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The Diamond in Your Pocket - Gangaji. I almost put it down after a couple pages when I found out Gangaji was a blonde haired white woman from Mississippi masquerading as an Indian name and not an actual Indian sage, but I'm glad I didn't. Pretty insightful book.
 
As I get further into Dr. Sleep I am finding it a very good sequel to the shining. It doesn't have the same weight the original did, but in many ways it is a better story. But then again, not much of King's post-drug-days books have the same moody and horrifying aura that his drug-fueled psycho stuff did anyway.
 
A couple of enthusiastic reviews here:

I just finished John McPhee's tome on geology titled "Annals of the Former World." He took over twenty years to write this material, over which time he worked with a handful of leading geologists, doing multiple field trips with them, etc. McPhee was a writer for the New Yorker (I think), and wrote on a wide range of topics. He was formally trained in English Literature or something like that, and in this book he's as concerned about the geologist with whom he is working as he is the geology. Through this book, you can see how scientific senses of things meet with the comportment/faculties of the geologist with his "nose on the crop." Fantastic descriptions throughout.

Otherwise, I've been reading as much W.G. Sebald as possible. I've never read anything like this guy; most people have a hard time putting him in a category. It's a melange of well-researched history, speculative fiction, and memoir. He has these long paragraphs that drift from one sense to another, at surprisingly different scales and intensities, across the literary equivalent of an alluvial fan. It's hard to describe. He's definitely committed to an open-ended psychology, and the necessity of movement (bodies are always moving and feeling... feeling as they move...). He opens up himself in every piece he writes, and you get a clear sense of how the act of writing itself has changed his sense of himself, and thus, his psychology. I'd suggest THE EMIGRANTS and THE RINGS OF SATURN, in particular.
 
LogGrad98 said:
As I get further into Dr. Sleep I am finding it a very good sequel to the shining. It doesn't have the same weight the original did, but in many ways it is a better story. But then again, not much of King's post-drug-days books have the same moody and horrifying aura that his drug-fueled psycho stuff did anyway.
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Please give a review of your thought on Dr Sleep when you finish.

I cant decide if i will buy it or not.
 
One of my favorite stories is the wayward pines story. Books one and two were incredible.
Book 3 comes out on july 15th and i cant wait!

Fox is airing a tv series called wayward pines soon starring matt dillon, juliette lewis, terrance howard, and shannyn sossaman.
Produced by m knight shamalan.


The books (and the show) get compared to the tv show Twin Peaks alot.... so if anyone liked that show then you should take a look at thia series.
 
fishonjazz said:
One of my favorite stories is the wayward pines story. Books one and two were incredible.
Book 3 comes out on july 15th and i cant wait!

Fox is airing a tv series called wayward pines soon starring matt dillon, juliette lewis, terrance howard, and shannyn sossaman.
Produced by m knight shamalan.


The books (and the show) get compared to the tv show Twin Peaks alot.... so if anyone liked that show then you should take a look at thia series.
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You started to lose me at "Matt Dillon" and then DOA'd with "M. Knight Shalabungholio".
 
Yeah Shyamalan's career has been disapppointing. He had a nice start and hit the ground running, then just fell apart with some real disasters. Too bad really, as I think he brought something new to the table.
 
Finished Dr. Sleep, which ended up being one of my favorite King books, although it felt a lot more like a Dean Koontz book. Maybe that just means I like Koontz better than King, which for me is generally true.
 
I just finished book three in the wayward pines trilogy.

Fantastic books. One of the best reads of my life....
 
I finished The Dragon Reborn. Wish I hadn't started reading this series. Nothing happens for 50 chapters, then the books climax over two and are all over. I'm going to read at least one more, but it's feeling more like a duty at this point.

I finished the Farseer Trilogy and agree with Atheist Preacher's writeup. The ending was a letdown.

I'm reading this right now:

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The first couple chapters promise to make this as good as the first two in the series.
 
franklin said:
but it's feeling more like a duty at this point.
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Agreed.
I was in the middle of book seven (iirc) and had not been enjoying the story for a long time (like 3 books worth) and i finally just gave up (hard for me. I always like to finish books/stories) and went to wikipedia to read summaries of the rest of the books and see how it ends. (Ended pretty much how i thought it would.... very predictable books imo)
 
Finished the entire Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, each and every one of the forty books it consists of.
Any word I shall write about it will diminish from its status as a mega masterpiece.
 
fishonjazz said:
Agreed.
I was in the middle of book seven (iirc) and had not been enjoying the story for a long time (like 3 books worth) and i finally just gave up (hard for me. I always like to finish books/stories) and went to wikipedia to read summaries of the rest of the books and see how it ends. (Ended pretty much how i thought it would.... very predictable books imo)
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Sad thing is I read this prior to reading the first book (the prequel).

This guy keeps adding more and more and more characters/groups/nationalities. I keep waiting for the point where he ties some of them together and gives that oh wow, mind = blown moment, but it. never. comes. Just perpetual expansion of the world with no apparent point for doing so.

Also, the plots could be designed by any average kid. Not the writing, but definitely the vanilla plots.
 
I'm in the middle of Stephen King's new one:

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I'm not a huge fan of detective/crime novels, but so far, it's been hard to put down.


*Randall Flagg's calling card, anyone?
 
E.J. Wells said:
I'm in the middle of Stephen King's new one:

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I'm not a huge fan of detective/crime novels, but so far, it's been hard to put down.


*Randall Flagg's calling card, anyone?
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Im behind on my king reads.

I need to read dr sleep, mr mercedes, and i am thinking if reading liseys story.

Have you read liseys story? If so, how was it?
 
fishonjazz said:
Im behind on my king reads.

I need to read dr sleep, mr mercedes, and i am thinking if reading liseys story.

Have you read liseys story? If so, how was it?
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Nope, I was so put off by Gerald's Game and Rose Madder (really wasn't too bad; had Dark Tower references), that something is holding me back from Lisey's Story.
 
I wish King would fall off the wagon and get back into what made his fiction fan-damn-tastic. I could use a good drug-fueled King story. Not that I wish anything bad on the guy, just saying that was when he did his very best stuff.
 
E.J. Wells said:
Nope, I was so put off by Gerald's Game and Rose Madder (really wasn't too bad; had Dark Tower references), that something is holding me back from Lisey's Story.
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Geralds game sucks.
I liked rose madder.

Someone told me that liseys story was really good.
Ah well, im sure i will get to it someday.

And i hate to sound like a broken record but THE WAYWARD PINES TRILOGY IS AWESOME!
 
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