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I was going to try it until I discovered, that just like so many other series, the series has a zillion books. I'll commit to a trilogy or maybe even a quartet, but I'm not going to sink a ton of money into an overly long book series. For one thing, I might just lose interest in the story line, but more commonly the story goes down the crapper after book X because the author runs out of steam. Then the series just becomes a repetitive money grab and a waste of time for the reader.
I've been waiting for this to happen. I'm currently a quarter of the way through book 4 ("Drums of Autumn") and I'm STILL hooked.
I'm re-reading Steinbeck's The Log From The Sea of Cortez. So far it's proving well worth a second go-thru.
And it just so happens that earlier today I received a text from my mother-in-law, telling me how much she loved The Dog Stars (which pleases me, because she has turned me on to so many excellent books and I am glad to return the favor now and then) and asking permission to keep my copy for my father-in-law to read, as well as to pass along to her book group. I happily agreed.
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Originally Posted by Unsettomati
I recently finished reading Peter Heller's The Dog Stars.
Years after the apocalypse - a flu that kills almost everyone, followed by a blood disease that kills many of the initial survivors - Hig lives at a small airport north of Denver and just a few miles from the foothills of the Rockies. He was a poet who paid the bills building houses. With him are his dog, Jasper, his link to the time before, and Bangley, a no-nonsense survivalist type. They tend a small garden, they hunt for venison, and they kill anyone who gets close to the airport. As Hig notes, pretty much everyone who is left is no good.
Hig is a pilot and he flies his Cessna 182. There's more avgas in the airports tanks than he'll ever use, and with Bangley's night-vision goggles he scans for game. And for interlopers. He talks to Jasper, who rides shotgun, and habitually into the radio, even though no one ever answers. Until one day, Grand Junction replies, clearing him for landing. On Colorado's western slope, Grand Junction is beyond the range of his Cessna. But Hig never forgets the voice, the voice of a pilot. And one day, he decides to go for broke and make his way to Grand Junction.
I can't say enough about this book. The prose is gorgeous, and the marrying of the brutality of the post-apocalyptic life with the humanity of those who live it is impressively rendered. It's the best post-apocalyptic book this side of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and it's one of those reads that makes me want to read everything else the author has written - which is why I'm now reading Heller's second novel, The Painter.
I'm re-reading Steinbeck's The Log From The Sea of Cortez. So far it's proving well worth a second go-thru.
And it just so happens that earlier today I received a text from my mother-in-law, telling me how much she loved The Dog Stars (which pleases me, because she has turned me on to so many excellent books and I am glad to return the favor now and then) and asking permission to keep my copy for my father-in-law to read, as well as to pass along to her book group. I happily agreed.
I love successfully introducing wonderful literature to people!
I read The Dog Stars back in 2014. I agree that it is a wonderful book. It's written in a beautiful style and is so touching. Just reading your mention of it gave me "warm fuzzies." I'm now going to read it again for the pure pleasure of it.
I'm reading Where the Air is Sweet, a multi-generational story of Asian families in Uganda. I'm not sure what I think about it and I'm almost halfway through. I keep getting mixed up with the characters but I think that's me and not the writing as I've been distracted by other things. https://www.amazon.com/Where-Air-Swe...e+air+is+sweet
I'm reading Where the Air is Sweet, a multi-generational story of Asian families in Uganda. I'm not sure what I think about it and I'm almost halfway through. I keep getting mixed up with the characters but I think that's me and not the writing as I've been distracted by other things. https://www.amazon.com/Where-Air-Swe...e+air+is+sweet
Okay, so I just finished the above book and ended up giving it 4 stars. It is a flawed debut novel about a South Asians in Uganda and the before and during of Idi Amin. The book runs too slow in places and I think there isn't enough transition or clarity as to the how, what, when's and whys,
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but towards the end of the book, when as refugees the characters make it to Canada with obviously faked documents and are caught, and the border control agent says, to hell with Idi Amin and welcomes them to Canada, my eyes watered up and are still watered up. I am the grandchild of refugees who lived through the Soviet Revolution and no one wanted us either.
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I'm reading Our Short History by Lauren Grodstein. This ain't fine literature and the story is a bit sappy but I'm enjoying her writing style immensely and the characters are nicely fleshed out.
I haven't watched the movie. I actually just started reading the book tonight, I'm on page 10. It's pretty good so far though.
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