Bred Any Good Rooks Lately?

Marsha

Finished Those Who Wish Me Dead. What a great read! I'm now an official Michael Koryta fan. On to Rise the Dark so I can get it back to the library before the due date.

spideyman

Marsha said:

Finished Those Who Wish Me Dead. What a great read! I'm now an official Michael Koryta fan. On to Rise the Dark so I can get it back to the library before the due date.

Knew you would like it.  Rise the Dark  excellent too.  May I suggest If She Wakes, Never Far Away, The Cypress House (depression era with some paranormal features). Happy reading. 

GNTLGNT

....just started this little morsel.....


....signed, and #249 of 500.....

FlakeNoir

GNTLGNT said:

....just started this little morsel.....


....signed, and #249 of 500.....

Can't see the image sorry Scott.

Kurben

Started Gwendys Magic Feather by Richard Chizmar. Started promising. Sequel to his and Kings Gwendys Button Box. 

Hedda Gabler

GNTLGNT said:

....just started this little morsel.....


....signed, and #249 of 500.....

Curious about this. Give us a little rundown and your thoughts when you finish.

Hedda Gabler

I’m 100 deep into Sovereign, kurben.  Sansom writes door stoppers like SK!   

Marsha

Finished Rise the Dark. I'm late to the Koryta party but glad I found it. His books have sucked me in right from the first pages and don't want to let go until I'm finished.

GNTLGNT

Hedda Gabler said:

GNTLGNT said:

....just started this little morsel.....


....signed, and #249 of 500.....

Curious about this. Give us a little rundown and your thoughts when you finish.

....this tiny book of less than 200 pages, is what I would call some of the flotsam and jetsam to have surfaced from Owen's word pool over the years....really nothing new here, or anything that isn't accessible elsewhere-but it IS all combined in one binding....it is for certain a sampler of his style from fiction to baseball reviews, literary critiques to essays.....I find Owen to be the polar opposite of the brash and bold style of Dad & brother....he is a skilled writer with a dry understated wit, but will never command the type of audience that the other King males do.....he's more in Tabby's niche when it comes to appeal.....if you want to sample some Owen esoterica, this is the little handbook to buy....

Hedda Gabler

GNTLGNT said:

Hedda Gabler said:

GNTLGNT said:

....just started this little morsel.....


....signed, and #249 of 500.....

Curious about this. Give us a little rundown and your thoughts when you finish.

....this tiny book of less than 200 pages, is what I would call some of the flotsam and jetsam to have surfaced from Owen's word pool over the years....really nothing new here, or anything that isn't accessible elsewhere-but it IS all combined in one binding....it is for certain a sampler of his style from fiction to baseball reviews, literary critiques to essays.....I find Owen to be the polar opposite of the brash and bold style of Dad & brother....he is a skilled writer with a dry understated wit, but will never command the type of audience that the other King males do.....he's more in Tabby's niche when it comes to appeal.....if you want to sample some Owen esoterica, this is the little handbook to buy....

I’ve said in the past, owen’s writing is sort of old soul stuff. Something about his style reminds me of Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner — he is an excellent writer but his stories are hit or miss for me.  

Tabby’s writing is also good, you definitely hear her poetry background come through a lot. Unfortunately, i’m not a big poetry connoisseur.   Which is interesting because my grandfather and mom were big into the poets — their bookshelves filled with the stuff.  

Again, there is a definite tug o’ war in their work for me personally— talented writing but lackluster stories. But not every time.  Sometimes they nail it. That old chestnut. 

Hedda Gabler

GNTLGNT said:

Hedda Gabler said:

GNTLGNT said:

....just started this little morsel.....


....signed, and #249 of 500.....

Curious about this. Give us a little rundown and your thoughts when you finish.

....this tiny book of less than 200 pages, is what I would call some of the flotsam and jetsam to have surfaced from Owen's word pool over the years....really nothing new here, or anything that isn't accessible elsewhere-but it IS all combined in one binding....it is for certain a sampler of his style from fiction to baseball reviews, literary critiques to essays.....I find Owen to be the polar opposite of the brash and bold style of Dad & brother....he is a skilled writer with a dry understated wit, but will never command the type of audience that the other King males do.....he's more in Tabby's niche when it comes to appeal.....if you want to sample some Owen esoterica, this is the little handbook to buy....

Nice run down of that, thanks. 

Kurben

Reading Flight or Fright. Some really good stories and some i could have lived without. My fave so far is Joe Hills story. It is scary because it is so real. He doesn't need a monster to make it scary and thats why its scarier than the ones with monsters. But i havent read Kings story yet.....

Grant87

Kurben said:

Reading Flight or Fright. Some really good stories and some i could have lived without. My fave so far is Joe Hills story. It is scary because it is so real. He doesn't need a monster to make it scary and thats why its scarier than the ones with monsters. But i havent read Kings story yet.....

