Kevin's Watch

Blindness by Jose Saramago.

I liked the movie. The book is written in the style of paragraphs that are pages long, run-on sentences, no quotations; not a style I normally enjoy but so far it's working.

aliantha wrote:Yup, Av, it was Duchess. I guess we were talking about it at the Hangar over the summer. It was her lack of a ringing endorsement coupled with a similar opinion from a neighbor that's kept me from reading it.

Yeah, it doesn't matter...not going to have the first 5 on my shelf and not get the last one. *sigh* Jean Auel better appreciate it.

--A

Avatar wrote:Rereading Night of Knives, and ordered Stonewielder.

--A

Lucky you cant find Night of Knives in any of my local book stores ,but there was plenty of copies of Stonewielder and Eriksons Toll of the hounds so I,m, kinda of stuck and bookless for the last 2 weeks

Now that sucks. Play games instead.

(Good to see you around btw.)

--A

I'm 50 pages into Gardens of the Moon. I got tired of the incessant Watch nagging about this series and decided to give it a go. All I can say is, nag away any time you bitches want
So far, so VERY good. And the great thing about always being late to the party, I got another 14 waiting for me!

Avatar wrote:Now that sucks. Play games instead.

(Good to see you around btw.)

--A

Thanks Avatar , the only games I play are on facebook and the Evony game keeps me busy while I suffer from Book withdrawal

Shaun das Schaf wrote:I'm 50 pages into Gardens of the Moon. I got tired of the incessant Watch nagging about this series and decided to give it a go. All I can say is, nag away any time you bitches want
So far, so VERY good. And the great thing about always being late to the party, I got another 14 waiting for me!

I'm reading The Sacred Band by David Anthony Durham. I just read Vortex by Robert Charles Wilson. It was excellent.

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SerScot wrote:I'm reading The Sacred Band by David Anthony Durham. I just Vortex by Robert Charles Wilson. It was excellent.

You just just what Vortex SerScot? Ate it? Sat on it? Walked it?

And I *knew* a Malazan post would draw you into direct contact Fist. Even if that contact is a dancing Nana, I'll take it. Hello.

Shaun das Schaf wrote:And I *knew* a Malazan post would draw you into direct contact Fist. Even if that contact is a dancing Nana, I'll take it. Hello.

Yeah, Malazan draws Fist like a moth to a flame, or flies to….

Shaun das Schaf wrote:

SerScot wrote:I'm reading The Sacred Band by David Anthony Durham. I just Vortex by Robert Charles Wilson. It was excellent.

You just just what Vortex SerScot? Ate it? Sat on it? Walked it?

And I *knew* a Malazan post would draw you into direct contact Fist. Even if that contact is a dancing Nana, I'll take it. Hello.

HELLO!!!!!

Cambo wrote:Halfway through Memories of Ice, and got ahold of Deadhouse Gates finally. MOI already has me reading in big breathless chunks.

Funny, I just started MOI.

It's weird, because this one didn't take two or three hundred pages to figure out what was going on!

Rigel wrote:

Cambo wrote:Halfway through Memories of Ice, and got ahold of Deadhouse Gates finally. MOI already has me reading in big breathless chunks.

Funny, I just started MOI.

It's weird, because this one didn't take two or three hundred pages to figure out what was going on!

Yeah, well, enjoy it while it lasts. He's gonna fix that for ya with the fourth book.

So I broke down and got a Kindle today.

I'm still in the 'justifying it' stage of Kindle ownership. I did have the Kindle for PC app on my laptop, so I had a few books ready to go - mostly the Star Trek SCE series that was only available digitally. So I'm rereading those and some GRRM, which was a big part of the 'justifying it' since I lost all of those when I moved and really didn't want to replace the physical tomes. I've got a lot of catching up to do and a fair amount of stuff to eventually replace, but that's going to have to happen slowly, since e-books are not cheap.

And I've wandered off topic, so I'm rereading ASoIaF.

About half-way through Memories of Ice.

--A

Finished MOI, halfway through Deadhouse Gates. Got House of Chains and Midnight Tides from the library. I give it two weeks before I'm looking for the next one. I'm addicted.

Also got Coalescent by Stephen Baxter, which I'll read if I finish the Malazan books in time. Anyone read this? I enjoyed his collaboration with Arthur C Clarke, and this Destiny's Children series is supposed to be some of his best work.

Yay, another Malazan addict! Fist will be so pleased.

He is!

Finished Blindness. It is an amazing book, both brutal and transcendantly beautiful. I plan to read more Jose Saramago. (Incidentally, probably the closest movie-from-book adaptation I've ever seen in terms of plot, but the book was of course so much more in depth.)