What are you reading? What was the last book you enjoyed?
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jerseydevil
I'llPutPenniesOnYourEyes
Recently finished:
Thought it was fantastic. Gruesome, ****ed up and really well written.
About to start this:
I had no idea there was a new Hap & Leonard book out until yesterday. Bought it and will start reading it today.
oH Hellz, NEW H&L??? See that trail of smoke? That's me hotfooting it over to Amazon son! Thanks Adgy.
jerseydevil
I'llPutPenniesOnYourEyes
Saw a novella 'Hyenas' that I didn't have, featuring H&L too...don't know if you saw that.
Just finished Nevil Shute's book, Pied Piper. Greatness.
It's the third Shute book I've read, the other two being Trustee from the Tool Room and A Town Like Alice. The man is seriously one of the best novel writers of all time, in my opinion. Everything I can get my hands on from him, I'll read. I've even been scouring the internet and used book stores to try and find hardbound copies of his work to add to my physical library. No luck yet, though.
It's the third Shute book I've read, the other two being Trustee from the Tool Room and A Town Like Alice. The man is seriously one of the best novel writers of all time, in my opinion. Everything I can get my hands on from him, I'll read. I've even been scouring the internet and used book stores to try and find hardbound copies of his work to add to my physical library. No luck yet, though.
adgy-san
PJ Harvey is God
Just finished Nevil Shute's book, Pied Piper. Greatness.
It's the third Shute book I've read, the other two being Trustee from the Tool Room and A Town Like Alice. The man is seriously one of the best novel writers of all time, in my opinion. Everything I can get my hands on from him, I'll read. I've even been scouring the internet and used book stores to try and find hardbound copies of his work to add to my physical library. No luck yet, though.
What are his books about/like? I know I could Google him, but I want to hear what you think.
Simple style, easy to read, clear plots, mostly set in WWII era. Technical things are favored in his writings (he was a very successful aero engineer), but not so much that they'd be a turnoff. His themes stress the dignity of work, self-sufficiency, and individual responsibility and liberty.
Pied Piper is about an old Englishman in the beginnings of WWII who loses his RAF pilot son to the war and while coming to grips with this while on vacation in France, has to deal with the advancing German army while he tries to get himself out of France and back to England. Having worried about being too old to have a purpose in the current conflict, he soon finds a cause he can live for while struggling to leave France. An easy 200 page read.
Pied Piper is about an old Englishman in the beginnings of WWII who loses his RAF pilot son to the war and while coming to grips with this while on vacation in France, has to deal with the advancing German army while he tries to get himself out of France and back to England. Having worried about being too old to have a purpose in the current conflict, he soon finds a cause he can live for while struggling to leave France. An easy 200 page read.
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Winsomemore
is busy cogitating.
Re-reading Elizabeth Kostova's "The Historian". Very well written vampire novel.
Amazon.com: The Historian (9780316011778): Elizabeth Kostova: Books
Amazon.com: The Historian (9780316011778): Elizabeth Kostova: Books
nick_nautious
Prospect
just finised Jim Butcher's Storm Front (Dresden Files book 1), i must say, this book was awesome, very fun book
off to finish Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy with The Last Argument of Kings.
off to finish Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy with The Last Argument of Kings.
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UnderTheGUN
Lurker
I am about two third the way through "The Dying Animal" by Philip Roth.
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VCRW
Lurker
I finally gave in and read The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. By halfway through I had determined the answers to the mysteries presented. However, I doggedly slogged on through the wordy narrative to corroborate my speculation, but I have now decided that I won't be finishing the series. Are the next 2 books paced any better? I felt as old as Henrik Vanger by the time it was over.
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VCRW
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Thanks, Adgy. The Salander character is so much like a friend/co-worker of mine that I just may keep going.
adgy-san
PJ Harvey is God
Cool. I'd hesitate to say that you'll enjoy them even if you didn't like the first one, but the chances are increased, at least. How much depends on how little you liked the first one. Speaking for myself, I could hardly put the second and third ones down.
BoobyTrap
Adgy's my BITCH!
I'm glad I'm not the only one that felt this way. I'm assuming that you finished the book. I couldn't get through it at all when it kept on rambling on about the lineage and crap. I told Adgy I wanted to throw his copy at the wall. I had a friend that recently finished it too and she said that she couldn't put it down. That still shocks me.
SEE???!!! I am not the only person that didn't like the book enough to finish!!
Cool. I'd hesitate to say that you'll enjoy them even if you didn't like the first one, but the chances are increased, at least. How much depends on how little you liked the first one. Speaking for myself, I could hardly put the second and third ones down.
Forget the books VCRW! Just watch the movies! Although the first movie was pretty damn boring to me. But I liked the 2nd and 3rd movies.
BoobyTrap
Adgy's my BITCH!
I finished Life, On the Line by Grant Achatz on Friday. It's the biography of the chef who started Alinea - a Chicago restaurant that is rated one of the top in the world. It's my favorite book this year, and perhaps one of my favs of all time. This is guy is truly amazing with his drive and ambition, and vision of new ways to experience food. What makes his story even more intriguing was that in his early 30's he was diagnosed with stage 4 squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue. During is chemo and radiation therapy he lost his sense of taste yet still continued to work at his restaurant.
Damn it, I wish I was filthy stinking rich so I could eat there....
Damn it, I wish I was filthy stinking rich so I could eat there....
