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  • stuckinline
    stuckinline Posts: 3,406
    Pap said:
    stuckinline said:
    Pap said:
    Finished this last night:

    This is next on my reading list. Did you like it?
    Actually, Dave read it to me (Audible) while I was turning the actual pages. It was fun! Some of Dave's stories could easily be transferred to the big screen :wink: Good stuff, plus PJ are mentioned a lot in there :smiley:
    Thanks!

  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841

    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • Purple Fairy Tree
    Purple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,055
    That sounds good @dankind

    I'm reading this

    Which is about this 

  • xavier mcdaniel
    xavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,442
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Nearing the end of J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace.  What an amazing writer.  I can't think of anyone to compare Coetzee to.  This is the second novel of his I've read (starting with his Waiting For the Barbarians).  Intense, captivating, at time disturbing, unpredictable.  Amazing.
    Disgrace by JM Coetzee

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • a5pj
    a5pj Hershey PA Posts: 3,976
    brianlux said:
    Nearing the end of J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace.  What an amazing writer.  I can't think of anyone to compare Coetzee to.  This is the second novel of his I've read (starting with his Waiting For the Barbarians).  Intense, captivating, at time disturbing, unpredictable.  Amazing.
    Disgrace by JM Coetzee

    Was going to read Nickel Boys next, but after reading your description I might have to grab this one :)
    Wouldn't it be funny if the world ended in 2010, with lots of fire?



  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    a5pj said:
    brianlux said:
    Nearing the end of J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace.  What an amazing writer.  I can't think of anyone to compare Coetzee to.  This is the second novel of his I've read (starting with his Waiting For the Barbarians).  Intense, captivating, at time disturbing, unpredictable.  Amazing.
    Disgrace by JM Coetzee

    Was going to read Nickel Boys next, but after reading your description I might have to grab this one :)
    Foe is another great one. 
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    a5pj said:
    brianlux said:
    Nearing the end of J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace.  What an amazing writer.  I can't think of anyone to compare Coetzee to.  This is the second novel of his I've read (starting with his Waiting For the Barbarians).  Intense, captivating, at time disturbing, unpredictable.  Amazing.
    Disgrace by JM Coetzee

    Was going to read Nickel Boys next, but after reading your description I might have to grab this one :)

    I just found out that this was made into a movie starring John Malcovich.  I put it on my DVD queue.  Should be interesting to see how the handle this strange, fascinating story!
    If you read it, I hope you like it.  A fine novel, more intense that fun, but what a great writer Coetzee is!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • static111
    static111 Posts: 5,110
    Just finished the first two books of Rothfuss's Kingkiller chronicle...looks like the conclusion will come out anytime in the next 20 years...Reading The age of American Unreason and Women Race and Class...I can't power through non fiction at the same pace..it takes my brain a long time to process and understand.
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,831
    The first Rothfuss is genius work, imo.
    There was a novella released between the two, I believe.  It was not bad.
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    F Me In The Brain said:
    The first Rothfuss is genius work, imo.
    There was a novella released between the two, I believe.  It was not bad.

    Agreed.

    I'm not convinced the last (next?) novel will ever come out. 
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  • static111
    static111 Posts: 5,110
    F Me In The Brain said:
    The first Rothfuss is genius work, imo.
    There was a novella released between the two, I believe.  It was not bad.
    I heard it doesn't really add to the story. so I didnt pick it up.  I really want part three and wish I had waited for it to come out before starting.  I think book two is as good as book 1.
    Scio me nihil scire

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  • static111
    static111 Posts: 5,110
    oftenreading said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    The first Rothfuss is genius work, imo.
    There was a novella released between the two, I believe.  It was not bad.

    Agreed.

    I'm not convinced the last (next?) novel will ever come out. 
    This is how I feel about the rest of the song of Ice and Fire.  I had read that Rothfuss has had a rough draft for some years now...what kind of editing is taking place?
    Scio me nihil scire

    There are no kings inside the gates of eden
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    static111 said:
    oftenreading said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    The first Rothfuss is genius work, imo.
    There was a novella released between the two, I believe.  It was not bad.

    Agreed.

    I'm not convinced the last (next?) novel will ever come out. 
    This is how I feel about the rest of the song of Ice and Fire.  I had read that Rothfuss has had a rough draft for some years now...what kind of editing is taking place?

    He said in 2014 that it would be out in about a year, so.... yeah :lol:

    He apparently had the whole thing written as one long story before TNOTW was even published. 
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,831
    Yeah not sure what is up with that.
    One of the things I really appreciate  about the authors who regularly publish.  I know it is a different path for different  writers but it sucks smashed assholes when you forgot all of the shit because it was 5+ years from the last book and need to go back and study or re-read.
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  • Yarden
    Yarden Posts: 820
    Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front

    Heartbreaking
  • static111
    static111 Posts: 5,110
    Yarden said:
    Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front

    Heartbreaking
    That is an amazing book, one of my favorites from my high school days.
    Scio me nihil scire

    There are no kings inside the gates of eden
  • Yarden
    Yarden Posts: 820
    static111 said:
    Yarden said:
    Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front

    Heartbreaking
    That is an amazing book, one of my favorites from my high school days.
    It definitely stays with you.
  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 20,000
    Exhalation Stories Chiang Ted 9781101947883 Amazoncom Books
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  • eddiec
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    JonnyPistachio said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    JonnyPistachio said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    JonnyPistachio said:
    I am almost done with a book called WILDWOOD.

    The writing is superb.
    How I found out about his book -- I was teaching a stop motion video class on zoom over the summer and fell in love with LAIKA studios films -- Box trolls, Coraline, Kubo, etc... watching all the behind the scenes on how these movies are made. Absolutely fascinating.
    Anyway, their upcoming project was recently announced to be a stop motion film from th book WILDWOOD. So I purchased it and am reading it aloud to my six year old son. I was so intrigued by the writer that I looked him up- Colin Meloy. He's the lead singer of famed band The Decemberists.

    Nice.  Good to see you round these parts.

    Thanks F Me, I like to pop in once in awhile. I miss this place! :)
    Will we see another Johnny Bails adventure?
    Lol, I would love to -- I'm not sure if I drink enough to get back in the mind of Jonny Bails these days though. :D
    I kid... I have two unrelated novels in the works right now, but once they're completed, I was thinking of doing a short story Jonny Bails follow-up... just to see where it goes. Maybe, just maybe, that could develop into something.

    Cool. I'd like to know what he's up to.

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