What Are You Reading?

[Walter Oobleck]

I'm not finished with that Arthur C Clarke story I started a day or two ago...but the mail-lady delivered a used...actually it looks new...maybe it is new...anyway, she delivered a book today while I was out blowing snow and I just now opened the package: Walter, The Story of a Rat by Barbara Wersba drawings by Donna Diamond. You got Walter on the cover standing up with a...small piece of fruit maybe...or maybe a chocolate malted milk ball...black and white so could be a number of things. Story starts out: Walter was a very old rat who lived with a writer named Amanda Pomeroy. And Walter is a reader. Heh! Reads whatever comes his way..."He had read a novel by Stephen King and three poems by Edna St. Vincent Millary." There's a few other works listed...thing is he read them at the dump, alas...The randomness of these choices was not his fault. He read whatever he could take from the dump... Heh! See, before he lived w/Amanda he lived at the dump...anyway, looks like a good story. Only 60 pages long.

 

[MadamMack]

I'm clicking on it today!

I think you'll be pleased . . .I have a feeling that he'll be noticed soon.

 

[MadamMack]

I'm finally liking The Gunslinger! Not enduring, not slogging through... actually LIKING the thing I must have hit on the right time to read it, at last.

Yes . . .it took me a moment to like it as well, had to adjust to the style . . .then I was hooked!!!!

 

[skimom2]

Yes . . .it took me a moment to like it as well, had to adjust to the style . . .then I was hooked!!!!

This is my fourth time through, I think (might be the fifth)--lol. I'm enjoying it this time, though

 

[MadamMack]

 

[MadamMack]

 

[kingricefan]

I'm finally liking The Gunslinger! Not enduring, not slogging through... actually LIKING the thing I must have hit on the right time to read it, at last.

You will love the rest of the series even more!
Well, I just read your last post, you've read the series already, so never mind.

 

[MadamMack]

You will love the rest of the series even more!

 

[skimom2]

You will love the rest of the series even more!

Oh, I've read it many times--I just never liked the first book very much )

 

[kingricefan]

Oh, I've read it many times--I just never liked the first book very much )

I amended my previous post.

 

[ghost19]

Been on a reading tear lately...Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy, Skeleton Crew by Mr. King, Twilight Eyes by Dean Koontz, Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi, On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison. I love my Nook HD!

 

[skimom2]

I amended my previous post.

 

[MadamMack]

Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy . . .I love my Nook HD!

I read that and I really enjoyed it although I feel it's really more for guys.

 

[SusanNorton]

I just bought Most of Nora Ephron yesterday on my lunch hour - there's a Barnes and Noble five minutes from my office, the only benefit to working in Satan's snake pit. I love Nora Ephron, and the fact that she bears a striking resemblance to my favorite, dearly departed aunt makes me feel that much more affection for her.

 

[No1FanUK]

ive been reading all Kings works from the beginning again and im just about to start Firestarter.

 

[Haunted]

Reading Stoker's Manuscript by Prouty and Swamplandia by Karen Russell is waiting for me to pick up at the library.

 

[Haunted]

Let me know what you think of it.

Good story, VERY interesting, written by a CPA/Business Consultant (HAH!) Little slow on the start.

 

[Dana Jean]

Reading Stoker's Manuscript by Prouty and Swamplandia by Karen Russell is waiting for me to pick up at the library.

Love Karen Russell's work. If I could write like anyone, it would be her.

 

[Walter Oobleck]

Working my way through Clarke's Childhood's End...good but slow...there's ideas here as well. boyga. Walter the Rat is a great little story about readers/writers. Check it out. And started As a Thief in the Night by Chuck Crabbe...I believe a relative newcomer and good. The title is from 1 Thessalonians 5:2...and he includes this quote from Joseph Campbell who wrote of Adolf Bastian, a German anthropologist...common themes out of the collective unconscious called elementary ideas...in India, in art criticism, called 'marga' the path. Refers to footprints left by an animal and you follow that animals...your spiritual self...sounds Dark-Towerish, hey? 'Bout Ezra Mignon eleven years old growing up in Walpurgis, Ontario 75 kilometers southwest of Toronto. This looks like a promising story, but I'm going to try finishing up Childhood's End before I get any further...

 

[MadamMack]

Love Karen Russell's work. If I could write like anyone, it would be her.

I think I'll give Swamplandia a try.