Whatcha readin now? (book, books, reading, read) (5 Viewers)

[shuke]

I've had some Clive Barker on my shelves for quite some time but never got around to it. Just started The Great and Secret Show.

Finally finished this. I've seen this compared to other epics like The Stand and Swan Song. It's good, but it's not that good.8/10

Next up: Lost Echoes by Joe R. Lansdale

 

[coldchill]

The Regulators - Richard Bachman

I've had this for a long time and finally got around to reading it.

 

[Pooch]

Just started War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

Since I generally read at bedtime for an hour or so, I expect this to take me the best part of a year.

 

[facook]

Re-reading Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, in preparation for the sequel which comes out in paperback next month. World Without End - the sequel - was also an Oprah book, by the way.

Normally I avoid all things Oprah, but she actually does choose good books sometimes.

 

[The Dweeze]

Recently readBlack Wave: A Family's Adventure at Sea and the Disaster That Saved Them by Jean and John SilverwoodCurrently on a Graphic Novel kick (is there a thread devoted to this?)Read in the last few weeks:Y:The Last Man (on 4 of 10) and would be done if the library had more copies to circulate.Dark Knight ReturnsIdentity CrisisFreaks of the HeatlandAll Star Superman Vol 1.About to read:Sandman 1: Preludes and NocturesEx Machina Vol 1: The First 100 DaysDMZ Vol 1: On the GroundPride of Baghdad

Been on a GN kick as well recently.Just re-read Watchmen and DKR and some of the Preacher books.Need to finish up on Y and catch up on DMZ.The first 2 or 3 DMZs were terrific.

 

[skrzycki]

Recently readBlack Wave: A Family's Adventure at Sea and the Disaster That Saved Them by Jean and John SilverwoodCurrently on a Graphic Novel kick (is there a thread devoted to this?)Read in the last few weeks:Y:The Last Man (on 4 of 10) and would be done if the library had more copies to circulate.Dark Knight ReturnsIdentity CrisisFreaks of the HeatlandAll Star Superman Vol 1.About to read:Sandman 1: Preludes and NocturesEx Machina Vol 1: The First 100 DaysDMZ Vol 1: On the GroundPride of Baghdad

Been on a GN kick as well recently.Just re-read Watchmen and DKR and some of the Preacher books.Need to finish up on Y and catch up on DMZ.The first 2 or 3 DMZs were terrific.

Sandman was good but not sure its my cup of tea long term. Ex Machina is great (currently on Vol 2). I think its Brian K Vaughan's writing in general. Really knows how to tell a story.Also just read Preacher Vol 1. Good stuff. A little twisted but good. I can easily see this as an HBO series but I heard they passed because it was even too dark for them.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Just started Last Train To Memphis by Peter Guralnick. It's the first of a two-volume series about Elvis Presley & covers his life up through 1958 or so. Guralnick has always been one of my favorite writers about music & I've been wanting to get into this one for a while. He cuts through a lot of the mythology that's been built around Elvis & does a great job of bringing 1950s Memphis to life. I believe the 2nd volume is called Careless Love.

Finished this one. I'm not an Elvis expert, but know quite a bit about his life & his music - or I thought I did until I read this book. First, this is not a recording-session encyclopedia - some of his big hits are never mentioned at all, though a good amount of time is spent on his early Sun sessions. This books dwells more on his life than his recording history & much of it was eye-opening to me. Guralnick's book destroys a ton of commonly held "truths" about Elvis - including the myth (perpetuated by Elvis himself somewhat) that it was all just an accident & that Elvis was basically a producer's puppet.Anyway, you don't have to be a big Elvis fan to enjoy this book (or even an Elvis fan at all). Guralnick's done his homework well, making '50s Memphis come alive & tells a story that's uniquely American.

Needless to say, I'm on to volume 2 - Careless Love - which tracks the last 20 years of Presley's life.

 

[shuke]

Next up: Lost Echoes by Joe R. Lansdale

I'm probably the board's biggest Lansdale fan, but this just didn't do it for me. 5/10Next up: Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

 

[Chaka]

The Fountainhead.

 

[Maelstrom]

Picked up Perfectly Legal by David Cay Johnston at the library the other day. Interesting so far, talking about how the tax policies in the last 35 years or so have affected different economic classes of people.

 

[Sundays Rule]

Shogun, pretty badass so far. And no I havent seen the 80s miniseries.

