What are you reading?

[Hebe]

Frogen, I have both The road and Blood meridian to read. I'll read Blood meridian first - described on the back as " a barbarously poetic odyssey through a hell without purpose". Wonder if I'll finish it. I didn't even like All the pretty horses.

[JW Frogen]

I am currently reading the short stories of Hemmingway.

There is a much mention of cofee with a hint of shaking hands, one can tell he was often trying to ride that dry wagon.

I wonder if he had the shakes as he placed the barrel of the shotgun in his mouth.

No, shooten is easy, but a lifetime of shooters is hard.

[Auzgurl]

What am I reading ? School newsletters etc, anything related to study, the back of the cereal box,I should be reading the pile of unopened unanswered mail at the end of my kitchen table etc.....but as for books, who gets time..I havent read a book since having my kids.

[JW Frogen]

Frogen, I have both The road and Blood meridian to read. I'll read Blood meridian first - described on the back as " a barbarously poetic odyssey through a hell without purpose". Wonder if I'll finish it. I didn't even like All the pretty horses.

I did not like All The Pretty Horses either, Blood Merdian was a relentless but facinating, sort of like No Country For Old Men (I have not read it but saw the Cohen brothers movie).

I hear Sutree is a comic view of being a down and out alcoholic, Roger Ebert, one of my favorate film critics (the only film critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize) loves it.

I should read it.

When I sober up, drunkeness is too serious to be funny when drunk.

[Aussie]

Nuthin. Just Mantra ranting.

Oh, sorry...................nuthin, finished Gilchrist's and Bennett's Books some weeks ago, and also Winton's 'Breath.'

I am between books.

Relax, Mantra. One day, you'll get it.

[TomB]

"How to Lose Friends & Infuriate People"


I was attracted to the title.

[Blaze]

Watchers by Dean Koontz, great book. Very sad ending but could only end this way.

"Cross Lassie with E.T., add a touch of The Wolfen and a dash of The Godfather, and you get a sense of some of the ingredients in this supernatural thriller, which should move Koontz ( Strangers a notch closer to Stephen King's high-rent district. When Travis Cornell, Koontz's appealing hero, encounters a stray dog while hiking, he quickly realizes that the animal is most unusual and that something terrifying is stalking them both. The encounter with the dog is the beginning of a tightly woven plot involving genetic manipulation that has created two extraordinary animals; one is the dog, named Einstein, the other is a murderous hybrid called "The Outsider." Hunted down by both the government and a professional killer who has learned the secret of the animals, Travis, Einstein and Nora Devon, a lonely woman befriended by man and canine, attempt to escape their pursuers all the while knowing that a confrontation with The Outsider is inevitable. Though the climax packs a little less wallop than it deserves, this is the sort of thoroughly frightening and entertaining tale that has its readers listening for noises in the night. 100,000 first printing; 100,000 ad/promo; Liteary Guild main selection.
Copyright 1986 "

[Rainbow Moonlight]

Several romances part way through lying around the house and car that I pick up at various times. Also part way through a reread of an Elizabeth Moon sssf book. Love sssf and historical romance.

[Auzgurl]

Several romances part way through lying around the house and car that I pick up at various times. Also part way through a reread of an Elizabeth Moon sssf book. Love sssf and historical romance.

RB what does "sssf" stand for?

[mantra.]

Sssf stands for sex, sex, sex & f..king. Most females stop reading those books after their first child.