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Post by orlandogardner on Apr 2, 2020 14:25:01 GMT
Are you generally a big SK reader? I think you'd have to read his early stuff pretty extensively to get the most from TDT series. I really liked it but it starkly exposes his weaknesses though. He just doesn't know when to stop writing sometimes and this being his opus he lays it on pretty heavily. Every idea makes it onto the page. I'd read just about everything he did up until Bag of Bones and loved a lot of it. I found though anything after that very hard to get into, his self-indulgences seemed to have increased as he has gotten older. Is there any of his new stuff that you'd recommend? Anyhoo, I'm finding it pretty hard to concentrate on anything too dense at the moment so, just finished: Pretty decent, atmospheric, and unique take on the vampire genre. Deffo worth a read if you like Martin. Just started: I've read one of his other books (61 Hours) and didn't think much of it. But a mate recommended the earlier Jack Reacher novels so I said I'd have a pop. As I said above, concentration is a little shot atm so something like this is just about all I can manage. Lean plot, straightforward characters, not much in the way of subtext etc to get in the way. It's alright. The first 5 Jack Reacher books are fairly entertaining, didn’t like any of the ones I read after that. If you read the books there is no way you’ll imagine Tom Cruise. Reacher is like 6’5 240 or something. I tried to read the Dark Tower books but could not get into them. I made it through 3 book and gave up. I like that genre of fiction but his didn’t work for me. Yeah I'm enjoying it so far. Moves along at a pace. I already have a young Ray Stevenson maybe playing the part in my head. Can't believe they went with TC. Must have been a vanity project. I can understand you leaving TDT, it can be hard going sometimes.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Apr 4, 2020 2:12:54 GMT
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Post by twothousandonemark on Apr 4, 2020 4:37:21 GMT
About to wrap up: It's actually quite a fascinating history dive. The tv show itself serves merely as a gateway for it. Keep in mind, Oak Island has been on the brain for about 200yrs with searchers, with crazy amounts of time & money spent to date by countless. On deck: Other than The Body, it's been more than 20yrs since I read it fully. I'm one to alternate fiction & non-fiction. OCD ftw.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Apr 4, 2020 16:28:39 GMT
pre-ordered this one:
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Apr 4, 2020 17:16:53 GMT
Splitting my attention between ‘Yemen in Crisis’ by Helen Lackner, ‘Factors of Soil Formation’ by Hans Jenny, ‘Fear and Trembling’ by Soren Kierkegaard, ‘City of Quartz’ by Mike Davis, and The Confidence Man’ by Herman Melville.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 5, 2020 15:47:16 GMT
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Apr 5, 2020 15:54:05 GMT
Would you recommend Different Seasons?
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Apr 9, 2020 0:03:39 GMT
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Post by wonderburstanger on Apr 9, 2020 0:07:32 GMT
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Post by sdm3 on Apr 9, 2020 10:07:49 GMT
TheGoodMan will like this - I’m reading The Drawing of the Three. I took forever to get through The Gunslinger (I kept getting distracted by other things and it wasn’t the most gripping of reads) but Book 2 is a lot better.
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Post by NJtoTX on Apr 9, 2020 11:21:43 GMT
My ADD makes it impossible for me to make progress through books. It's time for me to let go of all the books that have been collecting dust on shelves. Especially any with wide lines of type.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Apr 11, 2020 23:27:03 GMT
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Apr 12, 2020 10:18:26 GMT
Would you recommend Different Seasons? I would. Four stories, three are really good. The Body (Stand by Me in movie form), Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil (rotten film, great tale). The 4th I can't remember but it stunk. Apt Pupil might my favorite short story of King's. That and The Sun Dog from Four past Midnight
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Apr 22, 2020 14:21:03 GMT
Would you recommend Different Seasons? I would. Four stories, three are really good. The Body (Stand by Me in movie form), Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil (rotten film, great tale). The 4th I can't remember but it stunk. Apt Pupil might my favorite short story of King's. That and The Sun Dog from Four past Midnight
great!
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Post by sdm3 on Aug 9, 2023 15:41:03 GMT
I could've sworn we had some kind of "What Are You Reading?" thread - I spent ages looking for it. Was this it?
