Monday, January 05, 2009

Problem...

I've got things I want to type today, deep thoughts I must share with the universe, but...

...Stephen Hunter's Pale Horse Coming is just so fricken' cool that it keeps sticking to my fingers and I can't put it down. Y'all understand, right?
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19 comments:

Earl said...

Earl is a wonder, isn't he?



outbaldi wv, the machines know too much

8:54 AM, January 05, 2009
Carteach said...

Nope. Not really.



(g)

9:10 AM, January 05, 2009
Turk Turon said...

I KNEW you would love Stephen Hunter. He's the best author of fiction about guns, maybe ever.

10:15 AM, January 05, 2009
Anonymous said...

like potato chips....there is a whole series on that story...

11:45 AM, January 05, 2009
Anonymous said...

BTDT

wv: unglex - I think that's what you have to buy to remove that stickiness.

1:07 PM, January 05, 2009
Crucis said...

I have the same problem with Tony Hillermans books. I've traveled a few times through the Four Corners area. I'd retire to Cortez, CO if I could.

I started re-reading the Hillermans series just before Christmas and am on his last book, "Skeleton Man." He hasn't published anything in a couple of years now. 'Course, he's a bit long-in-the-tooth now as well.

Tony! Get writing. I wanna see how Chee's and Bernie's marriage works!

1:35 PM, January 05, 2009
Anonymous said...

I liked Hot Springs better, but yes, he is hard to put down ;-)

Matt
St Paul

1:48 PM, January 05, 2009
Anonymous said...

I call it (Sir!) Terry Pratchett Syndrome.

Jim

2:35 PM, January 05, 2009
Weetabix said...

Heinlein's Waldo did that to me this morning. Very interesting and outside the normal.

2:50 PM, January 05, 2009
kahr40 said...

Just read The 47th Samurai and Night of Thunder back to back. But Pale Horse Coming is one of the best he's done.

4:37 PM, January 05, 2009
Anonymous said...

Crucis:

Didn't Tony Hillerman die a couple months ago? If so, the wait for his next book may (will?) be a long one.

jb

4:40 PM, January 05, 2009
Anonymous said...

Me (jb) again:

I found this:

"Hillerman, who died Sunday of pulmonary failure at age 83, was author of the acclaimed Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels. His books in the Navajo series were characterized by vivid descriptions of Navajo rituals and of the vast reservation in the Four Corners region."

Late October, 2008. Sorry, man.

jb

4:43 PM, January 05, 2009
Crucis said...

I hadn't heard that he'd died. I just verified on the 'net a few moments ago. That's really sad. My wife and I met him about ten years ago in a little town south of Cortez, CO in the Ute Reservation. There was a small tourist information place there and they had all his books, maps, and all. We were sitting there talking with the lady who staffed the desk when Hillerman walked in.

We talked a short bit. As I remember, he had been on a speaking engagement and was talking a long route home. He was pleased to see all his books on the shelves.

I'll miss him.

4:51 PM, January 05, 2009
Old NFO said...

Hillerman was good too! Hunter is a good read. Vince Flynn, John Scalzi and a bunch of others...

6:48 PM, January 05, 2009
kahr40 said...

I tried Scalzi a couple of months ago but we didn't click then last week tried Old Man's War again and I'm enjoying it. I also like John Birmingham. His Axis of Time trilogy is a neat time travel/alternate history of WWII.

6:55 PM, January 05, 2009
Tam said...

I liked Old Man's War but the followup felt kinda "meh." to me.

I need to give Android's Dream a whirl.

7:25 PM, January 05, 2009
J.R.Shirley said...

Yeah. Good book, if a bit of a fantasy.

2:56 PM, January 06, 2009
Flock of One said...

Just finished 47th Samurai yesterday. Have enjoyed Hunter for years. My favorite is Dirty White Boys.

3:32 PM, January 06, 2009
Anonymous said...

Pale Horse Coming is one of a few books where midway through the author starts down a path and I find myself grinning like a lunatic. And with every page thereafter, the grin keeps getting bigger, and bigger....

Earl's not the main character of that book where gunnies are concerned, not by a long shot.

9:33 PM, January 07, 2009

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