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Post by goddessmerrick on Mar 26, 2005 11:59:32 GMT -5
Sorry Morbs, You are correct, Pandora and Vittorio are from the New Tales.
And you are also correct in that I should of read the post twice and then I would of known what was stated.
Pleeeez for give me? I just got a little excited...I mean it's Anne Rice.
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Post by Indagatrix on Mar 26, 2005 15:12:28 GMT -5
Ok ladies--I have a license to Shush... don't make me use it...  shhhhhhhhhhh |
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Post by obadhai on Mar 26, 2005 23:01:10 GMT -5
I am reading a book that has a lot of pictures and small words.
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Post by sacrletangel on Mar 31, 2005 0:36:16 GMT -5
I just ordered Faust, by Goethe, and The Divine Comedy, by good ole Dante. Looking forward to the delivery tomorrow.
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Post by Asya on Mar 31, 2005 9:52:47 GMT -5
Review for State of Fear by Michael Crichton
Have you ever read something and thought, there are just too many words in this book. That best describes State of Fear. All the words just tire the reader and often you may find yourself skimming.
The plot is based on how an ecological group attempts to unethacally heighten the awareness of global warming. This is not a book for tree-huggers. It causes the reader to examine what is known about global warming and what is speculation.
As with many of Crichton's novels, it is written like a movie. Every bit of detail is included, and little is left to the readers imagination.
Overall rating: B
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Post by Tremor on Apr 2, 2005 8:26:52 GMT -5
I just got done reading "The Gods Of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
I am now reading "A Princess Of Mars" by the same Author.
The first being one of my favorites.
Also in my favorites catogory are any books by Loius L'Amour. The favorite so far from his collection is "To Tame A Land".
Any of the Sackett Serries are good too, if you like Westerns.
"Haunted Mesa" is another favorite but it is not a western.
I love to read a good book! Hard to put them down at times.
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Post by Fate on Apr 2, 2005 10:24:13 GMT -5
Since the movie is coming out this Summer, I have started the Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. So far it has been pretty good. However if you do not like English Science Fiction/Humor (i.e. Dr. Who, Red Dwarf, etc) you probably want to avoid it. However, since I love Dr. Who (only the Tom Baker years), I think it is pretty good.
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Post by Dreamsmith on Apr 2, 2005 11:00:39 GMT -5
OTOH, if you like that sort of thing, I can't recommend Terry Pratchett's Discworld books enough. Pratchett is to fantasy what Douglas Adams was to sci-fi, with the bonus that Pratchett is really a much better writer. There are a lot of Discword novels, but they're each self-contained stories. Sometimes it's nice to know what occured in previous ones, but it's never necessary, you can read them in just about any order and not miss much. My favorite would probably be "Guards! Guards!", but it's a tough choice, "Wyrd Sisters" and "Witches Abroad" being right up there.
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Post by Indagatrix on Apr 2, 2005 15:08:58 GMT -5
I just ordered Faust, by Goethe, and The Divine Comedy, by good ole Dante. Looking forward to the delivery tomorrow. ordered? from your local library through interlibrary loan right? certainly not from a book store.....or at least if from a book store it was a local independent dealer right?  |
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Post by Yoko Nishi on Apr 2, 2005 15:11:15 GMT -5
I'm currently reading...
Hollywood, by Charles Bukowski
It's ripe with swearing, drinking, sex, smoking, racism, and all that bad stuff. However, some parts of it are humorous, such as when a drunk actor fears his chickens have been kidnapped by his roommate, and eaten, when in reality, he has all of them...
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Post by sacrletangel on Apr 3, 2005 1:00:04 GMT -5
ordered? from your local library through interlibrary loan right? certainly not from a book store.....or at least if from a book store it was a local independent dealer right? actually I had to order them off of Barnes and Noble's website. Also, I would like to suggest Bored of the Rings, for anyone who enjoys a good parody and Tolkien. |
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Post by Asya on May 19, 2005 8:02:13 GMT -5
Just to crank the thread back up, upon Inda's review I read Plot Against America, by Philip Roth. I won't rehash the plot, as she already provided it prior in the thread. Based on the book summaries available, I was not prepared for the in-your-face religious aspects of the book. The book discusses attempts to impose Nazi like conditions in the U.S. utilizing democratic tactics.
Reading the book, I kept thinking how far fetched the concept was, and how no one in their right mind could accept this. Then I think about the Patriot Act...
