What Are You Reading? Part Deux

[do1you9love?]

Thanks. I'd heard that before about the 2nd and 3rd books. Didn't know there was a 4th.

It's been a long time, but I remember really liking all 3 and I have the 4th in my TBR pile which I will eventually read. And just seeing that he has written a 5th, yep, I'll probably read that too.

I enjoyed 2 and 3 as well. Haven't read the one by the new author, but I will get around to it eventually.

Spoiler: nerd alert spoiler

One of the things that I found very amusing in book 2 was Lisbeth's musings on Fermat's Last Theorem. My book club didn't get why I found it funny, though. Not to literally spoil anything, but she keeps coming back to it at not so appropriate times in the action.

 

[GNTLGNT]

Talking about book or movie? When it comes to books i haven't read too much Crichton for some reason. This will be my third i think. Any special not to be missed books by him??

...for me, that would be The Andromeda Strain.......

 

[Shiney]

Read The Girl In The Glass by Jeffrey Ford

Almost finished with The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford

Next up is Three Hours Past Midnight by Tony Knighton

 

[Neesy]

Opened up something called iBooks on my iPad (no I am not a Luddite, just haven't had an interest to do so until now).

Starting reading One Second After which is a book recommended by ghost19 - well of course they allow you to read just enough to get you hooked then ask if you want to buy it!

It was starting to get quite interesting so I'll be going to one of our local libraries today to see if I can request it.

The writing did not grip me right away but after awhile I did start to enjoy it and was interested to see what would happen next.

Spoiler

I did skip the intro by Newt Gingrich (I know he is a politician but I was more interested in getting into the meat of the book).

 

[JMR]

I started listing to The Shining so happy.. However I will need people help...Disc six is bad and the Library said they didn't know when they could get replacement. So I am going to listen to it anyways. Start thread somewhere people can fill me in if they want to on parts I miss if there important.

 

[kingricefan]

Almost finished reading a book I found on the clearance table at B&N last week: Prince- Inside The Music And The Masks by Ronin Ro. It was obvious from the first chapter that this guy didn't really like Prince so I just wonder why he bothered to write a book about him? Money talks, I guess......

 

[Blake]

Funnelweb; Going Wrong by Ruth Rendell; Thinner;

 

[skimom2]

Talking about book or movie? When it comes to books i haven't read too much Crichton for some reason. This will be my third i think. Any special not to be missed books by him??

Book. I didn't like it enough to bother with the movie. My favorite Crichton is Jurassic Park. I also quite liked Prey. Congo and Lost World were okay. I didn't like Eaters of the Dead, Rising Sun, or Disclosure very much. I have Next and Micro on my TBR list. The thing with him is that he wrote in so many different genres that it's possible to love one book and be bored to tears by another. I tend to like his science-y books as opposed to his histories or corporate naughtiness books (those are the bored to tears books for me).

 

[skimom2]

Read a nonfiction book called Nomadland, about the explosion in the numbers of people living out of RVs and the like since the 2008 economic collapse. Pretty sobering stuff. I ended up being even more happy that we live simply and didn't feel a huge bump from the crash--food went up a lot, but we don't have consumer debt, aside from our house, so we were able to absorb that larger expense with a hell of a lot less pinch than many people. Now I'm finally starting Annihilation (the second book in the series should be here tomorrow or the next day).

 

[lowman]

Just finished sleeping beauties and just started Joe hills book strange weather. I'm just a tad behind on my reading..

 

[MadBoJangles]

Hey everyone, hope all are well?
Been busy, busy selling our house and buying a new home.
Couple that with work (the necessary evil) and that's my only excuse for not posting here for a while!

Got through a few books since last here, I finished the excellent "Way of Kings" by Brandon Sanderson, "The Ritual" by Adam Nevill, "Widow's Point" by Richard Chizmar, "Bleed" by Ed Kurtz, "Jurassic Park" by Crichton and "Slaughterhouse Five" by Vonnegut. All were great, especially Slaughterhouse Five, I listened to the audiobook and it was really good...I had no idea where it was going...or it had been...it literally has no traditional structure to it at all...but it was fascinating!

