The Sigma Force books are my go to vacation books. That and The Expanse books. Which speaking of the new book is out this week just in time for my next vacation.
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So @Cewsh once gave me the best advice ever: keep a book next to the shitter.
instead of looking at your phone, you’ll end up reading 10-20 pages at a time and knock out books easily.
I keep one book in the bathroom and one at work. This way I read on my toilet breaks at home and on my lunch break at work.
Oh and I’m still reading that death of Superman book. That’s my work book.
fot home, I’m reading Damned by Chuck Palanhiuk.
Began Severance by Mia Ling. Bookclub choice.
Wild Embers:Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty by Nikita Gill.
Follow-up on Damned:
its wonderful. It’s about a girl who goes to hell after overdosing on marijuana. Hell is more of a prison rather than Hellfire and brimstone. Being obsessed with the breakfast club, she meets up with other people (jock, pretty girl, punk, and nerd) who are in hell for a variety of things (cheating on a test, shoplifting, jaywalking) and they go on an adventure through the landscape of hell and do teenage shit. Basically breakfast club in hell.
written by the man who brought you “guts” and “fight club”.
On The Come Up -Angie Thomas.
Just picked up the Necroscope novels.
Did you read The Bone Labyrinth? That epilogue quite literally destroyed me. This was me, finishing the book before falling asleep and looking over at my sleeping wife:
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It's my turn to select for bookclub. Anyone have any good suggestions?
I didn't end up reading Severance.
You could look up the best sellers of last year or do classic books.
Ok, I'll put it up for vote. Cheers.
Started reading Storm Front by Jim Butcher today. It's the first book in the Dresden Files series, which my wife is a huge fan of. I tried getting into once before, but quickly gave up. Jumping back in now because, fuck it, why not?
Trying to read 12 books by years end. Haven't read more than 1-2 books a year in several years now. I'm down 2 already, only 10 more to go!
Currently:
Sissy A-Coming-Of-Gender-Story -Jacob Tobia
The Untethered Soul - Michael A Singer
....
Well I finally finished The Dark Tower series.
If you're a King fan and haven't read it. You should.
Goddamn I cried at so many parts of that last book.
I love the Dresden files. Read them all.
I got away from King. Great author but just started not caring as much about his stuff. I could never really get into the Dark Tower Series. I think I made it part of the way through book 3 or 4 and gave up.
Not reading anything for fun right now. Maybe soon after school is done.
Storm front is very good. Only another hundred or so pages left. Already put the next two on order at my library. Since they don’t carry it, they’re getting it from one of the libraries in our state.
11/22/63 is a King book I want to read.
Me too.
Many King books tie into the DT series (or vice versa I guess) and I've always wanted to read The Stand but for now I think my next one will be good old Pet Sematary. The book I've nearly started two hundred times but never did for one reason or another.
I'm gonna fucking do it this time.
Finished Storm Front and put the next few Dresden books on hold at the library. In the mean time, I decided to grab a Stephen King book since y’all keep talking about him so much. I remembered that I’d bought one years ago at a library sale, so I’ve been reading The Running Man over the last couple of days and it was fantastic. Didn’t think much of it at the start, but when the story really started going, it picked up tremendously and I couldn’t put it down.
Horrible is too strong. I just felt that in comparison to the rest of the book the ending was a bit of a let down. But it was still a good book.
It's more that the majority of the book was say a 9 and the ending was a 6 or 7.
Finished The Running Man a few days back. Finished reading Doomed by Chuck Palanhuik. It’s the sequel to the other book I read: Damned. Whereas Damned followed the story of this teenage girl in hell, this book follows a teenage girl in Purgatory. There’s supposed to be a third book, but Chuck hasn’t finished it yet. S’pose it would prob be about a girl in heaven.
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Finished The Dry - Jane Harper. Easy read. Good book turned better by a solid ending. 4/5.
Holy Sh!t Moment: Lasting Changes Can Happen In An Instant -James Fell
Audiobook
Take Control Of Your Life -Mel Robbins
Decided to take a break from reading the memoirs I'm drawn to and decided to get into something a little more mindless. I chose Matthew Reilly's series with Jack West Jr. as the main character. It's five books and I'm just starting the fifth. Each book has the world facing destruction from some extraterrestrial threat, not aliens but things like a massive solar flare that will melt the Earth, etc. They're mindless and filled with absolutely absurd action sequences but they're very well written and enjoyable to read. They'd make a great series of movies but the special effects budget would be crazy high.
