[Promethius]

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What are you reading?

Dante's Inferno, and loving it!

[BMF5150]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith



I'm almost done with it. It's interesting and funny.

[Wookietim]

Right now i am 350 pages into "Under the Dome" by Stephen King. So far so good... The book lacks the moral weight of his earlier work, but to be honest pretty much no writer can muster than same level as they did in their early career when they reach their later career. What the book does well it does very well - the plot moves along at a brisk pace without sacrificing the well drawn characters King has been able to create throughout his career. The imagery in the book is well done and described with just enough detail that one's imagination takes over nicely. Overall, this has been a good read so far. It will be interesting to see if King can keep the momentum going for the next 750 pages as he has for the first 350.

[Ebonykrow]

I've read a lot of mixed reviews for Under the Dome. It's such a giant book I'm not sure I'd be willing to try it out. Big books are awfully intimidating, rofl.

Which is why I'm waiting for my other books in the Guardians of Ga'hoole series to come in... While I was waiting I did finish Silverwing by Kenneth Oppal, I thought it was pretty good. Good enough that I went and bought the others in the series, which is a rare thing for me to do.

[Wookietim]

Ebonykrow, on 20 November 2009 - 02:02 PM, said:

I've read a lot of mixed reviews for Under the Dome. It's such a giant book I'm not sure I'd be willing to try it out. Big books are awfully intimidating, rofl.

Which is why I'm waiting for my other books in the Guardians of Ga'hoole series to come in... While I was waiting I did finish Silverwing by Kenneth Oppal, I thought it was pretty good. Good enough that I went and bought the others in the series, which is a rare thing for me to do.

Well, like I said - "Under the Dome" isn't Kings career capping masterpiece ("It", in my opinion, has that distinction) but it's a good read... Definitely better than much of the other stuff out there right now and more realistic than other recently published books (I am staring at someone who has the initials "SP" as I say that...).

[Sweetpumper]

Monday Morning Quarterback - Peter King.

[Ebonykrow]

Wookietim, on 20 November 2009 - 02:06 PM, said:

Well, like I said - "Under the Dome" isn't Kings career capping masterpiece ("It", in my opinion, has that distinction) but it's a good read... Definitely better than much of the other stuff out there right now and more realistic than other recently published books (I am staring at someone who has the initials "SP" as I say that...).

Oh, I don't doubt it's better than a lot of stuff out there, because apparently publishers don't actually read the stuff they're handed anymore. King has always been one of those authors that, if they word-vomited on a page, it would be more wonderful than a giant box of chocolate. Though, I haven't read "It"--it's one of those giant books that scare me. (I'm a slow reader, veeery slow, so any book more than 500 pages becomes a struggle.) I've always wanted to read more Stephen King though, but his books... are just so big. I do love his short stories, those I can plow through, but 1,000 page books scare me more than the story themselves.

[Wookietim]

Ebonykrow, on 20 November 2009 - 02:21 PM, said:

Oh, I don't doubt it's better than a lot of stuff out there, because apparently publishers don't actually read the stuff they're handed anymore. King has always been one of those authors that, if they word-vomited on a page, it would be more wonderful than a giant box of chocolate. Though, I haven't read "It"--it's one of those giant books that scare me. (I'm a slow reader, veeery slow, so any book more than 500 pages becomes a struggle.) I've always wanted to read more Stephen King though, but his books... are just so big. I do love his short stories, those I can plow through, but 1,000 page books scare me more than the story themselves.

I always liked something that King wrote about his books... I can't perfectly quote him from memory, but it went something like "I will admit, and I am sure that more than a few critics will agree with me on this, that sometimes I suffer from diarrhea of the word processor."

[wolfram&hart12345]

Victoria Secret Catalog 2009.

Great Book. Had to read it twice just to make I understand and got everything.

[Bunny Munro]

Just finished 'The Death of Bunny Munro' (by the one and only Nick Cave), I really enjoyed it I haven't read another author who's done an in depth emotional exploration of masculinity in contemporary western societies, the way people that authors the likes of Heller and Bukowski did for their times.

I would highly recommend this for anyone who likes very emotive writings, primarily based on the protagonists internal conflicts that only use external events as a way of assessing and paralleling the internal. While it has some pretty heavy psychological themes the book is also filled with endless humor and made me laugh a lot, which isn't easy to do.

Okay, so what's this novel about? It's about a middle aged man who sells cosmetics door to door, he is womanizer who's wife commits suicide because she can't bear the burden of his infidelities and emotional neglect any longer, while being riddled with her own psychological disorders. Upon the death of his wife, he is faced with the complication of being the primary carer for his very bright son who's mother mostly raised him while balancing the grief of his situation, his insatiable appetites and career all at the same time.

It's quite short, it's very readable and I honestly can't think of any short comings except for maybe the plots very quick climax which I felt could have been built up to a bit more. It's certainly not for everyone and requires a very black sense of humor, but at the same time I do feel that it's very accessible in other respects.