rc0101 Posted October 10, 2019 Author Share Posted October 10, 2019 Just started Sword of Kings by Bernard Cornwell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 Started The Shining last night and I'm also reading Last Chance for Justice by TK Thorne. It's about how the 16th Street Baptist Church bombers in Birmingham were caught. John Grisham's new release is also out, it arrived on my Kindle last night. I wanna read it, but I'm gonna finish one of these first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 Open question, is The Handmaids Tale actually worth reading? I need to go charity shop book buying and I’m assuming it’ll be available (along with 200 copies of Fifty Shades of a Gray and Gone Girl) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 37 minutes ago, gamer.tv said: Open question, is The Handmaids Tale actually worth reading? I need to go charity shop book buying and I’m assuming it’ll be available (along with 200 copies of Fifty Shades of a Gray and Gone Girl) Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rc0101 Posted October 28, 2019 Author Share Posted October 28, 2019 On 10/10/2019 at 3:15 PM, rc0101 said: Just started Sword of Kings by Bernard Cornwell And done. Back to Riyria Revelations series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 Reading has been a bit slower, but I finished The Shining last night. LOVED IT, thanks for setting me straight so I'd read it, @EternallDarkness. I am going to watch the movie this week for comparison. Next up is The Guardians by John Grisham, his latest. I've heard good things about this one and he's my favorite author. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elbobo Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 Daemon by Daniel Saurez A fun popcorn technothriller. Got a little silly by the end but overall not a bad first outing for the author, I'll read the sequel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Really liking The Guardians, but I also started a nonfiction, Summer of Blood: England's First Revolution by Dan Jones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dre801 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Extinction Shadow : Extinction Dark Ages Book One. Continuation of the Extinction Cycle series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 On 10/10/2019 at 10:15 PM, rc0101 said: Just started Sword of Kings by Bernard Cornwell I've read quite a few of the 'Last Kingdom' series, but now after taking a break I can't remember which is the next book I need to read (my copies are spread out at my parents house, my mother/father in laws and mine so I have no clue). At some point, I'll bite the bullet and just buy a few and just see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 Finished The Guardians, really liked it. Grisham's best work in a few years. Still working on Summer of Blood, but I'm gonna read The Alice Network by Kate Quinn next. I've had it for a while and been meaning to read it. I like to switch around with genres. Also, The Last Kingdom and The Witcher series I'm really wanting to get into. Haven't bought any of them yet, but it's only a matter of time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rc0101 Posted November 10, 2019 Author Share Posted November 10, 2019 On 11/1/2019 at 10:43 AM, gamer.tv said: I've read quite a few of the 'Last Kingdom' series, but now after taking a break I can't remember which is the next book I need to read (my copies are spread out at my parents house, my mother/father in laws and mine so I have no clue). At some point, I'll bite the bullet and just buy a few and just see. Yeah I really enjoy these books. The descriptions of the battles are really good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 I'm still reading The Alice Network and I've also started The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor. But I've kinda put them in second place, because I've been reading The Haunting of Ashburn House by Darcy Coates and it's kind of addicting. Horror is a genre I've only recently gotten into and I'm enjoying it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 Dean Koontz just released a series of 6 books (short stories) on kindle featuring Nameless...a hero with no name and no memory of his past. He has some psychic abilities and works for some shadow vigilante organization. First book has him targeting a pedophile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted November 28, 2019 Share Posted November 28, 2019 Finished The Fall of Berlin faster than I anticipated. Moving on to Stalin: Paradoxes of Power: 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin. I’ve had these biographies on my shelf for a while so I figured I should get around to reading the first two before the conclusion comes out one of these days. It’s probably gonna take me a while to get through them, though. For fiction, I’m reading No Second Chance by Harlan Coban. Coworker gave me the book a few weeks back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted November 28, 2019 Share Posted November 28, 2019 Re-reading the Foundation trilogy, on the final book (Second Foundation). Misogyny and 50's tropes aside, I love the writing style of that time period, especially as it relates to how optimistic they were about space tech and "atomics." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted November 28, 2019 Share Posted November 28, 2019 working my way through the six new Dean Koontz Nameless stories, which feature an amnesic vigilante working for some shadow organization Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dre801 Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 Enemy of the State. A Mitch Rapp story. RIP, Vince Flynn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 Just read She Wants It by Jill Soloway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 Finished No Second Chance yesterday, so I’m starting Misery by Stephen King today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 So I started on The God of Small Things again and despite the acclaim, I just don’t care for it. I got a kindle for my birthday and read a Christmas Carol yesterday. I’ve now started on 10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world which is good so far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 Doctor Sleep. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 6 hours ago, Kal-El814 said: Doctor Sleep. I enjoyed it quite a bit. yeah I was surprised how much I liked it when I first read it. Was amazed how well King was able to craft that sequel after so long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 2 hours ago, EternallDarkness said: yeah I was surprised how much I liked it when I first read it. Was amazed how well King was able to craft that sequel after so long. Also agree, it has however been a while since I've read The Shining and it would be interesting to compare the two outside of the vague memory that I have of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 Just finished Misery. Phew, what a ride. One of his shorter books, but mentally exhausting. Doctor Sleep will probably be the next SK book I read, but I gotta space them out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 7 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: Just finished Misery. Phew, what a ride. One of his shorter books, but mentally exhausting. Doctor Sleep will probably be the next SK book I read, but I gotta space them out. yeah Misery is one heck of a trip and the movie actually manages to capture a good bit of the intensity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 15 minutes ago, EternallDarkness said: yeah Misery is one heck of a trip and the movie actually manages to capture a good bit of the intensity I will definitely be watching the movie in the near future. Love Kathy Bates. I’m still reading Stalin, but that’s gonna be a slower one, so I also started Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. It’s the last book of his I needed to read. Also reading Hunted by Darcy Coates on my Kindle. Currently at 60 books on the year, I’m definitely surpassing my total of 61 fro last year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokt Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 I finished "Kokoro" by Natsume Sōseki. Not sure how I really feel about it. 3/5 This will give away the ending of the book. The whole time Sensei keeps telling the main character that he is a bad person I was kind of like eh. That feeling remained even after he confessed that he is the reason that his friend killed himself and how ashamed he was because of the outcome. Honestly though, he made a rash decision, didn't know the depths of his friends depression, and took the blame on himself. I can see the guilt that would come with that, but that part that really pissed me off is that he tags his wife along for his miserable of a life journey and takes absolutely 0 blame for it. Probably 1/2 way through the book they make a comment about how he would destroy himself to save his wife or something like that. Later on when he is writing his life story he says several times that his wife is "clean" and doesn't need to know about anything. You tag this woman along your whole life, who can see your depression, your guilt and you think your saving her by making her stay with you. If anything he ruined her life, they have no children, she spent her entire life taking care of you, and you cowardly kill yourself at the end of the book and think that you are keeping her clean. No one in the book seems to take any qualms with it either. It really rubbed me the wrong way, but I do have to admit, it made me hate Sensei just like he said it would. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 I'm about halfway through This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger. Never read one of his books before, but this is good. Like it has the makings of a modern American classic. I actually bought it for my mom for Christmas, since she really loved Where the Crawdads Sing, but I also loved that one, so I wanted to read this, too. Fortunately, I take really good care of my books, so even if she cared(she doesn't) she wouldn't know it's been read once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 Finished This Tender Land last night and Under the Banner of Heaven today. Passed my total from last year, woo! I decided to reread Skipping Christmas by John Grisham. I've read it probably a dozen times, but it's been at least a couple years and it's the only Christmas book I've ever really read. It's a nice hardcover copy my aunt got me for Christmas the year it came out. Beautiful cover. Brings back nostalgia for me. I'm also gonna start Elevation by Stephen King. Looks to be different from a lot of his works and it's also really short. I'll have these two wrapped up quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted December 15, 2019 Share Posted December 15, 2019 So I had to put Elevation on hold. Was reading at work last night and got to page 56 and the following page was 25. Like, 33 pages of the book after page 56 were a repeat of a prior section. It resumed on page 89 as if the prior 33 pages were as they were supposed to be. Never had that happen with a book before. So while I wait for a replacement copy from Amazon(and I hope it was just a one off, not a huge bad batch) I started reading The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor. Already 97 pages into it, though it's a short book and starting off slow. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 68 books on the year, hoping to hit 70. Still working on Stalin, but it's slow going. Won't have it finished by the end of the year. I am starting The Saxon Chronicles series by Bernard Cornwell, started The Last Kingdom last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dre801 Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 Bloody Genius by John Sandford. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokt Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 Trying to read Lord of the Rings, but just can’t get into his writing at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 On 12/15/2019 at 5:28 PM, CastlevaniaNut18 said: So I had to put Elevation on hold. Was reading at work last night and got to page 56 and the following page was 25. Like, 33 pages of the book after page 56 were a repeat of a prior section. It resumed on page 89 as if the prior 33 pages were as they were supposed to be. Never had that happen with a book before. So while I wait for a replacement copy from Amazon(and I hope it was just a one off, not a huge bad batch) I started reading The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor. Already 97 pages into it, though it's a short book and starting off slow. seeing you post about Elevation reminded me that I never read more than 20 pages before I set it down...and forgot where, lol, so last night I found it and restarted it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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