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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Mon Oct 04, 2021 1:10 pm

I've been struggling to finish A Farewell to Arms, but finally finished it yesterday. Just never wanted to pick it up and read it, for some reason.

I bought Billy Summers for my Kindle, and read 30 pages when I only meant to read the first few pages.

I know I shouldn't ever compare King to Hemingway, but Uncle Stevie is a pleasure to read after that Hemingway book. :lol:
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Postby shafnutz05 » Mon Oct 04, 2021 1:37 pm

I know this book won't be for everyone, but this was extremely well-written and an uplifting story.
In 1969, while attempting to bomb the home of a Jewish leader in Meridian, Mississippi, Tom was ambushed by law enforcement and shot multiple times during a high-speed chase. Nearly dead from his wounds, he was arrested and sentenced to thirty years in the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman Farm. Unrepentant, Tom and two other inmates made a daring escape from Parchman yet were tracked down by an FBI SWAT team and apprehended in hail of bullets that killed one of the convicts. Tom spent the next three years alone in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell. There he began a search for truth that led him to the Bible and a reading of the gospels, resulting in his conversion to Jesus Christ and liberation from the grip of racial hatred and violence.

Astounded by the change in Tom, many of the very people who worked to put him behind bars began advocating for his release. After serving eight years of a 35-year sentence, Tom left prison. He attended college, moved to Washington, DC, and became copastor of a racially mixed church. He went on to earn a doctorate and became the president of the C. S. Lewis Institute, where he devoted himself to helping others become wholehearted followers of Jesus.

A dramatic story of radical transformation, Consumed by Hate, Redeemed by Love demonstrates that hope is not lost even in the most tumultuous of times, even those similar to our own.
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Postby eddy » Thu Oct 14, 2021 8:32 am

Finished the eye of the world and onto the great hunt. I don't know what it is about these books, but I am loving them. They are so nerdy, but well done. I am constantly saying things around the house to the family like the wheel weaves as the wheel wills.

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Postby Gaucho » Wed Oct 20, 2021 5:24 pm

Fnished Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women.

*shrug*

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Postby shafnutz05 » Wed Oct 20, 2021 5:30 pm

About 50 pages into this. Great read so far. Scratches several itches for me

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Postby LeopardLetang » Thu Oct 21, 2021 8:19 am

Fnished Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women.

*shrug*
Have you liked other stuff of hers? I only hear rave reviews. I have most of her work but haven't tried any

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Postby Troy Loney » Thu Oct 21, 2021 8:23 am

About 50 pages into this. Great read so far. Scratches several itches for me

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You should read The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Thu Oct 21, 2021 9:13 am

Billy Summers (Stephen King's latest) was very good. Very different from his usual, closer to Dennis Lehane/Vince Flynn/Stephen Hunter type of novel.

Does King usually put Easter eggs from his other novels/series in his books? Is there a "King-verse?" I've read probably 10-12 of his novels over the years, but I don't know his work well enough to know all the Easter eggs. The hotel in the Shining was mentioned in this book (it doesn't really play a part of this book's plot, just that it's mentioned a few times).

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Postby dodint » Thu Oct 21, 2021 9:18 am

Yeah, he has references scattered all over the place. Some of them are important and some just for fan service.

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Postby Gaucho » Thu Oct 21, 2021 9:22 am

Fnished Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women.

*shrug*
Have you liked other stuff of hers? I only hear rave reviews. I have most of her work but haven't tried any
It's the first I read of her. I had fairly high expectations due to comparisons to Cekhov and the sheer number of rave reviews out there. It's not that I think she's bad or anything, but it just didn't do much for me. I read some more reviews afterwards and came away thinking that if I don't like this book of hers I'm unlikely to like any of her others. Still, I may give it another try some day.

By contrast, the new novel by Jonathan Franzen - a big fan of Munro - is a joy from page 1.

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Postby LeopardLetang » Thu Oct 21, 2021 10:55 am

I read some more reviews afterwards and came away thinking that if I don't like this book of hers I'm unlikely to like any of her others
Interesting. That's a shame.

