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Post by day dreamer on Jul 14, 2016 18:57:53 GMT -5
I'm rereading Game of Thrones, but I was thinking of setting it aside to check out Ready Player One from the library.
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Post by moiaf on Jul 18, 2016 13:03:22 GMT -5
I just started reading The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchinson and it's really good. I picked it up last night and I'm in page 80. I think I can finish it by tomorrow.
ETA: The book is about a serial kidnapper, rapist and murderer who takes young women into his "garden" tattoos butterfly wings on them and only keeps them alive until their 21st birthday. We are hearing the story through one of his victims who is being interviewed by an FBI agent.
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Post by day dreamer on Jul 28, 2016 13:40:36 GMT -5
I just finished When A Fan Hits the Shit by Jeanine Renne - fascinating story about fandom wank.
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Post by moiaf on Jul 30, 2016 15:38:32 GMT -5
I just finished When A Fan Hits the Shit by Jeanine Renne - fascinating story about fandom wank. That sounds interesting. Other than Harry Potter this is the most involve fandome I've been a part of.
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Post by izzue on Jul 30, 2016 16:36:45 GMT -5
I'm a Sherlock and a mystery lover - just checked out a book Kareem Abdul-Jabbar co-authored with screenwriter Anna Waterhouse, Mycroft Holmes, his backstory. I figure it's a perfect read between now and when the new season of Sherlock airs next year.
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Post by moiaf on Jul 30, 2016 16:40:17 GMT -5
I'm a Sherlock and a mystery lover - just checked out a book Kareem Abdul-Jabbar co-authored with screenwriter Anna Waterhouse, Mycroft Holmes, his backstory. I figure it's a perfect read between now and when the new season of Sherlock airs next year. I like Sherlock the series but I've never read any of the books. Mystery is not a genre I'm really into, although, I'm open to reading it.
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Post by atargbyanothername on Jul 30, 2016 17:57:22 GMT -5
I'm trying to save money right now so I'm rereading loads of stuff. Next up will be Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.
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Post by moiaf on Jul 30, 2016 18:03:18 GMT -5
I'm trying to save money right now so I'm rereading loads of stuff. Next up will be Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. I loath to admit this but I have not read the book yet! It just didn't appeal to me, although, a lot of people I know liked it.
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Post by atargbyanothername on Jul 31, 2016 14:50:45 GMT -5
I'm trying to save money right now so I'm rereading loads of stuff. Next up will be Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. I loath to admit this but I have not read the book yet! It just didn't appeal to me, although, a lot of people I know liked it. If you've seen the film, I would say that it's a very good adaptation of the book. Not 100% true to the source all of the time, but not particularly divergent. It does a few thugs better too, I would say, simply because we get to see them rather than hear second hand. For example Amy faking her own rape/abuse and then killing that man during sex The book itself is very good, extremely tense. Gillian Flynn is an awesome author. I think I like Dark Places the best
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Post by moiaf on Jul 31, 2016 15:02:20 GMT -5
I loath to admit this but I have not read the book yet! It just didn't appeal to me, although, a lot of people I know liked it. If you've seen the film, I would say that it's a very good adaptation of the book. Not 100% true to the source all of the time, but not particularly divergent. It does a few thugs better too, I would say, simply because we get to see them rather than hear second hand. For example Amy faking her own rape/abuse and then killing that man during sex The book itself is very good, extremely tense. Gillian Flynn is an awesome author. I think I like Dark Places the best I have not watched the movie because I thought I'd read the book first. So maybe I will give it a try, see how I like her writing. Speaking of Dark Places, Ihaven't read it but I thought I heard that Amy Adams was working on a series based on the book, I think for HBO.
