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Post by wolf on Apr 19, 2021 21:58:05 GMT
www.brandonsanderson.com/the-stormlight-archive-series/I've started on The Way of Kings This is book 1 in the Stormlight Series.
Some great fantasy writing by Brandon Sanderson. He's masterful at building worlds and cultures, religions and lifestyles.
These books are all heavy. And by that I mean they are thick! They are so thick that when I read in bed I have to make sure I put the book down before I fall asleep or risk breaking my nose. Do you lie on your back and hold the book over your head? (I'm trying to picture this)
If she's like me, she's holding the book propped up on her chest while she's laying down on her back. And when you fall asleep the heavy damn thing falls forward and bangs the crap out of the bridge of your nose! 😆...always a fun way of waking up! (Good King Stephen has done that me more a few times over the years. 🤨) 🤣 Right, Cool Chick ? 😊😉
( drawntokatet ) 😊
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Post by Steffen on Apr 20, 2021 12:11:49 GMT
When Life imitates Stephen King (article appears on Insider website):
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Post by Dizzy on Apr 21, 2021 19:19:15 GMT
I'm Now Reading "Christine" By Stephen King lol Just Started It only on Page 3
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2021 5:05:08 GMT
Just finished volume 1 of Blacksad. A graphic novel detective noir series about a cat detective who solves mysteries in a world filled with anthropomorphic animals in 1950s America, think of it like an R rated Zootopia. Volume 1 consists of 3 stand-alone stories. The writing is great and the art is beautiful, there's a lot of effort put into the look of every character in every frame, even the background characters. You can always catch some small details in the background characters, even if they aren't relevant in the main plot whatsoever, for example there's a bar fight between a monkey and a jaguar taking place in the background of a scene in the 1st story that you can see continually get more chaotic each frame.
Story 1: Somewhere Within the Shadows - Blacksad investigates the mysterious murder of a local actress whom he once was romantically involved with.
Story 2: Arctic Nation - A recent lynching and child kidnapping leads Blacksad to investigate a prominent white supremacist group (Human skin color being replaced with fur/feather color in this scenario) fronted by some elite members of his town. This was definitely my favorite of the 3 stories, the plot just had so many layers to it and it was a really compelling read.
Story 3: Red Soul - 1950s Red Scare witch-hunting is in full swing and Blacksad investigates the recent murder of a pharmaceutical chemist who had been a member of a tight-knight group of artists and intellectuals suspected of being communist sympathizers by the mob.
All the stories were very good. But If I had to rank the stories worst to best I'd say
Somewhere in the Shadows Red Soul Arctic Nation
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Post by drawntokatet on Apr 22, 2021 15:58:00 GMT
Do you lie on your back and hold the book over your head? (I'm trying to picture this)
If she's like me, she's holding the book propped up on her chest while she's laying down on her back. And when you fall asleep the heavy damn thing falls forward and bangs the crap out of the bridge of your nose! 😆...always a fun way of waking up! (Good King Stephen has done that me more a few times over the years. 🤨) 🤣 Right, Cool Chick ? 😊😉
( drawntokatet ) 😊 That's the truth. snicker
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Post by neesy on Apr 23, 2021 17:09:52 GMT
I'm Now Reading "Christine" By Stephen King lol Just Started It only on Page 3 We all just watched the movie recently (I think it was the first time Andy had seen it) - I really like it; it's directed by John Carpenter
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Post by neesy on Apr 23, 2021 17:16:26 GMT
If she's like me, she's holding the book propped up on her chest while she's laying down on her back. And when you fall asleep the heavy damn thing falls forward and bangs the crap out of the bridge of your nose! 😆...always a fun way of waking up! (Good King Stephen has done that me more a few times over the years. 🤨) 🤣 Right, Cool Chick ? 😊😉
( drawntokatet ) 😊 That's the truth. Hi - thanks to wolf for answering first of all (I knew eventually you would come back drawntokatet
Right now I am reading a book about sleep called The Sleep Revolution by Arianna Huffington - I read it right before I fall asleep but I just recline a bit on about three pillows and hold the book in my hands
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Post by Dizzy on Apr 23, 2021 18:25:48 GMT
I'm Now Reading "Christine" By Stephen King lol Just Started It only on Page 3 We all just watched the movie recently (I think it was the first time Andy had seen it) - I really like it; it's directed by John Carpenter
I Havent Seen The Movie but i Love The Book but Not The End Part Where Dennis an Leigh dont Stay Together though. It Makes Me Sad.
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Post by Dizzy on Apr 30, 2021 14:59:31 GMT
Starrted The TommyKnockers Last Night bokoebaFTerAfwUuywKb
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Post by neesy on May 1, 2021 18:04:43 GMT
Starrted The TommyKnockers Last Night I remember that as being a very weird book but I like science fiction a lot so I enjoyed it
I'm reading a book called The Sleep Revolution right now
It's all about how important sleep is and how so many people are sleep deprived.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2021 22:34:39 GMT
Reading Secrets Of The Third Reich by the german historian Guido Knopp. In swedish translated from german.... Has informative chapters on Rommel, Speer and Himmler that tells things that are not so well known about them. I found the chapters on Hitlers family most interesting. How Hitler tried, and succeeded, to hide several things about his family tree and the support he had from the beginning from his two sisters, Angela and Paola.
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Post by Dizzy on May 2, 2021 2:40:48 GMT
Ohhh Yes neesy It is a Pretty Wild Story but One of My Favs By SK. Thst Book Sounds Cool That You are Reading too lol but I Get Alotta Sleep so I Probably Couldn't Use it My Self WBU?
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Post by neesy on May 2, 2021 19:16:15 GMT
Reading Secrets Of The Third Reich by the german historian Guido Knopp. In swedish translated from german.... Has informative chapters on Rommel, Speer and Himmler that tells things that are not so well known about them. I found the chapters on Hitlers family most interesting. How Hitler tried, and succeeded, to hide several things about his family tree and the support he had from the beginning from his two sisters, Angela and Paola. Sounds intriguing - I just realized Hitler was only 56 when he died (I don't know how he could have got so messed up - I consider him to be a real monster)
Ohhh Yes neesy It is a Pretty Wild Story but One of My Favs By SK. Thst Book Sounds Cool That You are Reading too lol but I Get Alotta Sleep so I Probably Couldn't Use it My Self WBU? I finished the book on sleep last night; Now I am trying to get 8 hours of sleep a night. I don't use an alarm clock but just wake up automatically these days
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2021 20:47:51 GMT
Reading Secrets Of The Third Reich by the german historian Guido Knopp. In swedish translated from german.... Has informative chapters on Rommel, Speer and Himmler that tells things that are not so well known about them. I found the chapters on Hitlers family most interesting. How Hitler tried, and succeeded, to hide several things about his family tree and the support he had from the beginning from his two sisters, Angela and Paola. Sounds intriguing - I just realized Hitler was only 56 when he died (I don't know how he could have got so messed up - I consider him to be a real monster)
Ohhh Yes neesy It is a Pretty Wild Story but One of My Favs By SK. Thst Book Sounds Cool That You are Reading too lol but I Get Alotta Sleep so I Probably Couldn't Use it My Self WBU? I finished the book on sleep last night; Now I am trying to get 8 hours of sleep a night. I don't use an alarm clock but just wake up automatically these days
No doubt about that. But he was no fool. He understood how to convince people of his sick views and he understood to put competent people in charge. People like Goebbels, Speer and Himmler and others were nasty specimens too but very efficient at their job and strangely enough a lot of women swarmed around him during the 20,s and 30,s. He must have had some kind of charm that appealed to them. He liked their adoration but was always wary of anything close to commitment. Several women either tried or actually did commit suicide because they did not get enough attention from Hitler. Hard for us to understand today but that whats history tells us. He did not start to go crazy until the end of the war when it was already clear the war was lost. Then he prolonged it and a lot of people died for no real reason.
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Post by osnafrank on May 3, 2021 19:47:57 GMT
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Post by neesy on May 7, 2021 22:39:53 GMT
Sounds intriguing - I just realized Hitler was only 56 when he died (I don't know how he could have got so messed up - I consider him to be a real monster)
I finished the book on sleep last night; Now I am trying to get 8 hours of sleep a night. I don't use an alarm clock but just wake up automatically these days
No doubt about that. But he was no fool. He understood how to convince people of his sick views and he understood to put competent people in charge. People like Goebbels, Speer and Himmler and others were nasty specimens too but very efficient at their job and strangely enough a lot of women swarmed around him during the 20,s and 30,s. He must have had some kind of charm that appealed to them. He liked their adoration but was always wary of anything close to commitment. Several women either tried or actually did commit suicide because they did not get enough attention from Hitler. Hard for us to understand today but that whats history tells us. He did not start to go crazy until the end of the war when it was already clear the war was lost. Then he prolonged it and a lot of people died for no real reason. Thanks for that insight @kurben - Now I'm reading one about Harry and Meghan
It's just a bit of light reading for now
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2021 23:21:31 GMT
Reading a book on the war on the eastern front in WW2. It has been written so much about Berlin, Normandie, The ardennes, Crete, North Africa and the blitzkrieg in france but the bloodiest battles that were completely without mercy on both sides were fought on the eastern front germany versus the sovjetunion. Charkov, Kursk, Stalingrad, Moscow, Minsk, Smolensk and Rostov are just some of the many battles. In comparison with how the germans behaved here they were extremely polite and civil in the west. (everything is relative). It had both political and ideological reasons. The political reasons were that Hitler, when France was invaded, still hoped for a separate peacetreaty with britain or even an alliance against the common enemy (as he saw it) the sovjetunion. The ideological was that the sovjets were untermenschen in his words (subhumans, not really worth to live compared with the german folk). The brits and the french also stemmed from german tribes in the beginning so was prepared to tolerate them but the polish and the russians were slavs and therefore far below the noble german. When i need to brighten my mood from these deepdives in how horrid the human species can behave i go back to some books from my childhood. Right now reading some Biggles books. I collected them as a child and remember them as good youth adventure stories. I remember how i , aged about 25, realized i had to get rid of at least some of my youth books to get room. I remember going through books by Enid Blyton, Biggles, the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books and some others and deciding what to keep. I kept about 8 Biggles books and now, some 30 years after that painful choice was made, i can see that my 25 year old me know what he was doing. They are still entertaining. Thank god i was wise enough then not to throw them all away.
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Post by Dizzy on May 8, 2021 23:55:25 GMT
Probably Going to Start Reading IT By Stephen King Tonight if I Feel Up to it Later.
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Post by annamarie on May 17, 2021 13:07:02 GMT
I have just started reading Kerwall Town by S. Reed.
I’m only about a chapter in, so can’t really give a decent review....but I definitely like his character development. And I find myself wondering what’s going to happen. (Always a good sign.) My understanding is it’s a classic style horror story.
Some of you may remember S. Reed from the SK forum. He went by MiseryKnight and then SebShaw19.
I bought the Kindle version.
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Post by neesy on May 17, 2021 18:40:56 GMT
I finished a book by Anne Tyler called A Patchwork Planet and now I am on one about improving your health etc. It's pretty good
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