What book are you reading?

Read this on a plane last week...I enjoyed the book but not enough to order the follow ups. Still, a good read.


Started this on the plane ride back -- also on the fence with this one, will have to see how it ends. Like the concept though:

oftenreading said:

F Me In The Brain said:

Read this on a plane last week...I enjoyed the book but not enough to order the follow ups. Still, a good read.


Started this on the plane ride back -- also on the fence with this one, will have to see how it ends. Like the concept though:

I read The Windup Girl and didn't like it enough to continue on with old Paolo.

I just finished Seveneves by Neal Stephenson last night. I'm a big Stephenson fan and enjoyed it, but it is a bit tech-dense (as he can be). It's almost two novels shoehorned into one, with a first "half" (more than half) taking place in the present day, and a last "half" taking place 5000 years in the future, following up on where the first half led to. The first half is a great read, while the second half feels disjointed even though it does tie up all the loose ends from the beginning.

I have a few of his books in my pile. Read one before and he is tough to get through but conceptually very cool.

F Me In The Brain said:

oftenreading said:

F Me In The Brain said:

Read this on a plane last week...I enjoyed the book but not enough to order the follow ups. Still, a good read.


Started this on the plane ride back -- also on the fence with this one, will have to see how it ends. Like the concept though:

I read The Windup Girl and didn't like it enough to continue on with old Paolo.

I just finished Seveneves by Neal Stephenson last night. I'm a big Stephenson fan and enjoyed it, but it is a bit tech-dense (as he can be). It's almost two novels shoehorned into one, with a first "half" (more than half) taking place in the present day, and a last "half" taking place 5000 years in the future, following up on where the first half led to. The first half is a great read, while the second half feels disjointed even though it does tie up all the loose ends from the beginning.

I have a few of his books in my pile. Read one before and he is tough to get through but conceptually very cool.

Yes, he's (almost) always conceptually very cool. Snowcrash is probably the easiest (and funniest, in my opinion) of his books but still some of it is a bit of slog with the neurolinguistic stuff. I personally love the Baroque Cycle, partly because it's an era in history that I really like and partly for the characters. It took me three tries to finish Cryptonomicon but it was worth it. Reamde might be the most straighforward story without a lot of technical diversions.

23scidoo said:

The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker

Please let us know what you thought, I am a big fan of Barker's early stuff. (The Great & Secret Show is a book I re-read every year or two; one of my all time favorites...) I am a bit skeptical of this one but if you have a good report I will snap it up!

23scidoo said:

F Me In The Brain said:

23scidoo said:

The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker

Please let us know what you thought, I am a big fan of Barker's early stuff. (The Great & Secret Show is a book I re-read every year or two; one of my all time favorites...) I am a bit skeptical of this one but if you have a good report I will snap it up!

The Great and Secret show is a great book, but after all this years, Weaveworld is still my fav..
The Scarlet Gospels is sequel to Hellraiser..so you know the motif..i have read about 120 pages so far and this is classic Barker for me..hope i help you..
have you read the Abarat series??

Loved Weaveworld as well but just the awesome/bizzare scope of TG&SS makes it one of my favorites. Have read it 10x at least and every time I find that I forgot some of the crazy details he imagined.
Yes, I will add it to my list, thanks!

No, I did not read Abarat, that was young adult and I prefer his "sick & twisted fuck" stories.

23scidoo said:

F Me In The Brain said:

23scidoo said:

F Me In The Brain said:

23scidoo said:

The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker

Please let us know what you thought, I am a big fan of Barker's early stuff. (The Great & Secret Show is a book I re-read every year or two; one of my all time favorites...) I am a bit skeptical of this one but if you have a good report I will snap it up!

The Great and Secret show is a great book, but after all this years, Weaveworld is still my fav..
The Scarlet Gospels is sequel to Hellraiser..so you know the motif..i have read about 120 pages so far and this is classic Barker for me..hope i help you..
have you read the Abarat series??

Loved Weaveworld as well but just the awesome/bizzare scope of TG&SS makes it one of my favorites. Have read it 10x at least and every time I find that I forgot some of the crazy details he imagined.
Yes, I will add it to my list, thanks!

No, I did not read Abarat, that was young adult and I prefer his "sick & twisted fuck" stories.

What you think about his ''sick and twisted fuck'' paintings??..there is a great book called ''Visions of Heaven and Hell''..very sick..haha..

I like some of them and some of them are beyond me. I have great respect for his whacked out mind and how we can come up with this stuff.

Enkidu said:

Just finished the new Stephen King. Liked it, didn't knock me out of my socks.

And this is my new book blog - if you haven't seen this movie from 1979, check it out. It's really good. I didn't know it was from a book. Time After Time.

http://mybookclubforone.blogspot.com/2015/06/who-knew-there-was-book.html

Which new King? Seems every time I look up he has a new one out....Finders Keepers? I read Mr Merc so figure to give this one whirl too.

Added Time after Time to my list. Sucker for time travel.

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh.

Chick lit, didn't really think it was going to be, based on the description...it was a decent read.

smarchee said:

Ministry is a memoir both ugly and captivating, revealing Al Jourgensen as a man who lived a hard life his own way without making compromises. He survived prolonged drug addiction—twenty-two years of chronic heroin, cocaine, and alcohol abuse, to be more precise—before cleaning up, straightening out, and finding new reasons to live.

Scariest, bloodiest pit I've ever seen, and I've been to several Slayer (and other thrash metal/hardcore) shows.

Is there a chapter on Lard? Any good stuff on my former neighbor Gibby Haynes?

Just finished Jeffrey Deavers "Solitude Creek" (A Katherine Dance novel)and Randy Wayne Whites "Cuba Straits"(A Doc Ford Novel).
I love Doc Ford as a character.If you haven't looked into this series by RWW your missing out.Ford is a 40 something kinda nerdy Marine Biologist in Sanabel Island Fl,who just so happens to be a former Black ops guy for the CIA.He pals around with a pot head hippie named Tomlinson who lives at a marina and lives like a pauper on a sail boat but has millions of family money.Give the series a go.bery entertaining.
Just started a JohnSanford Virgil Flowers story.