Subject: What are you reading now?
Posted by: briansqueen
Date: Apr 26 04
Ok, whats everyone reading now, and how are you liking it, would you recommend it?
I am re-reading Stephen Kings' "The Stand", I read it years ago as a young teen, and it went over my head, so I thought I'd give it another shot, now that Im older and wiser(?). Wish Me Luck! S.
Posted by: briansqueen
Date: Apr 26 04
Ok, whats everyone reading now, and how are you liking it, would you recommend it?
I am re-reading Stephen Kings' "The Stand", I read it years ago as a young teen, and it went over my head, so I thought I'd give it another shot, now that Im older and wiser(?). Wish Me Luck! S.
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Caseena
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"Get Thee Back to the Future". It's by the same guy who wrote all the Star Wars movies as Shakespeare plays. I had mixed feelings about the two SW plays I read, but "Get Thee" is hilarious, with its iambic pentameter/16th century renderings of BttF dialogue. I highly recommend it. I hope he scribes the other two movies this way. Reply #1441. Dec 28 19, 3:03 PM |
Dagny1 
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I'm sort of skimming through The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton. That book is 50 years old - hard to believe. At this point I honestly can't recall if I read it or if I'm just remembering it from the movie. Probably I read it since I always enjoyed his books. Anyway, the reason I'm refreshing myself on the story-line is in preparation for The Andromeda Evolution by Michael Crichton and Daniel H. Wilson. Have it on hold and should get it later this month. Reply #1442. Jan 01 20, 9:43 AM |
kingruins
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Currently reading "Hex" by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, which is a horror novel about a town living under a witch's curse. Pretty good so far with a number of creepy moments. Reply #1443. Jan 25 20, 8:36 PM |
| Dagny1
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Oh, I forgot to come back after reading The Andromeda Evolution by Michael Crichton and Daniel H. Wilson a few weeks ago. It was a pretty good read, but you don't need to have read The Andromeda Strain first. Since Evolution takes place about fifty or so years after Strain, the characters are different. One is the son of an original character and that's about the only correlation re characters. It would be quite enjoyable on it's own - although, as is often the case for me with multiple characters, I always find that some are more fun to read than others. Reply #1444. Feb 26 20, 3:12 PM |
| Caseena
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The eighth Malazan book, "Toll the Hounds". I still need to write up my quizzes on the seventh book. Reply #1445. Feb 29 20, 1:39 PM |
Cymruambyth
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'Learning to Walk in the Dark' by Barbara Brown Taylor. It's the text we're using for a Lenten study on aging and spirituality. Reply #1446. Mar 01 20, 4:25 PM |
Mixamatosis
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This is my current reading list: 'Life' by Keith Richards, 'The Plague' by Albert Camus and 'Circe' by Madeleine Miller. Reply #1447. Mar 20 20, 3:14 PM |
albert11
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How are you liking 'Circe'? I enjoyed reading 'The Odyssey' from the perspective of a Goddess. M. Miller is one of the good writers of popular fiction. Currently (re)reading: 'The Plague', Albert Camus 'The Stand', Stephen King 'Sapiens', Yuval Noah Harari 'Far From the Tree', Andrew Solomon And surprise... Dr. Dolittle! Reply #1448. Mar 20 20, 3:57 PM |
TheQueenly1
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I'm reading "The Hunting Party" by Lucy Foley. It is a good book for anyone who likes either mysteries or books with well-written characters. It is rather like the works of Agatha Christie in that a group of people, friends since the days they were at Oxford together, go to an extremely isolated hunting lodge in the north of Scotland, to reunite and ring in the New Year's together. Someone is killed, and...things go from there. Even if you are not normally a mystery fan, this is a very good book to read, because the characterization is brilliant, and the writing style very good. Reply #1449. Mar 22 20, 8:33 PM |
| Mixamatosis
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Hi Albert, I haven't actually started Circe yet. I expected to, but I got distracted. Trying to read several books at once is not the best way really. I enjoyed a previous book by Madeleine Mirror called 'The Song of Achilles' which is why I wanted to read 'Circe' also. I looked up some amazon reviews of 'Song of Achilles' and it seems Madeleine Miller is like Marmite. Some people love her style of writing and some people dislike it describing it as simplistic, rather like teen literature. When I read 'Circe' I will now have these reviews in my head and will be more conscious of what they've said while I am reading to see if I agree. Reply #1450. Mar 25 20, 4:38 PM |
