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Post by kckckc on Apr 11, 2016 15:00:43 GMT
Currently reading My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry. I really enjoyed A Man Called Ove, but am finding this one only so so. I agree - I really liked A Man Called Ove, but thought My Grandmother Asked Me... was just okay.
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Post by grammadee on Apr 11, 2016 15:08:20 GMT
I haven't dropped in for a while, and I miss you guys. I wanted to read Daniel Pierce's third book in his Red Rising trilogy, but there are so many characters and details that I knew I wouldn't be able to just pick it up. Fortunately, my library got me all three books so I started at the beginning. Excellent science fiction series: Red Rising, Golden Son, and Morning Star. I highly recommend them, especially if you like dystopian space scifi fused with Roman and Norse mythology. I have been reading a series of Swedish detective novels by Camilla Lackberg. Homey but interesting, and each new book keeps the main characters and adds a few more. Relaxing reads. I tend to go to an author like this when I need a break from the more intense ones.
Wondering if I might like the Red Rising series... I, like millions of others, am waiting for George RR Martin to get ONTO his duff and finish off the Ice & Fire series. And I love Bernard Cornwall's The Last Kingdom series with all its Norse belief system references. And I like Tad Williams' books. What do you think?
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Post by kckckc on Apr 11, 2016 15:16:41 GMT
Wondering if I might like the Red Rising series... I, like millions of others, am waiting for George RR Martin to get ONTO his duff and finish off the Ice & Fire series. And I love Bernard Cornwall's The Last Kingdom series with all its Norse belief system references. And I like Tad Williams' books. What do you think? I really liked the Red Rising series and would recommend it. I really enjoyed the Ice and Fire series too - it's been so long since I read them that I feel like I should reread them if he ever gets the last book finished.
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Post by grammadee on Apr 11, 2016 15:24:54 GMT
Thanks kckckc I might give this series a try. Another author I am waiting for is Robin Hobb. When her latest trilogy came out, I reread 6 books to get ready for it. Have read what she has written in this series, waiting for the next book to come out. Some time this year, I hope...
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Post by lynnek on Apr 11, 2016 15:35:46 GMT
I finished Lock In by John Scalzi. It was on sale at Audible in a buy three books for two credits sale. I had seen it around but didn't know much about it but I needed one more book so I bought it. There is a "bird flu" like sickness that goes through the world. The worst cases leave a person mentally able but their bodies do not function at all - they are "locked in". So they keep the bodies in little cribs. But technology had progressed to where the locked in person can leave their body and either inhabit a robot type of thing or there are some people that offer their bodies to be inhabited for short times by a locked in person. It was a bit confusing and a lot mind boggling. But there is a crime that takes place and the main characters - one "locked in" person and one "normal" person are the FBI agents that are assigned to solve the crime. Overall, I did enjoy it, but I am still mulling over my rating - probably a 3.5 stars that could maybe be rounded up??
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2016 18:17:18 GMT
I haven't dropped in for a while, and I miss you guys. I wanted to read Daniel Pierce's third book in his Red Rising trilogy, but there are so many characters and details that I knew I wouldn't be able to just pick it up. Fortunately, my library got me all three books so I started at the beginning. Excellent science fiction series: Red Rising, Golden Son, and Morning Star. I highly recommend them, especially if you like dystopian space scifi fused with Roman and Norse mythology. I have been reading a series of Swedish detective novels by Camilla Lackberg. Homey but interesting, and each new book keeps the main characters and adds a few more. Relaxing reads. I tend to go to an author like this when I need a break from the more intense ones.
Wondering if I might like the Red Rising series... I, like millions of others, am waiting for George RR Martin to get ONTO his duff and finish off the Ice & Fire series. And I love Bernard Cornwall's The Last Kingdom series with all its Norse belief system references. And I like Tad Williams' books. What do you think?
I think you'd like them. They're full of action, very intense, and really well written. Not nearly as long as Martin's books, but what is? The controlling society is based on Roman myths, and is very violent. Good reads. If you like Red Rising, keep going.
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Post by pudgygroundhog on Apr 11, 2016 19:08:42 GMT
I haven't dropped in for a while, and I miss you guys. I wanted to read Daniel Pierce's third book in his Red Rising trilogy, but there are so many characters and details that I knew I wouldn't be able to just pick it up. Fortunately, my library got me all three books so I started at the beginning. Excellent science fiction series: Red Rising, Golden Son, and Morning Star. I highly recommend them, especially if you like dystopian space scifi fused with Roman and Norse mythology. Loved this series! I read the first two when they came out, but ended up rereading them right before the final book. I read he is planning to write more. Currently reading My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry. I really enjoyed A Man Called Ove, but am finding this one only so so. I agree - I really liked A Man Called Ove, but thought My Grandmother Asked Me... was just okay. I like the characters, but could do without all the fairy tale stuff - it's becoming tedious. Unless something changes, I'll likely give this one three stars.
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Post by Zee on Apr 11, 2016 19:20:50 GMT
Recently finished Bill Bryson's Notes From A Small Island, enjoyed that a lot. It came out in the 90s and is his musings about traveling around England and Scotland via rail and bus. Amusing.
Right now I'm reading The Child Garden by Catriona McPherson. It's a mystery, and it's the first book I've read in a long time that's had me staying up late to see what happens next. I haven't finished it so I can't say if I like the whole thing, I hope it doesn't disappoint. Well written and interesting with a sort of quirky main character, set in Scotland.
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Post by Zee on Apr 11, 2016 19:22:14 GMT
I finished Cheryl Strayed's Wild this week. It was the third time I'd tried to read it and finally finished it by listening to the audio. It was just okay. I'm interested in watching the movie though. Just started Ally Condie's Matched yesterday. I'm not real big on YA but I thought I'd try it since I already finished my next book club selection and needed something to fill the time . I tried to listen to the audio but the narrator sounds like an automaton to me. And I'm bored hearing about her mother, I just want to hear about the trail. The movie was ok, I liked it better than the book.
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Post by auntkelly on Apr 11, 2016 20:27:15 GMT
I'm reading Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones. It's a fascinating read and I highly recommend it.
It's the very disturbing story of how the American medical community, with the encouragement of the drug companies, treated chronic pain w/ opiates, w/ little regard for the addictive nature of opiates. Many of the chronic pain suffers became addicts and turned to the street to find cheap sources of opiates. A group of Mexicans formed a black tar heroin distribution system which is similar to a pizza delivery service. What the Mexican drug dealers are doing is terrible, but you can't help but be fascinated by their business model.
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Post by pudgygroundhog on Apr 11, 2016 20:37:17 GMT
I'm reading Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones. It's a fascinating read and I highly recommend it. It's the very disturbing story of how the American medical community, with the encouragement of the drug companies, treated chronic pain w/ opiates, w/ little regard for the addictive nature of opiates. Many of the chronic pain suffers became addicts and turned to the street to find cheap sources of opiates. A group of Mexicans formed a black tar heroin distribution system which is similar to a pizza delivery service. What the Mexican drug dealers are doing is terrible, but you can't help but be fascinated by their business model. I finished this last week and thought it was fantastic.
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Post by scrapngranny on Apr 11, 2016 23:26:52 GMT
I enjoyed the book a lot, because I have been to many of the places she talked about, but I did sick of hearing about her mother. I couldn't connect her hang up with her mother, when she eluded many times that her mom wasn't a very good mother. The movie kind of glossed over that and just made her mother quirky.
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