Tower at The End Of The World by Brad Strickland: -I actually just finished it. I enjoyed it. Interesting story, but nothing too special. It was a bit of a kid's book, though I enjoyed it none the less. When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops by George Carlin: -Hilarious, and though provoking. It is just enjoyable, but you can get lost easily. The Winter With by Paula Brackston: -Have only read a few pages, and the first page alone had me hooked. The author is just highly skilled in the art of writing and making someone produce an image.
The Universe Within, by Neil Shubin Girl Parts, by John M. Cusick MP3 The Fear Index, by Robert Harris MP3 And, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, by David Sedaris E-book
Neuromancer, by Willaim Gibson. It's cool. Deus Ex (along with a looong list of things) has lifted a lot from this.
All the Pretty Horses brought McCarthy to a wider audience, but I find it too romantic. It's beautiful, undeniably so, but I love McCarthy when he puts his characters- and me- through the wringer. Or rather I mean the turbo charged wringer. How about Blood Meridian? I've been reading it once, sometimes twice a year, for maybe 6 years now.
The Sum of all Fears, by Tom Clancy. Too many techno-thrillers apparently aren't good for the soul but sometimes a girl just can't help herself
I've never read any Clancy but have been curious to for some time. What would be the best book to start with? Atm I'm reading Shogun by James Clavell, absolutely amazing read so far.
Ooh I just downloaded Shogun, am looking forward to it myself! Atm I'm reading Nightingale by David Farland, I think it won some sort of prize at a writing competition, a YA fantasy novel. It's a page turner, nicely written with some quite intriguing things going on, so am looking forward to reading more. Next up would be a self-pub novel called Oblivion's Forge by Simon Williams - I've read the opening and it's definitely got me hooked. Can't wait to get started on it, but gotta finish Nightingale first lol!
Edmund Burke, "On the Sublime and Beautiful," and Ray Bradbury, "Something Wicked This Way Comes." The former is extremely interesting, though the reading is slow-going, and the latter is awesome, so far, though it's been hard for me to really bite into it.
The last book I completed was Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini. It's a phenomenal entertainment masterpiece, right up there with the author's Captain Blood. Sabatini was truly a master of swashbuckling adventure, charismatic and memorable protagonists, and skillfully weaving historical details into his works. Presently, I'm finishing up Paulo Coelho's The Witch is Portobello. I will write a long review on Goodreads, but suffice to say that I now understand why Coelho is so wildly popular. He is an absolute master at what he does. Also, the book is pure garbage, Coelho is an ignorant moron, and I never want to read another of his works ever again.
My house of leaves book arrived in the post today. I wasn't expecting it to be so BIG I've spent two hours reading it. Hooked already
The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany. Wonderfully concise. Would that modern writers had the skill to tell so much story in so few pages.
Not really. Coelho is a master at selling people on metaphysical mumbo-jumbo and ersatz epiphanies. The fact that he's good at selling garbage doesn't make the garbage any less garbage.
Only if you weren't reading carefully. But yes, good job on picking up that there was a sharp, unexpected contrast between consecutive lines. It's almost as if it were intentional... Edit- Exactly. This man gets it.
Oh right, I see now. Haha, agreed. Though I did like The Alchemist, I tried reading more of his stuff and just couldn't get into it. I wouldn't read anything else by him. One would be much better off reading Herman Hesse (Siddhartha).
sadly I'm finally reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I read the Hobbit when I was a kid and never went on to the others.. Better late than never. It's ok. A few places I skip over. I like the Hobbit FAR better.
Shogun, Capote and Steinbeck Shogun is quite good. So much sexual tension! I just finished Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote, which was an interesting collection. It included: five short stories; a novella-length "non-fiction account of an American crime"; and a selection of "conversational portraits". No matter what you think of Capote, you have to admit that he was a versatile author with immense talent. Now it is on to The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck. According to the introduction of my Penguin edition, the book was poorly received which, when combined with public unrest about Steinbeck's Nobel Peace Prize, weighed heavy on the author's soul.
I'm a huge Steinbeck fan (he was my favorite author back in high school, and I have read most of his books), so take this with a grain of salt, but I thought it was a great, classic work. However, even comparing it to his other novels, it is superior to many of them.
Right now I'm reading Jonathan Tropper's One Last Thing Before I Go. I've had the hardback sitting in my TBR pile for a while now, and I just HAD to buy it back when it was in hardback because I could not wait. And of course now that I'm getting around to reading it, it is out in paperback.
The difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling The Wind Through the Keyhole, by Stephen King The Return of the Dancing Master, by Henning Mankell The Bone Bed, by Patricia Cornwell
