Books - what are you reading? (Official Book Thread)

[The Phoenix]

So before I jumped into Mistborn, I read 11/22/63. I really enjoyed the book. It's long as hell, but really good just about all the way through, even though there are times where King puts on the breaks from the action to really flesh out the characters. I didn't mind it but with such a long book some have complained. They are making this into a TV series. I just don't see it working. James Franco will play the lead character. I think I'm gonna pass on the TV show.

 

[Ezra]

So before I jumped into Mistborn, I read 11/22/63. I really enjoyed the book. It's long as hell, but really good just about all the way through, even though there are times where King puts on the breaks from the action to really flesh out the characters. I didn't mind it but with such a long book some have complained. They are making this into a TV series. I just don't see it working. James Franco will play the lead character. I think I'm gonna pass on the TV show.

I recently read this as well. Agree with that it was long AF and he spent a shyt load of time developing characters. While I was reading it, I got frustrated he was taking so much time doing so, but I felt the payoff at the end was more than worth it.

Disagree on the TV show. I think it will pretty easy to pull of as a show and Im looking forward to it. I also like Franco, although he's a touch younger than Jake is in the book.

 

[Pinkflamingopimp]

 

[Ezra]

As for what Im reading right now -

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On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions in Kingston, seven gunmen stormed the singer’s house, machine guns blazing. The attack wounded Marley, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Little was officially released about the gunmen, but much has been whispered, gossiped and sung about in the streets of West Kingston. Rumors abound regarding the assassins’ fates, and there are suspicions that the attack was politically motivated.

A Brief History of Seven Killings delves deep into that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica’s history and beyond. James deftly chronicles the lives of a host of unforgettable characters – gunmen, drug dealers, one-night stands, CIA agents, even ghosts – over the course of thirty years as they roam the streets of 1970s Kingston, dominate the crack houses of 1980s New York, and ultimately reemerge into the radically altered Jamaica of the 1990s. Along the way, they learn that evil does indeed cast long shadows, that justice and retribution are inextricably linked, and that no one can truly escape his fate

Just finished the other day. One of those books I had to let marinate before I could form any thoughts about. In the end, I'm really black I read it. I really didnt know much about Marely and the political climate of the time in Jamaica. I spent almost as much time on wikipedia learning about that shyt as reading he book.

Having said that, it's an incredibly difficult book to read. It's a first person book and told via several different POVs. Several of the characters speak in Patois which was really tough to pick up at first.

Highly rec this book. It's hard to get into, but stick with it. The author Marlon James is about to blow up. HBO option the book. I hope the push it though development because parts of it are like the Jamaican The Wire.

He also said his next book is going to be an African Game of Thrones:

The author tells Man of the World magazine he's going to "geek the fukk out" and create his own fantasy series, kicking off with a book called Black Leopard, Red Wolf, which he describes as "an AfricanGame of Thrones." As James puts it, "I realized how sick and tired I was of arguing about whether there should be a black hobbit in Lord of the Rings. African folklore is just as rich, and just as perverse as that shyt. We have witches, we have demons, we have goblins, and mad kings. We have stories of royal succession that would putWolf Hall to shame. We beat the Tudors two times over.

Can't wait for that

 

[The Phoenix]

I recently read this as well. Agree with that it was long AF and he spent a shyt load of time developing characters. While I was reading it, I got frustrated he was taking so much time doing so, but I felt the payoff at the end was more than worth it.

Disagree on the TV show. I think it will pretty easy to pull of as a show and Im looking forward to it. I also like Franco, although he's a touch younger than Jake is in the book.

I should have clarified. I don't like Franco as Jake Epping. I just don't feel like he fits the characters. And while Game of Thrones and a few other shows are good, most times the transition from book to motion picture just isn't up to snuff. I don't have faith in this one.

 

[Ezra]

I should have clarified. I don't like Franco as Jake Epping. I just don't feel like he fits the characters. And while Game of Thrones and a few other shows are good, most times the transition from book to motion picture just isn't up to snuff. I don't have faith in this one.

Agree, and that's a fair assessment. Im gonna watch and will be the guinea pig. Will let you know how it is.

 

[Arris]

Now back to Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series. Right now I'm on number 8, The Ionian Mission...

whats this series about? is it worth getting into? 8 books is a big time investment dont lead me astray

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

So before I jumped into Mistborn, I read 11/22/63. I really enjoyed the book. It's long as hell, but really good just about all the way through, even though there are times where King puts on the breaks from the action to really flesh out the characters. I didn't mind it but with such a long book some have complained. They are making this into a TV series. I just don't see it working. James Franco will play the lead character. I think I'm gonna pass on the TV show.

the show has me interested in this book

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Just finished the other day. One of those books I had to let marinate before I could form any thoughts about. In the end, I'm really black I read it. I really didnt know much about Marely and the political climate of the time in Jamaica. I spent almost as much time on wikipedia learning about that shyt as reading he book.

Having said that, it's an incredibly difficult book to read. It's a first person book and told via several different POVs. Several of the characters speak in Patois which was really tough to pick up at first.

Highly rec this book. It's hard to get into, but stick with it. The author Marlon James is about to blow up. HBO option the book. I hope the push it though development because parts of it are like the Jamaican The Wire.

He also said his next book is going to be an African Game of Thrones:



Can't wait for that

Bruh check out Imaro. Think of it like Conan but set in Africa. Haven't finished book 1 yet but I ordered book 2 and looking around for book 3

 

[ciubaca]

 

[FrostBite]

So before I jumped into Mistborn, I read 11/22/63. I really enjoyed the book. It's long as hell, but really good just about all the way through, even though there are times where King puts on the breaks from the action to really flesh out the characters. I didn't mind it but with such a long book some have complained. They are making this into a TV series. I just don't see it working. James Franco will play the lead character. I think I'm gonna pass on the TV show.

The first episode of the show went up on Hulu on Monday. So far so good. I was also a bit skeptical about Franco being cast as Jake Epping, but he's actually quite good in it. They've changed a number of things from the book, which was to be expected. But so far I'm liking it.

 

[Ezra]

The first episode of the show went up on Hulu on Monday. So far so good. I was also a bit skeptical about Franco being cast as Jake Epping, but he's actually quite good in it. They've changed a number of things from the book, which was to be expected. But so far I'm liking it.

Yeah it was pretty good. I read up on the show and apparently they're changing a lot. Im cool with it, now that I know it going in.

 

[Ezra]

Im reading the 3rd of the Red Rising Series. This series is doooooooope. It's like ender's game mixed w roman culture and a bit of hunger games. It's gritty and dirty and raw AF. Cannot recommend enough

Description:
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations.

Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.

But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity already reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.

Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity's overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society's ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies... even if it means he has to become one of them to do so

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Something about that cover I can't stop looking at.

 

[ciubaca]

I read lots of war books in my life but damn. those japs were