Originally Posted By jasmine7 <<Fables trade number 11 War and Pieces. The best comic series of the last ten years.<< Absolutely agreed. If I could only get one comic a month, that would be my one (though I'd cry about losing a couple from my pull list, lol). Did you hear ABC is going to adapt it for TV? I think I'd rather HBO or Sho had gone for it, given the adult themes of the book. I've got The Ten Cent Plague on my list, too. I kind of started reading it on my Sony Reader while at the doctor a while back, but I haven't really gone at it. Right now, I'm rereading Question Quest by Piers Anthony (probably the dozenth time I've read it since I first read it as a kid), but I think I'll start on The Stand this weekend. I just saw that it's an ebook now (the unabridged version), so it'll be a heck of a lot easier to handle than my dad's old heavy copy, lol.
Originally Posted By DAR <<Did you hear ABC is going to adapt it for TV? I think I'd rather HBO or Sho had gone for it, given the adult themes of the book.>> Yeah I have mixed feelings about it. I'm happy that it's going to be possibly seen in another medium. But I'd rather have it be on cable even FX.
Originally Posted By alexbook Parke Godwin - "The Fire When It Comes" (short story collection) Does anybody know if Parke Godwin, the science fiction/fantasy author of the 1980's and 1990's ("Waiting for the Galactic Bus," "Sherwood," "The Snake Oil Wars," etc.), is the same person as Parke Godwin, the Disney author of the 2000's ("Quotable Walt Disney," "Disney Nursery Rhymes & Fairy Tales," various Baby Einstein titles, etc.)? It's an unusual-enough name to make coincidence seem unlikely, but none of the sources I've checked have been clear.
Originally Posted By alexbook A short story collection called "Yuletide Universe," edited by Brian M. Thomsen. Currently on Harlan Ellison's "Santa Claus vs. S.P.I.D.E.R." (It's a James Bond parody.)
Originally Posted By jasmine7 I can't make up my mind what to read right now, so I've got three books going. Still rereading Piers Anthony's Question Quest, started reading the uncut version of The Stand (I've read the other version) yesterday, and I started on Neil Gaiman's American Gods today.
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon I just finished an old old book called "Mama's Bank Account" by Kathryn Forbes. I read it in Jr. High and loved it. It happened to come my way at work and I snatched it up and read it again. It is a quick and simple read but fun. Really takes you back... I cleared out the books in my bedroom before Christmas and now I can't find where I put them! So I'm now searching for a book here and a book there. Found one by Jeffery Deaver called Twelfth Card. Just started it and so far it's really good. I've read a couple others of his and they were all good too.
Originally Posted By ecdc Timeline by Michael Crichton, and Religion in American Politics, by Frank Lambert.
Originally Posted By beamerdog The Miracle at St. Anna. Great book - I'll wait to see the movie when it come On Demand.
Originally Posted By DAR Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor. Pretty good so far, reminds me that Star Wars is first and foremost fun.
Originally Posted By alexbook Philip K. Dick, "The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike" (Very strange to read about "rural" Marin County circa 1960.)
Originally Posted By alexbook Just finished "The Free Lunch" by Spider Robinson. It's a sci-fi novel (set in the near future) about a pair of people who go "underground" and hide out in a theme park. Robinson has a lot of fun describing the park, which has "lands" devoted to Chinese mythology, Heinlein novels, the Beatles, pirates, unicorns and fairies, and, slyly, Robinson's "Callahan's Place" stories.
Originally Posted By lesmisfan last week i just finished the addicting Twilight series! i read for almost eight straight hours to finish the last book, oh my eyes hurt so much after that. now i am focusing on reading and memorizing three, three to four page monolgues for a play im participating in at school.
Originally Posted By alexbook Just finished Cory Doctorow's "Eastern Standard Tribe." Up next: Re-reading Agatha Christie's "The Big Four"
