I bailed on it years ago. Four or five. I did it for a variety of reasons but one of them was that I really disliked it. So yes. But not because it was lonely. Because it was too intrusive.
Kelly
What Are You Reading?
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I bailed on it years ago. Four or five. I did it for a variety of reasons but one of them was that I really disliked it. So yes. But not because it was lonely. Because it was too intrusive.
Kelly
I use Facebook.
Me and my friends use it mainly for sports related banter.
There does tend to be a lot of unnecessary airings of things that should really remain private, usually by people I barely know and so they get swiftly deleted. Can do without Jeremy Kyle/Rickii Lake on my day to day news feed!!
On topic, I am about halfway through Swan Song and really really liking it.
I have been working an insane amount of hours these last few weeks, but still managed to squeeze in well over 400 pages. Looking forward to a few days off so I can really get stuck into the 2nd half of it!!!
Me and my friends use it mainly for sports related banter.
There does tend to be a lot of unnecessary airings of things that should really remain private, usually by people I barely know and so they get swiftly deleted. Can do without Jeremy Kyle/Rickii Lake on my day to day news feed!!
On topic, I am about halfway through Swan Song and really really liking it.
I have been working an insane amount of hours these last few weeks, but still managed to squeeze in well over 400 pages. Looking forward to a few days off so I can really get stuck into the 2nd half of it!!!
Stranger in a strange land by Heinlein. Man, what a great book so far
Havent read Wiltons Detective stories but one i can recoommend is an alternative history on the same tiheme. Dominion by C.J. Sansom. There Hitler won the war and a little gruop led by churchill flees to the highlands to form the resistance movement. Well made.
Right now i'm reading Hearts in Atlantis. Just halfway through the wirst story, Low Men in Yellow Coats. I like it but i always like it when he has children in main parts. I took to Bobby, Carol and Sully-John at once. He is great in describing them. Better then great actually. I cant recall another fictionwriter that is that good in that area. I might be biased but i have read a lot and no one springs to mind.
Neesy
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It is not the same as being here - this place is full of like minded people, plus the best part is - no silly ads!
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
I read the first and second stories just a few days back and now I am planning on starting 'Blind Willie".
or games!! I can't stand those FB games.
You inspired me..... I've just finished the first story and just started Hearts in Atlantis, the second story.
I finished The Bone Clocks, by David Mitchell. It's a long complex book, with shifting points of view and the stories within stories take place many centuries into the past. And the last sections some decades into the future.....which was quite believable, unfortunately.
But I did love it!
But I did love it!
I think most people that like FB like the games. Otherwise, it's just a bunch of boring junk (unless you hear news from distant relatives or something relevant or important.. which is rare for me...)
What am I reading? Why, the Grub Street Press, of course. All the rage in the East End.
I was planning on reading 11/22/63... but, was at the discount book shop and picked up CELL in paperback for $1.00; so that will be my next read (Have not started it yet...)
What a shame, it all went downhill. Gave it up midway through. The narrative became stale and it lost all the whimsical status it had in the beginning.
Anyone read Gone Girl? Picked up a used (new, never cranked open) copy...or my wife did...along with some other things...jam, thimbleberry...three-berry...hold me over 'til I can make some more...soon. But I'd read The Silent Wife, an excellent story, recommend it...and saw all these comparisons to Gone Girl. Finished a John D MacDonald and thought to give this one a go. Seems to have a variety of narration. That or Boot Tracks maybe...more MacDonald. Have a MacCarthy available, too...the first of the border trilogy. Do-da, do-da! King...plugged?...Gone Girl in that video of him talking at...the Manatee thingy? Reviews are plenty, varied.
The Werewolf Principle by Clifford Simak. Bought ten of his books up in Hunter Street. While I was up at the 2nd hand store, Stephen King was staring at me from across the counter. Well, a picture of him in a newspaper article in The Daily Telegraph from 1993. I don't know if it was a syndicated story or not. Next time I'm up there I'll take a picture of it.
Seems most folks on here loved the first 3/4 of it, then it runs out of steam. I have the limited on order and won't read the story till it arrives.
The New Zealand Herald...for some news and opinion...
I LOVED Gone Girl until the very very very end. I'm not a fan of Flynn's moralizing.
Currently have 100 pages left in Duma Key. I must say there have been a few parts that have genuinely terrified me!....and I've read this one before. I think I'll re-read Pet Sematary next, then move on to some of the new books on my shelf.
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