What Are You Reading? Part Deux
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Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Got a large type book from the library written by Tom Hanks - I thought it would be true short stories about his life and acting career but it turned out to be just some works of fiction. Can’t actually review it yet as I haven’t had a chance to start reading it.
The Nameless
M-O-O-N - That spells Nameless
Damn, you're devouring the dark tower books, didn't you only finish the gunslinger a few weeks ago? We all know the feeling, once it grips you it's a strong hold. Did you read wind through the keyhole as book 4.5 or save it? If you saved it for book 8 then that's the perfect way to ease yourself out of them.I am, I love it. I actually think I will have withdrawal symptoms when I have finished them though!
I do read fairly quickly, especially when they are so good I can't put it down! I do the same with TV series, I may have a slightly addictive personality...
I'm saving it for book 8
I do read fairly quickly, especially when they are so good I can't put it down! I do the same with TV series, I may have a slightly addictive personality...
I'm saving it for book 8
The Dark Tower is an awesome journey. Glad you're enjoying it.
Reading Omega Days by John L. Campbell. Its an Zombie infection disaster thing, Medium quality in the genre so far. Maberry is better and so are others. Readworthy but nothing to get excited over. There is a follow up, Ship Of The Dead, but i will decide when i'm finished if its worth the trouble.
I am reading Eyes of the Dragon with my daughter. Not her first Stephen King book, she picked The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon for her first one. 
And on the kindle, I am reading Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
And on the kindle, I am reading Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
I've decided to start listening to the Dark Tower Series on audio book. I read all the books as they came out (with the exception of the Gunslinger which I was a few years late to) so it has been a while and I'm hoping this refresher will help me finally make it through Wind Through the Keyhole (which until now has failed to keep my attention).
Let me know what you think when done! I really enjoyed this one.I am reading Eyes of the Dragon with my daughter. Not her first Stephen King book, she picked The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon for her first one.
And on the kindle, I am reading Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
Is your daughter enjoying her first SK books?
...damn!....I really wish Stuart O'Nan would finish the story that's included in this book.....I only knew his work from the collaboration with Steve on the BoSox....he has quite a few very good chapters, but alas-it's unfinished....
This is what my copy looks like.
Finished "The Innocent Bone" by Cody McFadyen
This wasn't a Smokey Novel but upsetting as every McFadyen Book
But it was long drown out sometimes.
This wasn't a Smokey Novel but upsetting as every McFadyen Book
But it was long drown out sometimes.
I am enjoying it! Has made me laugh out loud several times.
And Ali liked TGWLTG, and is really enjoying EotD. She is reading slow, still has to keep up with her school reading, so I'm done and waiting on her to catch up. We probably should have waited a few more weeks until school is out to start.
I finished The Gunslinger and Moved onto The Drawing of the Three this morning and was instantly reminded how much better this series gets. Parts of The Gunslinger move so slowly that it is sort of a miracle I stuck it out the first time around but holy hell it is worth it. The Drawing of the Three is all action right from the get-go. I forgot how much I love this airplane sequence (and it is just as nail-biting the second time through).
Started The Stuarts by John Miller. An Oxford history professor. He's a bit on the dry side but full of facts not just of the persons, James I, Charles I, Charles II, James II, William III and Mary II and finally Queen Anne. Since Cromwell is in the middle of all that he is handled in chapter called Interregnum. hes also sees a bigger picture. What they managed to do. In the book i recently read about the Tudors i was disappointed in the treatment of Elisabeth because it focused solely on her being blindly in love with Robert Dudley and her problems with succession but she ruled for 45 years and did have policys she instigated on many other areas which wasn't mentioned. Surprising considering that she(the author) did not fall into that trap with her father andd Grandfather (Henry VII and VIII). This book has already said more things about Elisabeth in the first chapter, Inheritance, than that book did.
On my Kindle I'm reading Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau, The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood, and The Purple Cloud by Shiel. All three are in the public domain and the first two are short stories. A friend gifted me one of my favorite nonfiction books, too: Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose. I am highlighting some of my favorite parts in it.
The Purple Cloud was published in 1901. It is one of the first post-apocalyptic novels of its kind.
The Purple Cloud was published in 1901. It is one of the first post-apocalyptic novels of its kind.
I must get a copy of The Stuarts at some stage, Kurben. As I mentioned elsewhere I'm fascinated with all that went on around the British Isles at this time in History.
"The Wendigo" is longer than I thought. It's around 81 pages. As I'm reading, I'm getting hints of Pet Sematary and Deliverance. It's scary, already, and nothing supernatural has occurred. Has anyone here read this story?
I'm going to look for more stories by this writer.
"Stories of lost hunters rose persistently before his memory. The passion and mystery of homeless and wandering men, seduced by the beauty of great forests, swept his soul in a way too vivid to be quite pleasant. He wondered vaguely whether it was the mood of his companion that invited the unwelcome suggestion with such persistence."
I'm going to look for more stories by this writer.
"Stories of lost hunters rose persistently before his memory. The passion and mystery of homeless and wandering men, seduced by the beauty of great forests, swept his soul in a way too vivid to be quite pleasant. He wondered vaguely whether it was the mood of his companion that invited the unwelcome suggestion with such persistence."
....is this the Algernon Blackwood novel Doc?.....if so, he's well worth reading more of.....his stories have a tasty buffet of creep factor in them.....
I guess it's a novella; my Kindle says it is 81 pages. I think he did write a couple novels, though.
Thanks, I'm about to download more of his short stories since that is mostly what I'm looking for.