tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post4621990699497258507..comments2024-03-29T09:13:52.064-04:00Comments on Doux Reviews: Discussion: What Are You Reading? (August Edition)Billie Douxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-52903904798229077352017-07-30T23:33:34.734-04:002017-07-30T23:33:34.734-04:00I read Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Michael...I read Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Michael Crichton in the last two weeks. I think Jurassic Par is a better book than the The Lost World, mas The Lost World is still good - especially because of Sarah Harding.<br /><br />Now I'm interested in reading Millennium. I like this thread, even though it keeps adding books to my TBR list.Lisianpeianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-62485690039832105502017-07-30T17:56:25.972-04:002017-07-30T17:56:25.972-04:00I finished reading a book called A Resistência (Th...I finished reading a book called <i>A Resistência</i> (The Resistance) a couple of weeks ago. It's a very well written character study. The narrator focus the story on his foster brother, who has drifted away from him and from their parents. At times I wasn't sure if the brother had committed suicide or not. It took me forever to finish it because the story is extremely slow, there is only a sense of progression towards the end.<br /><br />Now I'm reading <i>Preacher</i>, the comics. A couple of years ago I wanted to start reading graphic novels and asked for suggestions at a Facebook group from college. <i>Preacher</i> was one of the suggested titles, but it was hard to find the first trade paperback, <i>Gone to Texas</i>. Just this week I was at the bookstore and, voila, there it was! I wasn't even looking for it anymore.<br /><br /><i>Gone to Texas</i> consists of the first seven issues and I didn't like it initially. I thought the writer tried too hard to be edgy and dark. Look, violence, look, adult language. There is also too much going on on the first four issues. But I thought the mythology was good from the get go, the concept of someone physically searching for God was cool and well done. And, once the first four issues had laid the groundwork, the story took off on issues 5 to 7, which featured a neat little arc. I liked it enough that today I went out and bought the second TPB, <i>Until the End of the World</i>.Lamounierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00225447169375363236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-12664821167473581542017-07-30T14:26:37.336-04:002017-07-30T14:26:37.336-04:00"To Have and Have Not", Hemingway.
Yeah..."To Have and Have Not", Hemingway.<br /><br />Yeah, I'm totally boring. I just somehow missed to read it even once in my life.Thomas Ijon Tichyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01401298696128080459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-31014149053290005162017-07-30T13:34:02.804-04:002017-07-30T13:34:02.804-04:00I'm re-rereading Millenium so I can add my com...I'm re-rereading <i>Millenium</i> so I can add my comments to Billie's review. I read it once to refresh the plot in my mind, and I'm reading it again to clarify the time travel aspects of the novel (which get rather complicated).<br /><br />I'm also in the middle of <i>The Nine Billion Names of God</i> by Arthur C. Clarke, which is a collection of his short stories. I'm usually not a short story person, but I'm enjoying this collection so far...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09499845492120364597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-9694516268539295452017-07-30T08:56:41.204-04:002017-07-30T08:56:41.204-04:00As I mentioned in our last discussion thread, I...As I mentioned in our last discussion thread, I'm going through the novels of Douglas E. Richards, and just finished one called <i>Quantum Lens</i>. This is a science fiction novel about human beings having superpowers because they found a way to connect to the zero point field. In <i>Quantum Lens</i>, the characters talk about a book called <i>The God Theory</i> by Bernard Haisch, and I was so intrigued that now I'm reading it. <i>The God Theory</i> is just that -- a theory about the nature of God, written by an astrophysicist. I'm connecting to it big time and might write something on my personal blog (billiedoux.com) about it. Billie Douxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-65891036914910192532017-07-30T07:16:32.589-04:002017-07-30T07:16:32.589-04:00Sûreté (error in typing)Sûreté (error in typing)Heather1https://www.blogger.com/profile/09736870202194851186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-75839791525123054972017-07-30T07:15:05.927-04:002017-07-30T07:15:05.927-04:00I just finished Louise Penny's "A Great R...I just finished Louise Penny's "A Great Reckoning". Penny is a Canadian author who writes a series of mysteries featuring Armand Gamache, formerly of the Québec Sûrteté. But to call her books mysteries is far too superficial (and this coming from someone who loves mysteries). Her stories are very character and place driven. They follow different threads... make you laugh... salivate (at her descriptions of food)... dream (at her descriptions of Three Pines, the imaginary town in the Eastern Townships of Québec, about an hour or so south of Montréal (my home town)... and they also make you feel in a way that is intense, exquisite and often heart breaking. Her characters become people you know and that you worry about. And "A Great Reckoning" -- her latest -- was an absolute tour de force. Even if you are not a Québecer, to follow Armand Gamache and the people in his entourage, is a feast.Heather1https://www.blogger.com/profile/09736870202194851186noreply@blogger.com