Bibliophile Thread

Postby **Gaucho** » Tue Feb 01, 2022 7:01 pm

I'm halfway through book 9. Sigh.
Yeah, I don't want to start it...because I don't want it to end. Sigh.

Already looking forward to Memory's Legion.

Postby **robbiestoupe** » Tue Feb 01, 2022 8:56 pm

I didn’t read any of the small novellas so the release in March will come just in time for me

Postby **Gaucho** » Fri Feb 11, 2022 7:49 am

Postby **Kane** » Wed Feb 23, 2022 7:40 am

Tiamat's Wrath was so good,

Leviathan Falls up next. Sad it has to end.

Postby **robbiestoupe** » Wed Feb 23, 2022 8:34 am

Tiamat's Wrath was so good,
even if it did have the one-two punch of losing Avasarala and Bobbie.
Leviathan Falls up next. Sad it has to end.

I have about an hour and a half left in the audiobook. It is a very good book. Unfortunately the last book is not available for another 6 weeks, so you'll end up lapping me.

Postby **dodint** » Thu Feb 24, 2022 11:14 am

Picked up Stephen King's Hearts In Atlantis. Really enjoying it so far. It seems to be one of his last really good books before Trump set up rent-free living in his head and rotted his brain.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Thu Feb 24, 2022 11:42 am

Picked up Stephen King's Hearts In Atlantis. Really enjoying it so far. It seems to be one of his last really good books before Trump set up rent-free living in his head and rotted his brain.

That's the main reason The Institute is still sitting on my shelf.

Postby **dodint** » Thu Feb 24, 2022 11:52 am

I know I should make decisions for myself and all, but when picking out a King book last night everything from 2017+ had endless reviews about there being too many Trump mentions. I get that it's mostly hypersensitive Trumpers mad that glorious leader isn't being portrayed in shining light, but the fact that he continues to pepper his work with those references to pwn them turns me off. I'm trying to escape into his world to get away from mine.

Hearts in Atlantis takes place ~1960 so it's doing the job.

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Thu Feb 24, 2022 3:29 pm

His JFK assassination book was good. Billy Summers was good, but IIRC Trump is mentioned

Postby **dodint** » Thu Feb 24, 2022 3:32 pm

95% of the JFK book is great. But as is his way he fumbled the ending, IMO.

Postby **dodint** » Thu Feb 24, 2022 4:00 pm

I read Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton last week. Despite the cover art it's not really connected to Jurassic Park. If anything it's an extreme prequel to the excavation scene at the very beginning of Jurassic Park. It talks about early paleontologists in the Badlands in 1876. If nothing else it's a really interesting immersion into that time and place, if you were a Deadwood fan it is right in your wheelhouse. It's kind of The Great Train Robbery with bones.

I thought of @shafnutz05 specifically while reading it because it talks about the struggle and brutality of the plains Indian tribes as they war against each other and the encroaching whites.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/312 ... agon-teeth

Postby **AuthorTony** » Thu Feb 24, 2022 4:34 pm

I enjoyed Doctor Sleep and 11/22/63. The Holly Gibney stuff isn't really winning me over, but the Rat novella in If It Bleeds is terrific.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Thu Feb 24, 2022 5:20 pm

I read Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton last week. Despite the cover art it's not really connected to Jurassic Park. If anything it's an extreme prequel to the excavation scene at the very beginning of Jurassic Park. It talks about early paleontologists in the Badlands in 1876. If nothing else it's a really interesting immersion into that time and place, if you were a Deadwood fan it is right in your wheelhouse. It's kind of The Great Train Robbery with bones.

I thought of shafnutz05 specifically while reading it because it talks about the struggle and brutality of the plains Indian tribes as they war against each other and the encroaching whites.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/312 ... agon-teeth

Sold. I just read Timeline and forgot how fun Crichton can be.

Postby **dodint** » Thu Feb 24, 2022 5:29 pm

I almost re-read Timeline but figured I'd give Dragon Teeth a shot. I'm suspicious of his posthumously posted work, but supposedly he wrote this in the 1970s and shelved it. The idea stuck in his mind and eventually evolved into Jurassic Park.

I read Terminal Man way back in 5th grade or so and need to revisit it, was probably my first Crichton book.

Postby **count2infinity** » Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:36 am

Question about audiobooks…. I have a few in mind that I’d like to listen to. I don’t have a ton of time to sit and read (and with my dyslexia, reading is more of a chore than pleasure). Obviously there’s audible, but that’s a subscription service. I was looking for something where I can just buy individual audiobooks. Any suggestions?

Postby **robbiestoupe** » Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:44 am

I just loan from the library, so can't help you there

Postby **dodint** » Fri Feb 25, 2022 9:02 am

Library for me as well. Rip them to mp3 and upload them to my phone. Every so often I will buy a hot new release from Barnes and Noble and donate it to the library to give back since I saved so much doing it this way.

Audible is a subscription service, but you still have access to your purchases when not subscribed. So you can load up, then turn it off until you need it again.

Postby **count2infinity** » Fri Feb 25, 2022 9:09 am

Ah… maybe I’ll go the audible route then.

Postby **AuthorTony** » Fri Feb 25, 2022 10:27 am

You can also buy audiobooks without a subscription on Amazon.

Postby **eddy** » Sat Feb 26, 2022 9:32 am

Redshirts by John Scalzi had me laughing out loud quite a bit. Great read. Just starting Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clark and it's terrific so far.

Postby **dodint** » Tue Mar 01, 2022 11:16 am

Picked up Stephen King's Hearts In Atlantis.

Not sure if I'm just particularly emotionally vulnerable right now but the first two parts of this book really affected me. If you had anything negative happen to you between the ages of 10 and 25, look out. It always amazes me that fiction can impact you in this way. I stayed up till 3am reading the second part and woke up sad and angry.

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Tue Mar 01, 2022 11:56 am

I remember reading Hearts in Atlantis years ago - probably when it first came out and loved it. Very moving...but it's been 20+ years so the details are long gone. There is a movie that is an OK version of the book, with Anthony Hopkins and Anton Yelchin (who was killed by a later recalled Jeep Cherokee that rolled over him, ugh).

Postby **dodint** » Tue Mar 01, 2022 1:17 pm

For some reason, I thought it was written in 2015. The Vietnam talk works as an allegory for the GWOT and even the Ukraine situation. I had no idea it was written in 1999 or that there was a movie.

I read a lot of King when I was a teenager and into my 20s. Now that I'm approaching 40 and my worldview has changed I bet I could reread a lot of those books as if they were new to me. I feel like I wouldn't have gotten as much out of Hearts in Atlantis if I read it when I was 17 when it was published. Anger, yes. Sadness? Not so much.

Postby **Shyster** » Tue Mar 01, 2022 4:57 pm

Used to be a big fan of King. I believe I've read pretty much everything he wrote up through Under the Dome in 2009. After that, I've not bought anything because King started to become much more outspoken about politics, and even though I don't necessarily disagree with what he's saying, he's just totally turned me off.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Mon Mar 07, 2022 7:14 am

Picked up The Name of the Wind at the library Saturday. It's supposed to be one of the best fantasy novels of the last 25 years, enjoying it so far. Anyone familiar?