What Are You Reading? Part Deux

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carrie's younger brother

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The Cuckoo's Calling by JK Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith. I remember a few people here liking this book and the two others that came after it. I'm on the fence right now. Some parts are very good and entertaining and others are a bit of a slog. I'm about 35% in so I'll reserve final judgment until I'm finished, of course.
 

kingricefan

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The Cuckoo's Calling by JK Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith. I remember a few people here liking this book and the two others that came after it. I'm on the fence right now. Some parts are very good and entertaining and others are a bit of a slog. I'm about 35% in so I'll reserve final judgment until I'm finished, of course.
I liked it. I've read the second one in the series and it is better.
 

HedlessChickn

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I am so lost. I have soooooooo many books I want to read that it's daunting.

Why can't I just read by osmosis?

Preston & Child Pendergast stuff.
F. Paul Wilson's Early Repairman Jack Trilogy.
Sinclair Lewis' stuff.
Collected works of Kafka.
Entire Sherlock Holmes collection.
Illuminatus! Trilogy
1Q84 (No, not 1984. I buy used copies of this and give them away when someone says they haven't read it.)
Upton Sinclair's works.
A Confederacy of Dunces
S.
Mark Z Danielewski's works
And on and on and on and on and on.

I have no idea where to start.

And Sleeping Beauties is out soon as well and I'll drop everything else once it's in my dirty ink-stained hands.

Cursed by riches of the mind is about the only curse I'd ever want.
 
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I was home sick with the flu or something when I was a teenager and I asked my Dad to get me something to read. He got me The Witches of Karres by James H. Schmitz and The Ka of Gifford Hillary by Dennis Wheatley. I don't know what made him choose those two books - I didn't know there was such a thing as science fiction and I'm sure he didn't either. I loved them and I became a sci-fi reader for life. I just re-read The Witches of Karres and enjoyed it the second time just as much as the first. The following is from the back cover...

"In the far future, Mankind has scattered among the stars, bred into peculiar forms and developed peculiar powers. Captain Pausert of Nikkeldpain makes the serious mistake of rescuing three little Witches of Karres from their overwrought owners. There follow espionage, piracy, assorted forms of mayhem, and a freewheeling galactic war that nobody knew was in progress. You will, in the process, encounter such things as Worm Weather, Katharine hooks, and a vatch to end all vatches... not to mention grim dogs and Narthby Sprites and Sheem Robots."
- P. Schuyler Miller, Analog
 

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still slogging through the audio of It. might have to read the book along with it next time, because i've found my attention drifts somewhat at times if i listen for too long. finished The Seventh Plague - Rollins did his usual fine job. he presented a scientifically plausible (at leas to this layperson) explanation for the 10 plagues, had healthy doses of action and archaeology (it'd be easier to spell that if spell checker knew it was a word, smh), and threw in some historical backstory featuring Stanley, Livingstone, Clemens/Twain, and Tesla, and there was even a mini education on elephants. writers who make efforts to get details on things like these are wonderful.

started By the Sword by F. Paul Wilson - a Repairman Jack novel i haven't gotten to yet. unfortunately i've kind of read these all out of order, so i know basically what happens in regards to the longer, main arc that happens over several novels, but the subplot of this particular book is unknown. one day after i'm sure i've got all of them i'll read them in order to see the story unfold a bit more linearly.
 

HedlessChickn

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still slogging through the audio of It. might have to read the book along with it next time, because i've found my attention drifts somewhat at times if i listen for too long. finished The Seventh Plague - Rollins did his usual fine job. he presented a scientifically plausible (at leas to this layperson) explanation for the 10 plagues, had healthy doses of action and archaeology (it'd be easier to spell that if spell checker knew it was a word, smh), and threw in some historical backstory featuring Stanley, Livingstone, Clemens/Twain, and Tesla, and there was even a mini education on elephants. writers who make efforts to get details on things like these are wonderful.

started By the Sword by F. Paul Wilson - a Repairman Jack novel i haven't gotten to yet. unfortunately i've kind of read these all out of order, so i know basically what happens in regards to the longer, main arc that happens over several novels, but the subplot of this particular book is unknown. one day after i'm sure i've got all of them i'll read them in order to see the story unfold a bit more linearly.

I always enjoy seeing another fan of F. Paul Wilson on here.

Thankfully, he's done with Repairman Jack with the "Beginnings" Trilogy. (Or so he says.) I haven't read his new one, Panacea, yet either.
 

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I always enjoy seeing another fan of F. Paul Wilson on here.

Thankfully, he's done with Repairman Jack with the "Beginnings" Trilogy. (Or so he says.) I haven't read his new one, Panacea, yet either.
Congratulations Hedless, you are now a free range chicken! You might have to wait about 30 minutes and log out and log back in, but you are now unmoderated. Be good.
 

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I always enjoy seeing another fan of F. Paul Wilson on here.

Thankfully, he's done with Repairman Jack with the "Beginnings" Trilogy. (Or so he says.) I haven't read his new one, Panacea, yet either.

yeah, they've just been a little harder to track down at used book stores so i don't quite have them all yet. i've read a couple of the other ones that are like parallel stories to the repairman jack stuff, and a couple of his stand alones. also good.
 

GNTLGNT

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I didn't even know that was a thing!

I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitut.....

Wait...Wrong oath.

I promise I'll be good.

:alien:
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...and he runs amok....
 

kingricefan

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Clive Barker's Cabal. So far so good!
I just found a very nice hardback 1st printing of this a few days ago. There are some very good stories in it, which I read years ago when it was published. The title story was made into a movie called Nightbreed but it's not very good. It was overly long so 'they' cut out a lot of scenes which also cut out a lot of the story so it is a hard one to follow. I never saw the director's cut which is probably better.
 

AchtungBaby

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I just found a very nice hardback 1st printing of this a few days ago. There are some very good stories in it, which I read years ago when it was published. The title story was made into a movie called Nightbreed but it's not very good. It was overly long so 'they' cut out a lot of scenes which also cut out a lot of the story so it is a hard one to follow. I never saw the director's cut which is probably better.
Yeah, I haven't seen Nightbreed (or any other movie based on Barker's work, aside from Hellraiser...) I'm saving the short stories for later--I have them in a Books of Blood omnibus. Can't wait to get to them, though. :D