I agree with you on all counts. Plus, I thought it was pretty funny. Especially when compared to something like The Handmaid's Tale or the MaddAddam Trilogy.
What Are You Reading?
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Really digging Floating Dragon. Only about a third of the way through (ain't had much reading time lately), but things are getting good. Reads like a vintage King 'townie' novel, and those are my faves.
Floating Dragon is an exciting read. This was the first Straub novel I ever owned (read). Ghost Story and If You Could See Me Now are also among my top picks.
I read this one a few weeks ago. Interested to hear your thoughts.
I am finally reading Swan Song by Robert McCammon. Wow!
A book about royal scandals. Not just the British royals but all of them, throughout history. Thoroughly entertaining.
How far are you? I love this!!!!
I was actually responding to Muskrat because he's reading it. He said he was a third into it. I'm reading 11/22/63 and finishing up Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. I have so many on my TBR list.
That's always so frustrating, I have so many unread books and the pile just keeps on growing. I sometimes wonder if i even have time to read all that in my lifetime...
I'm always very jealous of my girlfriend, she can speedread. Two days and she has finished a book of 700 pages...
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
How was The Heart Goes Last? I have not read any Atwood in a wee while
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
(saw this after I posted my question)
But this is what my front cover looks like:
Arcadevere
Gentle Lady From Brady Hartsfield Defense Squad
That's always so frustrating, I have so many unread books and the pile just keeps on growing. I sometimes wonder if i even have time to read all that in my lifetime...
I'm always very jealous of my girlfriend, she can speedread. Two days and she has finished a book of 700 pages...
I really really feel you sir.
i also have a problems finishing book because of my school works and i just found my pile of TBR growing
i know a person that reads exactly as same as your girlfriend and he was my Professor in History. he just finished Harry potter and the Cursed child in two - three days (he also has a office work in our school so he was busy) i'm so jealous to those kind of people
The STAND Vol. 1: Captain Trips (Graphic Novel). I always feel sorry for Sheriff John Baker because he was a good guy, took the side of Nick instead of his brother-in-law, made Nick an honorary deputy and still he dies.
I also picked up from the library City of Bones by Michael Connelly and Behind Closed Doors by Susan K Sloan.But this is what my front cover looks like:
I'm up to the fifth book in The Blackstone Chronicles and I actually got a little scared reading it last night - had to put it down lol. I can't think of any stories by SK that are about an asylum. I'd love to see what he does with the asylum theme
I want the big bad Omnibus edition--the whole dang series between two georgeous hard covers. Like, 768 pages. Gimme.
Marvel has a lot of killer Ominbus editions. Got a monster sized hard back of every dang Steve Ditko Spidey they ever published. Thing is HUGE. You could kill a grizzly bear with it.
Forgive me if you already mentioned this -- I do not see it in the thread, at least -- but how was this book? When I saw it in the bookstore, I remarked to myself how clever the concept was from a marketing point of view. This seemed to be written with the intent of selling it to a studio for either a movie deal or an episodic series. I forget -- was it told in first person? Is it supposed to be a book series?
I recently finished The Paper Chase. Took me a while to read, but not because of quality, just time. Excellent book (or is it more on the novella side? I don't know). I loved the movie, and I thought the book was equally as good. A few flaws -- never liked the part in the film about going to the hotel and the comedy that happened there (happened to some extent in the book as well), always took me out of the plot in the same way that the comedy in the original Last House on the Left did for that horror piece; and I also thought some parts could have been extended in the book, like the trip to find the Red Set in the library and the resultant reverie over Kingsfield's archived notes -- but actually the book fascinated me for the most part, especially in the way it was written. Anyone who has read it had to have noticed how economical, and effective because of it, the prose was. Fascinating teaching device for writers, but I'm not sure that style is marketable today. Maybe only as an ebook.
I am currently reading Presto by Penn Jillette, as well as Powerhouse by James A. Miller, a non-fiction collection of quotes (mostly) about the CAA agency. Very good tomes. (And obviously I continue with King stuff.)
Did you start that yet? Just curious if it is the type of story that is good from the start or not.
....I'm almost finished, and it's rather humorous-the "adolescent" tone of his writing-so much less polished than he is now, however the plotting is good.....oh yeah, you think he overdoes his descriptives now????.....he had to have worn out a Thesaurus writing this one.....
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