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Spoilers What Book Are You Reading?
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Reading the Sookie Stackhouse series final: Dead Ever After. So far so good.
The book cover says: "Don't miss True Blood." Yeah, well, you can watch True Blood, but it's not the Southern Vampire Mysteries, not close, not by a mile.
The book cover says: "Don't miss True Blood." Yeah, well, you can watch True Blood, but it's not the Southern Vampire Mysteries, not close, not by a mile.
Me too, but I've only read the prologue so far. I need to sit back down and really dig in. Do you like it so far?
While looking for something I came across this, it was like finding a dear old forgotten friend again.
I will be re-reading this week.
This book illustrates just how much the world has changed.
I ordered this book back in 1983 through a local book store, no internet then. When the book arrived after more than four weeks, I was charged 25.00 Hlf. which was three times the American price.
Amazon changed all that.
I will be re-reading this week.
This book illustrates just how much the world has changed.
I ordered this book back in 1983 through a local book store, no internet then. When the book arrived after more than four weeks, I was charged 25.00 Hlf. which was three times the American price.
Amazon changed all that.
A great book, to my mind, by far her best, very well written and an extremely interesting interpretation of a very well known tale. Enjoy the re-read. My mother loved it, too.
I do remember all those years ago after finishing the book, thinking that this was the real story, and that Le Morte d'Arthur was the fiction. She made the whole world of Dark age Britain come alive, it just seemed so believable.
I have never read anything else by MZB.
I do remember all those years ago after finishing the book, thinking that this was the real story, and that Le Morte d'Arthur was the fiction. She made the whole world of Dark age Britain come alive, it just seemed so believable.
I have never read anything else by MZB.
Her other stuff is pretty good, but nothing else she wrote comes anywhere near The Mists of Avalon. That was her masterpiece - the whole thing came together in a really powerful, compelling and exceptionally well-told tale.
Interesting that although Michael Shaara won the Pulitzer, his son Jeff is a much more prolific author. It blows me away is that he just picked up where his dad left off. I just finished his trilogy about the European theater of WWII and have just picked up The Final Storm which is written from the perspectives of those in the Pacific.
Yes, I might have to read this. Does it include fictional characters along with historical players?
Folks like Patton, Eisenhower, Benson, Buckley, Hitler, Von Rundstedt, are of course there. I would think there would have to be bit parts that are unnamed in the correspondence or accounts that the books are based on but are necessary to the telling of the story. And Shaara does his typical roundup at the end which tells what became of the characters after the war, good stuff.
I actually clicked on the look inside part of the graphic to see the book contents
I'm inbetween books right now, I'm not sure what I'm in the mood for. Some sort of sci fi, star wars, Christian living, or something else. I'm poking around amazon and ibooks to see if anything grabs me.
I actually clicked on the look inside part of the graphic to see the book contents
I'm inbetween books right now, I'm not sure what I'm in the mood for. Some sort of sci fi, star wars, Christian living, or something else. I'm poking around amazon and ibooks to see if anything grabs me.
How did you like World War Z?
I actually clicked on the look inside part of the graphic to see the book contents
I'm inbetween books right now, I'm not sure what I'm in the mood for. Some sort of sci fi, star wars, Christian living, or something else. I'm poking around amazon and ibooks to see if anything grabs me.
How do you sit still long enough to read a book?
Great book, it kept me going but the final chapters were a bit of disappointment. That is, as the story line was wrapping up, it kind of ended with more of a whimper then perhaps with a big event. He probably could have done away with the last chapter or two.
From what I see from the trailers and how the book is. The movie seems to have very little in common with the book other then the name. Without giving away any spoilers in the book here's a couple of big difference that I spotted.
1. The book is a collection of "interviews" of those people who survived the zombie apocalypse in chronological order. That is the first set of interviews describes the unfolding horror and the last interviews is the ending. It reads like a series of short stories so I liked it but I can see why some don't.
2. Zombies in the book moved like the classic zombie, just slowly shuffling.
The movie appears to be the typical movie, hero vs. zombie and the zombies seem to really run. That being the case I'm not rally interested in the movie, though the special effects do look spectacular
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How do you sit still long enough to read a book?
20 minute increments - that's about all I can handle
Finished Dead Ever After, reportedly the last of the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery series. It was a decent story, but I can tell the author lost interest in this series about 2 books ago. At 225 pages, way to short for a novel imo.