David43515
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith. I`m half way through it and enjoying the heck out of it.
What fiction book are you currently reading?
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I finished Dance of Dragons, and I'm pretty happy with it, things are starting to move and shake and Martin keeps his up his trend of creating "I didn't see that coming" events. And as of now I like the "Reek" arc in this book.
Picked up A Storm of Swords an hour ago....
Just finished The Girl Who Played With Fire. Enjoying the series so far but its a bit more violent than I was expecting. Looking forward to reading the final book if the trilogy.
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If those books are anything like the first movie, I will probably skip to something a little less...unpleasant.
I've watched the first two movies on Netflix. They are notably tamer than the books.
I'm going to wait a bit before reading the third.
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I'm going to wait a bit before reading the third.
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Yeah, I'm just not a fan of that kind of violence. I don't mind violence but the sadistic violence against a helpless victim...not interesting to me. I probably won't watch the other two movies or the remakes. I think the same thing about the Hostel movies and some of the newer sci fi/horror films like the hills have eyes, the remake of the texas chainsaw massacre ( I tried watching the original back in the 80's, before gore was really common, and I had to turn it off), violence against the helpless as a premise of a book or movie is not for me. Are the books any good beside that.
They are. He is a decent storyteller. Bloomkvist is just as flat in he books, but he weaves a good sense of cameraderie win the Millennium team and intrigue over Harriet. Its enough to make me want to finish the series.
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Just starting, meaning I'll be done long before noon tomorrow, Now You See Her, James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge.
The new Star Wars book (Fate of the Jedi: Ascension) and the new W.E.B. Griffin (Victory and Honor) ship tomorrow. Can't wait for the new Vince Flynn in November.
The new Star Wars book (Fate of the Jedi: Ascension) and the new W.E.B. Griffin (Victory and Honor) ship tomorrow. Can't wait for the new Vince Flynn in November.
Omar B
Senior Master
Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan/The Excecutioner - Renegade ForcePicked this up in a used book store yesterday, got a whole bunch of stuff in fact. They didn't have bags though so my haul was limiyted to what I could carry in my hands.The basic story is separate cells of highly trained cops all over the US are going out and killing criminals that the courtgs could not convict for whatever reason. Bolan is sent in to figure out the deal, but he has to break his vow of never killing lawmen. Its pretty good so far, the quality on a series with a revolving door of authors can be tricky (I do have favorite writers within the series) but so far this is pretty brutal.
Just started reading Spellmonger, sort of like Harry Dresden in a fantasy kingdom, not as a detective, but as a battle mage. It is a fun read, and even better...on kindle for 2.99, one of the better e-books I have read.
http://www.amazon.com/Spellmonger-T...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313373297&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Spellmonger-T...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313373297&sr=1-1
Omar B
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David Morrell - First Blood
One forgets how good a books it is because the movies are just so damn amazing. Rambo's internal dialog is great. People's prejudices against the straggly looking long haired guy in torn jeans always hits home with me because I get those same looks sometimes. In fact over the years when there have been the occasions when people ask about the long hair or beard (when I do have one) I usually use one of Rambo's smart answers.
One forgets how good a books it is because the movies are just so damn amazing. Rambo's internal dialog is great. People's prejudices against the straggly looking long haired guy in torn jeans always hits home with me because I get those same looks sometimes. In fact over the years when there have been the occasions when people ask about the long hair or beard (when I do have one) I usually use one of Rambo's smart answers.
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Just started reading A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, by George R. R. Martin. So far, so good.
Just finished "At All Costs" by David Weber.
Had to take a break after page 844 to gather myself ... I tend to get very heavily invested emotionally when I'm reading and this was very much a "Last Samurai" moment. By that I mean that the final charge in that film always moves me to tears, no matter how often I see it; one paragraph on that noted page had the same effect
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It wasn't made any less emotive by the fact I knew it was coming (having been delayed in reading this book so long that the author himself 'spoiled' it) or by the fact that the battle was so huge that even Weber wasn't quite able to keep that level of 'being there' that he normally manages.
So ... I lost a hero tonight, just as I did back in "In Enemy Hands" when Jamie Candless chose to stay and hold a position, knowing he would die.
It's a very good book, trying as it is to wind together some very long threads from the previous ten volumes and open up new ones to carry the story forward. To get an emotional engagement out of such a monumental interstellar conflict is an achievement :bows:.
See?! Sometimes the 'stiff upper lip' does quiver ... just a little :lol:.
Had to take a break after page 844 to gather myself ... I tend to get very heavily invested emotionally when I'm reading and this was very much a "Last Samurai" moment. By that I mean that the final charge in that film always moves me to tears, no matter how often I see it; one paragraph on that noted page had the same effect
.It wasn't made any less emotive by the fact I knew it was coming (having been delayed in reading this book so long that the author himself 'spoiled' it) or by the fact that the battle was so huge that even Weber wasn't quite able to keep that level of 'being there' that he normally manages.
So ... I lost a hero tonight, just as I did back in "In Enemy Hands" when Jamie Candless chose to stay and hold a position, knowing he would die
.It's a very good book, trying as it is to wind together some very long threads from the previous ten volumes and open up new ones to carry the story forward. To get an emotional engagement out of such a monumental interstellar conflict is an achievement :bows:.
See?! Sometimes the 'stiff upper lip' does quiver ... just a little :lol:.
I'm rereading both 1632 by Eric Flint, online, baen books has a free library, and W.E.B. Griffin's The Hunters, which I took a hiatus from to read the new Star Wars novel and Griffin's new one. Griffin looks OLD, he needs to live longer and write faster.
Aye, the Baen Books on-line resource is wonderful indeed I do agree.
I keep meaning to get the 16** series that Flint has done. I've read 1632 and, I think, the follow up and really enjoyed them - so it is only right that the author gets some recompense :nods:. Mind you, Flint stole my idea! Except that mine was a British Army unit on manoeuvres that slipped through the crack in space-time and ended back in Medieval times - the opening chapter had a squadron of M113's appearing in the middle of a cavalry battle.
I keep meaning to get the 16** series that Flint has done. I've read 1632 and, I think, the follow up and really enjoyed them - so it is only right that the author gets some recompense :nods:. Mind you, Flint stole my idea! Except that mine was a British Army unit on manoeuvres that slipped through the crack in space-time and ended back in Medieval times - the opening chapter had a squadron of M113's appearing in the middle of a cavalry battle
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