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The Road was my first entry to McCarthy, and while I liked it, I didn't love it. I want to read another one of his books, but I wasn't as enthralled as I expected to be. Have you read any others from him?
Blood Meridian has one of my favorite antagonists. Child of God was really disturbing. I have heard good things about The Border Trilogy but haven't read it.
I've heard about the Blood Meridian villain. Maybe one day I'll try my hand at his books again.
Reading more is always good; that's an impressive list so far.
The Road was my first entry to McCarthy, and while I liked it, I didn't love it. I want to read another one of his books, but I wasn't as enthralled as I expected to be. Have you read any others from him?
A Brave New World is one of my favorite books of all-time. It's hard to say if I prefer it over 1984, but I say it paints a slightly more realistic picture of how government and society could turn out in the future. Have you read Fahrenheit 451? I like to put that, Brave New World and 1984 under my self-appointed "Dystopia Trilogy." Hell, I may just reread Brave New World again after writing this.
I've always heard good things about The Kite Runner, and coincidentally enough I'm reading Hosseini's other big book A Thousand Splendid Suns now, and am enjoying it much more than I expected to enjoy it. That and Wonder by R. J. Palacio are the only books I've read so far this year.
Fahrenheit 451 has been on my list for a while now; I might make that my next one. Haven't read other McCarthy either, frankly I don't care for his writing style too much and didn't love The Road, so I'm not too likely to pick up another one of his for a while. How was Wonder? We sell tons of copies of that regularly but I've never really looked into it.
Wonder was really good. It's simple because it's something kids or young adults can enjoy, but I surprisingly loved it. Highly recommended, plus it's a quick and easy read.
blood meridian is absolutely amazing. Ben Nichols, the lead singer of lucero, wrote a solo concept album based on it:
As for the border trilogy: I read all the pretty horses (1) and I have cities of the plain(3) sitting on my bookshelf. All the pretty horses is still very typical McCarthy writing style, but the story isn't so bleak as blood meridian or the road. It is more romantic style and no ultraviolence. I highly enjoyed it. I borrowed the second book (the crossing) from the library, but it wasn't a continuation of all the pretty horses (its a "thematic trilogy", not narrative) and I was a bit disappointed and read something else.
Post by Fozzie Bear on Feb 3, 2018 11:36:27 GMT -5
Holy crap, read through 150 pages of 1,000 Splendid Suns last night because it got so good. Almost finished now. Man, nothing beats being sucked in to a book like that.
I'm about a quarter of the way through, I think, and really loving this so far.
Reading this one now. Not very far into it but liking it so far.
it's a pretty good take on the cyberpunk thing. definitely a YA novel with some cheesy YA themes though. not being a snob about YA literature just calling it what it is. i do hope the movie is good.
Post by 3post1jack1 on Feb 3, 2018 12:15:49 GMT -5
recently finished Brandon Sanderson's "The Way of Kings", first book of the Stormlight Archive.
It was pretty damn good. I'm a LONG time reader of SFF novels, but in the past few years have tended more towards the SF side of things, simply because so many fantasy novels are Tolkien-esque "farm boy rises to power" affairs. Or even worse, books that are Tolkien-esque "farm boy rises to power" affairs that try to be GRRM-esque by throwing in additional sex and violence.
But "The Way of Kings" was a unique take on the genre. Definitely some standard tropes but on the whole it was an engaging story and definitely a page turner. Good character development, extremely interesting world-building, good pacing. You've got some magic, some politics, some war, all kinds of good stuff.
I'm in the second book now and enjoying it as well.
recently finished Brandon Sanderson's "The Way of Kings", first book of the Stormlight Archive.
It was pretty damn good. I'm a LONG time reader of SFF novels, but in the past few years have tended more towards the SF side of things, simply because so many fantasy novels are Tolkien-esque "farm boy rises to power" affairs. Or even worse, books that are Tolkien-esque "farm boy rises to power" affairs that try to be GRRM-esque by throwing in additional sex and violence.
But "The Way of Kings" was a unique take on the genre. Definitely some standard tropes but on the whole it was an engaging story and definitely a page turner. Good character development, extremely interesting world-building, good pacing. You've got some magic, some politics, some war, all kinds of good stuff.
I'm in the second book now and enjoying it as well.
I’ve had Mistborn on my list for ages. Would you recommend that as a starting point?
Finished reading this last night, and by now I think it's safe to say it's one of my favorite books. Aciman has a brilliant and evocative command of language; the book feels not just written, but crafted. He perfectly captures the entire dance of adolescent love - the anxiety, the obsession, the lust. On an incredibly surface level it's a romance book - a teen romance book at that - and as someone who's worked in a bookstore for the past several years, teen romance is a genre that I immediately stick my nose up to. But the way Elio's feelings are conveyed is so penetratingly true to life that even some of the scenes that initially would seem debauched instead approach beauty when told by someone completely in the throes of deep young love. The authenticity of the book was striking - it never tried to hard to be what it was. This book really made me feel a wide range of peculiar and precise emotions, and honestly I'm a little scared that watching the movie could ruin that for me. As it stands, this is a story I'll carry with me for a long time.
In Mastai’s imaginative debut novel, Tom Barren’s version of 2016 is a technological utopia based on a model popularized by 1950s science fiction. There are flying cars, robot maids, jet packs, teleportation, ray guns, and space vacations. Thanks to an experimental time machine, Tom travels back to the moment this glorious future was born—the 1965 invention of the Goettreider Engine, a clean-energy source that transformed mankind. Unfortunately, Tom’s presence causes the experiment to go haywire. He disappears, and when he rematerializes he is in an alternate timeline, socially and technologically backward—in other words, our own 2016. Horrified at what he sees, Tom tries to come to terms with his new environment, which is only made bearable by a bookstore owner named Penny, with whom he promptly falls in love. In order to prove to her where he is really from, Tom is forced to track down the scientist who invented the clean-energy device. From here, the story takes several startling turns as Tom tries to make things right by using another time machine to change the future of this timeline. Mastai has fun with all the usual conventions of time travel and its many paradoxes, and the cherry on top is his dialogue, reminiscent of Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
I was stranded for several hours without a book while my car was getting worked on. This was the most interesting thing that I could find at Target. A super quick read, though I'm not finished yet. So far, so good.
Post by NothingButFlowers on May 9, 2018 13:30:37 GMT -5
I’ve got a little over an hour and a half to go on the audiobook. I’ve really enjoyed this a lot. Kind of excited to be done with it so that I can read some of the recent articles and listen to the episode of My Favorite Murder from after they caught the guy.
I also just saw that HBO has bought the rights to the book, so that could be interesting.
recently finished Brandon Sanderson's "The Way of Kings", first book of the Stormlight Archive.
It was pretty damn good. I'm a LONG time reader of SFF novels, but in the past few years have tended more towards the SF side of things, simply because so many fantasy novels are Tolkien-esque "farm boy rises to power" affairs. Or even worse, books that are Tolkien-esque "farm boy rises to power" affairs that try to be GRRM-esque by throwing in additional sex and violence.
But "The Way of Kings" was a unique take on the genre. Definitely some standard tropes but on the whole it was an engaging story and definitely a page turner. Good character development, extremely interesting world-building, good pacing. You've got some magic, some politics, some war, all kinds of good stuff.
I'm in the second book now and enjoying it as well.
I knocked out all three Way of King’s books in the last couple months. I’ve been gravitating toward SF/SFF lately purely for the break from reality, so the long monotony of it was appealing. Just open the book and zen out.
That said I thought these books were decent, but not great. I enjoyed the first one, but the second one had a bunch of dramatic personality changes in the characters that I wasn’t feeling, and the third gets bogged down with some mini-quests that made it hard to finish. Plus all the various gods started to get confusing, but maybe that’s just me.
Plus if I’d known there were like 7 unfinished novels in the series I might have held off on starting for 20-30 years.
recently finished Brandon Sanderson's "The Way of Kings", first book of the Stormlight Archive.
It was pretty damn good. I'm a LONG time reader of SFF novels, but in the past few years have tended more towards the SF side of things, simply because so many fantasy novels are Tolkien-esque "farm boy rises to power" affairs. Or even worse, books that are Tolkien-esque "farm boy rises to power" affairs that try to be GRRM-esque by throwing in additional sex and violence.
But "The Way of Kings" was a unique take on the genre. Definitely some standard tropes but on the whole it was an engaging story and definitely a page turner. Good character development, extremely interesting world-building, good pacing. You've got some magic, some politics, some war, all kinds of good stuff.
I'm in the second book now and enjoying it as well.
I knocked out all three Way of King’s books in the last couple months. I’ve been gravitating toward SF/SFF lately purely for the break from reality, so the long monotony of it was appealing. Just open the book and zen out.