He also wrote a different series of books with a Marine as the main character as well. Same basic idea, except instead of threats from space this series focused around the Marine fighting terrorists. That Marine shows up in one of the Jack West Jr. series and I was a bit of a fanboy for a minute.
Dark Tower, 11/22/63, Under the Dome are the ones I was thinking of.
I know people do like the Dark Tower and 11/22/63 endings but they just did not land right for me at all. Even looking back I still can't say I like them. It might be a bit harsh with Dark Tower as now that I've gone through and read many other fantasy/sci-fi series (Wheel of Time, Malazan Book of the Fallen, Broken Earth trilogy) I realize that it is hard to wrap everything up properly from a sprawling series.
Got started on Fool Moon, the second book in the Dresden files. I’m growing to be a big fan of Jim Butcher’s writing for these books. They’re so easy to read and just keep pulling you through the story.
Loved this - her next couple, 'Force of Nature' and 'The Lost Man' are well worth a read too - the latter especially. Thought it was excellent.
Read 'Thirteen' by an irish crime writer called Steve Cavaghnah. Lot of fun for a courtroom drama. Looks as if there's 4/5 books centred around the same central character so will check those out.
Also, read 'Kill Your Friends' by John Niven recently and its fucking disgusting but bloody great fun.
I was suprised that I really enjoyed the ending to the Dark Tower books after hearing so often that people hated it.
Granted I wasn't one of those that was waiting and reading them for 20 years. I just picked them all up at once and read them in a stretch.
I guess no ending was going to do for anything that had been built up that much for so long.
Has anyone read Leo Carew's "The Wolf"?
Second installment is meant to come out in the next month or two. First one was great.
Just read:
Convenience Store Woman
Currently:
With The Fire On High
Currently reading Educated by Tara Westover. Tough read because of things she experienced physically and emotionally at the hands of her family. But it's engrossing and I can't stop reading it. Highly recommended for anybody who liked The Glass Castle or Hillbilly Elegy.
I have Educated on a shelf, I really need to read it.
I am going to start "Where'd You Go, Bernadette" soon.
Started reading Fellowship of the Ring again after giving up years ago. I reckon I need to read the Tolkien books before I tackle ASOIAF or they'll just seem pretty lame.
Even without any Hobbit shagging I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would.
Making my way through Maskerade again.
Just as funny as I remember.
Howard Stern Comes Again:
I love Howard but knew this book wasn't for me as it's a "best of" type deal where he just sort of summarizes his favorite interviews with a few paragraphs talking about the interview. I've heard all of his interviews so reading them had no appeal to me. So why did I buy this book? I didn't, my brother ordered it from Amazon and had it sent to my apartment as a birthday gift, thoughtful but a waste of money. This book is more for someone who either only listens casually or has never heard his interviews because they are great but I have already heard them. I love The Dark Knight but I'm not interested in reading it.
So yeah, if you listen to Howard everyday this book is a waste of your time.
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert’s Year of Living Dangerously - Jessica Pan
I've got a lot of reading to do. I've recently bought "In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood" by Dr. Walt Brown, "The Annals of The World" by James Ussher, "The Chronology of The Old Testament" by Dr. Floyd Nolen Jones, "Newton's Revised History of Ancient Kingdoms" by Sir Isaac Newton, and "The Universal Model: A New Millennial Science Volume 1" by Dean W. Sessions. I've also got a few Star Wars books that I need to knock out. I just finished watching Under The Dome again, so I need to read the book too.
I’m currently reading Half of a Yellow Sun and i am thoroughly enjoying it.
Just picked up biographies/memoirs by: Neil Young, Bryan Cranston, Willie Nelson, Burt Reynolds, and Johnny Cash. Can't decide which to read first.
Just finishing up south of the border, west of the sun.
Is Norwegian wood better?
Well, lol, fair enough.
With that said, I do agree that George R.R. Martin could do something interesting with the LOTR franchise, I'd just skip over the other stuff.
