Welcome to Our Forums. Once you've registered and logged in, you're primed to talk football, among other topics, with the sharpest and most experienced fantasy players on the internet.
I loved this one, too. I'm not religious, but the Christian themes didn't bother me either. In fact, it was easy for me to think of them in a more generic "spiritual" way. Hell, even filtering them as "magic" works.I've got one of his more recent books - "So Young, So Brave...." - which is next on my list.
Amazon keeps recommending this one for me. I've got it saved on my Kindle "wish list". How was the writing style itself? Some horror/supernatural books are written so poorly that even a good plot can't save it for me. But a well-written book lets me overlook some plotting flaws.
it's well written. i tore through it, which is a good sign.
Great - thanks. I'm gonna give it a try. The Amazon reviews are almost all 4/5 stars.
Peace Like a River is my all-time favorite read. Not the best book i've ever read (that would be Brothers Karamozov), but the one i most enjoyed reading.
I haven't read this book but it's been documented before that Bird's basketball career almost ended completely when he left IU.
Me too. Lots of interesting little details about Chicago and various people (e.g., Disney).
I read this and the second one over the last three days. Good stuff AND part three is coming out Aug. 24. I also just started The Alchemyst by Mike Scott :splitter:
Hmm, like his stuff. Didn't know he had another one out.
Cool.Apes with Guns said:
I'm about 1/3 through & it's growing on me all the time. Not that the beginning is bad or anything - as I said above, the narration/dialogue ratio is out of whack compared to what I'm used to and I think it just took me a bit to get used to the flow.Anyway, things are heating up now. The buildings are starting to go up, with all of the problems inherent in the construction. I have maybe a little more interest in the construction part of the story as that's my profession (it's amazing that some of the techniques used 120 years ago are used today to determine soil capacities
), but it's not pages of dry text & I think is written with the layperson in mind.
Not sure what's going on, because this book keeps putting me to sleep, but I love it. I'm averaging about 2 pages a night. Maybe by the time I'm done Martin will be done with the series.
I keep going to sleep reading it too, but that's because I keep reading it WAY past the time I should be going to sleep.
That's what happened to me, too. From Martin's recent (admittedly cryptic) remarks, it sounds like he may be coming down the homestretch on ADWD. Of course, he also said he hoped he'd have it out "next year" when AFFC was published - back in 2005.
That's probably my problem, but why is it happening to us all with this particular book? I've never had this much trouble staying awake reading before.
Bump.I don't see a post from you with a review, so perhaps you didn't like it. I started it a couple days ago and can't put it down. Woke up in the middle of the night last night and ended up reading for three hours. Definitely not my usual fare, but it's a very good read so far (I'm about 60% through it).
Really, a poorly written book by Grisham? I'm shocked, shcoked I tell you. The next thing you know you'll be telling me you can find the subtext or deeper meaning in a Patterson work.
This was an OK read that started off well but I became bored by the end and cheated a bit by skipping about 30 pages to get to the bottom of the underlying 'mystery'. Very nice descriptive prose but I felt like the characters were a bit stiff, and one of the main character's had a storyline just wasn't as interesting as the others. It was one of that character's passages that I skipped.Reading Phillip Roth's Pulitzer-winning American Pastoral now. Halfway through and I'm more impressed with this Roth work than any other that I've read (Portnoy's Complaint, Everyman, The Plot Against America) in terms of the writing.
Two books that I couldn't put down:Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner- A history of the CIA
recommend the above. i think the FFA would like it.now reading American Jesus - Stephen Prothero. Subtitled "How the Son of God became a National Icon". How we've made Jesus into the chameleon God
Interesting. I have never been able to finish a book after I've seen the movie.
Update? I'm really interested to hear what you have to say. My son was about 8 when I read it, and I found it to be probably the most moving, painful meditation on fatherly love I've ever read. My reserve copy of "The Passage" came into the library yesterday, and I stayed up late last night reading it, and got up early to do some more before work. Loving it. It's pretty much a direct knockoff of The Stand so far, but really, really well done.
I can see that. I have a particular interest in how books are adapted to films. I try to mix it up whether I read a book prior to seeing a movie even if it's available (About a boy and Bringing down the house for example) and vice-versa. I almost always like the book better regardless of the order I approach the material. I draw the line at novelizations, however.
Both are excellent reads, can't recommend Ghost Wars enough. Another good book is Jawbreaker by Gary Bernsten. Detailed account of the CIA lead team that was tasked with getting bin Laden right after 9/11. I haven't read it yet but it's on my list and I haven't read anything bad about it yet. First In is kind of the prequel to it by Gary Schroen. Schroen was the first guy the CIA could lay hands on to mobilize to Afghanistan and set up the staging area for Bernsten's troops. Unfortunately for Schroen they pulled him out of recent retirement to do so, so the book ends right about where Jawbreaker picks up. It's kind of anti-climatic and you can almost feel the disappointment from Schroen when he is recalled to the States.Murph said:
Thanks for the rec. Just picked this one up.
I really enjoyed some of Lehane's books. If you like that genre, I'd highly recommend that you read:Vince Flynn -- Mitch Rapp series (CIA)Daniel Silva -- Gabriel Allon series (Israel counter intelligence)Michael Connolly -- Harry Bosch (LAPD)Lee Child -- Jack Reacher series. I can't possibly recommend this highly enough. Best, most enjoyable author going today.Cormac -- but you mentioned him already.
Lindqvist's novel is significantly different from the movie adaptation. I certainly enjoyed the film but the book is - as in so many cases - superior imo.
I blew threw A Game of Thrones in about a week and a half to two weeks. Absolutely loved it and hated the author for ending it how he did, it almost forced me to go out buy the 2nd book right then and there. A friend recommended it as one of his favorites and because HBO is making a new tv series out of it.
As a fundamentalist wacko, I felt the same way. One of the classiest approaches to addressing issues of faith I've read in a novel in a long, long time.
