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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    I just finished Perdido Street Station. I liked it thanks to those that helped persuade me to read it on here. The world was so crazy! Dragged a bit in the middle and i wished there was a bit more character development but I still enjoyed it. His writing style is a little too wordy for my personal taste too, but I will eventually check out The Scar by the author too.

    Not now though i need a break from that style
    I'm pretty sure i'm going to read Kushiel's Dart next although i'm craving some science fiction so i'm kicking the tires on Old Man's War too. Old Man's War is a nice 300 page read compared to Kushiels Dart's 1000.

    I'm saving the Patrick Rothfuss books for the Winter. I think his books are closer to traditional fantasy and i want to read them around the time the Hobbit comes out to get me in the mood for it :)
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  • Jeff Murray
    Jeff Murray Posts: 1,259
    Finished Ace Atkins' Crossroad Blues... Good debut story, not great, but I'm still interested in reading his next 3 in the series. I liked the intertwining of Robert Johnson's history and the present day story of trying to find his lost recordings. Definitely set the mood with some Robert Johnson and other blues albums as I read this book.

    Now onto Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter... a little behind the times on this one, but want to read it before I see the movie. Liking it so far, only 70 pages in though.
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  • Dissidentman
    Dissidentman Posts: 15,378
    Life, Death & Meaning
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    Who Princess wrote:
    Death in the City of Light by David King.

    It's a true story about a serial killer in Nazi-occupied Paris. One of the most bizarre stories I've ever read. Every time I think it can't get any weirder, it does. :wtf:

    that does sound interesting
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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    I enjoy anything John Grisham does

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  • ComeToTX
    ComeToTX Austin Posts: 8,071
    The Letter - Marie Tillman
    This show, another show, a show here and a show there.
  • riotgrl
    riotgrl LOUISVILLE Posts: 1,895
    The Story of B by Daniel Quinn
    Are we getting something out of this all-encompassing trip?

    Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned...

    I AM MINE
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    smarchee wrote:
    Who Princess wrote:
    Death in the City of Light by David King.

    It's a true story about a serial killer in Nazi-occupied Paris. One of the most bizarre stories I've ever read. Every time I think it can't get any weirder, it does. :wtf:

    that does sound interesting
    Just finished it. The story gets a little bogged down in detail occasionally but it's fascinating how many different elements are at play. There's a brutal and prolific murderer, the Nazi occupiers, the Parisian underworld, the Resistance, the liberation of Paris, and the French criminal justice system. It also shows a side of the occupation that I'd never imagined--the number of people who were able to exploit and benefit from the misery of others.

    I can't believe I'd never heard of this story before. I'm sure that a lot of events get buried in the chaos of war but most of them aren't as strange and horrible as this.
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  • stargirl69
    stargirl69 Posts: 6,387
    The Boy with the Cuckoo Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu

    An adult fairy tale about boy with a defective heart that is powered by a cuckoo clock,he falls in love with a dancer but he faces death if he loves as his cuckoo clock heart cannot sustain the power and pain that love brings.
    Very interesting book,not long into it but loving it so far.
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  • PearlJamaholic
    PearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    riotgrl wrote:
    The Story of B by Daniel Quinn

    had very mixed feelings about this one, i agree with the ideas presented in the book, not the delivery, but some of the 'facts' are nothing short of propaganda. worth reading for sure but i dont hold it to the 'life changing book' so many claim it is.
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  • hgpjam11
    hgpjam11 Posts: 1,328
    Just started Broken Harbor by Tana French.
    I win.
  • marcos
    marcos Posts: 2,112
    11/22/63, Stephen King, the paperback, didn't think it was going to as long and as big as it is; I miss when books would fit into a cargo shorts' pocket. I guess I have a use for my Vitalogy bag now.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    marcos wrote:
    11/22/63, Stephen King, the paperback, didn't think it was going to as long and as big as it is; I miss when books would fit into a cargo shorts' pocket. I guess I have a use for my Vitalogy bag now.

    Great book.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • Mamasan23
    Mamasan23 Posts: 16,390
    rrivers wrote:
    marcos wrote:
    11/22/63, Stephen King, the paperback, didn't think it was going to as long and as big as it is; I miss when books would fit into a cargo shorts' pocket. I guess I have a use for my Vitalogy bag now.

    Great book.

    Gah I still haven't finished it! I got about halfway through, then picked up ADWD and am going to finish that before I finish 11/22/63. Then after that I still have Wind Through the Keyhole...ahh I'm so backlogged!
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Mamasan23 wrote:
    rrivers wrote:
    marcos wrote:
    11/22/63, Stephen King, the paperback, didn't think it was going to as long and as big as it is; I miss when books would fit into a cargo shorts' pocket. I guess I have a use for my Vitalogy bag now.

    Great book.

    Gah I still haven't finished it! I got about halfway through, then picked up ADWD and am going to finish that before I finish 11/22/63. Then after that I still have Wind Through the Keyhole...ahh I'm so backlogged!

    All three of those are quality reads, but I'd give 11/22/63 the nod as the best. The other two dragged in places. 11/22/63 was King in top form.
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  • Mamasan23
    Mamasan23 Posts: 16,390
    rrivers wrote:
    All three of those are quality reads, but I'd give 11/22/63 the nod as the best. The other two dragged in places. 11/22/63 was King in top form.

    Hmm interesting! I have to agree though that ADWD is dragging. I whipped through the first 4 books and now something is just not enticing me like it used to. I think I'm irritated that he keeps changing the name of everyone for chapter starters (how many names can we use for Arya or Theon? :roll: ) I'm finding that when I start a new chapter I completely forgot how they ended up. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE the series, but it just seems like it's getting too big, you know?

    Can't wait to finish 11/22/63, I left off at a pretty suspenseful part. Maybe I'll just finish that first :lol:
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  • of.the.girl
    of.the.girl Posts: 10,026
    I need a good one to read. Any suggestions?
  • Mamasan23
    Mamasan23 Posts: 16,390
    of.the.girl wrote:
    I need a good one to read. Any suggestions?

    What kind of genre are you into?
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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    All three of those are quality reads, but I'd give 11/22/63 the nod as the best. The other two dragged in places. 11/22/63 was King in top form.

    11/22/63 was awesome, couldn't put it down
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    2014 - Detroit
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