Rating: 3 1/2 Charr (out of 5)
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Post by Aerynrox on May 19, 2005 11:41:12 GMT -5
Thanks for asking! We're reading Kiln People by David Brin. It's the group's (but not my) first foray into science fiction. The meeting will be interesting because I know of two or three members who actually refused to read the book for no other reason except that they don't like/understand/"get" science fiction. I will shred them to pieces with my arguments and with my analysis of our read. ;D |
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Post by mightyachmed on May 19, 2005 14:39:31 GMT -5
Mmm ... thread's a little stale, but it's just so tasty that I can't resist taking a bite. I'm a wordaholic and books are my sustenance. My diet has flagged a little bit in the past few months because of that whole life thing that keeps popping up in the way, but here are some of my favorites:
Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin -- quintessential fantasy series, rife with medeival pageantry and intrigue, full of compelling characters and conflicts. I read a lot of fantasy, but this is my favorite series by far.
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn -- Kind of a strange book; it's written more or less like a novel, with a cohesive storyline and character development and whatnot, but the focus of the whole thing is on the ideas and concepts he talks about, which get pretty heavy. If anybody else has read any Daniel Quinn books, I'd love to hear your views on it. Interesting stuff.
Terry Pratchett! -- Already mentioned by Dreamcatcher, but I've got to throw my two cents in. I've got a copy of basically every Terry Pratchett book I've been able to get my hands on, so I'm pretty fond of his work. If you're looking for the cream of the crop of satirical parody, look no further!
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Post by smthng on May 20, 2005 14:30:52 GMT -5
Ach... my turn... Faerie Tale by Raymond Feist (again) - Not real deep, but an excellent Fantasy/Horror by Feist. Not his usual style. One of my favorites, it's falling apart. :S Theives World series (again) - Again, another one of my favorites that's falling apart. An excellent and fairly cohesive series even though written by so many contributing authors. Wonderfully complex, yet still maintains a certain "integrity" until you get to the last couple of books. Leanings: The best of Peter Egan - A compliation of reprinted articles from Cycle World by it's longest running editor, Peter Egan. Hey, not everything is Fantasy... although many of his rides are a fantasy for me. Some day I'll get my bike over to the Isle of Man and Nurburgen (sp?). :S BTW... for those reading the Hitchiker Guides, you really need to read the whole set, although the last one in the series is a bit disjointed compared to the others. Adam's Dirk Gently series isn't bad, but not up to the level of HHGTTG. He's a man who is sorely missed by many.  |
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Post by Morbid Eclipse on May 20, 2005 14:42:29 GMT -5
I just finished reading for the second time "A Loss for Words" by Lou Ann Walker. Great read. Deals with the life of a woman who's parents were deaf.
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Post by Indagatrix on May 20, 2005 16:18:22 GMT -5
Well, my mind has been in incubator (aka pregnant) mode, when I'm not sleeping -- So I've been reading things along that line.  I checked out House on Pooh Corner from the library because I realized I had never read the A A Milne stories before but I love the classic Pooh art and we are thinking of doing a nursery in that scheme. X got me a great book called The worst baby name book ever a blast to read even if you aren't naming a baby--one friend of ours starting reading it the other day and started laughing so hard he cried on a few names. And then I also picked up a non traditional parenting type magazine called Violet because honestly if I read one more horror story out of American Baby I was going to scream and place myself in a coma for the next 18 years. And then for good measure and some mental noshing I picked up the latest issue of Heeb as well. Oh, BTW -- if you use the yahoo tool bar there's a fun little free utility to download for it that will let you search for any book, magazine, and movie at any of your local libraries. You can get it by going here . Of course if your library doesn't have an electronic catalog chances are this tool won't work....just a thought. |
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Post by Morbid Eclipse on May 20, 2005 16:51:51 GMT -5
Oh, BTW -- if you use the yahoo tool bar  baaaad stuff that Yahoo crap is |
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Post by wolfwoman on May 20, 2005 17:06:06 GMT -5
Aaaah. Mighty Achmed... the George R R Martin series is indeed good. I am upset, however, that The Feast for Crows has taken so long, I fear I need to reread the first 3. I can't remember, is it coming out June 26th or July 26th??
Anybody read anything by a guy named Richard Bach? He wrote Jonathon Livingston Seagull.... his other books I enjoyed....
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Post by soaringarrow on May 20, 2005 17:09:09 GMT -5
well I 'm only 12 so I have plenty of time to read but one of my favorites was the chronicles of narnia I read it
all 7.
