10-03-2012, 01:44 PM | #14296 | |
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My short Dresden break turned out to be real short and I've now begun re-reading Dead Beat, number seven of The Dresden Files. |
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10-03-2012, 10:32 PM | #14297 | ||
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I was thinking while reading that there was a real echo of this novel in Apocalypse Now. OK - maybe it is a common fact for those more educated in such matters, but I was quite shocked after completing this novel to read the following under Apocalypse Now in Wikipedia: Quote:
OK - another indie novel now. This time, it's David Michael's Gunwitch: A Tale Of The King's Coven. I've enjoyed the other books I've read from this author so I'm interested to see what effect this one has on me. |
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10-03-2012, 11:09 PM | #14298 | |
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As a stop-gap I read a short story - The Death Clock by J. Rock - which was good. Then at lunch I saw The Feeling of Power by Isaac Asimov in the "Name this Book" thread, so read it too. Then when looking for the story I was asking about, I decided to read The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell. I don't think I have read it before, but it was very good. I also started another Julius Katz short on my way home. As for what to read next, I considered starting Cloudburst by Ryne Douglas Pearson, but that doesn't appeal right now. Maybe I will try to fill in a couple decades that I am missing and read something from 1900-1909 (Anne of Green Gables?), 1930-1939 (Little House on the Prairie? At the Mountains of Madness?) or 1960-1969 (Dune? Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?). |
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10-04-2012, 09:11 AM | #14299 |
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Just started "Wired" by Douglas Richards. The storyline so far is interesting, but some of the writing seems amateurish, with some long words (Chevrolet Suburban instead of Chevy, for instance, and "fake identification" used instead of shortening it to "fake ID" when we've already established what is being discussed.) The writing style at times seems like what I used to do in college to stretch the paper to the required number of pages when I didn't have quite enough material. I'm on Chapter 3, though, and it seems like it's starting to pick up. We'll see if the editing improves along the way.
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10-04-2012, 09:17 AM | #14300 |
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Just finished Dave Bidini's Home and Away: In Search of Dreams at the Homeless World Cup of Soccer. Very good.
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10-04-2012, 09:22 AM | #14301 | |
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Next: Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett. I finally couldn't resist an ebook offer. I'm pretty sure the hardback is around the house, but I just don't read paper any more. |
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10-04-2012, 09:41 AM | #14302 |
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^I enjoyed that one a lot.
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10-04-2012, 09:57 AM | #14303 |
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10-04-2012, 07:52 PM | #14304 | |
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10-04-2012, 07:57 PM | #14305 |
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I'm right in the middle of 'The Bourne Identity' and marvel at Robert Ludlum's ability to keep you on the edge of your seat, even when you know what's going to happen! I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
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10-04-2012, 09:35 PM | #14306 | |
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I just started The Last Eagle by Michael Wenberg.
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10-05-2012, 07:41 AM | #14307 |
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I finished I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett. Pretty much the same as the other Tiffany Aching junior discworld books. Enjoyable enough.
I've started on The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham - the first Campion book (or maybe, more accurately, the nothingth, since he's not the main character) - and I'm really enjoying it so far. I'm missing the 1900s and 1930s too. I'm going to be reading A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh for the 1930s (and to complete my set of the Queens of Crime), and I'm thinking of trying to push on with Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M R James for the 1900s. This isn't a real challenge for me, though, just a bit of fun, so I don't really care if I don't get the whole set. I'm certainly going to be about 8 letters short of the alphabet challenge. |
10-05-2012, 11:14 AM | #14308 |
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Read it when I was a much younger man, and for a while it was my fave thriller. Have fun with the rest. I am still reading the series, even though they are now written by Van Lustbader.
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10-05-2012, 11:57 AM | #14309 |
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^^What do you have left for the alphabet challenge?
For Dazrin, the 1960s is such a great decade for books. It's probably just my general aesthetic that fits well with it, but some options would be the ones I read from the 1960s this year: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Rabbit Run, and R is for Rocket. Currently, I'm reading Deep Wizardry by Diane Duane and The Madness of Hallen by Russell Meek. |
10-05-2012, 11:58 AM | #14310 | |
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I finally decided to reread Anne of Green Gables (from the library here, thanks vivaldirules!), it has been at least 20 years since I have read any of them, so I wanted to read at least this one again. I also read The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle last night, it was a fun little locked room mystery, one of his best according to the site that sent me there. It was originally published in 1905, so I will have two from that decade. Reading these older short stories has been very fun, it lets me get a change of pace, plus since they have stood the test of time in order to be recommended they are generally very good. |
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