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What are you reading, Chapter 2
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Don't know how bad this is going to be, but I picked it up at the library because my other stuff is slow getting here:
Oh, nice. How is it? This one will certainly find it's way into my reading pile unless it's really awful.
Currently reading the Honor Harrington novels: Finished On Basilisk Station and The Honor of the Queen, and midway through The Short, Victorious War. I put off reading these for years, and I once started the first book and didnt get past the 3rd chapter, but I toughed it out this time around and I actually enjoy them.
I also have Under the Dome on loan from a friend. Contemplating whether I should start that one next or read more of the Harrington books.
I just got it yesterday afternoon and haven't started it yet, but it looks at first glance like a fairly serious book, despite the lurid title.
I'm currently reading Palahniuk's book Haunted : a novel of stories...the rest of the stories are pretty tame, but he starts off the novel with a bang...eeuugh, that put me off of reading him for a bit...
Also currently reading:
-The Black Tulip by Dumas (still heh)
-Pictor's metamorphoses, and other fantasies by Herman Hesse
-Thumbsucker : a novel by Walter Kirn
-The road : stories, journalism, and essays by Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman...this one is taking me a while because of the subject matter..really distressing
Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" - inspired by TBOT's own "Ethics of Climbing Mt. Everest" thread.
Kurt Vonnegut - "Welcome to the Monkey House"
Ayn Rand - "The Voice of Reason: Lessons in Objectivist Thought"
Robert Heinlein - "The Cat who walks through Walls" (actually, just finished this one at lunchtime today...)
Kurt Vonnegut - "Welcome to the Monkey House"
Ayn Rand - "The Voice of Reason: Lessons in Objectivist Thought"
Robert Heinlein - "The Cat who walks through Walls" (actually, just finished this one at lunchtime today...)
I'm currently reading a book which I picked up at a local book fair, called The Fifties, by David Halberstam, an in-depth look at the decade of the 1950s. A fascinating book so far, and it's a good thing I own it, since it clocks in at about 650 pages, so this could take a while to read.
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Don't know how bad this is going to be, but I picked it up at the library because my other stuff is slow getting here:
Are you a fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's works? If so, let me know what you think of the book and how Thomas compares.
Yeah, Haunted was the last Palahniuk book I read. Guts was tough to get thorugh without cringing, but there are a few stories in there more disturbing on a psychological level. The one about Cora Reynolds and the 'anatomically correct dolls' comes to mind.
Also, "I pass out and you guys eat my ass?!"
It is different and the style is not really rigidly like Doyle's -- but I found I liked the book much better than I expected.
The stories are actually novellas, for the most part more detailed and developed than the shorter Holmes stories.
He's written several other collections of these, so you might see what your library has. I think I'm going to get his earlier titles.
In the title story, Holmes finds the answer to the mysterious haunting in James' The Turn of the Screw. Very clever.
Here's my current nightstand pile. Probably going to start on "Complicity" next.
I got about half way through Complicity and then left it at my folks when I visited. Started on another book and so on and so on, so never got back to it.
Still undecided about Banks, sometimes just a bit too slow for my liking.
I'm a big fan of 90% of the "Iain M" stuff and about 70% of the "Iain" stuff. Complicity is one of his early ones that I never got around to reading (until now).
I've never been badly disappointed by anything he's written, but there's definitely a couple that I'd give no higher than a B-.
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