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I just posted here a couple hours ago but I've been out shopping and found Dune by Frank Herbert for really cheap so I am also now about to start reading that. Been wanting to for years. 
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20 Apr 2010, 10:34 pm
SamwiseGamgee wrote:
^My mom loved the Odd Thomas series of books
I'm reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt. My friend and I each got a used copy and are going to read it, discuss it, and watch the movie. It'll be like a book club except just the one book. I really like it so far, I tend to find non-fiction a lot more engaging than fiction.
I'm reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt. My friend and I each got a used copy and are going to read it, discuss it, and watch the movie. It'll be like a book club except just the one book. I really like it so far, I tend to find non-fiction a lot more engaging than fiction.
Cool
I love the character of Odd Thomas. I'm also more into non-fiction than fiction, Even when I read fiction, it's analytical like mysteries or detective fiction or it has to have some kind of intrinsic meaning to me, if that makes sense. I've been almost ODing on non-fiction reading of late and felt the need to read something that just relaxed me and happened upon the "Odd Thomas" novel. I'm almost done the first one and I'll definitely be reading the rest in the series. Koontz's style is formulaic, like all genre writers, but at the moment, I happen to like the themes he uses.
I have a copy of "Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil", which I started reading years ago and never finished. I remember liking it, but not getting absorbed by it for some reason. That's the weird thing with me and fiction, I can't just read for the sake of it. If it doesn't pull me in right then and there then I lose interest. Sometimes it's a matter of timing with books.
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20 Apr 2010, 11:25 pm
SamwiseGamgee wrote:
I have a terrible time with most fiction books. If I don't finish it in one sitting it's unlikely that I'll finish it at all. For some reason there's just something that makes me lose interest and not want to go back to it. Or want to go back but just keep putting it off because it doesn't seem important. I can't even begin to count the number of books I've started and never finished.
Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil is interesting because it's non-fiction but written like fiction. I've never come across that before. But knowing that it's talking about real people is what makes it interesting to me. There's no doubt in my mind that if I thought it was fiction I would have zero interest in it. It's not really my kind of story. The only fiction I tend to like are horror and sci-fi.
I don't know anything about the Odd Thomas series except that my mom loved them and tried to force them upon me. I figured they were just another series of books I'd add to my pile of unread novels. I don't even know what they're about, what genre are they?
Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil is interesting because it's non-fiction but written like fiction. I've never come across that before. But knowing that it's talking about real people is what makes it interesting to me. There's no doubt in my mind that if I thought it was fiction I would have zero interest in it. It's not really my kind of story. The only fiction I tend to like are horror and sci-fi.
I don't know anything about the Odd Thomas series except that my mom loved them and tried to force them upon me. I figured they were just another series of books I'd add to my pile of unread novels. I don't even know what they're about, what genre are they?
I'm the same way with fiction.
The "Odd Thomas" series is supernatural. It's not horror per se. I've read a few other Dean Koontz books and his themes are good and evil; outsiders who have had trauma to overcome and find a way to redeem themselves; psychological hardship and terror and the courage to persevere and overcome it. The "Odd Thomas" series is a bit different in that the titular character is psychic. He sees dead people
and he's also kind of clairvoyant and clairsentient. Needless to say he's a real quirky character as well, as are all of the characters in it, including his girlfriend and reclusive writer friend who is hilarious.
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