iBeaver 409 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 I really enjoyed the breach books. Good quick entertaining reads. I have the Way of Kings but I am holding off until at least the second book comes out or if I run out of things to read. I guess he plans 10+ books for that series. But I am sure I will be busy since I stupidly started the Wheel of Time books. Almost done with book 3. I am enjoying it. Link to post Share on other sites
king_tanner 84 Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 The Long Walk by Stephen KingIt is about a competition where there are 100 walkers who all start at the same time. If they walk below 4mph they get a warning, after your third warning you are shot in the head. If you walk for an hour without receiving another warning you lose one of your warnings. Whoever is the last man standing wins. The winner gets whatever they want for the rest of their life. This book was really entertaining and I couldn't put it down. I finished the 400 pages in a day. I'm not sure if I enjoyed the ending though. I was kind of hoping the main character would lose, since usually him winning would be obvious. I also thought the ending was a little rushed, I was hoping there would be more of a showdown between either the final 2 or three, and the main character's friend lost pretty abruptly at the end also. I didn't hate the ending, I just thought there could have been a little more. Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,352 Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Steven King is notoriously poor at writing endings. Link to post Share on other sites
king_tanner 84 Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Steven King is notoriously poor at writing endings.I was about to start dark tower series should I bother? Link to post Share on other sites
LadyGrey 6 Posted March 25, 2012 Author Share Posted March 25, 2012 I'm finally reading Infinite Jest. I'm about 20% through (Kindle makes me watch the % go up). Getting into it, but all the detail about drugs and stuff gets a bit much sometimes. I'm at my most captivated when stuff is actually, you know... happening. Rather than detailed descriptions about complex buildings that I cannot imagine even with all his help, or long lists of medications and their different effects. I like the actual stories. It was the same with The Pale King... I read a big chunk of it, and the only bit that really stuck with me was one story about a girl with a troubled upbringing, which was so well written that I want to reread just that part. Link to post Share on other sites
LongLiveYorke 38 Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 I'm finally reading Infinite Jest. I'm about 20% throughOh, is that where you've been? Link to post Share on other sites
LadyGrey 6 Posted March 25, 2012 Author Share Posted March 25, 2012 Oh, is that where you've been?Other books I've read so far this year:Me Talk Pretty One Day - David SedarisCosmopolis - Don DelilloDiary of a Nobody - George Grossmith and Weedon GrossmithThe Vane Sisters - Vladimir Nabokov (short story)The Wood Sprite - Vladimir Nabokov (short story)Bullet Park - John CheeverCatch 22 - Joseph HellerThe Flame Alphabet - Ben MarcusGod Bless You, Mr Rosewater - Kurt VonnegutMiss Lonelyhearts - Nathaniel WestThe Sufferings of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang GoetheThe Daughter of Time - Josephine TeyI've been busy. Link to post Share on other sites
Dubey 1,035 Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 I'm loving The way of Kings. Really, really loving it. It makes me depressed that It is going to take forever for this series to be finished, and even the second book might be a ways off. Link to post Share on other sites
Mercury69 3 Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 I love Catch 22.Pretty decent movie, too. Note to self: Should have sold those Egyptian cotton futures before the revolution... Link to post Share on other sites
king_tanner 84 Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Just started the breach. If it sucks I'm going to burn this place to the ground. Link to post Share on other sites
Dubey 1,035 Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Finished the way of kings, it was amazing. It pretty much took up 100% of my free time till I finished it. I'll eagerly await book 2. On to the breach now. Link to post Share on other sites
iBeaver 409 Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 The ending to the dark tower was fine for me. I really liked it. I don't mind most of his ending though so take it with a grain of salt. Link to post Share on other sites
king_tanner 84 Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Ok I just finished The Breach. I felt the same way at the end similarly to the way I feel at the end of Dan Brown books. It was entertaining but really silly at the same time. Like they should make this into a movie on the sci/fi channel. Link to post Share on other sites
Dubey 1,035 Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 Haven't posted here in awhile.Read all 3 Breach novels. I found them quite enjoyable, if somewhat fogettable. I really enjoyed the endings of all three books, and the ending to the series in general. For a series with such a difficult to believe concept, the writer did a great job of keeping the internal logic of the world, well.. logical.Finished book 3 of the Hunger games. Meh, pretty forgetable. This really didn't need to be a series; the 2nd and 3rd books felt unneccesary to me.Reading Enemy of God by Bernard Cornwall right now. It is the second book in his Arthur trilogy. (The winter King was Book 1). It is excellent so far. Fantastic writing, storytelling, and characters. I highly recommend the series to any fans of fantasy. even though it isn't really a fantasy series, it has a lot of the same elements of a fantasy series.After this, I'll read Book 3 in Cornwall's series, then I might try out the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson, or something else by him, since I loved The Way of Kings so much. Link to post Share on other sites
