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BOOKS: What are you reading?

MakeDigitalLove said:
-Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

-Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan
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Ready Player One is being made into a movie. Probably inevitable.

Netflix is making a series of Altered Carbon. I thought the novel was fantastic, too, and am eager to see its production. (I've mentioned this before, but Mr. Morgan has also written a gay barbarian trilogy in the mode of Burroughs. Sort of a grittier version of Gregory Maguire.) What an entertainment! I hope Netflix doesn't hold back; if it comes close to the novel, it will be terrific. Unfortunately, the second novel of the trilogy (Broken Angels) doesn't come close to Altered Carbon; the wild tour of imagination devolves into feats of physical daring do. (I didn't read the third.)


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zoltanspawn said:
Ready Player One is being made into a movie. Probably inevitable.

Netflix is making a series of Altered Carbon. I thought the novel was fantastic, too, and am eager to see its production. (I've mentioned this before, but Mr. Morgan has also written a gay barbarian trilogy in the mode of Burroughs. Sort of a grittier version of Gregory Maguire.) What an entertainment! I hope Netflix doesn't hold back; if it comes close to the novel, it will be terrific. Unfortunately, the second novel of the trilogy (Broken Angels) doesn't come close to Altered Carbon; the wild tour of imagination devolves into feats of physical daring do. (I didn't read the third.)


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I hoping both are good.

Ready Player One is being handled by Spielberg, so for all intents and purposes he should actually do it justice. I can't imagine another seasoned directed being best for the job.

I really, really want Altered Carbon to be good, it does look good. It definitely has the visuals down but we'll see if it tackles the mood and the characters.

Started reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

I haven't read anything in a long time and right now I am catching up on a few books I've been wanting to read. Just really been binging books and it has been really fun.
 
The Invisible Bridge by Rick Perlstein is the third book in his series of American conservatives' history. I read his second, Nixonland, which has so many parallels to today's politics. This picks up where Nixonland ended and follows the rise of Ronald Reagan. It's long - over 800 pages- so my work is cut out for me. But Perlstein is never boring. He's not an adoring fan of his subjects...far from it. He calls the Vietnam War the atrocity it was and is bemused by the myths of Reagan.
 
Oh. I read The Road too. It moved me and I was surprised by that. Not my usual reading but well worth the read.
 
three Robert Heinlein novels in a row....

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Starship Troopers

Stranger in a Strange Land


The second they ruined trying cheaply to put it into a movie.

The first needs a treatment in a movie at least as good as the Lord of the Rings or Hunt for Red October.

The last, ditto.
 
Drugstore Cowboy said:
Teatro grottesco - Thomas Liggoti
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Liggoti comes up a lot in some circles I'm attuned to, but I've never read one of his books. I'm interested. I have a feeling I would enjoy his work, especially its conceptual aspect.
 
zoltanspawn said:
Liggoti comes up a lot in some circles I'm attuned to, but I've never read one of his books. I'm interested. I have a feeling I would enjoy his work, especially its conceptual aspect.
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His stories are very unique, especially in the way that they are told. Some are quite unsettling, but that’s personally why I like his writings.
 
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A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
 
chrisrobin said:
"The Book Thief"
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Oooohhh...thanks for the reminder! I saw the movie..then saw it again....I loved it...and i wanted to read the book and it slipped my mind.

Thanks for the reminder.

Do you like it so far?
 
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