Originally Posted By alexbook ^--It's pretty different, isn't it? When I first heard he was writing a book for kids (this was the first "Kingdom Keepers"), it seemed like a bizarre idea.
Originally Posted By RockyMtnMinnie I'm just about to finish Hawaii by James Michener and today I bought A High Wind in Jamaca by Richard Hughes which I'm eager to get started on.
Originally Posted By Labuda Currently about 2/3 of the way through the second Dexter book. Oh, how I wish that a season of the show would mirror this book, but it would likely be too graphic even for Showtime.
Originally Posted By RockyMtnMinnie Reading Colorado 14er Disasters - Victims of the Game by Mark Scott-Nash. It's three case studies of mountaineering deaths which happened in Colorado. It's kind of wierd, because in the first case study, the victim was a very popular member of a 14er online forum and the auther included many of the postings from the forum as the attempted rescue was happening. It sounded exactly like posters here, just a different topic. It would be like this happened... Topic: John Disney Doe was injured on a ride at Disneyland Followed by many postings of prayer and good thoughts. Then someone with "insider information" would post, "I just spoke w/ my friend who is a CM and saw everything and John Disney Doe is just fine." Then there would be all kinds of relieved postings. But then another post would surface. "The previous poster was wrong. John Disney Doe has not yet been rescued from the ride and is suffering from multiple fractures. Rescue workers are with him now." Then somebody is going to post, "I've been friends with John Disney Doe for 20 years and I love the guy, but he was always a person who did not keep his hands, arms and feet inside the ride at all times." That person would get flamed about saying bad things about John Disney Doe when he was possibly dying. But speculation would begin, was it a ride malfunction or did JDD stick his hands, arms and feet outside the ride and cause the accident. Someone would post a get well wish for JDD referencing an inside joke from a previous Play Pen flirtation involving Redi Whip. Then, the reality would be known as the officials would make the announcement. JDD had died and an investigation is pending to determine what happened. Naturally this would illicit no less than 500 subsequent postings lamenting the loss of JDD and also rampant speculations, broken periodically by a post stating that said poster refuses to participate in the speculation and will not pass judgement until all the facts are known. Now take the above and just change the details to involve a popular poster on a 14er's chat group, who attempted to make a winter ascent up a 14,000 foot peak in Colorado without the necesary gear and fell several hundred feet. He survived through the night and until rescue workers got to him, but died before he could be evacuated to the hospital. And yes, there was a post involving Reddi Whip... "Oh no! TalusMonkey! Where was your Reddi-Whip? You could have engaged the emergency switch on the side of the can which releases the motherload of cream and landed in a big puffy pile of the whipped stuff."
Originally Posted By DAR I finished Final Crisis last night and prior had read Batman RIP both by Grant Morrison. Batman was a pretty solid story. Confusing at times but really got into Batman's head. And it also featured a terrific Joker. Final Crisis is the single worst comic book story ever. None of it made sense. I had no idea who 3/4ths of the characters were. I put the book down several times in frustration.
Originally Posted By RockyMtnMinnie I'm trying to decide whether to start "Gods Behaving Badly" or "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane."
Originally Posted By beamerdog Got about 130 or so pages into Wicked and gave up. I'm really into the Sookie Stackhouse series (Charlaine Harris). Right now I'm half-way through Definitely Dead and actually she a tear about something that happened. Easy reads, lots of action and romance, and just what I need when I don't need to be thinking too much!
Originally Posted By alexbook RockyMtnMinnie: That book sounds fascinating. I'll keep an eye out for it. I'm currently re-reading Jasper Fforde's "The Fourth Bear," as part of my ongoing attempt to read every novel I can find in the library that involves a theme park. (In this case, it's SommeWorld, where Guests get to experience life in the trenches of WWI.)
Originally Posted By alexbook "Filthy Rich" - graphic novel by Brian Azzarello (writer) & Victor Santos (artist) I've got an advance copy, and it's black & white. I don't know if the ultimate book is going to be black & white or color. Any of you comics mavens know? It's also an odd size, smaller than a typical graphic novel.
Originally Posted By alexbook Okay, I just answered my own question. It's going to be published in B&W.
Originally Posted By RockyMtnMinnie I decided to start The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane. I'm really enjoying it so far.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 Murder on Theatre Row by Michael Jahn, this is the 4th book of his I've read in the last month or so, sorry it took me so many years to find this author, I really like his stuff, fast easy read that I hate to put down. Enjoyable characters.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 The Constant Princess (a historical fiction about Catharine of Aragon)
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon I've been wanting to read that^^^^^ Is it good? Right now I'm reading Susannah's Garden by Debbie Macomber
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 It is really good Tinkeroon. It starts out a little slow but it is really well done.
