What Are You Reading?
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Finished "One Second After" last night. Whoever recommended that book, good call, great story. A very realistic look at what people would do to one another if the proverbial ****e hit the fan and we were all thrown back into the 18th century as far as technology. I'd very much like to see a sequel written to this one.
You might enjoy The Postman...and The Witch of Hebron...both are stories that have a storyline similar to what you describe about One Second After. I imagine there's a pile of stories that fit the parameters.
Thank you sir. I've read The Postman, but haven't heard of The Witch of Hebron. I'll check that out.
Just read the first lines in I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes. A lot of hyped reviews but is it really that good? Came in 2012-13 or something like it.
Have also been reading a short story collection Aliens for Neighbours by Clifford Simak that i like. Both in how they think, look and act he points out, in the rather amusing short stories, that it can be dangerous to apply an earthbound way of thinking and measuring responses to them.
And my subway book right now is book by Joyce Carol Oates. In Rough Country it is called and contains essays and reviews by her. I've read about Poe, Dickinson, Dahl and Nabokov so far. She starts the book with a classic section. Then goes on to contemporarys like Updike, Doctorow, Rushdie and McCarthy. Throw, in Atwood, Munro and some more. Some are reviews of a book some are handling several books. But it is interesting sofar at least.
And my subway book right now is book by Joyce Carol Oates. In Rough Country it is called and contains essays and reviews by her. I've read about Poe, Dickinson, Dahl and Nabokov so far. She starts the book with a classic section. Then goes on to contemporarys like Updike, Doctorow, Rushdie and McCarthy. Throw, in Atwood, Munro and some more. Some are reviews of a book some are handling several books. But it is interesting sofar at least.
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I finished I Am Radar yesterday and it's going to be one of those that rattles about my mind for a good long while. If you like history, philosophy, music, physics, puppets, racism, the power of art, the Balkans, the Congo, the Arctic Circle, literature, humour, love, drums, morse code and many others. It's one of those big books that asks a lot of the reader, but the payoff is some amazing characters you can't help but love.
Sounds like its worth a gift card expenditure. Did you read his first book?
I did read it and have always wanted to give it another go. And whenever the film adaptation comes out on dvd I'll be very curious to see the results.
Just finished reading the Far-seer trilogy which I really enjoyed and recommend to anyone who likes there fantasy, and now I'm about half way through the first book of the Liveship traders trilogy.
I have taken the plunge to read the complete 'The Stand', with 1300 or so pages, i don't think I Will be reading anything else.
Don't need nuthin else. Crack that sucker open and dig in.
Just finished A Death by Mr. King. Great little story. I like what I read here from some of the posters about the different ways of looking at the ending of the story. Good stuff.
Consumption by Heather Herrman - early review copy - Expected publication: May 26th 2015 by Hydra
Many horror books are purported to be the next thing fans of Stephen King should be sure to read. Almost every time such claims turn out to be false. Almost.
But not this time. Heather Herrman shares King's ability to create characters that seem alive and that we come to care about. Consumption is in many ways like King's Salems Lot in concept and Carrie in execution. A small town hides a dark secret. One that preys on its habitants time and time again. This time, the darkness is poised to escape out of the isolated town of Cavus, Montana and out into the rest of the world unless a small band of disparate people join together to form a dysfunctional family to protect each other's back and face the Feeder.
Herrman writes with a deft hand handling character, setting and - all important in a horror story - pacing. This is a real page turner with nary a dull section. The real strength of the book are the weaknesses each of the protagonists are embued with. It makes them more alive and makes their struggle to overcome evil all that more engrossing. We are pretty sure what the outcome will be but Herrman keeps us on the edge of our seats guessing how it will all come to pass until the very end.
Heather Herrman is a writer I definitely plan to keep an eye on.
Many horror books are purported to be the next thing fans of Stephen King should be sure to read. Almost every time such claims turn out to be false. Almost.
But not this time. Heather Herrman shares King's ability to create characters that seem alive and that we come to care about. Consumption is in many ways like King's Salems Lot in concept and Carrie in execution. A small town hides a dark secret. One that preys on its habitants time and time again. This time, the darkness is poised to escape out of the isolated town of Cavus, Montana and out into the rest of the world unless a small band of disparate people join together to form a dysfunctional family to protect each other's back and face the Feeder.
Herrman writes with a deft hand handling character, setting and - all important in a horror story - pacing. This is a real page turner with nary a dull section. The real strength of the book are the weaknesses each of the protagonists are embued with. It makes them more alive and makes their struggle to overcome evil all that more engrossing. We are pretty sure what the outcome will be but Herrman keeps us on the edge of our seats guessing how it will all come to pass until the very end.
Heather Herrman is a writer I definitely plan to keep an eye on.
Been going on a little Michael Gilbert spree. First Death of a Favourite Girl and now Blood and Judgement. Always liked his crime novels. Not a lot of nonsense with police officers that have problems with booze, marriage or other things. He concentrates on the crime. Other crime novels sometimes take more than half of the pages to the cops personal problems. It most often gets dull. Very few authors can carry it off in a good way. Don't know why it is so common nowadays. Tana French an exception in that respect. She can carry it off.
Found this only available on Nook and Kindle in late May this year.
Thanks so much! It just so happens that I like both types of stories.
I picked up some books at the library that I had reserved: The Damned by Andrew Pyper, The Remedy for Love by Bill Roorbach and Last Days by Adam Nevill. Started The Damned last night, oboy, fraternal twins die, the boy revisits the best day of his life in Heaven and comes back to tell the world about it; the girl, a psychopath comes back to haunt him.
Travels with Charley. Kindle. Have it opened to the first page but I've not begun to read.
I'll probably finish The Miniaturist on the weekend. I've no idea how it will end or what to make of this historical novel that has a modern feel to it. And I'm also cruising through Motive, by Jonathan Kellerman. Every few years I like to visit with Alex and Milo.
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