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by James Rollins, and damn it was heartbreaking! The novel was as usual GREAT with a fantastic plot and high stakes (impending..."Rollins hinted at that before the book came out. I was hoping it wasn't true. I don't like to see strong main characters die...hope this doesn't ruin the rest of the series for me. He also said that new characters would be introduced as well. Hopefully I will get to start this soon.
Lisa wrote: "Rizwan wrote: "Just finished by James Rollins, and damn it was heartbreaking! The novel was as usual GREAT with a fantastic plot and high st..."Yeah I know, I read Rollins' regualar status updates about this too. And as much as I hate to see my favorite characters die, it has done so beautifully and purposefully that in no way it felt like destroying the series, the deaths and some other much needed closures on couple of main characters made it more like the ending of one and the beginning of a new era for Sigma Force....And Rollins himself stated that he's trying to revitalize the Sigma series. If any author deserves my faith its James Rollins.
Rizwan wrote: "Just finished by James Rollins, and damn it was heartbreaking! The novel was as usual GREAT with a fantastic plot and high stakes (impending..."I hope by saying someone dies in this book, it isn't going to ruin it for those of us who haven't read the book.
In the future, would everyone please use the spoiler tags when discussing plot twists or any parts of a book that might ruin it for someone else. Thank You!
Eileen wrote: "Rizwan wrote: "Just finished by James Rollins, and damn it was heartbreaking! The novel was as usual GREAT with a fantastic plot and high st..."Sorry Eileen, didn't think stating someone dies without mentioning any names would be a big enough spoiler, as Rollins himself was telling that in his blog months before releasing the book. Will off course use spoiler tags from now on. (Although can any one please give me a headway of how to use a spoiler tag?)
Again, sorry if I ruin anything for you!
Mark wrote: "And my notification emails are back, I can rejoin the conversation properly!"How did you get yours working again? Three weeks on, and they're still bouncing my email 3-4 times a day, which is way more often than I ever got GR email.
Rizwan wrote: "Eileen wrote: "Rizwan wrote: "Just finished by James Rollins, and damn it was heartbreaking! The novel was as usual GREAT with a fantastic p..."Hey Rizwan,
If you you click on the small link at the top right of the text box where it says (some html is ok ) it will give you some basic formatting hints, spoiler tag is close to the bottom of the list.
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by James Rollins, and damn it was heartbreaking! The novel was as usual GREAT with a fantastic p..."There are a lot of main characters in this series, so I don't think you gave too much away. Here is how you use a spoiler tag though.
Type the < > symbols with the word spoiler between them, in front of the words you want to hide. Then type < > with /spoiler in between them, after the words you want to hide. Hope that made sense? You can find these instructions if you click on "some html is ok" in the top right hand corner of the comments box.
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by James Rollins, and damn it was heartbreaking! The novel was as usual GREAT with a fantastic p..."Rizwan, in my comment below I didn't mean that you ruined it for me; I meant that (view spoiler) might ruin the rest of the series for me.
Eileen wrote: "Rizwan wrote: "Just finished by James Rollins, and damn it was heartbreaking! The novel was as usual GREAT with a fantastic plot and high st..."Mr. Rollins was here last week and said the same thing as Rizwan. I believe in this case it's not a spoiler as much as reader-prep.
Hopefully Mr. Rollins won't pull a Star Trek deal and bring the characters back to life in some Vulcan resurrection deal -- oh, wait, he already brought Monk back to life after certain death :)
It is hard to take a series seriously knowing that everyone in it, no matter how harrowing the situation, will live. Arthur Conan Doyle made the mistake of killing his central character and was damn near lynched for it. No one else wanted to try it again until Mr. Martin wrote Game of Thrones. Martin's method of killing off virtually everyone showed other authors how it makes the reader more invested in the story. I expect we'll see more of this in the future.
Now I have to move Eye of God to the top of my TBR...
Peace, Seeley
Rizwan wrote: "Eileen wrote: "Rizwan wrote: "Just finished by James Rollins, and damn it was heartbreaking! The novel was as usual GREAT with a fantastic p..."Rizwan, it's okay! It was probably my mistake in the first place. I don't read Rollins blogs so I had no idea.
Thanks, Ctgt and Lisa for explaining how to use the spoiler tags!
Reading Stephen King's " Under the Dome". Interesting characters, rather predictable, but the plot is a fun takeon "Lord of the Flies". Over 2,000 pages, but I live in a rainy climate.
