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What Are You Reading Now? Pt 2.
Thanks Nick and Andrea,Once the DT gets in you, it never leaves. I often wish I could a doorway to those worlds myself...
Lanie
Constant Reader since 1979
Ed wrote: "I'm about a third way through "On The Beach" by Nevil Shute"Oh sweet memories. I read On the Beach way way back, in highschool (40 years ago:)). I remember crying a lot towards the end. It made quite an impression. I'm currently reading Shovel Ready by Adam Sternbergh.
Finished Heart Shaped Box, putting together a review tomorrow. Just downloaded the audiobook of HORNS, and to get in the mood to promote my new Vampire novel - BLOODY BESS - next month, I also got the BBC read of Dracula. There were about 50 different versions and some of them were awful. Previewing is really important for audio books. Swan Song is coming along and I also just began to read The Shadow Queen. I think that's enough stories to try and keep straight.
Nick wrote: "Finished Heart Shaped Box, putting together a review tomorrow. Just downloaded the audiobook of HORNS, and to get in the mood to promote my new Vampire novel - BLOODY BESS - next month, I also got..."
Nick, I really enjoyed Horns. Hope you like it.
Nick, I really enjoyed Horns. Hope you like it.
Finished Dr Sleep yesterday and started
today.
I've just started The Wizard of Oz, a light reading. Until now I had seen the movie, the one with Judy Garland, but I never read the book.
Finished Nightmares and Dreamscapes
a short story collection by Stephen King. It had a few good stories but too many average ones make it just another read and nothing special.
Finished The Wizard of Oz and now I'm reading Different Seasons a great collection of King's stories.
Reading four past midnight now.....
Priyadharshini wrote: "Reading four past midnight now....."Its a great book specially The Library Policeman is possibly my favorite King novella. Hope you enjoy it.
In just a few hours I started and finished il dizionario delle cose perdute by Francesco Guccini, an italian folk songrwriter, the closest thing to Bob Dylan we have over here. It's a collection, of childhood stories, and anecdotes, with the then typical and now mostly forgotten objects, as the real main characters of the book.and tonight I'll start A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
Aditya wrote: Its a great book specially The library policeman is possibly my favourite king's novella.Hope u enjoy it.I am indeed enjoying every word of it. Never read a book before that could pick up such a fast pace even in the beginning.
gonna re-read salem's lot its gotta be almost 20 years since the first time I read it
Rhian wrote: "gonna re-read salem's lot its gotta be almost 20 years since the first time I read it"Salem's Lot is actually the best among King classics in my opinion. All the other classics be it The Shining, The Stand, It may seem too long to most modern readers but Salem's Lot actually justifies its ending with a great finale. Hope you enjoy it.
I'm sure I will Aditya, been looking forward to reading it for ages
the fog by James Herbert picked this up as 15 year old years ago by mistake at a holiday villa couldn't read all of it as it qas too disturbing! but just got it recently still disturbing but my mind can take it now must be my old age lol.
Finished Run
by Blake Crouch by far the worst book I have read this year and possibly having one of the weakest endings I can remember.
Aditya wrote: "Finished Run by Blake Crouch by far the worst book I have read this year and possibly having one of the weakest endings I can remember."So the question is why do you stay with a lousy book. I read bad books through to the end but I'm starting to ask myself "Why?". With so many great books out there to read or re-read I think it's time to star cutting my losses, and bailing out of the clunkers.
Nick wrote: "So the question is why do you stay with a lousy book. I read bad books through to the end but I'm starting to ask myself "Why?". With so many great books out there to read or re-read I think it's time to star cutting my losses, and bailing out of the clunkers."Well I only chose books from genres that I love and as a rule finish a book that I have started. It is the same way with films for me. I have read one more book from same author and that was much better.RUN was particularly bad because till the middle the book was generic but passable but the ending was so sudden and abysmal it negated everything that happened before and was one of those cases when it was clear the author had no clue how to wrap it up.
I guess to answer your question I stick with bad movies or books because at the end of the day they don't waste more than a couple of hours to a couple of days. But I could never stick with a TV series or a game that I don't like because that would end up wasting weeks of my time.
Aditya wrote: "Nick wrote: "So the question is why do you stay with a lousy book. I read bad books through to the end but I'm starting to ask myself "Why?". With so many great books out there to read or re-read I..."Aditya -- I used feel exactly the same way -- if I began a book, I finished it.