I just finished "A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of the Columbine Tragedy." Dark account by Sue Klebold, mother of one of the two Columbine shooters, as she comes to terms with the heinous actions of her son. At times, it was genuinely disturbing when you read her perspective of how normal he seemed. He wasn't some raving lunatic at home or in public - he hid everything outside of what was recorded on the Basement Tapes. I think back to my own teen years. Obviously, I'm not saying I was harboring homicidal or suicidal thoughts - but I also largely hid my thoughts and feelings. I'd say that even now, I'm not sure that my parents really know me. How well can you really know another person, after all?
There will always be those who want to lay the blame at the parents' feet when it comes to Columbine. "How could they not have known something was wrong?" Clearly, they missed signs - they mistook their son holing up in his room and general withdrawn nature with typical teen angst; his destructive relationship with Eric Harris (they stole equipment from a locked company van) was seen as something that rehabilitative therapy would fix. But in the same situation, how confident would you be that you'd have known the full extent of the trouble he was in and the carnage he was planning?
Most important (outside of gun laws being overhauled, which is an argument that will seemingly never end even though American gun laws were and remain so obviously faulty), and I'm glad that the book promoted this (all author profits go to mental health research and charities), is the continued development of mental health awareness and resources that will help parents, friends, families, and schools recognize telling signs and get those in distress the treatment they need. Those boys were never going to ask for help - but who knows what would've happened if they'd gotten it in time? Lives might've been saved.
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Post by NJtoTX on Aug 9, 2023 22:51:46 GMT
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Post by sdm3 on Aug 10, 2023 5:44:37 GMT
The search function on this site seriously sucks. I literally typed that verbatim and then with different combinations of those key words and still never found it.
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Post by NJtoTX on Aug 10, 2023 11:21:32 GMT
The search function on this site seriously sucks. I literally typed that verbatim and then with different combinations of those key words and still never found it. For some reason, the search box on the board works differently than the one up top (I used that). The question mark with the word "Reading" probably was the problem, as the other words are common and OT: probably has its own issues.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Aug 10, 2023 15:25:58 GMT
I could've sworn we had some kind of "What Are You Reading?" thread - I spent ages looking for it. Was this it? I just finished "A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of the Columbine Tragedy." Dark account by Sue Klebold, mother of one of the two Columbine shooters, as she comes to terms with the heinous actions of her son. At times, it was genuinely disturbing when you read her perspective of how normal he seemed. He wasn't some raving lunatic at home or in public - he hid everything outside of what was recorded on the Basement Tapes. I think back to my own teen years. Obviously, I'm not saying I was harboring homicidal or suicidal thoughts - but I also largely hid my thoughts and feelings. I'd say that even now, I'm not sure that my parents really know me. How well can you really know another person, after all? There will always be those who want to lay the blame at the parents' feet when it comes to Columbine. "How could they not have known something was wrong?" Clearly, they missed signs - they mistook their son holing up in his room and general withdrawn nature with typical teen angst; his destructive relationship with Eric Harris (they stole equipment from a locked company van) was seen as something that rehabilitative therapy would fix. But in the same situation, how confident would you be that you'd have known the full extent of the trouble he was in and the carnage he was planning? Most important (outside of gun laws being overhauled, which is an argument that will seemingly never end even though American gun laws were and remain so obviously faulty), and I'm glad that the book promoted this (all author profits go to mental health research and charities), is the continued development of mental health awareness and resources that will help parents, friends, families, and schools recognize telling signs and get those in distress the treatment they need. Those boys were never going to ask for help - but who knows what would've happened if they'd gotten it in time? Lives might've been saved. I'm sure that's an incredibly eye-opening read. I've always wondered how the families of the perpetrators of these events go about their lives after the fact. We always hear from the survivors, or from the families of the victims, but rarely do we hear about this perspective and it's really fascinating. I imagine others in Sue's position would have remained in denial, or simply pretend that her son is really innocent and couldn't have done these things, but I'm curious as to how the local communities would react to her. Like, I'm sure something as simple as going to the market within the weeks and months following Columbine was a touchy adventure. There's no way people weren't giving her a hard time, or sneering at her behind her back. But I'm glad to see that the book takes such a detailed approach to mental health awareness and that the profits are going where they are. We, as a county, absolutely suck at taking care of people, both physically and mentally, but mentally especially. It's still viewed as "just being weak" by half the country and it's awful. Hell, you had politicians criticizing Simone Biles when she was having difficulty participating in the Olympics. We used to have residential mental health clinics and centers all over the place and now those things are nowhere to be found, at least not en masse like they used to be. You want to start helping homeless people around the country instead of just using them as a pawn in your political motivations? Then start saying yes to mental health funding bills that routinely get sent to the congressional floor. Start treating mental illness as seriously as you do physical illness.
