I read ‘IT’ for the first (and only ) time about 12 years ago, and from that moment, I have never read another Stephen King book. It was the biggest load of crap I had ever endured. Before that I had quite enjoyed many of SK’s writings, but that one was enough to turn me off his particular genre for all time.
Midnight’s Children :- Salman Rushdie
I’ve only started it and so can’t say much about but I’ve heard so good things about this book i’m really looking forward to getting into it. Now all I have to do is stop falling asleep.
As usual, I’m reading several books at once (too bad I can’t seem to finish any of them lately!)
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett. Need I say more?
Barney’s Version - Mordecai Richler. Funny stuff.
Notes from a small island - Bill Bryson
The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Alexandre Dumas
Emma - Jane Austen (for the umpteenth time)
The diary of Ellen Rimbauer - this is pure dreck. I loathe it. I think I’ll just read the last 10 pages or so and give it back.
That’s a great book. You should try some of Barbara Kingsolver’s other books. The Bean Trees and Pigs In Heaven are really good, and not quite as long.
Just finished Exploded by Stan Cornyn. It’s a history of the Warner Communications record labels, written by the guy who got his start and Grammy awards by writing liner notes for Frank Sinatra. An amazingly informative read. I won’t spoil anything, except to say that the footnotes can be jaw-dropping with some pop-culture revelations.
Not as dry a read as you’d think.
Bard, it’s a fantays fiction about how the Irish moved into and made Ireland their homeland. So far, it’s pretty good, but I just started it, so I can’t say too much for it.
In theory I am reading The Brothers Karamazov but it is more like I started and then ran out of steam. I am alos reading The Book of Lost Tales, vol. I by JRR Tolkein.
Three Hands in the Fountain by Lindsay Davis. One of a series of mystery novels set in ancient Rome, with “informer” (detective) Marcus Didius Falco. Pepper Mill discovered these and turned me on to them, and I’m catching up on the last few.
The most recent James Bond novel from Benton
A stack of old magazines I just brought from my Parent’s house – Famous Monsters of Filmland from the 1960s and Cinefantastique from the 1970s (!) Fascinating stuff. One issue of FMOM has a sketch by Ron Cobb that he must have done as a kid. A 1978 issue of Cinefantastique has pre-production sketches for Alien done by the same Ron Cobb, before they brought H.R. Giger on board. If they’d gone with his images, the movie would’ve been completely different. At the end of the article, they casually mention that Dan O’Bannon and Ron Shusett were adapting Philip K. Dick’s “We Can Remember it for you Wholesale” as a film to be entitled Total Recall. This was in 1978! It takes a long time from concept to screen, I guess.
Tishomingo Blues, by Elmore Leonard (damn, I love his stuff).
You should try Elinor Glyn’s It—much better!
just finished reading: A Dog’s Life (Peter Mayle?) funny
reading: Acid Casuals (um, and Irish guy-forgot the name) mostly funny
re-reading: Barrel Fever (David Sedaris) VERY FUNNY! *****
Highly recomend reading this or ANY David Sedaris. (unless you are easily offended)
Just finished Stupid White Men by Michael Moore.
Really good!
Am now reading The Mormon Conspiracy.
I’m reading “The Lost World” by Michael Crichton.
No ebooks?
Goodness.
house of leaves (mark z. danielewski) & my sister from the black lagoon (laurie fox).
next on the agenda: probably crooked (louisa luna)
also upcoming (for work): how humans evolved (boyd & silk) {assigning it for fall}
what’s love got to do with it? (meredith small) & re-reading the red queen (matt ridley) {assigning them for winter}
(and yes, i do feel a bit remiss for having assigned these books without having thoroughly read them first…but they come with hearty endorsements.)
im about half way through Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6, for the second time. good book.
The Great Gatsby.
The Grapes of Wrath is next on the list. I’m trying to get through all the books I “ought to have read by now”.
Just finished American Gods. Awesome book.
Also read two books for work: Indigo and The Divine Wind. Dunno what I’m going to read this weekend—I kind of feel like delving into my many volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror.
Welcome to the SDMB Bernard Marx!
Hope I’m not too much of a newbie to say that . . .
Just finished Ann Beattie’s Chilly Scenes of Winter for my book club -didn’t care for it. On my current pile are Clare Curzon’s Mike Yeadings/Thames Valley Police series (I am a HUGE mystery fan - especially series mysteries), the new Evanovich Hard Eight (WHOO-HOO), The Bourne Identity (just saw the movie and now I’m interested), and the new Benni Harper mystery (Steps to the Altar by Earlene Fowler). Oh, and I just discovered that I can pick up the new Diane Mott Davison (Chopping Spree) on Monday -I’ve been on the holds list forever for that one.
At night my husband and I read out loud before bed and we’re currently reading a fantasy novel. I don’t remember the name, but it’s one of a series that was based on the D&D games. Dragon-something or other. We’re reading the first one.
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