Eco 3,008 Posted November 2, 2019 Author Share Posted November 2, 2019 New book came in the mail today - Also reading this which I'm excited to start - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ 15,325 Posted November 2, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted November 2, 2019 Decided to finally dive into The Journey to the West... I'm familiar with the story as I've read Waley's abridged translation (Monkey) and seen a few TV adaptations but after playing Jade Empire I thought it's time to explore the full text of the classic. Volume I coming up... Three more in the queue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eco 3,008 Posted November 2, 2019 Author Share Posted November 2, 2019 9 minutes ago, nudge said: Decided to finally dive into The Journey to the West... I'm familiar with the story as I've read Waley's abridged translation (Monkey) and seen a few TV adaptations but after playing Jade Empire I thought it's time to explore the full text of the classic. Volume I coming up... Three more in the queue. Wow - I read that when I was living in China. Along with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, and Red Chamber. Not easy reads, but I found them very fascinating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ 15,325 Posted November 2, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted November 2, 2019 5 minutes ago, Eco said: Wow - I read that when I was living in China. Along with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, and Red Chamber. Not easy reads, but I found them very fascinating. All four great classics? Nice... I've read Romance of the Three Kingdoms and while I appreciate it and its complexity, it's too heavy with battles and political scheming for me to properly enjoy it. Journey to the West always fascinated me due to mythology & eastern philosophies, allegories, humour and adventurous nature of the story. It was also the last movie (TV adaptation of the novel) I watched together with my Grandma before she passed away and we loved it so it already has a very special place in my heart. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eco 3,008 Posted November 2, 2019 Author Share Posted November 2, 2019 32 minutes ago, nudge said: All four great classics? Nice... I've read Romance of the Three Kingdoms and while I appreciate it and its complexity, it's too heavy with battles and political scheming for me to properly enjoy it. Journey to the West always fascinated me due to mythology & eastern philosophies, allegories, humour and adventurous nature of the story. It was also the last movie (TV adaptation of the novel) I watched together with my Grandma before she passed away and we loved it so it already has a very special place in my heart. I loved Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and while I was in China, I bought the entire set of the series on DVD. Granted, I never finished watching them, but it's a pretty extensive series from the 90's, and is about 21 DVD's. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eco 3,008 Posted November 2, 2019 Author Share Posted November 2, 2019 10 minutes ago, Eco said: I loved Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and while I was in China, I bought the entire set of the series on DVD. Granted, I never finished watching them, but it's a pretty extensive series from the 90's, and is about 21 DVD's. Just counted and there are actually 28 DVD's. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted November 10, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted November 10, 2019 (edited) Jack Higgins Edited November 11, 2019 by CaaC (John) Correct photo insert 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted November 10, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted November 10, 2019 (edited) Nothing like a good night in bed, lying back and relaxing and reading a good book Edited November 11, 2019 by CaaC (John) Restore photos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted November 14, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted November 14, 2019 Lee Child's - Jack Reacher, book number 11 in his series 'Bad Luck and Trouble' ( 2007), read this a few years back when I was working, thought I would give it another read and as per normal all of the Reacher character books are a brilliant read and worth reading over and over again. When someone makes a small anonymous deposit into Reacher's bank account, it triggers his fixation for math and his investigative instincts. Reacher deduces that the deposit is a signal only the eight former members of his elite team of army investigators would use. Obsessed with math like Reacher, Frances Neagley locates him because of the brutal death of one of their own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted November 28, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted November 28, 2019 (edited) The plot centres on the legal and moral problems involved in Native American gaming. The (fictional) Tappacola Nation, a small Native American tribe located in the northern part of Florida, starts a casino in their reservation, giving the tribe members an unprecedented economic affluence and a measure of compensation for their sufferings during the centuries of European settlement, but also opening wide the potential for corruption and involvement with organized crime, up to and including outright murder. Edited December 5, 2019 by CaaC (John) Add On Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted December 26, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted