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kingricefan

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I hope so. I'm a little confused why people don't come to discuss the stories. We all like Sai King, we are all fans and on his message board, yet some are hestiant to discuss the magic in his stories. Help me understand guys.

Some of us are introverts . . .we don't talk much but we do read.

Ya feel, me?
Too much pressure on having to finish a story at a certain time.
 

VultureLvr45

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Some of us are introverts . . .we don't talk much but we do read.

Ya feel, me?
Too much pressure on having to finish a story at a certain time.
We picked short stories so there would 't be too many pages, but hey, it's cool. Everybody gets a little something different from the same story so it is interesting to see others perspectives. We all have too much stress, don't want to add to it; please consider yourself invited if you ever decide to join.
 

Walter Oobleck

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I hope so. I'm a little confused why people don't come to discuss the stories. We all like Sai King, we are all fans and on his message board, yet some are hestiant to discuss the magic in his stories. Help me understand guys.

I'd be there in the time you discuss the story but my sleep schedule is so out-of-whack that by 9 p.m. eastern time airy day I'm ready for Dreamland. Home Delivery isn't solid in memory although Rainy Reason is, as was You Know They Got a Hell of a Band. I'll have to pull the paperback off the shelf again and check out the next story...when we did these reads in the social groups there was...more time...a bigger expanse of time when the members of the group posted. But then, I don't see why anyone couldn't post now, to the first story that was read in this reading group...it'd show up under "current posts"...it's not like the whole class is going to turn and look at the new guy who bebops into the room. Youse guys are having a blast from what I've read and that's all the matters.
 

Neesy

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I'd be there in the time you discuss the story but my sleep schedule is so out-of-whack that by 9 p.m. eastern time airy day I'm ready for Dreamland. Home Delivery isn't solid in memory although Rainy Reason is, as was You Know They Got a Hell of a Band. I'll have to pull the paperback off the shelf again and check out the next story...when we did these reads in the social groups there was...more time...a bigger expanse of time when the members of the group posted. But then, I don't see why anyone couldn't post now, to the first story that was read in this reading group...it'd show up under "current posts"...it's not like the whole class is going to turn and look at the new guy who bebops into the room. Youse guys are having a blast from what I've read and that's all the matters.
Good idea about posting outside the allotted time frame Walter Oobleck - I am the same way on a Friday night - the work week is over and sometimes I am just quite tired and want to rest (or fall asleep on the couch watching the boob tube)
 

Kurben

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Started reading John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In. Reading it in English. Seems like a good book... The movie is great, I guess the book should be not worse.
Rest assured, Lina. It is his best book i think. And by the way, which movie did you see? The swedish or the english movie. I thought the swedish was better but i might be biased because i'm a swede.
 

Kurben

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I'm reading a book entitled simply "Zombies" which is a collection of short stories compiled John Skipp and though it has many I've already read the one it leads off with is "Lazarus" by Leonid Andreyev. Holycrappinchristmas it is bleak. The only story on par is 1984. Has anyone else read this? It affects you. It plays on the sense of ultimate entropy which is the antithesis of life. It's awful and amazing. I like it so much for something I hate. Well done. I prefer to fight against this feeling but woah did he capture it.
Don't think it is the same... I have a compilation of zombie stories at home called Zombies. The Mammoth book of Zombies. Edited by Stephen Jones. 26 Short stories in it. Rather a mixed bag i found but worth a read.
 

ghost19

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I'm pretty sure I read this one. It's about a rug right? It's a little out of my fantasy range ordinarily but the plot moved along at such a pace it captured me. In a way it reminded me of Gaimans 'American Gods'.
That is the very one. I had to re-read it, takes a while for me wrap my head around books sometimes. This one more than others.
 

Kurben

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Just finished In the Name of Rome - the Men who won the Roman Empire by Adrian Goldsworthy. It is short biographies over some of the most important Roman commanders in both the Rebublic and the Empire. The obvious ones are there, like Caesar, Pompey, Marius and Sulla but also perhaps less well known, like Flavius, Marcellus, Scipio Africanus, Aemilianus, Belisarius, Titus and Germanicus to mention but a few. Interesting if you're interested in wellwritten history that knows how to keep it short but fact-correct in the same time. That is a thing that is easier said than done.
 

Kurben

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I feel like a little break from fact books for a while. Have some rather thick books lying waiting for my attention.... But this evening i go back in time to some oldies but goldies. I will start Hag's Nook by John Dickson Carr. The only problem being who was it that throw the victim from the balcony. Sometimes it is so nice when the detectives don't drink to much alcohol or are arguing with their wife or are depressed about life in general .... Just a crime, that seems impossible, and in the end a solution. So simple. I kinda miss that simpleness in crimestories of today. In every book nowadays there are plitics or racial questions and personal problems and social problems until the crime story is almost drowned. OK, i'm exagerating a little here but i do feel that most crime stories nowadays could take away at least 100 pages and more often double that amount and it would be a better book. Thatsa the reason i'm doing this timetrip to the days of Mr. Carr and Mrs. Christie and their fellow writers.
 

EMARX

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I finished Natchez Burning and the first 700 pages were compelling but the last section was for me, a letdown. Getting to the last hundred pages of All the Light We Cannot See and I can't seem to dislodge the lump in my throat. And I started The Silkworm, the second of the Cormoran Strike series by "Robert Galbraith". Its even better than the first one so far.
 
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