 

[Edgefan]

Just finished a series of books called Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The books are written for adolescents but are pretty enjoyable for adults as well. Percy is a young boy that finds out that he's the son of Posidon and that the gods of olympus are real and living in and around North America (Olympus follows the center of Western Thought). Each book finds the young demigod on a quest with other half-bloods and various creatures battling enemies of greek mythology. There are four books so far and at least one more coming in the future. If you enjoy mythology you might enjoy this modern day take on things......I found this series to be along the lines of the Artemis Fowl books which I found very enjoyable.

The first book is called "The Lightning Thief" and they are by Rick Riordan.

Starting "The Shack" today.

 

[Shrek]

Shogun, pretty badass so far. And no I havent seen the 80s miniseries.

I loved that book. Actually I remember reading a few other Clavell novels and liking them as well.

 

[Sammy Traveller]

reading two books right now:

"Dreams From My Father" by Barack Obama

"The Foundation Trilogy" by Isaac Asimov

 

[kblitz]

Safe Area Goražde by Joe Sacco

It is a comic book about the war in Bosnia. Very well made and informative. It gives easy access to some of the topics of the yugoslavian wars.

 

[The_Man]

All of it.

You know, whatever they put in front of me.

 

[Todd Andrews]

Christine Falls - Benjamin Black (pseudonym of Irish writer John Banville). A somewhat noirish Irish/American crime story set in the 50s. Very well written but I am already a Banville fan.

An Evil Guest - Gene Wolfe. Very interesting noirish fantasy/crime story set 100 years in the future. Very well written but I am already a Wolfe fan and will be picking up his recent Pirate Freedom soon.

Black Company books - Glen Cook. Fantasy, fun, but not particularly well written. But entertaining.

Falling Man - Don Delillo. Somewhat dense (typical Delillo), literary fiction about 9/11 and its aftermath. I enjoyed it but many will not. An interesting take on human relationships and our worst domestic terrorism tragedy by the author of the finest novel ever written about football.

Crime - Irvine Welsh. I really enjoyed this new crime thriller which splits between Scotland and Florida. Welsh is a very creative writer (Trainspotting, Filth, etc.) and it was a good read.

Flicker - Theodore Roszak. Crazy and strange novel about film and filmmaking. Might be the best thing I have aver read about film and it is fiction. I got about halfway through it and had to put it down for a couple weeks for a break. Picked it back up and really got back into it.

I am re-reading the Horseclan series by Robert Adams because I think it may be the best fantasy series ever written.

Lots more.

 

[beer 30]

Safe Area Goražde by Joe Sacco

It is a comic book about the war in Bosnia. Very well made and informative. It gives easy access to some of the topics of the yugoslavian wars.

Every now & again I pimp this movie that I caught one night sitting in a hotel on the road. It was quite by accident that I turned it on and couldn't stop watching. I haven't seen it since but I thought it was great flick that most would probably never see or even know about. It's the the story of two friends in yugoslavia before the war who were competetive shooters, one Serbian, one Croatian. At the outbreak of hostilities the Serb tells his friend to leave his home because of the ethnic cleansing he knows will be taking place. He doesn't take his friends advice and they eventually end up on opposite sides of the war. A very compelling movie.Shot Through the Heart

 

[Buddy Ball 2K3]

Ted, White & Blue - Ted Nugent - Enjoying it much more then I thought I would, then again I enjoy the Nuge.

The Shell Game - Steve Alten -

 

[prosopis]

Boots on the Ground by Dusk my tribute to Pat Tillman.

It is written by his mother.

I am about half way through. I keep reading it although I dont want to. It is very sad and I have gotten teary more then once reading this. I cant help but think about all the other stories that we will never here because they were not "famous". It is a good book but very depressing. It was a real shame how that situation went down. It didnt have to.

 

[shuke]

Next up: Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

Palahniuk is a genius. 8/10Next up: The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer

 

[pantagrapher]

All of it.You know, whatever they put in front of me.

 

[pantagrapher]

Currently reading "White Noise" by Don DeLillo. Not really liking it so far; his dialogue in particular bugs me. But hell, it's supposed to be postmodern, so I'm holding out for the shift. I think I've picked up most of the hints he's been laying down. I'm interested to see what he'll make of it.

 

[Socrates11]

Just finished World War Z by Max Brooks due in large part to some of the recommendations here. Done in the style of an investigative reported getting survivor stories of time before, during, and after zombies rise up and nearly wipe out the human raise. Not cheesy at all but really compelling.Frakin' loved it. Couldn't put it down.