Lots of good stories in that anthology, Bev's included. I thought King's story was pretty original. I liked it a lot.

GNTLGNT

....it's the usual anthology.....not all are keepers, but man alive, those that are burrow into your brain and set up camp....

GNTLGNT

....tonight......I begin Later........

Kurben

Started Kinas Historia (The History of China) by Hans Hägerdal, a swedish historian specialist on China. So far it seems to suffer from the same faults that many histories of China do, they tend to pass the most interesting parts to fast. Of the books 380 pages half is about the time from myth (about 2000 bc) to the last emperor. About 3900 years. The second half is about the last hundred years. Chaing Kai Shek, Mao, the cultural revolution and so on up to 2018 when its written. I think that is wrong. To much is then skipped and its not as if the sources are bad. They often were very particular about archives. There is a charming letter from a widowed empress to a suitor, a hunnic king (the ones that terrorized the romans and Europe about 150 years later) where she very politely declines his offer claiming she isn't good enough for him, cant walk without a stick and has lost all her teeth. Makes one wonder if she telling the truth or if she just is trying to let him down nicely? There is material for a great history but 190 pages isn't nearly enough to capture even the essence. Either write two books or make the majority to be about the emperors and their time. 

Hedda Gabler

Kurben said:

Started Kinas Historia (The History of China) by Hans Hägerdal, a swedish historian specialist on China. So far it seems to suffer from the same faults that many histories of China do, they tend to pass the most interesting parts to fast. Of the books 380 pages half is about the time from myth (about 2000 bc) to the last emperor. About 3900 years. The second half is about the last hundred years. Chaing Kai Shek, Mao, the cultural revolution and so on up to 2018 when its written. I think that is wrong. To much is then skipped and its not as if the sources are bad. They often were very particular about archives. There is a charming letter from a widowed empress to a suitor, a hunnic king (the ones that terrorized the romans and Europe about 150 years later) where she very politely declines his offer claiming she isn't good enough for him, cant walk without a stick and has lost all her teeth. Makes one wonder if she telling the truth or if she just is trying to let him down nicely? There is material for a great history but 190 pages isn't nearly enough to capture even the essence. Either write two books or make the majority to be about the emperors and their time. 

I absolutely  love that you keep learning and are so passionate about it.  

Hedda Gabler

I ordered 3 Bev Vincent things today.  

GNTLGNT

Hedda Gabler said:

I ordered 3 Bev Vincent things today.  

.....you buckin' for extra credit??.....

GNTLGNT

GNTLGNT said:

....tonight......I begin Later........

....Tracy loved it, but the ending?.....not so much.....me?....about halfway there and loving it.....echoes of Odd Thomas notwithstanding.....

Grant87

Finished The Tommyknockers last night. I actually ended up liking it a lot more than I thought I would. I loved the relationship between Bobbi and Gardener, as well as Ev, the grandfather doing everything he can to get his grandson back. Those characters were fantastic. I thought the ending was well done too. Sure, this book has plenty of crazy, almost silly, stuff in it, but I thought the good easily outweighed the bad. I'm probably in the minority on this one, but I'm a fan.

Hedda Gabler

GNTLGNT said:

Hedda Gabler said:

I ordered 3 Bev Vincent things today.  

.....you buckin' for extra credit??.....

Nope. I was being all sneaky and shit. I ‘m trying to get bev to collect his short stories into one big doorstop of a book.  So far, he refuses. My plans to take over the world one BevVincent story at a time are not coming to fruition. 

Hedda Gabler

Grant87 said:

Finished The Tommyknockers last night. I actually ended up liking it a lot more than I thought I would. I loved the relationship between Bobbi and Gardener, as well as Ev, the grandfather doing everything he can to get his grandson back. Those characters were fantastic. I thought the ending was well done too. Sure, this book has plenty of crazy, almost silly, stuff in it, but I thought the good easily outweighed the bad. I'm probably in the minority on this one, but I'm a fan.

I also liked The Tommyknockers. There is some really good writing in there. 

GNTLGNT

Grant87 said:

Finished The Tommyknockers last night. I actually ended up liking it a lot more than I thought I would. I loved the relationship between Bobbi and Gardener, as well as Ev, the grandfather doing everything he can to get his grandson back. Those characters were fantastic. I thought the ending was well done too. Sure, this book has plenty of crazy, almost silly, stuff in it, but I thought the good easily outweighed the bad. I'm probably in the minority on this one, but I'm a fan.

....not his best, but even when he's "bad", it's pretty good.....

not_nadine

I remember reading The Tommyknockers so long ago - I remember liking it too.
Time for a re-read I say.