Reading Books For Pleasure

[FurryFury]

Sounds tedious. You have my sympathies. I'd probably not want to have sex with someone who made me read that sort of thing.

I do so hope there is worthwhile pleasure for you somewhere in there.

Reading books for pleasure. I'm currently reading a book written by a man I intend to sex. Terrible subject matter, pandering to the masses, an occiasional word that he probably had to dig up in a thesaurus. Regardless, reading for pleasure.

 

[FurryFury]

I'm a HUGE fan too. Like I said, the best part of this book and it had a great deal good parts, was the "part 1" in the title. I learned so much about the man!

This sounds extremely interesting! J's a huge Heinlein fan and I like his stuff too, so I'll definitely keep my eyes open for this one. Thanks!

I might criticize, particularly when it's complete B.S. and a fad i.e. the Paleo diet. Usually I'm a live and let live type but arrogant stupidity bothers me quite a bit.

. Good.

You'll never find me criticising people's ethical eating decisions even if I chose other ones. thoughtful food choice is a definite plus in my book. G and I eat meat and eat animal products, but thoughtfully. A proportion is reared with compassion here, most else, by people we know and know the set up. Some....we fail on. I was sent some charcuterie by an Italian friend and felt I could not ask....'but where did it come from'.



I read RAH's stranger in a strange land many years ago. I grokked it.

 

[kawa_kamuri]

Sounds tedious. You have my sympathies. I'd probably not want to have sex with someone who made me read that sort of thing.

I do so hope there is worthwhile pleasure for you somewhere in there.

Thanks. He isn't making me. I want him to fuck my head before he fucks my body. Floating on a cannabis cloud, thumbing pages, trying to find the details to snare me.

 

[FurryFury]

Good luck!

Thanks. He isn't making me. I want him to fuck my head before he fucks my body. Floating on a cannabis cloud, thumbing pages, trying to find the details to snare me.

 

[seela]

I finished Emma Donoghue's Room last night.

I liked it a lot, had to keep reading. The theme is pretty dreadful, about a mother and a son who are held prisoners in a small room and the boy's father is the man who originally kidnapped the mother. The story is told from the boy's perspective. I thought the story was interesting and pretty believable.

Some things annoyed me, like writing about Pen and Bed and Spoon. Although I understand why they're capitalized, it still bugged me at the beginning, but it also served a definite purpose.

I wonder how they translated that bed/Bed difference in German.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[seela]

Ooh, I liked Room too. It was that it was from the boy's perspective that made it. 'room' has become an adjective here as a result of that book. 'He's rooming her' as an indication of a type of ( non literal) relationship. Or ' can you Room the dogs please?' In asking for the dogs to be put away.

It really was the boy's perspective that made it work. I think if it were written from the mother's perspective, it would have been way too heavy and dreadful.

English is a funny language. You can easily use a word as a noun, adjective and a verb.

 

[IrisAlthea]

I finished Emma Donoghue's Room last night.

I liked it a lot, had to keep reading. The theme is pretty dreadful, about a mother and a son who are held prisoners in a small room and the boy's father is the man who originally kidnapped the mother. The story is told from the boy's perspective. I thought the story was interesting and pretty believable.

Some things annoyed me, like writing about Pen and Bed and Spoon. Although I understand why they're capitalized, it still bugged me at the beginning, but it also served a definite purpose.

I wonder how they translated that bed/Bed difference in German.

See, you can't ask things like that. I have to go look then.

http://www.piper.de/buecher/raum-isbn-978-3-492-30129-9

 

[seela]

See, you can't ask things like that. I have to go look then.

http://www.piper.de/buecher/raum-isbn-978-3-492-30129-9

I just looked that up too.

 

[IrisAlthea]

I just looked that up too.

Hehe!

Well done, I think.

 

[seela]

Hehe!

Well done, I think.

Yes, I think so too. I thought that maybe they would have gone the other way, and written them with a small letter, but this version is so much better.

It took me two takes to notice the trick when I read the first few sentences, because my brain automatically kept filling in the dem's and ein's etc. Didn't know my brain is capable of such things, because normally when I speak or write German, that's something I fumble with a lot.

