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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    Phantom by Terry Goodkind

    I have never read anything by him, but his books always grab my attention, so I thought I'd give it a try

    Anyone a fan?
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    smarchee wrote:
    What did you think of that Vedderlution ?

    I found it a little slow and a little bit of a let down after Cell, but I did enjoy how it ended.

    I know you didn't ask me, but I enjoyed it! I liked the idea of a writer having to "go down to a pool" for inpiration. The Big Boy was creepy too. I read it when it first came out, so I could be wrong about things, but that's what I remember.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    rrivers wrote:
    I know you didn't ask me, but I enjoyed it! I liked the idea of a writer having to "go down to a pool" for inpiration. The Big Boy was creepy too. I read it when it first came out, so I could be wrong about things, but that's what I remember.

    lol, that's cool rrivers.

    Yeah, that Big Boy was really creepy. I don't know, I did find it slow, but maybe it was cause I thought Cell had a kind of classic King feel to it, and maybe I was expecting another one of those. Like I said, I did enjoy how it ended and I think it made reading Duma Key all the more enjoyable because I really like that one, and it was closer to Lisey's Story than Cell.
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    smarchee wrote:
    lol, that's cool rrivers.

    Yeah, that Big Boy was really creepy. I don't know, I did find it slow, but maybe it was cause I thought Cell had a kind of classic King feel to it, and maybe I was expecting another one of those. Like I said, I did enjoy how it ended and I think it made reading Duma Key all the more enjoyable because I really like that one, and it was closer to Lisey's Story than Cell.

    I know what you mean about King's writing now, it definitely seems more long winded, etc. I am reading "Salem's Lot" now and it is more streamlined.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • mdigenakis
    mdigenakis Posts: 1,337
    Stranger than Fiction
    By: Chuck Palahniuk

    Just bought it, but i haven't started it yet.
    "Don't let the darkness eat you up..."

    -Greg Dulli

  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    The Master and Margerita - Mikhail Bulgakov

    ....few pages in and unsure, had it sitting on the shelf for years.
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,335
    Just finished the Glass Castle.

    Great book!
  • smarchee wrote:
    What did you think of that Vedderlution ?

    I found it a little slow and a little bit of a let down after Cell, but I did enjoy how it ended.



    I liked it. I was finding Lisey a little too difficult to really pull for but eventually it came. The back story on Scott's childhood was incredible...just insanely engulfing. I really liked it.
  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    Omnivore's Dilemna. Still! :o I highly recommend it to anyone who eats. Anything.
  • Stephen King - Misery
    "I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, 1977
  • PearlJamaholic
    PearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    homeland - salvatore

    its the first drizzt book ive read and im really liking it. i may have found another series to follow.
  • NothingSound
    NothingSound Posts: 198
    Halfway through John Adams. Soooo much better then what HBO put out.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    cloudstreet - tim winton
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    I just started 'a million little pieces' by James Frey. It's ok, so far.
    THANK YOU, LOSTDAWG!


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  • curmudgeoness
    curmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,130
    gabers wrote:
    Omnivore's Dilemna. Still! :o I highly recommend it to anyone who eats. Anything.

    I enjoyed that book.

    Right now, I am reading The Price of Liberty and poetry by Sappho and Pindar.
    All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
  • NothingSound
    NothingSound Posts: 198
    gabers wrote:
    Omnivore's Dilemna. Still! :o I highly recommend it to anyone who eats. Anything.

    Heard about that on SModcast. Seems interesting.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Halfway through John Adams. Soooo much better then what HBO put out.

    Wow, it must be really good because I thought the miniseries was great. Did you not like it?
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    Recipes from the Dump
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • blondieblue227
    blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    the eric clapton bio.
    *~Pearl Jam will be blasted from speakers until morale improves~*

  • The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

    by Michael Lewis