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Right now I'm reading
'The French Lieutenant's Woman' by John Fowles
Anybody else read that? I really like John Fowles, my favorite so far is 'The Collector.'
Right now I'm reading
'The French Lieutenant's Woman' by John Fowles
Anybody else read that? I really like John Fowles, my favorite so far is 'The Collector.'
I've read The Collector and The Magus and liked both of them. Never got to The French Lieutenant's Woman altho I think my prince read it a great many years ago.
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I've seen other people on here mention "Dracula." I'm about halfway through it, not sure what the impetus was to start, and it is quite good!
it is quite good isn't it? you should read frankenstein if you haven't already. that book blew me away... it also made me angry at what Hollywood had done to it.
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Since i will be home and not really be able to do stuff for a few days (surgery), went to the Barnes & Noble and picked up a few books.
First one i picked up is called "Wildwood". It's a children's fantasy novel (like Where The Wild Things Are and Harry Potter). Colin Meloy (of the Decemberists) wrote it and his wife did the illustrations. One of my friends told me about it. It's about some seventh graders who are drawn to a magical forest while looking for a baby who was kidnapped by crows :? Looks interesting.
For my second book, I was gonna pick up Stephern King's "Joyful" but couldn't find it, which I was surprised. While I was looking around though I came across a book that caught my eye. It's called "A Street Cat Named Bob" by James Bowen. This street musician finds a stray cat in his aprtment in London and I guess adopts the cat and they become friedns and all. Spent a year the best sellers list in England. Being compared to Marley and Me and Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World.
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Brought back another box of comics from my mom's house (still stored from when I was a kid) for my nephew to read and found this in there. Pulled it out as it is not age appropriate and started reading it last night. A really cool read, Frank Miller's Batman is the best.
I've seen other people on here mention "Dracula." I'm about halfway through it, not sure what the impetus was to start, and it is quite good!
it is quite good isn't it? you should read frankenstein if you haven't already. that book blew me away... it also made me angry at what Hollywood had done to it.
I had to in high school, but I wasn't really into reading at that point (if it wasn't electronic, it was shit!) so I didn't appreciate it. I will certainly do so after this read, though!
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I've gotten halfway through this and I'm giving up. It's kind of an interesting story (Henry Ford was a weird guy :? ) but this guy's writing is making me crazy. Besides excessive details that I can't keep track of, his sentences have so many clauses that I have to reread some of them to figure out what he's saying.
Talking about the Amazon River:
And unlike the delta of the Mississippi, which over the last two centuries has been reduced from a patchwork of barely navigable bayous, islands, shifting sandbars, and estuaries into a rationalized sluice, the Amazon's terminus remains democratic, with many metamorphosing paths in and out.
Sheesh, you don't have to stick to simple sentences but the entire book reads like that. :crazy:
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top of the rock---warren littlefield's tale of life at nbc in the 80's and 90's
top of the rock---warren littlefield's tale of life at nbc in the 80's and 90's
That book sucked me in. Once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down. Great read about NBC through the eyes of Warren Littlefield.
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just finished Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
(Philosopher's Stone for you Brits)
I read it last week as a bit of light relief from the heavier stuff...do older Americans get criticised as much as we Brits for reading a so-called kids book. I have read them all as has everyone in my family and could not care less what age group the book purists believe they are for; as long as you are reading, you're thinking and keeping you're mind active... :?:
women don't get criticised too much but men would get it worse. It's not really actually criticism so much as it is others just taking the piss. I haven't read Harry Potter but I do read a LOT of YA fantasy and the response I typically get is somewhere along the lines of 'well at least it's not twilight.'
The impression I get from my societal experience is that Harry Potter & Twilight are for girls (and thereby lame) but George RR Martin & Tolkin are manly (and thereby awesome)
:fp:
Thread integrity: I was trying to re-read the Percy Jackson series straight into the Heroes of Olympus to be freshly caught up in time for the new release next month but sadly won't be able to get through it all in time. Stupid fall semester messin' with my plans!
Since i will be home and not really be able to do stuff for a few days (surgery), went to the Barnes & Noble and picked up a few books.
First one i picked up is called "Wildwood". It's a children's fantasy novel (like Where The Wild Things Are and Harry Potter). Colin Meloy (of the Decemberists) wrote it and his wife did the illustrations. One of my friends told me about it. It's about some seventh graders who are drawn to a magical forest while looking for a baby who was kidnapped by crows :? Looks interesting.
