What are you reading/last book you read
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THE QUEST OF FRANKENSTEIN by Frank Schildner
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The Ninja is one of the few books to defeat me, and I'm a martial arts nut. The extended flashbacks are importante for exposition reasons, but just kill the pace of the book. But then, around halfway through the book, you get the drug-assisted pedastry chapter (set in a Chinese-run brothel--no stereotypes there!!!) and I decided that the rest of the journey wasn't worth it. Lustbader would've been better off making a smutty romance about a guy raised in Japan having a torrid affair with one of his students, with him beating up her father's men being one of the subplots to break up the sex scenes.SoleMan wrote:Every since I got back from Japan, been blasting through various books about the land of the rising sun. I've read Memoirs of a Geisha, Tokyo Vice, and Shogun. (I actually read that while I was over there) Anyway, I'm currently on The Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader. It's a little slow to start, but it seems to be picking up. Has anyone else read this? Is it worth finishing?
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found a site full of HP Lovecraft's work. i have read a bunch of them, but i like The Alchemist the most. didn't really see the appeal behind The Call of Cthulhu
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I was doing a chronological Lovecraft review series for awhile, but stopped having the time. Here's my entry on The Alchemist:three wrote:found a site full of HP Lovecraft's work. i have read a bunch of them, but i like The Alchemist the most. didn't really see the appeal behind The Call of Cthulhu
http://www.theblood-shed.com/lovecraft- ... alchemist/
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i found the "surprise" ending surprising. lol this also happened to be the very first lovecraft tale i ever laid eyes on, and i enjoyed the imagery. black vines and hills and castles; i dig the sherlock comparison as well. (though, unlike sherlock, the mystery in lovecraft is the magic, and in any doyle tale it's the method).eabaker wrote:I was doing a chronological Lovecraft review series for awhile, but stopped having the time. Here's my entry on The Alchemist:three wrote:found a site full of HP Lovecraft's work. i have read a bunch of them, but i like The Alchemist the most. didn't really see the appeal behind The Call of Cthulhu
http://www.theblood-shed.com/lovecraft- ... alchemist/
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Well, I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says: 'live people ignore the strange and unusual. I, myself, am strange and unusual. ~ Lydia Deetzaxnyslie wrote:I read that too quickly I though you said land MINES. Yes they are still out there so step lightly!
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Well I just finshed reading the +1200 paged The Rise and Fall of the Third Riech By William Shirer.
It's a great book, but I think the next book will be a bit more positive.
And not as long.
It's a great book, but I think the next book will be a bit more positive.
And not as long.
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Finished the Nemisis Trilogy by Jermey Robinson last night.
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Finished reading Jaws, now reading Jaws 2.
Kind of confusing since Jaws 2 is a sequel to the movie, not the book.
Kind of confusing since Jaws 2 is a sequel to the movie, not the book.
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Reading The Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds.
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Update: Yeah, I couldn't get more than 100 pages into Ninja. Then I went and read the plot on Wikipedia and...it sucked. I mean, I'm okay with silly, cheesy gimmicky plots like that...if they're a reasonable length. At 450 pages, (With tiny-ass print) they can keep their damned lame-ass Ninjas. There aren't even, like, real Ninjas in the book!H-Man wrote:The Ninja is one of the few books to defeat me, and I'm a martial arts nut. The extended flashbacks are importante for exposition reasons, but just kill the pace of the book. But then, around halfway through the book, you get the drug-assisted pedastry chapter (set in a Chinese-run brothel--no stereotypes there!!!) and I decided that the rest of the journey wasn't worth it. Lustbader would've been better off making a smutty romance about a guy raised in Japan having a torrid affair with one of his students, with him beating up her father's men being one of the subplots to break up the sex scenes.SoleMan wrote:Every since I got back from Japan, been blasting through various books about the land of the rising sun. I've read Memoirs of a Geisha, Tokyo Vice, and Shogun. (I actually read that while I was over there) Anyway, I'm currently on The Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader. It's a little slow to start, but it seems to be picking up. Has anyone else read this? Is it worth finishing?
I did read a few books by Japanese authors, mostly non-fiction: Geisha, a life by Iwasaki Mineko (The real story that Memoirs of a geisha was based on, much better than the fiction) and Musashi Miyamoto's The Book of the Five Rings. I currenty have two more on the list: Michael Crichton's Red Sun, and a massive-ass biography of Hirohito. I'll start on that when I manage to finish the Rise and Fall of the third Reich (Which won't be any time soon)
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Just about finished with the last book in the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series. A very, VERY entertaining series overall.
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Munro collection done. Almost done with a re-read of Yiyun Li's Gold Boy Emerald Girl as well. Finished the new Murakami translation Wind/Pinball, and I'm just onto part 2 of Lolita. (Will be re-reading The Great Gatsby with a student before long! Always a joy.)Jomei wrote:Finally got around to finishing A Prayer for Owen Meany today. The climax was deeply moving, even as a non-religious person. Beautiful novel.
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I am currently reading about three books, the main one being Merlin: The Lost Years by T. A. Barron. I have been enjoying it so far. I still have lots on my to-read list though.
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Cell by Stephen King. Pretty interesting so far.
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I'm probably going to re-read another book in that Merlin series sometime soon. I considered starting it the other day, but passed it over in favor of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight. I read it once as a kid, didn't care for it, and had long since forgotten everything about it. I'm liking it a lot more this time around, though, as of about halfway through. May have to look into finally reading the rest of the series.Lunescent wrote:I am currently reading about three books, the main one being Merlin: The Lost Years by T. A. Barron. I have been enjoying it so far. I still have lots on my to-read list though.
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*SPOILER ALERT*
'Star Wars: Aftermath' by Chuck Wendig
A decent read, but I don't particularly care for Mr. Wendig's writing style. Now, what was taken away, & can be applied to STAR WARS EPISODE VII:
The Empire did not fall by chance, it fell by DESIGN. A high-placed intel source in the Empire, known to Mon Mothma, Ackbar, Madine, & a few others, going by 'The Operator', fed reliable info to the Rebel Alliance, which was instrumental in the Empire's downfall. 'The Operator' was a ranking Fleet Admiral( the future Supreme Commander Snoke, perhaps? ), who had become disenchanted with what the Empire had become. 'a crude, inelegant machine', 'inefficient' - his words, from the novel. He felt that it was time that the Empire be broken down, split up, & reformed, as 'something new'. As this is from a NEW book, this is canon, in the SW Universe. Interesting, eh?
*SPOILER ALERT*
'Star Wars: Aftermath' by Chuck Wendig
A decent read, but I don't particularly care for Mr. Wendig's writing style. Now, what was taken away, & can be applied to STAR WARS EPISODE VII:
The Empire did not fall by chance, it fell by DESIGN. A high-placed intel source in the Empire, known to Mon Mothma, Ackbar, Madine, & a few others, going by 'The Operator', fed reliable info to the Rebel Alliance, which was instrumental in the Empire's downfall. 'The Operator' was a ranking Fleet Admiral( the future Supreme Commander Snoke, perhaps? ), who had become disenchanted with what the Empire had become. 'a crude, inelegant machine', 'inefficient' - his words, from the novel. He felt that it was time that the Empire be broken down, split up, & reformed, as 'something new'. As this is from a NEW book, this is canon, in the SW Universe. Interesting, eh?
*SPOILER ALERT*
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No. No it's not.
I've been blasting through some autobiographies of gangsters. I read Wiseguy, the book on which Goodfellas was based last weekend, and I'm just finishing up Donnie Brasco.
I've been blasting through some autobiographies of gangsters. I read Wiseguy, the book on which Goodfellas was based last weekend, and I'm just finishing up Donnie Brasco.
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Now reading: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Last read: Star Wars Trilogy: The Empire Strikes Back by Ryder Windham
Last read: Star Wars Trilogy: The Empire Strikes Back by Ryder Windham
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