What Are You Reading?
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I'm almost to the end of The Cuckoos Calling, and I've found it immensely satisfying. She's such a visual writer--I keep 'seeing' the action as if it was a BBC miniseries. The attention to detail she showed in the HP series is very evident in this book, but with the adult sensibility of The Casual Vacancy. This is a much better book than that one, though. I hope she chooses to stick to this genre and leaves the 'well off adults behaving badly and filled with ennui' genre to (redacted). LOL. People affecting boredom with life and whining about how good they've got it bore me. I have The Silkworm (another mystery by her) on deck, and I'm very pleased to have it so
Couldn't finish 2001, but the Sacks book is interesting.
So, does that mean if one did not like Doctor Sleep (me!) one might prefer Revival?
Pleasepleaseplease stop talking about Revival. I'm begging you! Let's all just enjoy it when it happens. *INSERT KITTEN EYES HERE*
It depends on why you didn't like it, I guess, but no guarantee that if you didn't like one you'd like the other.
I demand that ifd you wanna go on talking about revival do so in another thread, not one about what were reading at the moment. It isn't nice!!!!! I dont wanna know anything.
I'm not talking about anything specific--and won't. Sorry, I thought that response was fairly innocuous.
Oh, your reply was. It is all the others also with small hints and comparisons and things. Just felt that it should be easiest for all of us if it was hinted and even talked and discussed in a thread called, perhaps revival in written works, that these that could avoid it can choose to do so until they have read the book. We wont even have to wade through this field of mines that is called spoilers either. Right now you have to have an extremely strong character to read the posts and not fall for the temptation. Hope you see my point.
The thing is: You can only have a strong character for so long. You know what Oscar Wilde said about temptations? The only way to defeat a temptation is to fall for it. And i think he was right. If its easy, then its not really a temptation.
Crash - J.G. Ballard
J.G. Ballard is mostly known for science fiction. He also wrote Empire of the Sun based on his own real life account as being a child stuck in Shanghai in WWII.
Crash is one freaky book. It was written in 1973 and is about a group of people who get sexually aroused by staging and participating in car crashes. There was a movie made from this book (I think in the 90s) that had James Spader in it. I've had this one on my list for a long time and now that I've started it, I think it might be too weird even for me.
J.G. Ballard is mostly known for science fiction. He also wrote Empire of the Sun based on his own real life account as being a child stuck in Shanghai in WWII.
Crash is one freaky book. It was written in 1973 and is about a group of people who get sexually aroused by staging and participating in car crashes. There was a movie made from this book (I think in the 90s) that had James Spader in it. I've had this one on my list for a long time and now that I've started it, I think it might be too weird even for me.
What Kurben said. I'm weak! But I don't want to ruin it for myself.
lol... I HAVE to open spoilers. I can't help myself, I can ignore threads but I can't ignore spoilers. That'll teach me to wonder what everyone is reading lol.
Precisely. And thats why we shouldn't talk about Revival here, spoilers or no spoilers, in a thread that concerns everything we read. I can maybe hold out an evening or so but the mods should remove these comments and but them in a special revivalthread. I love King too much. I want his books fresh, want to open the first page with that anticipation and coriousity that i always feel with him.
But the reason why we started talking about Revival is because someone did read it (jchanic).
Yeah but why cant you talk about it in another thread there you dont have to consider poor suckers who dont want their surprise taken away. Why not say here that i have read Revival. It was good. if you want to know more go to... .More than that, comparisons and so on in writing style should be in a revival thread. I actually think it would be nice if there was. then everyone would be happy. Not to do so i think shows a lack of consideration towards other members of this board that dont want hints however well they are hidden in spoilers.
I hear what everybody is saying and do appreciate it from both sides. But, I think that probably not too much has been spoiled and I'm sure that from this point on (because of earlier posts) people will talk about Revival elsewhere until after the official release date.
Sounds like a compromise i can live with. Perhaps if i dont see those spoilers i wont be tempted by them 
I'm still slogging through my reread of 1984 and it's depressing the shyte outta me!
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