Erotic Stores for Punjabi Widows
Little Fires Everywhere
They're making Hillbilly Elegy into a movie with Ron Howard directing. I can't recommend this book enough and am eagerly awaiting the movie. It was a tough read because it reminded me of some of my dad's family. Even a couple of friends who read it said it reminded them of my dad's family. Still, awesome book.
Finishing up an action novel now but I just got Me, by Elton John and Janis, by Holly George-Warren. Two of my favorite musicians so I hope the books are good.
Louis Theroux's autobiography. It's every bit as clever and funny as I thought it would be and the more I read, the more I love him.
Jo Nesbo - The Thirst
The best crime writer in the world right now. I'm about half way through and it is tense as hell.
How does everyone read? I've never read a digital book, and have always preferred the physical book form. I've been having this problem where I'll pick up a book, read a paragraph, then say "fuck this" and go play a game or something. It's a very frustrating struggle because I want to read. I suppose I have to get used to it and phase games and TV out of my life. Maybe I'll start small with a page a day, then grow from there?
I read on a Kindle. It's good for a number of reasons, mainly that I can store thousands of books on it at once and I can read it in bed at night without keeping a light on to keep my wife up. In regards to watching TV, I'm the same way with TV shows that you are with books Donald. I'll watch an episode of something, think it's good, and then not watch it any longer because something else catches my attention. I always hear about different shows that sound really good but deep down I know I'll never end up watching any of them.
Just started Peter Crouch's first book. Just a couple of chapters in, but this is going to be brilliant. Been meaning to read it for a while and I got his second book as a birthday present, so decided to start the first one.
So pleased to hear the stories about Disco Benni are true in that he didn't like football.
And Donald, physical book for me. Stare at a screen enough as it is.
Just about finished reading Rocky Johnson's autobiography which I picked up from the library about a week before he passed away.
I recently got a first pressing of Lords of the Sith, and the 20th Anniversary Edition of Heir to the Empire. Not sure which one I'm gonna read first.
I was going to start 2020 by reading a book a week, but here we are, 4-5 weeks in and haven't started one. Maybe February will be a new start.
Of note I found The Gunslinger didn't draw me into the series at all. Drawing of the Three though hooked me.
I like that the details of the story are vague. Makes it feel like the narrator just happened to be standing there in the beginning and just tagged along for the rest.
Assuming you mean heavy in the Back to the Future sense, rather than the gravitational sense, then yes.
Finally getting back to catching up on my Drizzt's novels by R. A. Salvatore
The derailing argument thread on here.
I'll be reading The ABC's of Metallica to Mav tonight. Had it on order and it finally arrived today.
"So You Want To Talk About Race" -Ijeoma Olou
The Stand...almost finished.
Misery: Stephen King
Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls- David Sedaris
Misery was incredible, I want to watch the movie now.
Finished:
Binti #1 -Nnedi Okorafor (I didn't like this one)
We Should All Be Feminists -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Great)
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (Loved it)
Reading:
Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls (still at 23%)
Reading Salem's Lot.
I'm about to start reading The Turner Diaries. It's always mentioned in most controversial book conversations, and I wanna see what all the hype is for myself.
Only a couple chapters in but it feels like its going to be.
I'm actually only reading it to get the story of Father Callahan who plays such a big part in books 5 and 6 of the Dark Tower series. Plus I wanted to finish up reading all of King's early work. Over the years I've read Carrie, The Dead Zone, The Stand, It, etc. but I never got around to either Salem's lot or The Shining.
I'm not a huge reader, but I do enjoy reading (and writing) some occasional short horror stories.
Planning on giving this piece -- Algernon Blackwood's "The Wendigo" a read later. I've read it twice before, but its always a great, creepy read. Its from 1910, but somehow it manages to skate by the problems of being either too long, too languid, or just too boring -- that a lot of books or stories of that vintage suffer from.
You can read it for free right here -- https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1089...-h/10897-h.htm
@Spudz Mackenzie, I've never really looked at what is available in the Gutenberg library. That sounds like an interesting read.
@Rancid Planet, that is so sweet!
I'll warn anyone who wants to read "The Wendigo". It doesn't play well with a lot of modern sensibilities. There's a lot of comparing Native American people to "savages" and they use the n-word a time or two.
I mean, its from 1910. So that was cool back then. But its a heads-up, anyway.
The Family Upstairs - Lisa Jewell.