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The Judgement of Eve by Edgar Pangborn. A 1960s post-apocalyptic novel. A beautiful woman lives in an isolated farm with her mother. She's never seen a man, like Prospero's daughter. Three suitors arrive at her door, friends who are traveling past. She tells them to go away for six months and when they return, she'll decide which of them she'll marry. Each man goes a different direction and has an adventure in the ruins of America. Melancholy, but not bitter or depressing.
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https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...97984a29e0.png This is the 4th book I've read by Ruth Ware. She has an easy-to-digest style, and the mysteries are fun (with twists and turns). I'm noticing that she tends to miss hitting the landing, and key events in the climax can be skimmed over or not even shown at all. While not horror, this book comes closest to the genre with hints of ghosts, an isolated creepy mansion, and (potentially) evil children. Probably not a coincidence that the title is so close to the classic ghost story The Turn of the Screw. |
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After watching the tv series, I picked up Lovecraft Country.just finished it today.
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Originally Posted by rbrown498
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Up next: Tom Perrotta's Nine Inches: https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...bc6636415a.jpg |
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The Big Kill by Mickey Spillane. More action and violence, well-paced, and now with slight character development. The plot is confused. Sociological note: By 1951, Mike Hammer is probably having casual sex, compared to I, The Jury in 1947 where Mike wants to marry the beautiful woman.
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...cf56ba6098.png Dinosaur Beach by Keith Laumer. Hardboiled timecop deals with pretty much every trope in the time-travel genre. It's my favorite time-travel novel. I stayed up until midnight to finish it, although I've read it before. https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...d9146a1756.png |
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Originally Posted by parrotheads4
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Despite all the fantasy I've read (and all of the times I've seen these books on store shelves), somehow I've never read any Wheel of Time. Now that it's completed, is the consensus that it was worth it in the end? Or did it stray too much in Jordan's later books (and couldn't be saved by Sanderson)? |
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Originally Posted by parrotheads4
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Starting: https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...05b666069f.jpg The Great Hunt - Robert Jordan Book Two of The Wheel of Time series. |
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Originally Posted by brainee
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That sounds like a hefty and ambitious reading mission!
Despite all the fantasy I've read (and all of the times I've seen these books on store shelves), somehow I've never read any Wheel of Time. Now that it's completed, is the consensus that it was worth it in the end? Or did it stray too much in Jordan's later books (and couldn't be saved by Sanderson)? |
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Finished a couple:
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...441c6ef28d.png I really liked this, although it was very bleak. I know there have been numerous "alternative" takes on Peter Pan in different media, some even making him the villain (like Christina Henry's Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook which I read a couple of years ago and greatly enjoyed). I liked that this made him morally ambiguous, while still technically the "hero". This was the first thing I read of Brom ... he hasn't written much (he's more of an artist), but some of his other books look interesting. https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...6ec2d0dc31.png This was a bit of a disappointment. Last year I read the 4 "Murderbot" novellas and thought they were a lot of fun. This is a novel that feels like it has a novellas worth of story ... just stretched out badly. And the narration style of the main character (constantly going off on tangents) made this challenging for me to maintain interest in. But this has a 4.4/5 on goodreads and has been nominated for a Nebula award, so I feel like an outlier for not loving this. |
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This keeps wanting to load sideways for no reason I can figure out, so fuck it. Got this in today, and will be starting it soon.
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Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
It's on my phone and I read it a few pages at a time when I'm in waiting rooms. After half a year, I sat down and finished it. |
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Just finished:
https://i.imgur.com/sNSYfh2.png Just started: https://i.imgur.com/f0I0cll.png I had read this back in the late 1980s and it freaked me out. Doing a re-read before the Netflix doc series. |
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https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...dee0f95deb.jpg I really, really liked this one. Just starting: https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...674577d415.jpg |
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https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...657a75a9d8.png "Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space" indeed! Very original blend of fantasy, gothic horror, science-fiction, and YA-drama. The world-building is intriguing, and I'm guessing the next two books in this trilogy (one of which, Harrow the Ninth, is already published) fill in more. Thankfully this tells a complete story, as opposed to those "first of a trilogy" books that just stop before anything gets resolved. Odd names and lots of techno/fantasy babble terminology bog down the writing at times for me. Though the story itself is a fairly straight-forward variation on a classic mystery/horror staple: a group of people isolated at a creepy mansion, where there's a great treasure on the line and they start being murdered one-by-one. |
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Regardless of whether or not you've watched the show (I think it's on Amazon), there's a book of scripts from the show Fleabag that was released and it is an awesome read. I finished it in a day. It's the first two seasons and is incredibly readable and enthralling. That writer (I can't recall her name but remember Daniel Craig brought her on to do a rewrite on the latest Bond film) is just incredibly talented. And funny. I usually don't laugh out loud reading a book, but this really had me in stitches at times. So much better than crap like Sex and the City...This is a much more realistic look at females and relationships...I also really like how, despite all of these books you'll read about what to do and not to do in a screenplay, she just kind of tosses that out the window and does her own thing. It was refreshing to read something like that. I'd obviously also recommend checking out the show, but I honestly only saw the first season before reading this book, so the second season was already kind of spoiled for me, but I still wanna watch it. And that says something about the quality of the writing.
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Finished:
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...e71536992a.jpg This was tough to finish. The writing was clever and at times, very funny, but that was really all the book had to offer imo. The more time I spent with it, the less the verbose humor held my attention and there was very little plot to be found. Amusing, but not very fun to read in the end. |
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