I think that's sitting somewhere around my house. Back in the day there were quite a few copies of it to be found. Maybe that was when some of the major publishing houses were emptying their warehouses.
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I think that's sitting somewhere around my house. Back in the day there were quite a few copies of it to be found. Maybe that was when some of the major publishing houses were emptying their warehouses.
Danny McG
"Anything can happen in the next half hour!"
A thriller from a few years ago
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Ian Fortytwo
A Poet, Writer and eclectic Reader.
I'm reading Three Women Disappear, by James Patterson and Shan Serafin.
HoopyFrood
It's me! Hurrah!
I haven't read fiction in absolutely ages but just recently I saw on the BBC website that that person who had written two really good novels had apparently written another really good novel, and then looking her up I see she's around a similar age to me and so like any normal human being I instantly filled with loathing at this person who is so much more successful than me in fields that are special to me and so I must immediately sample this work for myself.
So anyway I'm reading Normal People by Sally Rooney.
So anyway I'm reading Normal People by Sally Rooney.
oh? are you trying to learn what normal people are like so that you cam immitate them or find them?
I finished Brideshead Revisited (it was quite good )
I'm now reading Close to Critical by Hal Clement (in serial form from the original 1958 issues of Astounding).
)I'm now reading Close to Critical by Hal Clement (in serial form from the original 1958 issues of Astounding).
If it helps, I decided to listen to her new book on Book at Bedtime on Radio 4 on Monday, and fell asleep during the announcer's intro. Clearly it's that awful.
HoopyFrood
It's me! Hurrah!
It's OK, I completely understand that such loathing is the result of my own ego so I don't really hate her, because I am a well adjusted individual who can recognise when I'm being a prat.
Unlike the characters in this book.
Actually, I can see why she does get praise because she's very good at showing not telling how people's internal views of themselves very much differ to how other people perceive them, and vice versa, and how this is also different for all social contacts depending on their level of relationship with you. However, it is very much Literature (there are no speech marks! It's all in present tense! Nothing actually really happens at any point!) and all I keep thinking is that nobody, especially 18 years olds, think in such ridiculously deep and rhetorical ways.
I've talked to a couple of people about this book and it definitely seems to be in the camp of "It's very good but I didn't enjoy it."
Unlike the characters in this book.
Actually, I can see why she does get praise because she's very good at showing not telling how people's internal views of themselves very much differ to how other people perceive them, and vice versa, and how this is also different for all social contacts depending on their level of relationship with you. However, it is very much Literature (there are no speech marks! It's all in present tense! Nothing actually really happens at any point!) and all I keep thinking is that nobody, especially 18 years olds, think in such ridiculously deep and rhetorical ways.
I've talked to a couple of people about this book and it definitely seems to be in the camp of "It's very good but I didn't enjoy it."
For what it's worth, in my 30s I had a similar reaction on opening a book and seeing the author's year of birth was also mine. I closed the cover and walked away.
Like you, I realized I was being a jerk.
It didn't really help.
Danny McG
"Anything can happen in the next half hour!"
I'm today reading one that I found somewhat dull back in 1980 but it's totally gripping me now! Non fiction
All the president's men
All the president's men
great movie. by the way in the last year's wouldn't it be more humpty dumpty fell down?
Betok_Haney
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Reading The Three-Body Problem, The Lost Symbol, and Thinking in Numbers. Really enjoying each of them, even if I am extremely confused so far by The Three-Body Problem; it is hard for me to follow for some reason.
Regarding The Three-Body Problem, it doesn't tend to get an awful lot easier but does become clearer. The science is pretty unrelenting but, in my opinion, it's well worth the effort.
same problem with the three body. the lost symbol has a show now.
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I'm finishing O'Brian's 11th Aubrey and Maturin novel, The Reverse of the Medal, but wanted to wish all ED Tolkien readers a happy Bilbo and Frodo's birthday today.
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fantastic covers.
dask
dark and stormy knight
I thought so too.
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That's a "Lion" Ballantine Hobbit cover. The King of Beasts was escorted out of the Shire after Tolkien objected.
Finished Ganymede Rises by Joshua T. Calvert. Sigh! the third book in the trilogy took a serious header. The action became more and more unbelievable (in the constraints of the available tech). And it winds up in an ending that the average science nerd could have written (long on science theory short on story). It was an utter disappointment. If I'm going to be disappointed in a series, please let me know in the first book. Up next? Not sure Semiosis by Sue Burke? Constance by Matthew Fitzsimmons? Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin? or Beneath A Gibbous Moon (something solidly outside my norm) or finally Warship by Joshua Dalzelle --- and this from a guy who hardly ever had a TBR pile and almost never a Fantasy book. You lot have been seriously changing my reading habits.
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