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What are You Reading Right now?

Discussion in 'Books & Comics' started by Suspiria, Aug 26, 2015.

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    Hey @NunbNuts this is one of my all-time favorites. This book and the movie "The Right Stuff" had a lot to do with me joining the US Air Force!
     
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    Oh yes, this is happening...

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    Maybe I'll find out the secret of the three seashells. Be well.
     
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    "You are fined one credit for a violation of the verbal morality statute...."
     
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    So much for the seashells...
     
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    @NunbNuts The mystery of the seashells in "Demolition Man" is almost as great as the mystery of the nearly continuous "meowing cat" noise in the background of this Jean Claude Van Damm Classic.....have you ever heard the "cats"?

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    That's hilarious, maybe Jean Claude just loves kitties. I've only seen that movie once and it was in the late 80s or early 90s so I don't remember much about it.

    As for Demolition Man, the novelization was surprisingly entertaining. I saw it in the theater when I was 12 and I've loved it since. It was Rated R but I don't think we had to sneak in or anything, or maybe we did. I was just so surprised to see that they had a tie-in novelization for it that I just had to see what it was like. I wasn't expecting it to be very good, and it's not a great book or anything but I enjoyed it. Better than I expected a tie-in for a Stallone/Snipes action movie to be.

    It followed the film very closely but it was MUCH more violent. It's almost like a Stephen King book with the blood and gore. When Phoenix is first confronted by the police in the film it's pretty much a comedy scene with a little karate. Only one guy might be dead, the one he shocked with the anti-graffiti wall and the rest he just kind of beats up. In the book he BRUTALLY murders them all very graphically. Smashing windpipes, stomping heads into curbs and the poor guy with the handheld computer gets his head smashed into the pavement so many times his face is a pulp. Also Zachary Lamb gets killed by Phoenix near the end. On a lighter note Spartan is reunited with his daughter. In the movie Spartan doesn't want to look her up because he believes she'll think he's a savage from the past but in the book she's one of the "Scraps" living with Edgar Friendly in the underground.
     
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    I am currently doing Adrian's Undead Diary by Chris Philbrook, Cabal by Clive Barker, Cherry Blossom Girls by Harmon Cooper and V plague By Dirk Patton. Just finished Gunmiester online and the first 7 books in the Adrian series. Along Mark Tufos Shrouded World series, The Well and Critical Failures series. Fizzlesprocket was great.
     
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    Catching up on Thrawn in preparation for his new book Thrawn Alliances due end up of next week.
     
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    pretty covers! is Eli Vanto in these books?
    is he so pale he doesn't even rate a cover? XD
     
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    Yes he is in these as it’s just the Comic version of the first Thrawn novel & it a good version too so if you haven’t read Thrawn novel yet this would be a good substitute.
    As for covers he might have had a variant case ver but my comic book store only had the normal covers
     
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    oh! maybe i will read this if it's a comic adaptation of the book.
    i honestly just couldn't finish the book. Zahn's style is not for me.
     
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    I know these are the comic version of the novel, but are there any additional content in these comics or differences between the novel and the comics that are worth going through reading all of these if you already read the novel?
     
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    About to begin...

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    I've read 2001 a couple of times over the years and have seen the movie many times but I've never bothered with any of the other books or even watched the film 2010 before. Though I remember watching about 10 minutes of it back in the 90s before changing the channel because it was already halfway finished and I had no clue what was going on. So I decided it was time to read the other books in the series and watch 2010.
     
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    2010 is pretty strange and entertaining but not nearly as good as the first book. As a Star Wars fan I particularly liked one little passage about amateur archaeologists who thought they had found evidence of aliens on Earth but which turned out to be "props that a celebrated science-fiction moviemaker had abandoned in the Tunisian desert almost four decades earlier".
     
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    Thrawn Alliances (vader) unfortunately we don’t have a Thrawn emoji :(.

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    Only 60 pages in but so far it’s good.
    Also it’s not as dry as the first Thrawn novel
     
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    I finished with Arthur C. Clarke's "Odyssey" series. He should have stopped after 2010, the next two were bad. I've never seen anybody repeat themselves to the extent he did. I don't mean repeating ideas or similar circumstances, he lifted entire chapters from 2001/2010 and just copied/pasted them into the next novels. There were like 3-4 chapters in 3001 that were just lifted straight from 2010 and he had reprinted them in 2061 as well, so by the time I finished the series there were some chapters from 2010 I had read 3 times in 3 consecutive books

    Now I'm reading the late/great (he passed away earlier this year) astronaut John Young's biography "Forever Young". For a guy with such an amazing career he didn't get a lot of press, it seems he's mostly remembered for smuggling a corned beef sandwich on Gemini III. He was NASA's longest serving astronaut going from the Gemini program through the Space Shuttle program. He was the first of the "New Nine" to fly when he went up on Gemini III, the first manned Gemini mission, with Gus Grissom then flew a second Gemini mission as commander with Michael Collins. He flew 2 Apollo missions (both to the moon) starting with Apollo 10 (where he became the first to fly solo around the moon) and Apollo 16 where he got to land and drive the rover. He was also one of the guys in the simulators helping to bring Apollo 13 home. Then he became the first person to command/fly the Shuttle in space (which was a pretty crazy test flight as unlike previous craft there were no unmanned tests of the Shuttle) and later commanded/flew a second Shuttle mission. That's 2 Gemini missions, 2 Apollo missions and 2 Shuttle missions. All that and he's barely even been a character in such dramatizations as Apollo 13 and From The Earth To The Moon.

    So far it's not the most engaging book I've ever read but still very interesting. I still have a ways to go though as I'm only up to the point that Gemini III is about to lift off but it's kind of a dry book and pretty technical. The guy was so hilarious in the interviews I've seen over the years but I don't think his dry sense of humor translates well to the page, especially since most of what he said wasn't usually funny in itself but more about the delivery. Even though it's not the most entertaining book he was still THE man.

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    I also have a short story collection going. My way of doing things is I'll always have a short story collection that I'm reading and in-between novels or bios I'll read a story or two before I start on the next book so that after a while I've also knocked out a collection. I just wrapped up The Philip K Dick Reader and have moved on to The October Country by Ray Bradbury. I love Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles is one of my favorite books ever but he can get a little carried away in my opinion. In novels like Dandelion Wine he can spend 2-3 paragraphs waxing poetic about the color green but so far the length of these short stories have kept that mostly in check.
     
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    Re-reading ASOIAF serie once again.
    And getting lost inside of it once again.
     
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    I haven't read any King for the better part of a year (although I'm running out of his books to read as I've read the majority over the years) so I'm starting this. I thought about picking that new one up but I've had this sitting on the shelf for a while and should probably knock it out before I go out and buy another.
     
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    Under The Dome is so crappy (and unfortunately so long) that I had to start another novel to go along with it so that I actually have something to enjoy reading while I trudge through the other...

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    I've never read Agatha Christie before but I've always planned on checking her out as I figured there had to be something to her popularity. I'm about 1/4 through it and I'm really enjoying it so far.
     
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    About to start Plague of Swords. Though it’s been a while since I read the last book so may have to go back & re read that one.

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    Which is book 4 in the Traitors Son series by Miles Cameron. It a fantasy series but the author does a lot of Medieval re-enactment so there is a lot of detail in the amours & army organisation.

    Then I have The Fall of Dragons the 5th & final book in the series to read.

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