Ralif Redhammer
Legend
Digging it so far. If you Harrow the Ninth on hand, I might recommend re-reading the last part of it just to freshen up, if it's been a while for you.
What are you reading in 2022?
Eyes of Nine
Everything's Fine
It's been over a year, read it soon after it came out. Sadly, don't have on hand, as I get them from the library. But same thing happened to me when reading Harrow (AS YOU CAN IMAGINE) where there was a lot of wtf is going on here?!? sort of energy - and I turned out ok lol. I'm trusting same will happen again with Nona
It had been so long since I read Neverwhere that I had completely forgotten everything except the feeling of the book. Just finished it and now I remember why it is my favorite of his early novels. (Haven't read the ones since Anansi Bros. yet).
I read the 1st American edition. I guess at some point I should to the "Author's Preferred Text" and see how much it differs.
I read the 1st American edition. I guess at some point I should to the "Author's Preferred Text" and see how much it differs.
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WayneLigon
Adventurer
The Justice of Kings - very good so far.
The great Sovan Empire, the Empire of the Wolf, is at it's greatest extent and the cracks are beginning to show. Sir Konrad Vonvalt is an Imperial Justice, upholding the great body of common law in the name of the Emperor. To do this, he has the Voice, which can command truth and obedience, and the power of necromancy to compel the dead in certain circumstance. Assisted by his bondsman and his scribe, Volvalt has to deal with heresy and murder in quick order - and he might be seeing the beginning of the end for the rule of law.
The great Sovan Empire, the Empire of the Wolf, is at it's greatest extent and the cracks are beginning to show. Sir Konrad Vonvalt is an Imperial Justice, upholding the great body of common law in the name of the Emperor. To do this, he has the Voice, which can command truth and obedience, and the power of necromancy to compel the dead in certain circumstance. Assisted by his bondsman and his scribe, Volvalt has to deal with heresy and murder in quick order - and he might be seeing the beginning of the end for the rule of law.
trappedslider
Legend
Finished up Heat 2 by Micheal Mann
It was really good so 5/5
One day after the end of Heat, Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer) is holed up in Koreatown, wounded, half delirious, and desperately trying to escape LA. Hunting him is LAPD detective Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino). Hours earlier, Hanna killed Shiherlis’s brother in arms Neil McCauley (De Niro) in a gunfight under the strobe lights at the foot of an LAX runway. Now Hanna’s determined to capture or kill Shiherlis, the last survivor of McCauley’s crew, before he ghosts out of the city.
In 1988, seven years earlier, McCauley, Shiherlis, and their highline crew are taking scores on the West Coast, the US-Mexican border, and now in Chicago. Driven, daring, they’re pulling in money and living vivid lives. And Chicago homicide detective Vincent Hanna—a man unreconciled with his history—is following his calling, the pursuit of armed and dangerous men into the dark and wild places, hunting an ultraviolent gang of home invaders.
Meanwhile, the fallout from McCauley’s scores and Hanna’s pursuit cause unexpected repercussions in a parallel narrative, driving through the years following Heat.
Heat 2 projects its dimensional and richly drawn men and women into whole new worlds—from the inner sanctums of rival crime syndicates in a South American free-trade zone to transnational criminal enterprises in Southeast Asia. The novel brings you intimately into these lives. In Michael Mann’s Heat universe, they will confront new adversaries in lethal circumstances beyond all boundaries.
Heat 2 is engrossing, moving, and tragic—a masterpiece of crime fiction with the same extraordinary ambitions, scope, and rich characterizations as the epic film.
In 1988, seven years earlier, McCauley, Shiherlis, and their highline crew are taking scores on the West Coast, the US-Mexican border, and now in Chicago. Driven, daring, they’re pulling in money and living vivid lives. And Chicago homicide detective Vincent Hanna—a man unreconciled with his history—is following his calling, the pursuit of armed and dangerous men into the dark and wild places, hunting an ultraviolent gang of home invaders.
Meanwhile, the fallout from McCauley’s scores and Hanna’s pursuit cause unexpected repercussions in a parallel narrative, driving through the years following Heat.
Heat 2 projects its dimensional and richly drawn men and women into whole new worlds—from the inner sanctums of rival crime syndicates in a South American free-trade zone to transnational criminal enterprises in Southeast Asia. The novel brings you intimately into these lives. In Michael Mann’s Heat universe, they will confront new adversaries in lethal circumstances beyond all boundaries.
Heat 2 is engrossing, moving, and tragic—a masterpiece of crime fiction with the same extraordinary ambitions, scope, and rich characterizations as the epic film.
Ralif Redhammer
Legend
At this point, yeah, I trust Muir to make the pay-off for all the WTF-ery worth it. I'm starting to re-orient, and remember the details that were a little patchy at first.
Ah, Neverwhere is such a great read. It had one of those perfect endings that leaves you wanting more desperately but at the same time feeling satisfied.
Still haven't seen the BBC series based on it.
Ah, Neverwhere is such a great read. It had one of those perfect endings that leaves you wanting more desperately but at the same time feeling satisfied.
Still haven't seen the BBC series based on it.
Eyes of Nine
Everything's Fine
Ah, the joy and jealousy of hearing of someone reading a book that you LOVED and they get to read it for the first time, which you'll never get to do again... German folks - is there a word for that feeling in German? There should be...
Finished "Life and Letters of General W.H.L. Wallace" from 1909 by his daughter Isabel. I'd never read a book like it before (collected letters for someone) and am glad I did.
Wallace was the first commander of the Illinois 11th Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, and won renown at Fort Donelson and the defense of the Hornets' Nest at Pittsburgh Landing/Shiloh.
Starting before the war years, the book has letters and tidbits beginning with his early life, including: his choice to either practice law with Lincoln or with the man who would become his father in law; the Mexican-American war; things on Illinois and national politics including the Lincoln-Douglas debates and the various political parties; Lincoln's inauguration; and abolition and casual racism. It then transitions to the start of secession and the war and the view of the common people and disorganization of the North. From their it goes to the war in Southern Illinois, Eastern Missouri, and Western Tennessee.
Throughout there are letters between Wallace and his wife, and the end is pretty heart rending.
More on Wallace, the Illinois 11th, and its other commanders such as Ransom, Nevius, and Coates is in Jim Huffstodt's "Hard Dying Men". (Which I first picked up because my great-... uncle's diary is quoted in it).
Now back to the Maltese Falcon (which isn't doing it anywhere as much for me as the movie did).
Wallace was the first commander of the Illinois 11th Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, and won renown at Fort Donelson and the defense of the Hornets' Nest at Pittsburgh Landing/Shiloh.
Starting before the war years, the book has letters and tidbits beginning with his early life, including: his choice to either practice law with Lincoln or with the man who would become his father in law; the Mexican-American war; things on Illinois and national politics including the Lincoln-Douglas debates and the various political parties; Lincoln's inauguration; and abolition and casual racism. It then transitions to the start of secession and the war and the view of the common people and disorganization of the North. From their it goes to the war in Southern Illinois, Eastern Missouri, and Western Tennessee.
Throughout there are letters between Wallace and his wife, and the end is pretty heart rending.
More on Wallace, the Illinois 11th, and its other commanders such as Ransom, Nevius, and Coates is in Jim Huffstodt's "Hard Dying Men". (Which I first picked up because my great-... uncle's diary is quoted in it).
Now back to the Maltese Falcon (which isn't doing it anywhere as much for me as the movie did).
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JoshuaHarris
Villager
Started reading The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. I like it, but sometimes it's so complicated for me to read it. Usually I prefer detective books, and it's something new to me
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