I cannot decide to begin reading "Sunset" or Clive Cussler's Artic Drift."
I cannot decide to begin reading "Sunset" or Clive Cussler's Artic Drift."
All that's left of what we were is what we have become.
I think she's already about halfway done with it, and so far she loves it.Originally Posted by Ruthful
It's pretty amusing, but extremely offensive, especially if you're a feminist, have Asperger's syndrome/autism, are overweight, or are not in favor of open borders. I still thought it was interesting to read though-even when I thought Leary was making an idiotic point-so you're mom should enjoy it. Lots of profanity though. Lots!Let me know how it is. I just bought this for my mom for Christmas.
But what about Duma Key?
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I read a couple hundred pages of Duma Key before I had to return it to the library. It wasn't bad, but I don't think it's one of his novels that I feel compelled to go back and finish.
I still feel that he peaked when the final, eponymous volume of TDT was published. The only one that he'll write, which I'll feel compelled to actually go out and purchase, is the third Talisman novel he might co-write with Peter Straub. Also, if he does another collection with unpublished stories-not new ones he's writing now, or ones he "finds" after twenty or thirty years, which is edited in all sorts of ways before its published.
I would urge you to try to finish Duma Key at some point. I would actually put it up there as one of my top King novels.
Also I just got back from the bookstore and I picked up a copy of Neverwhere by Gaimen which I'll probably start tonight. And they also had Interworld on audio cd on sale so I picked that up as well.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I never knew that Neil Gaiman had written children's books until I went to B&N to look for a gift for my niece and stumbled upon some of his novels in the young adults section.
done with a lion among men, on to The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
So it goes.
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. "
- Oscar Wilde
"Bluebeard" by Kurt Vonnegut
Excellent choice Paula. Vonnegut rules and that is a great one.
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman.
I'm just finishing up the LOTR trilogy. I've got about 100 pages to go.
I got Just After Sunset and Duma Key for Christmas. They are next on my list.
Wise Guy: Life in a Mafia Family
by Nicholas Pileggi
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
by Jennet Conant
Sexless in the City: A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity
by Anna Broadway
My secret santa at work got me 'Just After Sunset', and I'm about 3/4 through it.
I'm enjoying these stories a lot. Especially 'N'.
::envious bear::
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Goodfellas?
I want to read that book too.
I just started Storm Front by Jim Butcher. Its book 1 of a series called The Dresden Files. I've never even heard if these books until i saw one in borders. might as well give em' a try.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. - Edgar Allan Poe
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. - H.P. Lovecraft
The book is even better than the film!Goodfellas?
I want to read that book too.
I don't know why, but I'm obsessed with everything Henry Hill. I even read the memoir written about his family by his two adult children.
He is like a walking, talking train wreck.
Just finished We Survived: Fourteen Stories of the Hidden and Hunted in Nazi Germany[/I] and am now reading The Double Bind, by Chris Bohjalian.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
I might just read the Green Mile again. I just cant get enough of that book. King at his best.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. - Edgar Allan Poe
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. - H.P. Lovecraft
Just finished Douglas Preston's Blasphemy. Good stuff!
I started reading that when it was first released as a serial novel, and loved it. Have never seen the movie, but have heard good things about it.
I've seen snippets from the film. It's one of those things you see dozens of times-in passing-but never stop to actually watch in total. It's like the opposite of Stand by Me, which I've probably seen a dozen times.
I don't know.
Stand by Me is one of the best adaptations to film, IMO. Outside of The Shining-by Kubrick-and the Shawshenk Redemption I'd say that's one of the best movies based upon a Stephen King story/novel.
And Misery!
Forgot about that.
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