Thanks for the heads up fellows

 

[oso diablo]

just started Monday Night Jihad, co-written by the NFL's own Jason Elam.

also in the early stages (still laughing my way through the opening sections) of Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

 

[pantagrapher]

Finished "White Noise"; Started "The End of the Road" by John Barth.

 

[Daywalker]

Just finished The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski. A highly enjoyable and engrossing read- I definitely recommend it. The story is set around a family who raises and trains their own fictional breed of dogs in Central Wisconsin. It's loosely based on Hamlet, but there are lots of elements of other Greek and Shakespearian tragedies.

Although he's surely not the definitive voice of literary reviews, I found Stephen King's review to be interesting.

"I flat-out loved The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Dog-lovers in particular will be riveted by this story, because the canine world has never been explored with such imagination or emotional resonance. Yet in the end, this isn't a novel about dogs or heartland America — although it is a deeply American work of literature. It's a novel about the human heart, and the mysteries that live there, understood but impossible to articulate. Yet in the person of Edgar Sawtelle, a mute boy who takes three of his dogs on a brave and dangerous odyssey, Wroblewski does articulate them, and splendidly. I closed the book with that regret readers feel only after experiencing the best stories: It's over, you think, and I won't read another one this good for a long, long time.

In truth, there has never been a book quite like The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. I thought of Hamlet when I was reading it (of course... and in this version, Ophelia turns out to be a dog named Almondine), and Watership Down, and The Night of the Hunter, and The Life of Pi — but halfway through, I put all comparisons aside and let it just be itself.

I'm pretty sure this book is going to be a bestseller, but unlike some, it deserves to be. It's also going to be the subject of a great many reading groups, and when the members take up Edgar, I think they will be apt to stick to the book and forget the neighborhood gossip.

Wonderful, mysterious, long and satisfying: readers who pick up this novel are going to enter a richer world. I envy them the trip. I don't reread many books, because life is too short. I will be rereading this one."

— Stephen King, author of Duma Key

Here is a link to some more reviews and a link to an excerpt from the book.Reviews

Excerpt from the book

Just read that this will be the new main selection for Oprah's book club. I don't know what that means in the larger scope. I don't know that I've ever read a book that she had in her book club. But I still thought it was a very good read.

While Oprah picking a book shouldn't make you run out and pick up the book, it's also not a reason to avoid a book. After all, she did pick the Pulitzer Prize winning The Road by Cormac McCarthy, a great book that's about to come out in the theaters.I've got Wroblewski's book next on my pile to read and am looking forward to it.

she also picked steinbecks of east of eden

Can't remember a book that frustrated and dissappointed me more then Edgar Sawtelle. My eyes were literally watering out of frustration when I finished. I'll all for non-traditional endings but Wroblewski did not earn that ending. The plotlines were gimmicky all throughout the book then we get a No Country for Old Men endng that was not earned unlike NCFOM. Jeez, throw a dog a bone. Give me something. Anything.It's the type of book that I will go out of my way to tell people not to waste their time on. Story had a lot of potential.

 

[oso diablo]

just started Monday Night Jihad, co-written by the NFL's own Jason Elam.

for two first-time authors - one an NFL kicker and the other a pastor - this was a surprisingly good read. a quick beach-read thriller about Islamic terrorists coordinating an attack during MNF (and the subsequent tracking down of the masterminds). Ending was a bit sloppy, and contrived with the deus ex machina you see so often in adventure movies. Elam provides an interesting (though frequently tedious, in sharp contrast to the rollocking main plot) behind-the-scenes look at life in the NFL.

 

[Sammy Traveller]

reading two books right now:"Dreams From My Father" by Barack Obama"The Foundation Trilogy" by Isaac Asimov

finished "Dreams from my Father," just started on Obama's second book, "Audacity of Hope." Goal is to finish it before Election Day.still reading "The Foundation Trilogy." A very, very fascinating read. But I'm putting this on hold while I get the Obama book done.

 

[bostonfred]

On a Vonnegut kick for some random reason. Never read him in high school or college so I had no idea. Finished Slaughterhouse Five, moved on to Cat's Cradle, love both. Which others should I read?

 

[roadkill1292]

On a Vonnegut kick for some random reason. Never read him in high school or college so I had no idea. Finished Slaughterhouse Five, moved on to Cat's Cradle, love both. Which others should I read?

Try Player Piano, Fred. It's dated, must have been written 40 years ago, but Vonnegut's perception of the future hits startlingly close to home at times.

 

[Socrates11]

Halfway through Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith. Pretty good so far.

Really enjoyed Child 44.

 

[Shrek]

Just finished The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski. A highly enjoyable and engrossing read- I definitely recommend it. The story is set around a family who raises and trains their own fictional breed of dogs in Central Wisconsin. It's loosely based on Hamlet, but there are lots of elements of other Greek and Shakespearian tragedies.

Although he's surely not the definitive voice of literary reviews, I found Stephen King's review to be interesting.

"I flat-out loved The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Dog-lovers in particular will be riveted by this story, because the canine world has never been explored with such imagination or emotional resonance. Yet in the end, this isn't a novel about dogs or heartland America — although it is a deeply American work of literature. It's a novel about the human heart, and the mysteries that live there, understood but impossible to articulate. Yet in the person of Edgar Sawtelle, a mute boy who takes three of his dogs on a brave and dangerous odyssey, Wroblewski does articulate them, and splendidly. I closed the book with that regret readers feel only after experiencing the best stories: It's over, you think, and I won't read another one this good for a long, long time.

In truth, there has never been a book quite like The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. I thought of Hamlet when I was reading it (of course... and in this version, Ophelia turns out to be a dog named Almondine), and Watership Down, and The Night of the Hunter, and The Life of Pi — but halfway through, I put all comparisons aside and let it just be itself.

I'm pretty sure this book is going to be a bestseller, but unlike some, it deserves to be. It's also going to be the subject of a great many reading groups, and when the members take up Edgar, I think they will be apt to stick to the book and forget the neighborhood gossip.

Wonderful, mysterious, long and satisfying: readers who pick up this novel are going to enter a richer world. I envy them the trip. I don't reread many books, because life is too short. I will be rereading this one."

— Stephen King, author of Duma Key

Here is a link to some more reviews and a link to an excerpt from the book.Reviews

Excerpt from the book

Just read that this will be the new main selection for Oprah's book club. I don't know what that means in the larger scope. I don't know that I've ever read a book that she had in her book club. But I still thought it was a very good read.

While Oprah picking a book shouldn't make you run out and pick up the book, it's also not a reason to avoid a book. After all, she did pick the Pulitzer Prize winning The Road by Cormac McCarthy, a great book that's about to come out in the theaters.I've got Wroblewski's book next on my pile to read and am looking forward to it.

she also picked steinbecks of east of eden

Can't remember a book that frustrated and dissappointed me more then Edgar Sawtelle. My eyes were literally watering out of frustration when I finished. I'll all for non-traditional endings but Wroblewski did not earn that ending. The plotlines were gimmicky all throughout the book then we get a No Country for Old Men endng that was not earned unlike NCFOM. Jeez, throw a dog a bone. Give me something. Anything.It's the type of book that I will go out of my way to tell people not to waste their time on. Story had a lot of potential.

Well, agree to disagree I guess. The plotlines aren't "gimmicky"- they're straight out of Hamlet, and it also has many parallels with the Greek tragedies (ie Electra, Antigone, etc). Knowing that going in might have saved you some frustration. I personally thought he did some of the best environment and character descriptions that I've read in quite awhile. I wonder if you'd had an inkling of the type of ending it would be if you wouldn't have enjoyed the story more. It was rather heartbreaking and poignant in certain passages IMO.

 

[shuke]

On a Vonnegut kick for some random reason. Never read him in high school or college so I had no idea. Finished Slaughterhouse Five, moved on to Cat's Cradle, love both. Which others should I read?

Try Player Piano, Fred. It's dated, must have been written 40 years ago, but Vonnegut's perception of the future hits startlingly close to home at times.

My favorite Vonnegut.Welcome To The Monkeyhouse is a great collection of short stories.

 

[shuke]

Next up: The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer

Laugh-out-loud funny at times, but a lot of this book was 6/10

 

[SteevieG]

Reading Dave Ramsey's "The Total Money Makeover". Debt is dumb, Cash is king and the paid off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice...

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

Re-reading the Realtime trilogy by Vernor Vinge.

 

[urbanhack]

On a Vonnegut kick for some random reason. Never read him in high school or college so I had no idea. Finished Slaughterhouse Five, moved on to Cat's Cradle, love both. Which others should I read?

Try Player Piano, Fred. It's dated, must have been written 40 years ago, but Vonnegut's perception of the future hits startlingly close to home at times.

My favorite Vonnegut.Welcome To The Monkeyhouse is a great collection of short stories.

 

[Daywalker]

Just finished The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski. A highly enjoyable and engrossing read- I definitely recommend it. The story is set around a family who raises and trains their own fictional breed of dogs in Central Wisconsin. It's loosely based on Hamlet, but there are lots of elements of other Greek and Shakespearian tragedies.

