Read "Time Enough for Love" for some real alzheimers tinged writings. Old Robert let it all hang out toward the end. edit: I just looked it up and realized he really wrote that long before the end. I guess it was the acid, then, not the alzheimers. My bad.
The Great Shark Hunt - http://www.amazon.com/Great-Shark-H...=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275501220&sr=8-6 Songs of the Doomed - http://www.amazon.com/Songs-Doomed-...r_1_25?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275501286&sr=8-25 Careful cos a lot of the later collections are a mixed bag with some pretty terrible stuff trying to cash in. If you like his stuff I bet you would really enjoy this - one of the most entertaining books I ever read - Robert Sabbag - Snowblind - http://www.amazon.com/Snowblind-Bri...=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275501396&sr=8-3 This is also a brilliant read if you like Americana, the open road etc. Blue Highways, William Least-Heat Moon http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Highways..._1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275501448&sr=1-1#noop
^ The Rum Diary if you like Thompson. Blue Highways was very good, but the dialog was very canned. I'm 99.9999% certain he never spoke to someone pumping gas on Long Island who lamented not being the seventh New England state.
It has gotten better. I'm about 3 quarters of the way in to it now (its on my cell phone via Kindle, so I only read it when I'm waiting in line or something. I've read many paper novels in the meantime) I thought the caricatures of the evil conservatives vs the liberal angels was about the most blatantly stupid political garbage that...well, that I've had to come to expect from King. But lucky for me, the story is pretty good. All that CNN/Wolf Blitzer ball-lapping was ridiculous, but it comes with the territory. Seriously, shouldn't authors be able to keep their own politics out of the narrative? I could read 20 Dean Koontz books and never know which side he is likely to vote for.
I just got into Willaim Dietrich, and his Ethan Gage novels. I'm reading The Dakota Cipher now. Good Historic fiction action.
I mentioned this book yesterday in the Stephen King thread. I think it belongs in this thread as well. I'm about halfway through Justin Cronin's The Passage. It's a fairly new book - I think it released at the beginning of June. It's fucking brilliant so far. Apparently, it's the first of a trilogy and Ridley Scott purchased the rights to make it into a film...three years before it was published. If you liked The Stand, The Road, I Am Legend, hell even The Da Vinci Code, then you should really like this book. It's a suprisingly easy read too.
That may be true, but if I asked you for details about those Dean Koontz books, would you be able to remember them?
Thanks for the recommendation. I read your original post about it in the SK thread, and I looked into it further. It sounds really intriguing, and I'm definitely going to give it a jump. Being the Post-Apocalyptic zombie aficionado that I am, I started reading a book called "The Forest of Hands and Teeth", by Carrie Ryan. Its a bit of a love story that takes place in an isolated village 100 years after the start of the zombie apocalypse. I was surprised that it is classified as "young adult fiction" -- though it's not overly gory. I like that she refers to zombies as "The Unconsecrated". It's garnered some good reviews, and so far I'm enjoying it immensely -- I even picked up it's companion novel, "Dead Tossed Waves". I think it may be an attempt to tap into the "Twilight" market of readers, as it's a horror themed love story -- But I'll take mindless flesh eating zombies over emo vampires any day.
You like a good sports story? Football Book? John Grisham's Playing for Pizza. Its a fictional story in a non-fiction setting. Very enjoyable read/story for a man without the "documentary side" like a Namath biography.
Only one, but that's because I've only read one in about the last 10 years. It was "From the Corner of His Eye", and I have to put it up there with the better King novels. I don't know why I haven't made more time for Koontz, he's not bad. edit: I liked it so much, I mailed it to my friend in prison, along with a couple other books I thought were great. I wouldn't waste the postage if I didn't think he would like it. Books good enough for prison: "The Terror" by Dan Simmons "A walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson "From the Corner of His Eye" Dean Koontz
Although this is a shameless plug, it's slightly relevant to the thread. Check out the literary art journal Dear Sir, (http://www.dearsir.org/) because I have two pieces published in the Current Issue, which came out yesterday, and has a sciencey theme to it. You can access the Current Issue from the Homepage by clicking on the 'Current Issue' dot. (P.S. the featured quote on the bottom of the Homepage - with the strikethrough line running across it - was taken from my second piece in the issue. Ok, that's all. Horn-tooting complete)
That book keeps showing up on the top of my Amazon recommendations list. I'll get around to it sometime.
"Time Enough for Love" should be read late at night (a series of late at nights because it's a long book) and only after you've read the short story "Methuselah's Children" which Heinlein wrote more than 20 years before he attempted the further adventures of Lazarus Long. He actually serialized "Methuselah's Children" for Astounding Science Fiction magazine over three issues in 1941 and then got the three stories published as a book. And if you think "Time Enough for Love" is out there try "Farnham's Freehold", which is about as much of a turnaround from Heinlein's early career as you can get. He definitely went from strong state-ist to whack-job libertarian between the 40's and the 60's. TEfL is actually a great book and FF is just flat out weird.
This book is insane. I tried to sleep in this morning, but I just wanted to get further into it. The character development is excellent and that's one of my favorite things about it. Cronin is going to be around for a long time - the guy's a hell of a writer. The next book in the trilogy is supposed to come out in 2012 and it's called "The Twelve" - you'll understand the meaning of that title about 1/4 through this book.
^^ I have been put off getting into any new multi-part books due to my experiences with a song of fire and ice by george r r martin. Its the best fantasy series I have ever read and I have ready pretty much all of the better known ones - its brilliant but every book in the series now seemsd to be delayed by years and as he is now pretty old and keeps getting distracted by other projects I seriously think he is more likely to die than complete them.
The Passage is out as an unabridged audibook, I will get it with this months credit from audible so long as the person reading it doesnt have a crap voice. Just finishing the second in the Millenium series (the Girl who played with fire), as an audibook - the reader is great and so are the books.
