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

[kennyc]

I'm about half-way through Last Night in Twisted River. Still loving it, but it's getting a bit confusing with all the time-shifts and mixing of the story and the fictional stories in the story (Iit's a bit hard to explain) but have also been trading off between that and Evolution of God (library check out) and have had limited reading time the last week or so....

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

Hi Y'all!

Dennis, I think you are right and I'll tackle the Endymions. I started Anathem and, although I'm sure it is a masterpiece, I'm not going to finish simply because it takes too much work on my part to not try to make it relevant to western civ history and/or church history and/or current politics. I'm getting lazy!

The Endymions are worth it. Simmons is good at peeling back layers of the onion, and revealing that the story isn't what you think it is.

I was vastly impressed by The Hyperion Cantos, and recommended them to a friend. Bantam published them as two mass market PB editions, but did not label the first in any fashion as part one of two. My friend was so incensed at running into the cliff hanger at the end of book one that he flatly refused to read anything else Simmons had written. My protests that the publisher's packaging decisions weren't the author's fault fell on deaf ears.
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Dennis

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

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I was vastly impressed by The Hyperion Cantos, and recommended them to a friend. Bantam published them as two mass market PB editions, but did not label the first in any fashion as part one of two. My friend was so incensed at running into the cliff hanger at the end of book one that he flatly refused to read anything else Simmons had written. .
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Dennis

That's me ... exactly the same ... and I even know Dan a bit as he lives here in Denver and we've met a few times at workshops and conventions.

[macthekitten]

I noticed someone commented on "The Girl Who Played with Fire" the 2nd in a trilogy by Stieg Larssen -- unfortunately the dude died, so I don' think there'll be the 3rd, which completely bums me out because the first 2 were amazing!

Right now I'm plodding my way through "the Road" by Cormac McCarthy, meh it's a tad overrated in my mind, but I'll keep going. Might wanna kill myself before the end tho LOL kindaaaaaaa dark you might say I think a flighty romance novel is on the agenda next!!! It's getting on for Christmas and I have to be in my happy place

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by macthekitten

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Right now I'm plodding my way through "the Road" by Cormac McCarthy, meh it's a tad overrated in my mind, but I'll keep going. Might wanna kill myself before the end tho LOL kindaaaaaaa dark you might say I think a flighty romance novel is on the agenda next!!! It's getting on for Christmas and I have to be in my happy place

Ya think that's dark.....I'd advise you to avoid his other works then. Best I can tell (and from the few I've read) - The Road is the most optimistic.

[Ea]

Originally Posted by macthekitten

I noticed someone commented on "The Girl Who Played with Fire" the 2nd in a trilogy by Stieg Larssen -- unfortunately the dude died, so I don' think there'll be the 3rd, which completely bums me out because the first 2 were amazing!

Right now I'm plodding my way through "the Road" by Cormac McCarthy, meh it's a tad overrated in my mind, but I'll keep going. Might wanna kill myself before the end tho LOL kindaaaaaaa dark you might say I think a flighty romance novel is on the agenda next!!! It's getting on for Christmas and I have to be in my happy place

As far as I know there's a third - at least they made a third movie, but perhaps the novel hasn't been translated and published in English yet. Do a little googling before despairing: http://www.stieglarsson.com/ Look for "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest". As for the quality of the novels I can't comment as I haven't read them - it's just that I'm living in Scandinavia and they're a bit difficult to avoid

We had a good discussion about "The Road" - you might want to check it out:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61009
The end is not as dark as the novel may appear to predict. Personally I would have preferred a darker end, but that's just me.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Ea

As far as I know there's a third - at least they made a third movie, but perhaps the novel hasn't been translated and published in English yet. Do a little googling before despairing: http://www.stieglarsson.com/ Look for "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest". As for the quality of the novels I can't comment as I haven't read them - it's just that I'm living in Scandinavia and they're a bit difficult to avoid

We had a good discussion about "The Road" - you might want to check it out:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61009
The end is not as dark as the novel may appear to predict. Personally I would have preferred a darker end, but that's just me.

Hee-hee!

You should read No Country for Old Men. A bit darker. I've got several other's of his on my to-read list - Blood Meridian is supposed to be particularly dark.

[Ea]

Originally Posted by kennyc

You should read No Country for Old Men. A bit darker. I've got several other's of his on my to-read list - Blood Meridian is supposed to be particularly dark.

Ha! My neighbour wants me to watch that. I still don't want to
More seriously, I did expect the end of "The Road" to be darker, and I felt the current ending to be too "Hollywood" happy. I know McCormac wrote the ending, but I felt a little bit the way I felt about the film ending of "Minority Report".

[jenieliser]

I'm about a third through Les Mis....I've kind of hit a wall of disinterest. I'm having trouble getting up the energy to pick it back up. I really enjoy it when I do read it, I just find myself lacking the mental ability to focus on it lately. But soon I will finish it!

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by jenieliser

I'm about a third through Les Mis....I've kind of hit a wall of disinterest. I'm having trouble getting up the energy to pick it back up. I really enjoy it when I do read it, I just find myself lacking the mental ability to focus on it lately. But soon I will finish it!

It's a good book, but it has (imo) some very, very bad sections.

[lilac_jive]

I'm reading "Beyond the Highland Mist" by Karen Marie Moning. I got hooked on her one series when it was free on Sony (Darkfever) and this series is supposed to be very good and coincides with the other.

[DixieGal]

I read an odd book today. "Savage Season" by Lansdale. It has draft dodging ex-hippie Texans, tree huggers, criminals, an amazon, and a black gay Vietnam veteran. It's book 1 in a series of (I think) 3 books.

[Patricia]

All three works in Stieg Larsson's posthumous Millennium trilogy are available in English, translated by Reg Keeland:
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2. The Girl who Played with Fire
3. The Girl who Kicked the Hornets' Nest.
The final book was published in the UK in October 2009. I believe that it won't appear in the US until 2010.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stieg_Larsson

[neilmarr]

Re-reading *The Time Traveller's Wife*. Strangely much better second time around, though the first read (in treebook) was good, too. I suspect this might be becuase the second-time reader is prepared for the complicated time shifts that can be confusing first time. Wonder if you'd find the same, Kenny, if you ever give *Last Night on Twisted River* a second crack of the whip. N

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by neilmarr

Re-reading *The Time Traveller's Wife*. Strangely much better second time around, though the first read (in treebook) was good, too. I suspect this might be becuase the second-time reader is prepared for the complicated time shifts that can be confusing first time. Wonder if you'd find the same, Kenny, if you ever give *Last Night on Twisted River* a second crack of the whip. N

I'm sure you are right Neal. He's definitely doing some jumping around and you really need to keep you head screwed on to follow -- particularly to pick up on the humor.

I was happily surprised by it yesterday as Bolder, CO popped up playing a small walk-on part.