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the moops
Footballguy
Yea. Two sittings for me. First night I stayed up until 2 AM reading this thing sipping on whiskey. Finished it up in a couple of hours a few days later. Really enjoyed this thing.Awesome book. Just finished it myself.
I finished the book in no time and I really enjoyed it.
Urinal Mint
Footballguy
Just finished A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss. Fantastic. Looking forward to reading his other Benjamin Weaver novels.
badmojo1006
Footballguy
He doesn't like Ayn Rand and HATES Allen Greenspan, but he rips Obama almost as much if not more than Bush.
Todd Andrews
Footballguy
Re-reading all of Barry Gifford. Brilliant.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
Is this the first Weaver book?
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
Thunderstruck is Larsen's followup novel. It's done in the same general format - Marconi's invention (sorta) of the radio juxtaposed with a serial killer's story. They tie together at the end. If you enjoy Devil, you'll probably like this one.
Todd Andrews
Footballguy
Also just finishing the Krakeuer Pat Tillman book Where Men Win Glory.
jason12vb
Footballguy
Adding to my library list...thanks.
guderian
Footballguy
Urinal Mint
Footballguy
danlo
Footballguy
Hey! Good morning from Albuquerque! My first post here so checking out how things work, and don't want to appear as a precocious ******* making some idjut NOOB post in Assistant Coach. I hail from Fantasy Fanatics and was recommeded this site by Cal from RotoGrinders-mainly to find a decent year round FF discussion and to improve in PPR.I read mostly Sci-Fi and Fantasy and recently finished R. Scott Baker's The Prince of Nothing trilogy. I'm currently finishing Steven Erikson's Deadhouse Gates and about to start Memories of Ice-these two Canadian authors know how to bring some brutal hardcore Fantasy.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Congratulations on making it to the top 10 weirdest posts ever.Hey! Good morning from Albuquerque! My first post here so checking out how things work, and don't want to appear as a precocious ******* making some idjut NOOB post in Assistant Coach. I hail from Fantasy Fanatics and was recommeded this site by Cal from RotoGrinders-mainly to find a decent year round FF discussion and to improve in PPR.I read mostly Sci-Fi and Fantasy and recently finished R. Scott Baker's The Prince of Nothing trilogy. I'm currently finishing Steven Erikson's Deadhouse Gates and about to start Memories of Ice-these two Canadian authors know how to bring some brutal hardcore Fantasy.
Horrorshow
Footballguy
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. ****.
SimonMoon
Footballguy
Danlo, pay no attention to the man behind the forehead.Congratulations on making it to the top 10 weirdest posts ever.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
I cannot imagine you will feel differently when you're done. That book won the Pulitzer but there's not one iota of pretention in it. Others can have their Faulkner or whomever - I think it's the best American novel ever.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
Oh, I'm sure more literate types would disagree. That's ok - it's all opinion anyway. For what I ask for out of novels, it hits every single note - there's not one single flaw I can think of.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Finished Never Let Me Go
In the end, I am really glad I kept going with this book. Without getting into it, it was a very interesting way of bringing up the consequences of a hot button topic without really directly bringing it up. However, I think the book bogged down for a couple reasons. First, the characters weren't all that interesting, and their silly melodrama got old in a couple of spots. Second, he seemed to fall into an annoying pattern with the writing and the way he started/ended chapters. There was a lot of "and that reminds me of the time Ruth did this", "first I should tell you about the time at the pond", etc... Overall, it was well worth the read, but expect a slow deliberate book.
Next up is catching up on classics I missed have a huge list thanks to the novel draft. Yesterday I started All Quiet on the Western Front, and am absolutely loving it so far.
In the end, I am really glad I kept going with this book. Without getting into it, it was a very interesting way of bringing up the consequences of a hot button topic without really directly bringing it up. However, I think the book bogged down for a couple reasons. First, the characters weren't all that interesting, and their silly melodrama got old in a couple of spots. Second, he seemed to fall into an annoying pattern with the writing and the way he started/ended chapters. There was a lot of "and that reminds me of the time Ruth did this", "first I should tell you about the time at the pond", etc... Overall, it was well worth the read, but expect a slow deliberate book.
