I'll trade you problems:Chronic Diarrhea wrote:Could someone slip me some of that reading material through the bathroom window? All I have nearby is the Classifieds section from June, and I've already read it 12 times....
And if you happen to have a gallon of Pepto, drop that by too.... Oooooooohhh!!!!
What I'm reading
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fuzzywuzzy wrote:Hiya, KT, How are you?
I am currently reading:
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
I am enjoying it! I am waiting for the new Patricia Cornwell to come out this month!
fuzzy
I've read both The Devil in the White City and Thunderstruck. Liked 'em both, but the more I thought about them, the less I was enamored with them. Basically, they use the historical backdrop to enhance the mood and put the murders in perspective, but in both cases, I came away feeling like Larson didn't tie together why the historical backdrop was really important to the crimes. He just tied up the chase to find the murderers too quickly, I think...I'd have liked to have a stronger tie between the murder and the history. They are still good reads, but I was left wanting more, somehow.
I should mention that when I say I "read" these two, I'm lying. I actually listened to them on CD. I did like Bob Balaban's reading of Thunderstruck a lot.
There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust while the infamous sit at banquets.
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I only have time to read on the weekends now and maybe an hour before bed, this is killing me considering I used to find time to devour 4 to 6 books a week.
This past weekend I read Stuart Woods latest "Shoot Him If He Runs", was a very quick read and I do love his sense of humor, he brought together three of his characters that he has written a series of books on. Now I will have to wait a year for the next Woods book.
I am going to the video store and see if I can find some of the mentioned books on tape, I think that will be a good way to entertain myself while on the job and not have to listen to the bs that flies around.
This past weekend I read Stuart Woods latest "Shoot Him If He Runs", was a very quick read and I do love his sense of humor, he brought together three of his characters that he has written a series of books on. Now I will have to wait a year for the next Woods book.
I am going to the video store and see if I can find some of the mentioned books on tape, I think that will be a good way to entertain myself while on the job and not have to listen to the bs that flies around.
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World Without End
I just received World Without End by Ken Follett from Amazon.com.
It's 1024 pages of 10 point type! And I though the book it's a sequel to, Pillars of the Earth was huge!
I'm sure I'm going to love it as much as the first book.
It's 1024 pages of 10 point type! And I though the book it's a sequel to, Pillars of the Earth was huge!
I'm sure I'm going to love it as much as the first book.
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Just one...
I may be the only one in these parts to state this, but I just received my copy of Rosie's Celebrity Detox in the mail today. I should have time to read it tonight.
I like this thread and reading about all the neat things people read.
I like this thread and reading about all the neat things people read.
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My son talked me into reading his copies in the Song of Fire and Ice series. I'm on book 3. Pretty good, but slow-going in parts. HBO has purchased the rights; it would make an excellent series, a la "The Tudors" on Showtime. I LOVE that show. I prolly would have got better grades in World History is the show had been available when I was in high school.
I know, I know, if only they had tv when I was in high school...
t.
I know, I know, if only they had tv when I was in high school...
t.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. -Thomas Paine
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. -Ayn Rand
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. -Ayn Rand
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire
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I read John Grisham's newest, Playing For Pizza, last week on the plane. It's a quick read about a castoff NFL QB playing in Italy, but you must like football. The descriptions of the center's butt-cheeks quivering will not be funny otherwise.
It is mostly a love letter to Italy's small towns, so I guess you could like it for that even without liking football.
It is mostly a love letter to Italy's small towns, so I guess you could like it for that even without liking football.
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At the moment of commitment, the universe conspires to assist you. - attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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I've realized now that I had read all of Return Engagement before. I am probably one of the two prior checkouts from the Library. What's interesting is that there are sections I don't remember at all, but others than I can recall almost in complete detail as soon as I start reading them.
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Agree 100%. I wrote a little note here when I finished it about how I had to go back and read The Drawing of the Three to get rid of the bad taste Dark Tower left. Spock gave me 10,000 recs.ladysoleil wrote:I'm rereading Stephen King's Dark Tower series. I decided I should really give the last book a fair shot because when I originally read it the ending pissed me off so much I wanted to hurl the book out a window.
It wasn't just the ending, either. I've re-read just about every King I ever owned, but I'll never re-read the last three, I got so mad every time he inserted himself into the story. I'll undoubtely read Drawing and Waste Lands again, maybe even Wizard and Glass, if I'm willing to take on that much sadness.
I'm guessing that he's still getting some crankiness from fans like us.ladysoleil wrote:I'm a little less bitter about it now. Yeah, it still irks me, but the initial rage has subsided enough that I've ceased to be cranky about it. If I ever should meet him I intend on giving him a piece of my mind, though.
I've been thinking about it -- when he got hit by the car, I was so worried that he wouldn't make it or would be too fragile to finish the series. Then I was so disappointed with what he did come up with. So, if I could pick, would I go back and tell him not to write the last three, even though he would soon be well enough?
The answer is No -- I would still want the series finished. And as mad as I got, I loved watching Jake, Susannah, and Eddie grow and add layers, and I loved it that Oy died a hero's death.
I'm still not going to give the last book a fair shot like you are though. You'll have to read it for both of us.
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-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
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Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, I downloaded the audiobook from my library. It was read by the author. A very thought provoking book.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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LOL. I am with you completely on that, I'm still tasting the evil in the back of my head.SportsFan68 wrote:
Agree 100%. I wrote a little note here when I finished it about how I had to go back and read The Drawing of the Three to get rid of the bad taste Dark Tower left. Spock gave me 10,000 recs.
It wasn't just the ending, either. I've re-read just about every King I ever owned, but I'll never re-read the last three, I got so mad every time he inserted himself into the story. I'll undoubtely read Drawing and Waste Lands again, maybe even Wizard and Glass, if I'm willing to take on that much sadness.
I liked Wolves of the Calla better on the second round, but unfortunately it vexes me because the Calla-talk the characters picked up for the rest of the books really wrecks the unique voice of each for me. I secretly wondered if King got tired with Roland's dialogue in particular and therefore gave them all a catch-all dialect instead to simplify it a bit. Made me kind of crazy.
Wizard & Glass has aged well for me. I didn't like it as much as the first three when I first read it but now it's up there for me, although The Waste Lands is my absolute favorite.
I almost met him in New York a few years ago. He was at a movie theatre, of all the random things, and I walked past him and did the, "was that? nahhh!" doubletake, then looked back and he was already getting thronged by fans. I decided to leave him alone. It was definitely after the accident and frankly, he looked like hell. I didn't have the heart to harass him about when the books would be done.I'm guessing that he's still getting some crankiness from fans like us.
Well, the ending really is a kick in the teeth and it still makes me crazy, but I understand it better. I mean, how many times did we get "Ka is a wheel" beaten into our brains? Logical, yes. Satisfying, no.So, if I could pick, would I go back and tell him not to write the last three, even though he would soon be well enough?
The answer is No -- I would still want the series finished. And as mad as I got, I loved watching Jake, Susannah, and Eddie grow and add layers, and I loved it that Oy died a hero's death.
I'm still not going to give the last book a fair shot like you are though. You'll have to read it for both of us.
Oddly enough the way Roland evolves reminds me of something from yet another King novel- the part where someone says that they were watching Carrie rejoin the human race and it felt good. Maybe that's why it ticked me off so damn much- you're often not supposed to *like* Roland, and yet you do, because he keeps coming back to what makes him human and alive and something more than a killing machine on a fool's errand. Therefore it was maddening to find out at the end that he didn't redeem himself *enough*.
I think I need to gargle with some non-fiction to purge the anger now.