Yes and yes!
I went downstairs early last night, around 7:20, thinking I would read for an hour or more...I made it about 18 pages and was out.like.a.light.
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I went downstairs early last night, around 7:20, thinking I would read for an hour or more...I made it about 18 pages and was out.like.a.light.
I read that one for our library's book club a couple of years ago. It didn't make much of an impression, ultimately.
So agreed. Reading for pleasure has diminished a lot, though I do feel blessed when I get a review book that I really enjoy
Finished Guns Of The South by Harry Turtledove. Really good alternate history where a bunch of south afrikan apartheid fanatics travel back in timer and giving the South info and AK47 among others things to make the South wins the war. When The war is over it son shows that they want mor than helig the South. They have their own agenda and ideas of how the land should be runt But they hadntcounted on south en pride
Now started How Few Redan by same author. Tages place in the 1880,s in a world where the South won But with out any timetravelers this time. The north lost rather early due to McClellans incompetency as a general. Before the likes of Grant and Sherman had a chance to do anything. Stonewell Jackson and Custer are still alive. A young Teddy Roosevelt has a part as does Mark Twain. A second war between the states are brewing . It has started er promising. I like that he always are wellresearched both in persons and things. And Then he really spins good tales too. He makes what if that happened instead of that seem real. In many Tales of these kind it turn into a fun fairytale But here it is real, No fairytale feeling at all.
Now started How Few Redan by same author. Tages place in the 1880,s in a world where the South won But with out any timetravelers this time. The north lost rather early due to McClellans incompetency as a general. Before the likes of Grant and Sherman had a chance to do anything. Stonewell Jackson and Custer are still alive. A young Teddy Roosevelt has a part as does Mark Twain. A second war between the states are brewing . It has started er promising. I like that he always are wellresearched both in persons and things. And Then he really spins good tales too. He makes what if that happened instead of that seem real. In many Tales of these kind it turn into a fun fairytale But here it is real, No fairytale feeling at all.
I kept going. Have about 50 pages left, so hopefully will get to finish it today. It is meh....I really enjoy the mystery parts, but it just isn't as enjoyable outside the bookstore setting.
I keep thinking of that Owen Wilson/Vince Vaughn movie where they want to work at Google, and the whole thing is just one big Google advertisement.
That is how all of the modern methods of solving the mystery is making me feel. Guess I am more old school than new school.
I would have enjoyed it more if the author had taken a different tack instead of focusing so much on the cyber-side of it.I kept going. Have about 50 pages left, so hopefully will get to finish it today. It is meh....I really enjoy the mystery parts, but it just isn't as enjoyable outside the bookstore setting.
I keep thinking of that Owen Wilson/Vince Vaughn movie where they want to work at Google, and the whole thing is just one big Google advertisement.
Guess I am more old school than new school.
Yes! It would have been a really fun story, I think, without the cyber-stuff.
Agreed. I got bored with the technowanking.
Life, Only Better (Anna Gavalda). For review. Apparently this book has been a huge hit in France and Germany, recently translated for the American market. Constructed as two novellas; I'm on the first one, and really enjoying it. They got a good translator. I'm already wondering if the two novellas will come together at the end.
Demon Seed by Dean Koontz. This is the 1997 version, and so far pretty good, certainly there isn't any oneliner dialogue present there, but some trademark Koontz humour. It would be interesting to read the original version too, but I have to admit that technology wise, this '97 version is not that outdated as one might assume.
This is one of my more favorite books. It is horrifying, yet, given the circumstances with what happened here in Cleveland with Ariel Castro and Amanda Berry, Michele Knight and Gina DeJesus, very plausible. Real life can be very scary.
By the way, I read Room when it first came out--not after the Castro events.
John
Taking a break from alternate history. Started A Simple Plan by Scott Smith. Seems better than the Ruins which i thoughts rather shallow. But im not even 100 pages in yet.
Reading about James Clerk Maxwell, the Scottish mathematician who unified two of the fundamental theories of physics and who laid the foundation for Einstein to do his special relativity. The big three: Newton, Maxwell, Einstein. Heard this last night on the radio as well:
James Clerk Maxwell - poet, mathematician and the father of light - The Science Show - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
James Clerk Maxwell - poet, mathematician and the father of light - The Science Show - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
I ended up liking this book a LOT. The novellas did not come together like I thought they would, but they had similar themes of the power in finding your bliss--what really matters to you--and not letting it get away. I laughed quite a few times, had my feelings touched, and both stories had lovely happy endings. I'm going to research whether this author has any other books translated to English (and I REALLY wish I could remember enough of my French to enjoy them in the original).
Not sure if classics are your thing but gutenbergproject.com has free downloads of public domain material. I've downloaded Dracula, Frankenstein, Moby Dick, and many by Dickens, Doyle, Woolf, and Joyce. All for free. It's a great resource.
Still re-reading Roadshow. I got interrupted by a new book by some guy named King.
I do like classics!!! Got some of these but have avoided Melville. He is not my thing. Thanks.
Started to read Just After Sunset by King couple of weeks ago, I am only halfway into the story.
I got Anna Karinina as a Kindle freebie and I am pleasantly surprised at how much I'm enjoying it. I've never read Tolstoy before and this is a giant Russian soap opera. Great fun, but I don't think I'm ready for War and Peace.
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