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Maklershed · Jul 1, 2012

Maklershed · Jul 1, 2012

Hard copy:

The Wrecker by Clive Cussler

Kindle:

Containment by Christian Cantrell

elkayes · Jul 1, 2012

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elkayes said:
Gripping read, started it one afternoon and finished it the next day. The methaphors are pretty clear and easy to understand, but don´t loose their punch for it. Especially liked the part of them

back on earth after their first deployment and the way they react to their "standing order" after reenlistment

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Now reading:

300+ pages in. This book lives for the amazing characters Steinbeck creates. I like his way of telling the extensive backstory of every character before he lets them bump into each other. Just can´t figure out how this should work as a movie.

Happy July everyone. Summer heat reading is 2nd best reading.

rataplein · Jul 1, 2012

read i, robot for the 100th time. still, i think that best ones are "reason" and "the evitable conflict" just amazing.

Troll · Jul 1, 2012

rataplein said:
read i, robot for the 100th time. still, i think that best ones are "reason" and "the evitable conflict" just amazing.

Anything like the movie?

el retorno · Jul 1, 2012

elkayes said:
300+ pages in. This book lives for the amazing characters Steinbeck creates. I like his way of telling the extensive backstory of every character before he lets them bump into each other. Just can´t figure out how this should work as a movie.

Are you gonna watch the movie?
It cuts out more than half the book. It only focuses on one of the generations if I remember right.

Love the book its amazing

NekoFever · Jul 1, 2012

I'm still on my Lovecraft collection.

Read:

At the Mountains of Madness (Liked it.)
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (Loved it.)
The Dreams in the Witch-House (Some cool imagery but didn't do a lot for me.)
The Statement of Randolph Carter (Good and creepy, but only like ten pages.)

Reading:

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (Enjoying it so far because it's so different to what I'd been led to expect from Lovecraft. Kind of reminds me of the Dark Tower series.)

To read:

The Silver Key
Through the Gates of the Silver Key

I'm not going to go straight to the second volume when I've finished this because I'll burn out on it, but I will read some more in a couple of books' time.

elkayes · Jul 1, 2012

el retorno de los sapos said:
Are you gonna watch the movie?
It cuts out more than half the book. It only focuses on one of the generations if I remember right.

Love the book its amazing

I plan to do so, although the slow pacing of 50´s and 60´s movies makes it hard for me to enjoy so called "classics". Still I think I should watch at least one James Dean movie in my life, so why not this one.

lightus · Jul 1, 2012

Troll said:
Anything like the movie?

Not really. The movie takes some cues from the Isaac Asimov novels, but isn't directly related to i,robot.

Para bailar La Bomba · Jul 1, 2012

Just finished reading "The Ugly American". I was blown away by this book.

It's a critique of US Foreign Policy in the 50's/60's in a fictional setting. Many of the lessons are still relevant to the US policies in Afghanistan and Iraq. Do yourself a favor and read it. It's masterful..

Neffarias_Bredd · Jul 1, 2012

Has anyone read the Long Price Quartet by Daniel Abraham? Worth it?

el retorno · Jul 1, 2012

elkayes said:
I plan to do so, although the slow pacing of 50´s and 60´s movies makes it hard for me to enjoy so called "classics". Still I think I should watch at least one James Dean movie in my life, so why not this one.

My love for the book, Its probably in my top 3 of all time, I love "epic" historical novels especially when tinged with religious overtones (despite not being religious) made the movie probably better than it is. But I remember James Dean being pretty darn good. He also only has what 3? Not to hard to see them all.

To contribute to the topic I just read

Pretty good summary of the current state of affairs in the US I thought.

Now I'm reading the black swan

thomaser · Jul 1, 2012

Don DeLillo: "Underworld". Huge book with lots of characters, seems to span from 1950 to ca. 1990. I'm about 20% in. Some parts are stream of consciousness or very hard to follow dialogue between people who know each other so well that they don't have to converse in full sentences, so it can be a little confusing. Very impressive language, especially in the first chapter. Some people liken it to Infinite Jest, and I can see why. But I find this one much easier to read.

Richard Gross: "Psychology. The Science of Mind and Behaviour". A popular textbook used in England. Your basic introduction to psychology. Well written and engaging. It's a fascinating subject!

disappeared · Jul 1, 2012

Just wrapped up Brave New World. Looking into some of Huxley's influences now.

O.DOGG · Jul 1, 2012

After seeing it mentioned in relation to Far Cry 2 which is a favorite of mine, and Spec Ops: The Line, I decided to finally read this. Halfway through it now.

TheLastFantasy · Jul 1, 2012

I just finished reading The Boy in the Striped Pajamas minutes ago. The good thing is that I absolutely had no idea what it was about. I actually thought it was some sort of fantasy/fiction novel. I fully experienced that "main revelation" and enjoyed all the plot twists. Oh and the ending was definitely emotional but somehow I felt like it was cut short. I definitely recommend it to whoever hasn't read it yet.

Freeza Under The Shower · Jul 1, 2012

(finally) done with Amusing ourselves to death, moving on How fiction works by James Wood.

Fintan · Jul 1, 2012

On the recommendation of Clegg, I've been reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami. I'm about halfway through and I'm definitely finding it more engaging than 1Q84. Should finish it in the next day or two.

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Kud Dukan · Jul 1, 2012

I'm about 50% of the way through Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin. So far I'm loving it, and I'm usually not the biggest fan of most vampire stories. It's an interesting take on the genre and definitely a page turner...I was up pretty late last night because I kept saying "one more chapter".

8BitsAtATime · Jul 1, 2012

Im still reading the Blair Witch Files

This was by far one of the better Blair Witch books. This one wasnt as predictable as the last 2 have been. When Im done reading all the Blair Witch books, i want to jump into Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

kruis · Jul 1, 2012

Now reading:

I've read 100 pages (25% of the book) and I'm not quite sure if I like it. The premise is gold. The book is set in 19th century Naples, in a time where music has magic powers. The hero is an atheist librettist whose latest opera was so blasphemous the opera house burned to the ground the very next day due to celestial intervention. Instead of being imprisoned by the inquisition, he gets the job of staging an equally powerful opera to counter the apocalypse.

Sounds like an enormous lot of fun, but it's not really happening in the first 25% of the book. Too many descriptions, a slow pace, not enough plot. I'm hoping the book will pick up.

Nappuccino · Jul 2, 2012

Koroviev said:
I recall having a difficult time following Gibson's Neuromancer when I read it a few years back.

While I do agree... I've been finding Count Zero a little more abstract. At least in Neuromancer, the main character was the subject of forces greater than him. So not understanding what was going on made me identify with him more.

Here... I'm not sure what is motivating Turner to return to the mission and I'm not super sure what the mission is supposed to do once it is complete. And The Count's story is interesting, but again, I'm not really sure what it is doing. I'm assuming that, as I keep reading, this will all become clear but I'm also hoping that I just didn't accidentally skim over some important information that will make this all make sense.

Vanillalite · Jul 2, 2012

aidan · Jul 2, 2012

Taking a break from Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan to read:

The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, sequel to GAF favourite The Shadow of the Wind. I've been hearing very, very good things.

Yousefb · Jul 2, 2012

Halfway through this book and I'm enjoying it immensely. It was a bit slow to start but once it picked up I can't really put it down. Love Neil Gaiman's work!

Salazar · Jul 2, 2012

Ian Rankin, The Naming of the Dead.

About to grab Goodkind's new thing.

RockAction · Jul 2, 2012

Just finished Adventures of a Young Man by John Dos Passos, now onto the second in the Districts of Columbia trilogy, Number One

Not as good as his earlier work and his politics is more overt, but i still enjoy his writing so i enjoyed it, hoping the trilogy maintains or surpasses the quality established in the first book

also on the table to be read is the dudley smith trilogy by Ellroy and The Once & Future King by T H White and maybe Platform by Michel Houellebecq

Donthizz# · Jul 2, 2012

Yen · Jul 2, 2012

About 80 pages into Game of Thrones. Have a backlog of about 15 books that I'll dive into now it's summertime.

Falch · Jul 2, 2012

Been a while since I've read a sci-fi book. Just a few pages in, sofar.

Monroeski · Jul 2, 2012

Embassytown by China Mieville.

I've read Mieville before, but I still kind of had this reaction to the first paragraph -

only with less "punch him in the face" and more "do I really want to do this again?" but I powered through the first section (~40 pages) and I think it should get a bit better now that the setting has been established a bit and we can hopefully get down to story progression. Even if you like any of his writing in the first place you kind of have to be in the mood for it and I'm still only middling on him as an author at all.

Mondriaan · Jul 2, 2012

I'm reading Rushdie's Midnight's Children and have gotten a little bit past the usefulness of cow patties.

So far it seems like it's telling the story of a family in the years preceding India's independence as told by someone incredibly self-indulgent and prone to irritating interjection just as he starts to conjure suspension of disbelief. Of course, it is probably on purpose and I am reacting to the character because the character annoys me. The writing is good, though.

Mackenzie 92 · Jul 2, 2012

Put it down after it opened with some congressman talking about the recent CDC zombie memo thing and one of the congressmen responded with "I know, right?" in 2049. I hate that phrase anyway, but I really hate it in 2049 and the zombie memo reference is just stupid and amateurish and irrelevant.

