Just finished this. Mehhhh.
Started reading Christine by Stephen King.
What book is on your nightstand? Readers!
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Just finished this. Mehhhh.
Started reading Christine by Stephen King.
The SyFy series is egregiously bad. Not sure I could stomach even considering the books after seeing a few episodes of that.
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haha, bought it. How could I not?
I bought a copy for each of my children and then re-read it once and underlined a few key sentences and paragraphs. They also each got a hatchet to go with it.
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Cool. IF I ever read it, I'll let you know what I thought. Maybe I need a hatchet too
I've got so many books in my library I haven't read. I'm an avid reader, and many books have formed what I am today. For my kids, I passed on a simple one: Desiderata. It's only one page long, a quick read. Anyone looking for truth will find it, no need to post links here.
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Love of Hops, again. And The Perfectionist, read it many times now. The tragic story of Bernard Loiseau, chef, who took his life seemingly at the top of his game. Likely bi-polar, when it wasn't all that well understood. Like he danced on flames when we was "up," but his downs were very solitary, and very down, and they eventually killed him. If you love the life and/or understand the true costs of cooking at a high level, it's a fantastic read.
Haven't searched (sorry), but anyone into the Dune series? The books literally kept me going as a kid and no longer home, "on the road" (to put it one way) and needing some kind of nourishment. I got lost in these worlds. Hated the film.
Haven't searched (sorry), but anyone into the Dune series? The books literally kept me going as a kid and no longer home, "on the road" (to put it one way) and needing some kind of nourishment. I got lost in these worlds. Hated the film.
With that kind if a review, bought it.
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All the Pendergrast series by Preston and Child. LOTR Trilogy, Inheritance series by Chrisopher Paolini, alot of gardening and brewing books and my kindle is loaded with alot of postapocalyptic fiction.
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Oh man I love all post-apocolypse stuff. SO many good ones (I got a few here I think, Wool series, The Girl with all the Gifts, maybe more). I think The Road was the best and most disturbing too. I'm pretty sure my infatuation began with Steven King's The Stand.
Just finished this. Mehhhh.
Started reading Christine by Stephen King.
I don't actually remember anything about this book, other than the fact that we had to read it in high school and I don't recall enjoying a single bit of it.
If you've read the "Wool" series, have you also read "Dust"?
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I think dust was the last book in the series. (I think). So, I read Wool, Silo, but not Dust. The latter is on my kindle, waiting patiently in line.
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Just finished this. Mehhhh.
I did not read this. But I just looked at the synopsis; if you'd consider a similar book describing a relationship in a bucolic setting, (different period), I would highly recommend Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd. It's one of the finest books I've ever read. Bathsheba's dialog in that book was just genius.
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Absolutely agree on Hardy's novel. I actually love all of them. Can't even recall which one it was now, but description of fires on the hillside; and the smallhold dairy life - absolutely beautiful.
Actually, reminds me of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina in that he, too, has one of the most beautiful descriptions of one of the ugliest livelihoods then known - serfdom farm labor (I think they're still serfs in the novel - again, damn memory) at the end of their working day. You can just feel the sweat on their bodies and the warm and lengthening shadow of the setting summer sun. Drinking together, their only real solace. Deeply moved by the scene.
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Several by William Golding. Lord of the Flies, obligatory; Pincher Martin (English sailor marooned on a small rock at sea, as his ship was torpedoed by a Japanese sub, WWII); The Inheritors (Neanderthal, meet Homo Sapiens); The Double Tongue (priestess of Apollo at the Temple of Delphi, during Rome's ascendancy over the Greek city-states); To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy (well, a sea trilogy.).
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Pincher Martin added to queue of neglected kindle books
I can't read enough to keep up with this list and address my 'backlog' of books that I have bought and not read...
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In the middle of 2 books now. Non beer reads - "Devil in the White City" and for my beer reading - "Designing Great Beers"
Glad i stumbled on this thread, so many good recommendations up above. I know i'm not alone in this, but there seems to be so little time to read these days. Time to plan a vacation or a long weekend at the beach.....
Glad i stumbled on this thread, so many good recommendations up above. I know i'm not alone in this, but there seems to be so little time to read these days. Time to plan a vacation or a long weekend at the beach.....
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Should have added. most recent read "A Brave Vessel" great book on the Jamestown settlers and the "real story" behind Shakespeare's The Tempest. My son had to read this along with a bunch of other staples of reading for middle school. Had real all the other classics he was reading except this one. Fascinating story, highly recommend this book if you like history reads.
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If anyone else is considering this, I'll add my recommendation. A very good book, true story, learned a ton about the worlds fair in Chicago.
Sorry, was thinking of Sand. It's a standalone book also by Howey. Similar in style to the Wool series, but a different premise and story.
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You just want me to fill my kindle with more than 1 lifetime of books, don't you? Well, I am definitely game for that
When my dad retired, he sat in his lazy boy and read all day long, until the Tigers (baseball) game on. Every single day. He's dead, and I have his kindle now, and it is full to the brim with good reads. I don't use that, I use an iPad. My point is that with just his kindle alone I have a library.
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Same. I saw it mentioned here two days ago and read it to my two university oral English classes yesterday. It didn't hurt that we were doing a lesson on reading poetry yesterday.
I added it to my wish list, I am a sucker for books set in that time period. My Antonia had an awesome setting, I felt like the plot was a little light though. Another good book also set in the country side and set close to the same time period, (1900-1930) is The Big Rock Candy Mountains by Wallace Stegner, titled after a very popular song of the era. It is somewhat of a longer book though.
If your into post apocalyptic, you must have read The Postman? I'm always looking for books in that genre but after the Stand and The Road you kind of feel like there can't be anything better!
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Well, as of last night....
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If you have a Kindle Unlimited account (it's like 11 bucks a month), you can get alot of postapocalytic (and other genres) and read them for free. You can have up to 10 free books in your account at one time. When you finish one, you turn it back in and get another. Really nice when you're reading a series.
I received a copy of Mark Manson's The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck as a gift last year. I finally got around to cracking it open. A few chapters in and I couldn't read any more. The basic premise: pick your battles and let everything else go. Which is good advice, but I don't need a 200-page book to expound on that concept, ad nauseam.
I knew this wasn't going to be a serious book, but jeebus, it's the dumbest damned thing I've read in a long time. I feel a little dumber having read that.
My to-read stack is depleted and I need a few decent books. Going to sift through back pages of this thread in search of ideas for something good to read, then off to the library.
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I knew this wasn't going to be a serious book, but jeebus, it's the dumbest damned thing I've read in a long time. I feel a little dumber having read that.
My to-read stack is depleted and I need a few decent books. Going to sift through back pages of this thread in search of ideas for something good to read, then off to the library.
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