BOOKS! - what are you reading?

[Duchess]

*inspired*

[username]

Yeah, I had read that after watching the first movie. If you have Netflix and the time, I'd be curious what you think about the movie to book comparison. The one from Sweden, not the most recent one with Daniel Craig.

I was reading about a book called "One Second After" last night... here's the sysnopis:

'In a Norman Rockwell town in North Carolina, where residents rarely lock homes, retired army colonel John Matherson teaches college, raises two daughters, and grieves the loss of his wife to cancer. When phones die and cars inexplicably stall, Grandma’s pre-computerized Edsel takes readers to a stunning scene on the car-littered interstate, on which 500 stranded strangers, some with guns, awaken John’s New Jersey street-smart instincts to get the family home and load the shotgun. Next morning, some townspeople realize that an electromagnetic pulse weapon has destroyed America’s power grid, and they proceed to set survival priorities. John’s list includes insulin for his type-one diabetic 12-year-old, candy bars, and sacks of ice. Deaths start with heart attacks and eventually escalate alarmingly. Food becomes scarce, and societal breakdown proceeds with inevitable violence; towns burn, and ex-servicemen recall “Korea in ’51” as military action by unlikely people becomes the norm in Forstchen’s sad, riveting cautionary tale.'

Has anyone read it by any chance?

I haven't JB. Here's the description of The Passage which was highly rated and a bestseller. Both sound sort of like end of the world type books; not sure that appeals to me right now. That said, I read The Strain some time ago and enjoyed that.

First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear—of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.

As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he’s done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse.

[Maggot]

It's taken me a week to read james and the giant peach, next is big henrys circus adventure. Bedtime stories are my favorite though.

[Duchess]

You accompany those stories with sound effects, don't you? I ask because I can picture that in my mind.

[Maggot]

I'm the best reader in the world. Complete with tickles.

[Donovan]

I read the "one second after" book on my airplane trip to Hawaii a couple years back. It was promising in the opening chapters but very quickly degenerated into a conservative propaganda manifesto. Implausible and very stilted toward preaching martial law and conservative values. Not great storytelling. I was underwhelmed and bored by what should have been a great premise...

[HairOfTheDog]

It's taken me a week to read james and the giant peach, next is big henrys circus adventure. Bedtime stories are my favorite though.

I love bedtime stories too. "Charlotte's Web" was the first novel bedtime story that I read to my nephew.

Why I picked a really thick high southern-accented voice for Charlotte, IDK. About a ¹⁄₄ way in, I tried to change it up and got met with, "that's not Charlotte!". Tried the same thing when he'd start falling asleep, but always got busted out.

Not much tickling, but got laughed at a lot doing my very lame stutter for Goose and Gander. Glad they didn't have more to say.

These days, I mostly read late at night and usually non-fiction / satire. Finally just picked up "Freakonomics" by Levitt and Dubner. Interesting and amusing read so far.

[Duchess]

Awesome Duchess. It's really good. I look forward to hearing your opinion.

I haven't read much so far but I already don't like the wife & I think she has shit for brains for giving him eighty grand.

[ramseycat]

I just finished The Silent Wife. It was pretty good. It's written in alternating voices if the husband and wife. It reminded me if Girl Gone.

[ramseycat]

Duchess, did you finish Girl Gone?

[Duchess]

No, I never finished it. I had a lot of difficulty getting interested in the characters. I may have gone back to it at some point but unless I buy the books that are sent to my Kindle the library takes them back after three weeks.

[ramseycat]

You should try it again. It was really good once you get into it.

[Cynical Ninja]

I started reading Fifty Shades of Grey, what a load of shit!

Saying that I was reading De Sade when I was a teenager and Fifty Shades is overblown piffle in comparison.

[Duchess]

Ha! You & Ramsey can discuss it, she has read it too.

[SIXFOOTERsez]

On a SciFi kick here lately. Working my way through Crimson Worlds by Jay Allen, not a bad storyline, but the prose is kind of lame, maybe its just the reader, he pronounces some things weird and stresses the wrong words, its distracting sometimes.

[Cynical Ninja]

If you like military science fiction you've got to read Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein it is like a right wing fascists wet dream.

[Cynical Ninja]

Ha! You & Ramsey can discuss it, she has read it too.

I read “The 120 days of Sodom” was I was 18, Fifty Shades is utter piffle.

If you think Anastasia likes it rough try reading “Justine” be De Sade.

[Duchess]

I just started reading the first book in A Song Of Ice & Fire series.

[Maggot]

If you like military science fiction you've got to read Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein it is like a right wing fascists wet dream.

Starship Troopers was OK, but I kinda liked "Stranger in a strange land" better. I really should read the original one rather than the published one though.

[Cynical Ninja]

Starship Troopers was OK, but I kinda liked "Stranger in a strange land" better. I really should read the original one rather than the published one though.

A LOT of Americans looked at the culture and society in the film of Starship Troopers and thought “that's great!” Until they realised Dutch director Paul VerHoeven based it on the Nazis that invaded his country The Netherlands when he was a boy?

He said “you'd be surprised how many Americans are so right wing they would openly welcome a fascist society in their supposedly free country” fascism is the opposite to freedom dudes.

He's not right is he?