I assume Heu-Mons are not in that book?
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What are you reading Chapter 4
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Finished Wyrms by Orson Scott Card yesterday. Entertaining enough, but definitely one of his early novels. You can tell many of the ideas in it were dry runs for concepts that he would fully flesh out in the Ender's Game series. Next up - Magic Street - also by Card.
Welp, that's now on the list.Burkhard Bilger is a childhood friend and neighbor who is a first-generation German-American. The book is about his maternal grandfather who was a schoolteacher and Nazi party member in the Alsace region in the city of Bartenheim, but secretly he was protecting the villagers. Burkhard's writing style makes for an easy read. He was actually here in Tulsa a few weeks ago where he spoke about the book, and I was able to get a signed copy. It was great to see him as it had been about 40 years since!
Nile Rodgers - Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny
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Read the Epic of Gilgamesh and (unknowingly) the 4th book in a series of 5 - The Domino Pattern this past week. Loved it, and the rest of the series is on its way... As I wait, I'll be wrapping up an old Star Wars novel tomorrow. Maybe another before they arrive. My summer goal is to read a.minimum of a book a week - hopefully two! Doing well so far!
I'm sure many on here have read this, probably a long time ago, but I'd never got to it.
Found this in my local library's new sci-fi classics section.
Brilliant.
Found this in my local library's new sci-fi classics section.
Brilliant.
I came across this watching the last episode of Justified (imho one of the all-time great TV shows), where Raylan Givens gifts this book to a fellow Marshal.
Looked it up, read that Elmore Leonard considered this a huge influence, and ordered it from my library.
Read it, loved it so much I immediately re-read it, then went and bought a copy for my Kindle.
I like it.
Looked it up, read that Elmore Leonard considered this a huge influence, and ordered it from my library.
Read it, loved it so much I immediately re-read it, then went and bought a copy for my Kindle.
I like it.
Read three books this past week: the first three of Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker series. I'm digging it. They're a sort of post-American Revolution alternate history of the United States, but with elements of fantasy. Now I need to read the next three in the series, and wait until the final book releases at some point.
I've now read a good deal of Card's stuff, and I'll say this much - he definitely has his themes. I can see similar themes and ideas running through pretty much all of his work. Not saying it's good or bad, as he's clearly a capable and successful writer, but it seems that much of his work - even in his own separate universes he's created for each story - is very similar. Just gets me thinking, I guess.
I've now read a good deal of Card's stuff, and I'll say this much - he definitely has his themes. I can see similar themes and ideas running through pretty much all of his work. Not saying it's good or bad, as he's clearly a capable and successful writer, but it seems that much of his work - even in his own separate universes he's created for each story - is very similar. Just gets me thinking, I guess.
I just finished Richard Yates’ series of short stories, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness. Very depressing stuff!
A new bandleader I’m working with just finished writing a song cycle based upon these stories so I figured I’d better get in there.
A new bandleader I’m working with just finished writing a song cycle based upon these stories so I figured I’d better get in there.
I’m currently reading the Takeshi Kovacs novels by Richard Morgan. I really enjoyed Altered Carbon, it’s a bit dark in places but very interesting. I’m in the closing stages of Broken Angels, also very good but a quite different vibe, the tone is the same but the plot is on a bigger scale, rather than a hard-boiled detective story like the first one. I’ve already ordered the third book so I’ll see how that wraps up everything. They remind me of William Gibson, both writers trickle out the backstory through dialogue and characters, rather than throwing pages of exposition at you.
Just finished book 4 of Card's Alvin Maker series: Alvin Journeyman. Solid as usual! On to book 5 tomorrow. I'm quite enjoying the premise of an alternate history America. Going to need a new series (or at least single book!) by next week.
