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  • Yarden
    Yarden Posts: 820
    Charles Frazier - Cold Mountain

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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,831
    Just finishing The Broken Earth book #3.  (The Stone Sky)
    Cool that she won the Best Novel Hugo 3 years in a row for the 3 books in the series.  Wonder if anyone had done that before.

    I am liking the last one the least, although still enjoying, but will see how she wraps it up.



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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,497
    edited November 2020
    I have four days to finish my Nancy Drew book. The first in the series.


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  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,975

    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
  • Purple Fairy Tree
    Purple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,055
    Pap said:

    Please let us all know of the book lives up to the cover?
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,975
    West Coast Dreamgirl said:
    Pap said:

    Please let us all know of the book lives up to the cover?
    :smiley: I'll be sure to give you an update once I've finished the whole book. I'm about to start Chapter 5 and I've already had a couple of serious laughs. :plus_one:
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  • Matts3221
    Matts3221 Posts: 658
    Just finished “ Do What You Want” the story of Bad Religion. As a low key fan ( only own two albums suffer and stranger than fiction ) I thought it was a great read. Friends that are huge fans said they already knew most of what was in it.
  • xavier mcdaniel
    xavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,442
    The Back Roads To March by John Feinstein about mid-major college basketball.
    Reading 2004
    Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
    Chicago 2007
    Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
    Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
    Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
    Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
    Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
    Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
    Fenway 2, 2018
    MSG 2022
    St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
    MSG 2024, MSG 2024
    Philadelphia 2024
    "I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
    Things happen in the game. Nothing you
    can do. I don't go and say,
    "I'm gonna beat this guy up."
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841

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  • Malroth
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    I had to manually search for this thread.



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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,831
    Thought it was fun.  Not as much fun or original as the first one but pretty good.

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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    edited January 2021
    Hmmmm.  Well, this is the thread I tried to find and couldn't.  So I'll re-post this here and let the other book thread died a peaceful AET death!

    Just arrived and looks like another excellent Densmore read. I bought this through a company that sells "autographed" books. I put "autograph" in quotes because it comes with a pasted in signed bookplate. To me, this is not an autographed book. It's a book with a signed bookplate pasted in. But anyway, that's no slam on Mr. Densmore. I very much enjoyed his other books (one of which he signed in person) and I am already enjoying this one!


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  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,125
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Thought it was fun.  Not as much fun or original as the first one but pretty good.

    I didn’t realize this came out. I read both Ready Player One, and Armada. I will have to buy this one. 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    GlowGirl said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Thought it was fun.  Not as much fun or original as the first one but pretty good.

    I didn’t realize this came out. I read both Ready Player One, and Armada. I will have to buy this one. 

    Is the Ready Player One movie any good?
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  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,125
    brianlux said:
    GlowGirl said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Thought it was fun.  Not as much fun or original as the first one but pretty good.

    I didn’t realize this came out. I read both Ready Player One, and Armada. I will have to buy this one. 

    Is the Ready Player One movie any good?
    The movie was good. I liked the book better (as is often the case). I watched it on an airplane. I think it stayed pretty faithful to the book. I just liked the book better. But, it's worth a watch if you are looking for something.

  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,831
    GlowGirl said:
    brianlux said:
    GlowGirl said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Thought it was fun.  Not as much fun or original as the first one but pretty good.

    I didn’t realize this came out. I read both Ready Player One, and Armada. I will have to buy this one. 

    Is the Ready Player One movie any good?
    The movie was good. I liked the book better (as is often the case). I watched it on an airplane. I think it stayed pretty faithful to the book. I just liked the book better. But, it's worth a watch if you are looking for something.

    I can agree with this opinion....I thought the movie was ok/good and had I not read the book I probably would have thought the movie was better when I watched it 
    Part of the fun of the book was the way the nostaligoc sounds/images were recalled....where with the movie they just showed them to you.

    They stayed pretty close, Cline worked closely with them on the movie 
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  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,125
    F Me In The Brain said:
    GlowGirl said:
    brianlux said:
    GlowGirl said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Thought it was fun.  Not as much fun or original as the first one but pretty good.

    I didn’t realize this came out. I read both Ready Player One, and Armada. I will have to buy this one. 

    Is the Ready Player One movie any good?
    The movie was good. I liked the book better (as is often the case). I watched it on an airplane. I think it stayed pretty faithful to the book. I just liked the book better. But, it's worth a watch if you are looking for something.

    I can agree with this opinion....I thought the movie was ok/good and had I not read the book I probably would have thought the movie was better when I watched it 
    Part of the fun of the book was the way the nostaligoc sounds/images were recalled....where with the movie they just showed them to you.

    They stayed pretty close, Cline worked closely with them on the movie 
    Right. Plus, it was Spielberg. So, that helped as well. I agree that had I not read the book first I would have liked the movie a bit better. I felt the same way about the Circle. The movie was great, but having read the book first made the movie a little less so. 
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    GlowGirl said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    GlowGirl said:
    brianlux said:
    GlowGirl said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Thought it was fun.  Not as much fun or original as the first one but pretty good.

    I didn’t realize this came out. I read both Ready Player One, and Armada. I will have to buy this one. 

    Is the Ready Player One movie any good?
    The movie was good. I liked the book better (as is often the case). I watched it on an airplane. I think it stayed pretty faithful to the book. I just liked the book better. But, it's worth a watch if you are looking for something.

    I can agree with this opinion....I thought the movie was ok/good and had I not read the book I probably would have thought the movie was better when I watched it 
    Part of the fun of the book was the way the nostaligoc sounds/images were recalled....where with the movie they just showed them to you.

    They stayed pretty close, Cline worked closely with them on the movie 
    Right. Plus, it was Spielberg. So, that helped as well. I agree that had I not read the book first I would have liked the movie a bit better. I felt the same way about the Circle. The movie was great, but having read the book first made the movie a little less so. 
    The movie was pretty faithful. I actually saw the film first and just finished reading the book to my son last week. There weren’t any major plot departures, as far as I can recall. The biggest difference I noticed was that Spielberg just replaced Cline’s geeky obsessions (i.e., the ones attributed to Halliday) with his own darlings (e.g., Kubrick, etc.). 

    (I kept waiting for The Shining part to happen in the book. :smile:  )
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Thanks, GlowGirl and dankind  , I think I'll try the book first.  :smile:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    brianlux said:
    Thanks, GlowGirl and dankind  , I think I'll try the book first.  :smile:
    Matt Ruff's 88 Names is in the same vein but a little more adult.

    https://youtu.be/7-k-oCxGjTM
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