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EMARX

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Just finished The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley. The story veered of course and could have crashed but it is the last book in the current story arc and the ending was quite good. Apparently there are another 4 books planned, and a tv series to boot.
Words of Radiance is still quite engaging at the 400 page mark. Brandon Sanderson has some very strong female characters, which always enhances any book. And Peter Ackroyds, London: The biography is fascinating. In his hands the famed city is a living breathing entity.
 

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just bought The hunger games. trying to start it, but i cant STOP posting on this MB i said i would start it one hour ago and one hour later still posting omg. i think i was vacinated with a posting needle

I guess by now you're on the reading road . . .I liked The Hunger Games.

Just used my Amazon refund and was able to download some books I've wanted . . .I'm off to do some reading . . .
 

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This was the first book that I read really fast (in my slow reading state) and stood up late reading. I think it was actually in the Summer and it was the coolest frickin' book ever. I hope you keep loving it!
I was the same, just couldn't put it down, I usually only read about 30-40 pages per day maximum, but I think I averaged around 60 with joyland. I also think that it's the only book I've read in under a week. Even blockade Billy took me longer and that's only 80 pages - I just didn't have the desire to read it every night, or to read for long when I did (i still quite liked it though).
 

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That was an excellent book, ( Joyland ) that ending just made it for me. Right when I finished it, I closed it, and sat there for a minute thinking Wow.. The story was nowhere near anything at all I expected and it was a nice surprise. Weren't some of the civilians in Dr. Sleep called " Rubes " though by the Knot? Also the same in Joyland... That was pretty cool!

Reading Under The Dome now, by the way.
 
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MadamMack

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That was an excellent book, ( Joyland ) that ending just made it for me. Right when I finished it, I closed it, and sat there for a minute thinking Wow.. The story was nowhere near anything at all I expected and it was a nice surprise. Weren't some of the civilians in Dr. Sleep called " Rubes " though by the Knot? Also the same in Joyland... That was pretty cool!

Reading Under The Dome now, by the way.

It's amazing when that happens, isn't it?
 

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Have to say it almost finished me off out of boredom (started out OK, but then kind of lost me). I enjoyed The Vampire Lestat a lot more, so reading 'Interview...' wasn't really much of a loss in the end. With that said, I might not have read TVL if I hadn't been given the the 'trilogy' set (including Queen of the Damned) as a gift - the giver seeing the books were about vampires and assuming they were horror.

Yup. I liked THE VAMPIRE LESTAT quite a bit more than INTERVIEW, and even enjoyed QUEEN OF THE DAMNED. After that, though, she lost me.
 

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Turn Out The Lights - Various - Anthology from Cemetery Dance - finished

A slim volume, It tips the scales at a mere 172 pages - including a foreword and afterward.

I liked all the stories to varying degrees except one.

Flying Solo by Ed Gorman was the stand out story for me.

Peter Straub's was the most brilliant and worked from an innocently humorous premise to a very chilling ending.
 

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EMARX

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Still struggling, really struggling with Dust.
That's not good. I found a similar situation with Elizabeth George and her Lynley mysteries. I read the first several books and marvelled at not only did she write engaging mysteries but they were fine novels in their own right. Now I find her work bloated and uninteresting and I don't care to know what happens to the characters.
 

skimom2

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That's not good. I found a similar situation with Elizabeth George and her Lynley mysteries. I read the first several books and marvelled at not only did she write engaging mysteries but they were fine novels in their own right. Now I find her work bloated and uninteresting and I don't care to know what happens to the characters.
I find that to be a big problem with most series. Later volumes almost always start to feel like tired retreads of the earlier books, or they get that 'filler before the big bang ending' thing. Stand alones work best for me.
 
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