 

[FurryFury]

I liked it too but I had to skip ahead to the part where they excaped after a while. I found the boy's naming of things too irritating and not authenic to that age child after a bit.

The part where they escape is pretty awesome. I love the "everything" is new to me theme in general.

I finished Emma Donoghue's Room last night.

I liked it a lot, had to keep reading. The theme is pretty dreadful, about a mother and a son who are held prisoners in a small room and the boy's father is the man who originally kidnapped the mother. The story is told from the boy's perspective. I thought the story was interesting and pretty believable.

Some things annoyed me, like writing about Pen and Bed and Spoon. Although I understand why they're capitalized, it still bugged me at the beginning, but it also served a definite purpose.

I wonder how they translated that bed/Bed difference in German.

 

[FurryFury]

I couldn't watch the TV movie about those women who were kept for years even with the Orange is the New Black actress in it.

Nor have I been able to read the Elizabeth Smart book.

Ooh, I liked Room too. It was that it was from the boy's perspective that made it. 'room' has become an adjective here as a result of that book. 'He's rooming her' as an indication of a type of ( non literal) relationship. Or ' can you Room the dogs please?' In asking for the dogs to be put away.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[FurryFury]

If the child had done that "some" rather than with everything I would have been able to find it charming rather than grating I think.

I think one has to consider a child of that age in isolation from social peers compared to a child of his age as we might think of them. Even some adults in isolation or stress can personalise objects and be delayed in someways, particularly emotionally and socially. Consider a 'normal' child's attachment to a comfort blanket or teddy bear or toys, then think this boy really only had Pen, Spoon, etc. some adults name and even characterise their cars or other 'precious' belongings. I think the ( I agree ) grating proper noun issue helped it feel real for me.

 

[FurryFury]

27.) Hounded Iron Druid Chronicles 1 by Kevin Hearne 4.5/5

I loved this urban fantasy even though I do not care for the Celtic gods and lore that much. I've always thought druids were an interesting idea but it's hard to get past the 2000 years thing. The humor and dog companion won me over nearly from the start.

Things such as this paragraph made me love the book

"Emily wasn't going to see an expression of even mild concern from me, though. She wanted to see terror in my eyes, but I walled that off and pretended she was talking about someone harmless like Snuffleupagus or Captain Kangaroo." lolz!

Page 90, paragraph 3.

I can see this author being the author of the year for me one year!

Amazon Sez:

The first novel in the Iron Druid Chronicles—introducing a cool, new, funny urban fantasy hero

Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound. His neighbors and customers think that this handsome, tattooed Irish dude is about twenty-one years old—when in actuality, he’s twenty-one centuries old. Not to mention: He draws his power from the earth, possesses a sharp wit, and wields an even sharper magical sword known as Fragarach, the Answerer

 

[Aurantica]

I finished Emma Donoghue's Room last night.

I liked it a lot, had to keep reading. The theme is pretty dreadful, about a mother and a son who are held prisoners in a small room and the boy's father is the man who originally kidnapped the mother. The story is told from the boy's perspective. I thought the story was interesting and pretty believable.

Some things annoyed me, like writing about Pen and Bed and Spoon. Although I understand why they're capitalized, it still bugged me at the beginning, but it also served a definite purpose.

I wonder how they translated that bed/Bed difference in German.

I read that one too. I think the author did a good job of relating things realistically from the boy's perspective. How often do you get to see the world through the eyes of a five-year=old, admittedly a very bright five-year-old?

 

[FurryFury]

Deviations Submission by Chris Owen and Jodi Payne 2.75/5

 

[FurryFury]

An Appetite for Violets by Martine Bailey 3.25/5

This one started a bit slow but soon I was intrigued and dragged along to see what happens. Happily the good people are rewarded in this book and the bad are given what they deserve too. Oh, if only life were so even handed.

I enjoy recipes even when I have no intention of trying them. These old fashioned ones are really kewl to me. The idea of reading a person's life in a recipe book is interesting as well.

