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I love always having a book to read, but I don't always have the time to devote to a really moving book. So, I read lots of James Patterson, Nelson DeMille, and Daniel Silva novels. Not the best literature, but entertaining.
I love always having a book to read, but I don't always have the time to devote to a really moving book. So, I read lots of James Patterson, Nelson DeMille, and Daniel Silva novels. Not the best literature, but entertaining.
Best literature, shmest literature...Daniel Silva is good stuff. I especially love the Gabriel Allon stories. If you want some other entertaining reading of that ilk, you should check out Vince Flynn.
6/18: Phish in Hartford 6/25: Phish in Camden 7/2-7/4: Nateva 7/17: God Street Wine at Irving Plaza 7/23-7/25: String Cheese at Red Rocks!! 8/17-8/18: Phish at Jones Beach 9/3: Rush at PNC
This Bonnaroo lineup is in dire need of some Rush.
Post by coanbread751 on Aug 20, 2009 13:43:41 GMT -5
I'm currently going through the John Iriving catalogue. I started with The World According To Garp, then Cider House Rules, then A Prayer For Owen Meany, and now A Widow For One Year. Garp is the best book I have ever read I do believe.
I'm currently going through the John Iriving catalogue. I started with The World According To Garp, then Cider House Rules, then A Prayer For Owen Meany, and now A Widow For One Year. Garp is the best book I have ever read I do believe.
Whoa, better than A Prayer For Owen Meany? That's one of my all time faves. Perhaps I should check Garp out.
6/18: Phish in Hartford 6/25: Phish in Camden 7/2-7/4: Nateva 7/17: God Street Wine at Irving Plaza 7/23-7/25: String Cheese at Red Rocks!! 8/17-8/18: Phish at Jones Beach 9/3: Rush at PNC
This Bonnaroo lineup is in dire need of some Rush.
I opened my door to a UPS package today. It was my Jeff Buckley bio, A Pure Drop! I am in the middle of a book right now but am so tempted to start the Buckley book!
I just read the first Harry Potter book last week. I'm a little late to the game on them but I figured I may as well read them one day. I haven't seen the movies either.
Has anyone ever used Swaptree.com ? I'm curious how much success people have with it. I just signed up because some of my friends have been raving about it. They claim to be "green" by promoting trade of unwanted items, you just pay shipping. You list the books or CDs or movies that you want to trade, then make a list of items that you want, and e-mail other people on the site to make trades.
Has anyone ever used Swaptree.com ? I'm curious how much success people have with it. I just signed up because some of my friends have been raving about it. They claim to be "green" by promoting trade of unwanted items, you just pay shipping. You list the books or CDs or movies that you want to trade, then make a list of items that you want, and e-mail other people on the site to make trades.
I have never used it but I am on Bookcrossing.com. I was really into it last year but have kind of slacked off a bit. I still get a lot of books from there though. People will just randomly send me stuff from my wishlist out of the blue. It started out as a site to track your books like wheresgeorge, but it has evolved a lot and now there is a lot of trading and sharing of books.
I may be the only person who didn't like The Road. I thought it was a big, fat bummer.
I'm currently reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. I've never read the original but this version is so far pretty kick-ass.
I am also about halfway through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series.
I gave up on the swaptree thing. I got two requests for trades the first day but the books I would be getting apparently weren't in great condition. One had water damage to pages 600-700. I'm picky with my books... I like to be able to actually read them.
I'm currently reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. I've never read the original but this version is so far pretty kick-ass.
Oohh, this is on my must-read list! I'm currently waiting for it to become available at the library, in about 3 months. I may just break down and buy it.
I'm currently reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. I've never read the original but this version is so far pretty kick-ass.
Oohh, this is on my must-read list! I'm currently waiting for it to become available at the library, in about 3 months. I may just break down and buy it.
I picked it up in paperback at Barnes and Noble a while back. It may have even been on sale. I recommend it!
This weekend I read "The Magicians" by Lev Grossman. It was an interesting mix... he obviously draws on Harry Potter and the Narnia series for inspiration. But it's definitely an adult novel, not a kid's book. The ending left me a little unsatisfied, but I would still recommend checking it out if you're into the fantasy genre.
Well, dear friends, I am working on the Twilight series. I recently visited Forks, Washington and the Quileute Indian Reservation where the books are set and was hooked once again. You gotta love a hot vampire and a pack of werewolves.
Im about half way through breaking dawn then Ill pick this back up...
i remember seeing a lot of nods to Stephen King's Dark Tower series from the old book thread, and i can't take the time to go back and crunchy all you folks but i really should. i'm deeply lost in the series at this point. i love it. I just started book 5, the Wolves of Calla.
Also, I'm a big fan of Daily Lit, especially when I'm in between books and don't feel like buying or borrowing a new one. It was also nice on a weekend trip when I didn't want to lug anything extra.
This weekend I read "The Magicians" by Lev Grossman. It was an interesting mix... he obviously draws on Harry Potter and the Narnia series for inspiration. But it's definitely an adult novel, not a kid's book. The ending left me a little unsatisfied, but I would still recommend checking it out if you're into the fantasy genre.
I just that on hold @ the library last week! It looks good. I have only read the first Harry Potter. I was on the second one a few weeks ago but just can't get into it.
I just started Atonement by Ian McEwan last night.
This weekend I read "The Magicians" by Lev Grossman. It was an interesting mix... he obviously draws on Harry Potter and the Narnia series for inspiration. But it's definitely an adult novel, not a kid's book. The ending left me a little unsatisfied, but I would still recommend checking it out if you're into the fantasy genre.
I just that on hold @ the library last week! It looks good. I have only read the first Harry Potter. I was on the second one a few weeks ago but just can't get into it.
I just started Atonement by Ian McEwan last night.
You'll have to tell me what you think of The Magicians when you're finished. I love having people to talk about books with!
I own the Atonement book, and it's an incredible story. The movie follows along almost to a tee.
I have only read the first Harry Potter. I was on the second one a few weeks ago but just can't get into it.
The second HP is my least favorite. The third improves on it a bit and then from the fourth on the series just soars. I hope you go back to it.
If you're really having a hard time getting into it, watch the movie. The movies (especially the earlier ones) are pretty faithful to the books. The only downside with this movie is that you have to endure the annoyance that is Dobby the House Elf (my least favorite character in the series) but it's not really an issue after that installment.
I've read a few books lately. One was "The Origin of Financial Crises" by George Cooper. It does a pretty good job of outlining the various factors that had led up to the current economic shit storm we've been through over the past two years, though it does skip over some important stuff, like credit default swaps and derivatives markets. It also oversimplifies things a bit too much for my liking sometimes. There are a couple chapters that can be reduced down to little more than "Federal Reserve policy = bad, European Central Bank policy = good". That being said, it is still a pretty good, informative read, and I recommend it to anyone hoping to learn more about some of the historical aspects that set us into this mess we're in.
I read "Juliet, Naked" by Nick Hornby three or four weeks ago. It's about a couple in a failing marriage - the guy is obsessed with a reclusive singer-songwriter. The girl, not so much, but by chance ends up starting a long-distance relationship with him. It was alright - readable, but not great. Hornby's gotten a bit too formulaic for my liking. His plots often tend to read like novelizations of your typical romantic comedy films.
I just finished "The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Night Club" a few days ago. It's by Peter Hook, the bassist for Joy Division / New Order, and part owner of the Hacienda - which, for those of you who don't know, was a nightclub in Manchester during the '80s and '90s that had great acts, but never made any money. He describes all the problems that plagued it and recounts some funny stories along the way. A must for fans of post-punk. (Random fun fact, my best friend just started up a record label, and Peter Saville from Factory Records is helping them out with the graphic design and promotion).
And finally, I just picked up "Last Words", George Carlin's semi-autobiography that he'd been working on, on and off for many years. I'm only about 70 pages in, but I'm enjoying it so far - he's talking about his childhood and adolescence in New York City, and what drove him into comedy. I'd only ever read his comedy books, but he had a real gift for storytelling - not surprising, given his obvious love of words.
I just read To Kill A Mockingbird - not sure why I had never read this before. Great book.
I am reading The Help right now and I really like it.
Thanks for the reminder of To Kill a Mockingbird. It's one of the books I reread about once a year, but I've forgotten about it lately and am close to running out of books.
I also just read The Help and liked it as well. Are you in my head?
It was on one of the morning show's Christmas lists so I'm not surprised that there are so many holds. I got it from a friend who had read it for her book club.
It's a good book, but one you can definitely wait for. Set in the 60's in the south, a fictionalized version of the author's experience being white and having a black maid - and everyone in town having black maids. Told from the perspective of both the white and black women.
I read "Juliet, Naked" by Nick Hornby three or four weeks ago. It's about a couple in a failing marriage - the guy is obsessed with a reclusive singer-songwriter. The girl, not so much, but by chance ends up starting a long-distance relationship with him. It was alright - readable, but not great. Hornby's gotten a bit too formulaic for my liking. His plots often tend to read like novelizations of your typical romantic comedy films.
I'm sorry to hear that. It's been pretty much diminishing returns for awhile now but I was hoping that this would be a return to some of his earlier glory.
This weekend I read "The Magicians" by Lev Grossman. It was an interesting mix... he obviously draws on Harry Potter and the Narnia series for inspiration. But it's definitely an adult novel, not a kid's book. The ending left me a little unsatisfied, but I would still recommend checking it out if you're into the fantasy genre.
I just that on hold @ the library last week! It looks good. I have only read the first Harry Potter. I was on the second one a few weeks ago but just can't get into it.
I just started Atonement by Ian McEwan last night.
I finished The Magicians the other night. I want to know what you think too. It kept me interested but I kept feeling like he ripped off JK Rowling and CS Lewis a little too much. I kept going back and forth with being mad b/c he ripped them off and liking him because he flipped the stories like other fractured fairy tales. A lot of really great authors have done that with fairy tales and myths but I guess since this material is more modern it just comes off bad.
Juliette Naked- I read that one a few months ago. I was really looking forward to this when I saw it was coming out and it was entertaining but I agree with Jack. I think he writes them with romantic comedy films in mind after all the movie succes he has had. They are all really predictable.
I finally got to read New York by Edward Rutherfurd when we got it at the library. It's a fictional account of the history of NYC from 1600's to present day. It was my first book be him and I liked it a lot. I thought it would be a little deeper but you can only go so far when covering almost 350 years. I wish it would have covered a few more specific time periods in more detail even though it was almost 900 pages long...but I figure if you are going to write a book that long what's another 200 pages, right?
I'm now reading "The Blind Assassin" by Margaret Atwood. I remember when this came out, like 10 years ago, there was a lot of buzz about it. Figured it was time I read it when I saw it on a critic's "best of the decade" list. So far, I'm really enjoying it.
I just that on hold @ the library last week! It looks good. I have only read the first Harry Potter. I was on the second one a few weeks ago but just can't get into it.
I finished The Magicians the other night. I want to know what you think too. It kept me interested but I kept feeling like he ripped off JK Rowling and CS Lewis a little too much. I kept going back and forth with being mad b/c he ripped them off and liking him because he flipped the stories like other fractured fairy tales. A lot of really great authors have done that with fairy tales and myths but I guess since this material is more modern it just comes off bad.
Honestly, I had forgotten I read this book until you wrote this. That should tell you how memorable it was for me