I think it's his best in years!Just finished Joyland. I loved it so much. No one can turn a phrase or tell a story like King.
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About 60% through The Good Earth. Wow. What a book. I can't believe I never read this one. Such a fascinating look into a time in history and a culture that is a mystery to many Westerners.
Thanks fljoe0, I think I'll see if I can find this on the Barnes and Noble site, sounds interesting. I'm ALWAYS in a post apocalyptic reading mood
Me tooThanks fljoe0, I think I'll see if I can find this on the Barnes and Noble site, sounds interesting. I'm ALWAYS in a post apocalyptic reading mood
Has anyone ready anything by John Fowles? I have The Magus on my Kindle wish list and thinking about reading it next.
Yes it was good
Naked Lunch
It's for one of the classes I'm taking. So far, not a fan.
It's for one of the classes I'm taking. So far, not a fan.
The Pastures of Heaven from Steinbeck has a touch of the macabre. I'd write more but these ten or so related stories about a valley in California are worth a read. There's the proverbial baby in the bull-rushes story...or in this case...simple bushes. Heh! Pancho discovers the baby. We're not talkin Moses here. Reading this one on the kindle and it has a long and protracted introduction by someone whose name is not readily available to me...but it was published in 1932 before Steinbeck was known and the person who wrote the intro goes into detail about the work. There's a sense of...or a like-kind exchange with....say The Haunting of Hill House...a sense of foreboding and doom that has followed one particular family. Or is it that particular place in the valley? One of the criticisms...at the time...is that the stories 'should have been a novel' or something along that line. There is one story that Steinbeck musta felt fond of as one of these was published alone...I'd have to search through the intro to say which one. I think it is fascinating...that sense of connectedness...how actions and choices in one story make echoes in another...and so on and so forth.
I read the French Lieutenants Woman recently and The Magus at least twenty years ago. He's an original and has a knack for stirring the reader in many ways.
I am struggling to get into "The Girl On The Train" By Paula Hawkins. Has anyone here read this book?
I'm reading "How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life" by Peter Robinson, one of his speechwriters. Pretty interesting reading. Obviously it's all total conjecture and I sometimes find the hero-worship a little too overblown for me to take his interpretation of Reagan completely seriously, but it's a sweet, idealistic little picture of how you'd want a leader of the Free World to be.
I read it after actually seeing SK praising it on Twitter. I thought it was just OK, though. It felt like she was trying to write a Gillian Flynn novel, but it didn't quite measure up.I am struggling to get into "The Girl On The Train" By Paula Hawkins. Has anyone here read this book?
Reagan did alot of good while in office. But, my heart will never forgive him and his 'cabinet' for how they reacted (or should I say ignored) to the Aids crises while it was happening. Shame on them.
I read it, Becks, and I quite liked it. The writing wasn't stellar, but the plot was interesting. I agree, though, hard to get into at first.I am struggling to get into "The Girl On The Train" By Paula Hawkins. Has anyone here read this book?
Last Saturday's 'Weekend' section of the Newcastle Herald. Three articles: 1) Something about the muscian, Tony Joe White( he's playing at Lizottes in Lambton on Saturday). 2) An article about the actress Kristen Stewart, how she might be the best actress in Hollywood. 3) About the Comic-Con in San-Diego.
Please tell me that the article on Kristen Stewart was tongue-in-cheek! That girl has one expressions and only one- scowling.
Dani, Thank you!! I read it last night and got to about the last hundred pages. It kept my interest (finally) trying to figure out what's going on. I think a lot of my problem, other than the slow beginning was that I didn't "like" the main character.
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