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Spoilers What Book Are You Reading?

Namara said:
All the more reason to re-read it, I say.
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Part of what ruined it was reading a website that supposedly revealed all of the inconsistencies between the books and the movies. Some I didn't even remember. You can't make a movie that adheres to a book 100%, becuase has anyone ever read the book Contact? Compare that to the movie, I dare you! I may read that series again. I've actually got some new books that I've been meaning to read too. I just realized I've neglected them. I did read a new author a few years ago, and the book sucked so much, I gave it away. *sigh* The unknown.
 
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Something non-fictional:

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NASA Space Shuttle
 
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I am currently reading The Fallen on my Kindle. Just started it, but so far, not too bad. Then again, I got it for free, so my bar is considerably lower.

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The Fallen: A Derek Stillwater Thriller

Twenty world leaders meet for the G8 Summit at the beautiful Cheyenne Resort in Colorado Springs. But an ugly plot lurks beneath the surface: a terrorist group, The Fallen Angels, plans to wreak havoc on the Summit.With the Secret Service, the FBI, Homeland Security, the military, and security fr...
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Just read Frozen Hell, the expanded version of Who Goes There? John W. Campbell‘s still relentlessly scary story that served as the basis for The Thing (1982)*and now yet another remake...

I adore Who Goes There? for many reasons, the tense paranoia, the feeling that you are in Antarctica (the climate/weather descriptions are terrific), and the epic introduction of my favorite character, McReady who is a Meteorologist here. Mac is the best character in both versions of the story and John Carpenter’s excellent cinematic adaptation. I did enjoy reading the introduction on the discovery of the expanded novella at Harvard and the many edits Campbell made to the opening sequence (apparently each from a different point of view).

Alas, the expanded edition of the novella removes much of the paranoid dread and strips most of the characters clean of any characterization (Who Goes There? was scant on some characters too, but when you mention 37 characters and we really only get to know about seven why even make it such a large number?). The best bits are with Mac and the weather, though his epic intro in Who... never materialized here, which makes me sad. That paragraph anchors McReady to the frozen landscape in a way that hints of the reluctant hero he’d become, but too, places the story in a mythological space instead of the matter-of-fact hyper realism of Frozen Hell.

Frozen Hell doesn’t dampen my love for the previously released tale, Mac, or Carpenter’s movie; but for me, it proves sometimes edits are best left buried under the ice.

*The 1951 movie was heavily altered so I do not consider it an adaptation of Campbell’s story.
 
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Browsing through notes in a commonplace book this morning, and ran into a reminder of relationship traps that I've gone out of my way to avoid in my personal life. Anyway these few lines from early on in Dennis Lehane's novel Since We Fell rang true to me in remembering a few situations from which I chose an early exit:

"Do you know what it’s like to fight with someone every day? Someone who claims to dislike conflict but who in fact lives for it?” Rachel cocked her head at him. “You’re really asking me this?” He smiled. And then the smile went away. “It scours the soul, damages the heart. You can feel yourself dying."​

Yep. If you're an adult and insightful or just lucky, maybe you can bail from a setup like that before succumbing to the subtle upsides of life in unending, soul-crushing but potentially addictive drama. In real life of course it may help to be a person of some independent means, and willing to work hard with a shrink.

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That book fell apart for me in a few places, and (surprisingly) more steadily towards the end. I felt like Lehane suddenly lost interest and just wanted to wrap it and maybe get on to the movie rights negotiations. After all he's the author of novels that found their way to film like Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone, not to mention his work on episodes of The Wire. Anyway I felt he kinda blew up Since We Fell in some kind of hellbent rush to conclude it --not the writing there but the underpinnings-- for whatever reason, but the front end of it was exquisitely drawn and plenty of us could think we're looking in a mirror in a few of those chapters.
 
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LizKat said:
Oh yeah. Loved it. Another instance where a particular review is what made me seek out the book.

www.theguardian.com

Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami review – a rambling voyage of discovery

Paintings become magic portals in this digressive, beguiling novel about an artist in flight from himself
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I’m a Murakami fan, and the most recent of his works I read, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, I didn’t like, but I’m interested to give Killing Commendatore a read. :)
 
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Reading the following:

Immortal Hulk TPB Vol 2
Punisher (Omnibus) This series has been over the top
Batman Last Knight (Books 1-2)
These all depend on which room I am in...

Just picked up for my kindle
The Remaining
 
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Read an interesting article in today’s paper. Andy Hamilton (comedian) has written his new novel in his own handwriting. 349 pages. What makes it even more remarkable is that although he is right handed he lost his right thumb “so I write two-handed- I look like I’m chiselling. I grasp the pen in my left hand but sort of guide it with my right”.

The reason he’s written it by hand he says is to “help reverse the steady decline in penmanship “. Anyway, I thought it was interesting and share it here. Here’s a screenshot of a page;

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Finished The Black Company series by Glen Cook...and got a SoulCatcher's crest tattoo.

Finished the Harry Bosch series by Michael Connelly , except the third book (The Night Fire) of the Harry Boach/Renée Ballard series, but I already bought the book in iBooks.
Just bought on iBooks The Complete Instrumentalities of the Night Series, also by Glen Cook

No tattoos planned for the Harry Bosch or Night series ;)
 
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Finished The Black Company series by Glen Cook...and got a SoulCatcher's crest tattoo.

Finished the Harry Bosch series by Michael Connelly , except the third book (The Night Fire) of the Harry Boach/Renée Ballard series, but I already bought the book in iBooks.
Just bought on iBooks The Complete Instrumentalities of the Night Series, also by Glen Cook

No tattoos planned for the Harry Bosch or Night series ;)
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That's interesting, because Titus Welliver (or at least the Hieronymus Bosch he plays in the Amazon Originals series) has loads of tattoos.
Never read the books, but absolutely love the series.
 
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