TOPIC: "What are you reading?"

Widseth, just finished reading your book that I bought at GenCon - really enjoyed it!  Thanx!!!<br /><br />Brian

<br /><br />Thanks Brian.  Glad you enjoyed it.  I appreciate the feedback.<br /><br /><br />Widseth

Back and forth, between "The Last Amazon" by Steven Pressfield, "Manifesta" by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath, and Wonder Woman comics

Just finished rereading Kingdom Come.<br />

"Dracula" By Bram Stoker

Just finished Neil Gaiman's Stardust and watched the movie soon after. I started and finished Janet Evanovich's Lean Mean 13 last night and I'm going to get to work on Gaiman's Neverwhere soon.

LA Times<br />

<br />"Dracula" By Bram Stoker<br />

<br /><br />Fantastic book!

Henwy, I loved Neverwhere. Make sure to see the BBC series that the book is based off of. It is a blast to watch. Me I'm reading my puzzles books and currently the forms (after not having Internet for a week!)<br /><br />Lady Myke

<br />Just finished Neil Gaiman's Stardust and watched the movie soon after. I started and finished Janet Evanovich's Lean Mean 13 last night and I'm going to get to work on Gaiman's Neverwhere soon.<br />

<br /><br />It was interesting comparing the book Stardust to the movie Stardust.    I liked both.  They were significantly different.  I think the changes they made to the movie improved the movie (and Michelle Pfeiffer looks really good for being 48).<br /><br />I assume you have read Gaimen's "Anansi Brothers" it is my favorite of his books. 

<br />Henwy, I loved Neverwhere. Make sure to see the BBC series that the book is based off of. It is a blast to watch. Me I'm reading my puzzles books and currently the forms (after not having Internet for a week!)<br /><br />Lady Myke<br />

<br /><br />I didn't care for Neverwhere all that much. It was weird and choppy. Maybe that's what comes from writing a book based off a movie/mini series. There are just weird dead-ends and gaps that you can't imagine any author wouldn't normally fill in. But, if the whole idea is to based it on a movie, then there's nothing to fill it in with.<br /><br />I haven't watched the mini series yet, though I have it downloaded and ready. I was just so disapointed with the book I haven't convinced myself to pull the trigger yet.

On the Neil Gaiman thread...<br /><br />I'm reading "American Gods" and really enjoying it.<br />

<br />It was interesting comparing the book Stardust to the movie Stardust.    I liked both.  They were significantly different.  I think the changes they made to the movie improved the movie (and Michelle Pfeiffer looks really good for being 48).<br /><br />I assume you have read Gaimen's "Anansi Brothers" it is my favorite of his books.  <br />

<br /><br />I liked the movie ending to the stardust movie much better than the book. The book ending was pretty much a WTF. I mean, it's a fairy tale. There has to be a climax somewhere. Kill the witch, save the kingdom, etc. Pfeiffer was phenomenal. Claire Danes looked and acted like dog vomit.<br /><br />I liked American Gods better than Anansi Boys. I was expecting a serious followup and the humor elements threw me at first.  I had been hoping to get more questions about the world answered in the book. It wasn't a sequel as much as a stand alone and I had been anticipating sequel.