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How did you like the books?

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mkuller

In Reply to: RE: Watching Midnight Showing of Hunger Games with Teenaged Daughter posted by Brian A on March 21, 2012 at 11:25:23

...how do they compare with say, Lee Child or something else popular you've read lately?

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Hey Mike...have you read any Jo Nesbo yet?... - MaxwellP 06:59:55 03/22/12 (1)
Norwegian crime writer. Just discovered him a couple of months ago. Reading The Snowman now and enjoying it. Recommended.
- I picked up one... - mkuller 09:00:11 03/22/12 (0)
  ...by Henning Mankell which was recommended, but no Nesbo yet.
  
  Thanks for the reminder.
RE: How did you like the books? - Brian A 20:24:01 03/21/12 (3)
Quite interesting, for a teen book, the fact that it is set in a dystopian world provided some interest. The first book was good, the second, fair, the third, better than the second, not as good as the first.

The author tortures the heroes to an extreme. By the end of the series, when Katniss FINALLY chooses her man, the both of them are mere shells of themselves, starved, scarred, emotionally battered, it was sort of sickening.

At present I am in my FINAL reading of the Wheel Of Time Series.

We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
- My G-d, those Wheel of Time books are lonnnnnggggg - kSpace 12:58:09 03/27/12 (2)
  In the middle of Book 3. Really liked Books 1 and 2. Keep you posted.
  - Keep it up, then REREAD them - Brian A 14:25:43 03/27/12 (0)
    The second read is quite enjoyable. The books are so massive you simply cannot remember everything so you can relive each scene almost like the first time. Min's viewings are very interesting when you re-read them because you will know what they mean.
    
    As for the books themselves, books one through four are great. However, books six through ten get slower and slower. More and more plot, descriptions, characters, clothes etc. Book ten, Crossroads of Twilight, is a real snoozer. It simply rehashes the amazing event of book nine, Winter's Heart, from different points of view. The author got a lot of heat for it and book eleven, Knife of Dreams, is far better. It has some "spinning Sadin" scenes that will blow your mind. Then the author died, but left copious notes so Brandon Sanderson is writing the final three books. He wrote two with the final, FOURTEENTH book due January 2013.
    
    We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
  - And just think you have 11 more lonnnnngggg books to read... - oscar 13:41:08 03/27/12 (0)
    ...the last one is yet to be published (in 2013?).....
Ate 'em up. nt - tinear 16:09:42 03/21/12 (0)
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