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Post by kingeomer on Oct 26, 2018 12:15:10 GMT
Finished Chains...a really excellent book. It's part of a three book series and I will get the second book soon. Also finished Elinor Oliphant is Fine. It's pretty and mixes humor and tragedy rather well. Started Madeline Miller's Circe. Too soon to tell how I feel about the book. Funny, I just finished up Circe! I really loved it, excellent writing and interesting telling of the various myths associated with the character. I think the story works well as a whole, there is real development of character throughout so tha tthe Book feels like a complete journey by the end I finished Circe! I had a hard time starting it off but I am glad I stuck with it. It was fantastic and the ending was perfect. I agree with the character development, Circe was so well written as a character! I am re-reading Little Women. |
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Post by kingeomer on Jan 4, 2019 12:02:32 GMT
Okay...I finished Little Women. I can't remember what I read after that but I am reading Fear-the Bob Woodward book about the early days of the Trump administration and it's the scariest book I've read.
Mr. Kingeomer got me Becoming by Michelle Obama for Christmas. I hugged it and told her I missed her.
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Post by Enid on Feb 11, 2019 19:33:06 GMT
Just finished "I Robot". It was an interesting read and I enjoyed how each story explores different problems that the widespread use of robots could provoke, only to end up always being the human's fault for fucking with the three laws of robotic, or for not being clear with their orders, or for jumping to conclusions when the robots are just doing their jobs.
But sadly, it didn't hook me like other books do. I think I will never be a science-fiction fan even if I try.
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Post by kingeomer on Feb 12, 2019 13:25:04 GMT
I'm reading a biography of a Charlemange and I realize how much of World History my brain has leaked out.
I think to myself, I really didn't learn a got-damned thing in high school, did I?
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Post by Singer of Death on Jun 5, 2019 23:34:05 GMT
I'm only 200 pages in Dune; it's slow but goddamn I'm loving the worldbuilding with how much Herbert crafted the terminology and places.
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Post by kingeomer on Jun 6, 2019 11:06:02 GMT
I have read the following:
18 and Life on Skid Row by Sebastian Bach (good rock memoir, probably not as good as Keith Richards' Life, but good).
Becoming by Michelle Obama (I miss her)
Normal People by Sally Rooney (it's a quick read but I think a little overhyped)
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Post by stoneheartsrevenge on Jun 14, 2019 21:49:19 GMT
The Priory of Orange. Very interesting fantasy, has some pretty original ideas that I am curious to see play out in their entirety
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Post by Singer of Death on Jun 18, 2019 15:45:33 GMT
So, a prequel to Hunger Games will be coming out.
This should be interesting.
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Post by kingeomer on Jun 19, 2019 12:03:35 GMT
I am reading The Witches by Stacy Schiff, a pretty good account of the Salem Witch Trials.
I had to pause that because a friend loaned me Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens...that one is a page turner.
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Post by iheartseverus on Jun 19, 2019 14:00:10 GMT
I am reading The Witches by Stacy Schiff, a pretty good account of the Salem Witch Trials. I had to pause that because a friend loaned me Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens...that one is a page turner. I absolutely LOVED Where the Crawdads Sing, a truly wonderful story. I can still feel myself out there in the swampy bayou, even though I've never actually been any such place.
I've finally started in on the Wheel of Time series. I listen to Audible books rather than reading paper editions. Most Audible books are about 10-12 hours long, but this first Wheel of Time book, The Eye of the World, is just under 40 hours long and some of the later books in the series are even longer. This is going to take awhile! But I'm enjoying the story so far.
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Post by stoneheartsrevenge on Jun 19, 2019 23:01:27 GMT
Probably because i came to the series after having already read a lot of fantasy, but i just found WoT very childish and poorly thought out with cartoon characters and way too much braid tugging.
Also the first book at least was far too derivative of LOTR
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Post by kingeomer on Jun 23, 2019 13:11:08 GMT
I am reading The Witches by Stacy Schiff, a pretty good account of the Salem Witch Trials. I had to pause that because a friend loaned me Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens...that one is a page turner. I absolutely LOVED Where the Crawdads Sing, a truly wonderful story. I can still feel myself out there in the swampy bayou, even though I've never actually been any such place. I've finally started in on the Wheel of Time series. I listen to Audible books rather than reading paper editions. Most Audible books are about 10-12 hours long, but this first Wheel of Time book, The Eye of the World, is just under 40 hours long and some of the later books in the series are even longer. This is going to take awhile! But I'm enjoying the story so far.
