Shadow Red
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Just started reading this recently. Felt like an RPG game which is fine by me.
Got a big Lost vibe from this. Of course it doesn't take place on an island, but switch the island for the apartment building and there ya go.
14 by Peter Clines
Same here, figured why not.
The Invention of Morel by Bioy Casares is a bit similar to Lost.
it seems to have been referenced in the series too.
Jorge luis borges introduces the book by calling it a perfect novel. I wouldnt say that but yea, its good.
Took this one up since I was kinda leaning towards it already. Glad I did. Was really entertaining from start-to-finish. Great twists along the way that kept you from ever being comfortable with your judgement of anybody. Thought it was quite a clever story.Gone Girl.
I've seen No Country and read The Roadand I understand where you're coming from in that No Country just seems to stop. The Road doesn't do that in my opinion, there's an ending to it.
Good to hear. Its bought and on my to-read list. Thanks to the other suggestions as well. Right now, I saw a disaster book mentioned in another thread(Mother of Storms) that I think I'm gonna give a shot. I feel in the mood for something like that.The Road may not be the ending you hope for but it's a respectable ending nonetheless. The relationship the reader builds with the father & son will dictate how you feel about the ending. Well worth the read. Absolutely beautifully written.
I am currently reading:
The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two, by Catherynne M. Valente (90/256)
Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon (573/776)
Dubliners, by James Joyce (94/285)
1Q84, by Haruki Murakami (800/925)
I'd like to finish the first and fourth by next Sunday, and all four in the next two weeks. Not sure what I'm going to read after that.
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
I will consider it!
I actually started Reading Don't Fix No Chevys: Literacy in the Lives of Young Men, which is really great so far. :x
The Count of Monte Cristo: 25%
After our hero escapes prison at the end of his 14 year long training arc, what does he do?
Advance the plot you say? Nonsense!
Time to dick around for half a decade and get high on hashish.
Wow, really? Elaborate, please. I'm reading Sanderson's The Way of Kings now, but I'm about done, and I'll have a break between it and the 2nd book...
The Count of Monte Cristo: 25%
After our hero escapes prison at the end of his 14 year long training arc, what does he do?
Advance the plot you say? Nonsense!
Time to dick around for half a decade and get high on hashish.
Easy: War and Peace or Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. Both are incredibly good. And long.After around 1600 pages and over a month of reading, I finally finished one of the most amazing books I've ever read: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. After this, everything is going to seem so...short. Oh, and just curious if anyone knows of a good, long, international, english translated novel that they'd like to suggest. I'm pretty open to anything right now.
I will consider it!
Oh, and just curious if anyone knows of a good, long, international, english translated novel that they'd like to suggest. I'm pretty open to anything right now. Except to Romance of the Three Kingdoms, I've read it after playing the video games to death...
I finished Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood yesterday evening. The author had really great ideas, the world is interesting and some topics are quite thought-provoking. The big problem was the story imo. I constantly had the feeling that the story is kind of stuck and nothing happens (maybe that's because of the narrative style) and sometimes there were extremely boring parts that I'd have loved to skip. It was a great book to discuss in a group but I'm definitely not going to read the other two books of this trilogy.
Easy: War and Peace or Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. Both are incredibly good. And long.
Looking for something long, you say?
The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xueqin! It's twice as long as The Count of Monte Cristo and just as awesome. Maybe better. I'll have to think about that, actually.
You're missing out. The second book, The Year of the Flood, was much better than the first one in my opinion. The third, MaddAddam, had it's moments but was ultimately unsatisfying.
I started reading Empire in Black and Gold a couple days ago. Started out really rocky and I was almost considering dropping it but then it picked up it's pace and I'm now enjoying it.
Steelheart - Brandon Sanderson - ★★★☆☆
Thoroughly entertaining. Should have been twice as long, book was far too fast paced. Is this a YA book? Sure felt like it...
Steelheart - Brandon Sanderson - ★★★☆☆
Thoroughly entertaining. Should have been twice as long, book was far too fast paced. Is this a YA book? Sure felt like it...
I don't really like not finishing a series so maybe I'm going to read the other two books too - but not in the near future. First I'm going to try another book of Margaret Atwood - the Handmaid's Tale - and then I'm going to start with The Three Musketeers. I'm really looking forward to both books.
Interesting. I read the sample for that book and dropped it as it didn't grab me. Might have to go back at some point.
Just finished Matheson's I Am Legend. Very good book. Had a couple of really intense emotional parts. Short and different enough from the movie to be worth the time.
I've now read two vampire books in a row, this one and Powers' "The Stress of Her Regard," so while I want to stick with the Halloween-like theme, I'm looking for something slightly different. I have a crapload of zombie and post apocalyptic stuff on my Kindle, including:
- Extinction Point - Jones
- The Zombie Chronicles - Peebles
- Day by Day Armageddon - Bourne
Any of these more recommendable than another? Anyone have a better recommendation for "scary"? I also have Mira Grant's "Feed" in paperback but was leaning toward something on Kindle.
The Invention of Morel by Bioy Casares is a bit similar to Lost.
it seems to have been referenced in the series too.
Jorge luis borges introduces the book by calling it a perfect novel. I wouldnt say that but yea, its good.
It sure is, and it becomes especially apparent with some of the dialogue. Having said that, I really dug the characters and the concept of Epics. I'll be sticking with the series for at least another book to see how it pans out.
Sparks!
I think I might continue with the Expanse series next but I'm wondering. Should I read The butcher of Anderson station before I start the second book? Does it add anything to the reading experience or is it OK to just read it after I finish the series?
This brings up an interesting point, which I think stems from Sanderson being a devout Mormon. His characters don't swear! Unless I'm missing something, I can't recall any swear words dropping. I'm reading The Way of Kings now and everything is "Storms!" Weird.
how D:I hate the way guin writes but its one of my girlfriends favorite books so i am going to keep reading.
Much better than his other YA books though (Alcatraz and Rithmatist).
Gaf, make me smart.
No but seriously, I want to read something life changing, I don't know how to express my hunger for a book that'll be so good it'll scar / mark / inspire me for life any better.
It can be fiction (not Fiction the poster, she's not a book) or not, any genre really. I'm open to everything, I just want you to tell me it's the best thing you've ever read. Pretty please?