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[Jeff]

Nick....thats what I have heard. Glad I am not watching it.

[Jeff]

Oh and starting the Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano.

[Scott]

I've recently read Mr. Mercedes and Ex-Heroes. I was hoping Ex-Heroes would have been better.

Now I'm reading The Bottoms. I've been looking forward to this one.

[Andrea]

Gavin wrote: "Finished The Divine Comedy, and just started The War of the Worlds"

seems weird to read "Finished the Divine Comedy". Doesn't seem like an actual thing you can read outside the academic context. Kudos to you, must've been an amazing experience. I quite enjoyed studyin it in high school

[Kronk]

Cloud Atlas

[Malina]

Damo wrote: "Cloud Atlas"

How is it? I heard so many rave reviews, started reading it and just didn't get into it

[Kronk]

Malina wrote: "Damo wrote: "Cloud Atlas"

How is it? I heard so many rave reviews, started reading it and just didn't get into it"

Started reading it after enjoying 'Ghostwritten' - I'm enjoying it, different and well written. Can understand why some find it a turn off - maybe have another go!?

[Kronk]

Malina wrote: "Laura wrote: "I am reading Joyland by Stephen King"

Hope you like it, it's a great book!"

Malina wrote: "Laura wrote: "I am reading Joyland by Stephen King"

Hope you like it, it's a great book!"

What did you think - you finished it yet?? I thought it was great.

[Malina]

I just finished Swan Song , all I can say is wow! I absolutely loved it. I can definitely see the resemblance to The Stand, but it's a great story either way.

[Aditya]

Finished Void Moon , a good thriller that starts off slow but a twist filled action packed ending makes up for it.

[Malina]

Aditya wrote: "Finished Void Moon, a good thriller that starts off slow but a twist filled action packed ending makes up for it."

I love Connelly, this one looks good :)

[Andrew✌️]

I'm reading Wizard and Glass, the fourth book of the Dark Tower Series. This series is amazing, I hope it continues in this way until the end.

[Andrew✌️]

Malina wrote: "I just finished Swan Song, all I can say is wow! I absolutely loved it. I can definitely see the resemblance to The Stand, but it's a great story either way."

I finished this book some months ago and I liked very much. I didn't read The Stand, so I can't compare, but this is a good example of horror, post-apocaliptic story.

[Nick]

Andrew wrote: "Malina wrote: "I just finished Swan Song, all I can say is wow! I absolutely loved it. I can definitely see the resemblance to The Stand, but it's a great st..."

Andrew: I did a review of Swan Song that compared it to the Stand. It's somewhere in my reviews if you want to look at it.

[Andrew✌️]

Nick wrote: "Andrew wrote: "Malina wrote: "I just finished Swan Song, all I can say is wow! I absolutely loved it. I can definitely see the resemblance to The Stand, but ..."

Thanks Nick. I'll look for it.

[Susan]

I just finished The Talisman, really liked it.
Before reading Thinner, which is next on my King list, I'm gonna go with Water for Elephants, simply because I need a little break from supernatural world, and because I've seen the movie a few days ago :P. Not sure if it's gonna be my sort of thing, but let's give it a try anyway.

[[deleted user]]

Currently reading It by Stephen King. Taking a lot longer to read then I thought it would

[Jeff]

It finally seems I am reading two things I am enjoying at the same time. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano is funny and well written as is A Confederacy of Dunces. I think I am gonna put 100 Years of Solitude down for a bit. IT is next on the plate:-)

[Nick]

Samantha wrote: "Currently reading It by Stephen King. Taking a lot longer to read then I thought it would"

It's a damn long book full of insight and HORROR!

[Aditya]

Malina wrote: "I love Connelly, this one looks good :) "

This one is actually is not as good as his Harry Bosch novels but it still a good way to kill time. This is something I am liking more and more about Connelly, the man may not always write a great book but I am yet to read a book by him that can be called a stinker.

[Kandice]

Big Fish by Daniel Wallace for book club and Doctor Who: Shroud of Sorrow by Tommy Donbavand for me.

[Michael]

I'm currently rereading The Stand. I also gave Blaze a try, but didn't find it that compelling and went back to The Stand.

[Jeff]

Michael
I tend to read the Stand every year....

[Gavin]

Currently reading Of Love and Other Demons

[Michael]

TheLongWait wrote: "Michael
I tend to read the Stand every year...."I haven't read the updated version before and even though it's 1,000+ pages, it is just flying by!

[Jeff]

Thats the only version I have read, though I received a hardcover first edition for Christmas last year.

[Malina]

Gavin wrote: "Currently reading Of Love and Other Demons"

What a great book, GGMarquez is a wonderful author,enjoy!

[Malina]

Just starting The Invention of Wings , I've heard great things about it.

[Marjo]

Michael wrote: "TheLongWait wrote: "Michael
I tend to read the Stand every year...."I haven't read the updated version before and even though it's 1,000+ pages, it is just flying by!"

Same here. The Stand, It, Insomnia, 11/22/63, ........ I usually start rereading them when I get bored with another book and stay with them:)

[Aditya]

Finished A Darkness More Than Night , a book where all the recurring characters of Connelly comes together. The book is fine but it would have been better had Harry Bosch being the protagonist instead of being written into a supporting role.

[Erin]

[Malina]

Aditya wrote: "Finished A Darkness More Than Night, a book where all the recurring characters of Connelly comes together. The book is fine but it would hav..."