GWCGWC 83 Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 I just finished the first Breach book and now I have to get the other two. damn you JJJ I really liked the Mistborn trilogy so enjoy. I heard Sanderson wrote other books using the mistborn type rules but I haven't come across any of those. Seems odd to me that he'd do that.Next in my queue is Whale Hunt In The Desert written by a casino "super host" and tells some of his stories about high rollers and whales. Link to post Share on other sites
DJ Vu 176 Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Sorry. For a series with such a difficult to believe concept, the writer did a great job of keeping the internal logic of the world, well.. logical.This was definitely the key. He basically just creates cool stuff and then tells you he has no idea how it's even possible that it works, but maybe it's alien technology and so whatever. But it works. You can't have people arguing the science of it if you don't pretend there is any science to it. Link to post Share on other sites
Dubey 1,035 Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Finished Enemy of God. It was phenomenal, and contributed to my complete lack of sleep this week. On to Excalibur now. Link to post Share on other sites
iBeaver 409 Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 Mist born is great. Must read. On book 6 of the wheel of time series. So far do good though I hear books 7-10 fall off a cliff. Link to post Share on other sites
DJ Vu 176 Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 Malcom Gladwell Book Generator Link to post Share on other sites
Dubey 1,035 Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Finished Excalibur.What an incredible series of books. Everything about these books was wonderful. It also had a perfectly written ending, which is impressive for an epic series that spans 50+ years.I'm reading the first Mistborn book now, pretty good so far. Link to post Share on other sites
LongLiveYorke 38 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Okay, screw it. I started Infinite Jest last week (for the second time). But this time I have much more resolve. I'm already 250 pages in, and I have decent momentum. I've read a lot of Wallace's non-fiction "essays", which I loved. IJ is my first of his fiction. Obviously, it's challenging. I know a few of you have read it. Does anyone have any recommendations for keeping up with the characters and narratives? Should I be working hard to remember everyone and taking notes, or should I simply move through it under the assumption that some characters will stand out and some may be less important and forgotten. Any other thoughts or suggestions? Link to post Share on other sites
Theraflu 1,035 Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 You should be past the most difficult part, and for the next 700 pages, it gets a lot easier and makes a lot more sense. All the important characters will stand out, actual narratives will develop, and there won't be nearly as many random stories that seem to have no place. I've only read it once, and desperately want to read it again, but if you have any character specific stuff, I'm sure BigD or myself can answer in a satisfactory way. I thought the first 200 were difficult and nonsensical, but after that it quickly got a lot more fluid and interesting, so if you stick with it should come together pretty soon. Did you get to the movie footnotes? Don't be afraid to spend an hour digesting those; they're awesome, and 1/3 of them actually come into the story! Edit: There's no way its 1/3. Maybe 1/10. Still, they're full of awesomeness. Link to post Share on other sites
LongLiveYorke 38 Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Okay, I'm about 400 pages in now. You were absolutely right, Theraflu, about thing settling down. I have a pretty good grip on all that's going on, which is making it a much easier read. I really love how reserved Wallace has been about establishing both the character but also the world in which the whole thing takes place. He could easily take one page and define the book's universe, but instead he spreads it through the whole book, dropping subtle clues or adding hints in the end notes. And the book is becoming more thematically clear (or at least, I'm getting a better grip on some of the major ideas that Wallace is trying to drive home), which makes it more interesting and more rich of a read to me (in particular the whole ECHELON scene at the tennis academy). I have decent momentum, trying to keep it up. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,352 Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 well, now you're ready for this music video, at least You're getting into the best part of the book, when tendrils of the story you thought were unrelated to each other start to weave together. I really envy you, I wish I could read IJ again for the first time. Link to post Share on other sites
LongLiveYorke 38 Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJpfK7l404I Oh, man, that's so awesome (I saw you guys posting about it a while back). It's pretty spot-on. The only thing it needs is the snow falling on the territory, er, I mean the map... Link to post Share on other sites
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