A BIG Thank You to Ctgt & Lisa for clearing up how to use spoiler tags!And Thanks to Seeley for understanding! Don't worry, the way things ended, (view spoiler), there's absolutely no chance of that happening.
Yay, finally I can use spoiler tags! :D
Suki wrote: "Reading Stephen King's " Under the Dome". Interesting characters, rather predictable, but the plot is a fun takeon "Lord of the Flies". Over 2,000 pages, but I live in a rainy climate."
There's a new series started based on Under the Dome....I watched the first episode and it was quite good. It has the potential to become the next big sci-fi thing. Though I didn't read the book, so can't compare the two.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1553656/
Rizwan wrote: "A BIG Thank You to Ctgt & Lisa for clearing up how to use spoiler tags!And Thanks to Seeley for understanding! Don't worry, the way things ended, [spoilers removed], there's absolutely no chance ..."
Nice spoiler tags!! : )
Just finished a re-read of The Informationist. Remembered I liked it a lot, but not a lot of detail and I liked it even better, if anything, this time around.Now about halfway through the second in this series The Innocent and while the action isn't as violent/bloody, lots of tension and much more character development.
I can tell this is a series I'm going to keep and re-read.
Ctgt wrote: "I just looked at the second book at the library and saw it dealt almost exactly with how she was raised. I decided to check out some reviews before I picked it up. "Just finished with The Innocent and have to say this second book certainly stands up to the first. Not as much overt blood/violence, more focus on character interaction and the intuition involved in what the main character does, plus a grimly realistic portrayal of lives and mindsets of the people involved in a religious cult. Truly chilling.
I'm now waiting, none too patiently, for the third in this series from the library.
I finished reading
. Written very much in the same vein as the two Matt Helm samples I read. The book covers how Matt was trained and the secret missions he went on in WWII. Sets up the series very nicely.I am also about 65% into
. So very well written. I will be reading several more books by this author.
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, Invasion: California
. (the third is due out next week).These are definitely action reads following in the techno-thriller of books like Red Phoenix, Red Storm Rising and Team Yankee. Lots of military action well plotted, good characters and holds the interest. I like them
I'm currently reading
. I know a few of you have already read this book. I've got a few more of the series on my Kindle and looking forward to reading them too.
Sharon wrote: "Ctgt wrote: "I just looked at the second book at the library and saw it dealt almost exactly with how she was raised. I decided to check out some reviews before I picked it up. "Just finished wit..."
Sharon, I'm guessing you know she lived that cult-life and that's why it comes across so well. I liked that one best. The third, The Doll, was just released (June?) so I'd bet your library will have a waiting list.
Peace, Seeley
Janey wrote: "I'm currently reading . I know a few of you have already read this book. I've got a few more of the series on my Kindle and looking forward to reading them too."Only read this first one but I really liked the "Jack" Daniels character.
Seeley wrote: "I'm guessing you know she lived that cult-life and that's why it comes across so well. I liked that one best. The third, The Doll, was just released (June?) so I'd bet your library will have a waiting list."Yes, I read that ... amazing. I've read a couple of others with a religious cult theme and in neither of those books did it come across as vividly as in this book.
I'm 4th on the list at the library ... hope the four ahead of me are fast readers ... if not, I'm likely to get impatient and end up buying it.
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Started this month's group read
, and it really is as lightning-fast as I was hoping!
Sharon wrote: "Seeley wrote: "I'm guessing you know she lived that cult-life and that's why it comes across so well. I liked that one best. The third, The Doll, was just released (June?) so I'd bet your library w..."I'm going to be giving away a copy to new subscribers to my blog next week, so watch that space, you might win.
Peace, Seeley
Due to a digital library loan coming in early July, I read
by David Baldacci. Wow! To me, the best full-length thriller I have read in 2013, if not some time before that as well. I will try to get to
in July, but I have ANOTHER digital library book to knock out first:
by Joe Hill. Creepy.........I did find time to squeeze in a short novella: Kill Them Dead: Genesis, Episode 5 (zombies of course).
Started
last night and am having trouble putting it down. The latest in his Plague Wars series, but chronologically comes between books one and two and could actually be read, I think, as a stand-alone or is, at least, a story in itself about one of the main characters in the series.Very good, classic urban/apocalyptic (thankfully without vampires or zombies!) and excellent characterization, something the author has always done well.
