CastlevaniaNut18 Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 Cell was...weird. Defintely in the bottom half of my SK rankings. Started out strong, but then got a little weird for me. Not a bad book, just not my favorite from my favorite author. I gave it 3.5/5. Now onto Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead. I also started Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist on my Kindle. Haven't started a new nonfiction yet, but I'm leaning toward We Were Soldiers Once...and Young by Hal Moore. Read it in high school, but I remember little. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 50 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: Cell was...weird. Defintely in the bottom half of my SK rankings. Started out strong, but then got a little weird for me. Not a bad book, just not my favorite from my favorite author. I gave it 3.5/5. Agree it had a strong start but then it almost seemed like he didn't know where he wanted to go with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokra Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 1 hour ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: Cell was...weird. Defintely in the bottom half of my SK rankings. Started out strong, but then got a little weird for me. Not a bad book, just not my favorite from my favorite author. I gave it 3.5/5. Now onto Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead. I also started Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist on my Kindle. Haven't started a new nonfiction yet, but I'm leaning toward We Were Soldiers Once...and Young by Hal Moore. Read it in high school, but I remember little. I'll be interested to know what you think of Harlem Shuffle. It's one that I was "supposed" to read for a book club but I didn't get very far before getting distracted and not finishing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 3 hours ago, Nokra said: I'll be interested to know what you think of Harlem Shuffle. It's one that I was "supposed" to read for a book club but I didn't get very far before getting distracted and not finishing. I’ll give my thoughts when done. I’ve read Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys from him and both were good, but I really had to focus on my reading with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 On 11/28/2022 at 6:28 PM, Nokra said: I'll be interested to know what you think of Harlem Shuffle. It's one that I was "supposed" to read for a book club but I didn't get very far before getting distracted and not finishing. I’m close to halfway through and I think I’m gonna have to set it aside for a bit. I just can’t really get into it. It’s been a struggle to read 130 pages over the last week+. There’s just nothing really going on. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 A Tale of Two Cities…I mean, it’s good, but it’s also Dickens, so without a snob hat on, it’s not exactly easy breezy reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokra Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 10 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: I’m close to halfway through and I think I’m gonna have to set it aside for a bit. I just can’t really get into it. It’s been a struggle to read 130 pages over the last week+. There’s just nothing really going on. Interesting, that's almost exactly where I quit, also. People in the book club said that they liked it, but it's hard to know if that was because they're mostly on the younger side (and therefore maybe more willing to waste their own time? ) or maybe it eventually comes together, but yeah I also didn't feel like there was much substance there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 7 hours ago, Nokra said: Interesting, that's almost exactly where I quit, also. People in the book club said that they liked it, but it's hard to know if that was because they're mostly on the younger side (and therefore maybe more willing to waste their own time? ) or maybe it eventually comes together, but yeah I also didn't feel like there was much substance there. I did make a post about it in one of the more progressive book groups I’m in(they love this author), but so far, everyone who has responded has said roughly the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 My reading has seriously taken a back seat to gaming since Ragnarok came out. I really haven't gotten much done. Still working on Let the Right One in, but I also started Viking: Blood and Blade by Peter Gibbons. Thought maybe an action packed book might jolt me out of my slump. I've still read 106 books on the year, a new record for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 On 11/26/2022 at 8:00 PM, thewhyteboar said: That was enjoyable. Now to knock off something that has been on my list forever, Brighton Rock by Graham Greene. That was incredible and not really what I was expecting. I’d never read anything by Graham Greene before so didn’t know how deep it went into Catholicism and sin and grace. I want to read another by him but first want something with a bit of a lighter writing style, so started Don’t Know Tough, a kinda neo-noir Southern gothic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 @thewhyteboar - I consider Greene's "The Power and the Glory" to be the most magnificent novel I've ever read! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 44 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: @thewhyteboar - I consider Greene's "The Power and the Glory" to be the most magnificent novel I've ever read! That’s up next. Religion and the west? Right up my alley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dre801 Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 The Terminal List. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 21 hours ago, thewhyteboar said: That was incredible and not really what I was expecting. I’d never read anything by Graham Greene before so didn’t know how deep it went into Catholicism and sin and grace. I want to read another by him but first want something with a bit of a lighter writing style, so started Don’t Know Tough, a kinda neo-noir Southern gothic. Brighton Rock (and by extension, the "Two Cathedrals" episode of The West Wing) contains a quote which as a lapsed Catholic that will probably remain with me for as long as I live and breathe: Quote “You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 On 12/10/2022 at 10:24 AM, thewhyteboar said: That was incredible and not really what I was expecting. I’d never read anything by Graham Greene before so didn’t know how deep it went into Catholicism and sin and grace. I want to read another by him but first want something with a bit of a lighter writing style, so started Don’t Know Tough, a kinda neo-noir Southern gothic. Halfway through Don’t Know Tough and I’m not really enjoying it. I think I’m gonna bail and start something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 Working on two novels right now. Fairy Tale by Stephen King and Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 I lost a Take of Two Cities on the r bus which was a shame, so I ended up reading a book called A Spot of Bother over 2 days. Really English, quite enjoyable. I was going to move on to Eragon, but instead reading The Battles of Tolkien - which is kind of a history/summarisation of the Beatles in Tolkien’s writing. It’s weirdly interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 Read the Battles book…it was nifty and took maybe 90 minutes? I’m going to buy a new book tomorrow I think, purely as I know I’ll finish Eragon within a week and have nothing else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Finishing the year with 112 books completed, a new record for me. Currently reading Mortal Fear by Greg Iles and The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Finished The Spite House the other day, pretty cool ghost story that's coming out February Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Still working on Mortal Fear, it’s good. Started a new nonfiction this morning: Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Max Hastings. @Commissar SFLUFAN gave it to me a few years ago and when I finally pulled it off the shelf to read this morning, I discovered it was an autographed copy. A pleasant surprise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Finished Christopher Golden's All Hallows yesterday. Comes out at the end of the month. Must say it felt odd to be reading a book about Halloween at New Years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 started reading the first book from the Sanderson pandemic kickstarter projects: Tress of the Emerald Sea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted January 7, 2023 Share Posted January 7, 2023 Now reading the second book in the Viking Blood and Blade Saga: The Wrath of Ivar by Peter Gibbons. First one was entertaining, though whoever did the editing missed a lot of mistakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 finished up Tress this morning..so good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 I'm moving through Retribution pretty quickly, it's so good. Highly readable. Still got a couple hundred pages to go, but good chance I finish it on this 5 day off stretch I just started. For fiction, I started The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 Finished Retribution last night and that's a new nonfiction favorite. I'm now starting Robert E Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Ty Seidule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 Witchfinders, which is a vaguely historic biography of an English man that determined how to trial a witch successfully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 Been awhile since I updated. I’ve read a few since then: The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene. Guess I wanted some more of that good Catholic guilt to wash over me. Then I read a western that was fine. The Tenderfoot by Robert Vaughn. And then decided to read another by Charles Portis, True Grit. Portis is probably the funniest writer I’ve ever read, it’s hard to pull out a joke from the text but every sentence is just so clever and amusing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 started reading The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from fodder to Oscar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 Started The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens. I think this is gonna be a good one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 The Life We Bury was really great. And it's the first of a series, so I'm excited I get to continue with these characters. Current fiction is Independence by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper is a great new thriller. I saw it recommended by S. A. Cosby so I snapped it up. Great stuff, would make a fun miniseries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 The Girls in the Stilt House by Kelly Mustian. Just finished Me and Robert E Lee and I’m not sure what I want my next nonfiction to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 45 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: The Girls in the Stilt House by Kelly Mustian. Just finished Me and Robert E Lee and I’m not sure what I want my next nonfiction to me. I read that one last year. It was fine. Didn’t grab me that much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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