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Nikaido:
Make Love The Bruce Campbell Way by Bruce Campbell
Description (from amazon.com)
Written with the same immense energy, wry humor and Hollywood skewering that filled the bestselling If Chins Could Kill, our hero gives his fans a follow-up they could not have expected-a laugh-out-loud novel starring (who else?) Bruce Campbell. In this autobiographical novel (fiction), the King of 'B' movie actors gives his legions of fans the inside view of his hilarious attempt to become an 'A' list actor-taking readers on a wild ride to nail the dream role. In this side-splitting send-up, Bruce imagines that he is cast in the big-budget film Let's Make Love, where he plays a relationship guru/doorman opposite Richard Gere and Renee Zellwegger. Nervous that the star-studded cast will discover he's a grade below, Bruce embarks on a crash-course in method acting, regaling readers with stories of his exploits-including taking jobs as a wedding planner, private investigator, and Waldorf Astoria doorman. Along the way, he throws off tidbits of advice that his fans will find entertaining-but better not follow unless they want to stay single.
maxxjulie:
World War Z if you like zombies. John Dies In The End if you like something weird and funny.
Ixarku:
For fans of fantasy epics in the vein of Wheel of Time, Sword of Truth, Song of Fire and Ice, etc, I also recommend The Malazan Book of the Fallen, by Steven Erikson. I picked these up a couple of months ago, and I'm now halfway through book 3.
The biggest fault, IMO, of the big 5+ book fantasy epics is that they start out strong but tend to drag in the middle; the second big fault is the tendency of the authors to focus too much attention on details that don't really drive the story forward. So far, Erikson is avoiding the latter pitfall. (Obviously, I'm not far enough along yet to know whether the story drags in the later books.) His pacing is very consistent -- there's a constant feeling of forward momentum to the story, and he spends just the right amount of time balancing character development, plot, and action, without burying the reader in backstory. Yet at the same time he provides just enough detail on the tremendously rich history of the Malazan world to keep things interesting and to give the necessary points of reference for the reader to keep up with the plot.
I could say a lot more, but suffice it to say that I'm very impressed with The Malazan books so far -- they definitely compare favorably with any of the other big fantasy epics out there today.
forevr:
It's added to the list.
I'm reading "Way Of Shadows" by Brent Weeks atm.
TorturdChaos:
Just finished this book and thought it was pretty good.
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Picked it up b/c the Boarders Express in town is closing down, and it was 65% off :D. It turned out to be a great book.
From looking on the authors web page its actually the first in a trilogy. So I need to hunt down the next 2 books.
Surprisingly for a trilogy tho, the first book pretty much wraps itself up completely. Leaves a couple questions still standing at the end, but its almost wrote like it was supposed to be a standalone book, with the trilogy idea added on later.
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