What book are you reading?

F Me In The Brain wrote:

vant0037 wrote:

Finished The Green Mile (easily one of the best King books I've ever read...so fucking good).

Just started No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. Great so far!

TGM was fantastic and a good movie adaptation, which is rare.
Same for No Country. McCarthy is a master with the pen.

King lovers...have you read any of his son's books?

Just started this one last night and it grabbed me from 'go' -- looks to be a good one!

I haven't read any other King family member books (his wife or sons...isn't there a daughter novelist in there too?). I agree on McCarthy, next to King and Dave Eggers, he's getting up there in terms of favorite authors.

That one you picked up looks good. I'll have to check it out.

rrivers wrote:

I read "Heart-Shaped Box" and "20th Century Ghosts" by his son Joe Hill. "20th Century" is a group of short stories and really good. I enjoyed it more than "Heart-Shaped".

Almost done 'Heart Shaped Box' and I like it quite a bit. Will order '20th Century Ghosts', thanks for the tip!
I do have 'Horns' already in the pile by Joe Hill -- it also looks pretty cool.

F Me In The Brain wrote:

rrivers wrote:

I read "Heart-Shaped Box" and "20th Century Ghosts" by his son Joe Hill. "20th Century" is a group of short stories and really good. I enjoyed it more than "Heart-Shaped".

Almost done 'Heart Shaped Box' and I like it quite a bit. Will order '20th Century Ghosts', thanks for the tip!
I do have 'Horns' already in the pile by Joe Hill -- it also looks pretty cool.

I've thought of buying Horns a few times but haven't gotten around to it yet. I'm sure I will sometime. King and his son wrote a short story "In the Tall Grass" that was in a couple of issues of Esquire over the summer. I'm still not finished it, but it's a fun read.

smarchee wrote:

has anyone who is really into Game of Thrones into or read Tad Williams? If not, I would suggest some of his book if you're into fantasy. This is the fourth and final book of this story and it's intense

Hi -- love GRRM and got into some Tad Williams a number of years ago. Read the 'Memory, Sorrow & Thorn' books and really liked them.
Purchased Shawdowmarch and could not get into it.
Also was intrigued by his Otherland series and purchased them. Couldn't get into the 2nd one.
Really liked that first series though, maybe will resurrect these others and try them again. Thanks!

Indifference71 wrote:

Columbine by Dave Cullen

Columbine is such an unsettling book - it really freaked me out after reading it.

I'm reading a very good Nordic thriller - The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen. It's being marketed as "Just like Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and I like it better.

I'm just starting Catcher in the Rye for the first time :oops:

I loved Shakey the Neil Young book and I also loved Catcher in the Rye although its been 20 years since i ready it :?

Reading John Steakley's Armor and coming on the heals of having read starship troopers, old man's war, and forever war which all were military sci fi and all followed a similar flow and model Armor is a breath of fresh air.

The language and flow is not perfect but i don't find it bothersome and the characters in it are very cool. I find myself interested in a lot of them which was my main complaint about the other three books was i had a harder time relating to others in the book that were not the central character.

Only halfway through bue enjoying it a lot.

saw the author on the Daily Show at some point in the last year and was so interested in the interview that I remembered the book, found it and now am totally sucked into it, it's an amazing story





On May 13, 1945, twenty-four American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over “Shangri-La,” a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Unlike the peaceful Tibetan monks of James Hilton’s bestselling novel Lost Horizon, this Shangri-La was home to spear-carrying tribesmen, warriors rumored to be cannibals.

But the pleasure tour became an unforgettable battle for survival when the plane crashed. Miraculously, three passengers pulled through. Margaret Hastings, barefoot and burned, had no choice but to wear her dead best friend’s shoes. John McCollom, grieving the death of his twin brother also aboard the plane, masked his grief with stoicism. Kenneth Decker, too, was severely burned and suffered a gaping head wound.

Emotionally devastated, badly injured, and vulnerable to the hidden dangers of the jungle, the trio faced certain death unless they left the crash site. Caught between man-eating headhunters and enemy Japanese, the wounded passengers endured a harrowing hike down the mountainside—a journey into the unknown that would lead them straight into a primitive tribe of superstitious natives who had never before seen a white man—or woman.

Drawn from interviews, declassified U.S. Army documents, personal photos and mementos, a survivor’s diary, a rescuer’s journal, and original film footage, Lost in Shangri-La recounts this incredible true-life adventure for the first time. Mitchell Zuckoff reveals how the determined trio—dehydrated, sick, and in pain—traversed the dense jungle to find help; how a brave band of paratroopers risked their own lives to save the survivors; and how a cowboy colonel attempted a previously untested rescue mission to get them out.

By trekking into the New Guinea jungle, visiting remote villages, and rediscovering the crash site, Zuckoff also captures the contemporary natives’ remembrances of the long-ago day when strange creatures fell from the sky. A riveting work of narrative nonfiction that vividly brings to life an odyssey at times terrifying, enlightening, and comic, Lost in Shangri-La is a thrill ride from beginning to end.