Yeah, he hits it every once in a while, I think, so I get lured in from time to time and read another one of his, but I'm usually disappointed. Tons of people love his stuff, though. Oh well. Vive le difference!
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Koontz isn't my very favorite, but I enjoy his writing a good deal. Hideaway is probably my favorite, closely followed by The Voice of the Night, Life Expectancy, Brother Odd, The City, Phantoms, and The Husband. I haven't read most of his books, though.
I really liked that one.
When I started reading this, I made a post about how much I liked it. I wasn't that far in when I made the post. When I started getting towards the end, I felt like you do. The end seemed so forced. I was really disappointed after a very promising start. Don't bother to finish it, you've already read the good part.
You are SOOOO correct. I finished it last night. The book gets so cheesy toward the end, it was just....terrible. I was thinking the ending couldn't be worse than the last 75 pages......WRONG. I kept thinking "Where are the unicorns and rainbows?" Cool plot, terrible execution of said plot. Going to start Nightmares and Dreamscapes tonight, try to get the bad taste out of that last book out of my mind.When I started reading this, I made a post about how much I liked it. I wasn't that far in when I made the post. When I started getting towards the end, I felt like you do. The end seemed so forced. I was really disappointed after a very promising start. Don't bother to finish it, you've already read the good part.
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#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
I think this is a time travel one? I was supposed to take this one out of the library and then forgot to - how do you like it so far?I'm reading "The Next Time You See Me" by Holly Goddard Jones. I'm doing a 50 books in 2015 reading challenge on another forum, this is number 17. Only two Kings so far. Need to get that number up
Paul Simon - A Life (2010) by Marc Eliot
Found this hardcover book in a $1.00 bin. The book is interesting but there are an enormous amount of factual errors. The errors that I have noticed are very sloppy errors. In several instances, the songs of Paul Simon (or Simon and Garfunkel) are credited to the wrong albums. This seems sloppy because all someone has to do is look at the back of the albums to get the info correct. The author sometimes gets the hit songs confused with other songs. There is one instance where the author is detailing a Saturday Night Live appearance by Paul and Art in 1975 and says that Paul didn't appear on TV again for 5 years. Then about 3 or 4 pages later, the author is detailing Paul's 2nd appearance on Saturday Night Live just a few weeks later. Seems like every few pages there is another error that should have been noticed during editing and fact checking.
One very cool story is how Simon and Garfunkel unexpectedly got popular. They had a hit song when they were 15 or 16 years old under the group name of Tom & Jerry. Tom & Jerry didn't have any success after that but that one hit record kept record company executives interested in them. After a little live performance success in New York, they were given the go ahead to do the first Simon and Garfunkel album which had the song "The Sound Of Silence" on it (in a different version than you've heard on the radio). The album tanked and Paul and Art considered their partnership over. Art went back to school and Paul went to England. Paul spent a year in England and even made a solo album that was released there. Somehow, a college radio station started playing The Sound Of Silence and it was a bit of a local hit. The S&G producer heard about it and without Paul or Art's permission, remixed the song and added electric guitar and drums to it and released it as a single and the song got popular. Paul being in England, had no idea what was going on and he just happened to pick up a billboard magazine and noticed his song on the charts. He called Art and Art told him to get his butt back to the US because they were in demand. Paul heard the remixed version of "The Sound Of Silence" and hated it (he preferred his original version) but wasn't about to complain. And the rest is history.
Found this hardcover book in a $1.00 bin. The book is interesting but there are an enormous amount of factual errors. The errors that I have noticed are very sloppy errors. In several instances, the songs of Paul Simon (or Simon and Garfunkel) are credited to the wrong albums. This seems sloppy because all someone has to do is look at the back of the albums to get the info correct. The author sometimes gets the hit songs confused with other songs. There is one instance where the author is detailing a Saturday Night Live appearance by Paul and Art in 1975 and says that Paul didn't appear on TV again for 5 years. Then about 3 or 4 pages later, the author is detailing Paul's 2nd appearance on Saturday Night Live just a few weeks later. Seems like every few pages there is another error that should have been noticed during editing and fact checking.
One very cool story is how Simon and Garfunkel unexpectedly got popular. They had a hit song when they were 15 or 16 years old under the group name of Tom & Jerry. Tom & Jerry didn't have any success after that but that one hit record kept record company executives interested in them. After a little live performance success in New York, they were given the go ahead to do the first Simon and Garfunkel album which had the song "The Sound Of Silence" on it (in a different version than you've heard on the radio). The album tanked and Paul and Art considered their partnership over. Art went back to school and Paul went to England. Paul spent a year in England and even made a solo album that was released there. Somehow, a college radio station started playing The Sound Of Silence and it was a bit of a local hit. The S&G producer heard about it and without Paul or Art's permission, remixed the song and added electric guitar and drums to it and released it as a single and the song got popular. Paul being in England, had no idea what was going on and he just happened to pick up a billboard magazine and noticed his song on the charts. He called Art and Art told him to get his butt back to the US because they were in demand. Paul heard the remixed version of "The Sound Of Silence" and hated it (he preferred his original version) but wasn't about to complain. And the rest is history.
Just finished Tana French's The Likeness--second in a series. I've enjoyed the first two--very plot- and character-driven, which is hard to find. skimom2, I think you recommended her, and, as usual, I enjoyed your advice!
I've started another second in a series, When Gods Die (Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries). These are set in the 1800s, my favorite time period. The first one, What Angels Fear, was very good.
I've started another second in a series, When Gods Die (Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries). These are set in the 1800s, my favorite time period. The first one, What Angels Fear, was very good.
I AM SO loving this book. I had a lot of free time over the past few days and I have really locked down on this book and I don't want to stop. It just feels like home to me. It feels like what I know . . .from growing up in the South. There are stories such as this in my family and I think that's why I've always loved Greg's writing. There have been good and bad between our races but I know a lot good people that have fought for righteousness for my people and Greg has always brought that to life.
The bad thing is that I'm almost at the end . . . the good thing is that the next book is just around the corner and one other good thing in the tale . . .
Viola took out one of her attackers
I started I Am Legend (audiobook) today. Really effective, very dark. DARK.
skimom2 Just finished These Is My Words last night. Oh, my heart! What a beautiful story. I read her notes at the end, and it's so funny how I was seeing Sam Elliot as Jack then entire book. Were you, as well? Thanks for sending me that. I might loan it to a co-worker if you don't mind before I send it back to you.
The Bone Tree came out on the 15th of this month; check your local B&N! Mine is in the mail, cannot wait!!
SAM ELLIOT!!!!! Did someone say SAM ELLIOT!!!!! Oh, that adorned upper lip!!! Well, just for that image, I'll have to get out my B&N gift cards and get that book!!!
This one's next up for me!
In the middle of Nightmares and Dreamscapes, still a great book. The Night Flier is still such a great story. Going to start a series after I get done called "The Purge of Babylon" by Sam Sisavath. Another post-apocalyptic type book, hope it's better than Nine Meals, the last book I read....but that shouldn't be too hard...lol
I am half way through The Book of Life, the last of Deborah Harkness's trilogy of the union of a vampire and a witch, 'tis awesome. Have three books waiting for me at the library and The Bone Tree is in the mail also The Mourning Bells the fourth book in her Victorian undertaker series by Christine Trent calls to me from my TBR pile. It's either feast or famine.
I recently started Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. I had never read her before and was not very familiar with her style. I'm finding that although the prose is sometimes intricate and poetic, I am speeding right along and able to keep up with the story. From what I've gathered, I don't think I'm going to leave this book feeling all fuzzy and lighthearted, but I do love how the reality of these people's worlds is portrayed, even though I see myself heading for some serious sh*t down the road.
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