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« Reply #105 on Jan 14, 2012, 1:35am » | |
Jan 9, 2012, 4:09pm, jimpi wrote:
Dec 31, 2011, 5:30am, justin wrote:Well i finished The Jakarta Pandemic. There were some small niggling bits that frustrated me, like the wife. While it's no award winner, it was still a solid and extremely gripping story that had me hooked from beginning to end.
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I'm about a third through it right now. I'm reading the paperback version rather than the ebook. I like the story quite a bit but the writing is really throwing me off. Very descriptive when it really doesn't need to be (why do I need to know the color of the curtains, the finish on the end table, etc). Also quite a few places where the verb tense changes, which is jarring to me. |
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Have you read The Birth of the Peacekeepers? It's WAY worse with that sort of stuff, it read's like something you would find in a kids library with a few naughty words and scenes tossed in. Jakarta Pandemic reads WAY better than it.
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« Reply #106 on Jan 15, 2012, 12:57pm » | |
Jan 13, 2012, 9:44pm, MEGATØN wrote:
Jan 13, 2012, 7:55pm, Morg308 wrote:| I just picked up 'American Apocalypse Wastelands' at the supermarket. Looks like it might be okay - anyone read this yet? I'm thinking after dinner I may turn off the idiot tube and crack it. |
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That's actually the second book in a trilogy that started out as an online serial and was later published in book form, and then further revised. Hopefully it's received a good editing recently.
Here's my review of book one, http://www.megaton.us/megaton/2010/2/27/american-apocalypse-the-beginning.html |
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I'll need to pick up book one - I was wondering if it was a trilogy, since it seemed to take up in the middle of a story. It seems well-written, especially since it's in first person, which is difficult to write in. It's fairly realistic, and I like the characters. Not bad at all - I'm about 1/2 way through it. Haven't read the first one, but this is not bad. Not Tolstoy, but I didn't expect that.
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« Reply #107 on Jan 16, 2012, 8:33pm » | |
I've read through a couple of books since my last post. I read a small kindle story called Hunger and Thirst by Wayne Wightman (http://www.amazon.com/Hunger-and-Thirst-....26763277&sr=1-1). This was quite an enjoyable, though relatively cryptic tale, of a man saved by a mysterious young woman in a Post Apocalyptic Nevada desert.
After that I tried reading Crash by J.G. Ballard. While I respect Ballard's amazingly descriptive and excruciatingly intelligent writing, I also happen to find it a real burden as well. If you are into extremely morbid writing along the lines of Matthew Stokoe, Clive Barker or Dennis Cooper, then you will really get a kick out of this exceedingly violent pornographic oddity.
I gave up on Crash and have now picked up Winds of Change by Jason brannon (http://permutedpress.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=97). This is best described as an apocalyptic book of biblical proportions. So far a nice and easy read, which is great for screaming through.
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« Reply #108 on Jan 28, 2012, 4:15am » | |
I've just finished Ex-Patriots by Peter Clines. It wasn't as good as the first I felt, but still a damn fine book that I would also LOVE to see transferred to the big screen.
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« Reply #109 on Jan 31, 2012, 6:33pm » | |
I've been trying to read The Hole by Aaron Ross Powell. While it's not a bad book, I am finding it very hard to get into. Ahh well, a friend of my wife has loaned me a pile of steampunk novels, I may just try those.
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« Reply #110 on Feb 6, 2012, 3:20am » | |
I'm reading Bonnie's next book right now.
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« Reply #111 on Feb 10, 2012, 5:40am » | |
I'm reading Dangerous Visions, which actually has a couple of pretty decent PA stories in it.
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« Reply #112 on Feb 15, 2012, 5:10pm » | |
Finished Veniss Underground by Jeff Vandermeer. It's kind of an apocalyptic tale set in a far future earth that has been destroyed by nuclear war and pollution. Very much akin to J.G. Ballard in style this is a rather warped novel of love and revenge.
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« Reply #113 on Feb 15, 2012, 5:55pm » | |
I just finished the first 5 parts of the Wool series by Hugh Howey. It's really good.
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« Reply #114 on Feb 15, 2012, 6:36pm » | |
I'm about to finish Gunslinger by Steven King, ya the one you sent me Megaton. Pretty cool actually.
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« Reply #115 on Feb 16, 2012, 10:13pm » | |
Feb 15, 2012, 6:36pm, King of the Wastes wrote:| I'm about to finish Gunslinger by Steven King, ya the one you sent me Megaton. Pretty cool actually. |
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So are you going to do the rest? I still need to read the Dark Tower series myself.
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« Reply #116 on Feb 16, 2012, 10:34pm » | |
If I can, although if it gets anymore confusing I may let it all just be a mystery to me. 
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« Reply #117 on Feb 18, 2012, 12:20am » | |
Just started to read " World Made By Hand".
Any good?
For those who have not read "Level7" yet....don't bother! It stinks! At least I thought so!
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« Reply #118 on Feb 18, 2012, 4:30am » | |
I'll have to Grab that Wool Series for reading on the 26 hour flight to The US (followed by the 26 hour return) in May Megaton! I read Steve Vernon's Long Horn, Big Shaggy which was just plain screwy! If Joe R. Lansdale, Louis L'Amour, George Romero and H.P. Lovecraft got together to make a book, this would be their creation!
I'm now reading The Old Man and The Wasteland by Nick Cole, which is utterly brilliant!
It's a shame you didn't like Level 7 summerrain. It is one of my favourite novels, though I won't deny it is probably an acquired taste due to it's age and style.
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« Reply #119 on Feb 18, 2012, 9:02am » | |
Ya, I hated "Level 7"! Just couldn't get into it. Seemed boring.I finished it though.
I also didn't care for "Wastelands" stories of the Apocalypse. It was cheap! Dumb!
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