Just finished The count of Monte Cristo (unabridged) which was a monster of a book but fantastic in the end and Cormac McCarthy's The Road which was hands down one of the best i've read for a little while but you should expect only greatness from McCarthy. Im reading Maria McCann As meat loves salt, Daniel Woodrell Winter's bone and Jeremy Scahill Blackwater now. All are truly fantastic!, i'm pretty lucky with books (i must have some sort of book worm sixth sense or something ) and ususally end up reading some brilliantly written stuff.
Hey Lemex, Being as you've read it twice thus making you an expert what's House of leaves like?????? been meaning to read that for some time.
House of Leaves is an AMAZING novel. It's very complex, funny, and actually rather scary (and I'm not scared by very much. I've never been scared by a novel before I read House of Leaves) and it's also very strange: there are footnotes, and footnotes to footnotes, and words that spiral out from the corner of the page, and secret codes that run through the book like a madman. It's very much like the work of Thomas Pynchon; it's great.
I finished 2 books--The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer and Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani. The book by Meyer is a novella based on a character from the 3rd book in the Twilight series, Eclipse. It was surprisingly well written. The Trigiani book is the sequel to Very Valentine. It wasn't a completely satisfying story, but Trigiani's ability to give voice to her characters is what I was focused on. I never finished reading The Switch by Elmore Leonard, so I'll probably take up with that one next.
An Expensive Education by Nick McDonnell So far, so good. Definitely a book that is hard to put down!
Cheers for your review Lemex, i think i'll make and effort and grab myself a copy What did you think of The Switch Marina? can't beat a bit of Elmore Leonard, haha. I've had a nice suprise today and had ten books arrive in the mail!! i went a little overboard but they were a bargain. Don't know which one to read first, haha. Peter Temple 'In the Evil day'. Dennis Lehane 'Sacred'. Andrew Davidson 'The gargoyle'. Hubert Selby Jr 'Requiem for a dream'. Hunter S Thompson 'Fear and loathing Las Vegas'. Ernesto Che Guevara 'Remeniscences of the cuban revolutionary war'. Edgar Allan Poe 'The fall of the hous of usher and other writings' Gerrard Donovan 'Julius Winsome' Cormac McCarthy 'Outer dark' Stephen Hunter 'Dirty white boys'
Well, whatever you decide on reading first, don't make it "Outer Dark." That's a great way to depress yourself early on in your reading list. haha Not that its bad, it's just pretty depressing.
I've just finished Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett. Sad to see that he now has to have somebody else write it down for him, but at least his wit and insight are still on top form.
I've just read If I Stay by Gayle Forman. After a futile trip into the big people books at Barnes and Noble, I wandered back to the YA section, and I'm glad I did. I loved this novel. I cried on several occasions. Now I'm reading One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey as a summer reading assignment.. I was amused by the writer's biography. I'm not very far into it, but it's wretched. I can't stand dialect - Huck Finn and the like. Next is The Stranger by Albert Camus, which will prove to be a depressing read, I'm sure.
The first law series, ... Joe Abercrombie... read his first two a while ago, then started the third, then put it down :I bad choice... and couldn't remember what was going on, so... haha restarted the series. His writting is amazing, and his characters are so complex and compelling it makes you wonder how there isn't a higher expectation on getting published. I would put this guy in my top 2 or 3 favorite writers, while other, ... unfavorable?... writers get published and well paid, have hollywood iterations of their ideas, and series/book mentions everywhere, and my boyfriend bought this book on accident while i'd been looking for a while for a good, fantasy/action, ... not childish, book. I'm so confused by my age group, haha.
I finished 19 Minutes and I am actaully sad by this fact... because I wanted it to magicaly keep getting longer or something until I was done with it. Definitely on my read again and again. I am currently reading Tap Tap by... er not sure the authors name at the moment. It starts off in present tense and that sorta threw me off and then switches to first person when the Main character is narrating... Don't have much of am impression on this book yet, but it is intriguing. So I will keep on reading.
I started reading 'Small Wars' by Sadie Jones the other day, but I've been too absorbed with Wimbledon and stuff so I've taken a break from it. I like it so far, and it's apparently better then 'The Outcast' (also by her which I loved). After Wimbledon has finished, I'll finish reading 'Small Wars', then I'll read 'Let the Great World Spin' by Colum McCann, and then reread 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy. Not necessarily in that order mind.
I didn't care for the Elmore Leonard book, The Switch. Just starting a John Grisham book written for middle school boys--Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer. Boyfriend & I are also listening to Pride & Prejudice & Zombies for our long drive this weekend. I didn't care for the book, but the reader is really good, so it's, as Elizabeth Bennet would say, "fairly tolerable."
Finished The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters, which was quite a good read. Now already started with the seventh installment of the Sword of Truth: Pillars of Creation by Terry Goodkind.
Hey RedRaven, you're back! Wonderful! I'm midway through Heinlein's collection of short stories Menace From the Earth. Once I finish it I will begin Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. Real excited for this one.
I loved that book. The writing might be a bit archaic, but the story is excellent. The movie was terrific too. I have to amend my opinion on Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. I thoroughly enjoyed the audiobook of it. The boyfriend, a zombie enthusiast lol, also gave me a UK book called The Enemy by Charlie Higson. It's a horror YA novel taking place in London in which everyone over 16 turns into a zombie.
Recently finished reading Hominids, by Robert J. Sawyer. It was a bit slow, but I liked it overall. Eventually I'll get around to reading The Lovely Bones. I heard it was quite good, if a bit gruesome. Not that that ever bothered me.
I wouldn't call it gruesome at all. I found it an interesting read, although I could not suspend my personal disbelief with respect to the autor's view of the afterlife.
In the middle of Joe Abercrombie's fantasy novel BEST SERVED COLD. Have also started Roberto Bolano's 2666, which looks pretty interesting.
I'm currently reading Moving Pictures By Terry Pratchett, good book too and think he is a good writer.
I am reading The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan. So far the second book isn't as good as his first but it is still an enjoyable read.