I haven't read Franzen. I thought I heard he was trending down after writing The Corrections. A friend of mine who's opinion is "i want to love Franzen" says his latest book was great at times but also too full of belaboring a point

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Postby dodint » Thu Oct 28, 2021 11:07 am

In the spirit of the holiday, I picked up another Richard Matheson short story compilation. I've always enjoyed him because, very similar to a vibe I get when I read Stephen King, it comes across as effortless on their part. I am constantly thinking 'I could write this, it's so simple' but in reality I've never come close to churning out a single short story anywhere near their level.

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Postby eddy » Wed Nov 03, 2021 8:14 am

Still going strong with wheel of time, very much enjoying the great hunt. I'm trying to get these in before the show spoils anything as it has said it's taking arcs from first three books which seems insane to me. Picked up dune messiah to how crazy Paul gets, from the little I've heard, it sounds like a doozy.

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Postby eddy » Tue Nov 16, 2021 8:09 am

3rd wheel of time book is great so far, really digging these.

Going to have to take a little breather from WoT because Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League, Et Al: A Compendium of Evils by Earl Mac Rauch comes today. Still can't believe we are getting a sequel now. The first book/movie are terrific.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Nov 30, 2021 11:25 am

I was cleaning my room and found a new copy of Bomber Mafia. I don't know if my wife got it for me for Christmas and forgot to hide it, but not really sure how it got here. I thought @Troy Loney or someone else was talking about this book recently.

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Postby Troy Loney » Tue Nov 30, 2021 11:39 am

Not I.

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Postby Gaucho » Tue Dec 07, 2021 7:58 am

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Postby Gaucho » Tue Dec 07, 2021 5:35 pm

There's a man who's been out sailing
In a decade full of dreams
And he takes her to a schooner
And he treats her like a queen
Bearing beads from California
With their amber stones and green
He has called her from the harbor
He has kissed her with his freedom
He has heard her off to starboard
In the breaking and the breathing
Of the water weeds
While she was busy being free

There's a man who's climbed a mountain
And he's calling out her name
And he hopes her heart can hear three thousand miles
He calls again
He can think her there beside him
He can miss her just the same
He has missed her in the forest
While he showed her all the flowers
And the branches sang the chorus
As he climbed the scaley towers
Of a forest tree
While she was somewhere being free

There's a man who's sent a letter
And he's waiting for reply
He has asked her of her travels
Since the day they said goodbye
He writes "Wish you were beside me
We can make it if we try"
He has seen her at the office
With her name on all his papers
Through the sharing of the profits
He will find it hard to shake her
From his memory
And she's so busy being free

There's a lady in the city
And she thinks she loves them all
There's the one who's thinking of her
There's the one who sometimes calls
There's the one who writes her letters
With his facts and figures scrawl
She has brought them to her senses
They have laughed inside her laughter
Now she rallies her defenses
For she fears that one will ask her
For eternity
And she's so busy being free

There's a man who sends her medals
He is bleeding from the war
There's a jouster and a jester and a man who owns a store
There's a drummer and a dreamer
And you know there may be more
She will love them when she sees them
They will lose her if they follow
And she only means to please them
And her heart is full and hollow
Like a cactus tree
While she's so busy being free

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Postby Gaucho » Sun Dec 12, 2021 9:50 am

A terrific read, a crime thriller setting in in Hawaii, late November 1941:
https://crimefictionlover.com/2021/11/f ... s-kestrel/

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Postby LeopardLetang » Wed Jan 12, 2022 4:36 pm

A guy was telling me about Germany's War by John Wear today

Apparently a controversial book that seems impossible to find except for $600+. Or kindle for $7? Was written 2014.

Skimming the few reviews I was a disappointed that it seems dubious. I mean the reviews were praising it but in a way that I wasn't convinced it would be worth reading. The guy telling me about it is pretty radical but in a free thinking way. He praised it for having a dense amount of truth in it.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Wed Jan 12, 2022 5:17 pm

Finally, after two years, reading the last of the Wayward Pines trilogy. Lots of fun.

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Postby robbiestoupe » Wed Jan 12, 2022 9:58 pm

Don’t bother with the TV show

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