04-13-2013, 11:54 AM | #16246 |
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I finished up A Stitch in Time, not bad, but certainly not the best Trek book I've read. I give it 3 of 5 stars.
I started _The Accidental Time Machine_ (the rule is a new book must have a word in the title shared by the previous book.) based on some recos in this thread. I has a good start, I hope it follows through on its promise. BOb |
04-14-2013, 02:54 AM | #16247 |
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I just started Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. There are a lot of 80s pop culture references, I didn't grow up in the 1980s so I wasn't familiar with any of them but it's really keeping my interest.
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04-14-2013, 05:52 AM | #16248 |
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I just finished the novella Chess (or Chess Story or The Royal Game) by Stefan Zweig. This was a read for the literary book club for April.
Really enjoyed the story. It was only some 70 or so pages so it was a fairly quick story, but still quite an interesting study of psychological torture and its repercussions. I give it 3.5 stars. |
04-14-2013, 02:22 PM | #16249 |
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I just finished The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. That book is funny and full of original twists.
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04-14-2013, 03:34 PM | #16250 |
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I finished The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven this morning. I liked it better than the first book in the Ringworld series; I found the characters to be less annoying than in Ringworld. I liked the story, however, it still doesn't explain a lot of things about Ringworld.
I've started the Mistborn series, Mistborn: The Final Empire, by Brandon Sanderson. I was in the mood for some epic fantasy. About 12% in and I'm liking it a lot. |
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I just finished The Judas Line by Mark Everett Stone that was free the end of Feb 2013. Spoiler:
I loved this, even though there were a few errors of extra words or maybe left in words when an edit was done. I really can't describe all the elements in the book, so the above review gives a good start on it. The characters were very likable, developed, and the story was additionally told through their eyes and a manuscript of the back story, read piece by piece by the priest, to fill in the action. There was a lot of action, bloody and fast, in places, but the story was so compelling that I stayed up way too late to finish it. Great modern fantasy with elemental magic, divine and not so divine power, mythology, angels (fallen and not) and the quest. |
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04-14-2013, 05:35 PM | #16252 |
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Ha! I did exactly the same thing. I thought it must have moved on to the next story in the omnibus, and that it didn't seem like a Sherlock Holmes story at all. Glad it wasn't just me .
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04-14-2013, 06:56 PM | #16253 | |
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It's absolutely ludicrous. And absolutely delightful! But you have to get to book 3 to really start seeing that. They are very quick reads and lots of fun! Stitchawl |
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04-14-2013, 07:18 PM | #16254 |
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Started James Blaylock's The Last Coin last night. I love how his subtle, whimsical style lulls you into believing you're reading something very simple (almost farcical), when actually it's quite involved. Bad, apocalyptic things will happen if someone is able to gather together Judas Iscariot's original 30 pieces of silver.
I was also happy to find some of his older stuff finally available as ebooks. I'll likely be re-reading The Elfin Ship, The Disappearing Dwarf, and The Stone Giant when I have some time. Sort of like Wind in the Willows meets Tom Sawyer. |
04-14-2013, 07:26 PM | #16255 |
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I just finished 'Life After Life' by Kate Atkinson - it was so intriguing that I read it straight through (I usually read 2-4 books simultaneously - alternating chapters). It's a very fresh take on the old saw about time travel:
What if you could go back in time and kill Hitler before WW II started? With a whole new twist. Lots of new twists, in fact. Just when you think you've figured out Atkinson's plot, it changes ... over and over and over .... Atkinson has certainly read and thought a great deal about time travel, human nature, human fallibility, fate, and luck .... and created a fascinating melange that raises questions throughout the reading experience. The plot centers around the premise "What if we had a chance to do it again and again ... until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?" opposed to: "We only have one [life] after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try." It's one of those books where you want/need to read it again, knowing what you learned during your first read through .... Highly recommended. Last edited by poohbear_nc; 04-14-2013 at 07:34 PM. |
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I just read another story, a short, about the Wendigo and it is still free at Amazon: Nicholas Antinozzi - Odd Whitefeather [Short - Wendigo Myth]. It was more of a "cozy" version, but I still enjoyed it. Spoiler:
So, I picked up and have started Everything Howls by Christoper Lopez when it was offered for free just recently. from amazon - ""Everything Howls brings the Wendigo back with a vengeance, places it in its classic habitat and adds an Algonquin Indian to the mix in a way that makes the story ring true. The effect is a short, entertaining novel that fully engages reader."" This is listed as horror and apparently has a lot of gore, so depending on the type of descriptive gore, I will see how I do. |
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04-15-2013, 01:04 AM | #16258 | |
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Meanwhile, finished Kerry Greenwood's Murder in Montparnesse, number 12 in the Phryne Fisher series. And I'm still enjoying them immensely. Also, finished listening to Imager's Battalion, the third book in this prequel cycle of the Imager series from L. E. Modesitt. These are books I find quite successful as audio books, but I doubt I'd like them as much if I were reading them. |
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Now it's time for some Sci-fi. I found a writer I'd never read, Timothy Zahn, and have started Cobra 1. Someone mentioned it, and I thought I'd give it a try. Stitchawl |
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