Too hot to read?

Don’t spoil the ending for the rest of us, @Barney!

@haydesigner It’s just a guess, but I think everyone dies.

@Barney @haydesigner It’s a reasonable assumption outside of certain religious texts.

@sammydog01

By the way one dresden book just dropped another os due out in a couple of months

these are part of the main series.

@sammydog01 I still haven’t checked out The Dresden Files. These look interesting too.

@f00l I forgot about the new book- I just put a hold on it. It should be available in over 6 months. I wonder if it’s any good?

@sammydog01

I last read Butcher a few years ago. I’ll have to recap a bit to remember where things stood.

Dresden series is fun.

@PooltoyWolf I got a free two month Kindle Unlimited membership a few months ago and read the whole series. I should have done it earlier.

@PooltoyWolf @sammydog01

I may not much care at all for Rowling’s recent politically oriented tweets.
She appears to advocate non only pretty exclusionary sex and gender philosophies
(which I disagree with [if anyone cares], tho I think that area of conversation is in flux and there’s a lot left to work out …);
but she also appears to advocate excusing or promoting face-to-face confrontational rudeness conduct
(the rudeness being directed at persons who are far from normally what we would think of as “powerful”.)

And, having read her recent more extended thoughts on this stuff, I find her thinking to be a mess. She can’t clear her own head before she tries to look at situations and draw conclusions. She just appears to wander around mentally, reacting to this and that, believing “facts” for which there is little evidence, and drawing unsupported and emotionally-driven conclusions.

But she can write fiction.

I’ve mixed feelings re this because I have loved her fiction,
I’ll still read her and enjoy her stories tho.

There are persons with artistic careers who have turned out to be major assholes at such intense levels that I can’t engage or enjoy their work anymore.

Rowling’s not yet gotten close to the level of being disturbing or assholish yet, that I would no longer be able to enjoy her work in the way I used to.
Hope she doesn’t.

We don’t all have to be fucking perfect all the time.
(That previous sentence involves my own self-interest, obviously.)

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Tl;dr version

The Harry Potter series rocks.
Because of, or in spite of, the author’s weirdnesses.

@PooltoyWolf My son and I were reading the Harry Potter books waaay back when but I hated the wait for the next book and how much I forgot in that time so we stopped. About three years ago I finally read the entire series then watched all the movies. It was great fun!

@f00l @PooltoyWolf @sammydog01 Yeah, After being a big fan in the earlier years, I’ve pretty much given up on Stephen King. Mostly because his books haven’t been all that great for a while, but also because of his political blathering/virtue signaling.

@macromeh @PooltoyWolf @sammydog01

I try not to let ridiculous real world attitudes/conduct of writers mess with my enjoyment of their works.
Esp if the offenses are merely personal (IE someone is a party animal and acts stupid, or just has a nutty philosophy or lifestyle.

But over time, if that stuff keeps going, I start to lose respect for the writer, and to see the same immaturity or nuttiness reflected in the work.

When a writer goes on the unjustifiable or nasty offensive against others, esp against people who aren’t powerful; or advocates nasty philosophies or conduct; or engages in public horrid or predatory or bullying conduct; or trashes non-aggressive people who are far less powerful or rich than themselves; if I am aware of this, it messes with my ability to see their works as “separate”.
So I stop reading them. No more pleasure in it.

@f00l @macromeh @PooltoyWolf When I drive over a bridge I don’t care if the engineer who designed it was a neo nazi, I just care if he did the math right. I feel the same way about writers and actors.

@macromeh @PooltoyWolf @sammydog01

If a bridge architect is a Nazi, you prob can’t tell by experiencing the bridge.

Fiction: it’s a little harder for the writer to keep personal issues completely out of the work. Over time … stuff tends to show.

I don’t have a blanket approach. I just muddle forward.

@callow To this day I have refused to watch the corresponding movies to the books I have yet to read. There’s only one left at this point!

@pooflady One of my very favorite authors and I loved all the books I have read in that series and it’s spin-offs. I like them better than Patterson’s books, because of the consistency, continuity, and ongoing chronology.

@PhysAssist I like the Virgil Flowers books better than Davenport, but usually like them all. Have to admit, though, I didn’t think Neon Prey was as good as usual.