I dunno, turned me off enough to put it down and move on to something else. I may come back to it sometime, but it really wasn't doing anything for me anyhow.

Think I'm gonna checkout Containment or The Forever War.

Dan · Jul 2, 2012

Still plugging away on Snow Crash. Just can't get into a groove with it.

Rubbish King · Jul 2, 2012

about 3/4 way through, i preferred anthony Kiedis' scar tissue however

Maklershed · Jul 3, 2012

On the hard copy side of things I finished The Wrecker and started Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, the sequel to one of my all time favorite books (A Canticle for Leibowitz).

Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman by Walter M. Miller Jr.

Keen · Jul 3, 2012

My reading pace is atrocious, still fininshing up The Scar and Legacy of Kings (hopefully tonight). After that I'll move on to The Stars My Destination, and after that probably the Forever War.

Grenouille · Jul 4, 2012

Frankenstein

Yousefb said:
Halfway through this book and I'm enjoying it immensely. It was a bit slow to start but once it picked up I can't really put it down. Love Neil Gaiman's work!

Really liked it. Never understood the hate it gets.

Awesome Animals · Jul 4, 2012

Hey bookGAF!

I just finished Norweigian Wood by Haruki Murakami and about to start reading Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. I try not to read the same author two books in a row unless it's a series and I really liked Norweigian Wood. Great story about morality and leaving adolesence for adulthood. It was my first novel I've read by Murakami and I look forward to more of his work.

RELAYER · Jul 4, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeIqZWfVZqY

LProtag · Jul 4, 2012

I think I'm going to read the Mistborn series once I'm done with ASOIAF. I've never been so free to read fantasy before and I think I'll go on a little kick before getting back to the 'standard' canon.

Paper Fox · Jul 4, 2012

Sleepwalk With Me by Mike Birbiglia. Not a hefty book by any means, but the guy is charmingly funny. Heard him spruiking the book on the radio probably over a year ago now, and I finally managed to buy it online.

Arment · Jul 4, 2012

I finished up The Stand a while ago. Incredible book on all accounts.

Which leads me to a not so incredible book, Inheritance. I'm reading it to finish off the series, which I started when I was much younger. It bugs me when I leave a series unfinished so I can't help myself. Reading it after The Stand was probably a bad idea.

After I'm done, which my Kindle says I'm 85% through, I'm going to start The Aspect Emperor trilogy by Bakker. I liked the first trilogy but I haven't seen too many people mention this one here, so I hope it's good.

Ravager61 · Jul 4, 2012

thomaser said:
Don DeLillo: "Underworld". Huge book with lots of characters, seems to span from 1950 to ca. 1990. I'm about 20% in. Some parts are stream of consciousness or very hard to follow dialogue between people who know each other so well that they don't have to converse in full sentences, so it can be a little confusing. Very impressive language, especially in the first chapter. Some people liken it to Infinite Jest, and I can see why. But I find this one much easier to read.

This is next on my list of things to read after I finished the stupid fantasy stuff I'm reading. White Noise is one of the most brilliant things I have ever read in my life so I am very excited to read Underworld. I can't get over how brilliant some parts of White Noise are.

Tawney Bomb · Jul 4, 2012

Finished Jurassic Park, now reading Caliban's War.

Piecake · Jul 4, 2012

Donthizz# said:

I liked that series a lot at first, but I felt it really started to drop around book 4. Didnt bother to finish book 6 since i stopped caring

Mr. F · Jul 4, 2012

Tashbrooke said:
about 3/4 way through, i preferred anthony Kiedis' scar tissue however

I really, really enjoyed Scar Tissue. It was incredible reading how deep the rabbit hole of addiction can go, and the how easy it can be to relapse even after making progress into recovery. I was eying the Grohl book, is it underwhelming in comparison?

Also, just picked up China Miéville's The City and the City recently. Heard the Tested crew talk about in on Octobercast a while back and it sounded pretty cool. Going to start tonight.

RatskyWatsky · Jul 4, 2012

Quikies83 · Jul 4, 2012

Switch by Dan Heath

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Quikies83 · Jul 4, 2012

8BitsAtATime said:
Im still reading the Blair Witch Files

This was by far one of the better Blair Witch books. This one wasnt as predictable as the last 2 have been. When Im done reading all the Blair Witch books, i want to jump into Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

Didn't even know these existed.. Color me interested, if they're creepy. Where should I start?

I finished Heart-Shaped Box over the weekend (first thing I've read by Joe Hill) and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Definitely had some genuine creepy moments. I look forward to reading more by him.

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