December 26, 2019 Got this as a Christmas present from our son, started reading it last night. Jack Reacher is a former military cop, trained to notice things. He’s on a Greyhound bus, watching an elderly man sleeping in his seat, with a fat envelope of cash hanging out of his pocket. Another passenger is watching too… obviously hoping to get rich quick. When the mugger finally makes his move, Reacher rides to the rescue. The old man is grateful, yet he turns down Reacher’s offer to help him home. He’s vulnerable, scared, and clearly in big, big trouble. Elsewhere in the city, two ruthless rival criminal gangs, one Albanian, the other Ukrainian, are competing for control. Do they have a life-and-death hold on the old guy? Will Reacher sit back and let bad things happen? Or can he twist the situation to everyone’s benefit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted January 8, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted January 8, 2020 (edited) A Michael Crichton novel Prey, brilliant as per normal from Crichton. Edited January 8, 2020 by CaaC (John) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Pyfish+ 2,773 Posted January 8, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted January 8, 2020 Trying to get back into reading... again. Currently reading: It was one of the free ones on Kindle First a couple of months back. Love getting a free book every month some of them are decent! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ 15,325 Posted January 8, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted January 8, 2020 Still working through the Journey to the West (starting Volume II). Also almost done with the first book in the new Thrawn trilogy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted January 9, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted January 9, 2020 Inside a little-known and seldom visited psychiatric facility, Parrish Island, the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric state make them a danger to their own government; people whose ramblings might endanger ongoing operations or prove dangerously inconvenient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted January 30, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted January 30, 2020 John Grisham - A Painted House A Painted House is a 2001 novel by American author John Grisham. It was made into a television film in 2003, starring Scott Glenn and Logan Lerman. Inspired by his childhood in Arkansas, it is Grisham's first major work outside the legal thriller genre in which he established himself. Set in the late summer and early fall of 1952, its story is told through the eyes of seven-year-old Luke Chandler, the youngest in a family of cotton farmers struggling to harvest their crop and earn enough to settle their debts. The novel portrays the experiences that bring him from a world of innocence into one of harsh reality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inverted 1,776 Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 Been struggling the last couple of months with a German translation of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Finally got through it last week. Since then I've started this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eco 3,008 Posted February 7, 2020 Author Share Posted February 7, 2020 Just finished this - 5/10 - Started off strong, and very intriguing, and then just got rather boring. I'm surprised I even finished as it was more a chore than it should of been. Regardless, it's about a subject I love... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eco 3,008 Posted February 7, 2020 Author Share Posted February 7, 2020 Currently Reading - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ 5,358 Posted February 10, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted February 10, 2020 (edited) Started reading this last night. Edited February 10, 2020 by CaaC (John) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Tommy 12,611 Posted February 14, 2020 Moderator Share Posted February 14, 2020 Started reading this: Never read Bukowski before, but I find the first few chapters very engaging! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ 15,325 Posted February 17, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted February 17, 2020 Starting Volume III of The Journey to the West (revised edition by Anthony C. Yu). That's 1000 pages done; 900 more to go... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ 15,325 Posted February 17, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted February 17, 2020 On 14/02/2020 at 21:33, Tommy said: Started reading this: Never read Bukowski before, but I find the first few chapters very engaging! Enjoying it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Tommy 12,611 Posted February 17, 2020 Moderator Share Posted February 17, 2020 2 hours ago, nudge said: Enjoying it? Yup still do, granted I'm still on the early chapters because I am just trying to get back into reading. It's a long term process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ 15,325 Posted February 17, 2020 Subscriber Share Posted February 17, 2020 1 minute ago, Tommy said: Yup still do, granted I'm still on the early chapters because I am just trying to get back into reading. It's a long term process. Oh I can relate; for me it's mostly lack of time so the reading process is definitely much slower than it used to be. Don't give up though! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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