Then one day, I had a Eureka moment. I calculated how many books I have left in MY lifetime if I read 40-50 books a year and can read until a ripe old age of 90. Without disclosing too much of my age... it is less than 2000 (very nerdy, I know)
That is a VERY finite number. So I no longer waste those precious reading hours on books I don't enjoy or won't enhance my education.
I believe there are more than 2000 books I want to read -- so I have to choose...
Cathy
I am with Nick. I prefer to stop reading if I don't feel comfortable with the book. There are many books I can read or reread
Cathy wrote: "Aditya -- I used feel exactly the same way -- if I began a book, I finished it.Then one day, I had a Eureka moment. I calculated how many books I have left in MY lifetime if I read 40-50 books a year and can read until a ripe old age of 90..."
I usually give up on authors if I check a couple of their books and find they are not to my taste.I had heard a lot about Lee Child's Jack Reacher series so got the whole series for my e-reader.I read the first couple of them & they were so bad I will probably never get back to them. I often give up on authors but to give up on a book the writing itself has to be amateurish and not just bad.I will not finish a book only if I feel a writer just does not know how to write in English . The only book I have not finished in all these years is Dark Magic. Guess I can't control my curiosity to know how it ends.
P.S. If I live till 90 I guess I will have greater regrets than wasting my time on a couple of shitty books.
I just finished
The Queen of Bedlam. I was looking for another of his books but was not available so I grabbed this one. I'm glad I did, what a great mystery set in 1700's Manhattan, I will be reading his other books soon! Not to mention he has received SK's praise.
Just finished reading the book thief by Markus Zusack. What a great piece of work. I'd put it off for ages but then read I am the messenger and had to persevere with this. Highly recommended.
I'm spending so much time editing my own books that I've fallen way behind on my reading, so I'm doing the whispersync thing. I read the book in the evening, listen to the same book in my car as I drive around the next day and audible/kindle sync with each other so when I stop reading at night, the audio book jumps ahead to the right page in the audio version. So far it's worked perfectly. Since I'm reading on an iPhone and listening to an iPod in my car the fact that the Kindle products work perfectly is really amazing. Right now I'm still deep into Swan Song, but as I say, I'm way behind. By the way, I like the book a lot.
I'm reading Burial Rites by Hanah Kent. The way she describes life in Iceland in the 19th Century makes you feel grateful for not being there. The bitterness, cold, claustrophobia....... A compelling read.
Erin wrote: "Just started: 
"That looks great! I'd buy it just for the cover. Hope you like it!
Marjo wrote: "I'm reading Burial Rites by Hanah Kent. The way she describes life in Iceland in the 19th Century makes you feel grateful for not being there. The bitterness, cold, claustrophobia....... A compelli..."That sounds like something I would like. :)
Kirstin wrote: "Erin wrote: "Just started: "That looks great! I'd buy it just for the cover. Hope you like it!"
I hope so to! I got it for a steal at a used book store that was going under.
Erin wrote: "Kirstin wrote: "Erin wrote: "Just started: "That looks great! I'd buy it just for the cover. Hope you like it!"
I hope so to! I got it for a steal at a used book stor..."
Love it when that happens! :)
I mean finding a good book for a steal, not when a used book store goes under! That sucks!
I was bummed out when the store went under. :( The business is still around but their other locations are to far out of the way for me to travel to.
Just finished Just What Kind of Mother Are You?
a very good first novel, keeps you intrigued until the end.Now starting
Just finished The Fall of the House of Usher (and other tales). This version sucked. Poe's one and only full length novella was included, and it was boring. Thank goodness for The Pit and the Pendulum, and Black Cat; both of which saved this book from a good lashing!Picked Assassin's Apprentice, which is pretty darned good. I feel like I will definitely be reading the rest of the series. :)
Just finished Burial Rites, impressive first novel by Hannah Kent. Now starting Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood.
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I'm going through the same thing. I just re-read Wizard and Glass! Such a wonderful journey.
As of now, I ended Night Shift by King, his first collection of short stories. Some of them were example of pure genious, like Children of the corn and others. And the introduction of the book, is itself a memorable piece of literature
and now I started Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein