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After getting all those vacation reading recs from you guys I ended up only reading 10% of a book I had already started before vacation. Reading with a 3 y/o around all the time is goddamn next to impossible.
After getting all those vacation reading recs from you guys I ended up only reading 10% of a book I had already started before vacation. Reading with a 3 y/o around all the time is goddamn next to impossible.
That's alright. You've got a good list for next time now.
I'm about half way through Needful Things. It's top tier Stephen King so far. Excellent, excellent read. This motherfucker knows how to tell a story, goddamn!
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Got to meet one of my favourite authors the other day. John boyne. He wrote the boy in the striped pyjamas, but he also wrote my favourite book in years, the hearts invisible furies. If you haven’t read it do yourself a favour. It’s brilliant. His new one is called a Ladder to the sky. He signed my copy and I’m gonna have to buy another one cos I wanna keep this one pristine
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durdencommatyler wrote:
I'm about half way through Needful Things. It's top tier Stephen King so far. Excellent, excellent read. This motherfucker knows how to tell a story, goddamn!
That’s a good one.
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Imagine the last case of the Scooby gang was a real monster and they grew up and then 13 years later go back to find out what actually happened and then suddenly it's Cthulu-time, that's what you get here.
There's some weird writing styles going on - it will switch the dialogue would change from standard quotation marks and dialogue tags to script style in the middle of a scene. There are multiple 4th wall references like "the monster blah blah blah and didn't even survive this paragraph" or another part where it's talking about monster Mu (as in the Greek letter) and then it says "getting back to Mu from four lines ago". There's even a part with a monster (as in monsters and the sheer size of the crowd) fight that is at least a page long and is one sentence. It gives it a frantic style that I could appreciate but I also skimmed because I don't care who punches who where or slices this or that appendage off when it's this frantic. It was a little busy in that regard.
I think when I'm done with it - I'm right near the end - it'll probably be a 3.5 out of 5. It has some decent humor and the way he turns a phrase has me frequently re-reading sections just to enjoy them again. "The corner chaise lounge was for catatonics. The sofa was a sort of UN demilitarized zone, an upholstered Jerusalem that members of different creeds reluctantly shared during interbellum periods." Which leads me to this review I'm reading on Goodreads:
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From the beginning, the way that Cantero chose to describe or word particular scenes became bothersome. I began to feel rather unintelligent: 'sotto voce'd', 'perennial kawaii smile', 'Byronian face', 'Greenwich parallel of Eternia'. Umm, HUH? Maybe I should know what some of these mean, but without looking them up I simply passed right over them, not a clue.
It's made funnier that she mentions in the previous paragraph that she liked She-Ra but then she doesn't get Greenwich parallel of Eternia. Also he's from Barcelona so English isn't even his first language.
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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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