I enjoyed it, I agree Bosch is the better character but it was still great. IMO

[Aditya]

Started with Robert Crais's Elvis Cole series. Finished the first book The Monkey's Raincoat . It had a lot of promise before being let down by an over the top ending.Nevertheless it was interesting enough for me to seek out the next few book sin the series.

Malina wrote: "I enjoyed it, I agree Bosch is the better character but it was still great. IMO "

I enjoyed it too just felt it could have been even better had Bosch been given the key role as Bosch and McCaleb are pitted against each other and in some places Bosch just makes the protagonist look inefficient.It was only that after Angel's Flight Bosch's previous book, my expectations from Connelly had increased and i expect nothing short of greatness, every time he writes. Co-incidentally just started another long running detective series and Connelly's first book was much more mature than Crais.

[Annie]

Just finished Caleb's Crossing and am beginning Private Games by James Patterson

[Kandice]

Annie wrote: "Just finished Caleb's Crossing and am beginning Private Games by James Patterson"

Our book club at the local library read Caleb's Crossing and read watched a documentary about bringing back to life the dead language of that particular Indian tribe.

[Marjo]

Started Plague Year, by Jeff Carlson.

[Jamii]

Currently reading WhipEye. It's a good little tween fantasy book. Not a genre I read often.

[Kirstin]

Just started The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker. :)

[Jeff]

Just started The Pale King, the unfinished last novel by David Foster Wallace. Next is IT and Bloody Bess and the Doomsday Games by our own Nick Iuppa.

[Gaby]

Im reading The Perks Of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

[Kandice]

To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See again for book club.

[[deleted user]]

The Bone Orchard by Paul Doiron. Very good so far.

[Vheissu]

Samantha wrote: "Currently reading It by Stephen King. Taking a lot longer to read then I thought it would"

I loved It, EXCEPT for (view spoiler)[the group sex scene. I mean, after all, the characters were children. That one scene ruined the entire book for me. (hide spoiler)] I wish someone could explain to me why Mr. King felt it necessary to depict that.

[Kandice]

Vheissu wrote: "Samantha wrote: "Currently reading It by Stephen King. Taking a lot longer to read then I thought it would"

I loved It, EXCEPT for [spoilers removed] I wish someone could explain to m..."

I could not agree with you more! I still read it, (and re-read), but I skip that scene. The whole things throws off the rest of the book for me.

[Nick]

Vheissu wrote: "Samantha wrote: "Currently reading It by Stephen King. Taking a lot longer to read then I thought it would"

I loved It, EXCEPT for [spoilers removed] I wish someone could explain to m..."

I was shocked by that scene the first time I read it. I couldn't believe it. Now I'm going through the book again and wondering how I will react this time. I see it coming, and it's starting to make some sense, but I have to get there and read it to comment honestly. I talked to my wife (a teacher) and she was less surprised. Her comment was, "kids do that now." Maybe... but at the age of 11 or 12 in 1958? Anyway, I think I can tell you WHY King wrote it. Because as the story was coming to him it was clearly something that these characters (especially Beverly) would do in light of the monstrous challenge facing them. That's why he wrote it. Why he left it in after he wrote it is a whole other question. More to come from me on this... hopefully.

[Lydia]

Agreed regarding THAT scene. I've tried to rationalize its inclusion, but nothing rings true. It's really unfortunate because the dynamics of the group are great and realistic throughout the rest of the book.

[Gavin]

I'm reading 1984

[Aditya]

Gavin wrote: "I'm reading 1984"

One of the few so called classics I have read and I felt it holds up pretty well even now. The prose is weak but the idea and the situations don't seem absurd or dated.

[Aditya]

Finished City of Bones by Michael Connelly, a good addition to the already great Harry Bosch series. My only gripe is that the book had the potential to be the best in the series so far but Connelly could not strike the right balance between the murder mystery and the turmoil that Bosch faces in his personal life.

[Nick]

Nick wrote: "Vheissu wrote: "Samantha wrote: "Currently reading It by Stephen King. Taking a lot longer to read then I thought it would"

I loved It, EXCEPT for [spoilers removed] I wish someone co..."

I once asked an editor friend how to write a really good story. He answered immediately. Take a group of interesting characters, put them in a difficult situation and see what they do.

The losers club in IT are a group of very interesting characters even as kids. The situation of confronting the ultimate evil couldn’t be more difficult. Stephen King when presented with this scenario, and the fact that the small circle had been broken, watched his characters and saw... (view spoiler)[little Beverly Marsh step forward and offering to restore that circle by having sex with the boys in the group, one by one... not wild crazy sex, or even sexy sex, more like adolescent, exploratory, but yet very real sex. This after a terrifying adventure in which her obsessive father, possessed by the spirit of that evil which resides in the town, accuses her of doing that very thing, perhaps planting the idea in her mind.

King tells the story as carefully and as thoughtfully as his skill allows, which we all know is with considerable skill. The scene shocked me. I read it again last night and was shocked again by the detail with which he describes it. I wondered why he would do such a thing, and the answer was obvious: because he’s a truth teller. The truth of these characters is that this would happen. As a writer I supposed he is also charged with presenting the very best possible scenario of all those he could imagine. (hide spoiler)] Could there be a more powerful resolution to the situation? I don’t think so. I wondered why the publisher allowed him to tell such a provocative story, one that runs right up against some of the strongest moral convictions we have. The answer is because he’s an artist. This isn’t prurient stuff. It’s not suggestive or obscene, it’s seven adolescent kids coming face to face with evil and dealing with it in a ritualistic way that they don’t understand but which resonates with primitive truth. It is shocking yes, maybe hard to take, but not wrong.