Next up is catching up on classics I missed have a huge list thanks to the novel draft. Yesterday I started All Quiet on the Western Front, and am absolutely loving it so far.
Urinal Mint
Footballguy
I've gotten a little over halfway through Bret Easton Ellis's Less Than Zero the past couple nights.
I don't get why this book was such a big deal. It's bleak, depressing, and dehumanizing. There is nothing redeeming about any of the characters whatsoever. I guess it's 200 pages of hopelessness and rudderless debauchery. Being part of the Gen X crowd that Ellis supposedly "has the pulse of," I don't feel like he's writing about me in any way. Maybe I can't relate because I didn't spend the 80s growing up in Hollywood, part of a rich, dysfunctional and disaffected family.
Tempting to just delete this off the Kindle, but it's so short that I guess I'll power through it.
I don't get why this book was such a big deal. It's bleak, depressing, and dehumanizing. There is nothing redeeming about any of the characters whatsoever. I guess it's 200 pages of hopelessness and rudderless debauchery. Being part of the Gen X crowd that Ellis supposedly "has the pulse of," I don't feel like he's writing about me in any way. Maybe I can't relate because I didn't spend the 80s growing up in Hollywood, part of a rich, dysfunctional and disaffected family.
Tempting to just delete this off the Kindle, but it's so short that I guess I'll power through it.
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Idiot Boxer
Footballguy
The movie is a thousand times worse. Only movie I ever walked out of.
Sundays Rule
Footballguy
Finished up Matterhorn. Really really loved this book. Kinda wish I had his original
1600 page manuscript to read.
1600 page manuscript to read.
ConstruxBoy
Kate's Daddy
I'll take The Stand thanks.
Notorious T.R.E.
Showdown!™ Administrator
Congratulations on making it to the top 10 weirdest posts ever.
Todd Andrews
Footballguy
Got that waiting in the wings--supposed to be great. Reading Chuck Hogan's latest. Pretty simplistic but I enjoy his gritty take on Boston.
Jutz
Footballguy
Im just about to finish Fargo Rock City - Chuck Klosterman. Yes, I am a Klosterman fanatic. If you like him, this is more of the same.
This book is about growing up in the 80's listening to hair metal. Originally I hadn't planned on reading this book because I was never really all that into hair metal. After reading the book i realized that pretty much... almost everyone was into hair metal at that time. It was what was on the radio and MTV. It was a cool book. Basically Chuck's attempt to give importance to hair metal, a genere often made fun of the years after grunge killed it. He convinced me.
This book is about growing up in the 80's listening to hair metal. Originally I hadn't planned on reading this book because I was never really all that into hair metal. After reading the book i realized that pretty much... almost everyone was into hair metal at that time. It was what was on the radio and MTV. It was a cool book. Basically Chuck's attempt to give importance to hair metal, a genere often made fun of the years after grunge killed it. He convinced me.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
I recently finished Edmund Morris's Colonel Roosevelt, the final volume in his 3 volume biography of Theodore Roosevelt (after The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex). The research and prose is up there with the other volumes. It's not quite up there overall though, but mostly because the circumstances are not as exciting (it could easily have been entitled the decline of Theodore Roosevelt). His trips overseas to Africa and South America, his 3rd party run in 1912 and assassination attempt, and activities surrounding WWI are probably the highlights of the book. Anyway, it's definitely worth a read if you've read the first two volumes, but probably not otherwise.
Starting Chernow's bio on Washington now.
Starting Chernow's bio on Washington now.
Urinal Mint
Footballguy
It'd be nice to just search "books" and have it come up on top or near the top.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Keywords added.
Pooch
More Yang than Yin
Same here. Can only figure that thread is chock full of ruination for a lot of folks' upcoming books.
