Ribbons wrote:The Rocketeer!? Grisham is writing sci-fi now??
Ribbons wrote:The Rocketeer!? Grisham is writing sci-fi now??
TheBaxter wrote:just got to the BIG twist (i think) and now i have no idea how Fincher is going to film this book.
Ribbons wrote:TheBaxter wrote:just got to the BIG twist (i think) and now i have no idea how Fincher is going to film this book.
Yeah, that was my first thought as well. This does not seem like a book that lends itself to adaptation seeing as both husband and wife are what you would call "unreliable narrators". They could just do a linear version of the story but, if they ditch the he-said/she-said angle, it would probably lose something important. Maybe like Cloud Atlas, it'll be completely different and yet seemingly perfect at the same time. It's a good book, and there are still more twists in store (they basically continue right up to the end).
caruso_stalker217 wrote:Here is what I read in the month of January
Up in Honey's Room, Elmore Leonard (started in December)
52 Pickup, Elmore Leonard (started in December)
Nobody Runs Forever, Richard Stark
When The Women Come Out To Dance, Elmore Leonard
Mr. Paradise, Elmore Leonard
Pronto, Elmore Leonard
Riding the Rap, Elmore Leonard
Raylan, Elmore Leonard
Tishomingo Blues, Elmore Leonard
Pagan Babies, Elmore Leonard
Quite a diverse list, you'll notice.
caruso_stalker217 wrote:Here is what I read in the month of January
Up in Honey's Room, Elmore Leonard (started in December)
When two intruders break into his house one night bent on attacking his family, Kevin Swanson fights back, shooting and killing both assailants. In the aftermath, he rockets from obscure lawyer to local hero overnight--a hero to everyone, that is, except for a strange man who calls in to a local talk radio show when Kevin appears as a guest. The caller, who won't reveal his name, has a message: Kevin is no hero. And his story about what happened isn't even close to accurate.
Shortly thereafter, Kevin finds himself thrust into the center of one violent crime after another, rising to the occasion and exceeding his wildest expectations each time. Strangely, though, none of his attackers carry any identification. And as his doubts drive him through his own investigation of what really happened that night, his crumbling reality sends him hurtling towards a face-to-face confrontation with the nameless caller—and the horrifying truth that won't let him hide.
so sorry wrote:Kardashian sisters YA dystopian novel getting panned
TheBaxter wrote:so sorry wrote:Kardashian sisters YA dystopian novel getting panned
where do all these kardashians keep coming from? i swear they breed like roaches.
so, a book "written" by these people turns out to not be very good?
I AM SO SHOCKED.
seriously. look.
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see, that is how shocked i am.
so sorry wrote:TheBaxter wrote:so sorry wrote:Kardashian sisters YA dystopian novel getting panned
where do all these kardashians keep coming from? i swear they breed like roaches.
so, a book "written" by these people turns out to not be very good?
I AM SO SHOCKED.
seriously. look.
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see, that is how shocked i am.
I'm actually shocked that they didn't get sued by anybody since the "plot" is an obvious mashup of existing book and movie properties. Maybe after the sequel comes out, which is titled: Rebels: A New Hope: Grabbing Fire.
so sorry wrote:What's the Stephen King book about?
caruso_stalker217 wrote:I just finished reading As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.
This is the first book of his that I have read. I have to admit that I was not familiar with his work outside of his acting. In fact I didn't even know that he had ever written a book, let alone several.
Wikipedia wrote:William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ˈfɔːknər/, September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi where he spent most of his life.
Faulkner is one of the most important writers in American literature generally and Southern literature specifically. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were As I Lay Dying (1930) and Light in August (1932). Absalom, Absalom! (1936) is often included on similar lists.
Fievel wrote:caruso_stalker217 wrote:I just finished reading As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.
This is the first book of his that I have read. I have to admit that I was not familiar with his work outside of his acting. In fact I didn't even know that he had ever written a book, let alone several.
Who on Earth are you mistaking Faulkner with?
Wikipedia wrote:William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ˈfɔːknər/, September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi where he spent most of his life.
Faulkner is one of the most important writers in American literature generally and Southern literature specifically. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were As I Lay Dying (1930) and Light in August (1932). Absalom, Absalom! (1936) is often included on similar lists.
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