Although he's surely not the definitive voice of literary reviews, I found Stephen King's review to be interesting.

"I flat-out loved The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Dog-lovers in particular will be riveted by this story, because the canine world has never been explored with such imagination or emotional resonance. Yet in the end, this isn't a novel about dogs or heartland America — although it is a deeply American work of literature. It's a novel about the human heart, and the mysteries that live there, understood but impossible to articulate. Yet in the person of Edgar Sawtelle, a mute boy who takes three of his dogs on a brave and dangerous odyssey, Wroblewski does articulate them, and splendidly. I closed the book with that regret readers feel only after experiencing the best stories: It's over, you think, and I won't read another one this good for a long, long time.

In truth, there has never been a book quite like The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. I thought of Hamlet when I was reading it (of course... and in this version, Ophelia turns out to be a dog named Almondine), and Watership Down, and The Night of the Hunter, and The Life of Pi — but halfway through, I put all comparisons aside and let it just be itself.

I'm pretty sure this book is going to be a bestseller, but unlike some, it deserves to be. It's also going to be the subject of a great many reading groups, and when the members take up Edgar, I think they will be apt to stick to the book and forget the neighborhood gossip.

Wonderful, mysterious, long and satisfying: readers who pick up this novel are going to enter a richer world. I envy them the trip. I don't reread many books, because life is too short. I will be rereading this one."

— Stephen King, author of Duma Key

Here is a link to some more reviews and a link to an excerpt from the book.Reviews

Excerpt from the book

Just read that this will be the new main selection for Oprah's book club. I don't know what that means in the larger scope. I don't know that I've ever read a book that she had in her book club. But I still thought it was a very good read.

While Oprah picking a book shouldn't make you run out and pick up the book, it's also not a reason to avoid a book. After all, she did pick the Pulitzer Prize winning The Road by Cormac McCarthy, a great book that's about to come out in the theaters.I've got Wroblewski's book next on my pile to read and am looking forward to it.

she also picked steinbecks of east of eden

Can't remember a book that frustrated and dissappointed me more then Edgar Sawtelle. My eyes were literally watering out of frustration when I finished. I'll all for non-traditional endings but Wroblewski did not earn that ending. The plotlines were gimmicky all throughout the book then we get a No Country for Old Men endng that was not earned unlike NCFOM. Jeez, throw a dog a bone. Give me something. Anything.It's the type of book that I will go out of my way to tell people not to waste their time on. Story had a lot of potential.

Well, agree to disagree I guess. The plotlines aren't "gimmicky"- they're straight out of Hamlet, and it also has many parallels with the Greek tragedies (ie Electra, Antigone, etc). Knowing that going in might have saved you some frustration. I personally thought he did some of the best environment and character descriptions that I've read in quite awhile. I wonder if you'd had an inkling of the type of ending it would be if you wouldn't have enjoyed the story more. It was rather heartbreaking and poignant in certain passages IMO.

I didn't find the "mystical" elements of A Prayer for Owen Meany to be out of place. I haven't read Hamlet but the mystical elements in many other Shakespeare work's seem appropriate. I just don't think they did in Edgar Sawtelle. I don't think Wroblewski set the stage for them.

 

[shuke]

Just started Dreamcatcher by Stephen King. Past couple of King books I've read have been very disappointing (Tommyknockers, From a Buick Eight), hopefully this is better.

 

[facook]

World Without End - Ken Follett

Very similar to Pillars of the Earth. Kinda depressing in an "The A-Holes nearly always prevail" sort of way. At least they do until the last chapter. In a 1,000 page book. :sigh:

Also, I think Ken has some issues with the Catholic church.

 

[aardball44]

Halfway through Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith. Pretty good so far.

Really enjoyed Child 44.

So did I, though I expected to see an epilogue with the killer's daughter exhibiting some early indications of following in her father's gruesome footsteps. I was disappointed the author neglected to include one to partially offset the "happy ending".

 

[Todd Andrews]

Finished "White Noise"; Started "The End of the Road" by John Barth.

If you are a Barth fan you may recognize my name here.

 

[Shrek]

Just started Dreamcatcher by Stephen King. Past couple of King books I've read have been very disappointing (Tommyknockers, From a Buick Eight), hopefully this is better.

Don't count on it. I think Dreamcatcher may be my least favorite by King.

