Which book are you currently reading?
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Last month i read the first 5 books of ASong of Ice and Fire (game of thrones) and was miffed i gotta wait for book 6.
I pretty much didnt put them down except for the 4 days i was waiting foe book 3 from the library, im which time i read the 10th(?) In the Jason Bourne series.
Finished reading Doctor Sleep last night. I was pleased with how good it was. I was shocked when i heard King was writing a sequel to "the shining" a few years back and wasnt hiding out much hope for it, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Not sure if im going to start Joe Hills latest "Nos4a2" or stephen kings "joyland" next.
After i finish those two, i may re read the Hannibal series. Or possibly start my 4th read thru of the Dark Tower books. My first since Winds Through the Keyhole (book 4.5) came out
I pretty much didnt put them down except for the 4 days i was waiting foe book 3 from the library, im which time i read the 10th(?) In the Jason Bourne series.
Finished reading Doctor Sleep last night. I was pleased with how good it was. I was shocked when i heard King was writing a sequel to "the shining" a few years back and wasnt hiding out much hope for it, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Not sure if im going to start Joe Hills latest "Nos4a2" or stephen kings "joyland" next.
After i finish those two, i may re read the Hannibal series. Or possibly start my 4th read thru of the Dark Tower books. My first since Winds Through the Keyhole (book 4.5) came out
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Currently flitting between "A Scanner, Darkly", "Convict Conditioning" and "A guide to Lucid Dreaming".
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Congratulations on reading the ASOIAF series! I couldn't put them down, either. In fact, like a complete nutter, I read them each at least twice, and joined a forum devoted to their discussion.
Currently available is a series of three prequel novellas set in Westeros a hundred years before Game of Thrones begins, featuring Dunk (Ser Duncan the Tall, a hedge knight) and his young squire Egg (Prince Aegon Targaryen in disguise). (Not a spoiler.)
There will be up to ten of these prequels eventually written, according to the author George RR Martin, and they will likely be produced for TV. They are much lighter in tone than the main series, and are very charmingly written, perfect gems of the art of storytelling. I enjoyed them immensely. A couple of the character eventually reappear in the ASOIAF series, Aemon Targaryen the maester at Castle Black, and Brynden with his one red eye.
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- TurboLefty78
About 75 pages into Terry Brooks newest, The Dark Legacy of Shannara: Bloodfire Quest. Good read so far. Next up will be either the third in this trilogy, or Dan Brown, Inferno. Then again, there's Terry Goodkinds newest as well. So many choices!
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Of Mice and Men for school. I am slightly sick of it to be honest, every lesson is analysis of the same themes of the book. It's a very good book, but when you need to write for 31/2 hours on isolation and loneliness, it gets a little repetitive.
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- FlyingAGasoline
Oh, man. I have a bunch of books that I've started. I've had a really short attention span lately, as there are so many books that interest me. I'm a book addict.
I'm re-reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire,
re-reading the sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Halfway through God in Search of Man by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Started The guide to the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides
Working through the following:
Lamb by Christopher Moore
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Unsettled by Melvin Konner
Wage Labour and Capital & Value, Price, and Profit by Karl Marx
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
I'm re-reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire,
re-reading the sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Halfway through God in Search of Man by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Started The guide to the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides
Working through the following:
Lamb by Christopher Moore
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Unsettled by Melvin Konner
Wage Labour and Capital & Value, Price, and Profit by Karl Marx
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
The last book I read a few months ago was a book written by Agatha Christie. It took me a very long time to end it >>> (3 weeks).
Conclusion: I don't like reading books.
Reading a very long post on GTP is a huge effort, so reading an entire book is torture.
Conclusion: I don't like reading books.
Reading a very long post on GTP is a huge effort, so reading an entire book is torture.
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- photonrider
Sometimes I have to give myself that Jack Ryan fix . . . though for many of the other characters, too. I'll gather a bunch of Clancys and read them one after the other. Great pace, and Tom feeds techno-speak that is total fodder for any techno-geek.
Dan Brown's good for that, too . . . though I'd venture to say the master of feeding us the most strangest of speculative fiction would be Michael Crichton.
Just finished the 'The Golden Mean' by Annabelle Lyon. - a fictional reconstruction of Aristotle's relationship with Alexander the Great.
Darn. They swore a lot. And quite a bit of drinking and whoring. Who knew.
It's fiction of course. Hearsay.
Started on the sequel, but many other books keep coming into my life. They just keep coming, and coming, and coming. Someone said 'reading' was dead? They're reading in the wrong places, then.
Dan Brown's good for that, too . . . though I'd venture to say the master of feeding us the most strangest of speculative fiction would be Michael Crichton.
Just finished the 'The Golden Mean' by Annabelle Lyon. - a fictional reconstruction of Aristotle's relationship with Alexander the Great.
Darn. They swore a lot. And quite a bit of drinking and whoring. Who knew.
It's fiction of course. Hearsay.
Started on the sequel, but many other books keep coming into my life. They just keep coming, and coming, and coming. Someone said 'reading' was dead? They're reading in the wrong places, then.
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- GTP_sneakyboy62
I just started to read a French novel titled "L'elegance du herisson"(the elegance of the hedgehog) from yesterday - that deals with a routine story of a concierge in charge of maintenance of a street, where is famous for being very elegant as a compound for rich people in "bourgeois" walk, and her concealed appearance as a geek for literature and philosophy which she never hopes to reveal in contact with other people at the very first of the plot, being introspective that she thinks she's no more than a chubby and homely woman and is no worth of living, but she gradually changes her mind to outside world in a peg of running into a girl who's being bullied at school for being very precocious compared to her classmates and wishes to commit a suicide on her thirteenth birthday.
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