EternallDarkness Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 18 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: I like to bounce around, actually. I completely understand. Probably not what you mean, but at times I've been known to take a stack of 6-9 books and rotate them, reading a chapter of one, grabbing the next reading a chapter, grabbing the next....and so on and so on. Cycling through them books again and again a chapter at a time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 On 6/9/2021 at 6:07 AM, gamer.tv said: Change this to 400 pages but it feels like 800 pages. With working and life, this is going to be my book until July. Now at the 650 pages, but it feel like 1300 pages. I'm now stupidly invested in the fortunes of the various families detailed in the story and who will end up marrying who. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 Now reading The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King. Looked like a good little short read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 4 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: Now reading The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King. Looked like a good little short read. I enjoyed that one quite a bit. I just started Salem's Lot this morning. Been a long time since I read this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 10 hours ago, EternallDarkness said: I enjoyed that one quite a bit. I just started Salem's Lot this morning. Been a long time since I read this one. It’s good so far. I’ve always liked lost in the wilderness, survival stories. Plus, Red Sox! I liked Salem’s Lot. Read it a few years ago, when I was picking SK back up as an adult. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Enjoyed Tom Gordon. Still working on The Splendid and the Vile, it's excellent. And started on a WWII fiction, Daughter of the Reich by Louise Fein. I'm at 50 books complete on the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 Been reading Where All Light Tends to Go by David Joy. He’s a really great southern noir writer. Going to start The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams by Ben Bradlee Jr for my next nonfiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 Started If It Bleeds by Stephen King. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 Reading Fake Law as a second book. Very interesting, but also not really written in a ‘reader friendly’ way. Also largely irrelevant for anyone not based in England due to that being the area of law mainly my discussed. At least, so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Added King's newest Billy Summers into the mix of half dozen or so books I'm currently reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 9 minutes ago, EternallDarkness said: Added King's newest Billy Summers into the mix of half dozen or so books I'm currently reading. I got my copy today, along with several others on a splurge. Looking forward to it. But I'm wrapping up the last story in If It Bleeds first. I've enjoyed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Listened to the audiobook version of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary. I really enjoyed it, much less of the constant torture of The Martian but still with the fun problem sciencey problem solving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Started The Executioner by Chris Carter. His books are brutal, but good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Finished The Executioner in a day. Now reading What Comes After by Joanne Tompkins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 Holy crap I'm reading a ton of books right now. In addition to King's newest, I'm also reading like half a dozen ARCs. One of them in totally blowing my mind, think John Wick+telekinetics told in a kind of Scott Pilgrim Vs the World style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 Starting Different Seasons by Stephen King. Shawshank Redemption is one of my favorite movies of all time and I'm really overdue to read the book. I've also never seen Stand By Me, so I'm going into The Body with hardly any knowledge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxEvil AshxX Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 I'm in the midst of the Drizzt D&D novels by RA Salvatore. I just started The Thousand Orcs. They're kinda starting to get a little tired in the "plot device" area (you can only run around the Spine of the World and kill trolls/orcs/etc for so long.) But what I've enjoyed (and what I'm using as a learning tool for my own book I'm writing) is that the character development that seems to be steadily progressing. Drizzt had his major character development arcs over the first six books or so... and now Wulfgar's major arc seems to be wrapped up by where I'm at now. Salvatore's dropping hints that Cattie-brie might be the next one in line; she's starting to show a little bit of a dark side here and there. So while the books are starting to suffer from D&D fatigue by now, I'm kind of approaching them like comic books. Each book offers a little bit more of the lore. But I still have a long way to go. In addition to that, I've been picking up and reading a bit of The Last Wish. I've been slowly gathering The Witcher series whenever I find them at the used book store. I've already read it, but trying to refresh myself for the later books (and to see how closely the Netflix show gets it). My next project will be the Stephen King Dark Tower series, but those are still a long, long way off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 7 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: Starting Different Seasons by Stephen King. Shawshank Redemption is one of my favorite movies of all time and I'm really overdue to read the book. I've also never seen Stand By Me, so I'm going into The Body with hardly any knowledge. Holy crap! You have to watch Stand By Me once you've read the story. Definitely one of the best King movie translations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 on a side note, yesterday was actually the 35 anniversary of the release of Stand By Me in theaters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 20 hours ago, EternallDarkness said: Holy crap! You have to watch Stand By Me once you've read the story. Definitely one of the best King movie translations. Oh, I definitely will! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 still working on King's Billy Summers as well as like half a dozen other books with the latest to enter the mix being Joy Fielding's latest Cul-De-Sac, and the upcoming final book in the Sandman Slim series King Bullet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 Shawshank was good, but I already knew that story and I actually prefer the movie more. Apt Pupil was excellent and disturbing and I went into that one knowing nothing. Now starting The Body. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 45 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: Shawshank was good, but I already knew that story and I actually prefer the movie more. Apt Pupil was excellent and disturbing and I went into that one knowing nothing. Now starting The Body. yeah Apt Pupil surprised me the first time I read it. I keep meaning to check out the movie version. No clue if it's any good, but it has Ian McKellen in it so how bad can it be, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 1 hour ago, EternallDarkness said: yeah Apt Pupil surprised me the first time I read it. I keep meaning to check out the movie version. No clue if it's any good, but it has Ian McKellen in it so how bad can it be, right? Yeah, I need to give it a try sometime. I wasn’t aware of so many SK adaptations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 I just finished Don Winslow's short story collection, Broken. Ironically the first story (the one the collection is named for) is the worst. But I really liked the collection as a whole. I liked how characters from his other works popped in to these stories (I was glad to see Chon, Ben, and O again). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Now reading We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange. Gimme some good old Irish family drama. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Continuing to rotate through 6+++ novels, almost always starting another 1 or 2 for each one I finish but one of those I did finish recently was Billy Summers. Definitely another solid story from King, who still seems to still be on his crime-ish novel kick. I enjoyed it quite a bit but I'm hoping for him to return one of these days with one of his more classic supernatural/horror stories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 Next on my agenda: The New Republic: Mike Duncan Takes On the Turmoil of History. Mike Duncan Takes On the Turmoil of History NEWREPUBLIC.COM In over 150 hours of podcast and a new book on the Marquis de Lafayette, Duncan wrestles with several centuries of upheaval. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 On 8/8/2021 at 11:40 PM, EternallDarkness said: Holy crap! You have to watch Stand By Me once you've read the story. Definitely one of the best King movie translations. Just watched it. That was really good. Definitely a great adaptation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 Now reading The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 Starting Heart-Shaped Box, my first from Joe Hill. Over halfway through the Ted Williams bio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 @thewhyteboar - the Delta variant is delaying publication of Winslow's new book. Don Winslow’s ‘City On Fire’ Book Delayed Until Next Year DEADLINE.COM HarperCollins has delayed the release of Don Winslow's 'City on Fire' from next month until 2022 amid the surge in Covid around the country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 4 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: Starting Heart-Shaped Box, my first from Joe Hill. Over halfway through the Ted Williams bio. Heart Shape Box is pretty good. NOS4A2 is my favorite of his. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 7 hours ago, EternallDarkness said: Heart Shape Box is pretty good. NOS4A2 is my favorite of his. I have all his novels, I have a habit of doing that, lol. I'll definitely be reading his others, plus I want to get his short story collections. I'm already hooked on HSB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 Finally gonna try to read the Outlander series. Wish me luck. Also started Stacy Abram's When Justice Sleeps. I like legal thrillers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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