@PhysAssist @pooflady
I’m a big Patterson and Coben fan. I like the fast read, jokes, wit, characters, plots, etc. is the author and or series your talking about like that?

@PhysAssist @Star2236 Yes, although the Virgil Flowers books more so than the Lucas Davenport. Although they certainly can be read stand alone, you might want to start with one of the earlier ones, there are inside references.

@PhysAssist @pooflady
Did they make a lifetime series out of those books?

@PhysAssist @Star2236 I’m not sure what you mean by “lifetime” series. If you mean, do the main characters age; yes, they do. PhysAssist, help me out here.

@PhysAssist @pooflady @Star2236 Lifetime the channel maybe?

@PhysAssist @pooflady @sammydog01
Lifetime the channel yes, but I was thinking of a different set of books. After I read the synopsis I realized it was something different completely but looks like a very good read.

@pooflady Well, that’s a bummer.

@pooflady @sammydog01 @Star2236

Well, there is this:

https://www.google.com/search?q=lucas+davenport+tv&rlz=1CAZBMY_enUS891&oq=lucas+davenport+tv&aqs=chrome..69i57j46j0l2.12843j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

I searched for Lucas Davenport TV on google before I read the rest of the posts.

After I read all the rest of the posts, I wondered if Star meant the series of TV movies they made with Tom Selleck as sheriff in the Maine town Paradise, from the books by Robert B. Parker, who also wrote the Spenser for Hire murder mystery book series, that was a TV series, and then also were made into a series of TV movies…

@callow That was a dollar well spent!

@callow some pretty good books there! Read most and enjoyed them.

@callow Gonna start with Nancy Drew? You have some books there I have been meaning to read.

I just finished songbirds and snakes. It was OK.

@sammydog01 I was thinking about it! I don’t think I’ve ever read a Nancy Drew book.

@callow My college student started rereading the Freddy the Hamster series. I may borrow them when she’s done. It seems like a good time for kids’ books.

@callow You probably won’t find as good a deal here, but the books are always in good condition [even when listed as only being as fair], they’re cheaper than most other places, the selection is broad, if not terribly deep, you help world literacy with every purchase, and they have carbon-neutral shipping. I bought 12 book for $34 out the door w/ C-N shipping.

Here: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/

They’re having a sale right now:

Clearance Sale Details
Save $9 off 6 books + $1.50 off each additional book. Only applies to Clearance Sale used books that ship from Better World Books directly.
No coupon code needed; applies automatically in cart. Cannot be combined with other promotions.

If you prefer hardcover books, you can often find retired library books in good shape that come in that special library binding that lasts forever too.

@callow @PhysAssist Awesome to see BWB is still chugging along. I made an order with them over a decade ago and thought their operation was pretty cool.

MEALS! DEALS! EELS! AWESOME!

@PhysAssist Thanks! I’ll check it out and pass it along.

@PooltoyWolf
I know, right!
I’ve mostly been focused on reading the backlog on my Kindle, but I was looking for a specific book for my 90 y/o B-I-L who just got diagnosed with heart failure. …and once I got there, I had to make the order an efficient process… or so I tell myself.

@callow
Cool!

@moonhat Not me. Should I be?

@moonhat Yes! I love it for keeping track of series order, what I own, and what I have read since I can’t remember shit.

@callow yes I loooove it for those reasons too! be my friend on there! https://www.goodreads.com/friend/i?invite_token=ZTVjZWNlNjgtM2E5MC00NTljLWIxMzAtOGEyOWZhNjIwZjA1

@sammydog01 yes Sammy! Definitely.

https://www.goodreads.com/friend/i?invite_token=ZTVjZWNlNjgtM2E5MC00NTljLWIxMzAtOGEyOWZhNjIwZjA1

@callow I haven’t yet, but as she is a licensed clinical psychologist, the excerpts I’ve heard read on “The Lincoln Project” youtube videos were pretty interesting.

@callow

Good, esp if the reader is inclined not to like Trump, or is simply curious.
Shorter than I would have liked.

Caveat: obviously, with any book that has a political agenda, one’s response is going to vary, driven, in part, according to one’s political philosophy.

@therealjrn
M’kay…

@therealjrn Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum

@therealjrn

Was v impressed with the art of war. I need to redo it
what are the other books in the series?