reading kevin smith's diary my boring ass life. really makes me wish i had made a b&w movie for no money and have it gross millions. oh well.
Finished up Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation and it was excellent. Moving on to Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma, and then In Defense of Food Just absolutely shocking some of the things you learn about food from these guys.
Every Last Drop - Charlie Huston Brimstone- Robert B. Parker Horse Soldiers - Doug Stanton Beat the Reaper - Josh Bazell
picked this up to read on a recent trip to chicago sadly haven't gotten around to reading it yet but I will get started on it this week.
If you like it, definitely pick up the sequel World Without End. It picks up a few hundred years after Pillars of the Earth and follows descendants on the characters.
The Secret Pulse of Time by Stefan Klein. Its pretty good. It a non-fiction about how we perceive time and how it moves. Next on my list is a book about predictions, then the Oscar Wilde's The Potrait of Dorian Gray . Has anyone read that? Any good?
Due to True Blood I've been knee deep in the Sookie Stackhouse books the last few months. I'm on book #8 now, Dead and Gone. Highly recommend this series for some light, fun reading.
Finished up Pattern Recognition by William Gibson not too long ago... I don't understand people's beef with the ending. Not every ending needs to be epic. Highly recommended. Tried to read Chuck Palahniuk's Pygmy. I hopped on the Chuck bandwagon in high school, and I enjoyed everything up until Diary, but I haven't been able to finish anything since. Just doesn't do it for me anymore... Just started Old Man's War by John Scalzi. Haven't gotten very far, but so far, a good read. Looking forward to finishing it. Studying for the GRE is kind of holding me back from any real reading at the moment.
Old Man's War is good. Scalzi is an excellent writer and there are already two sequels to the novel you're reading. I enjoyed The Ghost Brigade.
One of the main reasons I picked this up! I had read about the latter sequel, and it sounded promising.
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I'm reading Love in the Time of Cholera. That and the news today makes me have this bad feeling that it'll be 51 years between titles.
Patrick Rothfuss, "The Name of the Wind" was definitely a fantastic book and like you i generally dont mind delays too much if the books are great and if its a reasonable time frame (talking to you Martin!!). The great news for fans of "The Name of the Wind" is that Rothfuss finished/turned in the manuscript for A Wise Man's Fear (book two) last month! So lucky for us we can anticipate getting our hands on the second book sometime this year or early 2010 at the latest. I'm planning on checking out City of Thieves and while looking it up on amazon i was suprise to find that he had written 25th hour which i found very enjoyable. Welcome to the club! I dont know if i should congratulate you on finding such a wonderful & fantastic series or pity you for the inevitable pain of waiting & wanting/needing more. But seriously its a great book and the series only gets better. LoL Deckard, I dont know if we should be so happy about that considering Martin has missed yet another "deadline." He had hoped/predicted/planned *whatever* to finished the manuscript for a Dance with Dragons by June... unfortunately ... he didnt and I doubt we'll see it till 2010 (or 2011 or 12 etc) at the earliest. By the way have you had a chance to read Rothfuss yet?
I've been reading a ton lately with so-so luck. I read the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. Pretty good overall. The magic system was unique and completely kicked ass. The series went in some directions I didn't expect, which is unusual for fantasy. Based on this series, I can definitely see why they handed Sanderson the reigns of the Wheel of Time. I'm actually looking forward to reading those books now. I had a blast rereading Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. It was even better a second time, and I cannot recommend this novel enough. The prequel, The Angel's Game, was a profound disappointment. Luckily the two are not party of an overall narrative and can be read indpendently, because The Angel's Game is not anywhere near as good as Shadow of the Wind, which remains one of the greatest novels I have even read.
