09-24-2022, 10:02 AM | #31066 |
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09-26-2022, 05:22 AM | #31067 |
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3/5 at thestorygraph for "Murder Must Advertise" - aka "book 8 in the "Peter Wimsey is Superman" series
I'm not going to bother with Gaudy Night - she got 5 novels and a short story collection to wow me, and she miffed it. My final attempts at Carr and Queen coming up soon, too. Last edited by Uncle Robin; 09-26-2022 at 05:40 AM. |
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09-26-2022, 08:44 AM | #31068 | |
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09-26-2022, 01:01 PM | #31069 |
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Just finished listening to Stephen King's Fairy Tale this morning. Even though it was a bit of mess, it was still quite compelling. I thought the narrator (Seth Numrich) was excellent, albeit a little slow. But it was nothing a speed increase couldn't fix. I did find the profanity and mild lewdness to be a bit off-putting, but that was because I found it to be very unnatural, not because it was offensive. Some people are just not very good at swearing or telling crude jokes. I also think he must have struck some sort of advertising deal with Turner Classic Movies. The number of times he used the name (or the TCM abbreviation) in the story was just outrageous!
But all and all, a quite pleasant experience that was wrapped up very neat and tidily. Almost obsessively so. |
09-26-2022, 03:37 PM | #31070 | |
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09-26-2022, 03:44 PM | #31071 |
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Not satisfactory, but realistic. And scarily timely. The last line? Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, more’s the pity. My favorite of Lewis’s novels.
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09-26-2022, 03:46 PM | #31072 |
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As someone who was raised in one of those churches, I 100% agree. But this is why we don't just read for our version of the happy ending, eh?
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10-01-2022, 04:08 AM | #31073 |
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Thinner by Stephen King (as Richard Bachman).
I never noticed how often King grotesquely sexualises young girls before this. Billy has absolutely no business thinking about his fourteen year old daughter's panties. I had always thought the orgy in IT was an edge case. |
10-01-2022, 11:58 AM | #31074 |
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On to a Southern gothic title that has been on our DTB shelves since 2017 - Over the Plain Houses by Julia Franks
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10-02-2022, 04:31 AM | #31075 |
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Quickly followed by Oathbreakers and Oathblood. The latter mostly contains earlier versions of stories in the other two books, but does include at least one wholly original work.
A fun, quick read. Next up: We'll Meet Again by Anton du Beke. The fourth in his series set (mostly) in the fictitious Buckingham Hotel. |
10-02-2022, 08:05 AM | #31076 |
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Small Spaces by Katherine Arden. A middle-grade, Halloween-inspired, horror story. 3/5. This was fun, even sort of sweet, but I suspect you have to be significantly younger than me to be scared by it. I liked the characters and enjoyed the ride but I did miss the depth that Arden demonstrated in her wonderful Winternight Trilogy.
Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson. Epic fantasy. Maybe this deserves a higher score than 1/5, but I'm not going to find out, having dropped this before the middle of chapter one. I almost dropped it after reading the preface - I'm always wary when the author finds it necessary to explain or apologise for what they've done - but I wanted to see why this author felt it necessary to warn the reader that this would be a "harder journey". Well that became apparent to me very early indeed, so I dropped it, I'm not that short of reading material, but I am that short of patience. |
10-02-2022, 08:32 AM | #31077 | |
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10-02-2022, 09:20 AM | #31078 | |
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There was a time when that would have been attractive to me, now not so much. A bit like military fantasy, I think epic fantasy has lost some of its appeal to me. They've become overly familiar, and they try too hard, concentrating on being epic rather than on character and story. (All personal opinion, of course, just how it seems to me.) |
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10-02-2022, 10:58 PM | #31079 | |
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I gave up on book 2, but came back to it a year later, pushed though it and then really started to enjoy the journey. Definitely 1 of my favorite series, but yes its not for everyone. |
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10-04-2022, 06:35 PM | #31080 |
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Started Across the Sand by Hugh Howey. I'm surprised there is so little buzz about this. Nothing on his website and nothing in wiki. I didn't know this was coming out until it poped up on Overdrive a couple of weeks ago.
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