| Mixamatosis
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* Madeleine Miller not Mirror. Lol. My brain goes onto autopilot sometimes. Reply #1451. Mar 25 20, 4:39 PM |
daver852
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I am reading a book called "Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died in the 1940s." It's quite interesting. Reply #1452. Apr 24 20, 3:12 PM |
| Dagny1
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Is anyone making headway on their old books? Aside from bookcases, I have books under my bed and on the closet floor among a few other scattered places. I thought with this staying home bit that I'd really make some headway. Ha - two are all I've managed so far. But I'm still reading eBooks a lot and mostly listening to audio books through our state (Alabama) library system. Not sure when my local library will reopen, but saw a news report that most of the libraries in Huntsville are now offering curbside pickup! Interesting. Reply #1453. May 09 20, 6:31 AM |
CatherineScott
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I have been reading a short story called. The Mysterious Secret Hidden Valley I found it here.  https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B081MCTS1WIn The Mysterious Secret Hidden Valley By Joey Vimsante. A pilot tries to destroy the population of a small populated but isolated valley. Reply #1454. May 31 20, 10:23 AM |
paulmallon
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"Countdown 1945" by Chris Wallace The countdown begins 116 days before the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by Col. Paul Tibbets. (Reads like a mystery novel-excellent). Reply #1455. Jun 15 20, 1:10 PM |
Caseena
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I'm still on that Malazan book. I've hardly read any physical books in months, which is unheard of for a bookworm like me. I just haven't felt like it. I work at a library and we're weeding out books for a book sale, and I've picked up so many, yet am afraid that I won't read them. Most are for reference: 1001 Nights, Odyssey, Spanish/English dictionary, myths, how to draw, comics, etc. However, I'm still doing audiobooks. I'm almost done with Hero with a Thousand Faces. I've tried to read it for years and never got very far. With audio, it's much easier to pick up on things. It'll definitely be worth a second listen. I'm also listening to I Am a Cat, told from the POV of a cat in Meiji Japan as he observes humans. It's amusing: the cat sees that another cat catches mice but is not allowed to eat them; meanwhile, his owners get money for each rodent he kills. So, our hero cat decides to never catch rodents so his humans won't exploit his work. Reply #1456. Jul 05 20, 9:50 AM |
rubytops
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By Sky by Kate Atkinson Reply #1457. Jul 05 20, 9:57 AM |
| rubytops
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Should read....Big Sky Reply #1458. Jul 05 20, 9:58 AM |
| kingruins
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Almost done with "The Memory Police" by Yoko Ogawa -- a book with the Orwellian themes of state surveillance and the enforced disappearance of objects on a Japanese island. Not nearly as good as Orwell himself but I've enjoyed the overall tone. After this I'm going to dive into Robert Caro's series of books on Lyndon Johnson and read from a book of Joyce Carol Oates short stories whenever I need a break from that. Reply #1459. Jul 12 20, 6:57 AM |
| Dagny1
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I just finished Antiques Maul by Barbara Allan. It was a fun, light read with plenty of humor - perfect for these times. Now reading A Thousand Generations by Traci DePree. I actually started it before finishing the other which was an eBook and I wanted to lug this library book around with me. I mention these two together because they both involve rather the same thing - a mystery turning up in current times from the 1920s or 1930s. One has a manikin with hidden compartments. The other has one of those life-size cigar-store type Indians with - you guessed it - secret compartments. Oh, and one of them also has a bullet hole. I kept getting the plots confused as to which item was in which book. The characters were no problem since they're both series mysteries so I had a good handle on the characters. Also kept getting confused as to what was found in which item. I'm usually reading/listening to three or four books at once and this is only the 2nd time in decades that this has happened to me. Reply #1460. Jul 12 20, 7:51 AM |
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