using it for my history class book report.
Just started it this morning
Geofferson
10-28-09, 02:23 PM
Working on the first John Rain book by Barry Eisler, based on a recommendation from a Borders clerk. Really liking it:
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It's a good series (6 in all). The third was my favorite. Hope you enjoy. :)
http://horrorcrush.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/n325845.jpgDid this get a reprint? I wanted to read it a year or so ago and I saw the prices for the novel were through the roof (>$100) so I passed.
Finished reading The Girl Who Played with Fire. This keeps some of the elements of the previous book of the Millenium series while adding on several elements that makes this one different from its predecessor.
Just finished this. I thought it was just as good, if not better, than the first book. However, i've been following his blog for a long time and he recycled a lot of the material, which was really disappointing.
movieking
10-30-09, 08:26 PM
I finished it yesterday, and thought that it was interesting. I think that a few of the topics were covered by Malcolm Gladwell in previous books, but for the most part it was an interesting read. There's been a lot of controversy about the global warming chapter, so there is some additional reading if you want to get further into that.
Superboy
10-30-09, 08:29 PM
I don't think there's a lot of controversy. The book was never meant to be taken seriously. It even says so in the introduction (same goes for the first book). It's just for fun ;P
movieking
10-30-09, 09:47 PM
I think that the authors and critics are taking it very seriously, especially since there seems to be some misquotes and mispresentations. Here's just a few sites about some of the discrepancies:
Why Everything in Superfreakonomics About Global Warming Is Wrong (http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009/10/why_everything_in_superfreakon.php)
Correspondence on Global Warming and Superfreakonomics (http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/10/correspondence-on-global-warming-and-superfreakonomics.html)
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling (and some other stuff)? (http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2009/10/superfreakonomics_global_cooli.php)
Error Riddled Superfreakonomics (http://climateprogress.org/2009/10/12/superfreakonomics-errors-levitt-caldeira-myhrvold/)
Superfreakonomics: Everything you know about Global Warming is wrong (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6879251.ece)
Buy: