Finally finished The Passage. Long but good.

Starting:

 

Reading this one for the first time. Half way through

 

Seen for music, but never for lit...

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Been reading a lot lately. Recently finished:

 

Better than the movie.

 

Audiobook. Not his best but still good.

 

It was OK.

 

Another just OK.

 

Really liked this. Apocalypse version of Old Man & the Sea, basically.

 

This book messed me up. Loved it. Trying to expand beyond sci-fi/fantasy, science, and travel books.

And Now:

 

On audiobook (read by Scott Cambell).

Currently reading On The Road but I don't really know why. I guess I hope it will all fall into place, but I have the nagging fear that I will get to the end and just be left with emptiness   

You're not reading on the road for plot or great meaning are you?

 

me:

 

You're not reading on the road for plot or great meaning are you?

 

I guess I'm doing it wrong, but yea I like those things. 

you may like those things, but it's a stream of consciousness story from Kerouac.  Any meaning you find from it you bring to it.

Spaulding Gray's better 'Impossible Vacation' was my gateway to accepting 'On the Road,' but in reality there just better Beat and of course other, writing out there. Echoing Grawk, I wouldn't beat yourself up if 'On the Road' doesn't hit. Now if 'The Road' doesn't hit we can talk.

Richard Wright's Black Boy

 

Just finished:

 

 

I liked Oryx & Crake so much I read the sequel.

I enjoyed it very much as well.

 

Starting:

Good to hear. Read the concurrent sequel, so now have to hit Crake. In fact recommended The Handmaid's Tale to my mother yesterday.

There is a 3rd book titled: MaddAddam: A Novel due out later this year.

Cool. Thanks.

I have joined a couple of local book clubs so I am now reading:

 

2 chapters in, loving it so far.

 

Same: 2 chapters in & very good so far. Combo of sci-fi/noir (ala Blade Runner), & steampunk.

 

Been wanting to read this for awhile. I've heard good things about it so looking forward to it.

Edited April 18, 201313 yr by MoonShine

Dan: how did you like Wool?

 

Next up in my Little Old lady Book Club:

Just finished this. enjoyed it. 

 

 

hmmm, what to read next...

Edited May 13, 201313 yr by robm321

Anyone check out Inferno by Dan Brown yet?

Edited May 22, 201313 yr by blessingx

Lollers.  "...renowned monarch..."  I mean, lollers at the whole thing, but particularly lollers at "...renowned monarch..."

Next up for the Sci-Fi / Fantasy Book Club:

 

 

I'm about 50 pages in. Surprisingly good so far.

 

Also starting (for yet another Book Club):

 

 

Recently finished:

 

 

 

The Fatal Shore: The Epic Of Australia's Founding

Last Call was excellent albeit more mainstream fantasy than his others. Less mindbending.

Starting Far Time Incident, enjoying this so far.

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Dan: how did you like Wool?

It was a good pulp style read. Not great literature, but engaging.

Last Call was excellent albeit more mainstream fantasy than his others. Less mindbending.

You didn't find redemption and the fisher king stuff mind bending? All the poker magic, and the magical roots of Las Vegas?