Babbling

[TheMrDeadHead]

The Zombie Autopsies - written by some doctor, it's written mostly as a journal 1st hand account from a doctor on a doomed island doing research on zombies for the UN (in the near future). and then have stuff from like the UN and CDC about the historical progression of the disease, the official WHO classification and ethics guidelines when dealing with the zombies, etc. it gets really into the medical aspects of being a zombie, so if you're kind of a nerd who likes overly technical discussions about completely made up stuff, you'd probably like it. i know i did.

[Big_Eyed_Fish]

finished with stephen king books for a while.

now i am rereading Falling Bodies by Andrew Mark.

[Heartless_Warrior]

Akira (Volume 1) -- Katsuhiro Otomo

Can't get enough.

[harryfrodo]

I'm one of "those people" that watched the show Game of Thrones on HBO, and learned that it was actually based off a book series.

I'm now up to Storm of Swords, about two-hundred pages in.

George R.R. Martin is an interesting writer in that he isn't a very good one and yet he writes an engaging story just the same. He writes sex scenes like a female romance writer who publishes her bullshit on eight-dollar mass-market paperbacks as a new release. He's also pretty bad about consistency. Certain characters are a lot more believable than others. It's obvious he puts a ton of effort in crafting some of them (Tyrion, Jon Snow) while literally putting a name to a face with others (Robb, Sansa [oh woe is me! Woe is me! Woe is me!]). And it's not a differentiation of like, point-of-view characters versus non-point-of-view characters either. Eddard Stark was a stranger to me in the novel. It was Sean Bean's performance in the show that had me actually like the character, and if I had simply read the book I probably wouldn't have cared too much of him as things stood.

Nonetheless, they're great summer reading when it's not my job to care about these things.

I also picked up Helmet for my Pillow by Leckie, Zeitoun by Eggers, and I'm struggling to find the desire to finish my collection of Hammett detective novels. Not really summer reading by comparison. His writing reads like a cold winter. Maybe over winter break.

[bebop77]

citzen of the galaxy -heinlien

CLASSIC!

[bebop77]

Old mans war by Jon scalzi

2nd go around and I must say it was just as good as the first time around.

[Heartless_Warrior]

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harryfrodo wrote:
I'm one of "those people" that watched the show Game of Thrones on HBO, and learned that it was actually based off a book series.

I'm now up to Storm of Swords, about two-hundred pages in.

George R.R. Martin is an interesting writer in that he isn't a very good one and yet he writes an engaging story just the same. He writes sex scenes like a female romance writer who publishes her bull#### on eight-dollar mass-market paperbacks as a new release. He's also pretty bad about consistency. Certain characters are a lot more believable than others. It's obvious he puts a ton of effort in crafting some of them (Tyrion, Jon Snow) while literally putting a name to a face with others (Robb, Sansa [oh woe is me! Woe is me! Woe is me!]). And it's not a differentiation of like, point-of-view characters versus non-point-of-view characters either. Eddard Stark was a stranger to me in the novel. It was Sean Bean's performance in the show that had me actually like the character, and if I had simply read the book I probably wouldn't have cared too much of him as things stood.

Nonetheless, they're great summer reading when it's not my job to care about these things.

I also picked up Helmet for my Pillow by Leckie, Zeitoun by Eggers, and I'm struggling to find the desire to finish my collection of Hammett detective novels. Not really summer reading by comparison. His writing reads like a cold winter. Maybe over winter break.

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Reading "Clash of Kings"

Season 2 will be #### epic.

[BUU8800]

Currently reading The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub. I don't read often and go at a slow pace, but I usually only read King. I started The Talisman back in December of last year and made it through the first 500 pages of the book at a slow pace but stopped reading about a month ago and only just continued earlier today.

[CharmingCriminal]

Currently working on Shadow Of A Dark Queen by Raymond Feist, and Strata by Terry Pratchet.

[Vercaties]

Lost world

[770312]

Finished Tongue Party and Spirit Thief most recently. Tongue Party is a really weird collection of short stories.


Currently reading Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell... it's slow. Oye, is it slow.