[QuickTidal]

Caseen Gaines WE DON'T NEED ROADS is a pretty solid book, if at times a bit drier than I'd like for a Hollywood Behind the Scene's book. Like I don't REALLY need to know too much about the Dolly shot during the Enchantment Under The Sea dance while the band is playing...or the ins and outs of the extra who payed Marvin Berry's hiring for the part. There is a bunch of stuff that I knew already (Eric Stolz having shot as Marty for 30 odd days and deemed too intense, Crispin Glover being a weirdo dick who is difficult to work with, ect.) that is expanded upon in interesting ways with aspects I didn't know. Like Tom Wilson (Biff) during the scene where Marty shoves him near the beginning, when it was Stolz (who is a deep method actor) in the role, he was shoving Wilson REALLY hard for multiple takes and Wilson asked him to take it easy and Stolz ignored him and kept jamming his fists into Wilson's collarbone, enough to have bruised him. Wilson HAD planned to get even with Stolz in the latter scene where Biff Punches Marty in the face...but by that point Stolz had been fired and Michael J. Fox was Marty and Wilson got along with him much better. Some of the stuff I didn't know at all beforehand, like BTTF 2 and 3 were initially conceived as one 3+ hour sequel called PARADOX which included both the hellish 1985/revisit of 1955 stuff from 2, and all the Wild West stuff from 3.

Anyways. If you are a fan of this movie series, there is a lots to like here...and Gaines only gets caught up in his own stuff a few times making spats of it a bit dry...but scanning these sections is easy.

[QuickTidal]

Briar King, on 24 July 2015 - 06:39 PM, said:

One day soon we ll hear that franchise is being rebooted to...

Actually, Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis have said (just a few weeks back) that will not happen while they are alive. They own it as an IP, and they have the final word.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 24 July 2015 - 07:25 PM, said:

Briar King, on 24 July 2015 - 06:39 PM, said:

One day soon we ll hear that franchise is being rebooted to...

Actually, Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis have said (just a few weeks back) that will not happen while they are alive. They own it as an IP, and they have the final word.

I see your deep rooted principles and raise you big heaping green globs of money.

[Mentalist]

Finished "First Lord's Fury", the last Alera book.

strong ending. not so much for Tavi (I mean at this point Tavi doing the impossible is pretty routine), but for seeing the other High Lords kick so much ass.

Now I really need to start my Malaz re-read, so GOTM will be home reading, but for my Commute I think I'll try "Reamde"

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 24 July 2015 - 09:04 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 24 July 2015 - 07:25 PM, said:

Briar King, on 24 July 2015 - 06:39 PM, said:

One day soon we ll hear that franchise is being rebooted to...

Actually, Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis have said (just a few weeks back) that will not happen while they are alive. They own it as an IP, and they have the final word.

I see your deep rooted principles and raise you big heaping green globs of money.

Yeah, Zemeckis is not that dude. Nor is Gale.

[worry]

I'm that dude. I'll make it.

[amphibian]

It's a bit odd, but I genuinely think Shriek (by Jeff Vandemeer) is a tremendous, tremendous book - but only if you read City of Saints and Madmen before it.

The interplay of the dual narratives and their separate perspectives on Ambergris is superb. I'll read Finch over the next few weeks as well.

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt is also an astounding book. Dickensian (without the drawbacks of Dickens) is an apt description. Everything is so well written and meaningful that it's a treat to read.

[Maark Abbott]

Moved onto First Rider's Call. The action is certainly coming thick and fast, although the start of the book felt a little rushed.

[Stalker]

I've been making my way through some kindle unlimited selections over the last month. Mainly the more popular ones, as most of those books are self published or through amazon's imprint. I'll mention some of the better ones, mainly sci-fi, in case anyone tries the free month trial and wants some good choices. There are some occasional issues, but overall great page turners. I can elaborate on any of the choices, if wanted. Next up for me is Sebastion de Castell Greatcoats 1.

Peter Grant - Maxwell Saga.