That said I thought these books were decent, but not great. I enjoyed the first one, but the second one had a bunch of dramatic personality changes in the characters that I wasn’t feeling, and the third gets bogged down with some mini-quests that made it hard to finish. Plus all the various gods started to get confusing, but maybe that’s just me.
Plus if I’d known there were like 7 unfinished novels in the series I might have held off on starting for 20-30 years.
I slowed down in book two, it hasn't kept my interest at the same level as book one. I'm sure I'll still finish it, but its lacking that "can't wait to get back into the book" feeling I got from the first one. I was under the impression it was a finished trilogy, I didn't realize he has a ten book plan. That's disheartening.
I knocked out all three Way of King’s books in the last couple months. I’ve been gravitating toward SF/SFF lately purely for the break from reality, so the long monotony of it was appealing. Just open the book and zen out.
That said I thought these books were decent, but not great. I enjoyed the first one, but the second one had a bunch of dramatic personality changes in the characters that I wasn’t feeling, and the third gets bogged down with some mini-quests that made it hard to finish. Plus all the various gods started to get confusing, but maybe that’s just me.
Plus if I’d known there were like 7 unfinished novels in the series I might have held off on starting for 20-30 years.
I slowed down in book two, it hasn't kept my interest at the same level as book one. I'm sure I'll still finish it, but its lacking that "can't wait to get back into the book" feeling I got from the first one. I was under the impression it was a finished trilogy, I didn't realize he has a ten book plan. That's disheartening.
Better you find out now than being 3/4 of the way through the third book with half the cast plodding through a bonus adventure wondering how the hell theyre gonna wrap it up.
Post by 3post1jack1 on May 17, 2018 14:33:07 GMT -5
Couple of nonfiction books I'm bouncing back and forth between:
about 1/3rd through it, good fast moving summary of all the ways America has deluded itself. curious to see where he takes it because we are already at the 1970s.
maybe about 1/10th through this one. surprisingly readable so far. hope i finish it.
Post by Fozzie Bear on May 17, 2018 15:37:51 GMT -5
At least you Sanderson fans can rest easy knowing there's likely going to be a conclusion. Us Game of Thrones are royally fucked, Drogo and Daenerys-style.
At least you Sanderson fans can rest easy knowing there's likely going to be a conclusion. Us Game of Thrones are royally fucked, Drogo and Daenerys-style.
True. I can criticize a lot of things about Sanderson, but he finishes shit, and does it on time.
Apparently he did a great job wrapping up Wheel of Time, but I will never get back into that slog.
For anyone who reads magazines like Men’s Health... you can read these free if you are an Amazon Prime member. Go to the Prime Reading page, choose the magazine you want to add to your library... and you will then see it on your kindle app for free. They have several magazines free to prime members. I just heard about this today.
Post by heyyitskait on Jul 20, 2018 7:30:16 GMT -5
I’m reading Leviathan Wakes (Book one of The Expanse series). Was impressed by the show and so far the book is fantastic.
Also have Your Song Changed My Life going. If you enjoy reading about musicians talking about the music that inspires and shapes them, I would recommend it.
Picked up The Immortalists and Norse Mythology yesterday. Don’t know what I’m getting into with The Immortalists, just was drawn to it and didn’t feel like putting it down before checking out. Excited about Norse Mythology, I like Gaiman a lot. Boyfriend listened to it as an audiobook and said it’s one of the few books he wants to read a second time.
Excited about Norse Mythology, I like Gaiman a lot. Boyfriend listened to it as an audiobook and said it’s one of the few books he wants to read a second time.
I love Norse Mythology. I also did the audiobook. The stories are so great, and I love that he reads this one himself. (This also makes it a particularly good one to fall asleep to. When I can’t sleep, I usually either put on Norse Mythology or a Harry Potter.)
I’m reading Leviathan Wakes (Book one of The Expanse series). Was impressed by the show and so far the book is fantastic.
Also have Your Song Changed My Life going. If you enjoy reading about musicians talking about the music that inspires and shapes them, I would recommend it.
Picked up The Immortalists and Norse Mythology yesterday. Don’t know what I’m getting into with The Immortalists, just was drawn to it and didn’t feel like putting it down before checking out. Excited about Norse Mythology, I like Gaiman a lot. Boyfriend listened to it as an audiobook and said it’s one of the few books he wants to read a second time.
I’m actually in the middle of Book 5 in The Expanse series. They’re all really good and quick reads.
