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The Walking Dead series is pretty good but expensive to read as they are about $15 each and there's at least a dozen. The story is cool, though anyone with zombie "experience" would know better than to do some of the things these people do. The art is really good too.
The story does suck you in though. I'm glad I could borrow them as I cannot afford to spend $200 and counting.
I'm reading Jim Harrison now. His vivid descriptions of nature are what I need during this vast frozen winter. I'm reading "Dalva" now, and finished "Legends of the Fall" (several short stories together) awhile back.
The Walking Dead series is pretty good but expensive to read as they are about $15 each and there's at least a dozen. The story is cool, though anyone with zombie "experience" would know better than to do some of the things these people do. The art is really good too.
The story does suck you in though. I'm glad I could borrow them as I cannot afford to spend $200 and counting.
Haha yeah, since I work at the store I can check them out whenever I want to, I think that is the only reason I have really kept with it. They take no time at all to read and I would feel silly dropping that kind of money for them
Post by gatheringking on Feb 6, 2010 4:02:12 GMT -5
I just read "The Road". Once I learned how to "grip it", I really liked it. Dark, apocalyptic, hopeless, depressing. However, the ending was beyond bad. Way to fuck up an epic story.
I just read "The Road". Once I learned how to "grip it", I really liked it. Dark, apocalyptic, hopeless, depressing. However, the ending was beyond bad. Way to quack up an epic story.
I feel like I am gonna get attacked for this but I felt similarly. For years I heard nothing but how amazing this book was so when I finally got around to reading it I had high expectations, I think that was my problem. It was beautifully written and I genuinely respect Cormac McCarthy's talent, it is apparent he has a lot of it, but I just felt let down. I think had I gone into it with no expectations I might have felt better about it.
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I just read "The Road". Once I learned how to "grip it", I really liked it. Dark, apocalyptic, hopeless, depressing. However, the ending was beyond bad. Way to quack up an epic story.
I feel like I am gonna get attacked for this but I felt similarly. For years I heard nothing but how amazing this book was so when I finally got around to reading it I had high expectations, I think that was my problem. It was beautifully written and I genuinely respect Cormac McCarthy's talent, it is apparent he has a lot of it, but I just felt let down. I think had I gone into it with no expectations I might have felt better about it.
I'm with you guys. I'm normally all about the end of the world (The Stand is one of my favorite books) but this just bummed me out. Unfortunately, that's not what I'm looking for in a book, generally speaking.
I just finished the Dies the Fire, and Island in the Sea of Time series by S M Stirling both are excellent, and the Dies the Fire books actually remind me a lot of SOIAF by George RR Martin.
Post by itrainmonkeys on Feb 23, 2010 18:23:07 GMT -5
You guys are upset that "The Road" made you sad? It's not supposed to be an uplifting story or make you feel happy. It's a depressing look at a father and son and what the world has become. It's one thing to dislike the book because of plot or the writing.......but because it was a downer? That's the purpose of the book.
You guys are upset that "The Road" made you sad? It's not supposed to be an uplifting story or make you feel happy. It's a depressing look at a father and son and what the world has become. It's one thing to dislike the book because of plot or the writing.......but because it was a downer? That's the purpose of the book.
FOR ANYONE WHO HAS NOT READ "THE ROAD", THIS POST INCLUDES A BIT OF A SPOILER!
Well, I can't speak for anyone else's problem(s) with the book, but it was the relatively happy, uplifting, there-is-hope-after-all, everything-worked-out-as-well-as-possible ending that I thought sucked. In fact, the ending seemed like a slap in the face to the rest of the book and kind of like a cheap cop-out for a dark, depressing, apocalyptic journey. That's what ruined the book for me. It was supposed to be doom-laden epic, but then it wraps-up all (again, relative to the the rest of the book) nice and neat and cozy in the end.
So, I can't imagine how/if you were including me and my statements in your post, but if so, you were completely mistaken.
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You guys are upset that "The Road" made you sad? It's not supposed to be an uplifting story or make you feel happy. It's a depressing look at a father and son and what the world has become. It's one thing to dislike the book because of plot or the writing.......but because it was a downer? That's the purpose of the book.
