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I haven't started Jonathan Strange yet, but one of my co-workers says that it picks up after the first few hundred pages and becomes quite engrossing.

first
few
hundres
pages...zzzzzzzzz

sorry, I am awake now. I will really try soon to get into it but it is just casuing me to fall asleep...

Read standing on one foot. That'll help.

Yikes!

I was seriously considering buying Jonathan Strange, but now I'm apprehensive... I don't handle long, slow novels well...

STU, I know that you have lots of experience reading long excruciatingly slow pieces of writing - I think you can handle it.

Last book I finished was "Darwin's Children" by Greg Bear. I liked it. I'm currently in the middle of (as I have been for at least 2 years now) "You are being Lied to". It's interesting reading.

I just finished " The Life of Pi". I loved it and highly recommend it!

Yes, but those have pictures!

Please, PLEASE say it isn't so!
That man couldn't direct a bowel movement!!!

I liked Life of Pi. Didn't think I would, but it was really quite good. The death of the Zebra was heart-breaking.

Thanks for spoiling it!

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That's a minor spoiler compared too......

It would be interesting to see M Night handle it. He is actually from the area in India that the book begins with. So I would have to wait and see how he envisions it coming to life.

And Stu, don't take my posts as indication of Johnthon Strange. I have liked what I have read so far, it is just alot more dense then I expected. Dense in a good way.

I went to a book Signing last night. Tad Williams was signing his latest - Shadowmarch. He's a very personable fellow and since the group was small, there was plenty of opportunity for interaction with him. I took my set of the Otherland novels, and War of the Flowers, which he graciously signed and personalized based on our conversation. In addition, my copy of Shadowmarch was the first copy of that book that he has signed - and he annotated my book to indicate that.

Is anyone reading Middlesex?

A friend of mine (the same one for whom I just finished catsitting) loaned me a copy... it's supposed to be terrific.

I just finished reading one of those Mechwarrior novels they were passing out at Dallas.

I've read a lot of sci-fi novels in my time, and that was certainly one of them.

Ya'know, all of a sudden, i am not reading much at all, including comics. I can't get into a lot of my old favorites, and i haven't seen much new by my favorite authors. And i haven't felt like seeking out any new ones lately.

Just a phase, i guess.

I was in that phase for about the last three months while I was hitting the custom action figures pretty hard. Now I'm back in the Galaxy Far Far Away.

I'm trying to work my way through the Dark Tower series still. Finished up book one, tough as it was since I still found it real hard to get through as I did when I first tried years ago.

Book two is much better. At least the first part with The Prisoner. That part flowed real well for me. But I'm limping through the Odetta/Detta section now and starting to glaze over. Really don't care for it. I'm hoping part three of the books picks up again.

MacBeth

Is the Dark Tower Series the one that starts with the Gunslinger? I started reading that thinking, "Oh man. I love Stephen King. He hasn't let me down yet." I couldn't get past the first 30 pages. Every time I picked that book up, I was asleep two pages later. I couldn't help it.

The same one. I had the same problem with it when it was serialized in Asimov's digest many, MANY years ago, long before it saw print as a novel. It is still a hard read but I've been assured that the books do get better. And its about the only King work I haven't already read.

I just re-read a couple of Terry Pratchett books as he's a favourite author that happened to be speaking in town recently.

But now it's the new Hellboy anthology of short stories from Dark Horse. Called Odder Jobs. The first story was just OK, but it's a Western (of sorts) and they're not usually to my taste. Still, well written at times. Looking forward to seeing what else is inside.

I've finally started Jonathan Strange, RTVU@, and I'm having exactly the same problem you did. Every time I pick it up, I get through about 2 pages and I fall asleep. I of course wake up once that heavy book falls on me. Maybe I should not be reading it in bed.

To tell you the truth Semi, I haven't picked it up since I wrote that... have read Magical Thinking by A. Burroughs and started A Curious Incident... since then. The book is still on my nightstand waiting to be read.

I'm on page 56. To tell the truth, I enjoy the writing. My problem is that once I get in bed, I just pass out with that book. It doesn't happen to me with other books. Maybe I've had a spell cast upon me. I'm going to try reading it earlier in the evening from now on. I have to get through it because I have a whole pile of fun books waiting to be read. (Not that I don't think J. Strange and Mr. N. is not fun, but .. well, you know.)