Rollo Tomassi wrote:After 3 days, I'm on page 360. The first night I couldn't put the book down and stayed up until 3:00 AM reading it.
I would say this series definitely warrants its own topic, but I'll start it after I finish the first book.
I reading this book so damn slowly. Its gonna take me the rest of the summer at this pace. I'm enjoying it but its so thick (figuratively) that it seems to take longer than normal to read each chapter.
jjreason wrote:The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, finally, after numerous recommendations. It has some sick shit in it, but it's really flying along & I can't wait to see what happens.
It didn't change my life or anything, but I enjoyed the hell out of it. The second book isn't as good, but still a good read. I'm still waiting for the third to get released in paperback.
Can't wait for David Fincher's movie.
I hesitated reading it at first since people were talking about it like the did with The DaVinci Code. I didn't read that one, but the movie was insultingly stupid.
"As they say in China, 'Arrivederci'!"
*For the creation of the Golden Deuce Award.
That's why I haven't read any of the "Girl With the _______" series. Also because what I've read about it sounds like the heroine was calculated to be as "shocking" and un-traditional as possible, which screams "GIMMICK!" to me.
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Rollo Tomassi wrote:After 3 days, I'm on page 360. The first night I couldn't put the book down and stayed up until 3:00 AM reading it.
I would say this series definitely warrants its own topic, but I'll start it after I finish the first book.
I reading this book so damn slowly. Its gonna take me the rest of the summer at this pace. I'm enjoying it but its so thick (figuratively) that it seems to take longer than normal to read each chapter.
I finished it last night. And I felt bad because I finished it at 8:50 and knew there wasn't enough time for me to drive to B&N before they closed and buy the second book and start immediately reading it. So I had to wait until this morning and then drive over there first thing to get A Clash of Kings, of which I am now on page 75.
I'm off to start a Topic on this awesome amazing series.
I hesitated reading it at first since people were talking about it like the did with The DaVinci Code. I didn't read that one, but the movie was insultingly stupid.
The book was exactly the same as the film. It hurt my head that so many simple sentences were strung together in a row for several hundred pages.
"Say Jim! Whoo! That is a bad outfit! Whoooo!" -- Pimp, Superman The Movie "You're an idiot, Starscream." -- Megatron, Transformers:The Movie
I couldn't finish The DaVinci Code. It makes me weep for the future of humanity that so many people read it and loved it. I really got the impression that it was a bunch of folks who didn't realize Graham Hancock's cockamamie theories (which pre-date him, but I'm not looking for who originally though this shit up while on acid) weren't brand new were more intrigued by those theories than the crappy detective story.
The Girl Who Walked Her Dog in the Rain While Listening to ABBA, well, I've heard actual good reviews from more people I trust, so I'll probably get to it. Eventually.
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I posted this before about the DaVinci code, but I found the art history lesson WAY more compelling than the murder mystery. Another thing i liked about that book was the setup - chapters were usually about 3-5 pages long so you had frequent stopping points.
Finished the Dragon Tattoo. It was about the most compelling mystery book I've read since Red Dragon - meaning I really wanted to read it to see how it would play out. I have no real compulsion, however, to try the second book right away. I really liked the characters - the Swedish sensabilities and European attitudes came through very nicely. I thought the translation was mostly pretty good, but knowing it had been translated I found myself distracted a few times thinking how I might have crafted a sentence differently here and there.
James Stewart's Essential Calculus - Early Transcendentals.
Taking Calculus 3 this summer. 5 week class, 2 hours per night for 5 days/week. The instructor said this book is used all over the world. The author has made quite a good bit of money off this book. He has a $25M home and all of the fixtures are custom made to demonstrate mathematic principals.
The best I can describe this instructor is an Indian combination of Yoda and Mr. Miagi. Both in appearance and in personality. He throws in the "Hmmmm, yes!" He also frequently compares math to completely unrelated topics. Reminds me of paint the fence and wax on/wax off.
Rollo wrote:So I had to wait until this morning and then drive over there first thing to get A Clash of Kings, of which I am now on page 75.
