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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1365 on: April 08, 2017, 12:10:15 PM »
The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton. I'm participating for the first time in social media's tome topple challenge and I thought I'd be highly ambitious and see if I can  read the whole Night's Dawn trilogy by the 20th. Well, hopefully I'll end up liking the first book to continue on

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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1366 on: April 08, 2017, 01:15:55 PM »
My regular book reading will be slowing down for the next year to eighteen months as I prep for the Cisco CCIE exam. So I'll probably be reading shorter pieces of literature. I wanted to start The Dark Tower and Wheel of Time series but they will have to wait. I wanted to read Clarissa by Samuel Richardson which is the longest novel (by words) written in the English language. Instead, in between studies, I am going to start to reread The Great Gatsby - one of the greatest pieces of literature ever.

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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1367 on: April 09, 2017, 12:09:08 PM »
The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson

I love the movie and I'm curious if the book is that much different.
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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1368 on: April 09, 2017, 12:53:12 PM »
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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1369 on: April 11, 2017, 02:34:22 PM »
Room, by Emma Donoghue. Loving it so far. Before that, it was In a Dark, Dark Wood, by Ruth Ware. It was awful. And before that it was American Gods, by Neil Gaiman, and that book kicked my ass all over the place.
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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1370 on: April 11, 2017, 02:38:02 PM »
Picked up the other 5 volumes of Locke & Key by Joe Hill from my local library. Im loving this series so far. I hope Joe Hill returns to the world of graphic novels in the future.
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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1371 on: April 11, 2017, 04:07:58 PM »
The Forfotten by David Baldacci.

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« Reply #1372 on: April 11, 2017, 09:31:42 PM »
I wanted to read Clarissa by Samuel Richardson which is the longest novel (by words) written in the English language.

Good lord just googled this book. Samuel must not have studied this in school.



Instead, in between studies, I am going to start to reread The Great Gatsby - one of the greatest pieces of literature ever.

There is always time to read The Great Gatsby.
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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1373 on: April 11, 2017, 10:11:24 PM »
 :lol   

I'm so curious as to what kind of story can go on for almost one million words. It's an epistolary novel so it's probably akin to reading hundreds of journal entries, except there are also letters and other documents added in.


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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1374 on: April 12, 2017, 07:29:02 AM »
Strunk & White's Elements of Style is the one book that all writers of any kind should read.
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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1375 on: April 17, 2017, 05:28:05 PM »
David Baldacci's The Escape.

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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1376 on: April 19, 2017, 09:04:12 AM »
Re-reading It thanks to the first trailer dropping. Sofa king good.
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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1377 on: April 19, 2017, 11:42:06 AM »
Blackest Night by Geoff Johns & Ivan Reis
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« Reply #1378 on: April 19, 2017, 12:02:20 PM »
I've been reading the Bill Hodges trilogy by Stephen King. I'm on the last book now. Great stuff!
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« Reply #1379 on: April 19, 2017, 12:04:01 PM »
I've been reading the Bill Hodges trilogy by Stephen King. I'm on the last book now. Great stuff!
I've put off reading those because I only own the first two.  I need to acquire the third one before I start reading lol
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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1380 on: April 19, 2017, 01:18:01 PM »
Those books are good, nothing great or memorable. In fact, I can't remember much about the second one at all. Still need to read the third.
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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1381 on: April 19, 2017, 01:19:55 PM »
I read (and enjoyed) the first two. I pre-ordered the third book, which Amazon cancelled for some reason. I should probably get around to picking up that last one.
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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1382 on: April 20, 2017, 10:42:18 AM »
Warlock Holmes: A Study in Brimstone by G.S. Denning
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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1383 on: April 21, 2017, 02:38:51 PM »
Grimoire of the Thorn-Blooded Witch by Raven Grimassi

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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1384 on: April 21, 2017, 05:02:29 PM »
The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton

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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1385 on: April 24, 2017, 08:34:40 AM »
Lockwood & Co. - The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
Must've been Kwyji sending all the wrong songs.   ;D

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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1386 on: April 24, 2017, 08:42:59 PM »
Coldheart Canyon, by Clive Barker. Liking it so far.

Before that it was Coronado, by Dennis Lehane. I'm a Lehane fan, but these short stories didn't really do it for me. Dunno why. Anyway, his new novel, Since We Fell, comes out May 9th, and I'm stoked as hell for that.

As for Stephen King's Hodges trilogy: Mr. Mercedes was all right. The last one in the series, End of Watch wasn't very good. But the second on in the trilogy, Finders Keepers was very well done. That could have been a standalone novel, instead of part of a trilogy.
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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1387 on: April 29, 2017, 12:59:55 PM »
Just finished Baldacci 's The Innocent,  and now I've started into his No Man's Land.

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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1388 on: May 03, 2017, 07:42:30 AM »
Dreamsongs Vol. I by George R. R. Martin
Must've been Kwyji sending all the wrong songs.   ;D

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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1389 on: May 03, 2017, 02:45:49 PM »
Warlock Holmes: A Study in Brimstone by G.S. Denning
This was funny as hell, BTW.  It really helps to be a fan of the Sherlock Holmes stories, because the author does write in that style (somewhat).  It also helps to be a fan of Douglas Adams, because that style is also incorporated.  I recommend it.

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The Burning Room by Michael Connelly.  It's a Harry Bosch novel.
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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1390 on: May 03, 2017, 08:14:08 PM »
The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening

This is an even easier read than the first Harry Potter book and TOTALLY different from the tv show.

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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1391 on: May 04, 2017, 02:07:30 AM »
Sacred by Dennis Lehane. As arilliant as first two books from the series :hefdaddy
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« Reply #1392 on: May 05, 2017, 01:15:49 PM »
Haven't kept up in a while: but I've read Nutshell by Ian McEwan (eh), Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology (really good), and If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio (which was alright)

Now, for a bit of a change in pace, The Kid Stays in the Picture by Robert Evans

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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1393 on: May 09, 2017, 08:43:50 AM »
Damn bookstore didn't have either of the books i wanted to pick up,  so i took a recommendation from one of the clerks.  Started John Sandford's Rules of Prey.

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« Reply #1394 on: May 09, 2017, 01:29:25 PM »
American Pastoral by Philip Roth

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« Reply #1395 on: May 10, 2017, 01:33:26 PM »
I hate DNF'ing books. Anyway, going to give The Secret History a try. I hope it's better than Goldfinch

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« Reply #1396 on: May 10, 2017, 03:26:25 PM »
I hate DNF'ing books. Anyway, going to give The Secret History a try. I hope it's better than Goldfinch

I've only DNF'd one book: Sound and the Fury by Faulkner. Got half way in and just couldn't handle the stream of consciousness writing anymore.  Especially given it's from the POV of a mentally handicapped man.

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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1397 on: May 10, 2017, 03:29:21 PM »
Just started "The Wheel of Osheim" by Mark Lawrence. Just Finished "Senlin Ascends" by Josiah Bancroft. Really good book.

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Re: The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings
« Reply #1398 on: May 12, 2017, 01:52:14 PM »
Gold, by Chris Cleave.

Finished Coldheart Canyon, by Clive Barker, last night. I loved the first four hundred pages or so, but for those last hundred pages, I really wish Barker's editor had given him a kick in the ass.
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« Reply #1399 on: May 13, 2017, 06:30:08 PM »
4321 by Paul Auster