Lord Kargan Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 What's scary is just how possible that looked, at least at the time it was written, with the rise of the Moral Majority and all. Right now, I'm reading Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Lieber. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerina Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 Sup guys? So I just finished the new Stephanie Plum, because I had to read my history book first! I laughed through most of it. Now my friend, Tracey, has me reading J.R. Ward's Dark Lover. It's a part of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. So far...it's pretty ok. Decent sex scenes...weird vampires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 Yeah I read the first one and thought it was pretty bad. I'm reading A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore. It has a delightfully neurotic main character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted August 22, 2009 Author Share Posted August 22, 2009 LOVE A Dirty Job. I gave it to my mom to read on her flight to Cali (she was going to San Francisco, so I thought it was appropriate), and she called me the minute her plane landed to tell me that she was laughing so hard, the guy sitting next to her thought she was a crackpot Cerina - lucky! I haven't made it to 15 yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Thinking about rereading HP and the DH... but I currently have Me Talk Pretty One Day in my purse right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashmere Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 You should read BOTH! I read Me Talk Pretty One Day a few years ago. I enjoyed it, but I don't remember it being as funny as Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted August 27, 2009 Author Share Posted August 27, 2009 I'm halfway through Charles Frazier's Thirteen Moons, and I'm loving it. However, Nova loaned me Finger Lickin' Fifteen... for exactly six days. So, I'm going to have to take a break to read that, which will be quite the brain switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 I think I'm going to start with Me Talk... feel out the mood and if I want something lighter go with Harry Potter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olla86 Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 I am reading THE GREAT GATSBY by F.Scott Fizgerald. I like it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.CAllen Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Hey it is The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer for the second time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted September 7, 2009 Author Share Posted September 7, 2009 Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book. So far, very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabor Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 I'm about halfway through Stephen King's The Stand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted September 13, 2009 Author Share Posted September 13, 2009 Well, I'm about halfway through Dante's Inferno, but the library delivered on M.T. Anderson's Octavian Nothing Vol. 2, and I wanted to re-read Vol. 1, so... I'm just starting Octavian Nothing: The Pox Party, and the Inferno is being put on hold. Sorry, Dante and Virgil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.CAllen Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Hey you guys it is totally Maps of Time : An Introduction to Big History by David Christian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted September 14, 2009 Author Share Posted September 14, 2009 Hey you guys it is totally Maps of Time : An Introduction to Big History by David Christian. I totally read that! For a class! I'm sorry I thought it was dry as dust, but I did like the subject. It's what got me into anthropology, ironically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.CAllen Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Dry as dust? IT BEGINS WITH THE GREATEST EXPLOSION OF ALL TIME!!!!!!111111!!!!!!!!1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted September 15, 2009 Author Share Posted September 15, 2009 One explosion, and no car chases. FAIL!!1!1! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Ray Kenobi Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 I'm listening to the audio book version of The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. I have a love hate relationship with this guy. I really dislike his writing style during the conventional parts of his books, but love the parts that go into pseudo-lectures about history and such. Even if I don't really know which parts to believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashmere Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 I just discovered my love for audiobooks in the last year or so. Do you listen to lots of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Ray Kenobi Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Some. It just depends on how good the narrator is. The guy doing the narration for The Lost Symbol is the same guy that does a lot of History Channel documentaries, so that makes total sense. He's not the best, but he's really good to listen to throughout all of the many historical descriptions in the book. There are a lot of audiobooks I can think of where a bad narrator ruins the whole thing. I tried to listen to Neal Stephenson's Anathem, but the narrator is just horrible. His monotonous tone and lack of an ability to do character voices makes the thing a chore to listen to, I just kinda gave up on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted September 19, 2009 Author Share Posted September 19, 2009 I tried to listen to Neal Stephenson's Anathem, but the narrator is just horrible. His monotonous tone and lack of an ability to do character voices makes the thing a chore to listen to, I just kinda gave up on that. That's sad. I heard Stephenson read the first part of the first chapter, and it was riveting. But, despite having a copy for a year now, I still haven't read it... Anyway, I'm reading Octavian Nothing Vol. II... and one of these days I'm going to get through the boring part and finish it. So far, I like the first one better. I also had a MASSIVE bout of insomnia last night, and cracked off the first quarter of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, which makes Dan Brown look like Shakespeare It did work, I was yawning pretty quickly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Euronymous Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Oh gawd Dan Brown's new book requires effort to read. It's ok. Just the pathetic character dialogue makes me wanna puke, throw the book into a fire, or beat up someone much smaller than me....or all 3 at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted September 27, 2009 Author Share Posted September 27, 2009 Tim Powers' On Stranger Tides here. Yes, in anticipation of the new POTC movie So far it's surprisingly good for a story about a puppeteer that becomes a pirate and has to battle Voodoo forces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Kargan Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Dune - Frank Herbert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashmere Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 That one has been recommended to me by a few people, Kargan, but I haven't picked it up yet. I'd love to hear your thoughts after you've read it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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