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Discussion in 'Entertainment Forum' started by Melody Bot, Mar 13, 2015.

  1. Fletchaaa

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    Just read Survive the Night by Riley Sager and have to say it was pretty awful. Riley Sager has some good books but this is not one. None of the characters are believable.
     
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  2. It's very good. Been a few years since I read the trilogy, but I remember thinking the other two books fell off a little bit.
     
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  3. Donnie Ruth

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    Yeah really wasn’t feeling this one, which sucks, because the previous book by Riley Sager was great!
     
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  4. OotyPa

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    Reading Anne Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek for the first time and it’s everything I want in a book tbh. Every few pages I actually have to take a breath because of how stunned I am by its beauty and wisdom. Manages to be both warm and intimate while also immense and intricate. I don’t want it to end :hearteyes:
     
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  5. Colby Searcy

    Is admired for his impeccable (food) tastes Prestigious

    Which ones have you read? Of those which ones did you like/dislike? I've read them all and agree but I keep coming back every year
     
  6. Fletchaaa

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    Home Before Dark I really liked. I think I'll wait for the reviews going forward. I saw this one had mediocre reviews.
     
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  7. Colby Searcy

    Is admired for his impeccable (food) tastes Prestigious

    I definitely think Home Before Dark is his best. Haven't read Survive The Night yet but was hoping it would be a step in the right direction but I've heard nothing but mediocre things.
     
  8. Fletchaaa

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    It's still very readable, but the main character is honestly one of the dumbest protagonists ever. Also the author uses a stupid plot device which makes anything that happens unreliable as actually happening lol
     
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  9. ReginaPhilange

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    Finished Ancillary Justice, overall pretty good, just not sure how invested I am into the story. Not sure yet if I'll finish the trilogy.
     
  10. wisdomfordebris

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    I've spent the past number of months reading through some of Stephen King's books - It, The Stand, Pet Sematary - and they haven't let me down in the slightest. Pet Sematary is the least good King book I've read, but it's still great. I'm always relieved to read a Stephen King book and discover that he's actually great, despite the obvious problems that plague his work.

    Speaking of problems: unfortunately, after Pet Sematary, I decided to move on and I started The Great & Secret Show by Clive Barker. I've never read anything by Barker before, and I knew there was going to be some weird sex stuff in it, but it's pretty shit so far and I don't know how much more I can take. I would've given up after the choice quote I'll post below this, but the monsters are cool and overall it's quite imaginative, so I'm waiting for one more questionable sentence or subplot before I call it quits. (As if the implied incest wasn't enough.)

    ]Character imagining wearing his girlfriend's underwear:

    "To push his cock into a space sanctified by her ****, perfumed by it, dampened by it, would keep him the way he was - too hard for comfort - until the Crack of Doom."
     
  11. ReginaPhilange

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    Started reading the LoTR trilogy. Thought I'd have a hard time since I've already seen the movies (like a dozen times each) but I'm loving it so far.
     
  12. marsupial jones

    make a bagel without the hole Prestigious

    Last three words of that spoiler made me legit laugh out loud. I’ve never read anything by Barker and not to judge him on one or two sentences alone but that’s baaaaaad writing lol
     
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  13. OotyPa

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    Our new built-in bookshelf is finally finished, painted, and decorated. Seeing all our books together like this only makes me want to buy more to fill in the gaps :crylaugh: Really enjoying just gazing at it admiringly lol

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  14. radiodead Oct 3, 2021
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    radiodead

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    Finished In Cold Blood and The Jungle.

    Both fantastic.

    Onto E.M. Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread.
     
  15. OotyPa

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    Finished Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and man it was perfect. Totally stunning and filled with beautiful soul-searchy goodness.

    Now, onto Bruno Schulz’s Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass.
     
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  16. radiodead

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    Can I solicit everyone’s top 5 favorite books? I’ve been gathering a few recommendations by pursuing this thread but I’d like even more.
     
  17. Grapevine_Twine

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    This top 5 could be totally different depending on the day, I just looked through my good reads for 5 min. Ranking books is pretty impossible. But

    5. Lincoln in the bardo - George Saunders
    4. The Underground Railroad - colson whitehead
    3. A brief history of seven killings - marlon James
    2. Kafka on the shore - Haruki Murakami
    1. The dispossessed - Ursula k leguin
     
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  18. danielm123

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    I've had The Dispossessed on my unread books shelf for a little while now. Really going to have to get to that soon
     
  19. radiodead

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    Thank you. Actually just picked up Lincoln in the Bardo at my local library, they were having a book sale. Grabbed about 20 books for $17
     
  20. Garrett

    i tore a hole in the fabric of time Moderator

    1. The Lord of the Rings
    2. Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The Shadow of the Wind
    3. George Orwell - 1984
    4. Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes We’re Watching God
    5. Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

    I didn’t include some of my actual top five because many of my favorite books are later in a trilogy/series and they’re all genre fiction.
     
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  21. Garrett

    i tore a hole in the fabric of time Moderator

    I have no idea why I did every one of those books in a different style.
     
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  22. marsupial jones

    make a bagel without the hole Prestigious

    posting this without thinking it over too much or consulting my Goodreads and none of these are unknown or anything:

    - Watership Down
    - White Noise
    - The New York Trilogy (it’s all in one book so it counts lol)
    - The Corrections
    - The Bell Jar
     
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  23. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
    The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
    The Road - Cormac McCarthy
    The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
    If On a Winter's Night a Traveler... - Italo Calvino
     
  24. OotyPa

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    Are we strictly talking fiction? If so, here’s my list of four that I’m forever changing (cant think of five now). It will likely look different in a year.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
    To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
    The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
    The Cider House Rules by John Irving
     
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  25. danielm123

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    I assume every response to this will be about how impossible this is, but yeah, it is. Off the top of my head at this moment though... (also just doing novels for this)

    5. Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
    4. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
    3. The Nickel Boys - Colston Whitehead
    2. The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
    1. Animal's People - Indra Sinha
     
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