Legion Wrote:Yeah, read it. It was in high school, but it wasn't for a class or anything. Anytime the teachers would assign books to be read and reported on they would just ask me for a report knowing I had already read whatever it was on my own. Thats how I ended up sitting up at the teachers desk in most of my classes joking around while everybody else worked. I'd even go out to the local convenience store with one of them on coffee runs, or he would just bring me a coffee.
I wasn't a nerd of Potsy-like proportions or anything. I just loved to read.
And you're so very right about the size of that book. The my ex and I watched the latest film adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo and she said she would like to read the book. Next time we were in a book store I showed it to her and laughed.
She didn't buy it.
That is why I read the book. I saw an add for the movie and thought, that looks good! I think that I will read the book. I am on page 229. SOOOO much morre. He is not even a Count yet!!!:yikes:
"Lord, what fools these mortals be"
"The opposite of war isn't peace; it's creation."
You'd think that Killing people would make them like you, but it doesn't! it just makes people dead.
Scott Miller Wrote:Congratulations sound in order. Your First? What do you know so far? I was a stay-at-home for a whole year after my daughter was born(my son was already 4) and it was wonderful.Thanks for that. September 24th was the day, wife and kid are all right, back at home, and now we're trying to get settled in.
"He's hungry" ... "No, it's probably too hot" ... "or cold?" ... "he pooped AGAIN?"
joelfinkle Wrote:Andrew Vacchs' works are awesome: Start with "Flood" and you'll be hooked. Buying his books does the world good, too (his profits go to supporting his pro-bono legal practice helping abused kids)The incorrect spelling sent me around in all parts of the net, but with http://www.vachss.com I found Flood.
What I'm reading right now is the latest by Brad Meltzer called The Book Of Lies, and it's a page-turner. Before that the newest by Steve Jordan (pretty good!), American Gods by Neil Gaiman (whoa ... weird) and some more Harlan Coben.
I really, really enjoy Neil Gaiman's novels...and think "American Gods" is one of the best books I've read in the past decade. I also enjoyed "Anansi Boys".
Another author who writes with a similar premise, but totally different results, is Charles deLint. I think I'd like living in Newfield and hanging out with Jilly Coppercorn and her friends.
Another author who writes with a similar premise, but totally different results, is Charles deLint. I think I'd like living in Newfield and hanging out with Jilly Coppercorn and her friends.
"You have the right to remain silent. If you choose to waive this right, I may have to kill you in self-defense because you're boring me to death."
mad4tunes Wrote:I really, really enjoy Neil Gaiman's novels...and think "American Gods" is one of the best books I've read in the past decade. I also enjoyed "Anansi Boys".A couple of books I think you would enjoy are:
The Infinity Gambit by James P. Hogan
A former counter-terrorism specialist turned freelance takes on a corrupt national regime propped up by power politics and big-monied interests.
(This kind of reminds me of the movie THE WILD GEESE starring Richard Burton, Richard Harris, and Roger Moore.)
The Mirror Maze
by James P. Hogan
When a new political party espousing traditional, constitutional values sweeps into power, institutions of the current Establishment close ranks in an attempt to destroy it.
They are both excellent thrillers, and I think a lot of people on this board would especially like THE MIRROR MAZE.
Ken V.
mad4tunes Wrote:I really, really enjoy Neil Gaiman's novels...and think "American Gods" is one of the best books I've read in the past decade. I also enjoyed "Anansi Boys".
Last year I went to his signing and I met him. I liked "Anansi Boys" and "Good Omens".
This November, finally AMERICAN GODS is released in Japan!
Has anyone read "BLACK ORDER" by James Rollins?
I intended to read "Black Order" and "Infected" by turns. But "Black Order" is truly page-turner and I can't put it down.
I intended to read "Black Order" and "Infected" by turns. But "Black Order" is truly page-turner and I can't put it down.
Kenji Wrote:Last year I went to his signing and I met him. I liked "Anansi Boys" and "Good Omens".
This November, finally AMERICAN GODS is released in Japan!
I'm truly bummed as Gaiman is going to be in Boulder tomorrow and I can't go see him. I'm picking up his latest novel, The Graveyard Book, later this week and I have just begun rereading Sandman.
Scott
Jesus died for your sins, get your money's worth. Chad Daniels
Scott Miller Wrote:I'm truly bummed as Gaiman is going to be in Boulder tomorrow and I can't go see him.
Ah.....that's too bad, Scott. :nonod:
Scott Miller Wrote:I'm picking up his latest novel, The Graveyard Book, later this week and I have just begun rereading Sandman.
I heard about THE GRAVEYARD BOOK in his official site. I'm looking forward to it, too!
For something to feed your paranoia about the modern techno-state and its power over its citizens go read "The Traveler" and "The Dark River" by John Twelve Hawks. I'm a fairly easygoing liberal and those books made me want to black out my license plate and do my shopping in a ski mask...