Anyone read Shutter Island?

If so, how closely does the movie follow the book and would it be worth reading if I've seen the movie a couple times?

I've read the 1st 4 books in The Dresden Files and I'm kind of getting burnt out. Think I need a break from them for a bit and I'm looking for something new/different to read.

Listened to it in cd but never saw movie

I'd say no. The movie follows the book very closely. I did it the other way around and read the book before I watched the movie. I was terribly bored as I knew exactly what would happen next.

The ending is handled slightly differently iirc. I haven't read it but I remember talking to multiple people who said the movie was a bit more ambiguous than the novel.

The Walking Dead: Compendium One

Currently blazing through this at lightning speed. Goddaaaaaaaaaaaaamn this is entertaining. I sort of feel as hopeless as the ever-changing group of survivors, though. This series is meant to never end. To never have a resolution. There will always be the walking dead. I'm all for epic sagas, but how long can they keep this going before readers start wishing for a resolution? And how could they ever provide a satisfying resolution? I guess the smart play might be to fade out, knowing there are more adventures that will never be told, but I suspect even that would be frustrating.

Its like comic book crack, isnt it?

Im currently rereading it.

You know I think this is one of those books where one's opinion is based mostly on timing - at the end of the day it's not great literature, but I read it at a time in my life when I was most susceptible to its message.

has anyone ever read Dianetics (sp)?

I just read a very interesting article on Scientology, and tbh I kinda want to check out if the book reads like total BS or if it appeals to me at all. I'll put that on the same to-read shelf as Mein Kampf. Which means I'll most likely never read either.

i'd recommend watching the southpark episode on scientology instead

i'm reading Pessoa's Book of Disquiet which isn't even actually a book but just a random ~400 writings found in his trunk ~50 years after he died, and ordered into a sequence by the publisher. he's a super dark existentialist type. it's my favorite book now and a pleasure to read a few writings alone at night especially after drinking

if anyone has any recommendations on existentialist authors PM me or post here, ty

I still have very fond and vivid memories of reading Martin Gardner's Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, which has a great debunking of what was then called Dianetics. (His book may have part of the reason Hubbard changed the name.) It's now a long time since some of those crazy theories Gardner writes about flourished -- but Scientology is still around, alas. (And I recently noticed a new round of Joseph Rhine-like ESP experiments were being conducted.)

Gonna take one post here to tout Peter Farris' Last Call for the Living. Fans of Knockemstiff/Devil All the Time/Dan Woodrell type stuff might like

http://www.infiniteboston.com/
tumbler depicting the real Boston places from Infinite Jest, pretty cool.

Robert Kirkman said he'd write TWD till demand dies down or he's too old to keep writing it.
fwiw, the stuff in the compendium is awesome. i did however stop reading TWD a few month ago. somehow it felt like it lost momentum and became kind of repetitive. but you should be still far away from that point, so enjoy the ride!

Has anyone here read Cloud Atlas? Looks interesting.

Dom it was reviewed about 15 pages back - pretty positively iirc, prob najord, right after we discussed the thousand autumns of jdz, which he was not a big fan of, but i was.