09-22-2012, 10:09 AM | #14251 |
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09-22-2012, 11:15 AM | #14252 | ||
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09-22-2012, 07:02 PM | #14253 |
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- Not Taco Bell Material by Adam Carolla - I've heard a lot of these stories before on the podcast but they're still really funny, and some of them were brand new to me. I read the story where he farted into a coffee can and asked Jimmy Kimmel if he wanted to smell some freshly roasted Sumatran beans, and I couldn't stop laughing for ten minutes. Currently Reading: - The Moor by Laurie R. King (79%) - The Passage by Justin Cronin (second time) (10%) |
09-23-2012, 10:34 PM | #14254 | ||
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Now I'm about a third of the way into an odd little indie effort, The Whitechapel Gambit by Marcin Wrona. It's a steampunk offering that's been quite interesting so far. Whether it's odd and goes nowhere or odd and really goes places I'm yet to determine. |
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09-24-2012, 11:42 AM | #14255 |
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I just finished my DANL book When you give a Duke a Diamond, what a great read! It was a lovely thrilling historical romance, and I'll be looking for more books by this author.
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09-24-2012, 11:50 AM | #14256 | |
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09-24-2012, 02:47 PM | #14257 |
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Currently reading Dana Stabenow's A Deeper Sleep, #15 in the Kate Shugak series. As always, I'm enjoying it immensely. This book starts out with Kate and Jim still dithering, and even though I have "read" it (as an Audible book) before, I can't remember if they finally get over it in this one. And a bunch of other things going on with some of the subsidiary story lines, so all in all an above average book in an excellent series.
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09-24-2012, 02:54 PM | #14258 | |
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09-24-2012, 03:18 PM | #14259 |
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I had gotten sidetracked, and found myself start and stopping several books. Decided to come back because I wanted one I knew I'd enjoy. I am not disappointed.
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09-24-2012, 03:29 PM | #14260 |
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Just finished Accordion Crimes by E. Annie Proulx.
Now I'm off to finish up some Robert Lynn Asprin Myth series so I can officially mark the series as complete. |
09-25-2012, 09:23 AM | #14261 |
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I'm about a third of the way though Peter Heller's debut (fiction anyway) - The Dog Stars. It's a post-apocalyptic tale (though not really sci-fi) told through the eyes of Hig: a Cessna pilot (and an avid outdoorsman—fly-fishing mainly, but some hunting, too) who, with his dog Jasper as co-pilot, buzzes around a small portion of what would have been Colorado nine years previously (anything further back than nine years is referred to simply as "before") just trying to figure out how to *be* under the new rules/situation. It's been quite heart-rending so far. Beautifully written. Not utterly bleak, as some post-apoc tends to be, but more introspective with several moments (so far) that can be considered truly uplifting.
Some comparisons are bound to be made to Cormac McCarthy (especially The Road) if only because of Heller's sparse prose (which can be long on sentence fragments and shy on punctuation). But unlike McCarthy—who just writes like that all the time—Heller's prose in this book seems to be a side-effect of attempting to portray the running monologue going on in Hig's brain. A brain that may or may not have been just a tad overheated from a fever sustained while surviving the virus that brought civilization to its knees; "before". I realize a McCarthy comparison can just as easily be considered a reproach as it could a "ringing endorsement," but I had to be honest. There is some similarity, here. I'm a fan of McCarthy myself, but I wanted to make sure that readers—who might not be McCarthy fans—don't simply write this book off because of the stylistic similarities. It's not McCarthy and it's not The Road. I think the book would be especially appealing to outdoorsy—majesty of nature—types. As I said ... heart-rending and uplifting, so far. Some really cool "Yeah, I can dig that" passages. There's some language and character behavior that I'm sure some might consider "foul," but it's not rampant. Last edited by DiapDealer; 09-25-2012 at 09:32 AM. |
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09-25-2012, 10:25 AM | #14263 |
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just started her third 'Star' novel. I love the character and tend to ignore a bit the science fiction. I will miss her when finished.
Next I am going to examine technology thrillers: Daemon and Freedom by Daniel Suarez and Zero Day and Trojan Horse by Mark Russinovich. |
09-25-2012, 12:14 PM | #14264 |
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I'm in an odd place. I'm in the middle/end of 3 books, and having a tough time finishing up any of them:
The Crazy Mixed-Up Corpse (Ed Noon Mystery) 63% Amped 42% The Legend of Huma (re-read) 81% I need to just power through these but the motivation is escaping me at the moment. |
09-25-2012, 01:12 PM | #14265 | ||
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The James Potter Series
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So, continuing my Dresden File re-read break I've just begun the G. Norman Lippert novella, The Girl on the Dock which I think of as James Potter 2.5. Here's what Lippert says about it. Quote:
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