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I don't like to use the word "hated", but The Great Gatsby is one of my LEAST favorite books of ALL-TIME! I live on Long Island, where it takes place and was told I had to read it and I would love it! Not so much! Anyway, I'm reading Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Uncle Stevie, himself. This is my first time reading it, so I'm excited. I'm also reading The Excorcist by William Peter Blatty and The Ranger Apprentice: Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan.
Kathy wrote: "I don't like to use the word "hated", but The Great Gatsby is one of my LEAST favorite books of ALL-TIME! I live on Long Island, where it takes place and was told I had to read it and I would love..."Ha, about 10 years ago I had to promise my mother I would never read The Exorcist because, so she says, my father was reading it many years ago when me and my sisters were still young. And supposedly she had constant nightmares of being visited by the Devil while he was reading it, so she made him stop and give the book away to the local library and thus, go figure, the "evil" nightmares ceased. And As silly a story I found this to be, I still won't read the book. LOL
lol. I completely understand JW. On a similar note, my ex-husband (very inocently) gave me for christmas one year.....the movie, Rosemary's Baby....while I was pregnant with our oldest son. lol. Thankfully, I had a sense of humor and just asked him..."Are you trying to tell me something?" It's a family joke now. lol
Oh man, The Exorcist is great. It's about so much more than just the possession. I loved it. The movie is much, much more disturbing than the book is. I find it funny that your mom would be so disturbed by a book she didn't even read that she would make future generations swear to avoid it. LOL
Hi, Kathy!You're reading Nightmares & Dreamscapes for the first time...I'm so happy for you!!
Kathy wrote: "lol. I completely understand JW. On a similar note, my ex-husband (very inocently) gave me for christmas one year.....the movie, Rosemary's Baby....while I was pregnant with our oldest son. lol...."I grabbed a book to take with me to the hospital the night before the c-section which was Robert McCammon's Mine. the book features a beginning in which a baby's melting face is described...glad Todd read it instead of me lol
Well,I have just started to read Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill,which I have intended to read for quite sometime now but other books always seemed to get In the way!I started to read The Gunslinger,but I either was not in the mood to read(Lord forbid)or please tell me that it will take a bit to get into this one?Never-the less I set it aside for now and traded it for Mr.Hill(at least I kept it in the family)Good reading all~~~
I found The Gunslinger slow. The series picks up in the second book, and by book 3 you'll be hooked!Heart-Shaped Box is great, and if you enjoy it, you should try Horns (if you haven't already). Joe Hill's best so far IMO.
I read The Gunslinger twice; once in the 80's and again at the end of last year. I did not like it either time.I totally agree with Courtney. Once you read the second one, you will be pulled right into the series. Also, HSB is good but I thought Horns was excellent.
Jaki-I agree with Courtney and Scott. I listened to The Gunslinger on audiobook and I thought that it would be better to actually read it but now I don't think so. I could not get into it but The Drawing of the Three is much better. I am reading it now and am loving it.I have also read Heart Shaped Box and Horns by Joe Hill and they are both good books. He seems to be following in his fathers footsteps with all the horror stuff!
Hi, everyone!I've also read The Gunslinger twice, but I've never found it to be difficult. The series DEFINITELY picks up with The Drawing of The Three, though, doesn't it?
I was a little lost with my first read though, but re-read it a few years later and then flew right threw and kept on going.....loving every second of it. I'm not sure why that happened, maybe wrong time for the book...I don't know.
Susanna wrote: "I'm finally about to start The Shining."One of the few that I have read multiple times. Enjoy!
Enjoy, Susanna! That's a great one! :)
Courtney wrote: "I know a lot of people weren't happy with the way the trilogy ended, but I actually did like Mockingjay!"I thought all three were remarkable, including Mockingjay, and I really liked the ending. It seemed quite appropos to the rest of the whole "nation-building" story. Politics makes very strange bed-fellows, and also sends people (and therefore stories) in directions you might not like, but can understand in light of what happened before. Convoluted statement, but what it really comes down to: I loved the whole trilogy! :-D
I am reading a couple of books written by Twitter friends, one "Lincoln's Diary," by DL Fowler, and the other is "Gabriel's Redemption," by Steve Umstead. Both OK so far; I have a few reservations about both, but for first novels, they are reasonably good. I'll be able to say more once finished. I just finished "Minding Frankie," by Maeve Binchy, and enjoyed every moment of it, as I have with every Binchy novel. All "light" fare, but easy entertainment. I have read the first two novels in Anne Rice's new series "The Songs of the Seraphim," and I'm hooked. I am also about to finish up Saul Bellow's "The Adventures of Augie March," a lot more serious a novel, and quite involving, but it is taking me a much longer time to read than my usual day or two.I would like to hear anyone's opinion on the most recent novella/SS collection by Stephen King. Haven't downloaded it yet, and wondered if I should do so sooner rather than later! I tend to enjoy his full-length things more than the shorter fiction, but there are many of those that I have loved as well. Let me know!
