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Current book(s) you're reading?
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I will have to find that one. I'm not usually good at reading books (always been good at reading and through school my reading age was always well above my chronological age, but concentration lets me down), but if it's a good book, I am ok. I have been looking for good steam punk book reviews. I'll try to find this one. Did you read the first one in the series?
Aurore
Looking for the TARDIS!
Yes, I read the first one (in French) and I loved it too. It's pretty difficult to find good steampunk novels in France, it isn't a very popular thing!
The Great Gatsby. Again. I find that the best reading sometimes is re-reading!
Of course, there's always Jules Verne, who's arguably the father of Steampunk.
Not sure if these stories by Joe R. Lansdale are easy to find in France, but they're fun quick reads:
Steampunked - Kindle edition by Joe R. Lansdale. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
http://www.amazon.com/Zepplins-West...0526&sr=8-1&keywords=joe+r.+lansdale+zepplins
Aurore
Looking for the TARDIS!
Thanks for these links. Actually I buy my English books on American or British websites.
In France, it's too complicated.
Aurore
Looking for the TARDIS!
Sass
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Just finished yet another Agatha Christie book (The Secret of Chimneys).
I'm also part way through 'Look Me in the Eye', and almost done with 'Bird by Bird', which is a writing book, but kind of a memoir too.
Oh, and my husband bought me a signed first edition of Salman Rushdie's memoir 'Joseph Anton', which is a bit exciting! It should arrive today
I'm also part way through 'Look Me in the Eye', and almost done with 'Bird by Bird', which is a writing book, but kind of a memoir too.
Oh, and my husband bought me a signed first edition of Salman Rushdie's memoir 'Joseph Anton', which is a bit exciting! It should arrive today
The Mu Rhythm Bluff by Autistic author Jonathan Mitchell
The Mu Rhythm Bluff - Kindle edition by Jonathan Mitchell. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
Some people are lucky at cards. Others are lucky at love. Drake Dumas is autistic and neither. He's a 49-year-old virgin who loves to play poker and usually loses. He finds out about an experiment involving brain wave training and a revolutionary technique called Transcranial magnetic stimulation in order to help mitigate his autism. Though it does not seem to help his autism, right after the treatment he finds himself a genius at poker, consistently winning and able to read other players due to charged up "mirror neurons", brain cells that intuit the actions and intentions of others, found to be deficient in autistic people. His luck also changes with women. However, whenever he seems to connect sexually with a woman, he loses his poker abilities. There does seem some truth in the old saying lucky at cards, unlucky at love for Drake. However, can having good poker skills entail danger for Drake. He encounters a beguiling journalist, interested in his talents, but can her knowledge and interest in Drake be threatening?
Drake must find a way to keep his poker abilities intact. He faces all of these challenges. In the process he will learn something about his autism, his attitudes toward it and love.
The Mu Rhythm Bluff - Kindle edition by Jonathan Mitchell. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
Some people are lucky at cards. Others are lucky at love. Drake Dumas is autistic and neither. He's a 49-year-old virgin who loves to play poker and usually loses. He finds out about an experiment involving brain wave training and a revolutionary technique called Transcranial magnetic stimulation in order to help mitigate his autism. Though it does not seem to help his autism, right after the treatment he finds himself a genius at poker, consistently winning and able to read other players due to charged up "mirror neurons", brain cells that intuit the actions and intentions of others, found to be deficient in autistic people. His luck also changes with women. However, whenever he seems to connect sexually with a woman, he loses his poker abilities. There does seem some truth in the old saying lucky at cards, unlucky at love for Drake. However, can having good poker skills entail danger for Drake. He encounters a beguiling journalist, interested in his talents, but can her knowledge and interest in Drake be threatening?
Drake must find a way to keep his poker abilities intact. He faces all of these challenges. In the process he will learn something about his autism, his attitudes toward it and love.
If you can't remember, the book is crap. Any author who is going to get that ambitious accepts the difficult task of keeping it clear and compelling enough for the reader to retain at least the major characters, arcs and themes of the work, all the way through. Sound like you've gotten yourself into a mishmash.
Just finished 'Post Office' & 'Ham On Rye' by Bukowski.
P.O. was good, but a bit rough-and-ready (his first novel I think), but Ham was awesome (imho) - reminded me a bit of my young years
A few years ago I was into Cormac McCarthy and read most of his work. Absolutely loved his cowboy novels (nothing like your normal western) also 'No Country For Old Men', 'The Road' (an American classic I think), 'The Sunset Limited' (brilliant). I stopped reading his stuff when I got half-way through 'Suttre' - might just be the worst novel ever written (again imho). I still haven't finished that book
'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' by Hunter S. Thompson is a terrific read.
For some reason I prefer the darker stuff.
P.O. was good, but a bit rough-and-ready (his first novel I think), but Ham was awesome (imho) - reminded me a bit of my young years
A few years ago I was into Cormac McCarthy and read most of his work. Absolutely loved his cowboy novels (nothing like your normal western) also 'No Country For Old Men', 'The Road' (an American classic I think), 'The Sunset Limited' (brilliant). I stopped reading his stuff when I got half-way through 'Suttre' - might just be the worst novel ever written (again imho). I still haven't finished that book
'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' by Hunter S. Thompson is a terrific read.
For some reason I prefer the darker stuff.
Worst novel ever written....that got my attention.
James Patterson could be a runner-up.
I can stand to hear his stuff read to me (while I am busy doing something else, but not to invest time
in pointing my eyes onto pages of his writing.)
What am I trying to read currently?
Nose Down, Eyes Up, Merrill Markoe, a gift to me from a friend.
I like the dogs talking.
The people in the story are tedious.
The pleasant aspect of communicating cross species is overshadowed by the
typical plot of a book for 'grown-ups.' Manipulation/deceit/adultery.
The novelty was over by the 100th page. The next 40 pages have been tiresome.
Maybe I will be able to finish it if I think of it as an object of study,
rather than a pleasant experience.
I have Great Expectations to listen to on a CD.
Don't remember how many times I have read that.
First time to have it read to me, though.
James Patterson could be a runner-up.
I can stand to hear his stuff read to me (while I am busy doing something else, but not to invest time
in pointing my eyes onto pages of his writing.)
What am I trying to read currently?
Nose Down, Eyes Up, Merrill Markoe, a gift to me from a friend.
I like the dogs talking.
The people in the story are tedious.
The pleasant aspect of communicating cross species is overshadowed by the
typical plot of a book for 'grown-ups.' Manipulation/deceit/adultery.
The novelty was over by the 100th page. The next 40 pages have been tiresome.
Maybe I will be able to finish it if I think of it as an object of study,
rather than a pleasant experience.
I have Great Expectations to listen to on a CD.
Don't remember how many times I have read that.
First time to have it read to me, though.
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