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What Are You Reading Now? Pt 2.
Finished Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama it was a brilliant 5☆ read
Rhian, I've been wanting to read Six Four, but I just haven't gotten ahold of a copy yet.
Atlanta wrote: "Horns by joe hill"Atlanta that is an excellent quick reading story.
@mrbooks I’m listening to it on audible and it is rather disturbing
Kathryn I got lucky I found mine in a charity shop, I bought it purely because I loved the cover but what a story it was fantastic
Completed:
, excellent, 5 Stars.Current Read:
On Deck:
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Jerry wrote: "Cacadoodie dirty bird"Annie Wilkes, is that you??
Alondra wrote: "Jerry wrote: "Cacadoodie dirty bird"Annie Wilkes, is that you??"
Um, yeah, she must've hijacked my account, the dirty birdy....
Jerry you are in for some Misery then LOL.
Just finished my long long read of The Night Circus
. I loved it, as you probably guessed I would. Five stars. My uncharacteristically short review is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I've read The Night Circus, and now I'm reading Intensity by Dean Koontz.
Currently reading Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
I'm reading The Saboteur by Andrew Gross. I had raced right through his other book The One Man which I LOVED. This isn't as good but I'm enjoying it.
@patrick I really enjoyed that book
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.Mary was teenage girl when she wrote this over 200 years ago. And now i read the story she made up in her mind, read the words she wrote. That's kind of grazy. Literature is one kind of immortality, i think.
Like her monster it will live forever.
Currently reading Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule.
The Way of Kings Book 1 of the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson.
I just started Sword of Destiny - Tales of The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski. I chose it for a book club because of the Netflix series that's in production with Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, so I wanted to get into the world early. Also even though it's not considered the first installment in the series, it is the first published works and that's the order I prefer :)
Craig wrote: "The Way of Kings Book 1 of the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson."good book craig
Brandy and Bullets a murder she wrote cozy mystery.
Patrick wrote: "Currently reading Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer"I loved and hated that book. It was so weird and ambiguous, yet, so interesting. I had to keep reading to get answers.
Not sure when I will pick up the 2nd book, but a lot of readers have said that we get lots of answers to the first book. Mmmm
@alondra I’d be happy to do a buddy read of the 2nd one
Nancy wrote: "The Library at Mount Char"This was one of my favorites last year. So good...and so weird. Hope you'll like it too.
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey.
Ioana wrote: "Nancy wrote: "The Library at Mount Char"This was one of my favorites last year. So good...and so weird. Hope you'll like it too."
I’m only into ch 3 but I like it so far.
Reading Stalker by Lisa Stone and it's good so far
Like some others on here, I'm currently reading (as in "just started") Annihilation, since I do want to watch the movie but I don't want to watch it first. Unusual, isn't it, for the first book in a trilogy to be substantially shorter than books 2 and 3? but that seems to be the case here.My contrasting example, which I read years ago, is Anne Rice's "Mayfair WItches" trilogy, with The WItching Hour leading things off at about 1000pp, followed by Lasher at 600pp. and Taltos at 500pp.
Jerry wrote: "Like some others on here, I'm currently reading (as in "just started") Annihilation, since I do want to watch the movie but I don't want to watch it first. Unusual, isn't it, for th..."I don’t know but it depends probably on the series like the series. Like Dark Towers Boxed Set. The first book, The Gunslinger, is only 231 pages. The second and third books are in the four hundreds. Book three is 800+ pages. Then we get a break with a 300+ pages. Back to 900+ pages. Then back to 500+ pages with book 6. Then finally 1050 pages to end it.
Then sometimes the second book is shorter than the first but the last book might be longer than both or longer than just the second.
Nancy wrote: "I don’t know but it depends probably on the series like the series. Like Dark Towers Boxed Set. The first book, The Gunslinger, is only 231 pages. The second and third books are in the four hundreds..."Thanks for your response, Nancy. Interesting; you're of course correct about Gunslinger being the shortest of the Dark Tower books, although I was specifically thinking about trilogies. With the Dark Tower — a 7- (or 8-)book series — the first book, I think, functions as a kind of prologue to the rest, something that works nicely in a longer series, but not so well in a trilogy. I'm sure there are examples of trilogies with a shorter book-1 and longer books-2-&-3, but I couldn't think of one offhand, and it seemed to me somewhat unusual.
Jerry wrote: "Nancy wrote: "I don’t know but it depends probably on the series like the series. Like Dark Towers Boxed Set. The first book, The Gunslinger, is only 231 pages. The second and third books are in th..."I knew you were going the trilogy route. But I just had to through in something with the final book not being smaller than the first. 😏
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I need to decide between Hex - Thomas Olde Heuvelt and Head Full of Ghosts - Paul Tremblay for my next read!"
Have you decided? Both look great ... for me, Hex would win by a nose ... being a work in translation, it would likely be just a bit MORE new-and-different, I think.