|
09-16-2010, 08:54 AM | #1396 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Fayetteville, AR
Casino cash: $9060204
|
Read Tales of the Madman Underground recently by John Barnes. Pretty good YA, though it's so gritty and dark (the ending is amazingly poignant, though), that it's only suitable for high schoolers.
I'm still recommending The Passage by Justin Cronin to all of you post-apoc/horror fans. It's freaking awesome. Currently reading The Kids are All Right, which is the memoir the recent movie is based on. It's alright at this point. Not sure if I'll stick with it.
__________________
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. - H. L. Mencken |
Posts: 21,776
|
09-16-2010, 08:56 AM | #1397 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Fayetteville, AR
Casino cash: $9060204
|
Awesome. Glad you enjoyed it. It's almost a shame to throw the vampire label on this book... because it's such a departure from the neovampire bullshit as well as the traditional gothic vampire stuff.
__________________
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. - H. L. Mencken |
Posts: 21,776
|
09-16-2010, 08:57 AM | #1398 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Fayetteville, AR
Casino cash: $9060204
|
I tried to read Dragon Tattoo, and I just couldn't get into it. I probably need to give it another go, but there's just too much out there I want to read right now.
__________________
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. - H. L. Mencken |
Posts: 21,776
|
09-16-2010, 08:58 AM | #1399 |
Beloved & Awesome CP Celebrity
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Florida
Casino cash: $6574952
|
Finished the Peter Buffett book last month and started the Warren Buffett book.
__________________
|
Posts: 35,703
|
09-16-2010, 09:11 AM | #1400 |
Banned
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Pond> Me <Barn
Casino cash: $11298284
|
Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet Series - listening on audiobooks during my commute, well narrated, and unabridged. Into the 5th book of the series now, should be through book 6 by the end of next week. I'm on a bit of a military science fiction kick right now, so if anybody has any suggestion, I'm open.
__________________
BrainCase |
Posts: 15,429
|
09-16-2010, 09:34 AM | #1401 |
Eat/Sleep/Procrastinate/Repeat
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dystopia
Casino cash: $10017397
|
Apart from dicktons of various essays, I've recently read or re-read:
Nella Larsen - Quicksand Willa Cather - A Lost Lady Mike Rose - Lives on the Boundary I'm going to begin Christie Hodgen's new, acclaimed novel, Elegies for the Brokenhearted, tonight. KC represent! |
Posts: 33,369
|
09-16-2010, 09:46 AM | #1402 |
NFL's #1 Ermines Fan
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: My house
Casino cash: $1828491
VARSITY
|
Read, read, read, read! Let me tell you something - last time I read a book, I was raped. Let THAT be a lesson to you.
(It's a line from a movie. Bonus points if you can tell me the movie.)
__________________
Active fan of the greatest team in NFL history. |
Posts: 142,644
|
09-16-2010, 09:46 AM | #1403 |
Time Keeps On Slipping
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Overland Park
Casino cash: $5149900
|
After seeing the Media Center thread, I went out and bought A Game Of Thrones by George R.R. Martin. It's incredibly easy to read and is very entertaining. The book is as advertised and is delivering on all fronts. Looking forward to reading the next 3 (maybe 4?) in the series.
__________________
"Turn the channel to 26!" |
Posts: 27,300
|
09-16-2010, 09:50 AM | #1404 |
Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Some Dude's asshole
Casino cash: $8021398
|
|
Posts: 3,834
|
09-16-2010, 09:53 AM | #1405 |
NFL's #1 Ermines Fan
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: My house
Casino cash: $1828491
VARSITY
|
Betty: When little Dan was two minutes old I tattooed it on his head.
Yellowbeard: Does he know about this? Betty: Oh, no no no, that's why I kept him in the cupboard for three years. That may be why he's a bit odd with all these books, and reading, and stuff like that.
__________________
Active fan of the greatest team in NFL history. |
Posts: 142,644
|
09-16-2010, 09:57 AM | #1406 |
[b]Supporter[/b]
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: A Hypnagogic Landscape
Casino cash: $8715015
|
I'm reading a book at blaise's suggestion. It is End Zone by Don DeLillo.
Good stuff.
__________________
A million CPilgrims face Mecca. Think of the power behind that fact. All logging in now. And bending. And praying. ChiefsPlanet is the angle at which realities meet. - Don DeLillo |
Posts: 12,513
|
09-16-2010, 10:07 AM | #1407 | |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Fayetteville, AR
Casino cash: $9060204
|
Quote:
My wife has Quicksand at home and read it in college. I've never read it.
__________________
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. - H. L. Mencken |
|
Posts: 21,776
|
09-16-2010, 10:07 AM | #1408 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Fayetteville, AR
Casino cash: $9060204
|
DeLillo is awesome.
__________________
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. - H. L. Mencken |
Posts: 21,776
|
09-16-2010, 10:08 AM | #1409 |
Eat/Sleep/Procrastinate/Repeat
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dystopia
Casino cash: $10017397
|
I read Quicksand about once per year. It is a very underrated text in terms of proto-feminism. There's an awful lot going on in such a short book.
|
Posts: 33,369
|
09-16-2010, 10:30 AM | #1410 |
Banded
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Oz
Casino cash: $1140692
|
Wow, you are dedicated. I'm currently just a little over halfway through. But it is a loooong book. Good stuff, though.
__________________
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. |
Posts: 41,860
|
|
|