Cliff Hanger Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 Since the last "main" Honor Harrington novel was three years ago, I am re-reading the last 3 to remind myself where the absurdly complicated plots all stand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 On 9/8/2016 at 10:33 PM, Michael Sweetser said: After yet another GoT binge, I'm slowly working through The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones. I love worldbuilding stuff like this, even if it's not 100% official/by GRRM/whatevs. So, have you heard the Good Word about the Malazan Empire? I have a pamphlet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSJ Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 On 9/14/2016 at 6:21 PM, Matt D said: So, have you heard the Good Word about the Malazan Empire? I have a pamphlet. Testify, my brother! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 Since there is no RIP thread for the book section, RIP WP Kinsella. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 The missus and I accomplished our goal: read 50 books before ordering any new ones. (We had to break the rule for work-related books, but they don't count.) We were so proud of ourselves that we actually managed to do this (and were astounded at how much keeping a list motivates you to read more) that we decided to start a new 50-books list before ordering any new ones. We still have plenty more unread books than that to keep us going, so... why not? In the meantime, of course, our joint 'Wish List' on Amazon, that we keep just for ourselves so we'll remember all the books we want, just keeps growing: 2 337 books so far (plus the many pieces of paper and Notepad/Word documents with more titles, themes and authors). But with my birthday coming up, followed by hers, followed by Christmas... well, clearly we need to break the rule for that. Presents don't count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSJ Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 15 hours ago, odessasteps said: Since there is no RIP thread for the book section, RIP WP Kinsella. Ahh, hell... Bill was really a good guy, used to see him at Mariners games back in the day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Sugar Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 For the first time I read Kurt Vonnegut, when I picked up his Breakfast of Champions. What a fucking weirdo. Funny, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobholly138 Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 I read this years ago when I was like 10. Tracked down another copy last year and re-reading it right now. Heard Farmer did a book like this all about Doc Savage. Gonna have to track down a copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSJ Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 18 hours ago, bobholly138 said: I read this years ago when I was like 10. Tracked down another copy last year and re-reading it right now. Heard Farmer did a book like this all about Doc Savage. Gonna have to track down a copy. Great, great stuff... Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life is even better. There was to be a third one, Richard Wentworth/The Spider/G-8. Farmer originally postulated that Wentworth was The Spider/G-8/The Shadow until he realized that there was no possible way one guy could have possibly done all that in the timeline allowed. The idea of a progressively more insane G-8 becoming the borderline psychotic Spider is an idea I would have loved to see developed further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Sugar Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Just finished Apocalypse Cow, by Michael Logan: which was co-won the first-ever Terry Pratchett "Anywhere But Here, Anywhen But Now" First Novel Award. An insanely fun first novel, that takes the idea of "mad cow disease" to a whole new level of violence, mayhem, and comedy. Can't wait to read the sequel, World War Moo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 started reading "Ready Player One" after having it for over a year. about a third of the way in and really enjoying it so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 This is a first for me. I just started A Witness to Genocide: The First Inside Account of the Horrors of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia by Roy Gutman, a 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner. It's a second-hand copy. Right after the Acknowledgments, someone glued a piece of paper on a blank section with the words, 'Warning: Contains NATO war propaganda lies trying to justify aggression against Yugoslavia, democratic country with impeccable human rights record' followed by some book recommendations, websites and phone numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 That's an amazing anecdote. The issue must've meant a lot to this anonymous person! I wish I felt that strongly about stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 I remember picking up a book about Nirvana in a library and finding a piece of paper with details about the Kurt Cobain murder conspiracy. Such odd behaviour, considering the limited reach of such actions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Does anyone read Michael Moorcock's stuff? Worth delving into? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 2 hours ago, Liam said: Does anyone read Michael Moorcock's stuff? Worth delving into? https://www.amazon.com/Von-Bek-Warhound-Pleasure-Sagittarius/dp/1857984366 Get that used one for $0.63. Then go with Dancers at the End of Time and Gloriana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 I think Moorcock's Von Bek i really his best work, even better than elric. I've got my old collected edition that Whie Wolf put out ages ago somewhere i na crate James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 19 hours ago, Matt D said: https://www.amazon.com/Von-Bek-Warhound-Pleasure-Sagittarius/dp/1857984366 Get that used one for $0.63. Then go with Dancers at the End of Time and Gloriana. I got it used for 0.01p in the UK. Cheers for the suggestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 I only just started Boy's Life by Robert McCammon, but I love it already.It seemed to me that Mr Sculley understood the very nucleus of existence, that he had kept his young eyes and young heart even though his body had grown old. He saw straight through the cosmic order of things, and he knew that life is not held only in flesh and bone, but also in those objects - a good, faithful pair of shoes; a reliable car; a pen that always works; a bike that has taken you a many a mile - into which we put our trust and which give us back the security and joy of memories. Here the ancient hearts of stone may chortle and say, 'That's ridiculous!' But let me ask you a question of them: don't you ever wish - even for just a fleeting moment - that you could have your first bike again? You remember what it looked like. You remember. Did you name it Trigger, or Buttermilk, or Flicka, or Lightning? Who took that bike away, and where did it go? Don't you ever, ever wonder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobholly138 Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Finished Tarzan Alive. Wanted a horror novel I hadn't read before. So dug out Richard Laymon's Endless Nights. About 3 chapters in and so far it is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 I finished Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon. The denouement of the murder was disappointing, but everything else around that was fantastic. I had tears in my eyes twice, too. Highly recommended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSJ Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 The best Ray Bradbury novel that Bradbury didn't write. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSJ Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 On 10/9/2016 at 0:37 AM, bobholly138 said: Finished Tarzan Alive. Wanted a horror novel I hadn't read before. So dug out Richard Laymon's Endless Nights. About 3 chapters in and so far it is good. Hard to go wrong with Dick Laymon, helluva writer and did the best Eric Cartman voice I've ever heard. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobholly138 Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 8 hours ago, OSJ said: Hard to go wrong with Dick Laymon, helluva writer and did the best Eric Cartman voice I've ever heard. ;-) So far I have read 10 or so books that Laymon wrote. Out of those 10 only 2 were bad. Dark Mountain and the Lake. But keep seeing that the Lake was unfinished when Richard passed.And what got printed was a rough draft. Right after I learned about Laymon,2008 or so,I was in my sadly now closed local used bookstore. She had 15 or so of his novels so I grabbed all of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Sugar Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Finished Hemingway's To Have and Have Not the other day: it started off great and then went on meaningless tangents with random characters that had nothing to do with...well, anything, really. Disappointing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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