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[Jeff]

Jessica
LOVE that book!

[[deleted user]]

I read your review, I'm excited to get into it!

[Jeff]

Yay!

[Jeff]

It's also a great gateway to Pynchon. Pretty linear and not terribly difficult, but with enough literary finesse to acclimate you to his style.

[[deleted user]]

Yes his writing style is different, I'm getting used to it though. I ordered V the other day and am waiting on it, so I'm glad this will break me in!

[Andrea]

The Best Of Me by Nicholas Sparks

[Andrea]

I'm about to join the Gone Girl Gropu read, and I'm also gonna start Black Jesus, by Federico Buffa, an italian NBA sportswriter

[E.]

So I misplaced my current book, A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving, and I decided to download the audio version because I have some extra credits, so I could continue reading it.
Oh my gosh the audio is so freakin' funny! I was planning on picking up where I had left off, but I had to start from the beginning so I wouldn't miss a thing. It's a long one, but I highly recommend this for any long holiday road trips, or for any time

[Squire]

I think I need to read before making a judgement on it, though...

[Kirstin]

Reading NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. Liking it so far! :)

[E.]

Nos4a2 is my favorite by Joe Hill.
Christmas land !

[Ioana]

Reading The Gunslinger...and then the rest of the series. I'll probably be very busy for a long time :)

I can't figure it out, who's the good guy? who's the bad one? or it's not as simple as that?

[Nick]

Ioana wrote: "Reading The Gunslinger...and then the rest of the series. I'll probably be very busy for a long time :)

I can't figure it out, who's the good guy? who's the bad one? or it's not as si..."


It couldn't be any simpler. Roland = Good; Man in Black & Crimson King = bad. Unless you just made a discovery that the rest of us have missed: that Roland is in fact... Nah. :-)

[Ioana]

Thanks...the Tull killings made me wonder...

[Nikki]

Ioan, the Tull killings were horrific and tragic but it was a trap set by the man in black. I read this series several years ago and I'm rereading it. I'm in Gunslinger and he's just left the Waystation. Where are you in it?

[Ioana]

They started up on the mountain...

[Gavin]

Reading V for Vendetta

[Kandice]

Gavin wrote: "Reading V for Vendetta"

I hope you are loving it!

[Andrew✌️]

Ioana wrote: "Reading The Gunslinger...and then the rest of the series. I'll probably be very busy for a long time :)

I can't figure it out, who's the good guy? who's the bad one? or it's not as si..."

That's a great series! I finished all the books last week and I can say it worth. The first is a little difficult, because speak about facts unexplained in this book, but hold on.

[Andrea]

nothing it's simple in the gunslinger's world :)

[Ioana]

Do you suggest reading just the series, or follow this order: http://honkmahfah.blogspot.com/2012/0...

[Erin]

[Andrea]

it would be crazy to follow such order, the serie would be too long. Some of the books on the list they should be on everyone's reading list, but I suggets to read just the series, plus Salem's lot, maybe Hearts in Atlantis and Little Sisters of Eluria

[Kandice]

Erin wrote: "" Gotta love Chrichton! Such a loss.

[Ioana]

Andrea wrote: "it would be crazy to follow such order, the serie would be too long. Some of the books on the list they should be on everyone's reading list, but I suggets to read just the series, plus Salem's lot..."

Sounds so much better this way...I love King, but don't want to OD. Thanks

[Nikki]

Maybe The Stand also. The man in black is one of the major characters in it. --- I think- it's been a while since I read it.

[Nikki]

Maybe The Stand also. The man in black is one of the major characters in it. --- I think- it's been a while since I read it.

[Jeff]

For the first time in a long time, I have no idea what I am going to read next. I got 11 new books between my birthday last month and my Christmas gift to myself that I got today. Those plus the 30 others that are sitting on my bedside table. Yeeesh!

[Tom]

Hate when I have so many to read I cna't choose. Watch an episode of Two and a Half Men... you'll be running for your bedside table

[Jeff]

Ha! That show is the WORST!