Yeah, I just generally don't like getting bummed. I picked it up because I heard it was good and tend to like end of the world kinda books. I didn't know that the purpose was to be a downer. It didn't connect with me and that's valid enough for me not to like it for me.
Just finished this excellent book by the essayist, John D'Agata, and I figured I'd pass a recommendation along to you guys. The book itself is largely about the proposed nuclear depository in the Yucca Mountain outside of Vegas. The project has been underway for a couple decades and is problematic to say the least. The book takes a non linear, personal approach to the subject, weaving together rather seamlessly the author's time living in Las Vegas, the city of Las Vegas itself, the suicide of a teenage boy, and Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream.
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You guys are upset that "The Road" made you sad? It's not supposed to be an uplifting story or make you feel happy. It's a depressing look at a father and son and what the world has become. It's one thing to dislike the book because of plot or the writing.......but because it was a downer? That's the purpose of the book.
FOR ANYONE WHO HAS NOT READ "THE ROAD", THIS POST INCLUDES A BIT OF A SPOILER!
Well, I can't speak for anyone else's problem(s) with the book, but it was the relatively happy, uplifting, there-is-hope-after-all, everything-worked-out-as-well-as-possible ending that I thought sucked. In fact, the ending seemed like a slap in the face to the rest of the book and kind of like a cheap cop-out for a dark, depressing, apocalyptic journey. That's what ruined the book for me. It was supposed to be doom-laden epic, but then it wraps-up all (again, relative to the the rest of the book) nice and neat and cozy in the end.
So, I can't imagine how/if you were including me and my statements in your post, but if so, you were completely mistaken.
FOR ANYONE WHO HAS NOT READ "THE ROAD", THIS POST INCLUDES A BIT OF A SPOILER!
You really think the ending was an "everything-worked-out-as-well-as-possible"? The child loses his dad and that was one of his biggest fears throughout the whole book. The only man he knows and trusts is gone and he's left with strangers. I don't see how the end was wrapped up all neat and cozy. If the father got healthy and they ended up living in a beach house with an ocean view and had monkey butlers then I'd say it wrapped up nicely.
I guess I just viewed the ending differently. I didn't think it was happy or hopeful at all.....even in relation to the rest of the book.
FOR ANYONE WHO HAS NOT READ "THE ROAD", THIS POST INCLUDES A BIT OF A SPOILER!
Well, I can't speak for anyone else's problem(s) with the book, but it was the relatively happy, uplifting, there-is-hope-after-all, everything-worked-out-as-well-as-possible ending that I thought sucked. In fact, the ending seemed like a slap in the face to the rest of the book and kind of like a cheap cop-out for a dark, depressing, apocalyptic journey. That's what ruined the book for me. It was supposed to be doom-laden epic, but then it wraps-up all (again, relative to the the rest of the book) nice and neat and cozy in the end.
So, I can't imagine how/if you were including me and my statements in your post, but if so, you were completely mistaken.
FOR ANYONE WHO HAS NOT READ "THE ROAD", THIS POST INCLUDES A BIT OF A SPOILER!
You really think the ending was an "everything-worked-out-as-well-as-possible"? The child loses his dad and that was one of his biggest fears throughout the whole book. The only man he knows and trusts is gone and he's left with strangers. I don't see how the end was wrapped up all neat and cozy. If the father got healthy and they ended up living in a beach house with an ocean view and had monkey butlers then I'd say it wrapped up nicely.
I guess I just viewed the ending differently. I didn't think it was happy or hopeful at all.....even in relation to the rest of the book.
FOR ANYONE WHO HAS NOT READ "THE ROAD", THIS POST INCLUDES A BIT OF A SPOILER!
Yeah. I did think that book ended on an unrealistically positive note. Here's my take on it. The kid has spent the entire book waiting for his dad to die, knowing that it was inevitable. In my opinion that's what the book is really about. This scared, jaded child who was born into ruin watching what little life he has and what little world is left fall apart. Not only does he carry his mother's suicide with him on his increasingly futile journey, but he begins to understand that any hope of anything better dissolves more and more with every step he takes. Then, when his unavoidable fears finally come to fruition as he watches the slow death of his father, the only link to a mythic world of hope and peace, he is finally alone in the dark. THEN...some badass yet benevolent grandfather figure immediately emerges on the road and takes him under his wing. A man who has apparently been following for some time, but only managed to catch-up (with a weak child and a dying man) just as all hope is lost. Not only is there a grizzly-man survivalist there to protect the kid, but it turns out that there's also a sort of family unit now available to comfort him, teach him, nurture him and hold his hand through the darkness. If that's not a "everything-works-out-as-well-as-possible" ending, I don't know what is.
