The Caine is an excellent book. Read that about a month or two ago and find it to be the best novel I've read in years! Enjoy
Currently reading Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt and The Strain by Guillermo Del Torro and Chuck Hogan.
A song for Arbonne, by Guy Gavriel Kay. I don't like having to admit that I find it rather boring... maybe that'll change, but that's my opinion so far.
A tome with many great uses after you have finished it. I think mine was used for kindle on a cold night. Loved the beginning. Straight to it. Reading "From the Corner of His Eye" My favourite Koontz. Kind of not sure what to read lately.
'Salem's Lot by Stephen King. It's not good, in any way, but I loved it as a kid and have been wanting to reread it for some time.
Kay was a wonderfully flowing prose, but I've never read that one. I would suggest you start with The Summer Tree.
The Catch Trap. M.Z. Bradley A post in a different thread brought it to mind and so I had to go and dig it up.
The 4th book in the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris (TrueBlood). I know, I know, lame fiction, yahda yahda yahda, but I love it. I needed an easy, girly read - and I turn to the next book in the series each time. I finish 'em in a day or two, but they're alot of fun.
I know what you mean. I've felt jaded from reading so much new stuff this last couple of days, so it was just a couple of short stories yesterday and starting yet another re-read of Life, the Universe and Everything tonight. Got 100 pages in, I can read the whole thing in 2 hours Then it's back to my short story collection and The Bourne Identity.
I'm going to read the Sookie Stackhouse series when I finish A Song of Ice and Fire. Not all books you read have to be heavy and intense or super enlightening. Sometimes it's nice just to read something fun.
Started them too a few days ago. Already at the second.. This is like fastfood. You know you could do better, but it's hard to pass up.
A Song for Arbonne is good. The Summer Tree (Fionavar Tapestry) is very good, as is Tigana. Also, The Last Light of the Sun and Ysabel are both very good. Actually, I can't think of anything by Kay that hasn't been very well done.
I don't know, the story just fails to interest me. I don't have this feeling that I can't put the book down, as with some other stories. Maybe it's because I'm reading it in Dutch or something, but I don't find it special at all.
I've read all those except The Last Light of the Sun. Fionavar Tapestry is excellent, as is Tigana. Actually, Tigana is something that is very special. Mmm, If you read the others, I think you should read them in English. I wonder how much the prose changes and how much things such as puns are lost due to translation... I remember translating German poems into English. Direct translation was nonsensical, you essentially had to rewrite the poem so it would make sense, but much of the double meanings and puns were lost in translation- thus the beauty was lost also.
Lolita, again. I've read it twice for the sheer enjoyment of it, but now I'm going back to seriously study it from both linguistic and literary perspectives. I wish I understood French; I've been told there are some multilingual puns. And I wish I could write half as well as Vladimir Nabokov.
Well, I finished reading King's Under the Tome Dome. Full of creepy, greedy, and downright unpleasant characters who were mostly believable but still a bit over the top. Still, the characterization was the best component of the novel. The dome, of course, is more a plot device than a believable artifact, and exists to separate the townspeople from the outside world while permitting limited interaction. The following comments are a bit spoilery: Spoiler The dome, which for reasons never adequately explains, is not spherical, nor is its ground intersection circular. It exactly follows the borders of the town, and extends upward several miles to a top surface that may or may not be rounded. King made it somewhat permeable to water and air, clearly for the sake of the painfully protracted ending. And given the nature of those responsible for the dome, it makes even less sense that the dome follows municipal bouundries - they would not, by the parameters of their interest in the town, have absolutely no awareness of such demarcations. The final salvation of the few weary survivors simple screams deus ex machina in flashing purple letters. King began the novel in the 1970s, got discouraged, and lost the partial manuscript. In 2007, he rewrote the beginning from memory and pushed through to complete it. King indulged quite a bit in one of his bad habits: telegraphing. Not foreshadowing, which is more of a subtle fore-image of something yet to occur. No, telegraphing, along the lines of, "She would wonder later if much of the loss of lives about to take place might have been avoided if she had not decided to hold back and wait." He does this repeatedly. It does NOT increase the tension, it dissipates it. You already have a strong sense that something else is about to hit the fan, but much of King's telegraphing gives the reader the sense of, "Okay, I had a feeling this was coming, I guess it's gonna be now." Sloppy. The "town in a Bell jar" concept is a fun one to play with. Some of his exploration of it is quite good. But it drags out too long, and the final couple hundred pages are more torture for the reader than for the poor unfortunates of Chester's Mill.
Just started 'Suite Francaise' by Irene Nemirovsky. I'm enjoying it so far. Also, I'm slowly working my way through 'Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers' by Joyce Carol Oates which I'm reading for when I go back to university.
The Southern vampire Mysteries/Sookie Stackhouse Novels. (Got the first 4 on me). My absolute love for True Blood, makes this a must read.
I've just read Salem's Lot and he does this a LOT. I got sick of it. I'm currently about to start The Cinder Path by Andrew Mordon.
Almost finished the first installment in the Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (which, if I recall correctly, is also named that way). Didn't know a book could be so hilarious!
You should listen to the original radio serials, they're even better. I'm currently about to start re-reading John Marsden's Tomorrow Series in preparation for the upcoming movie.
I've just finished The Cinder Path by Andrew Mordon. I really enjoyed it, it's just a shame that I read it in such a short space of time, little under one hour. Oh well... Currently re-reading Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche.
