It's time we split up our centuries - we're ten years into this one now
"people are inclined to underestimate folks who work with books" - Jayne Ann Krentz
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Posted 7 months ago #
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When I picked up Stephen King's newest book I almost choked. It's over a thousand pages and I had just over two weeks to read it in.
But Under the Dome is easy reading and is building all the threads together. He does enough presaging ("Rory Dinsmore doesn't crash. It would have been better if he had") that you know things are going to get a lot worse before anything starts getting better.
It hasn't turned into horror. Right now it's a small community suddenly cut off from the rest of the world by a wall. The bullies take over immediately. One of the few who would stand up to them died immediately. Another who would is reluctant because he doesn't feel it's his fight. But there are others who pull him in anyway...
The only paranormal/supernatural so far is the wall itself and I'm a couple hundred pages in.
"people are inclined to underestimate folks who work with books" - Jayne Ann KrentzPosted 7 months ago # -
How would this book (or what you've read of it so far) compare to the "classic" King of, say [quote]The Shining or The Stand? I must admit I'm intrigued about this wall and how it got there.
"You who read me - are you certain you understand my language?" ~ Jorge Luis BorgesPosted 7 months ago # -
LizzieD
MemberThis seems a fine time for me to list my 21st century Orange Broadband-related reading in case anybody cares. I learned about the prize in 2008 and have read or bought a number of them - not a bad one in the lot so far. I was less attracted to the 2009 list, but I do have Home which won on Mt. Bookpile.
2008
The Road Home ~ Rose Tremain....the winner and my favorite book of the decade so far! (And my favorite author-find. I've also enjoyed Music & Silence and The Colour.)
The Keep ~ Patricia Egan
The End of Mr. Y ~ Scarlett Thomas
The Bastard of Istanbul ~ Elif Shafek
The Outcast ~ Sadie Jones
(I still have up to read The Septembers of Shiraz, The Clothes on their Backs,Blood of Flowers, and Intuition {with a sigh for the luxury of it all})
2009
Girl in a Blue Dress ~ Gaynor Arnold
Thanks for letting me do this accounting here!"Wear the old coat and buy the new book."Posted 7 months ago # -
Lizzie, my library book group read Home and Clothes on their Back. Of the two I liked Clothes better, Home just wasn't my kind of thing, though several did like it very much.
I have yet to get to Rose Tremain but I will at some point.
Posted 7 months ago # -
Do you mean the Home by Marilynne Robinson? I read it and liked it (has anyone read Gilead?)
Can't wait to hear what you think of The End of Mr. Y.
Posted 7 months ago # -
LizzieD
MemberRose, that's the Home I mean. I do think that I will read Gilead first.
I was royally entertained all the way through *Mr. Y*. Didn't we talk about it in another thread earlier? I was particularly enthralled with Apollo Whatshisname and the very few devotees who kept him going - very like the concept of American Gods, my favorite Neil Gaiman so far. It's funny how an idea becomes current for no reason that I can understand......
I think I'm going to love *Clothes* from the brief look I've had. At this point the weather has me dull, dull, dull in the brain department and I'm having trouble concentrating on anything. Fidgety!"Wear the old coat and buy the new book."Posted 7 months ago # -
Excellent and good collection of Books and that are interesting here any easy way to but=y these books. American Gods, Blood of Flowers and Intuition are my favorite. Where can i buy on net these books.
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