I still have dreams about that book.Originally Posted by Dalyn
Just finished
This one is gonna stay with me a while. Too close to home.
I still have dreams about that book.
Just finished
This one is gonna stay with me a while. Too close to home.
Revival is fantastic so far.
Finished Revival last week. Loved it. Now reading The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber. Good so far. Hope it isn't really his last book.
Hilarious book.
Since I finished The Book of Strange New Things, I've devoured Faber's other work. I can't recommend him enough, particularly The Book of Strange New Things.
I have been reading The Stand by Stephen King and it's great. I'm extremely excited to finish it.
Next, I'm going to begin Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson I think. Anyone read that or him? Would you recommend?
Dalyn (12-15-2014)
Sanderson is above average now. He learned a lot finishing The Wheel of Time series for Jordan.
The Stand is one of my favorite books of all time.
Can't wait for the new movies.
I just finished it and it was fantastic.
Highly recommend it to anyone here
Dalyn (01-18-2015)
Just started this but loving it so far.
I read Bryson's latest, One Summer: America, 1927, around this time last year and walked away thoroughly impressed/informed. I want that man's vocabulary.
Then you need to check out
Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors and
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right
I can't believe I haven't read this guy before now. Looking forward to other books of his:
Notes from a Small Island (1995), an exploration of Britain and
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Some good stuff here -
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jenniferscha...-am#.rf9Z38Jjb
My favorites of the ones listed -
22. “At the still point, there the dance is.”
—T. S. Eliot, “Four Quartets”
32. “We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.”
—Tom Stoppard, "Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead"
38. “I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
—Raymond Carver, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”
45. “I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
—Khaled Hosseini, "The Kite Runner"
46. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"
48. “And the rest is rust and stardust.”
—Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita"
Loved this book. It morphed into an indictment of Japanese POW mistreatment for too long and I think that hurt the book but it was still one of the best biographies I've ever read.
First P.G. Wodehouse I've ever read. Funny stuff. The Monty Python comedians say they grew up reading him.
Just finished up Storm of Swords. Damn good book. Crazy how that book ened. Series is amazing. Will start A Feast for Crows tomorrow.
Dalyn (02-01-2015)
An unforgettable book. When you finish with the series, do yourself a favor and check out Martin's other work. He's a fantastic writer.
Gonna do a spoiler for my question just in case followers of just the show read this.
Spoiler:
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