Athena Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 I'm glad your back has improved . I wish I could help you with transferring the photo, but it's a bit hard to do that from a distance. His First, His Second sounds interesting, I shall save it on my list of books to look up . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted June 21, 2015 Author Share Posted June 21, 2015 Thanks, Gaia, me too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 I like the sound of His First, His Second, think I'll stick it on the wishlist! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted June 30, 2015 Author Share Posted June 30, 2015 (edited) Thanks, Noll. I liked it enough to put the second in the series on my kindle. I mentioned I'd bought The Bone Clocks. I'd been on the fence about purchasing it ever since it came out....before, really. Last week we were in Barnes & Noble and I picked it up to leaf through it. I happened to open it to page 293... in the paperback version. That first paragraph is absolutely and stupendously hilarious. Venomous and just plain original. I have to quote it here. It's long, but oh, so worth it! Welsh rain gods p*ss onto the roofs, festival tents, and umbrellas of Hay-on-Wye and also on Crispin Hershey, as he strides along a gutter-noisy lane, into the Old Cinema Bookshop and makes his way down to its deepest bowel, where he rips this week's Piccadilly Review to confetti. Who on God's festering Earth does that six-foot-wide, corduroy-clad, pubic-bearded, rectal probe Richard Cheeseman think he is? I shut my eyes but the words of his review slide by like the breaking news: "I tried my utmost to find something, anything, in Crispin Hershey's long-awaited novel to dilute its trepanning godawfulness." How dare that inflatable semen-stained Bagpuss write that after cozying up to me at the Royal Society of Literature bashes? Of course, I had to buy it. Edited June 30, 2015 by pontalba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louya035 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 tha't awesome...also best wishes for your reading in 2015 ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Begins Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 I'm doing a report on Howl by Allen Ginsberg for school, so all I hear is it to Beat generation vibes lol Go on and read it that way, it totally works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 I'm doing a report on Howl by Allen Ginsberg for school, so all I hear is it to Beat generation vibes lol Go on and read it that way, it totally works Do you have to do that finger-clicky thing whilst reading it ?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted June 30, 2015 Author Share Posted June 30, 2015 tha't awesome...also best wishes for your reading in 2015 ! Thanks, louya! Same back atcha! I'm doing a report on Howl by Allen Ginsberg for school, so all I hear is it to Beat generation vibes lol Go on and read it that way, it totally works Hmmmm,. Husband has it in his stack. I'll have to take a look. Do you have to do that finger-clicky thing whilst reading it ?! Hey! It will totally help, man.......! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Begins Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Do you have to do that finger-clicky thing whilst reading it ?! Or some jazz going as background for your obscenity lol Hmmmm,. Husband has it in his stack. I'll have to take a look. I'd recommend listening to it, its in 3 parts on you tube Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted July 1, 2015 Author Share Posted July 1, 2015 LOL Everything is on You Tube! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 That's a fantastic paragraph from The Bone Clocks. I hadn't really been planning on reading it, but I'll keep it in mind now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted July 3, 2015 Author Share Posted July 3, 2015 I know I'll be reading it soon, at least later this month. It's funny, the book just happened to open to that page.....couldn't resist it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted July 3, 2015 Author Share Posted July 3, 2015 Have finished a Louise Penney, a Chief Inspector Gamache novel, The Long Way Home. She has finally ended the horrible conflict between a couple of the main characters in this book...thankfully. I'd resolved not to read anymore of the series because of that long running "thing", but a kindle sale is a powerful incentive. Although a bit drawn out, it was satisfying. I guess I'd rate it 3/5, maybe 3.5/5 at best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 Have finished a Louise Penney, a Chief Inspector Gamache novel, The Long Way Home. She has finally ended the horrible conflict between a couple of the main characters in this book...thankfully. I'd resolved not to read anymore of the series because of that long running "thing", but a kindle sale is a powerful incentive. Although a bit drawn out, it was satisfying. I guess I'd rate it 3/5, maybe 3.5/5 at best. I`ve got that one, and the previous one, still to read - glad they`ve finally done with `that thing`. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted July 4, 2015 Author Share Posted July 4, 2015 I`ve got that one, and the previous one, still to read - glad they`ve finally done with `that thing`. Ahh, you know exactly what I mean! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted July 4, 2015 Author Share Posted July 4, 2015 Ok. Well. /clearing throat/ I've read 20% of The Legacy of Heorot, and I don't foresee continuing. It isn't that it's not well written, it is. It isn't that it doesn't evoke strong reactions and emotions. It does. And, the story is a great idea. But. Ever since I was a child, I have not been able to stand any sort of cruelty in any form to any animal in print or on the screen. I'm the one that can't watch Lassie movies because of the mean things the dog has to go through. I know, I know. It's all make believe, it comes out right for him in the end. Doesn't matter. All I had to do was hear the music for the darned TV show of Lassie, and I'd start to cry. I'll say this much outside of the spoiler. The butchery of the animals in this story, The Legacy of Heorot, is just horrendous. It was, IMO, overboard. It's bad enough that humans have to go through the terrible things, but the truth is that humans choose their path, choose where to go and live their lives. The animals have no control and are the true innocents. It was bad enough when the German Shepard was eviscerated. Shepards happen to by my extra special soft spot in my heart, and I came close to putting the book down then. But I persevered. The descriptions of the cow massacre was heart rending, but I made it through that. By the hardest. But. Whilst trying to actually process the fact that the infant was snatched by The Thing, (which btw, I could hardly believe) they stake out a calf....and have the nerve to call it by name and scratch it's ear as though in affection. I know the realities of their situation called for certain harsh actions. I just am not able to read it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Awww . I don't do well either if there is animal cruelty in a book or a TV show or film. It is just terrible! (I also find it hard if there is cruelty against a child, too). I hope your next read will be a bit more uplifting. Shame this book wasn't really for you (it wouldn't be for me either). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 That sounds kinda gross I am now curious about The Thing though! Hope your next read is friendlier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsa Orlong Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Oh dear. Sorry to hear that. I don't remember any of that in any detail, but I guess I'm more used to it from movies like The Thing and such Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 (edited) Ahh, you know exactly what I mean! I certainly do - I really didn`t like `that thing ` either. I`ve seen it happen in a few books recently ; the author finds some way of separating the characters by distance or by giving one of them amnesia. It`s all a way of racking up tension. But previous books in their series have been tense enough, so why do things the readers don`t like ?? I want all my characters to remain friends ! *rant ends* Edited July 4, 2015 by Little Pixie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Awww . I don't do well either if there is animal cruelty in a book or a TV show or film. It is just terrible! (I also find it hard if there is cruelty against a child, too). Ditto - I gave up on a book series `cos something happened to a cat in it - The Light Years : Elizabeth jane Howard. Avoid it !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Oh ! Happy 4th of July, Kate ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 I know the realities of their situation called for certain harsh actions. I just am not able to read it. I don't like harm coming to animals in books or movies, but I don't recall too much about what happened in The Legacy of Heorot. I know which parts you are referring to, but I don't remember being too disturbed by it. I think I just took it as part of the story and just got caught up in the rest of it. But that's another one of our 'polar opposite' books then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 I'm three quarters of the way through Heorot now, and I've found it fine. Sad in parts, yes definitely, but I guess that kinda thing in fiction just doesn't bother me. I also don't think it's a particularly spectacular book though. The twist was good, but I'm finding myself skimming just to get to the end. I fear sci-fi will never be my thing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsa Orlong Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 I didn't think you'd enjoy it much, Noll As far as SF is concerned, I wouldn't have pointed to it as a book to change somebody's mind about the genre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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