Reading Sophie's Choice by William Styron. Taking me forever, but I'm enjoying it.

My job changed a few months ago and I find myself driving about 500 miles a week, (in town driving btw). I recently finished 11-22-63. It was a great listen/read. I Highly reccommend you listen to The Stand, (unabridged) or IT.
The narrators suck you into the story. I also listened to "The Dome." Good book, disappointing ending.

I bought The Talisman and found it difficult to get into but it was a good story.
I'm currently listening to Insomnia. My main complaint with it is that they play music during certain moments. Lame music... VERY LAME MUSIC...

Anyone have any suggestions? I was thinking about WWZ.

I just finished Johnny Ramone's story of the Ramones (Commando) and I'm currently reading Dee Dee Ramone's story of the Ramones (Lobotomy).

It's interesting to see the difference in their perspectives and how much inner turmoil there was in the Ramones "family". Johnny was a no-hard-drug, business-oriented, Limbaugh-and-baseball-loving, image-conscious guy who was driven by a desire to build up a retirement nest egg. Dee Dee was a musically-prolific, drug-and-drink-abusing, rebellious, troubled guy who was driven by a need to make music and an all too frequent need to score his next hit. Neither book is a threat to win an award, but the two together are an interesting contrast that's interesting to a Ramones fan like myself.

If you like The Stand, and King in general, you should listen to the Dark Tower series. First book is kind of hard to get through (it was written in the 70's), but its short. After that, it gets to be an amazing series.

Also, WWZ is amazing. I know I'm going to get shit for it, but the Harry Potter series is really well done too, make sure you listen to it done by Stephen Fry though.


I'm looking for suggestions along the Game of Thrones, or Stephen King novels, Dean Koontz. Basically scifi/fantasy, zombies, or just generally a good story. Sorry, I did not read all 11 pages of this thread. I also want them to be audio books. Driving to Denver, and need something to listen to.

love the dark tower series--I'm on book 7, though reading time is scarce, what with grad school.

I'll throw out the dresden files by jim butcher for kaplin if he hasn't read them. READ THEM. trust me. great books. book 14 of a 23 or so book series came out last week. despite not having much reading time, I knocked it out in a few days (basically, skipped some sleep). GREAT stuff.

I'm reading Encounter, by Milan Kundera. It's a collection of essays. It's good. He has a very wry sense of humor that I like.

Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card.

I need to read the Unbearable Lightness of Being again sometime soon.

Finished The World Made Straight by Ron Rash which was pretty danged good if you like rural Applachian tales in the vein of Winter's Bone.

Also read For the Win by Cory Doctorow. Excellent futuristic look dealing with unionization, MMORPG farmers, and other cyberpunk concerns. Really enjoyable. I ended up reading like 300 pages in a day and finishing the novel over Thanksgiving Break.

I'm just about a third of the way through the audiobook of Ghost Story, the final step of relistening to the entire series in preparation for Cold Days. It really is a good series.

I recently re-read Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy, just as good as I remember, and I'm a few chapters into his latest stand-alone in the same universe, Red Country. Familiar faces make for interesting reading.

Have you ever read his short story, "Nobody Will Laugh"? It's great. One of my favorites.

ReReading the Hobbit. Once we get some snow and cold Ill be reading the entire Sherlock Holmes again. Its like a thing I do every couple years at the farm, no TV, sit by woodstove and read.

Oh, I also went on a Styron kick and read Sophie's Choice and Set This House on Fire.

I just picked up The Alienist and am also reading Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama, which is pretty awesome.

cold days.... I'm only going to say... ****. he brings a lot of plotlines, and introduces (though he's dropped clues the whole series) the overarching storyline and a possible means for the apocalypse starting. crazy shit.

Find some new books, bud.

Dresden Files you say huh, I will look into that. Is it anything like the syfy show?





2nd person to recommend this to me. I will look into these as well.


Thank you gentlemen.

Same characters, slightly different take on them in the TV show. Much, much, much more to the books (the show only lasted a season...).

Shades of Grey

shits makin me walk around w/ boners all day

I tried doing a search, but has anyone mentioned 11/22/63? New Stephen King. Loved it.

It was new Stephen King about a year ago.

Best thing he's done in years, and years, and maybe his most solid ending ever.

I have new ones too. But these are on the radar now. Ill throw in new stuff, Christmas always brings books, but I enjoy rereading some over and over.

I just finished book 3 in Conn Iggulden's conqueror series, it is very good stuff. George RR Martin mirrors much of the Dothraki after the Mongol tribes.

I've read Jules Verne

Journey to the Center of the Earth.
From the Earth to the Moon.

WOW!!! Great but it needs to be decoded at times.

Just finished reading about 8 King novels again, back into Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt

"Turn the Ship Around" (How to Create Leadership at Every Level)

Currently on The Wheel of Time #4, The Shadow Rising, although I will be starting a Hobbit re-read in a few days to get ready for the movie.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

11/22/63 by Stephen King

Walter the Farting Dog.
What can I say, it was a "gag" gift.

The devil all the time. Great book

Good one. Not happy about the ending, but.....

Needing another zombie book not named World War Z.

Suggestions please.

Robopocalypse?

jokes?

It's actually pretty good, but it's like WWZ, only with robots instead of zombies. You might try Justin Cronin's The Passage. It's really similar in flavor to WWZ (though much better written). It's also vampires, not zombies, though the vampires aren't traditional vampires. More like I am Legend.

Getting ready to start Elite da Tropa.

Blech.

I guess I need to hit up the ole B&N soon.

Or maybe I can finish Dead City first.

Not specifically zombie, more urban fantasy/supernatural horror, but Larry Correia's Monster Hunter books are fantastic.

I would also strongly suggest Jonathan Maberry's Joe Ledger books, starting with Patient Zero. That one is zombies, but..different, too.

Both series currently have 4 volumes. Both series I purchase as soon as there's a new one.

I'm a nut for monster movies/books.

anything with vampires, werewolves, zombies typically peak my interest.

Another I had forgotten, seems like a new book is overue, is EE Knight's Vampire Earth series.

Just looked it up, new one in April, 10th book in the series: http://www.amazon.com/Appalachian-Ov.../dp/0451414446

It's a post-apocalyptic series, set in the not-too-distant future after an alien race called the Kurians has taken over in the aftermath of a series of events (plagues, earthquakes, nuclear war - all orchestrated by them). They basically live on the life energy of other creatures, hence the Vampire part.

Thanks for all of the recommendations, gents.

Currently re-reading my Hunter S Thompson collection.

Really? I thought it was the best ending for a King novel in forever.



Is this a good series? I actually have a bunch of the books but haven't gotten around to reading them yet.

I like it so far.

Just finished Cold Days. Really good, one of the best Dresden books so far I think.

Hitting up B&N today.

Going to pick up Patient Zero.

just finished Gone Girl.. by Gillian Flynn

Starting Kill Alex Cross by James Patterson

Geek Wisdom
Embracing the sacred teachings of pop culture

This book is hilareous. Quotes like "I am not anti-social, I'm just not user-friendly."

I am about 1/3 of the way through "American Gods" but got bored so switched over to re-read "The Hobbit" after seeing the movie.

Reading Aztec by Gary Jennings. Pretty danged enjoyable.

I liked that one. Big zombie fan myself..

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. Fantasy about a young group of thieves. Lots of humor, very adult despite involving kids. Like it a lot so far.

You are getting bored with "American Gods"?

Loved that book.

Yeah. I'm surprised too as I loved Anansi Boys. I'm just having a hard time getting into this one.

Just finished "Grendal" By John Gardner.
Awesome book. Suprised I never heard of it before.

Grendel is a 1971 parallel novel by American author John Gardner. It is a retelling of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel. The novel deals with finding meaning in the world, the power of literature and myth, and the nature of good and evil.

We teach parts of that at my high school in conjunction with Beowulf. They used to teach the whole thing.

About eight chapters in on Patient Zero.

Very good so far.

The Oreo v. vanilla wafer part cracked me up.

I'm on a "graphic novel" run:

Just finished Neil Gaiman's 10 Volume "The Sandman" series (along with Death/The High Price of Living, follow-up). Now I'm reading the quasi-spin offs "The Books of Magic". I've also started "V for Vendetta" and the first volume of "Constantine" trade volume.

Also recommend the "Y, the Last Man" series.

I'm currently on book three (Tripwire) of the Jack Reacher series. Started reading before I found out about the movie. The move looks like it may be good, but Tom Cruise is a bad choice for the lead role.

