What Are You Reading?

[danie]

Just finished Disappearance at Devil's Rock by Paul Tremblay. I read this on recommendation from Sai King and was not let down. Creepy, sad, well-written.

The Kindle edition is still only $1.99 at Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B015MO7OGQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498242107&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=disappearance+at+devil%27s+rock

 

[Kurben]

Just finished Disappearance at Devil's Rock by Paul Tremblay. I read this on recommendation from Sai King and was not let down. Creepy, sad, well-written.

The Kindle edition is still only $1.99 at Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B015MO7OGQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498242107&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=disappearance+at+devil%27s+rock

I just downloaded on my kindle. Your recommendation makes me put it at the top of my TBR-list! Thanks.

 

[danie]

I just downloaded on my kindle. Your recommendation makes me put it at the top of my TBR-list! Thanks.

Have you read Tremblay's Head Full of Ghosts, Kurt? I know members here both loved and hated it.

 

[doowopgirl]

Oh but the series is another animal altogether. Plus, Ian McShane is in it.

If it turns up I might give it a go.

 

[recitador]

Do you have to be familiar with the authors' characters to "get" the interactions?

Not sure, i'll let you know when i get to ones i know well

 

[AchtungBaby]

Setting Free the Kites. The most boring book I've read in a long time. Is trying too hard to be King and Irving.

 

[Kurben]

Have you read Tremblay's Head Full of Ghosts, Kurt? I know members here both loved and hated it.

I have. I am a bit in two minds about it. I did not love it but neither did i hate it. I read it because of the love posts but wasn't amoured. It was ok but it might very well be that it had a dimension i failed to get. The two minds come from the feeling that to awake these Love/Hate reactions you refer too there nearly must be something i missed when reading it.

 

[MadamMack]

I recently read Kindred for the first time and really liked it. I've not read anything else by her. What would you recommend MadamMack?

For me Carrie's younger brother: Everything. Maybe I'm a bit bias. Stephen is my number one for smucking ever favorite writer. But I must admit that my other number one is now Octavia Butler.

She set a standard in literacy that has gone most in part by our own people --Black people, unnoticed.

Many won't get or appreciate her writing style/gift. I do. She was precocious and she has opened my eyes widely to Science Fiction. Something I didn't like at first.

In three months I've read all of her works.

She died in 2006 and I only came to know about her in 20 ****ing 14. My people . . .DAMN.

I wish I could meet her. That's how much she means to me.

 

[GNTLGNT]

For me Carrie's younger brother: Everything. Maybe I'm a bit bias. Stephen is my number one for smucking ever favorite writer. But I must admit that my other number one is now Octavia Butler.

She set a standard in literacy that has gone most in part by our own people --Black people, unnoticed.

Many won't get or appreciate her writing style/gift. I do. She was precocious and she has opened my eyes widely to Science Fiction. Something I didn't like at first.

In three months I've read all of her works.

She died in 2006 and I only came to know about her in 20 ****ing 14. My people . . .DAMN.

I wish I could meet her. That's how much she means to me.

 

[AchtungBaby]

Just finished Disappearance at Devil's Rock by Paul Tremblay. I read this on recommendation from Sai King and was not let down. Creepy, sad, well-written.

The Kindle edition is still only $1.99 at Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B015MO7OGQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498242107&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=disappearance+at+devil%27s+rock

I just downloaded on my kindle. Your recommendation makes me put it at the top of my TBR-list! Thanks.

Ooooh, I loved that one.

 

[carrie's younger brother]

For me Carrie's younger brother: Everything. Maybe I'm a bit bias. Stephen is my number one for smucking ever favorite writer. But I must admit that my other number one is now Octavia Butler.

She set a standard in literacy that has gone most in part by our own people --Black people, unnoticed.

Many won't get or appreciate her writing style/gift. I do. She was precocious and she has opened my eyes widely to Science Fiction. Something I didn't like at first.

In three months I've read all of her works.

She died in 2006 and I only came to know about her in 20 ****ing 14. My people . . .DAMN.

I wish I could meet her. That's how much she means to me.

I hear you loud and clear MadamMack. Thanks for responding. Just be grateful you have discovered her and can now sing her praises and inspire others to read her and do the same. I will put her next on my tbr list.

 

[carrie's younger brother]

I have. I am a bit in two minds about it. I did not love it but neither did i hate it. I read it because of the love posts but wasn't amoured. It was ok but it might very well be that it had a dimension i failed to get. The two minds come from the feeling that to awake these Love/Hate reactions you refer too there nearly must be something i missed when reading it.

I just out and out hated it.

 

[carrie's younger brother]

Oh wow at The Yellow Wallpaper. I read that in high school and my young mind totally read it as though

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there was an entity or something like that - a ghost, demon, what have you

. Then I re-read it as an adult and my take on it was completely different

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I understood the madness

. Excellent read!

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Plus there's the whole feminist angle and the idea that her husband and even other women in the book think it's best she "rest" and not work herself up by writing and actually being creative and thinking! I think this surpression is the real madness and what leads the main character to her own madness.

 

[HollyGolightly]

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Plus there's the whole feminist angle and the idea that her husband and even other women in the book think it's best she "rest" and not work herself up by writing and actually being creative and thinking! I think this surpression is the real madness and what leads the main character to her own madness.

It's astounding how men and specifically doctors responded to intelligent and complex women who dared to question their authority. Virginia Woolf, Kate Chopin, Sylvia Plath, Edith Wharton - you can hear it in all of them.

 

[kingricefan]

For me Carrie's younger brother: Everything. Maybe I'm a bit bias. Stephen is my number one for smucking ever favorite writer. But I must admit that my other number one is now Octavia Butler.

She set a standard in literacy that has gone most in part by our own people --Black people, unnoticed.

Many won't get or appreciate her writing style/gift. I do. She was precocious and she has opened my eyes widely to Science Fiction. Something I didn't like at first.

In three months I've read all of her works.

She died in 2006 and I only came to know about her in 20 ****ing 14. My people . . .DAMN.

I wish I could meet her. That's how much she means to me.

You have met her- in her books. She's in there. Reading a book is like entering the authors mind and seeing into a corner of their soul.

 

[recitador]

Do you have to be familiar with the authors' characters to "get" the interactions?

finished reading one which featured two characters i knew well (kathy reichs temperance brennan and lee child's jack reacher) and i would say not knowing the characters wouldn't necessarily take away from the story, which was good regardless, but that you might appreciate it even more knowing their backstories. i've already read two other stories where i really didn't know the characters and i still enjoyed them

 

[carrie's younger brother]

It's astounding how men and specifically doctors responded to intelligent and complex women who dared to question their authority. Virginia Woolf, Kate Chopin, Sylvia Plath, Edith Wharton - you can hear it in all of them.

And it's still happening on various levels!

 

[skimom2]

I have. I am a bit in two minds about it. I did not love it but neither did i hate it. I read it because of the love posts but wasn't amoured. It was ok but it might very well be that it had a dimension i failed to get. The two minds come from the feeling that to awake these Love/Hate reactions you refer too there nearly must be something i missed when reading it.

Exactly what I thought about it, Kurt.

 

[Kurben]

Finished Conclave by Robert Harris. Very good. About the rivalries and intrigues taking place during a papal election. A thriller without guns, agents, carchases or courtdramas, Just elderly men dressed in their cardinal robes. Starts with the popes death.

 

[skimom2]

Just finished one for review that I liked a lot--read the whole thing in one day, and that doesn't happen too much anymore. ALMOST SISTERS, by Joshlyn Jackson. I reviewed her THE OPPOSITE OF EVERYTHING a couple of years ago. And liked it as well. Modern Southern family novel, very funny.