invisible monsters that is one weird ass book. i dont think i could read 5 books like that in a row have to read something a little more normal in between those. (im talking about how it was written and the plot)
Dude, I LOVED that trilogy back in high school. It got me reading every single Star Wars novel that was written afterwards, but none were ever as good as those 3 (mostly because none ever came up with a villain as intriguing as Thrawn was). As for what I am reading...currently rereading Pastwatch: The Christopher Columbus Story by Orson Scott Card.
I'm about a quarter of the way through it and haven't been real impressed. I think I have the same problem as you.
I am reading Lords of the North, the last installment of Bernard Corwell's trilogy about Alfred the Great. They were all very quick reads.
You too? Great stuff. I've also been reading Allan Mallinson's series about the Light Dragoons, which takes place not long before and then after Waterloo. Reminds me a bit of O'Brian, with a horse.
Anybody looking for fom dececnt science fiction, I just finished reading Illium/Olympos by Dan Simmons. I highly recommend it. He frames a very solid modern epic space-opera type science fiction story in the Siege of Troy, which is somewhat unique. I also just finished A World Lit Only By Fire:The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance which is an interesting general audience book with lots of amusing stories like popes screwing their daughters and Martin Luther's repeated entreaties for Satan to crawl up his rear end. If that sort of stuff interests you it does a good job of showing how people thought back then.
Cool. yeah it is a shame we do not have s history channel, I would watch it a lot. I couldn't find the torrent of that show. There are more ways of writing his name, Chinngis is probably the most accurate, but Gengis is the most commonly used.
That's where I stopped reading, about a hundred pages in. I finished reading The Kite Runner and Freakonomics, and am working on The Darkness That Comes Before. I liked the Kite Runner. Freakonomics was interesting, but didn't live up to the hype for me. I have Atlas Shrugged and the The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics to work on as well as the The Children of Hurin by Tolkien and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseni on order.
I feel used. That was not the last installment, but the most recent. As it was not the last, the Alfred the Great novels are not a trilogy but a series. As such I must now wait for a new one(s?) to be written. I hate that. I much prefer reading things that are completed, even if I am not fully invested.
I knew it wasn't the last in the series, and didn't even notice the error! Cornwell has a breadth of interest that often coincides with mine. I'm always fascinated by authors that I enjoy that are amazingly prolific. It would be one thing if they were up and down in quality, as some are, but Cornwell always seems to produce excellent work.
Im not finished with it yet, but so far its great. I love how pro Carolina the author is, even though I am a huge Carolina hater. Its great to hear about the rivalry from someone who is pretty much obsessed with it.
ON the plan back from San Antonio, I started "For One More Day" by Mitch Albom...I'm a 3rd of the way through, thank god its only 194 pages.. Next will be the "Tao of Buffet"...I think his daughter came up with it...
I'm currently re-reading Stephen King's "The Bachman Books". I'm on "The Long Walk" at the moment...I absolutely love that novella for some reason. Same with "Rage". Quality work there by a young King...
