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Post by StarOpal on Mar 9, 2009 22:29:01 GMT -5
I just finished The Graveyard Book (excellent!).
While I'm waiting for Twelve Kingdoms: The Vast Spread of the Seas (aka book 3), I'm cooling my heels with murder mystery Glory in Death.
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Post by penguinslovedw on Mar 16, 2009 9:38:34 GMT -5
One of the perks of working at Farms & Rubble is that I can get advanced copies of a lot of books that haven't come out yet. One of these books is The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan.
SCARIEST. BOOK. EVER.
Basically, vampires take over the world. But these are not sexy TV vampires, these are...are...well it's Del Toro, isn't it? If you've ever read World War Z, it's comparable to that. There's nothing else I can really say that isn't said in the three capitalized words above.
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dex
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Post by dex on Mar 26, 2009 8:40:50 GMT -5
East Is East. Because it was on sale and it's time I finally read some T. C. Boyle. (Come to think of it, that's the same setup as for my Heinlein Disaster.) I've only just started; the protagonist is passionate about food. I like that.
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Post by blinkfan on May 7, 2009 21:13:31 GMT -5
I just finished "Choke" by Chuck Palaniuk. It was great.
I am getting really into Charles Bukowski right now, i'm almost done "Ham on Rye" (Which is a literal masterpiece) and am then gonna tackle "Women" by the same author.
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Post by StarOpal on May 7, 2009 22:04:38 GMT -5
I just finished Crocodile on the Sandbank today, and am just shy 100 pages from the end of Scaramouche.
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Post by PoolMan on May 12, 2009 15:36:04 GMT -5
I just finished The Graveyard Book (excellent!). I liked it too. It was a liiiiiittle bit "The Condensed Story of Harry Potter, as Set in a Graveyard", but still a very cool book. Of course, it was the gateway for me getting back into Neil Gaiman (and I'd been so good, too) and reading American Gods for the fourth time. |
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Post by Al on May 12, 2009 17:21:59 GMT -5
I am getting really into Charles Bukowski right now, i'm almost done "Ham on Rye" (Which is a literal masterpiece) and am then gonna tackle "Women" by the same author. Ham on Rye is fantastic. Bukowski was a messed up guy, but created some really excellent stuff. You might also want to check out Barfly, a Mickey Rourke movie from the late eighties about Henry Chianski. It's tough to find, but well worth the hunt. I've been trying to piece together a review for months, but it's one of those films that is almost too big for words. |
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Post by BlackCatWhiteCat on May 23, 2009 19:44:37 GMT -5
I finished Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking today. It was a short, easy read and I think she's quite funny. I'll definitely be checking out her fiction.
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Post by StarOpal on Jun 5, 2009 12:15:16 GMT -5
My brother's borrowed (and completely forgot he borrowed it - oops!) copy of George Orwell's 1984.
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Post by BlackCatWhiteCat on Jun 5, 2009 15:32:15 GMT -5
Since being home I've read:
To Kill A Mockingbird: fabulous
Death of a Winter Shaker: Nothing outright fantastic, but a decent mystery nonetheless.
The Gunslinger: Not quite as awesome as I had hoped, but I believe the Dark Tower series gets better after this one.
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Post by TheOogieBoogieMan on Jun 6, 2009 8:36:49 GMT -5
The Gunslinger: Not quite as awesome as I had hoped, but I believe the Dark Tower series gets better after this one. It really does. I wasn't particularly impressed with The Gunslinger either, but the series takes off with the second book. |
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Post by BlackCatWhiteCat on Jun 6, 2009 21:04:14 GMT -5
Stephen King even says in his introduction to this book that if you can plod through the first one you'll enjoy the rest of the series.
The fact that I own the version he revised makes me slightly afraid of the original.
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coccatino
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Post by coccatino on Jun 8, 2009 15:54:11 GMT -5
had you never read To Kill a Mockingbird?  ? It is hands down my favorite book. |
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Post by TheOogieBoogieMan on Jul 8, 2009 15:42:05 GMT -5
Here are the three books I'm reading at the moment:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - For those not in the know, this is the original Jane Austen novel, only someone's fiddled with certain passages and added new ones to weave a zombie war throughout England into the narrative. The addition of undead flesh-eaters to the story definitely makes PPZ an improvement on the original novel, but the problem is that this is still Jane Austen. The modified content is chuckle-inducing, but most of the original text is left intact, which is unfortunate for me, since I didn't like Pride and Prejudice the first time I read it.
Musicophilia - This is the first Oliver Sacks book I've read, but having seen and heard him in various interviews in the past, I knew that he was a fascinating guy. That's certainly true of the book as well. The relationship between music and brain activity is something that I'm interested in, but don't have the time or intellect to study academically, so Sacks' mixture of anecdotes and science is perfect for me.
The Partly Cloudy Patriot - This one is an audiobook, read by the author, Sarah Vowell. Her voice grated on me at first, but it didn't take long to grow on me, as her voice contributes to her deadpan charm. The audiobook also features great interlude music by They Might Be Giants (which I'm assuming was original, since it is always related to the content of the preceding chapter) and celebrity cameos. The content is great (like Sacks, a mixture of anecdotes and historical nonfiction), and the presentation makes it even better.
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Post by devilndisguise on Jul 8, 2009 17:07:51 GMT -5
Hey OBM, try "breathers"...I found it to be a really interesting variation of the Zombie Theme (and of course World War Z is the BEST Zombie book of all time).
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"If I'm going to be desensitized into a mindless stock animal, I may as well do it with a cushy ergonomic seat and magnificent THX-certified sound. -Kevin Murphy
? It is hands down my favorite book. 