Dark_Knight Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 also have been slow on the reading. Life is busy. Starting this tonight. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KILZ FILLZ Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 Finished starting 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KILZ FILLZ Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Been grinding this book for a while. Just found out who did all the underlining and notes in the margins… and how long ago they did it. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gils Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 I can’t read so fast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KILZ FILLZ Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 Todays score 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Knight Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modern dance Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 about to start this 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 Back to the Malazan world: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Knight Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 @metronomehow is that world? Truly comparable to GOT? I have a buddy who is in love with game of thrones and always asks me for book recs for something similar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 @Dark_Knight a lot of first time readers find it daunting because of how big the world is already built in the first chapter of the first book and the author plunks you smack dab into the intrigue and fills it in for you as you read on. It also has a lot of characters like GoT. Malazan has 2 authors (Eriksen and Esselmont) and from what I understand they came up with all of it gaming it out with DnD. The main series is all written by Eriksen (10 books) and it’s completed, so no risk of catching up to the author like with GRRM and GoT. As far as epic fantasy is concerned it’s up there with the best. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ko SprueOne Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 On 2/13/2022 at 7:45 AM, Ko SprueOne said: Just finished it. Favorite parts were the Hollywood club scene memories. Cool he also mentions, Michele Serros. Another author who died much too young How to Be a Chicana Role Model. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KILZ FILLZ Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 On 3/13/2022 at 4:29 PM, KILZ FILLZ said: Been grinding this book for a while. Just found out who did all the underlining and notes in the margins… and how long ago they did it. guys I’m Really not enjoying this one. Been a grind and I’m only at like page 220. Have any of you finished it and Does it get better? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Knight Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 @KILZ FILLZi haven’t read it personally but I’ve only read negative reviews. Seems like it’s one of those books you’re told to like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KILZ FILLZ Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 13 hours ago, Dark_Knight said: @KILZ FILLZi haven’t read it personally but I’ve only read negative reviews. Seems like it’s one of those books you’re told to like Seems like you’re right. I took a look at GoodReads and came across this Seems like a lot of people get to about the same point as me and ask the same questions lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnitzel Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 On 4/14/2022 at 7:40 AM, modern dance said: about to start this curious about this how was it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Knight Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 On 4/11/2022 at 10:00 AM, Dark_Knight said: this was a fucking trip. Nothing what I expected. I thought it was going to be a fun scifi book. I was wrong. Recommend if you like bizarre and fucked up. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modern dance Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 2 hours ago, Schnitzel said: curious about this how was it? I definitely recommend it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnitzel Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 pretty good That's when I stood up, told the best mate to sit down, shut up or f**k off. That the man in the coffin had a few things to say.' Imagine you are dying with a secret. Something you've never had the courage to tell your friends and family. Or a last wish - a task you need carried out before you can rest in peace. Now imagine there's a man who can take care of all that, who has no respect for the living, who will do anything for the dead. Bill Edgar is the Coffin Confessor - a one-of-a-kind professional, a man on a mission to make good on these last requests on behalf of his soon-to-be-deceased clients. And this is the extraordinary story of how he became that man. Bill has been many things in this life- son of one of Australia's most notorious gangsters, homeless street-kid, maximum-security prisoner, hard man, family man, car thief, professional punching bag, philosopher, inventor, private investigator, victim of horrific childhood sexual abuse and an activist fighting to bring down the institutions that let it happen. A survivor. As a little boy, he learned the hard way that society is full of people who fall through the cracks - who die without their stories being told. Now his life's work is to make sure his clients' voices are heard, and their last wishes delivered- the small-town grandfather who needs his tastefully decorated sex dungeon destroyed before the kids find it. The woman who endured an abusive marriage for decades before finding freedom. The outlaw biker who is afraid of nothing . . . except telling the world he is in love with another man. The dad who desperately needs to track down his estranged daughter so he can find a way to say he's sorry, with one final gift. Confronting and confounding, heartwarming and heartbreaking, The Coffin Confessor is a compelling story of survival and redemption, of a life lived on the fringes of society, on both sides of the law - and what that can teach you about living your best life . . . and death. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnitzel Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 On 4/26/2022 at 1:44 AM, modern dance said: I definitely recommend it Thanks mate -it's up next! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyeast Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Knight Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 second of the series 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ko SprueOne Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 On 5/4/2022 at 10:05 PM, Schnitzel said: pretty good That's when I stood up, told the best mate to sit down, shut up or f**k off. That the man in the coffin had a few things to say.' Imagine you are dying with a secret. Something you've never had the courage to tell your friends and family. Or a last wish - a task you need carried out before you can rest in peace. Now imagine there's a man who can take care of all that, who has no respect for the living, who will do anything for the dead. Bill Edgar is the Coffin Confessor - a one-of-a-kind professional, a man on a mission to make good on these last requests on behalf of his soon-to-be-deceased clients. And this is the extraordinary story of how he became that man. Bill has been many things in this life- son of one of Australia's most notorious gangsters, homeless street-kid, maximum-security prisoner, hard man, family man, car thief, professional punching bag, philosopher, inventor, private investigator, victim of horrific childhood sexual abuse and an activist fighting to bring down the institutions that let it happen. A survivor. As a little boy, he learned the hard way that society is full of people who fall through the cracks - who die without their stories being told. Now his life's work is to make sure his clients' voices are heard, and their last wishes delivered- the small-town grandfather who needs his tastefully decorated sex dungeon destroyed before the kids find it. The woman who endured an abusive marriage for decades before finding freedom. The outlaw biker who is afraid of nothing . . . except telling the world he is in love with another man. The dad who desperately needs to track down his estranged daughter so he can find a way to say he's sorry, with one final gift. Confronting and confounding, heartwarming and heartbreaking, The Coffin Confessor is a compelling story of survival and redemption, of a life lived on the fringes of society, on both sides of the law - and what that can teach you about living your best life . . . and death. Sounds good, fast paced, violent, page turner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ko SprueOne Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 On 4/17/2022 at 6:20 PM, Ko SprueOne said: How to Be a Chicana Role Model Good read. Stories written like a memoir. Full of smart humor. Many of you with creative careers or skill trade careers would relate. She describes the BS when people think that just because it's art, they must like doing it and so will do it for free or cheap. A lot of typos. I guess that's the publisher's fault. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ko SprueOne Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 Mr. & Mrs. Time Gone By This is next based on my reading pattern of Fiction - Nonfiction - Fiction - Nonfiction... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 @Ko SprueOne I like that pattern. I try and have two books going at the same time, one fic one non fic - one physical one kindle. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ko SprueOne Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 (edited) @metronome Two books at the same time, wow, I've never tried that with exception to text books and 'own time' reading but even that's been a long time ago. I try to escape into and absorb the story I'm reading and I don't think I can do that with multiple books. Building scale models however, that's different. I'll have a few on the bench at the same time, LOL. Never kindled yet but read an on-line only story just recently on FB. Also by Peter Sexton. I follow him on FB and he has a link to the story there only. Edited May 22, 2022 by Ko SprueOne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ko SprueOne Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 On 1/3/2022 at 9:14 PM, Wyeast said: the first 80 or so pages flew by. Liking it a lot so far This was on broadcast radio today: https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101889454/amor-towles-shares-his-odysseys-both-literary-and-literal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnitzel Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Started this dont know how well I'm going to go on it. Struggling in the first chapter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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