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Post by sdm3 on Aug 10, 2023 15:44:10 GMT
I could've sworn we had some kind of "What Are You Reading?" thread - I spent ages looking for it. Was this it? I just finished "A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of the Columbine Tragedy." Dark account by Sue Klebold, mother of one of the two Columbine shooters, as she comes to terms with the heinous actions of her son. At times, it was genuinely disturbing when you read her perspective of how normal he seemed. He wasn't some raving lunatic at home or in public - he hid everything outside of what was recorded on the Basement Tapes. I think back to my own teen years. Obviously, I'm not saying I was harboring homicidal or suicidal thoughts - but I also largely hid my thoughts and feelings. I'd say that even now, I'm not sure that my parents really know me. How well can you really know another person, after all? There will always be those who want to lay the blame at the parents' feet when it comes to Columbine. "How could they not have known something was wrong?" Clearly, they missed signs - they mistook their son holing up in his room and general withdrawn nature with typical teen angst; his destructive relationship with Eric Harris (they stole equipment from a locked company van) was seen as something that rehabilitative therapy would fix. But in the same situation, how confident would you be that you'd have known the full extent of the trouble he was in and the carnage he was planning? Most important (outside of gun laws being overhauled, which is an argument that will seemingly never end even though American gun laws were and remain so obviously faulty), and I'm glad that the book promoted this (all author profits go to mental health research and charities), is the continued development of mental health awareness and resources that will help parents, friends, families, and schools recognize telling signs and get those in distress the treatment they need. Those boys were never going to ask for help - but who knows what would've happened if they'd gotten it in time? Lives might've been saved. I'm sure that's an incredibly eye-opening read. I've always wondered how the families of the perpetrators of these events go about their lives after the fact. We always hear from the survivors, or from the families of the victims, but rarely do we hear about this perspective and it's really fascinating. I imagine others in Sue's position would have remained in denial, or simply pretend that her son is really innocent and couldn't have done these things, but I'm curious as to how the local communities would react to her. Like, I'm sure something as simple as going to the market within the weeks and months following Columbine was a touchy adventure. There's no way people weren't giving her a hard time, or sneering at her behind her back. But I'm glad to see that the book takes such a detailed approach to mental health awareness and that the profits are going where they are. We, as a county, absolutely suck at taking care of people, both physically and mentally, but mentally especially. It's still viewed as "just being weak" by half the country and it's awful. Hell, you had politicians criticizing Simone Biles when she was having difficulty participating in the Olympics. We used to have residential mental health clinics and centers all over the place and now those things are nowhere to be found, at least not en masse like they used to be. You want to start helping homeless people around the country instead of just using them as a pawn in your political motivations? Then start saying yes to mental health funding bills that routinely get sent to the congressional floor. Start treating mental illness as seriously as you do physical illness. Absolutely - she went into that in detail. Any sort of public appearance and she'd risk someone confronting her, essentially saying the massacre was all her fault - and it did happen. That kind of thing. Hate mail, lawsuits, that family went through it all. You can understand that the immediate families of the victims wanted someone to blame (even if you don't agree) but it's easy to forget that Columbine was a murder-suicide situation; those parents lost a loved one too. You can't rake them over the coals for the actions of their child, especially when you don't know anything about the situation beyond wild claims made by the media. You could talk for hours about attitudes toward mental health in the US. That dirtbag Skip Bayless inferred that Dak Prescott was "weak" and needed to be "tougher" after Dak spoke out about depression and his brother's suicide. Bayless (and the yokels that make up his target audience) will probably never understand the bravery it takes to speak out; indeed, being afraid to speak out and get help is what leads to tragedy (and unfortunately, tragedy in the US can mean a mass shooting).
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