My daughter loves the 100, and is trying to get me to watch it
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Just be sure you watch it from the beginning or you will be Totally lost. First season was good, second slowly started to spiral out of control somewhere in the middle and the third, ongoing, has not started well i think. But if you love the characters you are stuck i'll imagine so i understand your daughter.My daughter loves the 100, and is trying to get me to watch it
I watch The 100
I like it because it's a bit different. I'm also watching Colony.I downloaded a novelization of an old Doctor Who story. It's one of the Troughton stories that was lost. I havn't read it yet though so I can't say if it's any good.
I have just started The Opposite of Everyone by Joshilyn Jackson and Paula is talking about her childhood and her mother; "On campfire nights, she blends in chunks of the Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe books that she's read to tatters."
I just reviewed that book for New York Journal of Books! I liked it very much, and plan on reading others from that author (in fact, I just checked out another of hers on Friday).
Finished Anathem. I enjoyed it overall, but I'll say that it doesn't pick up much for the first seven hundred pages or so. The last couple hundred were pretty...interesting.
Gonna put The Twelve on the backburner for right now. Started in on Heinlein's The Starbeast. It's okay so far; reminds me a bit of his Red Planet. Another young adult book with the main kid having some weird alien for a pet.
Gonna put The Twelve on the backburner for right now. Started in on Heinlein's The Starbeast. It's okay so far; reminds me a bit of his Red Planet. Another young adult book with the main kid having some weird alien for a pet.
I just finished 'Our Mutual Friend' by Charles Dickens. This is the third Dickens book I have read (Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist). I loved it. I find he has the same ability as King as related to character development and conversations. It was a long slog (~900 pages) but definitely worth it.
I know even just a few pages in I am going to really enjoy it!
Finished The Star Beast, which was fun enough, though I (wisely) skipped the introduction since it contained spoilers. I hate it when they write introductions like that. I wonder if the author is even aware it's going to be an introduction, or assumes it's an afterward?
I'm going to take a second stab at Ursual K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness. I couldn't get into it the first time, but figure at my current pace I can at least bully my way through in a couple of days whether I like it or not, and just be done with it.
I'm going to take a second stab at Ursual K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness. I couldn't get into it the first time, but figure at my current pace I can at least bully my way through in a couple of days whether I like it or not, and just be done with it.
I am curious to hear your thoughts on it when you are done
I finished Z for Zachariah. The second half sure took a turn! I'll message you my thoughts
I don't think I've read Star Beast... I've read so many novels by Heinlein, I could just be forgetting it though. I may have posted this before but one of my favorite stories by Heinlein is The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag. I reread it recently and still love it
After a looong phase of memoirs, I decided on a SK marathon...just finished Finder's Keepers and started Rose Madder, but decided to switch over to Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One)....very good for a debut novel and there are two more. It was the hunky redhead on the book jacket that made me choose this book....(lol...NOT!! It was my son's recommendation.)
I don't think I've read Star Beast... I've read so many novels by Heinlein, I could just be forgetting it though. I may have posted this before but one of my favorite stories by Heinlein is The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag. I reread it recently and still love it
Honestly, The Star Beast is one of his more forgettable novels.
I thought I may have read The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag--the name Jonathan Hoag definitely rings a bell, but I checked out the synopsis and I don't think I have. One more to add to the pile.
Hard to pick a favorite, but it's probably Puppet Masters or Moon is a Harsh Mistress. TNSTAAFL
I loved The Name of the Wind and Wise Man's Fear. I would recommend it to anyone that enjoys fantasy stories, or even just good stories in general. Hopefully the third one comes out this year.
Why...why would they make Kvothe look like that? Was this some stock picture they yanked out of a harlequin novel?
Ha! That's exactly what it reminded me of Sam...such a *corny* pic! But this is the third Kingkiller book that is now available (11/15) although it's all about Auri..a character I haven't been introduced to yet. My son said it is not the last book.
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Yeah, that's not the third book in the Kingkiller Chronicles, that's an auxiliary novella that--so I've heard--is pretty terrible. I haven't read it myself. But you finished The Name of the Wind, right? Auri is in The Name of the Wind. She's the barefooted and batty girl that Kvothe befriends on the roof of the University.
No, about halfway. Oh crap...thanks about the heads up regarding the novella...I see it's only 176 pages and the reviews are mixed on Amazon...one reviewer said it's not necessary to read for the story...just character development and another said it bored her to tears...lol.
I loved it, loved it, loved it!! Wonderful stories with really larger than life characters!!
Started Sapiens by Hariri. A rather interesting, so far, run through of human history the last 2,5 million years. Concentrates of the revolutions that made human (and with human i mean all human species) history leap forward. Like the cognitive revolution when we started to grasp abstract thinking in serious, the agricultural revolution and the scientific revolution when we finally admitted to ourselfes that we dont know everything (just a few hundred years ago). It does a good job of building a story and using knowledge from many sciences in an easy way.
War of the Worlds by H G Wells
The Vision by Dean Koontz
Psycho by Robert Bloch
A pocket book edition of The Constitution of the United States of America
The Vision by Dean Koontz
Psycho by Robert Bloch
A pocket book edition of The Constitution of the United States of America
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