Fuck you again, you speed reading mother fucker.
jjreason wrote:I posted this before about the DaVinci code, but I found the art history lesson WAY more compelling than the murder mystery.
Dan Brown apparently slept through most of his Art History courses, because 99% of it was bullshit or stuff you'd learn in a pamphlet called "Art History for the Mentally Retarded."
jjreason wrote:Finished the Dragon Tattoo. It was about the most compelling mystery book I've read since Red Dragon - meaning I really wanted to read it to see how it would play out. I have no real compulsion, however, to try the second book right away. I really liked the characters
The Girl Who Played With Fire is another murder-mystery that ends up delving quite a bit more into who Lizbeth Salander is and why she is the way she is.
jjreason wrote:the Swedish sensabilities and European attitudes came through very nicely. I thought the translation was mostly pretty good, but knowing it had been translated I found myself distracted a few times thinking how I might have crafted a sentence differently here and there.
I did the same thing for a while, especially when they used the word "kronor" instead of "dollars."
"As they say in China, 'Arrivederci'!"
*For the creation of the Golden Deuce Award.
I guess never having taken any art history or anything that I would have saved some time by reading the pamphlet.
I guess that was the one loose thread, her "All the Evil" or whatever that never got exposed (though it was fairly hinted at). I will get around to trying it at some point.
Nor can he read me saying he's a fucktard with a dodo permanently stuck in his ass. No, not dildo. That wasn't a mistake. That motherfucker is responsible for the extinction of the dodos.
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Rollo wrote:So I had to wait until this morning and then drive over there first thing to get A Clash of Kings, of which I am now on page 75.
Fuck you again, you speed reading mother fucker.
Don't feel bad. I don't have a job, so I don't have much else to do all day except read. By the way, I finished the second book and started on the third.
Oh, I feel like I'm gonna be by the time I get to the end of the fifth book, because I'll have read the first five in like the span of a month. And then I'll have to sit around for the next five to ten years waiting on the final two books to come out. The same thing happened to me between Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix.
And the way the story is unfolding in the books, its not seven books. Its just one GIGANTIC story, that he breaks off eventually because having a 5,000 page book would be too unwieldy and expensive. Much like the first and second books, the third picks up RIGHT where the second one ended.
"Say Jim! Whoo! That is a bad outfit! Whoooo!" -- Pimp, Superman The Movie "You're an idiot, Starscream." -- Megatron, Transformers:The Movie
Bayou Underground. Found it at a Borders for 60% off when looking for a biography on Robert Johnson (there are two good ones, apparently, and I didn't really expect to find either). Pretty good so far. Sort of a combination travelogue and oral history of the legends behind songs like "Stagger Lee."
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Finished The Girl Who Played With Fire while on holidays. I'll get the 3rd one now as this second book lets off at a horrendous point - so much so that I can't help but wonder if the editors placed a smidge of book 2 at the start of book 3 to create some urgency - book 1 resolved itself a more completely than this one.
Oh, and I pegged the "twist" in this one quite early on. Not that I'm super proud of myself or anything, more wondering if anyone else had a similar experience.
jjreason wrote:Finished The Girl Who Played With Fire while on holidays. I'll get the 3rd one now as this second book lets off at a horrendous point - so much so that I can't help but wonder if the editors placed a smidge of book 2 at the start of book 3 to create some urgency - book 1 resolved itself a more completely than this one.
Oh, and I pegged the "twist" in this one quite early on. Not that I'm super proud of myself or anything, more wondering if anyone else had a similar experience.
I'm still waiting for the 3rd book to be released in paperback.
To me the cliffhanger feels intentional, like book 2 and 3 were meant to be one story cut in half, ala "The Empire Strikes Back" or "Pirates of the Caribbean 2".
"As they say in China, 'Arrivederci'!"
*For the creation of the Golden Deuce Award.
by the time I get to the end of the fifth book, because I'll have read the first five in like the span of a month. And then I'll have to sit around for the next five to ten years waiting on the final two books to come out. The same thing happened to me between Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix.