frankthedm
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Read crouch in Nightmares and dreamscapes years back. Trying to read Shaft 247, but everything has been interupting me.Wombat said:
October - What are you Reading?
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GoodKingJayIII
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So, bought The Traveller, which so far is a pretty standard conspiracy thriller. Some interesting sci-fi elements built in, but at least 150 pages in it doesn't feel that unique or definitive. Going to finish it before I make a final decision.
Also started working on You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe. I'm making an effort to read more of the "canon" of literature, particularly the 20th century American authors.
Also started working on You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe. I'm making an effort to read more of the "canon" of literature, particularly the 20th century American authors.
Storm Raven
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Heinlein, Heinlein, and more Heinlein.
I've read a bunch of Heinlein before - Starship Troopers, Time Enough for Love, Stranger in a Strange Land, Farmer in the Sky, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and so on, but my local used book store had someone drop off what appears to be someone's lifetime collection of science fiction a couple of weeks ago. I bought everything I didn't have already. And that included about dozen and a half Heinlein titles I had never read before.
So I'm reading those now. After that, I'll be going through the dozen or so Arthur C. Clarke books I picked up at the same time. Life is good.
I've read a bunch of Heinlein before - Starship Troopers, Time Enough for Love, Stranger in a Strange Land, Farmer in the Sky, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and so on, but my local used book store had someone drop off what appears to be someone's lifetime collection of science fiction a couple of weeks ago. I bought everything I didn't have already. And that included about dozen and a half Heinlein titles I had never read before.
So I'm reading those now. After that, I'll be going through the dozen or so Arthur C. Clarke books I picked up at the same time. Life is good.
Tolen Mar
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I'm well past the halfway point in 'The Skystone." I figured I better step in and amend what I said about it so far. Once you get to where Varrus (the protagonist) retires, the tone shifts away from a 'starship troopers' style. Still immensly enjoyable, and I hope soon we get more of a hint of how this book links into the Arthur myth.
Tolen Mar
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So help me out here...
I'm looking to branch out. I've noticed lately that the kinds of movies I've been getting into are 'mysteries.' Not Sherlock Holmes type mysteries, or murder mysteries, though a few of them sneak in. I'm talking about things like 'The wicker man', where something is happening, but you don't always know what right up until the final pages. (Though wicker man kinda telegraphed its ending...) Another recent good read was 'Odd Thomas' by Koontz.
Anyone have any recomendations?
I'm looking to branch out. I've noticed lately that the kinds of movies I've been getting into are 'mysteries.' Not Sherlock Holmes type mysteries, or murder mysteries, though a few of them sneak in. I'm talking about things like 'The wicker man', where something is happening, but you don't always know what right up until the final pages. (Though wicker man kinda telegraphed its ending...) Another recent good read was 'Odd Thomas' by Koontz.
Anyone have any recomendations?
Wulf Ratbane
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No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy.
Read it before the movie comes out. It is an amazing piece of writing.
Although the movie should be fantastic too; it's the Coen brothers after all. Quite a few trailers available on YouTube.
Read it before the movie comes out. It is an amazing piece of writing.
Although the movie should be fantastic too; it's the Coen brothers after all. Quite a few trailers available on YouTube.
