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Post by Phoenix on May 12, 2006 14:16:48 GMT -5
Now reading "Gorky Park" - sent to me by a friend.
Blurb on back of the book:
A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and New York police as he performs the impossible--and tries to stay alive doing it.
It's the first of a series. Highly recommend it.
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on May 15, 2006 16:50:00 GMT -5
I'm still trying to get through Angels and Demons, but I've been doing a lot of work on my sites so I haven't been reading much lately.
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Post by frankenjohn on May 17, 2006 5:24:22 GMT -5
"Dreamcatcher" by Stephen King.
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Post by Pulpmariachi on May 20, 2006 23:31:19 GMT -5
Um...what have I read since my last post...? "Into the Wild", "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", "The Waste Land", "The Great Gatsby", "Red Harvest", some science-fiction stories in "Asimov's" magazine, my old yearbook, and...I don't remember.
I'm reading "White Noise" by Don DeLillo now. I don't think it's the same as that Michael Keaton movie.
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Post by frankenjohn on May 22, 2006 6:09:58 GMT -5
"Everything's Eventual" by Stephen King.
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Post by Bartwald on Jun 2, 2006 14:16:58 GMT -5
I'm reading "White Noise" by Don DeLillo now. I don't think it's the same as that Michael Keaton movie. Ha, ha! No, it sure ain't! But I heard it's good stuff. Have it somewhere on the shelf but never got round to opening it. Tell me what you think, Pulp. |
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Post by frankenjohn on Jun 4, 2006 7:51:09 GMT -5
I just finished Dean Koontz's "Velocity" and now I'm onto his book "Strangers."
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Post by ZapRowsdower on Jun 4, 2006 11:03:10 GMT -5
I finished "A Clockwork Orange". It was real horrorshow, and dare I say it, MUCH better than the movie (which IMHO is dated).
Now I'll be starting on Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly, in preparation for the movie.
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Jun 4, 2006 12:53:16 GMT -5
How is "A Clockwork Orange" dated? You might as well say "Dr. Strangelove" is dated too.
"White Noise" was pretty good. I think the book effectively made a lot of white noise as well as the minds of characters are bended and shaped by the bland, everyday objects that surround us and stuff. It's an interesting read to say the very least, full of that wonderful post-modern thought (and that wasn't sarcasm). B+.
Now I've gotten "Life of Pi".
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Post by ZapRowsdower on Jun 5, 2006 11:42:43 GMT -5
The atmosphere of the movie didn't work for me... it was a bit too 70's for my taste. It's not a bad movie, but of the Kubrick movies I've seen, it is my least favorite.
But I'll give it this much - watching the movie made me want to read the book, which I thought was great.
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Post by Bartwald on Jun 9, 2006 13:11:01 GMT -5
"Dreamcatcher" by Stephen King. What did you think of this, frank? AND Everything's Eventual? I'm now reading Caleb Carr's The Italian Secretary: Sherlock Holmes' Further Adventure. Lots of fun so far - especially if you love Conan Doyle's classics. |
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Jun 11, 2006 7:36:03 GMT -5
Finished Life of Pi, which is a great book. I'd recommend it. I was constantly reading it during all my breaks at work. Who'd a thunk that a book about a boy and a tiger stranded in a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean would be so interesting? A-.
Now I've gotten A Confederacy of Dunces.
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Post by Bartwald on Jun 15, 2006 6:48:17 GMT -5
Paul Theroux's rare sci-fi novel - "O-Zone". Starts out nicely, we'll see how it all develops.
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Jun 16, 2006 22:47:56 GMT -5
Finished A Confederacy of Dunces. Hilarious novel. If Don Quixote was a fat, prat, asshole you might get something close to Ignatious C. Reilly. Full of great characters and all sorts of wild situations. Canon for New Oreleans culture. A-.
Now I'm reading The Lovely Bones by...I forget the name.
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Post by frankenjohn on Jun 19, 2006 10:39:07 GMT -5
"Point of Impact" by Stephen Hunter.
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