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11-15-09, 08:31
Thought I'd make a post about one of my favorite activities... Reading.
Maybe we can have an M4C book club type thing going here, get some ideas on what to read next.
I just picked up, and finished in a night, Larry Correia's Monster Hunter International. A little background on Mr. Correia... He's one of the good guys. Retired .mil, knowledgable about firearms (the book features many, all but one are real, Abomination isn't far fetched at all, and may be based off that auto shotgun the military is developing), and writes a DAMN good novel. I read it all in one sitting, as I could NOT put it down. Fun, intense, funny, violent... just all around damn good time.
Also picked up Day by Day Armageddon by J.L Bourne. Another one of the good guys. This one is in a journal format, about one Navy dude's survival just before and after Zombies take over the world. Really good, quick read, and I can't wait for the second installment.
On the same trip to Barnes and Noble, I picked up Stephen King's latest, Under the Dome. This novel is about a New England town that wakes up one morning to discover they cannot exit their town, and people cannot enter it, do to a Dome that has been put over them. The place quickly devolves into absolute madness, in classic King style. Not an outright Horror book, this one deals mostly with human monsters. Besides Mr. King trying to act young (the skateboard refferences were... off, to put it lightly), and his penchant to say "clip" in place of "magazine," the novel reads fast. It is a HUGE book, about the same size as The Stand, but King is always pretty hard for me to put down once I start.
Now for one of my favorite books of all time... House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. This book is... Different. It reads as a summary/study/expose/analysis of a film called The Navidson Record. It creates an entire oral and visual history of a film that does not exist. It is written from two perspectives: One, the analysis of the film. Two, a drug addicts Journal, written as he reads the notes he finds about the fictional film. It is the most interesting novel I have EVER read. Some words are in different colors, there are notes in the margin, footnotes, quotes from psycholgical studies that are entirely fictional... It's a pretty damn epic novel. Almost life changing in it's uniqueness. I highly recommend it to everyone who can read english.
Maybe we can have an M4C book club type thing going here, get some ideas on what to read next.
I just picked up, and finished in a night, Larry Correia's Monster Hunter International. A little background on Mr. Correia... He's one of the good guys. Retired .mil, knowledgable about firearms (the book features many, all but one are real, Abomination isn't far fetched at all, and may be based off that auto shotgun the military is developing), and writes a DAMN good novel. I read it all in one sitting, as I could NOT put it down. Fun, intense, funny, violent... just all around damn good time.
Also picked up Day by Day Armageddon by J.L Bourne. Another one of the good guys. This one is in a journal format, about one Navy dude's survival just before and after Zombies take over the world. Really good, quick read, and I can't wait for the second installment.
On the same trip to Barnes and Noble, I picked up Stephen King's latest, Under the Dome. This novel is about a New England town that wakes up one morning to discover they cannot exit their town, and people cannot enter it, do to a Dome that has been put over them. The place quickly devolves into absolute madness, in classic King style. Not an outright Horror book, this one deals mostly with human monsters. Besides Mr. King trying to act young (the skateboard refferences were... off, to put it lightly), and his penchant to say "clip" in place of "magazine," the novel reads fast. It is a HUGE book, about the same size as The Stand, but King is always pretty hard for me to put down once I start.
Now for one of my favorite books of all time... House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. This book is... Different. It reads as a summary/study/expose/analysis of a film called The Navidson Record. It creates an entire oral and visual history of a film that does not exist. It is written from two perspectives: One, the analysis of the film. Two, a drug addicts Journal, written as he reads the notes he finds about the fictional film. It is the most interesting novel I have EVER read. Some words are in different colors, there are notes in the margin, footnotes, quotes from psycholgical studies that are entirely fictional... It's a pretty damn epic novel. Almost life changing in it's uniqueness. I highly recommend it to everyone who can read english.