Cashmere Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 I especially liked the first Wicked book. Great suggestion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Ray Kenobi Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I've been reading Stephen King's 11-22-63. It's the only book of his that I've ever actually been able to read through. I've always wanted to read through The Dark Tower, but I just can't make my way through his over-description and invented languages. This really doesn't have any of that. It mainly is about stopping the Kennedy assassination, but there's a whole lot of other fun stuff going on it too. I've been surprised at how cool it is to look at the late 50's and early 60's through the narrative of someone from 2011. Also, I won't spoil it, but there's a ton of fun stuff that plays with time travel paradoxes and the butterfly effects that certain degrees of changes can make. Anyways, I totally recommend it. It's such a cool mix of history, sci-fi, and time travel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good God a Bear Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 I'm trying to read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. The story is good, but the way Foer writes the novel gets on my nerves so I don't know if I can finish it. He can have an entire page that is nothing but one long sentence. And I know he's writing it like it's the actual thoughts of the boy but it drives me insane. That and the way he handles dialogue between characters. He puts it all in one paragraph and it is sometimes difficult to distinguish who is saying what. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted January 20, 2012 Author Share Posted January 20, 2012 I'm finally reading Gabaldon's Outlander. 1/6th in, so far so good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUAJedi2 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Just finished re-reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashmere Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 YAY!!! I just did a happy dance, Icy! You made my day! Now I just hope you don't get too wierded out by all the craziness. It's been a long time since I read those, RUA. I think I was in middle school. Would you say they're worth the re-read? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted January 20, 2012 Author Share Posted January 20, 2012 Now I just hope you don't get too wierded out by all the craziness. You've seen my reading lists, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Virul Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Sheepy is making me read a Stephen King. My expression is pretty much like Okay Guy meme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashmere Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Ugh, good luck. I can't stand most of the Stephen King stuff I've read. Whatever you do, DON'T read It. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Virul Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 ... Well ****! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted January 20, 2012 Author Share Posted January 20, 2012 Lmao! Yes, this is me laughing at your pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUAJedi2 Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Ugh, good luck. I can't stand most of the Stephen King stuff I've read. Whatever you do, DON'T read It.Seriously? One of the best books ever. Oh, and I usually re-read LOTR every spring and every fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashmere Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 The ending is super stupid and the middle is filled with raping children and murdering puppies. Not really my thing. Jason has already tried to argue its case, but I will never go back and read it again. I hated it so much. I could do LOTR again though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted January 25, 2012 Author Share Posted January 25, 2012 YAY!!! I just did a happy dance, Icy! You made my day! Now I just hope you don't get too wierded out by all the craziness.By "craziness", you mean violence against women, right? Was every Scottish guy a rapist in the 1700's? It is a good book, in spite of that. It's a slow read, tho, I'm maybe 3/4 through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashmere Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 The violence isn't just against women. It's pretty violent all the way around. And just generally bizarre, of course. If you keep going with the series, expect much more of the same! I'm getting in to The Help now. I started reading it after watching the movie, and I was afraid it would be exactly the same. Now that I'm six or eight chapters in, I definitely like the book better. *Please note that I watched the movie before I took the Read it First pledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted January 26, 2012 Author Share Posted January 26, 2012 The violence is definitely mostly directed at Claire in the first one. Even from Jaimie. Sheesh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishdancer2 Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 I had a little extra time this morning, so I started The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff and was almost late to class. Then I came home and thought I'd sit and read for half an hour. Four hours later I finally tore myself away. It started slow, but it got better. I'm not impressed with her prose, and there have been a few times when I questioned if her editor read it or skimmed it, but I love the storyline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted February 1, 2012 Author Share Posted February 1, 2012 William Beckford's The History of Caliph Vathek. I may or may not be reading it because Will Herondale recommended it to Tessa Gray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishdancer2 Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 I just finished Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua, and I couldn't put it down. It's a very controversial book because Chua is extremely strict with her children and ridicules self-esteem parenting. While I found her a bit extreme at times, I mostly agreed with her methods. It was an incredibly honest portrait of trying to raise children in a strict, traditionally Chinese way in lazy America Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted February 6, 2012 Author Share Posted February 6, 2012 In addition to Vathek (which is getting repetitive), I'm also reading Stephen Hunt's the Court of the Air Tree, which is crazy good, especially for a book I picked up from Dollar Tree (for a whole $1.06!) on a whim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Well, I just finished Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham this past weekend. I'm in the middle of Count Zero by William Gibson yet. I just can't get into Count Zero the way I did Neuromancer, but it's not too bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Now I'm reading An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage. Like Catching Fire, but more about modern history and the influence quests for food have had on events. Currently I'm in the chapter on how the quest for spices in Europe helped drive the boom in exploration in the 15-16th centuries. Very interesting. We remember that Columbus was looking for a faster route to the Indies, but forget why he wanted to find a faster route - for spices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashmere Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Sounds interesting even though it's completely different than most of what I read. I'm sensing a theme in your latest picks. Any reason your interest in the subject was peaked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 Well, I've always had an interest in human evolution and history. I have a variety of books by Donald Johanson and Richard Leakey on hominids, and many history books. When Borders was having a sale, I loaded up with dozens of new titles for my library. I spotted Catching Fire and Edible History at Borders goin out of business sale, and honestly, I was just really hungry at the time, too. I don't know if I would have bought them if I weren't hungry! But they were good buys even so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Finished An Edible History of Humanity and started Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky over this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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