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Post by Pulpmariachi on Apr 14, 2008 21:37:28 GMT -5
I've read 44 books so far this year. I may've listed some of these before. I don't care.
The General in His Labryinth
The Solitudes
A Model World and OTher Stories
Or Not
Engine Summer
The Field Guide
The Seeing Stone
Lucinda's Secret
The Ironwood Tree
The Wrath of Mulgarath
Watership Down
Pnin
The Land of Laughs
Love & Sleep
A Midsummer NIght's Dream
Oranges are not the Only Fruit
Lolita
The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines
Love's Labour's Lost
A Visitation of Spirits
Edwin Mullhouse: The LIfe and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954
Invisible Cities
Strange Pilgrims
The MErchant of Venice
What She Left Me
Mason & Dixon
The Translator
Tabloid Dreams
The Swimming-Pool LIbrary
Blankets
Henry IV Part One
Werewolves in Their Youth
Tipping the Velvet
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Henry IV Part Two
Plainsong
Lord Byron's Novel
Fiskadoro
Then We Came to the End
By Night in Chile
Adult Head
The Incognito Lounge
Henry V
Ragtime
Some of those took me weeks, some took days. I enjoyed most of them on some level. But then again, this isn't Dan Brown or generic horror or convuluted mysteries or contrived science fiction and fantasy or formulatic thrillers so there's something to look at and respect in most of those on some level; many with more than a gazillion.
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Post by Quorthon on May 7, 2008 12:44:59 GMT -5
I wish I had it in me to read as much as you do Pulp. Damn.
Right now, the only thing I'm reading is Swamp Thing, the third book collecting the classic comics together. The second, of I think six collections, written by Alan Moore.
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Post by frankenjohn on Jul 21, 2008 6:12:30 GMT -5
I recently finished reading "Duma Key" by Stephen King. Really strong effort by King.
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Jul 25, 2008 16:29:09 GMT -5
I've GOT to get around to reading that... right now I'm reading The Approaching Storm, a book in the Star Wars series. Can't remember who wrote it right at the moment...
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Aug 7, 2008 16:06:17 GMT -5
I'm up to 86 books this year. Some amazing (Children's Hospital, The Book Thief), some very good (The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Bone, East of Eden), and some kind of bleh (I Am the Messenger, Dear American Airlines, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven). And everything else in-between.
Here they are:
Dangerous Laughter
Boy Island
The Savage Detectives
Sanctuary
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Laramie Project
Gob's Grief
Novelties & Souveniers
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Tree of Smoke
Blindness
The Mysterious Benedict Society
The Mayor's Tongue
This Side of Paradise
The Monsters of Templeton
The Sun Also Rises
The City of Ember
Angels
Dandelion Wine
East of Eden
The Book Thief
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
The People of Sparks
Bowl of Cherries
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Out From Boneville
The Great Cow Race
Eyes of the Storm
The Dragonslayer
Rockjaw: Mater of the Eastern Border
Old Man's Cave
Ghost Circles
Treasure Hunters
Crown of Horns
Dear American Airlines
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
I Am the Messenger
Maps & Legends
My Name is Will
The Children's Hospital
Slow Learner
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Post by frankenjohn on Sept 20, 2008 22:37:15 GMT -5
I finished "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold, which was a good novel. Now I'm reading a Buster Olney novel entitled "The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty" and "Manhunt: The Twelve Day Hunt for Lincoln's Killer."
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Sept 23, 2008 18:29:18 GMT -5
The Lovely Bones is great! And they're making a movie version (directed by Peter Jackson) that's supposed to be out sometime this year. Right now I'm about half way through Song of Susannah, the next to last book in the Dark Tower series.
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Post by raina on Dec 7, 2008 22:04:19 GMT -5
Just finished up Murder Most Royal by Jean Plaidy tonight (I'm a sucker for almost any historical fiction about the Tudor family). Now reading Breeding Ground by Sarah Pinborough. I haven't read much by her, but I did read Tower Hill recently, and thought it was a decent read.
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Jan 9, 2009 19:10:39 GMT -5
I've read something by Sarah Pinborough, but I can't remember what it was...  I just started on Blaze by Stephen King, not bad so far. |
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Post by raina on Jan 15, 2009 14:50:16 GMT -5
I've read something by Sarah Pinborough, but I can't remember what it was... well, I liked Tower Hill, didn't like Breeding Ground that much (certainly gruesome enough, but some poor characterization) so the jury is still out on her.  Right now I am reading Bloodline by F. Paul Wilson, LOVE the Repairman Jack books....  |
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Jan 18, 2009 11:41:45 GMT -5
I think it was called The Unseen or something like that. I guess I wasn't too impressed by it since I can't remember much about it. |
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Post by raina on Jan 19, 2009 12:27:04 GMT -5
I think it was called The Unseen or something like that. I guess I wasn't too impressed by it since I can't remember much about it. The Hidden maybe? I haven't gotten to that one yet. Now reading Coffin County by Gary A. Braunbeck (pretty good) and also Strangers in Death by J.D. Robb |
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Jan 26, 2009 17:11:02 GMT -5
I think it was called The Unseen or something like that. I guess I wasn't too impressed by it since I can't remember much about it. The Hidden maybe? I haven't gotten to that one yet. Yeahh...that's it! I'm still on Blaze, bout half way done, haven't had much time for reading lately. But I'm on vacation next week so maybe I'll get time to catch up. |
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Post by raina on Feb 2, 2009 14:21:08 GMT -5
Finishing up The Unblemished by Conrad Williams (disturbing and gruesome, recommended to any horror fans here) and also reading Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko (also very good).
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Post by slayrrr666 on Feb 14, 2009 11:07:02 GMT -5
The Movies of the 80s-
About the only time you'll probably see me in here, this is a book Heineken sent me last month for winning last years Movie Genre game. Finally got through with it last night, and have to say, it was really good. Liked it a lot more than I thought I would, with tons of interesting stories, detailing everything from minor flops to the biggest success of the decade. Tends to give off an elitist vibe everynow and then when describing some of the smaller films of the time, but stays objective enough for the stories to matter, which makes it an easier, if challenging, read for all that it features. I think most of us on here would enjoy it and learn something new from it.
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I just started on Blaze by Stephen King, not bad so far.