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Post by izzue on Jul 31, 2016 15:13:50 GMT -5
I loath to admit this but I have not read the book yet! It just didn't appeal to me, although, a lot of people I know liked it. If you've seen the film, I would say that it's a very good adaptation of the book. Not 100% true to the source all of the time, but not particularly divergent. It does a few thugs better too, I would say, simply because we get to see them rather than hear second hand. For example Amy faking her own rape/abuse and then killing that man during sex The book itself is very good, extremely tense. Gillian Flynn is an awesome author. I think I like Dark Places the best My book club read this when it came out, and what's so funny is that the member who picked the book kept apologizing to the rest of us throughout the whole month before our meeting that it was a really bad book. The rest of us kept trying to figure out why she kept saying it was so terrible, and when we finally met, we discovered that we all rather liked it, except her. When the movie came out, we went to see that, too (I agree exactly with what you said, atargbyanothername ) and had laughs listening to the stunned reactions of people around us, one who said, "Can you imagine reading the book?" ETA: moiaf, I do think you'll enjoy the movie more if you read the book first.
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Post by day dreamer on Aug 1, 2016 19:06:52 GMT -5
I just finished When A Fan Hits the Shit by Jeanine Renne - fascinating story about fandom wank. That sounds interesting. Other than Harry Potter this is the most involve fandome I've been a part of. Funny enough the main person causing all this wank is actually pretty active in the HP fandom now. She wrote that Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness fic.
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Post by Lovely Lyanna on Aug 1, 2016 22:48:51 GMT -5
I am working on J.K. Rowling's (as Robert Galbraith) Career of Evil. This is a series that has grown on me. I had two false starts on The Cuckoo's Calling, but I thought it was improving by the end. The other two books have not been bad. I think they are a bit long for detective / mystery stories, but they are good.
I have no idea where this came from, but when I am reading these books, I just always picture the Hound as Cormoran.
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Post by Lovely Lyanna on Aug 1, 2016 23:14:53 GMT -5
I loath to admit this but I have not read the book yet! It just didn't appeal to me, although, a lot of people I know liked it. The book itself is very good, extremely tense. Gillian Flynn is an awesome author. Gillian Flynn is the strangest combinations of being a truly gifted writer that creates the most disgusting characters I have ever had the pleasure to hate. I know that description sounds crazy, but I do not know how else to explain my feelings on her books. I too think she is an awesome author, but her characters are so unlikeable for me. I can't stand them, yet I can't put one of her books down, just because I think they are so well written. Technically I think her books are very good. I also think her plots are very good. It is just that I can't find anything to like about her characters, so sometimes I am sitting there reading her stuff and thinking I hate these people, why I am reading this. Yet I can't put the darn thing down. It is like there is no good guy or hero in there. They are just incredibly broken people that you do not want living next door to you. I liked Gone Girl, even though I did not like either Nick or Amy, which is kind of weird when there is no one to root for. The only problem was I kept thinking I had read it before. It just felt really familiar. The whole backstory of Amy's parents writing her life kept bugging me. I had finished the book and watched the movie, but it still kept nagging me. Finally upon rewatching the movie, I blurt out "What do you think Pink. What will we do Blue." I had no idea where that came from. Finally I remembered it was from a Margaret Maron book. The Last Lessons of Summer. The main character's name is Amy. Her parents use her as the source for their children's books. The line "What do you think pink and what will we do blue" were what she said as a child to her stuffed animals and they were catch phrases in the children's books her parents wrote. I thought wow, she completely stole that plot from Gillian Flynn, so I looked it up. Maron's book was released ten years earlier in 2004 than Flynn's book, so she definitely did not steal it. I found that really weird. The books are very different, but nevertheless it is strange that both characters were named Amy and the whole book publishing empire based on children's books were in both books. I would also like to know what Margaret Maron thought of Gone Girl.
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Post by atargbyanothername on Aug 2, 2016 6:30:36 GMT -5
From what I've read in terms of interviews and stuff with Gillian Flynn, I get the impression she is intentionally writing unlike able characters. Nick and Amy are both terrible people (though Amy really takes it over the edge....) in a really destructive relationship, and I think that is precisely what Flynn was going for. And I applaud her for that actually, I don't think characters in books need to be likeable all of the time. That the plot and writing is strong enough to keep readers engaged is an impressive feat IMO
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