Jazzfanz Bookclub

[LogGrad98]

Yeah Shyamalan's career has been disapppointing. He had a nice start and hit the ground running, then just fell apart with some real disasters. Too bad really, as I think he brought something new to the table.

 

[LogGrad98]

Finished Dr. Sleep, which ended up being one of my favorite King books, although it felt a lot more like a Dean Koontz book. Maybe that just means I like Koontz better than King, which for me is generally true.

 

[fishonjazz]

I just finished book three in the wayward pines trilogy.

Fantastic books. One of the best reads of my life....

 

[franklin]

I finished The Dragon Reborn. Wish I hadn't started reading this series. Nothing happens for 50 chapters, then the books climax over two and are all over. I'm going to read at least one more, but it's feeling more like a duty at this point.

I finished the Farseer Trilogy and agree with Atheist Preacher's writeup. The ending was a letdown.

I'm reading this right now:

The first couple chapters promise to make this as good as the first two in the series.

 

[fishonjazz]

but it's feeling more like a duty at this point.

Agreed.
I was in the middle of book seven (iirc) and had not been enjoying the story for a long time (like 3 books worth) and i finally just gave up (hard for me. I always like to finish books/stories) and went to wikipedia to read summaries of the rest of the books and see how it ends. (Ended pretty much how i thought it would.... very predictable books imo)

 

[eacioban]

Finished the entire Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, each and every one of the forty books it consists of.
Any word I shall write about it will diminish from its status as a mega masterpiece.

 

[franklin]

Agreed.
I was in the middle of book seven (iirc) and had not been enjoying the story for a long time (like 3 books worth) and i finally just gave up (hard for me. I always like to finish books/stories) and went to wikipedia to read summaries of the rest of the books and see how it ends. (Ended pretty much how i thought it would.... very predictable books imo)

Sad thing is I read this prior to reading the first book (the prequel).

This guy keeps adding more and more and more characters/groups/nationalities. I keep waiting for the point where he ties some of them together and gives that oh wow, mind = blown moment, but it. never. comes. Just perpetual expansion of the world with no apparent point for doing so.

Also, the plots could be designed by any average kid. Not the writing, but definitely the vanilla plots.

 

[TroutBum]

I'm in the middle of Stephen King's new one:

I'm not a huge fan of detective/crime novels, but so far, it's been hard to put down.


*Randall Flagg's calling card, anyone?

 

[fishonjazz]

I'm in the middle of Stephen King's new one:

I'm not a huge fan of detective/crime novels, but so far, it's been hard to put down.


*Randall Flagg's calling card, anyone?

Im behind on my king reads.

I need to read dr sleep, mr mercedes, and i am thinking if reading liseys story.

Have you read liseys story? If so, how was it?

 

[TroutBum]

Im behind on my king reads.

I need to read dr sleep, mr mercedes, and i am thinking if reading liseys story.

Have you read liseys story? If so, how was it?

Nope, I was so put off by Gerald's Game and Rose Madder (really wasn't too bad; had Dark Tower references), that something is holding me back from Lisey's Story.

 

[LogGrad98]

I wish King would fall off the wagon and get back into what made his fiction fan-damn-tastic. I could use a good drug-fueled King story. Not that I wish anything bad on the guy, just saying that was when he did his very best stuff.

 

[fishonjazz]

Nope, I was so put off by Gerald's Game and Rose Madder (really wasn't too bad; had Dark Tower references), that something is holding me back from Lisey's Story.

Geralds game sucks.
I liked rose madder.

Someone told me that liseys story was really good.
Ah well, im sure i will get to it someday.

And i hate to sound like a broken record but THE WAYWARD PINES TRILOGY IS AWESOME!