Tough As Nails
Glave Master
Abraham
Footballguy
Just finished re-reading EMYth Revisited (that was given to me by someone here in the FFA. )
Started reading 4 books at once now.
1. Life - Keith Richards
2. Good to Great - Jim Collins (already had started this one)
3. Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell
4. The Real Price of Everything (
)
I have "Leadership Secrets of the Navy Seals" and "Devil In the White City" (again) lined up after I finish the ones above. #4 is going to take me 6 months to read.
)Started reading 4 books at once now.
1. Life - Keith Richards
2. Good to Great - Jim Collins (already had started this one)
3. Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell
4. The Real Price of Everything (
)I have "Leadership Secrets of the Navy Seals" and "Devil In the White City" (again) lined up after I finish the ones above. #4 is going to take me 6 months to read.
Tough As Nails
Glave Master
I finished Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. I liked the story. I was interested in the outcome. The "mystery" was well done. But damn, the dialogue by the 9-year-old protagonist was so awful. Juno on steroids. I tried to convince myself that he never really talks in real life and all of the conversations were done in his head...but it's clearly not the case.
As an aside...Foer wrote Everything is Illuminated as well...and if you haven't seen the movie adaptation, go out and get it today. It's really good.
As an aside...Foer wrote Everything is Illuminated as well...and if you haven't seen the movie adaptation, go out and get it today. It's really good.
Prince Myshkin
Footballguy
just started "the name of the rose" for the third time over the past couple of years. i've yet to get past the first 100 pages or so, but i'm hoping putting it down in digital writing here will give me the motivation.
also like abraham, i'm also reading "good to great" and i came across a $1 copy of "the sea hunters" by cussler that i'm looking forward to starting.
also like abraham, i'm also reading "good to great" and i came across a $1 copy of "the sea hunters" by cussler that i'm looking forward to starting.
Jene Bramel
Footballguy
Made it through about 100 pages of Extremely Loud, got distracted by another story and forgot to pick it back up. My thoughts were the same -- interesting story, but the pace was maddening at times. Sounds like it's worth seeing it through to the end.
igbomb
Footballguy
Recent reads:
Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane - Not as good as prior entries in the Kenzie/Genarro series, but I'm sure that folks that first read his books in the 90s were thrilled to read it. I still haven't read his standalone work but I'm bummed that I'm almost out of Lehane novels.
Dead Beat by Jim Butcher - This series has really grown on me. They are a nice breezy break between books every month or two.
Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane - Not as good as prior entries in the Kenzie/Genarro series, but I'm sure that folks that first read his books in the 90s were thrilled to read it. I still haven't read his standalone work but I'm bummed that I'm almost out of Lehane novels.
Dead Beat by Jim Butcher - This series has really grown on me. They are a nice breezy break between books every month or two.
oso diablo
Footballguy
Sweetsmoke - by David Fuller
centers around a Civil War era slave on a Virginia tobacco plantation. Very good so far.
centers around a Civil War era slave on a Virginia tobacco plantation. Very good so far.
Sundays Rule
Footballguy
Just started The Wind Up Girl
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
This the sequel to Gone Baby Gone?igbomb said:
badmojo1006
Footballguy
Currently reading Forever War.
Thorn
Footballguy
I love The Sea-Wolf. But I don't think it's in contention for best ever.
Thorn
Footballguy
Interesting. I liked Empire Falls but didn't love it. But I thought Straight Man was pretty great. I need to get Risk Pool.
Thorn
Footballguy
Well don't forget it's an untrustworthy narrator, so you have to read it that way. I loved that book. Haven't gotten to Everything is Illuminated yet.
FUBAR
Footballguy
I like the Bryson book but if you want a quick read that simplifies complex concepts, try The Grand Design by Hawking, I could actually follow it on audio book while running, although I would get more from reading the book and re-reading certain portions. Still, my time is limited so audiobooks + running is the efficient way to go when I don't need to worry about being tested.
igbomb
Footballguy
There has been at least one in between, but this does act as a sequel, yes.
