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Wizard
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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Okay, I'm probably going to be able to finish The Last Policemantoday (146/218)! It strikes me that this is the second brisk book dealing with an apocalypse told in first person in a row for me and, while Warm Bodies was good, The Last Policeman is the superior book. I just realized there are promised sequels for both of these. Ha!
Anyway, I seriously love The Last Policeman so far. To reference another apocalyptic book, like On The Beach, it is a look at how people live under the thread of impending doom. What would you still care about? Would you do your job? I haven't gotten to the end of the book but I'm wondering about the sequels-to-come. I, mean, it is not as if there is that much time left. Anyway, I think it should be a movie starring probably Joseph Gordon Levitt. |
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Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: 33.9388° N, 117.2716° W
Device: Kindles K-2, K-KB, PW 1 & 2, Voyage, Fire 2, 5 & HD 8, Surface 3, iPad
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Ok, for a change of pace I just started reading the novella trilogy featuring the character Derrick Storm by the fictional writer, Rickard Castle. So far it feels quite different than the Niki Heat novels. ![]() |
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Close to the Edit!
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: UK
Device: Kindle Oasis, Amazon Fire 8", Kindle 6"
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Groupie
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Vancouver, BC,Canada
Device: iPad2-64gb, Sony PRS-T1, KOBO mini
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Yep me too
Also started to read Charles Dickens's Christmas Carol which is my favourite Christmas story. Always watches the movies, never read the book. It's awesome!
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Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: 33.9388° N, 117.2716° W
Device: Kindles K-2, K-KB, PW 1 & 2, Voyage, Fire 2, 5 & HD 8, Surface 3, iPad
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Right after beginning to read A Brewing Storm I paused to view the two videos featured in my latest post on The Dresden Files thread. In one of the videos Jim Butcher recommends Benedict Jacka's Alex Verus series. Well that made me stop the Derrick Storm books and grab a copy of Fated, the first in the Alex Verus series. I've just started it. ![]() |
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#14811 |
Zealot
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Germany
Device: Kobo Touch
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I am currently reading Wool Omnibus. Had to stop last night after part 3 because I was too tired to continue, and now I can't wait to go back to it!
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#14812 |
Wizard
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Device: Kindle Oasis
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#14813 |
Trainee Old Git
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Dégagnac, France
Device: Kindle
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Just reading the last of Arnaldur Indriðason's Reykjavik Murder Mysteries, having read from book 1 to book 8 without a break. I find that this is a great way of getting into the characters and getting some continuity.
I did the same with George RR Martin earlier this year and before that I did Wheel of Time without interruption. I just find it so hard picking up the latest in a series and spending the first 100 pages thinking "was it him or was it her that...". I dread picking up the new Wheel of Time by Brandon Sanderson because there are just so many plots and sub-plots left up in the air and a never-decreasing list of characters that I hate having to keep going back to the appendix to remember who they are. Where to next? Thinking of venturing into Discworld, Harry Bosch or Jack Reacher. They should keep me going for a while. |
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#14814 |
Bah, humbug!
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA
Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.
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I was reading Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman when Going Alien, a collection of sci-fi short-stories by MobileRead author Jeffrey A. Carver ("starrigger"), came to my attention. After reading the sample—an engaging story entitled "Shapeshifter Finals" about an inter-planetary wrestling match between a shapeshifter and a human—I just had to buy the book and finish the story. Now I'm back to reading Misquoting Jesus, after which I'll read the remaining stories in Going Alien.
Interestingly, I meant to download a sample of another of Carver's sci-fi short story collections, Reality and Other Fictions, because the title intrigued me, but I must have accidentally sent the sample to one of my other Kindles. I've since downloaded a sample to my PaperWhite, and will no doubt read that one, also. |
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The Dank Side of the Moon
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Denver, CO
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Do you find the bible stories and the SF stories similar? ![]() I know I do. I'm working through some backs stacks, currently "Best American Essays 2008" as well as continuing to read essay selections from In Fact and from Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present mostly good stuff, with a stinker here and there... Last edited by kennyc; 12-07-2012 at 03:43 PM. |
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#14816 |
Enthusiast
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Device: Nexus 7, iPod Touch 5
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I just finished The Black Box by Michael Connolly - really good.
I forgot how much I enjoy his novels. |
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#14817 |
Opsimath
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand
Device: Sony PRS-650, iPhone 5, Kobo Glo, Sony PRS-350, iPad, Samsung Galaxy
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Indie Advocate
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Device: Kindle
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The prose is fine, the characters are as I remembered them, but the plot felt like the most efficient string of mechanisms to get closure. It was a shame really. I also completed Ethan Frome today for the book club. Lovely writing and I enjoyed the feel of the story. The resolution (if you could call it that) was as empty and bleak as the landscape in which the story is set. Very worthwhile experience. My next book is another indie book. Sea of Crises by Marty Steere, a mystery/conspiracy thriller. I enjoyed the sample so it will be interesting to find out if the novel delivers on its early promise. |
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#14819 |
Groupie
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Vancouver, BC,Canada
Device: iPad2-64gb, Sony PRS-T1, KOBO mini
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Think I am going to purchase "Merry Christmas Alex Cross" from James Patterson. Am a huge James Patterson (Alex Cross)fan and started to read the Cross-series again but now I want to read the new novel so badly!
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Norfolk, England
Device: Kindle Voyage
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Next up: The Closed Worlds by Edmond Hamilton. The second in the series. |
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