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Post by jade~natasha on Mar 12, 2010 15:05:52 GMT -5
BuMp---
Just found this thread... I love to read!! I just recently read these two books, there is going to be a third coming out sometime soonish. My friend had to all but beg me to read them b/c I knew that they were about 24 kids from ages 12 to 18 (i think it's 18 anyway) who are made by their government to fight to the death (quite brutally) while the whole country is made to watch. I didn't want any part of reading that but I'm glad I did. I handled it a lot better than I thought I would.
this trilogy is probably in my top 5 favorite books/series of all time. It is juvenile fiction, but that's pretty much all I read b/c just about every time I pick out a book from the adult side it's filled with sex and as much as I love a sex scene here and there in my books, I don't want the book to be dominated by it, so I usually find it safer to just go with the Young Adult section.
I adore Haruki Murakami! Let me know how this one is....
I just started reading "Needful Things" by Stephen King. I realize I'm about 20 years behind, but I found a practically brand-new copy at a thrift store recently. I enjoy King so I have high hopes... especially since I've seen the movie.
At first I was really confused. I thought it was a trailer for the forthcoming Pride and Prejudice and Zombies movie with Natalie Portman! I don't know if I'll pick that one up since it's not by Seth Grahame-Smith (who wrote PP&Z).
Speaking of which, I just finished his latest, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and loved it. Here's the trailer (still getting used to book trailers):
(The book is being made into a movie by Tim Burton.)
I also just read Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger. It was interesting and had some unforseen developments but was not fully satisfying. If you liked The Time Traveler's Wife, you'll probably like it, though.
This is the story of the early days of Zaire's independence, after colonial rule as the Belgian Congo. Basically, a novel of demagogues and corruption on the Congo River. Fascinating.
I also just read Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger. It was interesting and had some unforseen developments but was not fully satisfying. If you liked The Time Traveler's Wife, you'll probably like it, though.
I read that when it first came out. I thought it was pretty predictable but I still liked it. I think the best part was the pretty cover I think I liked The Time Traveler's Wife better...I want to see that movie.
I'm reading a book called The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marianne Keyes. I needed something somewhat fluffy to take my mind off all the things I have to get done for the baby's arrival. It is turning out to be a better read than I thought it would be.
My next read is hopefully going to be Horns by Joe Hill (Stephen King's son). I read his first book, Heart-Shaped Box and liked it back then but don't remember what it was about now.
Has anyone read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? I borrowed this from a friend and just can't get into it.
Post by ChiefPemperToadWigginsky on Mar 27, 2010 11:05:02 GMT -5
A few of my favorites....
House of Leaves- Mark Z. Danielewski This guy breaks down the walls of writing. Very very long read but the best ghost story ever written.
The futurelogical congress - Stanislaw Lem The greatest sci-fi thinker/writer of all time. Read anything by him, he was way ahead of his time. This is my first book by him and I've been entranced ever since. really short and easy reads.
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami Talking cats, Female to male transitions, raining fish, did i mention talking cats?
Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke Screw 2001 series, this is his masterpiece. I've only actually cried on a few books, this is one of them. So moving and mind blowing.
The Dark Tower series - Stephen King I know that some have already explained the awesomeness that is The Gunslinger but I am forced to echo their sentiments.
The Power of Now - Ekhart Tolle What? you hate your life and your self and can't achieve happiness? Silly, silly ego. The Now is happening, just look!
The Great Secret Show(part 1) & Everville(part 2) - Clive Barker Super scary, super gay, super trippy. Barker is a great writer, very dense writing style. Sometimes it's too damn dense. Also see: Imajica
Ishmael - Daniel Quinn "Teacher seeks pupil, must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person." Have a chat with a psychic gorilla. Also see: My Ishmael (part B)
Soloman Kane - Robert E. Howard Awesome, so frickin awesome. Too bad the author killed his self, he was badass.