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Great! I hope you'll like it. Even tho you can't hear Owen's voice (he has a very different and unique voice), I love the way that Irving portrays it here- he uses capital letters whenever Owen speaks. In my mind it was a mixture of hearing someone run their fingernails down a chalkboard and gargling with pebbles LOUDLY!
I wish they had been able to record it when John Irving read an excerpt at the Harry, Carrie & Garp event so I could share that with you. He read it in a falsetto voice so we were able to hear how he heard it in his head when he was writing it.Great! I hope you'll like it. Even tho you can't hear Owen's voice (he has a very different and unique voice), I love the way that Irving portrays it here- he uses capital letters whenever Owen speaks. In my mind it was a mixture of hearing someone run their fingernails down a chalkboard and gargling with pebbles LOUDLY!
I have read all of Crichton's novels. I can heartily recommend The Great Train Robbery, Congo (way better than the movie!), Disclosure, Prey (terrified me!) and any of the Jurassic books.
I wish I had been there, although my ear drums would probably have exploded from the high-pitched squealing when Rowling took the stage!I wish they had been able to record it when John Irving read an excerpt at the Harry, Carrie & Garp event so I could share that with you. He read it in a falsetto voice so we were able to hear how he heard it in his head when he was writing it.
And that was just from Jon Stewart after he'd introduced her!I wish I had been there, although my ear drums would probably have exploded from the high-pitched squealing when Rowling took the stage!
I love Jurassic Park, and I'm not a huge dinosaur guy
Now THAT would have been a place to be! I'm not ashamed to say that I would have been speechless with delight for days afterwardI wish they had been able to record it when John Irving read an excerpt at the Harry, Carrie & Garp event so I could share that with you. He read it in a falsetto voice so we were able to hear how he heard it in his head when he was writing it.
Prey was the one with the nanobots, right? I liked that and Congo and quite a few others. He was a wonderful, diverse writer, and there was no sense that he came up with ideas and handed them off to others to actually write; despite the broad range of his books, they all had a recognizable 'voice'.
Thanks. Are any of them along the same lines as Andromeda Strain? The book has a great plot.
Don't you think he is rather uneven? When he is good he is good but when he isn't.... Anyway. I would like to add Passage, timetravel book of his based on a archaoelogical dig. Interesting. Havent't read all though. Maybe i just got more than my share of losers.
Then i will get me my ex. Probably buy Tommyknockers and Skeleton Crew too since i just have them in a swedish translation. I want the real deal. Oh my, how i will be able to work in the close future is a riddle. There are so many better things to do.
Yes, Crichton is uneven. The book you called 'Passage' here is called Timeline. I didn't care for it much as I didn't like the story/time period he picked for the time travel adventure. Could have been a much better book. I didn't care much for Airframe or Next (seriously, the guy can just walk out of a highly secured medical lab with a monkey and no one sees it? Seriously??). State Of Fear was boring but it opened my eyes to what/who creates fear mongering.
Anyone read Prey by M.C.? Plot sounded kind of interesting....
I JUST downloaded the sample of that book on kindle! Is it worth buying the whole thing?
Prey seriously terrified me because it could happen!!!! It almost seemed like something that Koontz would write, but way more plausible with the science/technology to back it up. The desert scene towards the end just about made me pee my pants!!
I have always fancied Oates as a Novelist, not so much a short story writer. Liked her The Accursed.
It is interesting. I just wished that he had put a little more work in the characters. It would have been even scarier then.
Just finishing up The Secret History, and it's well worth the buying, if you'd like an opinion.
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