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

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by BenG

It might be the agency model prices kicking in.

[Ea]

Originally Posted by kennyc

I haven't finished EGG yet!!!!

Me neither. Im 60 percent in or so

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I wonder how much Apple's backdoor dealing is helping to stir this pot?

50% is not an insignificant increase!

Yep. That's probably the main cause.....

Certainly was with the Vernor Vinge - Fire Upon the Deep that I just checked on yesterday.... Amazon is now adding a "disclaimer" that says, "Price for this item was set by the Publisher"

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Ea

Me neither. Im 60 percent in or so

I'm still on page 30 something.....will try to move on a bit today.

[neilmarr]

***can't help wondering - what stings like hell ?***

A well-read man of your imagination, Rog, should be able to fill in the blanks. Think just a tad back from the cruellest cut of all and you've pretty well got it. Although the surgery was to fix problems in my legs and feet, this latest bout was ... er ... well it involved a groinal and abdominal bypasses and some new plastic plumbing. Smarts a bit still and my willy has lost its accuracy (gotta pee sitting down).

Can't come to this thread without a book recommendation, though, so try this: The Blue Man Dreams the End of Time by Michael McIrvin. It's a BeWrite Books job, so that might seem like blatant advertising to pull a buck or two from you. Not at all. I have great faith in this one. Any pal who emails me, I'll send back a PDF or ePub version with love and thanks for taking a look.

Prediction (take a look at the Dylan Neal review on my site below) ... this is on its way to CLASSIC status. McIrvin is little short of genius. In fact, he might even make that cut. I've read the book a dozen times or more and it always leaves me surprised and breathless in its depth and scope.

Hoots. Neil

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

The Reincarnationist by M. J. Rose.

And I've given up 1/3 through. It's just dull. It's a suspense/paranormal/romance, and it doesn't have enough of any of the three to make it work for me.

Next up: Search for the Star Stones by Andre Norton. A November 2008 omnibus reissue of a couple of classic novels from 1968/69.

[kennyc]

Just read a nice review of this book of short stories in the morning paper

What Becomes by A. L. Kennedy
a Scottish author.

http://www.amazon.com/What-Becomes-e...0995484&sr=8-2

Downloaded a sample from Amazon and was immediately taken with it and purchased. at $9.99 brand spankin' new.

From Amazon:

"From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. A bold new collection by relentlessly surprising Scottish author Kennedy (Day) finds her characters pinned somewhere between love and pain. In the title story, about a lone man's evening attending a smalltown cinema, the denouement comes very gradually, as it does frequently throughout, reflecting a kind of reluctant dawning of consciousness: the protagonist, a forensics expert traumatized by having seen so much carnage, has left his wife after the death of their young daughter, an event that has rendered them unable to stand the guilt and anger evoked by the other's presence. Wasps captures a young wife and mother as she is making a Sunday breakfast. This seemingly typical scene is frozen by the menace of the philandering husband's leaving for good and his icy treatment of his angry wife. Saturday Teatime depicts the panicked delayed memory shock experienced by a child listening to her father's abuse of her mother, while Marriage portrays the excruciating emotional and physical aftermath of a violent sexual encounter between a husband and wife. These stories are polished to perfection, full of very dark turns and exemplary of Kennedy's inventiveness. (Apr.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. "

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

...

Next up: Search for the Star Stones by Andre Norton. A November 2008 omnibus reissue of a couple of classic novels from 1968/69.

Sounds very interesting. Will look forward to your thoughts on it.

[FlorenceArt]

I ordered a book from Amazon (first time in a long time): The Great Book of Amber, which is a collection of all 10 Amber books by Roger Zelazny. I read some of them (not all I think) a long time ago, and as it was mentioned a few times in another thread I wanted to see if I still liked them. Well, I do The first one was a little disappointing but still a good read, and the second one is more satisfying. I am having trouble putting it down.

The book is huge, by the way, but it's a paperback and very easy to hold. I was a litle worried about the quality, because there was a very bad review on Amazon.fr on another edition, not about the book itself but the reviewer said that there was an incredible number of proofreading errors: some words replaced at random with other words, innumerable punctuation errors. I was wondering if this edition would be as bad, and yes there are errors, but they are within my tolerance limits (which have probably become more relaxed through contact with e-books, lol) so they don't spoil my reading.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

I ordered a book from Amazon (first time in a long time): The Great Book of Amber, which is a collection of all 10 Amber books by Roger Zelazny. I read some of them (not all I think) a long time ago, and as it was mentioned a few times in another thread I wanted to see if I still liked them. Well, I do The first one was a little disappointing but still a good read, and the second one is more satisfying. I am having trouble putting it down.

The book is huge, by the way, but it's a paperback and very easy to hold. I was a litle worried about the quality, because there was a very bad review on Amazon.fr on another edition, not about the book itself but the reviewer said that there was an incredible number of proofreading errors: some words replaced at random with other words, innumerable punctuation errors. I was wondering if this edition would be as bad, and yes there are errors, but they are within my tolerance limits (which have probably become more relaxed through contact with e-books, lol) so they don't spoil my reading.

I'm thinking I want to re-read the Amber books, but I want the ebook version.

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by kennyc

I'm thinking I want to re-read the Amber books, but I want the ebook version.

So do I, but I wasn't willing to wait I'll just read this at home, and in the train I'll keep reading the other books I have on the Opus (I kind of dropped everything else this week-end, but I still have two e-books and a paper book to finish).

[jesscscott]

I'm currently reading Herman Melville's poems. A little intimidated by "Moby-Dick" (I need to read them for a course in major authors)...but I loved "Billy Budd"!

[sjb]

Just finished Jane Eyre and am now starting Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys prequel(?) to Bronte's classic.

[roger the rabbit]

Originally Posted by neilmarr

***can't help wondering - what stings like hell ?***

A well-read man of your imagination, Rog, should be able to fill in the blanks. Think just a tad back from the cruellest cut of all and you've pretty well got it. Although the surgery was to fix problems in my legs and feet, this latest bout was ... er ... well it involved a groinal and abdominal bypasses and some new plastic plumbing. Smarts a bit still and my willy has lost its accuracy (gotta pee sitting down).

It was rude of me to ask sorry! I thought maybe you had posted more and I had missed it. Hope all progresses well. (I Had as you call it "the cruellest cut of all" long time ago and am heading towards the next ).

Back on topic-

Just finished *The Man with the Iron on Badge* by Lee Goldberg which I bought after reading *The Walk* also by Lee. Both were very entertaining reads with the feeling that they were aimed at being screenplays.

Finished *The Egg and I a few days ago*. Ignoring the racist overtones, which were not so politically incorrect at the time it was written, I thought it was a delightful insight into farm life at that time, and an entertaining read. Many thanks to Patricia for the beautifully formatted and error free edition here on MR.

[thinkpad]

Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein, writing about the Yakuza.