Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[orlok]

Originally Posted by din155

Yes, agree on both counts.

Well I was kidding about the book club bit, seeing as we have at least two or three on the go at any one time . But a thread specifically for The Martian might be fun.

[melmac]

Originally Posted by orlok

Well I was kidding about the book club bit, seeing as we have at least two or three on the go at any one time . But a thread specifically for The Martian might be fun.

Isn't there already one https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=206819 or does it specifically have to be in the bookclub section(I rarely go in there) anyhow after so many good reports it's on my wishlist waiting for a big kobo code.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by alansplace

I read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality for a bit then (because of all the folks inhabiting this thread discussing it favorably) I began reading The Martian by Andy Weir and I am finding it quite interesting so far.

Originally Posted by alansplace

Taking a look at Harry Potter and the Sun Source as a Kindle compatible (or ePub) file!

Checked out and began reading Harry Potter and the Sun Source. Now I'm reading 3 books at once!

[orlok]

Originally Posted by melmac

Isn't there already one https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=206819 or does it specifically have to be in the bookclub section(I rarely go in there) anyhow after so many good reports it's on my wishlist waiting for a big kobo code.

Well spotted - hadn't seen that. Guess I'll join in once I've read it. I'm not going anywhere near before that, for fear of spoilers (been caught out on that one before ).

[din155]

Originally Posted by orlok

Well spotted - hadn't seen that. Guess I'll join in once I've read it. I'm not going anywhere near before that, for fear of spoilers (been caught out on that one before ).

I can assure you that there are no spoilers in that thread

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by melmac

Isn't there already one https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=206819 or does it specifically have to be in the bookclub section(I rarely go in there) anyhow after so many good reports it's on my wishlist waiting for a big kobo code.

Thanks for that, and "The Martian" has just jumped to the front of my TBR list.

[Stitchawl]

I just started 'The Martian,' and hate to put it down! Very refreshing style!


Stitchawl

[HarryT]

Just finished "And Then There Were None" (original title "Ten Little Niggers") by Agatha Christie. This was her 34th book, and was originally published in 1939.

Ten people are invited to spend a week on a remote island off the Cornish coast. One by one they are murdered, but who is the murderer?

This is a masterpiece of crime fiction, and arguable Christie's best novel - it's certainly the one she was most proud of. A superb plot, and I bet nobody can guess "whodunnit"!

Highly recommended.

[Gazella]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Just finished "And Then There Were None" (original title "Ten Little Niggers") by Agatha Christie. This was her 34th book, and was originally published in 1939.

My favorite Christie novel. I rarely reread books but I won't mind with this one.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Just finished "And Then There Were None" (original title "Ten Little Niggers") by Agatha Christie. This was her 34th book, and was originally published in 1939.

Ten people are invited to spend a week on a remote island off the Cornish coast. One by one they are murdered, but who is the murderer?

This is a masterpiece of crime fiction, and arguable Christie's best novel - it's certainly the one she was most proud of. A superb plot, and I bet nobody can guess "whodunnit"!

Highly recommended.

Originally Posted by Gazella

My favorite Christie novel. I rarely reread books but I won't mind with this one.

Mine too and also my very first ever, favorite (from when I was a kid) movie from Saturday afternoon TV!

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Waldo and Magic, Inc. by Robert A. Heinlein

Which was well worth the re-read.

Originally Posted by speakingtohe

Although not a Harry Potter Fan and not a fanfiction fan I thought this was amazingly well done and funny.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4532363...the-Sun-Source

And that was fun too.

And now for Cauldron of Ghosts by Eric Flint and David Weber, the latest in the Honorverse side plot series.

[Rev. Bob]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Which was well worth the re-read.

Agreed.

Originally Posted by pdurrant

And now for Cauldron of Ghosts by Eric Flint and David Weber, the latest in the Honorverse side plot series.

...which is rapidly becoming the main sequence. The Alignment's taken center stage pretty quickly.

[bfisher]

Just finished "Dance of the Reptiles:Selected Columns" by Carl Hiaasen, a selection of his columns since 2000, richly peopled with rapacious developers and imbecilic legislators, and other assorted Florida fauna. I've had his "Bad Monkey" on my TBR for some time. I'll have to move it up in the queue, if his fiction is anything like his opinion pieces, I expect it to have a rich streak of very black humour.

[Barcey]

Originally Posted by bfisher

Just finished "Dance of the Reptiles:Selected Columns" by Carl Hiaasen, a selection of his columns since 2000, richly peopled with rapacious developers and imbecilic legislators, and other assorted Florida fauna. I've had his "Bad Monkey" on my TBR for some time. I'll have to move it up in the queue, if his fiction is anything like his opinion pieces, I expect it to have a rich streak of very black humour.

I haven't read his columns but if you like black humour then "Bad Monkey" will not disappoint.

[samhy]

Originally Posted by Gazella

I'm 30% into The Shadow of the Wind and I'm finding it hard to get into it. It started off very promising; the first four chapters were good but then I started to lose interest the more I read and the more I began to learn about the two dimensional annoying characters in the story. The dialogue I found pretentious and I couldn't stand reading any more so I decided I should just stop.

I loved this book. I loved it so much that I decided to read all the other books written by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (I can't put an accented O). But it took me years, literally, to read the first 20%-30%. After that I finished the book within one week.
However, from what I can see here and there, this book is either liked very much or strongly disliked.
To each its own

Right now I'm reading Introductions by C. L. Stone. More than 50% into it and not much is happening. There are also many typos. Yet I would like to know where all of this is going to, so I'll hold on until the last page. Good thing it was a freebie.