I'm very interested to hear what you think of 1942 when you get further into it. Alternative histories catch my imagination almost as much as dystopias and apocalypses (lol). Why do I love them so much? Does it give some kind of comfort in a world going to hell in a handbasket to think that things could be worse? I'll have to ruminate on that one.
What Are You Reading? Part Deux
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I freaking LOVE that one! Couldn't even make a guess at how many times I've read it since I first read it in 1984 or so. LilMan loved the cover off of my original GN, but it's never farther than next to my reading chair.
I like it.I am now at about page 230 and have a hundred to go.The japanese invasion is a success and the americans are forced to retreat to California. The book describe what inhibitants both american, hawaaiin and japanese suffer from the japanese and how the warplans are influenced I have found that Robert Conroy, the author, can be a kind of hit or miss in his alternate histories but this is one of the good ones. We have the historical persons like FDR, Yamamoto, Nimitz, Spruance and King playing parts and then we have characters that are, as far as i know, unhistorical like certain inhibitants of Hawaii, lesser military personal like sergeants and lieutenants. Thanks to that we, the readers, are present both when decisions are made and when they are carried out. It is easy to read, reads like a historical thriller and is centered around persons, their actions and the result of the actions. Not so much a lot of references (music, movies and so on) or describtions of the scenery. The main characters are the ones carrying out the decisionmakers orders. For me it is a plus it is not overly long or the first part in a trilogy or something like that. So many trilogies have a tendency to start well only to start to dip in the sequels leaving a discontended taste in your mouth afterwards. If can say what you have to say in one book yhen say it! Better one good novel than a trilogy if it does not follow up its promise.
blue tongue lizards are native to Australia. Marvel's Mightiest Heroes: Ghostrider, featuring Roy Thomas, Daniel Way, Mike Ploog, Mark Texeira.
If I have to put up with snide remarks by people when I come on here I'm thinking about not.
If I have to put up with snide remarks by people when I come on here I'm thinking about not.
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how come you can post that you 'like' something of mine before I even post it?
I'm not sure. At the time I 'liked' your post it said only this: "Blue tongue lizards are native to Australia."
Nothing else, no pics.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Did not know that blue tongued lizards are native to Australia - you learn something new every day!blue tongue lizards are native to Australia. Marvel's Mightiest Heroes: Ghostrider, featuring Roy Thomas, Daniel Way, Mike Ploog, Mark Texeira.
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Have you read The Outsider yet? I stayed up way too late last night reading it - it was very good (much better than Sleeping Beauties!) sorry Sai King
I wanted to get a copy of The Long Walk to replace the one I got cheated out of three years ago (it's a long story). However I see the going price is pretty high now, if you want the original one from the 70s.
C'est la vie I guess.
My son is a huge Ghost Rider fan--can talk your ear off about all his many iterations. I never got into his comics, but I respect a fellow comic loverblue tongue lizards are native to Australia. Marvel's Mightiest Heroes: Ghostrider, featuring Roy Thomas, Daniel Way, Mike Ploog, Mark Texeira.
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Just finished Sunshine (Robin McKinley) after a rec by a friend. Different vampire novel! I liked it quite a bit. It felt like it might have been the opening for a series, but seeing as it was published in 2003 and no sequels were forthcoming, maybe not. It has a bit of many genres: vampires, dystopia, humor, mystery. I'd not read anything by this author prior, but I think I'll look up some others when I have a chance.
....dude, you need to reflect on what you're saying....no-one has been snide to you or anyone else....relax, chill-you're getting yourself all worked up over nothing....blue tongue lizards are native to Australia. Marvel's Mightiest Heroes: Ghostrider, featuring Roy Thomas, Daniel Way, Mike Ploog, Mark Texeira.
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This morning I just started reading a cheesy dumb horror book from Pinnacle.
It's called Sleep Tight. Super bed bugs in Chicago mostly. It's like a combo of the movies Contagion with Arachnophobia
It's called Sleep Tight. Super bed bugs in Chicago mostly. It's like a combo of the movies Contagion with Arachnophobia
Currently reading Black House. I'm about half way through. It's taken some effort thus far, however I am enjoying the story. I've been working my through the King library. After this, I have very few left. Most of them being the Dark Tower series.
Just finished A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson. I loved Life after Life so I tried A God in Ruins. It read so personal. It made attitudes between generations so clear. I loved how it showed the affects of the war during and after. And how it affected those around the survivors. Beautiful.
....a book that examines Ohio ghost towns....of which there are hundreds.....most of them rose and fell during the oil and coal booms here years ago.....
I listen to Annihilation. Witch is really odd book. Very odd book. Got caught up on listing to three more Jack Reacher books.
I picked up Tom Sweterlitsch's The Gone World from my library today. Only a few pages in, but it seems interesting. I'm also about half-way through Go Set a Watchman (totally late to the party, but the read is more for research than pleasure which is a good thing because the novel is pretty dreadful). My current SK read is The Gunslinger (2003 revision). This is one of the SK books I am reading for the first time (never got in to the series during my first go around with his work). I still can't pinpoint why, but I am struggling with this novel. Will have to look for The Dark Tower message thread.
Finished 1942, I've also finished Emperor, the first in a series. Its historical fiction with an Sf premise if you see what i mean. interesting. I will start the second book in the series, Conqueror, next. The story in emperor starts in 4 bc and ends in 418 bc and placed in britain before, under and after Rome. The Author, Stephen Baxter, is often interesting but sometimes in my view a bit lengthy but here he controls that well. Emperor was just over 300 pages and Conqueror is about the same length and is supposed to end around 1100. There are two more books in the series. If Conqueror holds up to Emperors promise i will continue with them. The series is called Times Tapestry.
I listened to the audiobook, too! It felt a little pretentious in some parts, but liked it overall. It's an interesting novel to open a discussion about the nature of evidence and knowledge in sciences and the humanities. Have you read the other novels in the Southern Reach Trilogy or seen the adaptation? I've not ventured further than the first book, and I am too weary of awful adaptations to take the gamble with Annihilation.
Slowly recovering from a severe case of reader's block (or it might be a mild case of depression)
A couple of weeks ago I purchased two books: A Game Of Ghosts by John Connolly and Sleeping Beauties (no need to tell written by whom)
So, currently reading that John Connolly novel, although I think Sleeping Beauties would have been a faster remedy
A couple of weeks ago I purchased two books: A Game Of Ghosts by John Connolly and Sleeping Beauties (no need to tell written by whom)
So, currently reading that John Connolly novel, although I think Sleeping Beauties would have been a faster remedy