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So, lack quotation marks - leading conversations with a hyphen. Rachel (who mentioned she will be joining this read later on) does not care for that. Why do you suppose the author did that for this book?
Rachel - the quotation marks thing . . . yeah, The Recognitions is gonna be a problem . . .
I have had the Illuminatus! Trilogy for YEARS! And I mean years . . . pretty sure I bought it in 93 or 94 and I still haven't read it!The Recognitions is pretty decent so far.
Cool! Yeah - I will be interspersing it with other books so it will probably be a week for me.
Are you already done?
Lots of description interspersed with anecdotes. But continues to be amusing and readable. (Monkeys are always funny!)
The first chapter definitely has a feel similar to the beginning of the movie. Willis played "Leland" well.
"He'll see you at the terminal" Ha! Leland is a bad ass - as is to be expected!
Today sometime probably - trying to de-Christmas the house and it is taking forever! (but, Nothing Lasts Forever! ;) )
But, we make up for that with a Matthew McLean in the buddy read! ;)
Buddy read including Rachel, Matthew, and anyone who wants to join!Start 2017 off right with Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp - the book the movie Die Hard is based on.
RachelvlehcaR wrote: "I forgot to say, if we break it down we will have to use a page number as well as title because the chapters don't have numbers, it's just times of the incident."Okay - I will set it up, but I will defer to you for leadership! :) I will go with your flow.
I am also not sure how long it will take me to get a copy!
RachelvlehcaR wrote: "I'm wondering if anyone would like to read Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. It's the first book in the Die Hard series but the second book in the Joe Leland,..."One of my favorites movies, so I gotta read this! Want me to get a buddy read thread going for it? I have only dona a couple of them before, how do you prefer the format?
I read this a couple of months ago, but I will join in the discussion.
So far very readable. I get worried when going into a big classic novel that it will be tough to get into. Still getting to know the characters. Might take a few more days to get fully invested.
TheLongWait wrote: "Indeed, lol. What do you think so far?"So far, I have read the intro. Lots of talk about Finnegan's Wake, which is a bit scary . . .
TheLongWait wrote: "I will be re reading bits and pieces along with everyone. Looking forward to everyone's thoughts"How did I know you would be the first to comment on this thread!? ;)
Discuss part III here
Discuss part II here
