I sit corrected. That's about as good as my memory gets. At least I hit Shakespeare!
What Are You Reading? Part Deux
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I started A Tale Of Two Cities but it didn't ring my bell. I did enjoy Oliver Twist and I always read A Christmas Carol this time of year. One of my favorites.
Just finished Song of Kali. It was pretty good. At least he got most of it right but there are other, nicer, aspects of Kali. Oh well. Now re-reading another Discworld; The Fifth Elephant.
Just finished Song of Kali. It was pretty good. At least he got most of it right but there are other, nicer, aspects of Kali. Oh well. Now re-reading another Discworld; The Fifth Elephant.
Robert McCammon’s Gone South & Jane Harper’s The Dry.
Gather The Daughters (Jennie Melamid) I picked this up at the library on a whim. It might be a dystopia, it might be an alternate history, it might be speculative fiction...or maybe it's none of the above! A group of families live on a small island, having been moved there by 'the ancestors' after a terrible event. Everything off of the island is called something like the wasteland. Very primitive religion, strict traditional gender roles, etc. etc, except the ancestors are worshipped far more than God. I'm about half way through, and I still haven't figured out if the crisis situation was real or if some looney moved his followers there and the outside world is just fine (a Shamalamadingdong "The Village" scenario). Good book so far, if what happens to the daughters wasn't so damn horrifying.
The Dry was a really good read.
Just got done with End of Watch and started the Killing floor. First Jack Reacher novel
I never really got into the Jack Reacher stories although by all accounts they're pretty good.
The Bill Hodges trilogy was great.
....Strange Weather......I had read the first piece in it's earlier incarnation.....now most of the way through Loaded.....Joe is a force in his own write, errr, right....
Just got Strange Weather in the mail today. So excited!! Probably start it this evening.
Thought of you while reading Loaded, GNTLGNT. Would love to know how you feel about this one.
....I'll let you know when I finish up.....it's been a damn fine story so far.....
The North and South trilogy ebooks are $3.99 at Amazon today. This is not an opinion, but an actual fact.
Amazon.com: The North and South Trilogy: North and South, Love and War, and Heaven and Hell eBook: John Jakes: Kindle Store
Thanks, Danie, for the tip!!!! Got it and i also got the first three books in the Kent Chronicles by the same man for the same price. Have always wondered if they were something to try. Now i have the first three books for 4 bucks. Thats a bargain.
...final opinion?....very good story....it could easily serve as an "anti-gun" treatise, but I never felt Joe was approaching the novella from that standpoint....many things within the tale could serve as metaphors for "Loaded"....
I am reading “skipping Christmas “ by join Grisham. My first Grisham book. I just started it. The movie Christmas wiht the cranks is based of this book. I like to read Christmas books this time of year. After I read this one I may start joe hills book Nos4r2. It has a Christmas theme. Then after this I may read the Bennie babies bubble. About the cpbennie babie craze of the 1990’s
I really enjoyed Skipping Christmas. It shows Grisham's humorous side, which you don't see too often in his legal thrillers (although the character Lucien, the alcoholic silent partner of Jake, who appears in A Time To Kill and the sequel Sycamore Row adds touches of humor). I never did see the movie version of Skipping Christmas.
Finished Bracken MacLeod's Come To Dust
Started The Stay-Awake Men And Other Unstable Entities by Matthew M. Bartlett
Started The Stay-Awake Men And Other Unstable Entities by Matthew M. Bartlett
It’s very slap stick haha, I am not a huge fan of Tim Taylor. But it’s a good lighthearted watch
I enjoyed a long delayed re reading of Firestarter myself. I remembered very little of the story, had written it off as crap and was very surprised.