Finished the Peculiar Children series this weekend and it was a disappointing ending. After a completely middle of the road second book, the third presented some interesting ideas but after reflection they were very much deus ex machine and seemed more like a comic writer making character's OP for the sake of the plot and then taking it away afterward.
And there's no way for them to make a second or third movie, they changed so many things for the first that those characters can't do what they do in the books without a major rewrite. It's like the Percy Jackson movie where they changed so much to the detriment of the continued story.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue April 18, 2017 8:20 pm
by Rangi Guy
About half way through at the moment - what a great book!
And I just saw they made a movie of this. Will have to finish the book before getting hold of a copy
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed April 19, 2017 10:08 am
by dimejinky99
Ok I just finished Ready Player One.
What a bloody amazing book!!!
I couldn't stop reading
I don't know how they're gonna turn it into a film I really hope they do it right but man. What a brilliant adventure. So glad I read it
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed April 19, 2017 6:24 pm
by Hatfield
I spent many years avoiding reading books, so for the last five I've been trying to catch up on classics that I missed with a few newish novels thrown in.
I just finished Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison and I'd put it in the top five books I've read. I wish I had the vocabulary or understanding to analyze and competently discuss what makes Ellison's writing so great.
What struck me most was the depth Ellison gave his nameless, main character. I am shocked that he could write this book in 1952.
I'd love to hear others thoughts on it. Paging Kevin Davis!
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed April 19, 2017 7:32 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
dimejinky99 wrote:Ok I just finished Ready Player One.
What a bloody amazing book!!!
I couldn't stop reading
I don't know how they're gonna turn it into a film I really hope they do it right but man. What a brilliant adventure. So glad I read it
it was fun...i read it in larger chunks than i typically do others as well
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed April 19, 2017 7:38 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed April 19, 2017 7:44 pm
by Simple Torture
tragabigzanda wrote:
Hatfield wrote:I spent many years avoiding reading books, so for the last five I've been trying to catch up on classics that I missed with a few newish novels thrown in.
I just finished Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison and I'd put it in the top five books I've read. I wish I had the vocabulary or understanding to analyze and competently discuss what makes Ellison's writing so great.
What struck me most was the depth Ellison gave his nameless, main character. I am shocked that he could write this book in 1952.
I'd love to hear others thoughts on it. Paging Kevin Davis!
I've had a copy of this for like about ten years now, have never even opened it.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed April 19, 2017 7:51 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed April 19, 2017 8:08 pm
by Hatfield
tragabigzanda wrote:
Hatfield wrote:I spent many years avoiding reading books, so for the last five I've been trying to catch up on classics that I missed with a few newish novels thrown in.
I just finished Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison and I'd put it in the top five books I've read. I wish I had the vocabulary or understanding to analyze and competently discuss what makes Ellison's writing so great.
What struck me most was the depth Ellison gave his nameless, main character. I am shocked that he could write this book in 1952.
I'd love to hear others thoughts on it. Paging Kevin Davis!
I've had a copy of this for like about ten years now, have never even opened it.
You've got an amazing read waiting for you. I didn't want it to end.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu April 20, 2017 7:37 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu April 20, 2017 8:26 pm
by epilogue
tragabigzanda wrote:The Plot Against America (Philip Roth)
God, I fucking love this book so much.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon April 24, 2017 2:38 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon April 24, 2017 3:24 pm
by bune
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
My wife tried to start this because she liked the movie. She didn't get very far.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon April 24, 2017 3:32 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
bune wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
My wife tried to start this because she liked the movie. She didn't get very far.
women don't like great books
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon April 24, 2017 3:39 pm
by Hatfield
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
bune wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
My wife tried to start this because she liked the movie. She didn't get very far.
women don't like great books
Would you call it great? I enjoyed it, but the whole thing felt like a solid B.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon April 24, 2017 3:44 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon April 24, 2017 4:11 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
that post was more about me being misogynistic
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon April 24, 2017 4:15 pm
by bune
In her defense, she hasn't read anything even remotely like Cormac McCarthy before so she quit more from befuddlement than anything else.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon April 24, 2017 4:56 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
bune wrote:In her defense, she hasn't read anything even remotely like Cormac McCarthy before so she quit more from befuddlement than anything else.
so the sound and the fury is not her favorite book?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon April 24, 2017 5:49 pm
by bune
I had to look that one up. Saw this:
A 2014 film, The Sound and the Fury (2014) was directed by James Franco, and starred Franco as Benjy Compson, Jacob Loeb as Quentin Compson, Joey King as Miss Quentin, Tim Blake Nelson as Mr. Compson, Loretta Devine as Dilsey, Ahna O'Reilly as Caddy Compson, Scott Haze as Jason Compson, Kylen Davis as Luster, Seth Rogen as a Telegraph Operator, Danny McBride as a Sheriff and Logan Marshall-Green as Dalton Ames.
I haven't read any Faulkner, might look into some of it.
