What book are you reading?

F Me In The Brain

dankind said:

brianlux said:

Thanks, GlowGirl and dankind  , I think I'll try the book first. 

Matt Ruff's 88 Names is in the same vein but a little more adult.

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

Just ordered , thanks

F Me In The Brain

dankind said:

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.  )

I liked Cline's geeky obsessions more. 

oftenreading

I really enjoyed Ready Player One in book form. Not so much in movie form, but then again adaptations are always a disappointment to me. This was not Ender’s Game-level bad, but still not great. 

I started Ready Play Two a couple of weeks ago and was underwhelmed in the first couple of chapters. It comes across as Trying Too Hard. I switched to something else but will try to get back to it at some point. 

GlowGirl

dankind said:

brianlux said:

Thanks, GlowGirl and dankind  , I think I'll try the book first. 

Matt Ruff's 88 Names is in the same vein but a little more adult.

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

Thanks. I will order this. If you guys like these kinds of books you may also like The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. I loved that book and ended up reading several more of her books, which I also liked. 

oftenreading

GlowGirl said:

dankind said:

brianlux said:

Thanks, GlowGirl and dankind  , I think I'll try the book first. 

Matt Ruff's 88 Names is in the same vein but a little more adult.

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

Thanks. I will order this. If you guys like these kinds of books you may also like The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. I loved that book and ended up reading several more of her books, which I also liked. 

I also enjoyed that book and have read more of her work, almost all of which has been well worth reading. 

dankind

oftenreading said:

GlowGirl said:

dankind said:

brianlux said:

Thanks, GlowGirl and dankind  , I think I'll try the book first. 

Matt Ruff's 88 Names is in the same vein but a little more adult.

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

Thanks. I will order this. If you guys like these kinds of books you may also like The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. I loved that book and ended up reading several more of her books, which I also liked. 

I also enjoyed that book and have read more of her work, almost all of which has been well worth reading. 

Thanks for the recommendation. Are these books that I could read to the kids, or are they more adult content?

If kid-friendly, it sounds like I can wait for the paperback on Ready Player Two, even though the boy wants to start it after we finish the book we're currently reading, The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore.

a5pj

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. 

That's one of my next reads too, loved Player 1, I'll echo the movie comments, worth watching.

Another I'm really excited for is the graphic novel of Slaughterhouse 5 that just came out, love that book.

oftenreading

dankind said:

oftenreading said:

GlowGirl said:

dankind said:

brianlux said:

Thanks, GlowGirl and dankind  , I think I'll try the book first. 

Matt Ruff's 88 Names is in the same vein but a little more adult.

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

Thanks. I will order this. If you guys like these kinds of books you may also like The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. I loved that book and ended up reading several more of her books, which I also liked. 

I also enjoyed that book and have read more of her work, almost all of which has been well worth reading. 

Thanks for the recommendation. Are these books that I could read to the kids, or are they more adult content?

If kid-friendly, it sounds like I can wait for the paperback on Ready Player Two, even though the boy wants to start it after we finish the book we're currently reading, The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore.

Out of North books I have read, I enjoyed Touch the most, but would not say it is particularly child-friendly (though that depends on the child in question). Give it a read first and see if you like it. 

F Me In The Brain

a5pj said:

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. 

That's one of my next reads too, loved Player 1, I'll echo the movie comments, worth watching.

Another I'm really excited for is the graphic novel of Slaughterhouse 5 that just came out, love that book.

About due to revisit some Vonnegut.  Got in a spot years ago where I read a shitload and now I've forgotten most of them so they will make me laugh out loud, once again.  So much great work.

dankind

oftenreading said:

dankind said:

oftenreading said:

GlowGirl said:

dankind said:

brianlux said:

Thanks, GlowGirl and dankind  , I think I'll try the book first. 

Matt Ruff's 88 Names is in the same vein but a little more adult.

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

Thanks. I will order this. If you guys like these kinds of books you may also like The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. I loved that book and ended up reading several more of her books, which I also liked. 

I also enjoyed that book and have read more of her work, almost all of which has been well worth reading. 

Thanks for the recommendation. Are these books that I could read to the kids, or are they more adult content?

If kid-friendly, it sounds like I can wait for the paperback on Ready Player Two, even though the boy wants to start it after we finish the book we're currently reading, The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore.

Out of North books I have read, I enjoyed Touch the most, but would not say it is particularly child-friendly (though that depends on the child in question). Give it a read first and see if you like it. 