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Post by mightyachmed on May 20, 2005 18:46:06 GMT -5
Martin has unfortunately still not finished the book. I can definitely understand wanting the thing to come out -- my parents reserved the book for me two years ago as a birthday present -- but I'd rather him take all the time he needs to be happy with how it turns out. Tolkein took years between the books of the Lord of the Rings. If you check georgerrmartin.com, you can find out as soon as he's finished.
Narnia was awesome stuff. Those books captivated me. I used to have a copy of a movie series based on them, that was pretty cool too.
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Post by soaringarrow on May 20, 2005 21:27:35 GMT -5
yeah I saw a few movies but the books where much better. |
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Post by bainsoulsmite on Jun 23, 2005 14:10:04 GMT -5
It seems I spend a small fortune at Barns & Noble! Don't worry Inda, I check out at the library also, but nothing beats a fresh unbroken cover  I mostly read in the fantasy genre, but enjoy lots of others. I recently finished Dan Brown's: Angels and Deamons and Da Vinci Code, both good reads. Prolly my fav authors though have been Robert Jordan and Terry Goodkind (though I have to agree that there should be a volume cap on a series.... I mean sheesh!) I also enjoy Dean Koontz and Ann Rice. Has anyone read the Necroscope series by, I think, Brian Lumly(sp)? interesting twist on the traditional vampire story. Well, happy reading........ if you can tear yourself away from GW! ~Bain |
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Post by Aerynrox on Jun 23, 2005 14:36:32 GMT -5
Hey Bain, I too love Jordan and Goodkind, but I know what you mean about a series cap. I think that Jordan has lost his way with the Wheel of Time series which is really too bad because for the first three or four books, I viewed that series as the artistic successor to Tolkien's classic. Ah well - maybe I'm wrong, and he'll get back to what made the first books so engrossing. There was an interesting interview with Terry Goodkind at scifi.com about a month ago in which he talked about the end of his Sword of Truth series. It seems he's going to wrap things up in just three more novels. I'm very much looking forward to them as I feel that the characters have matured and evolved while the storytelling has remained fresh and challenging. You might still be able to find a transcript of the interview over at scifi.com if you poke around a bit. As for me, right now I'm reading Shadow Divers, the true story of some Atlantic wreck divers who discovered a sunken Uboat which nobody, including the American miltary had any idea was just off the coast of New Jersey. It's well-written and entertaining. It reads almost like fiction. I recommend it for anyone interested in the water or WWII. Just noticed that my profile says I'm a male! Better do something about that asap! |
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Post by Talairina on Jun 23, 2005 14:55:34 GMT -5
Right now the last book I read was one of my favorite books, The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3 Quaters. Theres been about 6 or 7 follows up this book to with his entire life on paper. Its nuts!!!! Go read it if you want a laugh at British teenagers growing up in the 80's.
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Post by TheUncleanOne on Jun 24, 2005 6:53:55 GMT -5
Has anyone read the Necroscope series by, I think, Brian Lumly(sp)? interesting twist on the traditional vampire story. I started that series back in 5th or 6th grade... so yes, I've read all of thoes including the 2 or 3 books on the brothers (I forget how many there were)... There might be one out-of-sequece book that I missed however... Stake, Sword and Fire... what more do you need... |
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Post by bainsoulsmite on Jun 24, 2005 13:43:07 GMT -5
I enjoyed the Necro series....the ones I read..... but with any series, I get tired of the char after several books, so have to take a break and come back to it.....I waited too long on Necro, so started it over.....Dragosoni, now there a cool name...hehe
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Post by Aerynrox on Jul 3, 2005 19:39:53 GMT -5
On to the latest read for the book group I belong to: A Peace to End All Peace by Fromkin. History. Dry, dry, dry, dry, dry.....but probably a very vital read for anyone who even wants to try and comment intelligently about the state of international relations currently. So - I will slog my way through it and hope for something more plainly appealing next time.  |
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Post by Black Dragon on Jul 3, 2005 20:40:52 GMT -5
I am currently re-reading the Harry Potter Series in anticipation of the release of the 6th book in less than 2 weeks
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Post by Fate on Jul 4, 2005 0:47:34 GMT -5
We have preordered Harry Potter as well.
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baaaad stuff that Yahoo crap is
I mostly read in the fantasy genre, but enjoy lots of others. I recently finished Dan Brown's: Angels and Deamons and Da Vinci Code, both good reads. Prolly my fav authors though have been Robert Jordan and Terry Goodkind (though I have to agree that there should be a volume cap on a series.... I mean sheesh!)
