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Reading: Joyland by Stephen King
Enjoying it very much. I am a big fan of King, and his recent stuff has been top notch. Looking forward to Dr. Sleep (sequel to The Shining) later this year.
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Reading: Joyland by Stephen King
Enjoying it very much. I am a big fan of King, and his recent stuff has been top notch. Looking forward to Dr. Sleep (sequel to The Shining) later this year.
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I've read It from King. Thought it was outstanding. Read the first book or two of that monthly series of books he wrote 20 years or so ago. Forget what that was. But enjoyed them as well, just fell behind and couldn't get back to them.
(I'm enjoying Under the Dome on tv!)
I read IT when I was 11 or so. Very good book.
The Green Mile rocked, and it also had one of the best screen adaptations.
I'm enjoying Under the Dome, too, but it is completely different than the book. Still enjoyable. Just different.
11/22/63 is a recent favorite of his. Damn near perfect book, and it has a little treat for IT fans.
How about a nod to my avatar. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is the best non-fiction book I've ever read.
Just finished:
Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Start by Jon Acuff
Reading now:
Entreleadership by Dave Ramsey
Ive read a bunch of king books. Theres something about his writing style that turns me off.
Maximum Overdrive waa the **** though.
I just can't get into reading in the summer. The kids love being outside and watching them grow up is cool unlike my eldest who grew up in Germany. I am going to hit those books you have suggested Dalyn sometime later on this year.
I was looking that list of books you posted in this thread.
Battlefield Earth - the original, not the re-edited version was a great story until it got really stupid.
Firefly - Piers Anthony - pretty decent for his odd writing style
Weaveworld - Clive Barker - an underrated book that is very good
Growing up I liked Jay Bennett, Mable Ester Allen and don't laugh, Phyllis Whitney. During the day I played sports like normal kids, but at night, I would curled up on the couch reading until I fell asleep.
The staple was Allen and Carolyn Keene's Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys, until I persuaded the librarian to allow me to read Jay Bennett books at 13.
Also I read a lot of King's short stories under his pseudonym Bachman, which includes the classics Running Man, The Walk et al.
Cool. You will enjoy Ready Player One and Altered Carbon.
I like barker. Most consider him a horror author. I found his books to be more fantasy than anything.
Reading "The Man Who Made It Snow" by Max Mermelstein right now. Entertaining story of the only American allowed inside the Columbian Cocaine Cartels.
Recently finished: Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler.
Currently reading: Selected Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, initially because I wanted to compare what is probably Maupassant's most famous story – his first work published under his own name, Boule de Suif – to one of my favorite films, John Ford's Stagecoach, which it fairly faithfully inspired (in a somewhat transliterated sense).
But Maupassant has a delicacy of tone, a very subtle and surprising wit, and masterful sense of people, all of which render most of his stories superb. Boule de Suif and Madame Tellier's Establishment (also adapted to film, as the middle of the triptych which forms Max Ophüls' Le Plaisir, and which features a key performance by the inimitable Jean Gabin) are the lengthier standouts of those stories I've read so far (I'm about halfway through the collection); however, Rust and The Conservatory are both delightfully wry interrogations of connubial conventions and stagnating relations, Two Friends is a bittersweet tale of simple pleasures amongst the plights of Prussian (and, by extension, any belligerent) occupation, while The Graveyard Sisterhood may be my favorite of his stories, modest and brief as it is.
Maupassant is really a master of the final paragraph (or paragraphs, in some cases), and owns a cutting but compassionate eye. I'd highly recommend at least checking out Boule de Suif, if nothing else — especially if you're a fan of Stagecoach, or any of the ilk of "captive group" films that Ford's first talkie western influenced.
I have never read Maupassant. Thank you for the rec.
If you end up going the Selected Short Stories route, I'd suggest the previous Penguin Classics edition, translated by Richard Colet, rather than the newer and current Sian Miles edition. From reviews I've read, Colet's translation is fairly superior; the main supposed selling-point of the newer edition is that it includes The Necklace, which Colet notes in his introduction he purposely excluded despite its fame because he finds the story inferior and not representative of Maupassant's real strengths; and used versions of the Colet edition retail for one-cent on Amazon.
I just finished EntreLeadership by Dave Ramsey. My next book is More Than Enough by Dave Ramsey.
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No Raymond Chandler fans up in this business?
Books I picked up yesterday:
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Winterbirth by Brian Ruckley
The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean Carroll
The Family Lovecraft.
"Cthulu" was my private nickname for Cristhian Martinez. Couldn't get it to stick, for some reason.
Alright guys, please recommend a good suspense/thriller for me. (not horror)
Love Grisham style books with low amounts of language, don't need graphic smut, just a good story line.