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BOOKS: What are you reading?

^ I've never attempted audio.

A cursory look shows that A room of One's Own which is pleasantly satisfactory as a slim book takes 4 hours on audio!


I've never attempted audio because I found listening on a Walkman is OK for pop music but gets really messy for me If I'm trying to walk around traffic and listening to serious music like Brahms.


I could send my copy of the Woolf diaries in paperback with all my pencil marks marking all the delightful and insightful passages.
 
alxwhtmr95 said:
Thad, I don't like to read a book before seeing a folm- I'm ALWAYS disappointed when they bring a great book to the screen- wondering why they changed this, cut that, etc...if I like a film, I'll read the book after for more background/insight
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But every so often Hollywood gets it right. My favorite example is Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist. I was looking forward to meeting Muriel on screen and Geena Davis was just perfect in the role.

I recommend the book, too.
 
I'm working my way through Fred W. Hunter's books - finished the Alex Reynolds series and am starting the Ransom books. Quick, fun reading.
Goodreads list of his works

In the first one:
With Peter, his longtime lover, busy for the evening, Alex Reynolds decides to stop in for a quick beer at a local Chicago gay bar and survey the nightlife scene he left behind for "married" life years before. Quickly unamused, Alex decides to call it an early evening, stopping off in the men's room before going home. But there he is assaulted by two men who demand of him, "Where is it?" ...A dead body turns up outside the bar the next morning, and a CIA agent arrives at the door of the house Alex and Peter share with Alex's unflappable mother and begins asking some very confusing questions....
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Meanwhile, on audio, I've found all sorts of things at the online library. For those who don't know, I wanted to mention two sources of audio and e-book loans: The local branch of your county library (or whatever you have) and, if you have one, the state library commission. Interestingly, the latter did not process my library card online, but they gave me my number over the phone to use while waiting for my physical card. They had several of the mystery series I like, but I didn't know until after I bought them -- Joseph Hansen's Brandstetter books, for example.
 
I've just finished the 5th book in author Kevin Hearne's "The Iron Druid Chronicles". The 5 books in order are Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked and Trapped. From the first book's flyleaf:

"Atticus O'Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound, Oberon. His neighbors and customers think that this handsome, tattooed Irish dude is about twenty-one years old--when in actuality, he's twenty-one centuries old. Not to mention: He draws his power from the Earth, posses a sharp wit, and wields an even sharper magical sword known as Fragarach, the Answerer."

If you like contemporary fantasy, loaded with lots of magical & mystical beings. . .everything from werewolves, vampires, ghouls, whole pantheons of gods and goddesses (including Christian, Jewish, Celtic, Hindu, Roman, Greek, Norse, etc.). . .lots of colorfully described fight scenes and the telepathic communication between Atticus and Oberon, you will enjoy this series. IMO, Oberon gets some of the best lines, but, then again, he's a dog with a fondness of fried sausages and French Poodles. ERrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, wait, that didn't come out sounding correct. Oberon has a fondness for French Poodles in HEAT and fried sausages :-)

Here's the author's web site: http://kevinhearne.com/
 
Finished Intensity by Dean Koontz, overall enjoyed the read. Now I started Midnight also by him. I started the The Amory Wars by Claudio Sanchez (Vocalist of Coheed and Cambria) as well.
 
I'm reading Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, by Kirsten Cronn-Mills. It's about Gabe, a Minnesota high school senior who's a DJ on the community radio station. Gabe has only recently come to terms with who he is; he was born Elizabeth.

I'm about a quarter of the way through and I like Gabe a lot. And I'm a sucker for the Minnesota setting; the Minneapolis skyline is on the cover.

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Currently on a Ghost Story kick, but damned if I can find any really excellent ones. Or just good in general, most of the writing seems mediocre, you can tell what's coming a mile away.
 
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh, a delightful Hobson-Jobson of colonial and native patois.

A shipful of of characters arrives on a schooner carrying indentured coolies from Calcutta to Mauritius in 1838.

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Nothing at the moment; still awaiting mass paperback releases in several series I'm in the midst of.
 
i finished not long ago the glass castle by jeannette walls, well written, stays on point with every story. i recommend it!
 
Kulindahr said:
Halfway through A Memory of Light, the final book in the Wheel of Time series. It should have been two books, it's so long.
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Really long but I loved it. Probably my favourite fantasy series.

I'm currently on book 4 of the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. I've mixed feelings about this series so far. When it's good, it's really good, but it can seem a bit tedious at times too. The scale of the story, characters etc is massive so it's easy to get lost. But I'll stick with it a while yet.
 
The Reality Dysfunction

Peter F. Hamilton


I found it in a box that had been hastily packed last time I moved -- apparently I bought it and forgot about it! Anyway, it's potent and unique.
 
"Patriot Games" - Tom Clancy

Not finished yet, but I will say thats is far better than the movie only 5 chapters in.

Rock! :twisted:
 
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