Currently I'm reading Boy's Life and I have to say it's a wonderfully charming book. Really enjoying it.
Currently I'm reading Boy's Life and I have to say it's a wonderfully charming book. Really enjoying it.
I am mid-way through Acceptance, the final book in VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy. There is a sense of foreboding, a slow build up, but I have to emphasise- SLOW. I was hoping the second book would be redeemed by this, but there is not enough action/movement. Please someone tell me the build up and ending is WORTH it?!
Sorry to say it but no. I absolutely loved the first book and would rank it as one of my all-time favorites. But books 2 and 3 were horrible
And I almost started Boy's Life the other day but opted to read Bird Box instead. Has anyone read it? Not too far in yet but so far I'm enjoying it.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
What are you currently reading?
I finally re-read The Eyes of the Dragon after 29 years. Now I remember why that book got me hooked on King. Really enjoyed the story. Back to the 800+ page biography of Brautigan. Needed a breather from it.
Oh no! After all this work! Ok, I'll press on quickly, hope for some closure, and hit my Laird Barron novel.Originally Posted by Heather19
Sorry to say it but no. I absolutely loved the first book and would rank it as one of my all-time favorites. But books 2 and 3 were horrible
And I almost started Boy's Life the other day but opted to read Bird Box instead. Has anyone read it? Not too far in yet but so far I'm enjoying it.
Loved Bird Box. It's a great read.
Sorry to say it but no. I absolutely loved the first book and would rank it as one of my all-time favorites. But books 2 and 3 were horrible
And I almost started Boy's Life the other day but opted to read Bird Box instead. Has anyone read it? Not too far in yet but so far I'm enjoying it.
I'm currently reading book #4 of the Old Man's War series by John Scalzi and man, it is horrible. The first 3 books were great, but Scalzi decided to rewrite book #3 from the perspective of a teenage girl and it just doesn't work at all. It is actually making me retroactively dislike the series, which totally sucks. I'm just praying that after I choke down the rest of this shit sandwich (a.k.a., Zoe's Tale) that book #5 will get the series back on track.
currently reading Shantaram - it's very good
Loved that book: my #1 McCammon.
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I started reading Sherlock stories and I didn't expect to get hooked. I was wrong. I love the guy.
Roland would have understood.
I went through a phase in high school where I must have read 20-30 Agatha Christie novels. I didn't think The Mysterious Affair at Styles was one of the best, but if you like it, be sure and read the follow-up (A Holiday for Murder), which is very good. This book is also known as Murder for Christmas. (Several of her novels were published under different names in the UK and the US.). Perhaps her best mystery is And Then There Were None (also published as Ten Little Indians and Ten Little Niggers). You can't go wrong with that one. I can honestly say the ending/resolution was the biggest "I did NOT see that coming" moment I've ever read from a mystery author.
Mine was from Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. That was awesome!I went through a phase in high school where I must have read 20-30 Agatha Christie novels. I didn't think The Mysterious Affair at Styles was one of the best, but if you like it, be sure and read the follow-up (A Holiday for Murder), which is very good. This book is also known as Murder for Christmas. (Several of her novels were published under different names in the UK and the US.). Perhaps her best mystery is And Then There Were None (also published as Ten Little Indians and Ten Little Niggers). You can't go wrong with that one. I can honestly say the ending/resolution was the biggest "I did NOT see that coming" moment I've ever read from a mystery author.
Love Christie!
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Simon Strantzas - Nightingale Songs
Oh man, sorry to hear this. I've read the first three as well and was planning to start the fourth soon.
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
Hahaha, oh no...you're reading Zoe's Tale. I had the lettered of that book and sold it at a fraction of the price just to get it out of the house. I'm content with the original trilogy.
I'm reading Secret Faces by Kealan Patrick Burke. A solid collection of no-nonsense horror stories. Recommended.
Just finished 11/22/63... I will have to say that is going to the top 5 for sure. I thought it was amazing!
Now starting The Fellowship of the Ring.
Haha, I know exactly how you feel. I would get rid of a lettered Zoe's Tale in a heartbeat (unless I owned lettereds of the first 3, I suppose, just to keep the set). I still haven't finished it out of sheer disinterest and it's at 95% complete on my kindle.
Patrick, I'm sorry to drop that on you, but it was driving me nuts and I had to post about it! You could always skip it...Oh man, sorry to hear this. I've read the first three as well and was planning to start the fourth soon.
I have almost finished Book 3 of VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy. I persisted because I hoped. And I don't like abandoning after such investment of time.
Boring. Just... boring. I can only conclude that for Stephen King to recommend it, he has lapsed into his recreational substances again.
I agree. I didn't even bother with the third.
Rick Hautala - Glimpses
Tom Piccirilli - Bad Dog
Both brilliant writers, both gone too soon...
Been meaning to read both of these authors. Heard good things.
I just finished the final book of the Southern Reach trilogy (VanderMeer). I kept going after book one (which was quite good) out of hope but both book two and three were so boring that I would have rather had my scrotum punctured on a barbed wire fence. I'll bet big money that when King recommended it, he hadn't read part 2 and 3.
Piccirilli dabbled in many styles so it's probably best to research the book you're planning on buying...just so you don't get a book of poetry if you wanted horror or noir.
Hautala IMO is pretty similar to King, though I dare say with a touch of vintage Bradbury and Charles Grant. He was also from Maine so at times it might seem like you're reading a different story playing out in the same little towns King wrote about. Glimpses is his Best Of collection (+ a few never-before-collected stories) and along with Four Octobers, a fine introduction.
Awesome, I love Grant and Bradbury. I just grabbed a copy of Glimpses - sounds exactly what I'm into. Thanks!
My current delemma, I have been rereading/listening to The Twelve so I can read City of Mirrors. I finished listening to The Twelve tonight. I have an ARC of The City of Mirrors ready to read. I am reading the paperback of Mr. Mercedes in order to be ready for the final book. Do I stop reading Mr. Mercedes to pick up Mirrors? Or do I switch to audiobook of Mr. Mercedes so I can read Mirrors? Or do I keep reading Mr. Mercedes and wait to read Mirrors until I finish the Hodges trilogy? Urg. I also want to read The Fireman in the middle of all of this.
Oh, and I have to show up to work every day also.
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