Currently reading the last 100 pages of "Words of Radiance" by Sanderson, book 2 of the Stormlight Archive and sequel to "The Way of Kings". Still utterly absorbed by the world he has created, very good indeed.

 

[Kurben]

I'm reading an essay collection by Nina Burton about Erasmus of Rotterdam, one of the most important authors of the renaissance. Around this star several others circled like Sir Thomas More, Paracelsus, Albrecht Durer, Hans Holbein and influenced, one way or another emperors, kings and popes and of course Martin Luther and his reformation. Its called The Nova of the Gutenberg Galaxy. Erasmus is the Nova. Started interesting.

 

[skimom2]

I was to have started Annihilation, but I picked up a book called Educated (Tara Westover)on a whim. What a corker! I read almost all of it last night and will finish it tonight. A memoir of a young woman who was raised by Mormon preppers in the mountain of Idaho. No formal schooling, no Western medicine, a troubled father, a sadistic brother, and a dishrag mother (with a lot of other assorted siblings tossed into the pot). She went on to teach herself enough to get a good ACT score, get a bachelors degree from BYU, and then higher degrees from Cambridge. It's fascinating, frustrating, heartbreaking, and ultimately triumphant. I keep wondering if any of the family has read it and what they think about her spilling the family tea. Very readable, and a little horrifying.

 

[Toni_S_UK]

Just finished Wizard and Glass last night, really enjoyed this book, but am glad to be be back on the path of the beam; Started Wolves Of The Calla this morning

 

[do1you9love?]

Just finished Hillbilly Elegy: from Google "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is a memoir by J.D. Vance about the Appalachian values of his upbringing and their relation to the social problems of his hometown"

I don't normally read non-fiction unless someone picks it in my book club, however this title kept appearing on my library feed, so I finally checked it out. Since I grew up in the mountians of Southwest Virginia descended from Scots-Irish immigrants, this really hit close to home. I would recommend to any of you who are a part of Appalachia and anyone who wants to better understand what truly is a crisis in America.

 

[GNTLGNT]

....hell of a collection of short tales......

 

[Grant87]

....hell of a collection of short tales......

Never heard of this one. I'll have to check it out.

 

[GNTLGNT]

Never heard of this one. I'll have to check it out.

....it's quite a variety, and not a one of them has bored me yet.....

 

[Neesy]

I was to have started Annihilation, but I picked up a book called Educated (Tara Westover)on a whim. What a corker! I read almost all of it last night and will finish it tonight. A memoir of a young woman who was raised by Mormon preppers in the mountain of Idaho. No formal schooling, no Western medicine, a troubled father, a sadistic brother, and a dishrag mother (with a lot of other assorted siblings tossed into the pot). She went on to teach herself enough to get a good ACT score, get a bachelors degree from BYU, and then higher degrees from Cambridge. It's fascinating, frustrating, heartbreaking, and ultimately triumphant. I keep wondering if any of the family has read it and what they think about her spilling the family tea. Very readable, and a little horrifying.

Thanks for this - I will look for this book

 

[Kurben]

I started a book by John Connelly, an Irish writer, but his influences are very american. His setting is Loiusiana, New York and Main mainly (see what i did there). He has obviously read and loved the three greats in american hardboiled crimeschool. Chandler and the two MacDonalds, John D. and Ross. Probably read their more recent followers too like Robert Parker, James Lee Burke, Dennis Lehane and Elmore Leonard. What Connelly does is adding a dash, just a dash of supernatural/horror. In his first, Every Dead Thing, it is hardly noticeable but it grows as his Charlie Parker series continues. Its daring to do so but he manages to walk the line so it doesnt get silly. Mixing genres are always difficult. Just read the first Every Dead Thing, where we get Parkers background (a gruesome one) and his first case and started the second. They are violent but they are not gore. Wellwritten too. I think i will like this, for me, new author.