[Nick]

TheLongWait wrote: "For the first time in a long time, I have no idea what I am going to read next. I got 11 new books between my birthday last month and my Christmas gift to myself that I got today. Those plus the 30..."

We just published a new novella, Avenging Adelita, that I can send you next week... 135 pages. Easy read. Romantic thriller. Add that one to the list.

[Andrew✌️]

A couple of days ago, I've started The Wind Through the Keyhole, so with this, I'll close 'The Dark Tower' series. Unless Stephen King write another book next year.

[Cody]

Currently reading The Troop, by Nick Cutter.

[Kandice]

Listening to Serena. The reader isn't very good, but the story is amazing so far.

[E.]

So TheLongWait, throw some titles out there and we'll pick one for you. =}

[Erin]

Kandice wrote: "Erin wrote: "" Gotta love Chrichton! Such a loss."

I know and I am a big fan of his now. :(

[Jeff]

Ok E.....here ya go.....
American Pastoral by Roth
Fool on the Hill by Ruff
The Tunnel by Gass
The Rum Diary by Thompson
The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald
Second Motion by Franzen
The Four Fingers of Death by Moody
The Royal Family by Vollmann
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Kay by Chabon
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Kesey
Insane City by Barry
The Gold Bug Variations by Powers
East of Eden by Steinbeck
The Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut
The Dharma Bums by Kerouac
Farenheit 451 by Bradbury

Pick two if you wish....I will also be reading Bag of Bones....I figured that much out.

[Rhian]

I've started reading icebound by dean Koontz

[Tom]

The Rum Diary by Thompson only one I've read (although I have a bunch of them). good quick read

[Nick]

The Sirens of Titan --- "Don't confuse good luck with the existence of God."

[Jeff]

I do love Vonnegut and Thompson both.... thanks for the recs. Where's E? She started this whole thing. And Nick, I am looking forward to the novella. Slowly making headway through Bloody Bess, but I feel like I will prolly finish it here soon. Gravity's Rainbow is kicking my butt! Read for an hour and get through like 10 pages!!

[Michael]

I really like Thompson as well. If that quote is any indication I will like Vonnegut too.

[Nick]

TheLongWait wrote: "I do love Vonnegut and Thompson both.... thanks for the recs. Where's E? She started this whole thing. And Nick, I am looking forward to the novella. Slowly making headway through Bloody Bess, bu..."

Thanks. I'm slowing down on Cowgirls Blues a bit too. I was loving it and then it got into a very long set of philosophical psychiatric sessions about the meaning of time and life, which made me want to cut over and do a reread of Gone Girl, just for the sake of the Goodreads discussion. The Revival discussion was one of the best I've been a part of... but then the book itself begs to be talked about. I definitely will finish Even Cowgirls Get the Blues though. The overall writing is just too rich and clever to miss.

[Jeff]

Michael
Vonnegut is a fave. Try Breakfast of Champions or Cats Cradle.

[E.]

Hello. Sorry, jeez, I had to sleep. =}
In glancing over your titles, there were two that I have read and they both made an impact on me. Fahrenheit 451 was one I read when I was 12 or 13, and it opened my eyes to the importance of non-conformity. It also showed me how something as simple as a story in a little book could reveal an important "bigger picture" of a society.
The other is One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. It was also an early teen time for me, and I really was impacted by the bluntness of the (for the time) language, characters, theme. It gave me an anti-establishment mind set(just because it's the way it is, doesn't mean it's right). I also thought it was funny, exciting and sad.
The other titles I don't recognize, but now I'm off to look them up.

[Jeff]

You are excuses for needing to sleep, E :-)

[Jeff]

ecxcused!

[E.]

damnyouautocorrect

[Jeff]

Ha! So true!

[E.]

I got a copy of Black House, so I decided to re-read The Talisman before getting into it. Talisman was a favorite of mine so long ago, I'm hoping it doesn't lose any luster the second time around.
Owen Meany was awesome.