You are a wossname, literary pusher.
What fiction book are you currently reading?
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Omar B
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You guys heard that story about me bringing 2 Pratchett books on a vacation? My gf of 4 years broke up with me not long after. LOL.
Omar B
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I didnt want to go really. We were on our last legs and she made me feel bad for going to my best friend Mike's annual b-day/superbowl party. Screw with me, my friends and my football in one go? Didnt work out too well after.
CoryKS
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Omar B
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Yes, I have the superpower to make any situation completely awkward!
BTW, the new Clancy ruled. Another one of those cases of me reading and half expecting to turn on the news ans see stories from the book, like when I read The Bear And The Dragon, very immersive stuff.
BTW, the new Clancy ruled. Another one of those cases of me reading and half expecting to turn on the news ans see stories from the book, like when I read The Bear And The Dragon, very immersive stuff.
LOL, well THEN.....
then she is the idiot...I mean...you have to be a complete tart to insist a guy stays home on Superbowl Sunday....
(I would have packed you a tend...don't drive home drunk, Honey)
:boing2::boing2:
Lets hope that doesn't happen, again. I clearly remember watching the second plane hit the WTC and thinking, "Oh Holy crap! Clancy kinda predicted this." Granted, Clancy had a lone nut hitting a joint session of Congress, but, still, it was a lone nut with a 777...
About halfway through Witches Abroad. The new Koontz, What the Night Knows, is on deck. I quit buying Koontz about 8 books ago, right about the time he quit writing decent endings, so, now, the library...
Most books, I get at the library, with the exceptions of, if I KNOW I am going to read, reread and rereread them, those, I buy in hardback, because they just don't make paperbacks worth a damn anymore.
Most books, I get at the library, with the exceptions of, if I KNOW I am going to read, reread and rereread them, those, I buy in hardback, because they just don't make paperbacks worth a damn anymore.
Omar B
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Ok, I am so excited now. The next James Bond novel which has been refered to as Project X up to this point now has a title! It's name is Carte Blanche, will be partially set in Dubi and centered around a young James Bond, but set in the contemporary while maintaining all the things from the books that the movies got rid of (like his Bentley or his maid May, his love for his secretaries Loelia Ponsonby then Mary Goodknight [not Moneypenny like those f-ing movies]). So what he seems to be doing is picking up the threads from Charlie Higson's "By Royal Command" and those picked up in Fleming's "Casino Royal" and filling in the time between ... except it won't be set in the 30's but rather in the present.
Anyways, here's the press release, for a literary Bond nerd like myself this is pretty amazing. http://commanderbond.net/12833/carte-blanche-press-release.html
Anyways, here's the press release, for a literary Bond nerd like myself this is pretty amazing. http://commanderbond.net/12833/carte-blanche-press-release.html
Omar B
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Try reading "House Of Leaves," great book but breaks every rule of literature there is. Like entire pages with just one word, or every time the word "house" shows up it's in blue rather than black like the rest of the story. Or breaking up the narrative with a poem out of nowhere.
It's like reading Pynchon but with a scary bent and less impressed with it's own brilliance.
It's like reading Pynchon but with a scary bent and less impressed with it's own brilliance.
CoryKS
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I loved House of Leaves! I need to revisit that one.
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I just finished "Island of the Sequined Love Nun" by Christopher Moore
Cargo Cults, Organ Harvesting, Ninjas, and a Disgraced Pilot.
Moore's writing has really grown on me, I have read several of his books since Christmas, and I would recommend them to anyone who likes to get a chuckle from their reading.
"Bloodsucking Fiends" and "You Suck" (the first 2 of his Vampire Comedies) were pretty good... but I still really like "Coyote Blue" which was the first novel of his I read.
Cargo Cults, Organ Harvesting, Ninjas, and a Disgraced Pilot.
Moore's writing has really grown on me, I have read several of his books since Christmas, and I would recommend them to anyone who likes to get a chuckle from their reading.
"Bloodsucking Fiends" and "You Suck" (the first 2 of his Vampire Comedies) were pretty good... but I still really like "Coyote Blue" which was the first novel of his I read.
Tucker Case is a defrocked pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation who lost his job, totaled his boss' plane, and nearly demolished his manhood during a drunken airborne sexual liaison. Now he is running for his life from Mary Jean's goons toward the only employment opportunity left for him: piloting shady secret missions for an unscrupulous medical missionary and a sexy, naturally blond High Priestess on a remote Micronesian island hell, whose one-time cannibalistic residents have not completely abandoned their culinary past.
With a blurb like that, how can I resist? You may be as bad as Omar.
CoryKS
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Tucker Case is a defrocked pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation who lost his job, totaled his boss' plane, and nearly demolished his manhood during a drunken airborne sexual liaison. Now he is running for his life from Mary Jean's goons toward the only employment opportunity left for him: piloting shady secret missions for an unscrupulous medical missionary and a sexy, naturally blond High Priestess on a remote Micronesian island hell, whose one-time cannibalistic residents have not completely abandoned their culinary past.
With a blurb like that, how can I resist? You may be as bad as Omar.
Wow, it's like they took a drunken game of Mad-Libs and ran with it as a story.
Tucker Case is a defrocked pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation who lost his job, totaled his boss' plane, and nearly demolished his manhood during a drunken airborne sexual liaison. Now he is running for his life from Mary Jean's goons toward the only employment opportunity left for him: piloting shady secret missions for an unscrupulous medical missionary and a sexy, naturally blond High Priestess on a remote Micronesian island hell, whose one-time cannibalistic residents have not completely abandoned their culinary past.
With a blurb like that, how can I resist? You may be as bad as Omar.
ROFLMAO....you guys crack me up!
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Dude, sometimes Moore's writing feels like that... but its awesome stuff, It's not deep reading for sure, but Moore does enough research on the subject matter that it feels plausible despite being fantastic... and everything has gotten more than one chuckle out of me...
I'm getting ready to read "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" and then I'll have read most of his Catalog. (There is one more and He has a new one coming out)
He has sample Chapters on most of his books HERE
