Amanda's Book Club
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i second the recommendation for usagi
and am now going to branch out with some mystery novels
note i prefer to read serials so I enjoy reading the michael connelly books that follow the travels of Harry Bosch a homicide detective for the LAPD
i also enjoy the prey series by John Sandford (which for some reason is always found in the fiction section in chapters)
ive just started reading ian rankin, so ill report on that later
Thanks for the tips, I'm always looking for a fresh direction.
Over the past year I've been devouring everything by George Pelecanos, an excellent crime writer who bases his stories in Washington DC. He also wrote and produced for HBO's "The Wire".
Pick up anything by him at the library, you can't go wrong.
Over the past year I've been devouring everything by George Pelecanos, an excellent crime writer who bases his stories in Washington DC. He also wrote and produced for HBO's "The Wire".
Pick up anything by him at the library, you can't go wrong.
Sucks so far. Four chapters claiming he's going to prove something, but the proof seems to always be promised for the next chapter. Maybe I should not be surprised by the poor quality thus far, given the guy seems to just be citing internet sources thus far . . .
Lol, all those "according to wikipedia" bits? Perhaps it was written by a first or second year uni student...
Amanda.... have you ever read anything by Diana Gabeldon?
She did a series that began with a book called Outlander. She takes 2 fictional characters through the events of Scotland's highland revolution in 1745, that led to most of the Clan's being wiped out. Kinda like what James Cameron did with Titanic. It made the NY Posts best seller list. Phenomenal read.
Cheers!
She did a series that began with a book called Outlander. She takes 2 fictional characters through the events of Scotland's highland revolution in 1745, that led to most of the Clan's being wiped out. Kinda like what James Cameron did with Titanic. It made the NY Posts best seller list. Phenomenal read.
Cheers!
I have read the entire series...it's like an epic, I have to see it through to its end...
I have a suggestion then.....
Plato and a Platypus walk into a Bar; Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
It was written by a couple of Harvard professors Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein. I received as a gift and was very nicely surprised how good it actually was.
Then, I would also suggest you read "The Road" by Cormack MacCarthy before the movie is released.
Cheers!
Lol, I think you've simply been raiding my personal library. I picked Plato and a Platypus up at a Chapters about a year ago. Quite funny. I did consider "The Road", I think I would prefer the book to the movie, and I recently finished "Shutter Island", also coming out as a film soon. It was a good book.
Well, if you think you're getting a little too merry this Christmas season, The Road will sure fix that.
Great book, but man, is it bleak.
(By the way -- it was funny that the trailer that I saw for the movie showed so much of the Charlize Theron character. I don't know about the movie, but in the book she was a fairly minor character.)
Great book, but man, is it bleak.
(By the way -- it was funny that the trailer that I saw for the movie showed so much of the Charlize Theron character. I don't know about the movie, but in the book she was a fairly minor character.)
If anyone was interested in something really different, I could see my way to writing a bit on Burn Hogarth's Drawing Dynamic...series books...Yes, they are art books.
, You're so classy. My brother keeps one of those in his bathroom. I've flipped through a couple of them, they are full of interesting trivia, and I do like trivia.Sidenote, a couple months ago, playing a game of trivial pursuit, I learned a new word. Spermologer. Which, just as a word, makes me laugh. (I'm mature like that). The definition is actually to do with collecting facts, usually more of the news variety, but also trivia. Which would make me a spermologer. Nifty, eh?
I received this as a Secret Santa gift about 3 years ago...disappeared into the bathroom and only re-emerged last week!
Riveting piece of work...and the book wasn't bad either...Finished the first chapter of Superfreakonomics (dealing with escorts). It's a good read. But I really like the way they described [high end] escorts -- they're the trophy wives that you rent by the hour. And who knew that pimps were actually useful (at least for street walkers in Chicago).
And who knew that pimps were actually useful (at least for street walkers in Chicago).My all-time favorite Sci-Fi book is a tie between Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. The second is a bit of a slower-paced read than the first, if you're at all interested.
Right now I'm reading a fantasy novel called The Last Wish, translated from best-selling Polish author Andrzey Sapkowski. It's about the life of a witcher (the Polish word for monster slayers, apparently) named Geralt. While in some ways it's your typical fantasy setting, with the standard Tolkien races being represented, what makes Sapkowski's world interesting is the grittiness of it all - the plague is taking lives, monsters are terrorizing villagers, and most characters are deep and well developed, having many gray areas and moral choices that often come down to picking the lesser evil rather than being a typical good vs. bad thing. Racism is also a heavy theme that drives the story. Really enjoying it so far.
Right now I'm reading a fantasy novel called The Last Wish, translated from best-selling Polish author Andrzey Sapkowski. It's about the life of a witcher (the Polish word for monster slayers, apparently
) named Geralt. While in some ways it's your typical fantasy setting, with the standard Tolkien races being represented, what makes Sapkowski's world interesting is the grittiness of it all - the plague is taking lives, monsters are terrorizing villagers, and most characters are deep and well developed, having many gray areas and moral choices that often come down to picking the lesser evil rather than being a typical good vs. bad thing. Racism is also a heavy theme that drives the story. Really enjoying it so far.I liked both your all time faves above, so this one by Sapkowski sounds like it might be good. If you like gritty you might like London's 'The Iron Heel'.
Because I like seeing your brain come through in your posts, does this make me a spermologist?
I wouldn't, most movies based on Dick's works are a very shallow take. Now, don't get me wrong, I love Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. But BR is at best very loosely based on DADES. The same goes for a Scanner Darkly.
I've also read his Clans of the Alphaen Moon.
