The Nameless
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Think I might start dreamcatcher, I know opinion is split on it but from the synopsis at least, it sounds very interesting.
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I liked Dreamcatcher! The characters shone and I think some may have they're opinions skewed by the unfortunate film adaptation.
I've only read three or four shortstories. In one an early detective tale named Mr. Lunley has the floor. The Two Bottles of Relish is the story. Another i remember. The other is more in his normal vein, strange and fantastic stories. It is called The Three Infernal Jokes. But if i saw a collection of his shortstories somewhere for a reasonable little amount of money my coriousity would probably get the better of me. Rarely uninteresting but not always good is my opinion of him from these stories i've read.
I just finished it. Some aspects of the story were enjoyable, and the plot was good, but it took me a while to get through it. Also, when I wasn't reading it, it wasn't on my mind. I prefer stories that I can't wait to get back to.
I just bought the new Jennifer Weiner. Nice to read by the pool.
Finished Murder as a Fine Art. Held its pace all the way through. Easily one of the best crimenovels i read this year. Speaking of crime novels..... I've heard some whispers about Tana French having a new one out. Is that correct? In that case it is one to keep an eye on. She is usually good.
For myself i'm changing both author and genre. Starting Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor. A fantasy thing that was recommended to me.
For myself i'm changing both author and genre. Starting Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor. A fantasy thing that was recommended to me.
More Good Old Stuff from MacDonald...before which he writes a refreshingly honest preface as to how this collection came to be...as well as an honest take on the quality of the given stories. The first one...that I forget the exact title...Damsel in Distress?...about the proverbial black widow with an O Henry twist. MacDonald writes some good stories...well worth the time to read him if you haven't. I've read 89 stories this year, and 2-3 of them have been...since before the 4th of July I think...just no time to do much of anything...work work work. Pays the bills though and I can ultimately attain that lofty retirement home in the islands...winter months...summer months I figure to have a home maybe in Alaska, another say in South Nebraska...oooooooga boooga.
I'm assuming you have read the Green Ripper by John D. MacDonald? Otherwise thats a good one.
Still reading Revival. I am half way through.
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Yes...in fact...MacDonald's story is where I took the phrase in the weekly survey. Had to have been in the first collections, Good Old Stuff...or possibly that one with "seven" in the title. Shorts work for me now...so little time...estimates to work on, always...all manner of things to do, garden as well. Haven't wanted to try Finders Keepers until I actually have a day or two...but that is coming...too soon. Time for many things.
I've just found out that it is not so new as i thought. The Tana French book i was talking about is The Secret Place. Obviously been here awhile though i haven't heard of it before. Just ordered it.
Hey folks, been a while since I posted on here...
I am currently up to book 4 in my Dark Tower reread, I keep branching off onto other books in between though.
Recently read The Rats by Herbert (not as good as I remember it) and Stinger by McCammon (which I loved!).
Currently reading Guests by Bentley Little as I had him recommended to me by a fellow King fan.
I am currently up to book 4 in my Dark Tower reread, I keep branching off onto other books in between though.
Recently read The Rats by Herbert (not as good as I remember it) and Stinger by McCammon (which I loved!).
Currently reading Guests by Bentley Little as I had him recommended to me by a fellow King fan.
Nine Dragons - Michael Connelly
I started reading Michael Connelly in order a few years ago and I'm getting close to catching up. There are 6 left after this one (plus a new one coming out later this year). This is the 7th one I've read this year. These books are very cool to read in order because they are all connected and they all happen (more or less) in real time with real events built into the stories (like the OJ Trial and the LA riots). It's like reading a modern history of Los Angeles with detectives, lawyers and newspaper reporters telling the history. Characters from all the novels rotate in and out of the stories as they go along.
I'm 60% through Nine Dragons and it's a real thriller. Bosch is trying to solve the murder of a liquor store owner and the investigation leads him to an Asian crime organization.
I started reading Michael Connelly in order a few years ago and I'm getting close to catching up. There are 6 left after this one (plus a new one coming out later this year). This is the 7th one I've read this year. These books are very cool to read in order because they are all connected and they all happen (more or less) in real time with real events built into the stories (like the OJ Trial and the LA riots). It's like reading a modern history of Los Angeles with detectives, lawyers and newspaper reporters telling the history. Characters from all the novels rotate in and out of the stories as they go along.
I'm 60% through Nine Dragons and it's a real thriller. Bosch is trying to solve the murder of a liquor store owner and the investigation leads him to an Asian crime organization.
Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler. It's the second of I think 9 Phillip Marlowe books. I'm about 1/3 of the way through and I love it. His descriptions of people and settings is classic. I read The Big Sleep, which is the first in the series, earlier this year and really liked it, also.
I'm current reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (not necessarily in preparation for the "new" book this fall, but as it was recommended to by King fans in a thread about said book.
I'm about half-way through, and really liking it so far. I've seen both movie versions, so I kind of know how it ends, but this is one where the journey is as fun as the conclusion. I tend not to read two books by the same author consecutively, so I'll probably switch to "Danse Macabre" next.
I'm about half-way through, and really liking it so far. I've seen both movie versions, so I kind of know how it ends, but this is one where the journey is as fun as the conclusion. I tend not to read two books by the same author consecutively, so I'll probably switch to "Danse Macabre" next.
They changed things a wee bit in the American film version, which you'll figure out by the end.
I started (and finished half of) The Pearl by John Steinbeck last night. I read this book when I was in my mid-teens and about the only thing I remember about it is that it was depressing as h*ll. That opinion hasn't changed. I really detest the doctor and the priest characters.
I am reading Tana French's Faithful Place now. She really has a way with characterization.
She ceratainly has. Read for of her books, Lhe Likeness, Broken Harbour, Faithful place and Into the Woods. Good all of them but i think In the Woods and the Likeness has a very dhort edge. Cant wait for the Secret Place.
Finished Daughter of Smoke and Bone. Wellwriten and with themes you dont always see in YA, Vut then, her whole way of writing makes me vaxillitate in the question is this really YA. Just because the main person is 17 she has problem to face far more serious than love. A novel that borders on the edge between YA and regular fantasy. And weelldone all the way throygh. I mean we dont call Lord Of The Flies a YA-novel.
I finished The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell. It was a stirring tale about Dutch colonialists in Nagasaki Japan in the early 1800's. Multiple points of view, wonderful language and as always characters from other novels of his turn up.
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