Yeah, that's what I recall too, I think some other guy now claims it's actually his story, but that's obviously dubious. Good story though.
Yea in 2009 another guy claimed it as his own and his story was published in readers digest. http://www.polishnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=852:the-greatest-escape-war-hero-who-walked-4000-miles-from-siberian-death-camp&catid=93:historiapolish-history&Itemid=329 its a very good book, fictional, "based on a true story" or otherwise
I'd read about 1/4 of James Ellroy's The Big Nowhere before, but got bored. I loved the Black Dahlia. So I went back and started over. I just got to the point where I was before. I can see why I lost interest, but I think I'm motivated enough to push through this part, and hope it picks up. The beginning of the book was great, it just got kind of bogged down. The Mal and going after communists part started getting a little tedious.
Shadow of the Wind is such an excellent novel. Definitely at the very top of my all time favorites. I've heard good things about Jo Nesbø and his Harry Hole (such a terrible name) series. It's set in Oslo and follows a detective. The ninth book just came out in Norway. Books 3-8 have been translated to English. I've got 3-5 in my reading queue and am looking forward to reading them.
I finished up the 8 books of Joseph Delaney's The Last Apprentice series. It started out with a lot of promise, but the big villain of the series got revealed in the fourth book. Things went downhill from there. The series didn't dip into awfulness, but it kind of dragged by the time I reached the last book. I imagine there will be at least another four books, and I'll probably read them. But I'm not anxiously awaiting their release. I kind of got bogged down waiting on the release of Robert McCammon's The Five. It came out in late May, but I had preordered it from the publisher and was getting it signed by the author. Unfortunately, McCammon lives in Alabama (his immediate family is fine), and he got delayed coming into sign due to all the storms there last month. I browsed a bit of N D Wilson's 100 Cupboards series in the interim. The first book was okay, and I just couldn't get past the second chapter of the second book. The characters aren't even one dimensional. They're just chess pieces that have no motivation other than advancing the thin plot. It's a shame, Wilson could've done something interesting with the concepts. I finally got my hands on The Five on Monday but had to wait to read it until last night due to an electrical fire at work. I'm about 40 pages in, and so far, I'm hooked. I really love McCammon's style, and while I wish this was the next Matthew Corbett novel, I'm enjoying these new characters and am really curious where this story will go.
It had the potential to be epic, but fell short. There's huge gaps of time the author skips over where you wonder wtf happened. There's some nice moments, but you're left with the feeling it could have been much more if the dude had detailed it out better.
I just finished re-reading the first three books of George RR Martin's series, but they went too damn fast and I ripped through all three in less than a month. I wanted to finish A Feast For Crows just before I got A Dance With Dragons in the mail, so I'm switching gears and reading this: Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam by Mark Bowden. Pretty good stuff from the author of Black Hawk Down. Plus I was a kid during the hostage crisis...
That was a required book for one of my classes. I went on to read Catching Fire and Mockingbird... Catching Fire was one of the rare sequels that may have been better, but Mockingbird was just downright terrible.
I agree 100%. I'd recommend reading the first book as a standalone and stopping right there. The sequel is just as good, but it leaves the plot hanging for the third book, which completely ruined the entire series for me. She took the main character and turned her from a bad ass to a whiny teenager and then ended the whole series so atrociously.
Reading this on Nook. Fantastically entertaining, and a lot more factual (not saying it's more true, just lots more listings of facts) than most "alternative histories".
Right now, I'm currently reading The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest. I am LOVING this series and am sad that this book is the last one. sorry if this is a double post but I haven't caught up with this thread yet...the American TGWTDT movie is coming out in December! I am not too thrilled about Blomkvist's casting. Daniel Craig? Rooney Mara looks like she could be great. btw, my book habit is costing me a fortune! i decided to start doing swagbucks so i can get free Amazon gift cards for my Kindle!
Those were such fun reads. I blew through all three of them in a week and had a great time. I almost always hate movie adaptations of books, and I did not care for the European version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It left out too many parts and didn't have the dark feel of the books. At least the Fincher version looks like it'll capture the dark nature of the series. They'll still cut too many things that will annoy me. I'm with you and my expensive book habit. I found keeping a list of books I want to buy in my wallet helped me. That way I could do targeted shopping at used bookstores.
I'm reading Krakauer's "Under the Banner of Heaven" and let me tell you ....it jumps out of the gate and doesn't stop....major page turner. I read "Into Thin Air" and "Into The Wild" when they came out, but somehow this had slipped between the cracks.
I had a really hard time reading the first few chapters of the first book but I'm glad I stuck it out. Books always will be better than their movie adaptations but it is fun to see how close they can get to portray the whole story. I have Hunger Games, Water for Elephants and a couple of other books that are loanable so anyone with a Kindle or Kindle application can PM me if you want to read them! I haven't read them yet. I have a bunch of books on my Kindle that I need to read!
