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I would be down for a book exchange. I am on bookcrossing.com...same username. If you are not familiar with that site check it out. I have gotten a ton of free books from that site....so many that I have reading material for years. They do "bookrays" too....where a list of people sign up to read a certain book and when you are done you send it to the next person on the list. But the initial point of the site was to leave books in places and see where they end up. It evolved into a place to trade and give books away through RABCK's or Random Acts of Book Crossing Kindness.
My books are in my Dad's spare room bc I needed room for Audrey but if anyone wants me to send them a book let me know. It may take me a while to get to it but eventually you will get one. Just PM me your address.
I finished this last night. It was definitely what I would classify as a "heavy" read... something you have to read thoroughly to understand. It was different from what I would normally read, but in a good way. More sci-fi than I was expecting.
I started "Stories: All-New Tales" last night, which is edited by Neil Gaiman. Some of the authors who have stories in there are Neil himself, Joe Hill, Jodi Picoult, and Chuck Palahniuk. Mostly sci-fi/horror types of stories.
And Zapp, I'm only through one chapter of Things Fall Apart, but I can see where this guy is going to piss me off.
Just finished it. It gets better throughout the book; he's still the focal point but it's more about the struggle of the tribe as a whole. I ended up really enjoying the book. It was a really good, unbiased view of the different views of spirituality and religion and really did a good job at leaving it up to the reader to pass their own judgment.
Next up is "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut. I've never disliked anything I've read by him, so I'm definitely excited to dig into it. I looove me some Vonnegut.
I would be down for a book exchange. I am on bookcrossing.com...same username. If you are not familiar with that site check it out. I have gotten a ton of free books from that site....so many that I have reading material for years. They do "bookrays" too....where a list of people sign up to read a certain book and when you are done you send it to the next person on the list. But the initial point of the site was to leave books in places and see where they end up. It evolved into a place to trade and give books away through RABCK's or Random Acts of Book Crossing Kindness.
My books are in my Dad's spare room bc I needed room for Audrey but if anyone wants me to send them a book let me know. It may take me a while to get to it but eventually you will get one. Just PM me your address.
I'm going to check out that website. I'll pm you and maybe just send you a small box of books or something. I havent been buying too many new books. I try to keep my purchases limited to things that I really want to own or theater/art specific books that libraries rarely have.
"Player Piano" was most excellent. Highly recommend it. On to "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck. I haven't read much Steinbeck, just "Of Mice And Men" and "Tortilla Flats" but I really like his writing style and the settings he uses. I'm excite.
I'm rereading August: Osage County. I'm looking for inspiration for something I've been working on and some of that play is just amazing and some just awful but it makes you think. I also makes me annoyed with Eugene O'Neil. Poor guy. Not even alive to defend himself.
I've recently discovered S. J. Bolton. I read her newest book, "Blood Harvest", first. Then I went back to read her other two books this past week. I enjoyed "Blood Harvest" the best; I'd recommend it if you like mystery/thrillers.
I just finished Talking To Girls About Duran Duran by Rob Sheffield. I loved his first book, Love Is A Mix Tape, and this was in the same vein. Lots of 80's music and how it relates to life and family. It's an easy and fun read -- pick it up if you get the chance!
Has anyone read the Hunger Games Trilogy of books? I'm just about finished with the first one. I wasn't sure how I would like it, seeing as it's marketed as a "teen" book, but so far, it hasn't been so bad. I like the premise (and definitely think she could have gone farther with the idea if it weren't targeted for younger audiences).
Just curious if it's worth my time to read the other two books.
Has anyone read the Hunger Games Trilogy of books? I'm just about finished with the first one. I wasn't sure how I would like it, seeing as it's marketed as a "teen" book, but so far, it hasn't been so bad. I like the premise (and definitely think she could have gone farther with the idea if it weren't targeted for younger audiences).
Just curious if it's worth my time to read the other two books.
I have the first one but haven't started it yet. I will let you know
I finished it last night; it was pretty good (Andrea, you need to read it). I'll get the second one, but I'm not going to get my hopes up. Every time I do, they are crushed.
Heading to Quail Ridge Books later today to buy two books--Where I'm Calling From, a short story collection of Raymond Carver's work, and What Work Is, a book of poems by Philip Levine. Excited to read both. Lately, I've really been into the kind of blue-collar, mechanical aesthetic present in the work of both authors. If anybody has any suggestions on this kind of stuff, I'd love to hear them. May also pick up the aforementioned Things Fall Apart because I've never read it and it sounds interesting.
Most recently, I read Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted because it was forced on me by a friend, who promised me that it was different from his other stuff and that it would get me into Palahniuk (I already didn't really trust this friend's opinion on books; now, I really don't. Good guy, though...). It did not. I hated it and had to force myself to finish it so that I could say I gave Chuck P a fair shake. Not a fan of his, unfortunately.
For me personally, it wasn't even that I didn't like it because it was too gross or creepy. I was pretty unaffected by the gross-out stuff. I just thought all the gross-out stuff was dumb and unnecessary and something a high-school student would write. I don't want to talk too much Leno because I know he's got a lot of fans, but basically, I just find his work wholly uninteresting. He relies waaaaaaaaay too much on "shock value." To me, at least.
For me personally, it wasn't even that I didn't like it because it was too gross or creepy. I was pretty unaffected by the gross-out stuff. I just thought all the gross-out stuff was dumb and unnecessary and something a high-school student would write. I don't want to talk too much Leno because I know he's got a lot of fans, but basically, I just find his work wholly uninteresting. He relies waaaaaaaaay too much on "shock value." To me, at least.
Some of the earlier stuff like Invisible Monsters, and Fight Club is pretty good. Everything he has written since his dad got killed has been crap imo.
That's the one of his that I haven't read, besides his newest. I always heard it was terrible so I stayed away. I've kind of gotten out of his stuff as of late, but I still hold his older works such as Survivor and Lullaby in pretty high regards. I would say you're right about the "shock value" thing. His books are really reliant on the twist carrying the book as opposed to developing characters (he usually actually destroys his characters throughout, I guess this is a form of development).
I finally finished Cannery Row. It was awesome, as expected, I just had no time to read at long intervals so the story kind of came to me in a broken and choppy way. Lots of humor and really lovable characters. I'll probably put enjoyment on the back burner for now; I have to read the Coming Of Age In Mississippi for class.
Cleaningy room the other day I found some of my old books; the Bachman books, mickfoley's first book, anddemon seed. Makes me want to go to the library. I've not read a novel since high school.
Post by NothingButFlowers on Oct 3, 2010 9:38:37 GMT -5
I just read The Help by Kathryn Stockett. It's her first book. I really liked it. It's about several black maids and their white employers in the early 60's in Mississippi. I stayed up until 5 this morning finishing it.