Now Reeding or Just Reeded...

Subject: Re: Now Reeding or Just Reeded... Sat Aug 02, 2008 2:35 am

Cosmic Codes by Chuck Missler

Subject: Re: Now Reeding or Just Reeded... Sat Aug 02, 2008 4:46 pm

akeldama wrote:

Cosmic Codes by Chuck Missler

Good book!

Right now I'm readine Timeline by Michael Crichton

Subject: Re: Now Reeding or Just Reeded... Sat Aug 02, 2008 11:44 pm

Right now:

Lumley - Necroscope And Other Weird Heroes

So far so good.....love all the Lovecraft references!

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Tall Tyrion wrote:

akeldama wrote:

Cosmic Codes by Chuck Missler

Good book!

Right now I'm readine Timeline by Michael Crichton

One of my favorite books. I loved it! Too bad the movie changed so much. I like the movie, but the book blows it away.

Do yourself a favor, read Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet.

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Angels and demons by Dan Brown.

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Schbopo wrote:

Angels and demons by Dan Brown.

Exactly like The Da Vinci Code.

Subject: Re: Now Reeding or Just Reeded... Sun Aug 03, 2008 5:35 am

Eyesore wrote:

Tall Tyrion wrote:

akeldama wrote:

Cosmic Codes by Chuck Missler

Good book!

Right now I'm readine Timeline by Michael Crichton

One of my favorite books. I loved it! Too bad the movie changed so much. I like the movie, but the book blows it away.

The book is awesome! Thanks for the heads up, I'll ignore the movie.

Quote:

Do yourself a favor, read Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet.

On the list!

OK, I don't really have a list, but I'll try to remember it.

Subject: Re: Now Reeding or Just Reeded... Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:45 pm

Duma Key - Stephen King

Not bad.....but he's written this one before.

Beginning = The Dead Zone

Middle = It/Salem's Lot

End = Shawshank Redemption

more or less

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Tall Tyrion wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Do yourself a favor, read Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet.

On the list!

Not kidding. It'll be one of the best books you'll ever read. Don't read the synopsis because you won't believe it can be a good book. The premise is basically this:

Dude wants to build a church.

Seriously. One of my best friends tried to get me to read this for years, and I always said no way. A book about a dude building a church? Pffft! Then one day I broke down. I could not stop reading it, man. And it's a big book, like 1,000 pages. I read it in a week, which is insane for me! And I didn't want it to end.

It's my favorite books of all-time. It blew me away. Nothing like Follet's regular stuff. He just released a bit of a sequel last year, or so, called World Without End. It takes place 200 years later, but in the same town. Not quite a sequel, but he references things from the first book. Not as good as Pillars, but still a great, fast read.

Subject: Re: Now Reeding or Just Reeded... Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:27 pm

I just finished Break no bones which is really good dont recall the author though.
And Red Dragon which by the guy who wrote the hannibal books very good stuff

Subject: Re: Now Reeding or Just Reeded... Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:43 pm

ThrashedOutCobra33 wrote:

And Red Dragon which by the guy who wrote the hannibal books very good stuff

Thomas Harris. Good writer. :metal:

I finished Timeline. He kind of ran out of steam after about 300 pages and limps along to the ending. Several scenes had that "phoned in" feel to them, and some were flat out poorly written. Shame too, because the beginning was so riveting.

I'm halfway through The Gunslinger now for the 6th or 7th time, and I just picked up a short story collection from Hemingway that I'll probably browse in at the same time.

Subject: Re: Now Reeding or Just Reeded... Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:31 am

Eyesore wrote:

Schbopo wrote:

Angels and demons by Dan Brown.

Exactly like The Da Vinci Code.

Both good stories - angles & demons is the better written of the two - parts of the da vinci code are poorly written, like something out of a harlequin novel

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thejokeriv wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Schbopo wrote:

Angels and demons by Dan Brown.

Exactly like The Da Vinci Code.

Both good stories - angles & demons is the better written of the two - parts of the da vinci code are poorly written, like something out of a harlequin novel

I liked both, but they're literally the same novel. The start EXACTLY the same, and then follow the same template throughout. Was it Angels & Demons with the airplane or helicopter part? Talk about ridiculous. Haha.

Either way, both are good, but highly overrated.

Subject: Re: Now Reeding or Just Reeded... Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:13 am

I'm reading Heavy Metal Islam by Mark Levine.

Subject: Re: Now Reeding or Just Reeded... Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:29 am

Eyesore and TallT - I highly recommend this one. Aztec - Gary Jennings.

Eyesore - it's one of those ones that for me was an infectious page turner keeping me up till 5:00 AM.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0812521463/ref=sib_dp_pt/105-3092051-1327663#reader-link

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scottmitchell74 wrote:

Eyesore and TallT - I highly recommend this one. Aztec - Gary Jennings.

Eyesore - it's one of those ones that for me was an infectious page turner keeping me up till 5:00 AM.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0812521463/ref=sib_dp_pt/105-3092051-1327663#reader-link

You've suggested that here before. And I forgot about it. Haha. There's a sequel or two as well, right?

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Looks like there's a bunch of sequels. I just ordered Aztec through PaperbackSwap (another great site from the SwapaCD guys).

Subject: Re: Now Reeding or Just Reeded... Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:48 am

I bought When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George Carlin recently. What I've read of it is pretty funny.

Subject: Re: Now Reeding or Just Reeded... Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:33 am

Blasphem - Douglas Preston (A Science - vs - God/Christians book that paints the average Christian as a loony - but beyond that it's a 1/2 decent reed Smile

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I think I'm also picking up from his writing that the author fancies himself an elite mind and indeed looks down on "religious" folk as mindless sheep.

Subject: Re: Now Reeding or Just Reeded... Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:05 am

I just started a book last night from the "Tom Clancy's Net Force" series. I'm about 100 pages in. Neat high-tech espionage stuff.

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Subject: Re: Now Reeding or Just Reeded... Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:48 am

Nightshadows - William F. Nolan (Not very impressed....it's a collection of short stories. Not interesting. Very seriously now...Eyesore is a much better writer in my opinion. I read 4-5 stories and decided to put the thing down)

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I really think that Ken should use Eye B. Sore as his writing name. In promo pictures he should wear a Herbert Kornfeld mask. He'd be the Buckethead of literature. Smile

Subject: Re: Now Reeding or Just Reeded... Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:37 pm

Fat Freddy wrote:

I just started a book last night from the "Tom Clancy's Net Force" series. I'm about 100 pages in. Neat high-tech espionage stuff.

I just realized that I never mentioned the TITLE of the book in question, haha. It's called "Springboard" if anybody cares. I'm about halfway thru it already.

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scottmitchell74 wrote:

Nightshadows - William F. Nolan (Not very impressed....it's a collection of short stories. Not interesting. Very seriously now...Eyesore is a much better writer in my opinion. I read 4-5 stories and decided to put the thing down)

I win! Screw you, Nolan!

Subject: Re: Now Reeding or Just Reeded... Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:45 pm

I'm juggling a few books right now but i'm half way through "You can run but you can't hide" by Duane "Dog" Chapman and i'm also reading "The Prison" by Patrick Gates and "The Face" by Dean Koontz