Blake Crouch - Wayward Pines trilogy

Elliott Kay - Poor Man's Fight / Rich Man's War

H Paul Honsinger - Man of War series

Isaac Hooke - Atlas series

BV Larson - Undying Mercenaries series

[Andorion]

I have read one book of Honsinger. Not bad, but not very good either.

[JPK]

amphibian, on 25 July 2015 - 04:15 AM, said:

It's a bit odd, but I genuinely think Shriek (by Jeff Vandemeer) is a tremendous, tremendous book - but only if you read City of Saints and Madmen before it.

The interplay of the dual narratives and their separate perspectives on Ambergris is superb. I'll read Finch over the next few weeks as well.

I have to agree with this 100%. There is just so much backstory that turns out to be pivotal to Shriek that was covered in CoSaM that one would miss completely if they hadn't read it first. I think the best character in Ambergris so far is the city Ambergris. It just so rich and alive.

I've got about 100 pages left in Wildwood Imperium that I'm trying to knock out over the next day. I want to have it so that I only take my kobo with me on my honeymoon. That and Audible with Finch already downloaded and ready for the 14 hour flight.

[Abyss]

Something called WORLD WAR CTHULHU. It's not nearly as good as it sounds and some day... Some day... I'll actually remember my own advice about why most anthologies are shit.

[QuickTidal]

About 50 pages into Stirling's second Emberverse book THE PROTECTOR'S WAR and it'a already damned, damned awesome! Found out in the first chapter what happened over in the UK after the Change and got introduced to some new Brit characters. And regarding this side fo the pond, one major thing I wondered about that was never dealt with in the first book, is dealt with right away in Chapter 2. Oh, we are also now 9 years post-Change...which is a nice buffer between the last book and this one. We don't have to focus on daily survival tactics ect, now we get down to the nitty gritty.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 26 July 2015 - 12:33 PM

[Serenity]

QuickTidal, on 15 July 2015 - 06:39 PM, said:

Salt-Man Z, on 15 July 2015 - 06:04 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 15 July 2015 - 03:57 PM, said:

Hey Chris, I forgot to tell you, the new Patrick Lee Sam Dryden is out. It's called SIGNAL.

Coolio! Thanks for the heads-up!

No worries, I saw it and ordered one for my sister-in-law for her bday and didn't know if you'd heard it was out yet.

I saw that in Indigo while I was on hols in Calgary and Vancouver the past couple of weeks - very tempted. If It had been paperback I would've jumped in and bought it. Weird, though. I've had Sam Dryden book #2 on pre-order for Kindle here in the UK for a while now, and it appears to have been re-named Only to Die Again over here - and it's not out till October


Currently reading an Alistair MacLean novel i got for 99p on Kindle, HMS Ulysses. I read a few of his books waaaaay back in the early 80s but this is the first since then. Really enjoying it.

[Slow Ben]

Finished Assail.

By far my favorite ICE novel. Enjoyed the hell out of it.



Jumping back on my Dark Tower re-read (which, sadly, isnt holding up as well as I remembered it) with The Waste Lands.

[Obdigore]

Finished a re-read of Dresden Files. Skin Games came out in June 2015. WHERES MAH PEACE TALKS?

[polishgenius]

I've been reading The Best of All Possible Worlds. An odd book - it takes a backstory of genocide and planetary destruction and uses it to create a gentle episodic voyage of discovery with a heavy order of rom-com- but Karen Lord writes extremely well and I like it.

[Andorion]

Django Wexlers Price of Valor..... seems good so far. I am having fun picking out the pseudo French Revolution parallels.

Edit: Confused names

This post has been edited by Andorion: 29 July 2015 - 01:20 AM

[End of Disc One]

Are you reading The Thousand Names or the third book in Brian McClellan's trilogy?

[Andorion]

End of Disc One, on 29 July 2015 - 01:10 AM, said:

Are you reading The Thousand Names or the third book in Brian McClellan's trilogy?

Oh got the name wrong. I always cofuse the two for some reason. Its the Price of Valor.