I don't know when I'll ever get to read something for my own enjoyment again. For better or worse, I've committed to Proust, and I've never put off reading more. Seriously, I'll reread something for work first.

Meanwhile, I continue to buy/be gifted books that I hope to enjoy at some point.

This is why I try to read books to the kids that I know I'll dig as well. Ready Player One was a good one, and The Stars Beneath Our Feet is shaping up to be even better. 

oftenreading

dankind said:

oftenreading said:

dankind said:

oftenreading said:

GlowGirl said:

dankind said:

brianlux said:

Thanks, GlowGirl and dankind  , I think I'll try the book first. 

Matt Ruff's 88 Names is in the same vein but a little more adult.

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

Thanks. I will order this. If you guys like these kinds of books you may also like The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. I loved that book and ended up reading several more of her books, which I also liked. 

I also enjoyed that book and have read more of her work, almost all of which has been well worth reading. 

Thanks for the recommendation. Are these books that I could read to the kids, or are they more adult content?

If kid-friendly, it sounds like I can wait for the paperback on Ready Player Two, even though the boy wants to start it after we finish the book we're currently reading, The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore.

Out of North books I have read, I enjoyed Touch the most, but would not say it is particularly child-friendly (though that depends on the child in question). Give it a read first and see if you like it. 

I don't know when I'll ever get to read something for my own enjoyment again. For better or worse, I've committed to Proust, and I've never put off reading more. Seriously, I'll reread something for work first.

Meanwhile, I continue to buy/be gifted books that I hope to enjoy at some point.

This is why I try to read books to the kids that I know I'll dig as well. Ready Player One was a good one, and The Stars Beneath Our Feet is shaping up to be even better. 

Oh, okay.

Well then, Claire North is totally child friendly and appropriate to be read at bedtime!

GlowGirl

oftenreading said:

dankind said:

oftenreading said:

GlowGirl said:

dankind said:

brianlux said:

Thanks, GlowGirl and dankind  , I think I'll try the book first. 

Matt Ruff's 88 Names is in the same vein but a little more adult.

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

Thanks. I will order this. If you guys like these kinds of books you may also like The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. I loved that book and ended up reading several more of her books, which I also liked. 

I also enjoyed that book and have read more of her work, almost all of which has been well worth reading. 

Thanks for the recommendation. Are these books that I could read to the kids, or are they more adult content?

If kid-friendly, it sounds like I can wait for the paperback on Ready Player Two, even though the boy wants to start it after we finish the book we're currently reading, The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore.

Out of North books I have read, I enjoyed Touch the most, but would not say it is particularly child-friendly (though that depends on the child in question). Give it a read first and see if you like it. 

I liked the book Touch as well. The Sudden Appearance of Hope was also pretty bizarre. I think I liked the Harry August book the best so far. i have a few more of hers to read. I agree that they are not really for kids, but depends on the kid, how old they are, etc. There are some interesting themes in these books.

dankind

For reference, recently, I've read both of the kids The War of the Ring saga by Tolkien, the boy (8) Ready Player One, and the girl (10) Good Omens.

goldrush

Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide To Happiness... while sipping on a rum and coke, with the sun setting over the river. Life is good.

Wobbie

I’m on a sicko trip. finished manson; up to about age 21 with jim jones. so far, jim seems a bit quirky but an OK guy....

F Me In The Brain

Wobbie said:

I’m on a sicko trip. finished manson; up to about age 21 with jim jones. so far, jim seems a bit quirky but an OK guy....

I think I have a Guinn book somewhere in the pile, one about the OK Corral. Have yet to read.  You like his writing?  (Guessing if you moved on to Sicko Book II)

F Me In The Brain

Just started...about 200 pages in.  Liking it!

Malroth

In 1959, A Fire and Brimstone baptist preacher takes his wife and four daughters to the Congo

to be missionaries.  All goes Well.  Told entirely in the perspective of the females.

dankind

Malroth said:

In 1959, A Fire and Brimstone baptist preacher takes his wife and four daughters to the Congo

to be missionaries.  All goes Well.  Told entirely in the perspective of the females.

Excellent book.

Wobbie

dankind said:

Malroth said:

In 1959, A Fire and Brimstone baptist preacher takes his wife and four daughters to the Congo

to be missionaries.  All goes Well.  Told entirely in the perspective of the females.

Excellent book.

for once, I agree with dan.