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fljoe0 said:
Tonight I Say Goodbye - Michael Koryta

I haven't read his earlier books, so I think it's time to do that.


Note about Koryota's next book - There was supposed to to be a sequel to Last Words coming out this year. There was even an excerpt for the sequel at the end of Last Words. I saw this note on his website:
The first-person Markus Novak novel promised there didn’t want to be written—and who am I to argue? I just listen to the characters.
I was looking forward to a sequel but I'm glad he isn't forcing something that isn't there.
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Oh, I am sorry to hear a sequel is not coming. I was looking forward to it. I was dissatisfied with the way Last Words ended.

I finished A Knight of Seven Kingdoms by George R R Martin yesterday. It took until the end of the first story, beginning of the second to grab me. A few familiar names from Game of Thrones, but it really is a whole separate set of stories. The little Egg character found my fancy, though. :)

Started Ashley Bell by Dean Koontz this morning. It is proving hard to set down so far. I am very much liking it.
 
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no bounce no play said:
I started another series (I will live but I will not learn *sigh*). I'm reading Wool by Hugh Howey. It's a post appocaliptic story. I'm having problems visualizing the silo and I'm beginning to think some sci-fi works better on the screen than in print.
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I liked it. and i also have problems with series but as long as they limit themselfes to trilogys i'm ok with it. Some are trying to go round by writing a series of trilogys but im not falling for it, (at least not often). I prefer a book to be standing on its own two feet with a beginning, middle and end. I'm oldfashioned i know......
 
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skimom2 said:
I was just looking at this one in B&N and wondering if it was worth picking up! Let me know what you think as you get further along :)
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I finished Wool this weekend. I liked it because it was different and I liked it because it was sci-fi without fantasy. There were no wizards or vampires or zombies. But... I thought there were far too many passages describing character's mundane thoughts and actions. I kept thinking "Get on with the story!" I don't know how it got so many 5-star ratings, maybe I missed something.

The next book is a prequel and although I'm curious as to why the silos were built, Im not going to read it. I'm going to hope the reason is stated in the movie. 20th Century Fox has picked up the movie rights. I'm anxious to see the movie just to see how the filmmakers envision the silo.
 
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I liked it. and i also have problems with series but as long as they limit themselfes to trilogys i'm ok with it. Some are trying to go round by writing a series of trilogys but im not falling for it, (at least not often). I prefer a book to be standing on its own two feet with a beginning, middle and end. I'm oldfashioned i know......
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I'm the same way. I prefer books that stand on there own with a beginning, middle and end too.

Did you read Shift and Dust as well as Wool? If so, be prepared for questions lol.
 
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no bounce no play said:
I'm the same way. I prefer books that stand on there own with a beginning, middle and end too.

Did you read Shift and Dust as well as Wool? If so, be prepared for questions lol.
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actually i did, and Sand which is by the same auyhor but not in the silo series. but agree that reviews tend to be to over enthusiastic. it is good, it is not great. but i seldom say great about a book. it is a word that has been used to oftenso it slowly starting to lose its meaning.
 
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Kurben said:
actually i did, and Sand which is by the same auyhor but not in the silo series. but agree that reviews tend to be to over enthusiastic. it is good, it is not great. but i seldom say great about a book. it is a word that has been used to oftenso it slowly starting to lose its meaning.
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I read some reviews to get a general idea as to what the sequels were about but I'm confused about the
nanos. Are there good and bad nanos? Are the killer nanos only within the circles of hills surrounding each silo? Does life live on as normal outside the circles? Maybe I should read the next book lol.

Is Sand a series or a complete book?
 
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Kurben said:
actually i did, and Sand which is by the same auyhor but not in the silo series. but agree that reviews tend to be to over enthusiastic. it is good, it is not great. but i seldom say great about a book. it is a word that has been used to oftenso it slowly starting to lose its meaning.
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THANK YOU! I think exactly the same way. I have writer friends that get a little miffed that I don't automatically five-star their books, but to me a great book is by definition rare. I don't get why a three-star (I liked it) is considered a failure in some quarters.
 
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skimom2 said:
THANK YOU! I think exactly the same way. I have writer friends that get a little miffed that I don't automatically five-star their books, but to me a great book is by definition rare. I don't get why a three-star (I liked it) is considered a failure in some quarters.
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precisely!! i have even started to distrust critics since they seem to raise almost any book with superlatives of some kind. Outstanding, extraordinary and the like. words that should be kept on the shelf and only brought forward for the rare instances when it is deserved. Words are important. I think i'll like your reviews given how you'll look at things.
 
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Reading some stuff out of 'Deserted Villages and Ghost towns of New England' which I got at the 2nd hand bookstore. Boobytown. Riley Bubier, who was a big guy and he used to warm up shingles to wear as he didn't have any shoes. Other names included Whitney, Thomas, and Flagg. Also read about a place called Flagstaff in Somerset County in Maine, which they flooded when they put a new dam there in 1950. I'm going to read about Massachusetts next. Also going to read Eye of the Cat by Roger Zelazny.

Riley Bubier's death notice in the newspaper.

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kingricefan said:
Started The Twelve, the second in Justin Cronin's vampire trilogy. Only read about the first 30 pages but found myself doing abit of skimming here and there. I just want to get to the story folks! Don't bog me down with mundane descriptions of crap.....
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Its a sad fact that that trilogy took a rather steep dive in quality between first book and second. I liked the first one but the second, though i finished it, was longish, wordy and not really close to what it shopuld have been.
 
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Reading some stuff out of 'Deserted Villages and Ghost towns of New England' which I got at the 2nd hand bookstore. Boobytown. Riley Bubier, who was a big guy and he used to warm up shingles to wear as he didn't have any shoes. Other names included Whitney, Thomas, and Flagg. Also read about a place called Flagstaff in Somerset County in Maine, which they flooded when they put a new dam there in 1950. I'm going to read about Massachusetts next. Also going to read Eye of the Cat by Roger Zelazny.

Riley Bubier's death notice in the newspaper.

The Lewiston Daily Sun - Google News Archive Search
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EEP! I thought I'd read everything by Roger Zelazny but I don't think I've read Eye of Cat. I just ordered it :) A couple weeks ago, I was looking at a list of Hard Case Crime titles and found a novel by Zelazny that was published after his death. It was pretty good but I don't know if I would have liked it much if I weren't such a big Zelazny fan y'know?
 
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