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Third in a series from author Chris Wooding chronicling the adventures of the crew of the spaceship Ketty Jay. As with the previous books, this is very much in the style of Firefly and is a very good read.
 
motalare said:
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Third in a series from author Chris Wooding chronicling the adventures of the crew of the spaceship Ketty Jay. As with the previous books, this is very much in the style of Firefly and is a very good read.
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I have to get these books! If for nothing else I have met the artist who does the covers, Stephan Martiniere, several times and he is very nice guy! And does great work to boot!
 
REading the Dune series. Didn't like it as a teen. The first 60 or so pages of the first book was boring as hell then it starts to pick up.
 
After watching the show Flash Forward on ABC a number of years ago and being completely bummed that it was cancelled, I just saw in watching it with my kids that it was based on a book by the same name by Robert Sawyer (guess I should have paid attention to the credits the first time around). I was hoping to to get closure on the show by reading the book to see how it would have ended. The book was a disappointment. Now I wish I would have left well enough alone.

Just started reading 77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz
 
kingkrazy said:
After watching the show Flash Forward on ABC a number of years ago and being completely bummed that it was cancelled, I just saw in watching it with my kids that it was based on a book by the same name by Robert Sawyer (guess I should have paid attention to the credits the first time around). I was hoping to to get closure on the show by reading the book to see how it would have ended. The book was a disappointment. Now I wish I would have left well enough alone.

Just started reading 77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz
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also started 77 shadow street.....starts slow
 
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House Of Leaves - I don't even know where to start with talking about this book. It was heavy, in every way you can think of to describe a book. I really, really enjoyed it and even though I finished it weeks ago, it's stuck with me. I want to read it again, but don't really know when I'll have that much time to invest in a second reading.


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Cruddy - A short, quick read and a really good one. Roberta is a poor, ugly girl with an abusive stepmother and an insane, murderous father who taught her how to shoot and use a knife, drink booze with the best of them. It's sad, funny and really ****ed up. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
 
adgy-san said:
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I think the book can certainly be read as being a product solely of Johnny Truant. Either he's gone mad, is being haunted, or simply purposefully creating a work of collected texts to create a story.

What I really like about this book is that I am a big fan of 'found text' books, but those, well, at least some of the better known, aren't really postmodern in structure. For example, with something such as Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, well, we get a text from a Governess which is written in a high prose style akin to that of James own style. It’s only a different text because we are told that it is and not because it reads as such.

With House of Leaves, the found texts do in fact feel like texts that are not all written in a literary style, but rather, a style that embodies the persona its coming from, say, the more common Truant or the more academic minded Zampano, or what have you. It does, then, create real specific integration of voices and narrative styles rather than simply having different texts pretty written in some overarching literary style that pretty much parallels the style of the actual writer.
 
I agree. It was one of the many things I found fascinating about the book. So many different voices and so easily distinguishable. The letters from Johnny's mom being a great example, I thought.
 
I am sure you've read Chuck Palahniuk's Choke and I just rewatched the movie version. And now I am thinking, isn't Truant's mother like Victor's mother, crazy, ,locked away, but still influencing him?
 
orpheus said:
I am sure you've read Chuck Palahniuk's Choke and I just rewatched the movie version. And now I am thinking, isn't Truant's mother like Victor's mother, crazy, ,locked away, but still influencing him?
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Oooh, yeah, that's a good comparison.
 
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