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What is everybody reading?

I p icked up The Silmarillion again. I've tried reading it before, but usually right before bed and I found it really hard to follow. This time around I'm reading after work, and I'm really enjoying it.
 
After finishing The Dark Tower, I've finally started reading The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy part 6, And Another Thing...
As I've said before, book 5 was my favorite, and it's obviously hard to continue the story from there. Book 6 is interesting so far. Eoin Colfer had some big shoes to fill, and it's not surprising that so far he appears to frequently rely on just referencing previous books. He also does a weird thing that I've seen before, where a long running scifi franchise will reference popculture from after the original work released and act like it was always a thing. Here it's freely talking about (a fictional version of) the modern internet, and referring to a character as a goth in a modern sense. There's probably other instances too, it's not necessarily a problem it's just weird. I always think of the show Red Vs Blue, there was an episode where characters suddenly start talking about Facebook and it was really jarring.
Anyways, the story is interesting so far, I'm only a little ways in. It's nice to see more Zaphod, who was absent from the previous two books for some reason.
 
Took a detour to read the recent graphic novel of The Man Who Fell To Earth. It was decent, though half the time our protagonist looks nothing like Bowie, sometimes looking more like Benedict Cumberbatch. It moved very quickly, unlike what I recall from the movie. I never did watch the movie in its entirety, but I feel like the comic doesn't quite capture the film's style. I'm not really equipped to review this, or to read it in the first place, I just found it at the library and thought its existence was neat.
 
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Basically my Bible.
Giving yet another going through.
 
Getting into non-canon, legends Star Wars novels

Starting with this

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I recently finished Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as a warm up for Ulysses, which I’m currently reading. Damn, James Joyce was good.
 
The new Dune movies from Denis Villeneuve inspired me to finally read Frank Herbert's Dune, and subsequently Dune: Messiah in preparation for the 3rd film. The descriptions in the book for how Paul experiences and sorts through his visions of the future are really interesting. I think it's difficult to capture using visual language, it's somehow more... mathematical in the text (there is an emphasis on Paul's "mentat" abilities aiding his premonitions).
 
Accidentally started reading Clive Barker's Cabal. Meant to grab my copy of Scarlet Gospels but grabbed the wrong book. Regardless, I'm enjoying Cabal. I saw Nightbreed a few years back but I remember nothing. I'm determined to finish this in a week, after reading so many long books.

Oh yeah, I was reading Lonesome Dove before this, it was very good.
 
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I randomly found the Dawn Of The Dead novelization at the store the other day for cheap, and I was intrigued. Does anyone know if it's any good? I was thinking about reading it next.
 
Jrzag42 said:
I randomly found the Dawn Of The Dead novelization at the store the other day for cheap, and I was intrigued. Does anyone know if it's any good? I was thinking about reading it next.
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The Dawn Of The Dead novelization is really good...at making me want to watch the movie. On its own it's not great, from overuse of overdramatic exclamations! to not having clear separations when switching perspective, it's a little clunky. It's neat seeing what characters are thinking, though it removes subtlety. I will say that all the narration about how much Roger admires Peter adds to the hypothetical queer subtext that some people claim exists in the story, I can't speak for whether it's intentional or not but I'm here for it.
I always struggle to get into the movie, I have trouble following movies sometimes, and this book has really helped with that even if it's not well written.

George Romero is credited as one of the authors, but I have a feeling that's due to it being based on his script rather than him actually working on the novel himself. Or maybe he's just bad at writing novels, who's to say?
 
I finished Ulysses. It was a trip! I definitely used some supplemental materials but I tried to just experience it the first time rather than try to parse the whole thing to death. I will definitely read it again.

moved on to The Picture of Dorian Gray keeping the Irish literature thing going. I’ll finish that this week and move on to Stoner by John Williams (no, not that John Williams).
 
Finished both Dorian Gray and Stoner (both fantastic if not exactly uplifting lol). Moving on to Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
 
I've finally got back into my books recently.

Started on October 29th. Since then I've read:

TRON by Brian Daley

E.T. Book of the Green Earth by William Kotzwinkle

Short Circuit by Colin Wedgelock

Transformers: The Movie by Ladybird Books

Spider-Man by Michael Teitelbaum

WarGames by David Bischoff

Time Bandits by Michael Palin

Starman by Alan Dean Foster

InnerSpace by Nathan Elliott

Ladyhawke by Joan D. Vinge

And as of right now I'm currently reading ALIENS by Alan Dean Foster.
 
^Huh, really taking the "watch the movie, then read the book" circle of thought to heart, eh?
 
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^Huh, really taking the "watch the movie, then read the book" circle of thought to heart, eh?
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I believe that used to be a marketing strategy but no, I have just always liked the idea of a book version of a movie I enjoy, or books related to the same universe. I have made reviews for books here in this thread previously, but my main theme is usually books based on movies, but I've read video game novelizations as well. I have read quite a few Assassin's Creed books for example.

Anywho, I've finished ALIENS by Alan Dean Foster.

Next up is Midnight Run by Paul Monette.
 
Finished Midnight Run by Paul Monette.

Now reading HOOK by Terry Brooks.
 
Finished HOOK by Terry Brooks.

Starting The Prisoner by Thomas M. Disch.
 
For the past 2+ years I've been collecting random issues of comics published by Valiant in the 90s. We're currently looking at 89 assorted issues that I've arranged in release order to the best of my ability. I think I'm finally ready to dig into them.
I've cracked open Harbinger #0, I can't find a date on it but I'm assuming it was released before #1 which would make it first in my collection.
 
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