One recipe in particular interested me. I have to wonder if it works. Burned Toast Tea on page 176 being "a most worthy remedy for sickness of the stomach." Does anyone know if this actually works? Charcoal of course is helpful for some tummy aliments.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[desertslave]

Robert A. Heinlein In Dialogue With His Century Volume 1 Learning Curve 1907-1948 by William H. Patterson, Jr. 4.75/5

I have loved RAH for a long time. I've read all his books but I had some questions about him in regards to women. Questions are solved now and I love him more than evar!

Imagine a world in which sci fi writers were actually science engineers who could help out significantly in WW2. Imagine being born in 1907 and upon marriage having an actual open marriage in which both parties were free with their affections and continued good fellowship with all parties involved, generally speaking? AWESOME

Amazon sez:

Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) is generally considered the greatest American SF writer of the 20th century. A famous and bestselling author in later life, he started as a navy man and graduate of Annapolis who was forced to retire because of tuberculosis. A socialist politician in the 1930s, he became one of the sources of Libertarian politics in the USA in his later years. His most famous works include the Future History series (stories and novels collected in The Past Through Tomorrow and continued in later novels), Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Given his desire for privacy in the later decades of his life, he was both stranger and more interesting than one could ever have known. This is the first of two volumes of a major American biography. This volume is about Robert A. Heinlein's life up to the end of the 1940s and the mid-life crisis that changed him forever.

My first serious sweetie was a major RAH fan and gleefully infected me. I know folks have taken exception to his less-than-feminist viewpoints, but I always enjoyed his female characters and felt he was one of the few male writers of his age to give women some much-needed three-dimensionality in such a male-dominated genre. Putting this on our wishlist immediately. I know Master will enjoy it, too.

I'm currently reading a good BDSM novel. Yes, my friends, they are out there! It is Brie Learns the Art of Submission by Red Phoenix. It's well-written with few editorial errors (what a relief!), and the story is quite entertaining. I'm about halfway through and keep finding myself giggling or fanning myself.

 

[FurryFury]

Yay more RAH love! And that BDSM Book sounds fab. I might put it on our list for the BDSM BOTM club! Thanks!

My first serious sweetie was a major RAH fan and gleefully infected me. I know folks have taken exception to his less-than-feminist viewpoints, but I always enjoyed his female characters and felt he was one of the few male writers of his age to give women some much-needed three-dimensionality in such a male-dominated genre. Putting this on our wishlist immediately. I know Master will enjoy it, too.

I'm currently reading a good BDSM novel. Yes, my friends, they are out there! It is Brie Learns the Art of Submission by Red Phoenix. It's well-written with few editorial errors (what a relief!), and the story is quite entertaining. I'm about halfway through and keep finding myself giggling or fanning myself.

 

[seela]

Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement

It's a book about the stolen girls in Mexico and also tells a story about villages dying because of the drug wars and people emigrating to the States.

I absolutely loved the book. The writing was pretty and to the point, the story felt heartbreakingly real and I didn't want the book to end. I had looked at the book in the library many times before but hadn't picked it up for some reason. I'm so glad I did now!

I'm ashamed that I had no idea how huge a problem human trafficking is in that corner of the world until I started to read about it after finishing the book. I knew it happened, but the scale of it is staggering to me.

 

[IrisAlthea]

Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement

It's a book about the stolen girls in Mexico and also tells a story about villages dying because of the drug wars and people emigrating to the States.

I absolutely loved the book. The writing was pretty and to the point, the story felt heartbreakingly real and I didn't want the book to end. I had looked at the book in the library many times before but hadn't picked it up for some reason. I'm so glad I did now!

I'm ashamed that I had no idea how huge a problem human trafficking is in that corner of the world until I started to read about it after finishing the book. I knew it happened, but the scale of it is staggering to me.

Yes, we don't hear that much about that part of the world in the news.
I thought about that when I was reading Bolano's 2666.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Hard crime noir is my thing (I write white trash noir) but I've exhausted the fund of good noir, so now I'm reading John O'Hara's old novels and short stories. From the 20s - 60s he wrote a premium grade of middle class porn where the women were ladies, the men were prosperous executives and fucked the wives/daughters of their friends. The girls who go to Smith and Vassar are the same as the ones who serve donuts and work at the school cafeteria, but the Smith girls are more interesting. Liz Taylor and Paul Newman filmed many of O'Hara's novels. I think Marilyn Monroe did one.