Gave up on the previous one, and reading this: ps-I am coming up at the library qeue for 61 hours, can't wait!
I can't wait either! I'm going to recommend this for you, if you get it please do not give up on it!! The Passage - Justin Cronin.
I just read that book (The passage) and have mixed feelings about it. It was kind of slow but pretty good I'd say. 3.5 stars out of five in my opinion.
I already have Ginsberg's letters and the two volume of Kerouac's selected letters, and I've never come across about 70% of the ones in here before. Pretty interesting correspondance so far.
I will pick it up at the library. Thanks for the recommendation. And I'll promise that I will read it through.
Good book... It's crazy. I recently watched the film adaptation and it was terrible. Left out a bunch of stuff and was too fast paced, which is understandable considering how long the book is. I read this when it was first released in the US, (2 years ago?), and have yet to read the other two books. I think the Girl Who Played With Fire is going to be my next pickup. I was waiting for when they became mass paperbacks and cheap. That day arrived awhile ago but I had other stuff to keep me distracted.
I didn't find it slow at all. Have you read Uner the Dome by Stephen King? It reminded me of that (not in content obv.) by the way I flew threw it. It's quite long and given your track record I'm not sure it's a promise you'll keep!
I always like telling people the movies are more like a supplement to the books. Not good as a movie, but neat to see some of the scenes and characters fleshed out. You really MUST read 'The Girl Who Played With Fire' as well as 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.' The first book was good, wrapped up rather neatly, but the second two books dive head first into Salander's world and her back story. And really, there's no tidy resolution with the second book -- it leaves you hanging while the third book jumps right back into things.
How many books do you actually finish in a year's time? I think I've only given up on maybe 5 books in my entire life. Not that I'm judging you or anything, but I guess I always try to commit to anything I pick up and start reading. Even if it's dry, or I don't get the humor, or it's just a mediocre read, there's usually something I can take from it. A character, a line, a setting ... Just curious.
I haven't read horror since high school (except for Desperation by Stephen King within the last year, I did finish it), so if I get into the story i'll finish it (I am number 93 in the library qeue!).
I finish most of the books I start, but within the last year I decided that why bother continue reading something that I am not enjoying when there are so many books out there. Within the last year I finished all books by Elizabeth Strout, Michael Connelly, Robert Crais and Lee Child. I tend to pick authors and if I like them I read all their stuff. Right now I am more into the Cop/Detective books, recently I have finished a few of Lawrence Block' books, but he is not someone I can read one book after another. Lately I read mostly for entertainment, so I have not being reading "difficult" books, mostly "light" books. And yes, I am enjoying the latest one.
Ahhhh. Gotcha. I have a coworker who's like that. He normally polishes off 2 books a week and has to read a LOT of crap from local people that self-publish, so when it comes to his 'fun' reading, he'll ditch a book if he doesn't like the way it's going.
There's really no point in finishing a book you aren't enjoying, unless you are blessed with endless free time and ran out of other options. I try to plan properly and read reviews to not end up in the situation, and I usually don't. I have tried a book and put it on the back burner, and come back to it at a later time, pretty often, but that's a bit different.
Yes it must be. It's almost double what 61 hours was. ps-The only thing I disliked about the book in the reviews (in Amazon), was that it is vampire related. The only other book that I read that was vampire related was Dracula. And I also read Frankenstein, so I don't mind that angle as long as it is well done, just not much into it. Again, the only time I read "horror" and then it was only Stephen King and Edgar Allen Poe and one or two other compilations. I must be a scary cat. ps-By the way, I will be picking up 61 hours today, so I will be reading it this weekend.
Day by Day Armageddon then started Beyond Exile: Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne They are amazing. Go pick both books up STAT.
The Ballad of Billy & George: The Tempestuous Baseball Marriage of Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner
Finished Dune, forgot to bring the next book I had intended (John Jakes' North and South), so balancing two on the iPad, the Memoirs of Ulysses Grant, and Men with Balls by Drew Magary of Kissing Suzy Kolber.
I use to never give up on books. But, over the past 2-3 years I have started doing it more often. I just have so many books on my shelf that I have never read and I have what my wife would call an issue on getting new books. With bookmooch and used book sales, I acquire a lot. So, if a book isnt grabbing me within a 100 pages or so, I might put it down unless someone has told me to stick to it. I just have so many in the queue that i dont want to waste my time. But, it has to be pretty bad for me to stop reading it.