Mine is, too.... (If it's shipped)My copy is in the mail.
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Mine is, too.... (If it's shipped)My copy is in the mail.
Good review. Very fair. I started out quite dubious and ended really enjoying it.The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins
A suspense book filled with twists and turns and a bevy of unreliable narrators.
An onion of a book where story peels away to new reveals. Same goes for the characters who are both compelling and repellant - often at the same time.
Tightly paced and plotted, the book rarely flags and the book's opening conceit of a woman taking a London bound commuter train past her previous place of residence works well in that Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window - voyeuristic way to hook this reader into the story.
Hawkins's grasp of pacing is perfect as she keeps this conceit going alive until just the right moment and then releases the reader and the story out of the train and shifts the narrative focus out into the world to race to the climax.
Fun read.
Amazon right?Mine is, too.... (If it's shipped)
No, I ordered mine from Subterranean Press.Amazon right?
This is exactly why I am taking my B&N card direct to the store on release day for Finders Keepers.
Yeppers- it's your copy of The Border!!! You should see it within the week.No, I ordered mine from Subterranean Press.
This morning I received an email saying my package shipped, but it wasn't specific what website it was from??? The email was from a William Schafer? I'm thinking it was from Sub Press (the only other website I've ordered from recently is Amazon) but I'm not sure. kingricefan
EDIT: a quick Wikipedia search told me William Schafer is a founder of Sub Press. Which means my book is on the way. Yay!!
I have a copy of Lonesome Dove in my TBR pile (if I ever get to it!).Anyone else here a Larry McMurtry fan? I started reading him because I loved Terms of Endearment. What I discovered is that the novel was quite different from the movie (surprise!). As a writer he is wicked funny and then suddenly serious and dramatic. I love that contrast. Laughing and crying at the same time.
Anyhow, after reading most everything else of his, I've started reading The Berrybender Narratives. Kind of like how I put off reading the Dark Tower until I had read everything else SK, this is what I've done with McMurtry.
After reading These Is My Words - thank you, skimom2 , I really wanted another book about the early American West.
The first one is Sin Killer, loving it so far.
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Peter Straub is a very disturbing writer. Read "Bunny is Good Bred," In Magic Terror, dedicated to Stephen King. It made me queasy.Last night I read The Ballad of Ballard And Sandrine by Peter Straub. What a disturbing little tale it was. Very different and very disturbing and very, very good.
I remember reading that one but not even what it was about. Oh, dear.....Peter Straub is a very disturbing writer. Read "Bunny is Good Bred," In Magic Terror, dedicated to Stephen King. It made me queasy.
It's about the great breadsticks at Olive Garden! Would I lie to you?I remember reading that one but not even what it was about. Oh, dear.....
It's about the great breadsticks at Olive Garden! Would I lie to you?
No, I ordered mine from Subterranean Press.
This morning I received an email saying my package shipped, but it wasn't specific what website it was from??? The email was from a William Schafer? I'm thinking it was from Sub Press (the only other website I've ordered from recently is Amazon) but I'm not sure. kingricefan
EDIT: a quick Wikipedia search told me William Schafer is a founder of Sub Press. Which means my book is on the way. Yay!!
Sin Killer was pretty good. Lonesome Dove is definitely his best. Pretty much everything he's written after his breakdown has been hit and miss.Anyone else here a Larry McMurtry fan? I started reading him because I loved Terms of Endearment. What I discovered is that the novel was quite different from the movie (surprise!). As a writer he is wicked funny and then suddenly serious and dramatic. I love that contrast. Laughing and crying at the same time.
Anyhow, after reading most everything else of his, I've started reading The Berrybender Narratives. Kind of like how I put off reading the Dark Tower until I had read everything else SK, this is what I've done with McMurtry.
After reading These Is My Words - thank you, skimom2 , I really wanted another book about the early American West.
The first one is Sin Killer, loving it so far.
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My beloved novelist had a breakdown too? I'm off to google. God bless him.Sin Killer was pretty good. Lonesome Dove is definitely his best. Pretty much everything he's written after his breakdown has been hit and miss.
Oooo, that's a good one!!About 130 pages into Rosemary's Baby