Juggling these two on my Kindle:
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Juggling these two on my Kindle:
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Halfway through Cloud Atlas - loved it so far but now finding 'Sloosha's crossing n everything after' section a bit heavy going, hate reading things written colloquially, just slows the pace right down as you try to work out what the hell is being said, getting used to it after a while though
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Just finished Too Bright To Hear, Too Loud To See. Kind of a neat story of a guy losing his shit to bi-polar told sort of in flashbacks while he get twelve shock therapy treatments.
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The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor
A light, easy read. I've always enjoyed backstories, and this is no exception. My only complaint would be the amount of typos that are present (e.g. "hoard" instead of "horde", the word "dumpsters" being capitalized, problems with grammar structure). I'm reading from a first edition, first printing hardcover, so I am unsure if these were fixed in subsequent printings/editions.
Looking forward to book 3, The Fall of the Governor, later this year.
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^ Just picked that one up, and the sequel about Woodbury. Looking forward to reading both, even though now I'll be on the lookout for typos.
Nearly at the end of The Crow Road by Iain Banks. First time reading his non-SF work, really enjoying it. It's very sentimental and slightly poignant, while being one of the funniest reads I've experienced in a long time. Prentice (the protagonist) might be one of the most annoying characters I've come across, even though I find him so damn sympathetic.
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Just picked up a copy of "Is Paris Burning?", about the Allied liberation of Paris in WWII. The title refers to Hitler screaming on the phone to his commanders in Paris, "Is Paris burning? Is Paris burning yet??" after ordering them that if it looked like the Allies would retake the city they should find only scorched rubble.
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Interesting so far
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It's lightweight for being written by someone with a Harvard PhD but poignant, unfortunately.
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On a Samuel R Delaney kick at the moment. Just finshed:
Brilliant.
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Trying to finish this one before the tv show starts. It's my third go-round with it.Usually I devour King's stuff but I keep putting this one down and not picking it up again. Not sure why.
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This is OK, neither great nor terrible: another book in the troubled young men vein. A kind of less vulgar, more cosmopolitan Chad Kultgen.
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Just finished this. I feel like I missed something, it seemed like a pretty average SF/fantasy first-person narrative to me. There were things I liked about it; the prose was extremely strong, the imagery quite striking at times, the settings often dreamlike. But I still don't feel it lived up to the huge amount hype and admiration that surrounds it. The characters were vague, the plot was almost non-existent, there was absolutely no drama or narrative development. Not sure what I'm missing here.
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So far it is pretty good. This guy was a real nutter It also has some interesting tidbits about the general atmosphere around that time in France.
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Genial as always!
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Good for you! Hitting up the classic lit, you!!Originally Posted by leo3375
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I've been out of the "Playing God" loop since around Dolly so I'm learning some pretty mind blowing stuff. The ethical questions, observations and implications are well handled.
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The Lyric books of NIN albums......
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I suggest you broaden your horizons
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Not a fan of chapter books IMO
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Dystopian fiction, only about 20 pages in so far.
possibly maybe
Looking forward to starting this soon...
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh wow gotta put that on my list!!!! MUST READ. edit: it's getting some crap review, though. Richard's ego is legendary.Looking forward to starting this soon...
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I've been on a bit of a Palahniuk binge lately, went through Fight Club, Choke, and Invisible Monsters in the last 2 months, and now out of the last stack I've bought I'm down to Survivor and Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. Not sure which to go after first, though.
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Survivor, Choke, Lullaby, Fight Club, and Invisible Monsters aren't bad. Didn't he recently put out a newly edited version of Invisible Monsters? Rant also has its moments. Actually, Fight Club and Lullaby are pretty damn good.
That said, from that point on Palahniuk suddenly transforms into what is quite possibly the worst author I've ever read. Snuff and Pygmy are the two worst books I've ever suffered through, and I actively resent the guy who wrote them.
So I guess I'm encouraging you to read Fear and Loathing.
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He used to be one of my favorite authors but Tell-All was disgustingly bad. Then I read Damned afterward and quite liked that so I guess he's just really hit and miss. I'm interested to see what the sequel to Damned will be like though considering he's never written a sequel before.
Just now starting Neil Gaiman's Ocean at the End of the Lane.
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There's not enough utopian sf
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