Yep, John -- the review linked above was the Matthew Pearl "Poe" novel under discussion. My review of UtD will be in the Halloween issue of Cemetery Dance, though I'll probably do one for Onyx Reviews as well closer to publication date. I've queried the Houston Chronicle as well, but I've never had much luck getting a response from them.
over the last 3 days i have started and finished reading. James paterson "sail" Very good book!. Also finished Simon Kernicks "good day to die" Which is also a good book. If your into crime and that sort of thing. Just started to read dream catcher today and so far it looks pretty good
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I just began a re-read of The Tommyknockers
Gets worse every time I read it.
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
Originally Posted by jayson
and i'm shocked that it's even possible to not know what that book is about given how the word "lolita" has entered into the language.Reading Lolita...
I'm a little bored, honestly. It was interesting for a while, but it kind of died. I want it to hurry up already.
Also, I had NO IDEA what this book was about, so it was kind of a shock.I kind of knew it was about an older man and younger girl, but I thought the girl was like... 18. 16 minimum.
I'm kind of getting more into it again, but I wish it would hurry up already.
Why would you even want to read that book more than once?I just began a re-read of The Tommyknockers
Gets worse every time I read it.
I honestly don't know. It isnt even that great of a read... and yet I find myself opening it up month after month...Why would you even want to read that book more than once?I just began a re-read of The Tommyknockers
Gets worse every time I read it.
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
Interesting. It gets better and better every time bears read it. Maybe it depends on what you read directly before it.I just began a re-read of The Tommyknockers
Gets worse every time I read it.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Duma Key - this one is going fast. I've got the giant hardcover version so I've been hauling that around in my bag everywhere.
Gave up totally on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies... I just cant get excited about the story... So I started American Gods finally!
I'm reading Doctor No by Ian Fleming. This is the first Fleming - James Bond novel that I read, and I have to say I love his style.
Boomers: The Cold War Generation Grows Up, Victor D. Brooks
I've been having a hard time with it as well. I think I'm still only about 30 pages in. Which is strange, because I love zombies, and I love Jane Austen, so I thought I'd really enjoy it. I will say that I've never really been a huge fan of Pride & Prejudice, it's my least favorite of her stories, so that might have something to do with it.Gave up totally on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies... I just cant get excited about the story
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I have 8 pages left in Lolita and I can't bring myself to sit down and read them, that's how bored I am.
Damn
Screw The Tommyknockers!!!! ........... i'm going to read some Poe stories for a while.
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
Fortunately or unfortunately I'm re-reading The Iliad (aka the trojan war, or for you Brad Pit fans...Troy)
The Tardis (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) duh!
WHY, MORD, WHY??????
"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
Is the Iliad connected to the Odyssey? Both by Homer... but do they form a mini series?
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
Iliad comes before Odyssey, I'm pretty sure.
Yeah. The Iliad is the Trojan War and features Achilles, and The Odyssey is about Odysseus trying to get home and failing pretty miserably. Yay Homer!
(I haven't actually read either all the way through, but I sure loved my Wishbone versions as a kid.)
With a good translation? they are a good read... required for us in Honors Lit and Humanities... I will say, I'll never read them again... twice is enough!
The Iliad is first, it is the Trojan war, the Odyssey is after, which is the story of Odysseus trying to get back to his home country after fighting in the Trojan War. Odysseus was spurned by the Gods for his involvement in the Trojan War. When he finally made it home he was an old man, and his wife had re-married thinking that Odysseus and died. Not really a mini series....I guess...by todays standards it could be, kind of like the Star Wars movies. But each Greek story has it's moral teaching. For instance, The Iliad isn't really the story of the Trojan War, but the story of Achilles' rage. For it was believed if Achilles would not have gotten mad at Agamemnon and sat out for many years of the war, the Greeks would have defeated the Trojans early on.Is the Iliad connected to the Odyssey? Both by Homer... but do they form a mini series?
And Dag, I'm bored and I love Greek mytho.
Unfound, just being technical, Homer wasn't alive during any of it, he was the first person to put the oral history into writing.
The Tardis (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) duh!
I just finished reading The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon. I think it's book 5 in the Outlander series... what a great series! Has anyone else read them? I thought the first book- OUtlander- was awesome & the 2nd was ok, but the 3 after that just keep getting better...
I'm reading that series & the Dark Tower series as well this summer (Last summer it was the Harry Potter series- awesome! the summer before was the Left Behind series). So I finished Wizard & Glass recently too, so I'm waiting to get the next books in both series.
Btw, I've never read the Iliad or the Odyssey (even in college!)... and someone mentoined Lolita- I got that one from the library, always wanted to read it, but my hubby is reading it... and he's a slooooooow reader!
Just finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (yeah sarajean, I FINISHED it!) and am now reading Diary by Chuck Palahniuk.
"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
Woot for finishing HP!
And a def. thumbs-up for Chuck P.
Elodin: "Tombs is for feckless twits who can't chew their own food. My boy's a Re'lar! He has the feck of twenty men!"
Kvothe: “Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.”
Simmon: ”It’s just ointment in case you get burned...but if you mix it with piss, it turns into candy.” Sim’s expression was deadpan. “Delicious candy.”
Please let me know what you think of Diary. I loved it, but for some reason it seems to get a bit of hate around here.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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