 

[bostonfred]

On a Vonnegut kick for some random reason. Never read him in high school or college so I had no idea. Finished Slaughterhouse Five, moved on to Cat's Cradle, love both. Which others should I read?

Try Player Piano, Fred. It's dated, must have been written 40 years ago, but Vonnegut's perception of the future hits startlingly close to home at times.

My favorite Vonnegut.Welcome To The Monkeyhouse is a great collection of short stories.

Thanks for the suggestions. Reading Sirens of Titan right now. Enjoying it so far. I'll try those soon.

 

[prosopis]

Just finished The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski. A highly enjoyable and engrossing read- I definitely recommend it. The story is set around a family who raises and trains their own fictional breed of dogs in Central Wisconsin. It's loosely based on Hamlet, but there are lots of elements of other Greek and Shakespearian tragedies.

Although he's surely not the definitive voice of literary reviews, I found Stephen King's review to be interesting.

"I flat-out loved The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Dog-lovers in particular will be riveted by this story, because the canine world has never been explored with such imagination or emotional resonance. Yet in the end, this isn't a novel about dogs or heartland America — although it is a deeply American work of literature. It's a novel about the human heart, and the mysteries that live there, understood but impossible to articulate. Yet in the person of Edgar Sawtelle, a mute boy who takes three of his dogs on a brave and dangerous odyssey, Wroblewski does articulate them, and splendidly. I closed the book with that regret readers feel only after experiencing the best stories: It's over, you think, and I won't read another one this good for a long, long time.

In truth, there has never been a book quite like The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. I thought of Hamlet when I was reading it (of course... and in this version, Ophelia turns out to be a dog named Almondine), and Watership Down, and The Night of the Hunter, and The Life of Pi — but halfway through, I put all comparisons aside and let it just be itself.

I'm pretty sure this book is going to be a bestseller, but unlike some, it deserves to be. It's also going to be the subject of a great many reading groups, and when the members take up Edgar, I think they will be apt to stick to the book and forget the neighborhood gossip.

Wonderful, mysterious, long and satisfying: readers who pick up this novel are going to enter a richer world. I envy them the trip. I don't reread many books, because life is too short. I will be rereading this one."

— Stephen King, author of Duma Key

Here is a link to some more reviews and a link to an excerpt from the book.Reviews

Excerpt from the book

Just read that this will be the new main selection for Oprah's book club. I don't know what that means in the larger scope. I don't know that I've ever read a book that she had in her book club. But I still thought it was a very good read.

While Oprah picking a book shouldn't make you run out and pick up the book, it's also not a reason to avoid a book. After all, she did pick the Pulitzer Prize winning The Road by Cormac McCarthy, a great book that's about to come out in the theaters.I've got Wroblewski's book next on my pile to read and am looking forward to it.

she also picked steinbecks of east of eden

Can't remember a book that frustrated and dissappointed me more then Edgar Sawtelle. My eyes were literally watering out of frustration when I finished. I'll all for non-traditional endings but Wroblewski did not earn that ending. The plotlines were gimmicky all throughout the book then we get a No Country for Old Men endng that was not earned unlike NCFOM. Jeez, throw a dog a bone. Give me something. Anything.It's the type of book that I will go out of my way to tell people not to waste their time on. Story had a lot of potential.

I just reserved this at the library. I am #506 on the list. There are 158 copies in the library. Fn Oprah I hate reading books she reccomends. I dont know why? I am very anti Oprah.I think Albom's books are the only other Oprah books I have read.

 

[shuke]

Just started Dreamcatcher by Stephen King. Past couple of King books I've read have been very disappointing (Tommyknockers, From a Buick Eight), hopefully this is better.

Don't count on it. I think Dreamcatcher may be my least favorite by King.

Only 60 pages in and I already think it's better than the other two I mentioned. I'm not looking for a literay masterpiece, just want to be entertained.

 

[mon]

On a Vonnegut kick for some random reason. Never read him in high school or college so I had no idea. Finished Slaughterhouse Five, moved on to Cat's Cradle, love both. Which others should I read?

You really can't go wrong with any of Vonnegut's work, I don't think. My favorite is probably Slapstick.

 

[mon]

Finally finished The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi) by Hermann Hesse. Started The Shack by William P. Young.

 

[Maelstrom]

Reading Dave Ramsey's "The Total Money Makeover". Debt is dumb, Cash is king and the paid off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice...

I enjoyed reading this- more than I thought I would having listened to Ramsey a fair amount on the radio. Figured I wouldn't really read much I hadn't heard before, but the experiences given were interesting and I did pick up some new points.