ChiefsPlanet - Books Ok for the high brow crowd what books you are reading

Best Snuff review from goodreads.com:

"Please stop writing, Mr. Palahniuk."

I hated Snuff.

At the moment, I'm reading Darkness at Noon. Good stuff.

NewChief

05-06-2010 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 6741374)

I just started reading the latest Sookie Stackhouse book, Dead in the Family.

Seriously.

I'm not kidding.

Or gay.

I read a few of those, and I liked them pretty well. Since I know you like the Jim Butcher Dresden series, I actually think there are some pretty good comparisons between the two. Of course, one is set in a big city urban environment, and the other is in the rural south.

Baby Lee

05-06-2010 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Pestilence (Post 6741321)

Currently reading:

Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk

http://www.avclub.com/articles/av-cl...rs-of-c,40776/

keg in kc

05-06-2010 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by NewPhin (Post 6741428)

Ironically, they're both books that I started to read because I watched them on TV and then discovered (much to my surprise...) that both series of novels are really quite good.

MeaTy The Pimp

05-06-2010 12:41 PM

I just finished "Point of Impact" the book that the movie the Shooter is based off of. There are a few parts where the movie was better than the bok, but overall the book was better than the movie.

I have also read a few more books by Steven Hunter where Bob lee Swagger is the Protagonist. They would have all been better as movies, and would have been better movies than Shooter.

JohninGpt

05-06-2010 12:49 PM

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg

I've become addicted to this guy's alternative history. Very plausible.

Frosty

05-06-2010 02:56 PM

I'm on the second book of J. Gregory Keyes' Age of Unreason series. It's pretty cool revisionist history fantasy featuring a young Ben Franklin as the main hero.

irishjayhawk

05-06-2010 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by NewPhin (Post 6741314)

Read:
Daniel Pink's Drive
Big Brother and the National Reading Curriculum edited by Richard Allington
The Oxford American Food Issue
Pinnochio Vampire Slayer (awesome little graphic novel)

Currently reading:
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

I'll be interested to see your thoughts.

Recently, I finished The Maze Runner a book in the vein of Hunger Games. It's no Hunger Games but it was a solid first entry, we'll see where it goes.

Currently, I'm reading Stephen King's Dark Tower Book 1. Only a chapter into it and it's, umm, weird so far.

keg in kc

05-06-2010 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by irishjayhawk (Post 6742018)

Currently, I'm reading Stephen King's Dark Tower Book 1. Only a chapter into it and it's, umm, weird so far.

I really liked that series, although it tends to wander towards the end. As King is wont to do...

Actually, I should re-read it come to think of it, it's been five or six years since the seventh book, and I don't think I've read it since then.

He's apparently writing an 8th novel called The Wind Through the Keyhole, set between Wizard and Glass and Wolves of the Calla (books 4 and 5), so maybe I'll wait for that.

keg in kc

05-14-2010 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 6239919)

I finished The Gathering Storm several days ago, and I'm pretty mixed. I like that we're getting a conclusion, but sometimes the prose is so clearly not Robert Jordan's that it was distracting to me. I like Sanderson's writing in general, I've read many of his previously published novels, but I thought he really struggled to find some of the characters' voices, most notably the women (I thought he was off with all the female viewpoints for most of the book). Which struck me as odd, because Mistborn is told primarily from the perspective of a heroine, so it's not like a woman's perspective is something he hasn't done before.

But, all that said, it wasn't bad. It's pushing the series forward, and there's a clear sense for the first time in the Wheel of Time that the end is coming.

Towers of Midnight release date was made official today, October 26th of this year. It's drawing to a close.

chiefs1111

05-14-2010 05:10 PM

Reading Clive Barker-The Great And Secret Show

RedNFeisty

05-14-2010 06:39 PM

Not as knowledge embracing as most of you guys, but I am reading Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz.

chiefs1111

05-14-2010 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by RedNFeisty (Post 6759637)

Not as knowledge embracing as most of you guys, but I am reading Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz.