Sorta like El3mo reported - I see up to 48 listed. I think on a good year when I used to track my reading, I'd get about a book or two per month, unless they were a series of very fast/light reads, so 67 is envious.
I read Anne Rice late in her career. It was probably mid-90's by the time I finally picked up the vampire chronicles, and somewhere toward the end of them that I finally couldn't take the way the story and characters and her version of vampirism had turned. Then she had her unexpected twist a few years ago of (I'm paraphrasing here, so I may get this wrong.) "I found Jesus and I can't write anything but stuff about how much I love Jesus and all those vampire novels were bad blah blah blah blah" And hey, nothing wrong with finding a religion if that's your cup of tea, but when it kills your fanbase and livelihood with your outward expression, it's something to think about. I can't recall what she's done recently, but I've kind of lost my taste for her writing by this point, short of a turnaround that might not happen.
The Larrson books have been one that I have been intrigued by, but I think it was the massive sensationalism and popularity of them that killed my immediate interest. I'm going to dig into them eventually, but let it die down. It's like if I hadn't started reading George R.R. Martin before he became a household name, I'd be reluctant to dive in first after all of the book hype and tv series and...
Book 44 - Art of Racing... sounds interesting in the way you describe it. I can enjoy a good book that may parallel a subject that I know nothing about, nor the people in it - yet it's written in a style that allows you to enjoy the reading anyhow, without losing anything by the comparisons. Sometimes books like that even draw the interest in me to research the other parallel, to find out more about it on a basic level. As an example, I recommend that nearly anyone who likes music, or simply a really crazy read pick up "The Dirt" by Motley Crue. If you hate the band's music, or oddly aren't familiar with them, it doesn't matter who the band is, as much as the hell they went through and created for themselves, as well as a very accurate assessment of the "music industry machine" that Nikki describes so the public understands how it all works.
This is an interesting list, though. I'm probably going to put a few titles on my future read list.
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Date: 2013-01-01 10:55 pm (UTC)I read Anne Rice late in her career. It was probably mid-90's by the time I finally picked up the vampire chronicles, and somewhere toward the end of them that I finally couldn't take the way the story and characters and her version of vampirism had turned. Then she had her unexpected twist a few years ago of (I'm paraphrasing here, so I may get this wrong.) "I found Jesus and I can't write anything but stuff about how much I love Jesus and all those vampire novels were bad blah blah blah blah" And hey, nothing wrong with finding a religion if that's your cup of tea, but when it kills your fanbase and livelihood with your outward expression, it's something to think about. I can't recall what she's done recently, but I've kind of lost my taste for her writing by this point, short of a turnaround that might not happen.
The Larrson books have been one that I have been intrigued by, but I think it was the massive sensationalism and popularity of them that killed my immediate interest. I'm going to dig into them eventually, but let it die down. It's like if I hadn't started reading George R.R. Martin before he became a household name, I'd be reluctant to dive in first after all of the book hype and tv series and...
Book 44 - Art of Racing... sounds interesting in the way you describe it. I can enjoy a good book that may parallel a subject that I know nothing about, nor the people in it - yet it's written in a style that allows you to enjoy the reading anyhow, without losing anything by the comparisons. Sometimes books like that even draw the interest in me to research the other parallel, to find out more about it on a basic level. As an example, I recommend that nearly anyone who likes music, or simply a really crazy read pick up "The Dirt" by Motley Crue. If you hate the band's music, or oddly aren't familiar with them, it doesn't matter who the band is, as much as the hell they went through and created for themselves, as well as a very accurate assessment of the "music industry machine" that Nikki describes so the public understands how it all works.
This is an interesting list, though. I'm probably going to put a few titles on my future read list.