Delia Owens made me feel like I was in that bayou too. Kya was just such a wonderful character. She really made the area and the people come alive on page. I had to re-read the last few pages because I was like DAYUM, she really did kill him???!!! |
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Post by Enid on Nov 20, 2019 17:15:59 GMT
I've been reading an author called Anthony Horowitz lately. Apparently he has very popular mistery books. The ones I've read are part of a saga in which he collaborates with a detective named Hawthorne to solve murders and write the case as a novel.
I quite enjoyed both, (The Word is Murder and The Sentence is Death) but I do believe the second book is more enjoyable and works better than the first, probably because he had a better grasp of the style and tone. In the first book some of the chapters don't flow naturally, it feels like you are reading chunks of a story that is kind of connected at the end. The second one is more cohesive and it traps you.
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Post by stoneheartsrevenge on Nov 21, 2019 1:47:55 GMT
I've been reading an author called Anthony Horowitz lately. Apparently he has very popular misery books. The ones I've read are part of a saga in which he collaborates with a detective named Hawthorne to solve murders and write the case as a novel. I quite enjoyed both, (The Word is Murder and The Sentence is Death) but I do believe the second book is more enjoyable and works better than the first, probably because he had a better grasp of the style and tone. In the first book some of the chapters don't flow naturally, it feels like you are reading chunks of a story that is kind of connected at the end. The second one is more cohesive and it traps you. Well theres a name from the past! I know Horowitz best as the author of the Alex Rider children’s/YA books. Enjoyed those a lot when i was younger, and they were one of my rare forays out of the SFF genre. They were a ton of fun. Anyone else read The Secret Commonwealth? I have no idea how it has been so widely marketed as a children’s book (not even YA). It is, even moreso than any of Pullman’s previous books, very mature and has some really dark stuff in it. Unlike, say, The Northern Lights, some of this stuff is very explicit too For example, hroughout the book while Lyra is travelling she is on guard against being raped, and towards the end of the book there is an attempted gang rape of her which she barely escapes from. |
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Post by Enid on Nov 21, 2019 18:30:00 GMT
I've been reading an author called Anthony Horowitz lately. Apparently he has very popular misery books. The ones I've read are part of a saga in which he collaborates with a detective named Hawthorne to solve murders and write the case as a novel. I quite enjoyed both, (The Word is Murder and The Sentence is Death) but I do believe the second book is more enjoyable and works better than the first, probably because he had a better grasp of the style and tone. In the first book some of the chapters don't flow naturally, it feels like you are reading chunks of a story that is kind of connected at the end. The second one is more cohesive and it traps you. Well theres a name from the past! I know Horowitz best as the author of the Alex Rider children’s/YA books. Enjoyed those a lot when i was younger, and they were one of my rare forays out of the SFF genre. They were a ton of fun. Anyone else read The Secret Commonwealth? I have no idea how it has been so widely marketed as a children’s book (not even YA). It is, even moreso than any of Pullman’s previous books, very mature and has some really dark stuff in it. Unlike, say, The Northern Lights, some of this stuff is very explicit too For example, hroughout the book while Lyra is travelling she is on guard against being raped, and towards the end of the book there is an attempted gang rape of her which she barely escapes from. He mentions the Alex Rider books in the ones I'm reading, in fact in the first one his desire to become a name outside kids books is one of the reasons he starts writing crime books. The story is written with Anthony Horowitz himself as the narrator and POV, which is partly why I enjoyed both books, they offer something slightly different. I have not read the books you're asking about, sorry. Pullman is one of those authors I only discovered a few years ago and haven't got around to reading him yet. |
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Post by kingeomer on Nov 22, 2019 12:05:26 GMT
I finished reading Margaret Atwood's The Testaments (the follow to The Handsmaid's Tale) and it's a great read and the characters are awesome.
I also read The Only Plane in the Sky, an oral history of 9/11-a harrowing read.
Reading Jojo Moyes The Giver of Stars now.
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Post by Singer of Death on Nov 26, 2019 16:49:49 GMT
The only thing I heard about WoT is that Robert Jorden’s writing of his female characters is the equivalent to anime’s - make their women too stereotypical, has one role like a girlfriend or mom, and the majority of the women who can fight ends up becoming less badass.
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