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What Are You Currently Reading?
I can't believe we don't have this thread, I went through all the threads looking for it. Brought back such memories, too. :D Tell me if I, however, missed it.
So, pretty self explainatory. What are you currently reading? 'Tis appreciated if you'd also say whether or not you'd recommend/not recommend the book, too, so everyone can expand their reading list. :D
I'm curretly reading:
- Symphony of Ages Seires -- Elizabeth Haydon. They're great. I'm adoring them.
- The Messenger -- Markus Zusak. 'Tis lovely. Very down-to-Earth, great writing style, fast moving without too much action.
- The Gates -- John Connolly. Only a few pages into it. 'Tis beyond amazing, though. I love this author.
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Permalink Reply by nathan_p on
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Plotline A occurs 20 years in the past and stars about four to five characters who have played central roles in the overall plot of the story. Plotline B occurs at the current time and features those four or five characters in smaller roles, with the main focus on a group of about the same size of different characters who were children at the time of plot A.
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Permalink Reply by EndOfTheEarth on
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Then again, tread carefully with plotline B. Don't let on on anything that isn't already known in plotline A. For example, if one of your main characters dies halfway through plotline A, then we should not know that this has happened through plotline B until after the event in A has occurred.
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Also reading Midnight by Koontz. He vomits imagery--please, Dean, make it stop.
Also reading Free to Choose by Friedman. Free-market only works in the tunnel-vision of an economy-only world, so that, and the fact that Friedman is writing this in the 80s, really doesn't help his argument.
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Koontz is motherfuckin hilarious* from time to time... but I have to admit, when I'm stuck in an airport or otherwise have to kill time, he's my choice.
Because you can always count on that damn dog to show up...
*By my standards. Like the time he fucked up German and made me laugh like a maniac. Or the fact that yes, there's always a dog.
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Nah, I go to Verne when I want a sense of humor in my sci-fi. Koontz is okay, but the last book I read by him took forever to get where it was going, and when it got there, I didn't find myself satisfied. Sort of like Dan Brown, but more directed, and with less pulp.
I don't believe in animal helpers in literature, unless said helper is professionally trained. A book about those dolphins that the navy has that can take apart antiship mines would be interesting, but dogs...XP
On the flip side, that Parrot in Crichton's NEXT was funny, but not especially practical.
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The Frankenstein trilogy was pretty decent, as were the two books about that guy with a sun sensitivity. Ridiculous, but amusing.
Koontz does :D DOGSSSSSS goddamn I swear if I see one more dog in fiction
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Finished Hellstrom's Hive.
Not worth the effort. Book was blah, no one really made progress, characters were all throwaways, randomized sex references...it reminded me a bit of Logan's Run, but without a solid, gratifying conclusion.
So, I still have Koontz (35 pages into it, and at least it has my attention) and Friedman (Free market. Bleh), and I just got Niven's Ringworld Engineers today. I liked Ringworld, so now I get to see if Niven can follow it up, or if this is just another 70s/80s excuse to mix sci-fi and pornography.
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Permalink Reply by Contradiction on
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Finally finished through Turn Coat. Need to get Changes from the library.
And I got Looking for Alaska, which I'll start once I've caught up for school.
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Done with Koontz. That actually turned out pretty well...except that the villain was an archetypal dick, and the Protag's son's psychology wasn't necessarily accurate.
Now I'm working on Niven's Ringworld Engineers
and Thoreau's Walden.
I don't like Thoreau.
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Ringworld Engineers suffered from too much plot, too little character.
And Walden just plain suffered. Or maybe that was me. I don't like Thoreau.
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