I just finished edge by jeffery deaver. And it was really good. I am now reading, watchlist, a thriller book by 15 different authors. Each one writes one chapter. So far, its good
I am reading this book series out of order, but this series is great to me: Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Novel by Laurell K. Hamilton.
Just picked up a box set of the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings books, for a touch over $100. Starting with Fellowship of the Ring. Good read
Just finished the short stories: "Luck" by Mark Twain "Arabs and Jackals" by Franz Kafka "Wild Goats Kid" and "The Sniper" by Liam O'Flaherty
I finally got in my hands the novelization of Escape from New York by Mike McQuay, published by Bantam Books in a galaxy far, far away, aka USA 1981. They only printed one edition and it's pretty rare today, I paid an extortive price for this book, but anyway it was worth of: as a good novelization should do it expands the story of the movie giving more details on the background of the characters and answering some questions the movie arises. McQuay's style is very synthetic and the story runs at incredible speed, it's only 161 pages and it could be a good lecture for these writers like me who write too much and need to understand how to show action. Recommended!
Finally started The Hunger Games for real. I've read a few pages now and then before, but not sat down and decided to read it. It's weird with a first-person present tense, but it works. Thanks for the tip. I loved the movies and can't wait to read the book. Btw have you seen the third movie yet? It's a fan-movie with Hector De La Rosa as Snake called Escpae from New Jersey. It sounds bad, but a lot of people like it. Btw it took me an entire five minutes to track down the book Escape from New York. You just need to know where to look.
Yes, I've seen escape from NJ, to be fair, I was expecting the Snake (like he's called in the novel, "THE Snake") in a better shape, but the movie was better than Escape from LA. My secret dream is to be casted as the Snake for the next remake! The book: it's good, but they ask at least 32$ on ebay, I got mine for 25$, and I've seen in the sleve the original price of 2.5$... I understand we're talking about 1981 dollars...but still it's a rip off, and sometimes you want to be ripped off, though.
I've just finished The Ghosts of Sleath by James Herbert. I'm not completely sure what I made of it actually....unusual for me.... I think it was pretty good although the beginning and middle outshone the ending for me. I read the ebook and there were lots of errors in it which was a real shame but something I'm noticing an awful lot in ebooks.
I just finished Of Blood and Honey and I really liked it. It seemed like a mixture of urban fantasy and historical fiction. It's better than a lot of books I've read, yet the author (Stina Leicht) and the book don't seem well recognized.
Reading Jack Maggs by Carey. It's really good at developing characters if anyone wants insight in to how to do that!
Finished this about an hour ago. An amazing novel even though it was a little confusing to follow towards the end - but it looks like that was intentional. I intend to begin reading the sequel, Dance Dance Dance, tomorrow. I'm also slowly reading S by Saki Aida. EDIT: So much for "slowly". Procrastinating from putting together a presentation meant reading most of this book in one sitting~
Just finished "The Brute" by Joseph Conrad This 8,734 word short story has a very interesting twist to it. It initially involves the reader in the same confusion based on misunderstanding that the mc is experiencing.
I started The Fall of Hyperion last night. After reading Hyperion over Christmas last year it's one of the books I've most looked forward to reading for quite some time. Hyperion was of superlative quality, possessed of an unusual narrative structure which worked beautifully. It also had a cast of believable, human characters and a world which, despite its many diversions into unrealism, was believable and worked as a single unit. Dan Simmons has made something of a rod for his own back with the sequel, but at the time of writing I'm 86 pages and there's no let-up in quality.
I've been going back and fourth between Bryan Davis's "Dragons in our Midst" series, Donita K Paul's dragon books, and Stephen Lawhead's "Dragon King" Trilogy. In the "Dragon King" trilogy, I specifically find the third and last book, "The Sword and the Flame" very depressing, but that's just my personal opinion. Both Bryan Davis and Donita K Paul's books are young adult friendly, and I would highly recommend them.
Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel. Actually, I just started it, which means I'm still reading Maxwell Perkins's forward to it.