I'm also reading a the book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor. It's a book about the war in Afghanistan. Not very interesting as other Mid East books...I'm almost done with it.

Just got the first novel by Law & Order creator Dick Wolf called The Intercept and it's a great page turner.The link below will take you to a full review if interested.

In an early scene, Osama bin Laden, not long before his death, is plotting a new assault on the United States. He tells his lieutenants that he wants “a strike that will break the soul of the Western demon.” Then it’s July 1, 2011, and we’re aboard a Swedish airliner headed for the United States. A young Muslim, armed with a knife and a fake bomb, tries to force his way into the cockpit but is overpowered by five passengers and a member of the flight crew. Among those who interrogate the hijacker is Detective Jeremy Fisk of the New York Police Department’s Intelligence Division; he’s Wolf’s hero for this novel and a projected series.

As news of the failed hijacking reaches the nation, the five passengers and the flight attendant — The Six, they are soon dubbed — are hailed as heroes who saved hundreds of lives by stopping the terrorist from crashing the airliner in Manhattan, his admitted target. But Fisk is not so sure. He thinks the man is not very smart, had little chance of seizing control of the plane and might be a diversion from a more serious assault planned by al-Qaeda.

The Falling Man by Don DeLillo. It's about the trauma of 9/11 from the vantage point of a corporate lawyer who was in the north tower, his estranged wife that he sort of reconciles with after leaving the wreckage, another woman whose briefcase he took in a fugue state and later forms a relationship with, and a hijacker on Flight 11 who is a protege of Mohamed Atta.

Only Communiss read Don Delillo

Johnathan Maberry?

If so I read that last year. Really good.

Right now I'm in the middle of the third book of Mira Grant's Newsflesh Trilogy, Blackout (the first two are Feed and Deadline). It's about an adopted brother and sister pair of bloggers after a zombie apocalypse, and it's really good. Not quite as dystopian as you'd expect from a zombie novel, the grid is still up and technology has kept on advancing, but most of the other conventions of the genre remain intact. Lots of zombie killing, lots of political intrigue, lots of conspiracy.

Well ok then.

It's actually a text I chose for a contemporary lit class. Later in the semester we're going to read Choke, Neuromancer, and I'll teach The Wasp Factory for the third time, probably because it's in my top three novels

Pioli and Atta were cousins

I have read more books in the past year than I have since college combined...and quite a few I never thought I would.

I just started "Blind Descent" by James M Tabor

It's about a race to the bottom of the deepest caves in the world.
It's a true story.

Might as well be Game of Thrones with all of the death and broken bones in the first few chapters. I've done a little time under ground and have enjoyed it, but this shit would not be for me.

I'm finished with the first 3 books of Conn Iggulden 's Conqueror series and am starting The Book Thief for a little change of pace.

My valve hasbproblems when people don't catch my references.

This week's target is Yasunari Kawabata's "The Sound of the Mountain," which won the Nobel prize for literature.

I ws just gonna throw in comic books to be an ass but nice choices, get walking dead, invincible, and criminals by brubaker

"Disquiet, Please!" a collection of humor writings from the New Yorker. Probably not as good as the other one they made called, "Fierce Pajamas," but I like it a lot. Worth getting from a library for even just the Woody Allen essays.

I'm currently reading Alas, Babylon, a classic apocalyptic novel. It was a bit slow at the beginning but is picking up now. It was written in 1959, so the glimpse into the mindset at the time is pretty interesting.

It was pretty good.

Had to read that for novel class in high school,many many many years ago.

Just finished The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

I can't believe I have never heard of this Novel. I enjoyed it very much, although it being a Russian Novel there were a shitload of Ivan's and it got confusing.

read the Steve Jobs bio a couple of weeks ago....what an asshole.

just finished Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore. interesting read...

"Can't Find My Way Home"

Anyone heard of Ted Dekker. I heard his books were amazing but dark. Looking for a second opinion.

Cat in the hat .

It was kinda hard to understand, but I had watched the cartoon and kind of knew how it went.

Audiobook-wise, I'm about to finish Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet series. Enjoyable military space opera.

Paper-wise I'm taking weeks upon weeks to finish the final Wheel of Time book. This one just isn't resonating with me for some reason. The voices of the main characters seem so far removed from what they were under Jordan. Except for Mat. I've already read all his chapters for the entire novel.