Official Book Thread - What You're Reading & Everything Book Related (merged)

#427
#427
Just finished the entire Harry Potter series. It was my first read through, and I really wished I had given it a chance earlier on.
 
#428
#428
vader said:
Dude...really?!

Classic American western. His Sackett series follows a family from their roots in Scotland, coming to America and making their way to the mountains of east TN (mentions Clinch mountain a lot) and their migration out west for badass cowboy stuff. Pretty entertaining.
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That was the perception I got, sorry to hit a nerve.

Maybe I will check one out? :p
 
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#429
chavisut said:
Just finished the entire Harry Potter series. It was my first read through, and I really wished I had given it a chance earlier on.
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Interesting. I was thinking about reading that one.
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#431
vader said:
Good thread bump. I was just thinking of this one.

Recently I have read the Sackett series and Hondo by L'Amour, a few of the Alex Cross books by Patterson (total junk food for the brain) and the Great Santini at the suggestion of BPV (fantastic book).

I also read The Road and No Country for Old Men in there. I am going to get my hands on a copy of Suttree pretty soon.

At the suggestion of one of my work colleagues, I am about 90 pages into "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin. Looks like an interesting series of books.
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#436
vader said:
I also read The Road and No Country for Old Men in there. I am going to get my hands on a copy of Suttree pretty soon.
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Most of my reading this past year or so has either been non fiction or McCarthy, wish I would've found his work earlier but I haven't found anything I didn't like yet.

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Suttree is good, but not like his other novels. It reminded me of early Steinbeck (with 200 more pages).
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Agree here though, Sutree is definitely a little different. I almost quit on it at the very beginning but was glad I didn't.

vader said:
I'm mainly curious because of the Knoxville connection. I'm a little ticked that my local library doesn't have it. I'm probably going to end up buying it.
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It is really interesting to envision some of the scenes he's describing and trying to see them now. I found myself zoning out more than a few times trying to picture where he was describing, just today's version.

I just started The Crossing, the 2nd of the border trilogy. All the Pretty Horses was a hell of a good start to a trilogy.
 
#437
#437
I finished Brother Odd, the third book in Koontz Odd Thomas series. I enjoy it.

Started Suttree yesterday. So far, it's a little hard to keep up with but I'm enjoying the dialogue.
 
#438
#438
Currently reading The Bourne Identity. I've seen all three movies, and really enjoyed them. I figured the books had to be good -- maybe even better. So far Identity has been a great read.
 
#439
#439
About to start Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Toward a Genealogy of Morals.

Would like to start reading some Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment.
 
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#442
bam15 said:
About to start Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Toward a Genealogy of Morals.

Would like to start reading some Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment.
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I downloaded the ebook for Crime and Punishment, but I have not gotten around to reading it yet.
 
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#445
vader said:
At the suggestion of one of my work colleagues, I am about 90 pages into "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin. Looks like an interesting series of books.
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Martin's series is terrific--it is high fantasy that can be enjoyed and appreciated by people out of middle school, and that's hard to find.

However, prepare to join the frustrated throngs of readers who wish he would write the next damned book already, even if it isn't any good. Right now, it is as if the projector broke with 30 minutes left in a really long but very good movie.
 
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#446
cotton said:
Martin's series is terrific--it is high fantasy that can be enjoyed and appreciated by people out of middle school, and that's hard to find.

However, prepare to join the frustrated throngs of readers who wish he would write the next damned book already, even if it isn't any good. Right now, it is as if the projector broke with 30 minutes left in a really long but very good movie.
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I am a couple of hundred pages into book three and I agree that it is fantastic.
 
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#449
cotton said:
Martin's series is terrific--it is high fantasy that can be enjoyed and appreciated by people out of middle school, and that's hard to find.

However, prepare to join the frustrated throngs of readers who wish he would write the next damned book already, even if it isn't any good. Right now, it is as if the projector broke with 30 minutes left in a really long but very good movie.
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vader said:
I am a couple of hundred pages into book three and I agree that it is fantastic.
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Sounds like I need to check this out, what is the first book in the series?
 
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