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I'm reading The Twelve. I like it ok but I just got through a section where Cronin gave names to forty different people and I'll bet only one or two are mentioned later :( I'm unable to visualize any of these characters. It would be nice if I could put a name with a face y'know? The story is good... if the characters were described better, I'd think maybe I was reading something SK wrote.
 
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I finished The Golem of Hollywood by the Kellermans'. I hated to finish it but was delighted to learn that they are working on The Golem of Shanghai!! I am half way through This House is Haunted by John Boyne and Breakdown by Jonathan Kellerman with Unsaid by Neil Abramson waiting for me at the library!

While reading The Golem of Hollywood one of the angel/hybrids talks about a book called The Master and Margarita written by Mikhail Bulgakov.

"One hot day, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan."

Had a gift card, reserved it at my local B&N and added another inch to my TBR!!! YEA!!!
 
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Just finished a re-read of This Year's Class Picture by Dan Simmons. It's a short story that was published in 1992 and went on to win the Stoker, Sturgeon and World Fantasy Awards. Subterranean Press released it as a small book, which I got in the mail yesterday. It's a zombie tale. Pretty great!!
 
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Re-reading (for about the tenth time) the granddaddy of all Beat tomes, John Clellon Holmes' Go. This is straight laced, quasi-hard boiled prose, but a purely factual (but still technically fictional) account of how these cats lived in the late forties. Chronologically pre-dates On The Road, and tells a much darker, contrary, almost cautionary tale. Great, probably best portrait of the young Ginsberg, and shows Cassady as the turd he kinda was.

Chronologically speaking, I'd put this one after And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks (which comes directly after Vanity of Dulouz), and right before the original scroll of Road. Chronologically, dig.
 
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I'm on a big science-fiction kick at the moment. Recently finished Foundation, by Isaac Asimov (how hadn't I already read this?) and Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke. Really enjoyed both of them, but I may have to give the edge to Foundation.

Currently on (probably) my tenth re-read of the Lost World, by Michael Crichton. I may have read this book more times than any other book (runner up: The Fellowship of the Ring). It's a quick, easy read, familiar and comforting like an old sweater. I have the hard cover version, so it's got the nice island map and diagrams of the dinosaurs in the front and back.

After Lost World, I've got Consider Phelbas, by Iain M. Banks lined up.
 
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Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy). This is my first time through this book, and so far I like it. Thank goodness it has less sentence fragments than The Road (that one made my editor soul cringe--I almost couldn't finish, though I liked the story)! Such beautiful use of language in such an ugly story. I feel like The Gunslinger and Ketchum's The Crossings are spiritual brothers of this story, and prepared me for it :) I'm trying to finish it for a book club meeting on Sunday, so I'm hurrying, but I'm sure I'll reread to savor later.
 
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cat in a bag said:
I think it would probably be an excellent audio, it reads like a movie. So much imagery.

I finished it this morning. I liked it but feel I should have known a little about Hugh Glass before...so many places mentioned are places I know. Places in South Dakota, Wyoming and Nebraska. I do not remember learning a thing about him though.

The author is from Torrington, Wyoming. That is about 15 miles from where I grew up. Which I also did not know until reading his afterward.

It is fictionalized but Punke pointed things out in his afterward that he took liberties with.

I enjoyed it and am looking forward to seeing the movie now.


I am trying very hard to avoid real life stuff (I mean actual life stuff, not fictionalized versions of real life stuff, like The Revenant ;)) right now so jumped right into Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein. I think it was @do1you9love who said she was reading it with her daughter. I thought it sounded like one my kids would like too. It is very cute so far.
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Hey there! Yes, it was me! Did you guys like it?? We're planning to start the next one soon!;-D
 
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I just started this one...
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It is irreverent, blasphemous and pretty funny, so far.
 
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do1you9love? said:
Hey there! Yes, it was me! Did you guys like it?? We're planning to start the next one soon!;-D
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I liked it, it was very cute! Borrowed it from the library, so will have to check it out again for the kiddos. They were too busy playing during spring break to read. :rolleyes: :laugh: Actually, they were both already reading something else and didn't want to start a new book yet. But I think they will like it a lot.
 
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do1you9love? said:
I just started this one...
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It is irreverent, blasphemous and pretty funny, so far.
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That one never fails to make me laugh :) I also really enjoyed Sacre Bleu. That one was funny, too, but far more melancholy at the same time, with absolutely gorgeous ties to great art/artists. I think these two will be considered his best. Serpent of Venice was just okay--the humor seemed forced.
 
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