Good reads apparently hates this group as it is the only group I'm in that it consistently screws up notifications. I wouldn't know what to do if it started working right
Ctgt wrote: "Just finished Ringworld getting started on The Innocent.">What you think on Ring world. I felt Niven wrote it as a series and was afraid to put too much in a single book so filled it with a lot of filler and descriptions that just weren't necessary. That's my opinion
I'm reading Thriller. It's an anthology of thriller shorts by different writers. So far so good. It's edited by James Patterson.
Travis of NNY wrote: "Anyway just started A Dance With Dragons"Good luck
Travis of NNY wrote: "Ctgt wrote: "Just finished Ringworld getting started on The Innocent.">What you think on Ring world. I felt Niven wrote it as a series and was afraid to put too much in a single book so filled it..."
I enjoyed it. It was a "big idea" book. It was definitely a book of it's day, that 70's type sci/ fi. Not great on character development.
Reading "Reviver" by Seth Patrick. I am finding it quite intriguing.Heard they bought the rights to it for a movie. Can not put it down. here is a description Revivers. Able to wake the recently dead, and let them bear witness to their own demise.
Twelve years after the first reviver came to light, they have become accepted by an uneasy public. The testimony of the dead is permitted in courtrooms across the world. Forensic revival is a routine part of police investigation. In the United States, that responsibility falls to the Forensic Revival Service.
Despite his troubled past, Jonah Miller is one of their best. But while reviving the victim of a brutal murder, he encounters a terrifying presence. Something is watching. Waiting.
His superiors tell him it was only in his mind, a product of stress. Jonah is not so certain. Then Daniel Harker, the first journalist to bring revival to public attention, is murdered, and Jonah finds himself getting dragged into the hunt for answers.
Working with Harker's daughter Annabel, he's determined to find those responsible and bring them to justice. Soon they uncover long-hidden truths that call into doubt everything Jonah stands for, and reveal a threat that if not stopped in time, will put all of humanity in danger . . .
The Hard Way by Lee Child. A Jack Reacher novel.
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I've started reading a thriller serial killer story that had a special which got me the audiobook and the kindle copy for less than $10 total. It's good, dark, dreary but good. I hope there's a kernal of light somewhere soon though. It's well written but everyone's so miserable.
Never Smile at Strangers
William wrote: "The Hard Way by Lee Child. A Jack Reacher novel."That one's my favorite of his. I've read it 3-4 times.
Peace, Seeley
Travis of NNY wrote: "Good reads apparently hates this group as it is the only group I'm in that it consistently screws up notifications. I wouldn't know what to do if it started working right"Sorry, Travis! Have things gotten any better?
Magiccats wrote: "Revivers. Able to wake the recently dead, and let them bear witness to their own demise..."AKA, the third season of Pushing Daisies? This is what came of Ned? :-)
Eileen wrote: "Travis of NNY wrote: "Good reads apparently hates this group as it is the only group I'm in that it consistently screws up notifications. I wouldn't know what to do if it started working right"So..."
Nope I have always had trouble with notifications with this group and if there are notifications if say this thread goes to page 63 it will send me to page 62 until there are 10-20 new posts then I'll go to the new page. Its all screwy but oh well its always been like that
Travis of NNY wrote: "Nope I have always had trouble with notifications with this group and if there are notifications if say this thread goes to page 63 it will send me to page 62 until there are 10-20 new posts then I'll go to the new page. Its all screwy but oh well its always been like that "That's what happens to me too ALL THE TIME. Whenever I click on the notifications, most of the times there's almost no new notifications from this group, so I have to enter the group and click on the "unread" posts to see the newer posts in discussions.....I have NO idea why this happens to the notifications of this particular group, and not all the other ones that I rarely check. :/
Finished The Innocent, and loved every word of it! It was a great read and in Will Robie we have a great new hero. The main story with the mystery was really head-scratching, and thankfully the ending was also very satisfying. Already started on The Hit.Here's my review:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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So far it's good and, even though it's sci-fi it fits well with the Napoleonic History books on Naval actions that I've been reading.
I am reading Richard Turner's book -Goliath. it is really fast paced and full of action and suspense. The locations occur across different continents. I can't put the book down.. Excellent novel.http://www.amazon.ca/Goliath-Ryan-Mit...
I'm reading The Prince of Paradise by John Glatt for background information and because I was actually "there" in 1958 when all these famous people were performing in the La Ronde Room. I'd sneak into the Boom Boom room every night, too. For reasons I won't go into, we stayed in the Presidential Suite--that's the one with the fake fireplace and overlooking Collins Ave. going south.
Here's another interesting link:
http://www.southbeach-usa.com/news/ni...
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Okay so my mind is weird.
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