I'm not too bad. How about yourself!?!
I'm good! Just wishing it were friday already! I want to just crawl into bed w/ a pile of books and not come out until Monday morning! lol
Kathy wrote: "I'm good! Just wishing it were friday already! I want to just crawl into bed w/ a pile of books and not come out until Monday morning! lol"I would love to do that but for some reason my kids think they are suppose to eat on the weekends!
Kids. Can you put a box of cereal on the floor and just let them graze when they get hungry? I mean, that's what we do with pets when we're away for a couple days... :P
Would love to but my son expects me to cook. I told him he must have came home from the hospital with the wrong mother.
I've heard about things like that. Scary!
You bet, won't do that again. Once I figure out what caused it the first time.
Becky wrote: "Kids. Can you put a box of cereal on the floor and just let them graze when they get hungry? I mean, that's what we do with pets when we're away for a couple days... :P"put boxes of cereal down for your pets? :)
Of course! They love Lucky Charms. :P
Man, you guys making me "hongry" :)I finished Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions and it was great. Which Gaiman book should I try to get next? I'm debating between Coraline, Stardust, and Neverwhere.
Neverwhere was good. :) I liked Stardust but I thought Neverwhere was better, and I haven't read Coraline yet. I'm about halfway through The Scorch Trials, and it is intense!
Becky wrote: "Neverwhere was good. :) I liked Stardust but I thought Neverwhere was better, and I haven't read Coraline yet. I'm about halfway through The Scorch Trials, and it is intense!"
I am about to start on The Scorch Trails. Glad to know it is exciting. At the end of The Maze Runner it just kind of died off. Going with new people but I guess he was just setting up the sequiel.
Becky wrote: "I'm about halfway through The Scorch Trials, and it is intense!"So glad you're enjoying it Becky! I loved this one even more than the first and can't wait for Book 3 :)
I just finished A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny on a friend's enthusiastic recommendation. Unfortunately, I'm not smitten. I'm giving it three stars.
Tracy wrote: "Kathy wrote: "I'm good! Just wishing it were friday already! I want to just crawl into bed w/ a pile of books and not come out until Monday morning! lol"I would love to do that but for some ..."
I hear ya, but thankfully my son is 16....and as with most teenagers, he does his own thing most of the time. So I'll get some of the weekend....I hope. lol
Hi, Kathy!How's Nightmares & Dreamscapes?
I am reading Under the Dome, also. I cannot put it down
Veronica wrote: "I am reading Under the Dome, also. I cannot put it down"I just bought the paperback! Can´t wait to start it!. Cover sucks though :(
I don't know what I'm going to read next, debating between Lisey's Story, The Bachman Books: Four Early Novels by Stephen King, and The Night Tourist, a YA that caught my eye.
That's a tough decision. I loved Lisey's Story... *hint* :P
Lol, all the talk about it in another thread made me want to re-read it :)
Ok, I assigned them each a number 1 through 3 then went to random.org and the winning number is number 1, which would be... drumroll please... Lisey's Story. So, gonna start it tonight. Woo!
Kit★ wrote: "Ok, I assigned them each a number 1 through 3 then went to random.org and the winning number is number 1, which would be... drumroll please... Lisey's Story. So, gonna start it tonight. Woo!"Suuuuuure... Random.org and nothing to do with my "hint"... Right! *enormous wink* LOL :P
Becky wrote: "Kit★ wrote: "Suuuuuure... Random.org and nothing to do with my "hint"... Right! *enormous wink* LOL :P"Lol!
I have a hardback copy that I'm reading, and I took the dust jacket off so it wouldn't get ripped, and I gotta say wow, I don't remember the book being so pretty last time I read it, with the pretty flowers all over it. Why can't more books have cool designs under the jackets?
Kit★ wrote: "Becky wrote: "Kit★ wrote: "Suuuuuure... Random.org and nothing to do with my "hint"... Right! *enormous wink* LOL :P"Lol!
I have a hardback copy that I'm reading, and I took the dust jacket off..."
It is truly beautiful, isn't it, Kit?
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I didn't really have so much of an issue with the way it ended, but rather with the characters and the way that they did things that went against everything that they had stood for in previous books. That bothered me. A lot.