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PostPosted: Tue April 18, 2017 3:32 pm 
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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.


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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

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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 :)


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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!


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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

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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.


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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.



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I intend to read it someday! Other books I've been holding on to for a really long time, but have yet to read. Any spoiler-free hot takes are welcome:

The Son (Philipp Meyer): A book about white people, with some American Indian and African-American stuff thrown in.
Sailor Song (Ken Kesey): White people and Inuit people in Alaska. I'll finally give it a whirl when I'm in AK next month.
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole): I think this one's just about white people?
The Plot Against America (Philip Roth): White people and Jews, right?
Hussein (Patrick O'Brien): Indians and elephants.


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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.


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The Plot Against America (Philip Roth)

God, I fucking love this book so much.


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My wife tried to start this because she liked the movie. She didn't get very far.


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My wife tried to start this because she liked the movie. She didn't get very far.

women don't like great books

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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.


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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.

I would put this in the top 5 fiction books I've ever read.


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that post was more about me being misogynistic

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In her defense, she hasn't read anything even remotely like Cormac McCarthy before so she quit more from befuddlement than anything else.


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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?

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I had to look that one up. Saw this:
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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.


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