For my second book, I was gonna pick up Stephern King's "Joyful" but couldn't find it, which I was surprised. While I was looking around though I came across a book that caught my eye. It's called "A Street Cat Named Bob" by James Bowen. This street musician finds a stray cat in his aprtment in London and I guess adopts the cat and they become friedns and all. Spent a year the best sellers list in England. Being compared to Marley and Me and Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World.
Finished A Street Cat Named Bob. Highly enjoyable and recommened especially if you like cats.
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I'll start the next book in the series today: The Chessmen of Mars.
Finished yesterday. Good God it took me far longer than it should have. Stupid life, always getting in the way. :roll:
I'm going to take a break from the Barsoom series (I have six left) and instead read another classic Mars book I'm embarrassed to say I've never read:
So, to date, I've read 33 books this year. This puts me well off-track from my 60-book goal for the year, but I'm going to keep chugging away at it ...
I just started free reading periods
with my students.
Nothing but teen novels to choose from,
so I'm finally starting to read
'The Hunger Games.'
It would be swell to have those read
BEFORE
those films are out on super-limited-edition boxset.
Cheers.
'Cause you don't give blood and take it back again.
Finally finished And the Band Played On...wow. that one was a rough one to get through. My mind couldn't stop thinking about how much further scientists would be in their research and how many people could have been saved if the proper attention, education and funding was there sooner.
And need something a little "lighter" so I just started reading this yesterday....
Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
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Anyone here read Neal Stephenson? I have a few in the pile, this is the first one I am starting -- seems like an interesting writer.
One of Time magazine's 100 all-time best English-language novels.
From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year's hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what's a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel, Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible
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im obsessed. so easy to lose track of time with these books.
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'The French Lieutenant's Woman' by John Fowles
Anybody else read that? I really like John Fowles, my favorite so far is 'The Collector.'
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it is quite good isn't it? you should read frankenstein if you haven't already. that book blew me away... it also made me angry at what Hollywood had done to it.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
First one i picked up is called "Wildwood". It's a children's fantasy novel (like Where The Wild Things Are and Harry Potter). Colin Meloy (of the Decemberists) wrote it and his wife did the illustrations. One of my friends told me about it. It's about some seventh graders who are drawn to a magical forest while looking for a baby who was kidnapped by crows :? Looks interesting.
For my second book, I was gonna pick up Stephern King's "Joyful" but couldn't find it, which I was surprised. While I was looking around though I came across a book that caught my eye. It's called "A Street Cat Named Bob" by James Bowen. This street musician finds a stray cat in his aprtment in London and I guess adopts the cat and they become friedns and all. Spent a year the best sellers list in England. Being compared to Marley and Me and Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World.
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I had to in high school, but I wasn't really into reading at that point (if it wasn't electronic, it was shit!) so I didn't appreciate it. I will certainly do so after this read, though!
Talking about the Amazon River: Sheesh, you don't have to stick to simple sentences but the entire book reads like that. :crazy:
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women don't get criticised too much but men would get it worse. It's not really actually criticism so much as it is others just taking the piss. I haven't read Harry Potter but I do read a LOT of YA fantasy and the response I typically get is somewhere along the lines of 'well at least it's not twilight.'
The impression I get from my societal experience is that Harry Potter & Twilight are for girls (and thereby lame) but George RR Martin & Tolkin are manly (and thereby awesome)
:fp:
Thread integrity: I was trying to re-read the Percy Jackson series straight into the Heroes of Olympus to be freshly caught up in time for the new release next month but sadly won't be able to get through it all in time. Stupid fall semester messin' with my plans!
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Finished A Street Cat Named Bob. Highly enjoyable and recommened especially if you like cats.
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Started the book by Colin Meloy (of The Decemberists). Only read the first few chapters but it's pretty decent. This book is kinda long though.
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pretty damn readable.
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Finished yesterday. Good God it took me far longer than it should have. Stupid life, always getting in the way. :roll:
I'm going to take a break from the Barsoom series (I have six left) and instead read another classic Mars book I'm embarrassed to say I've never read:
So, to date, I've read 33 books this year. This puts me well off-track from my 60-book goal for the year, but I'm going to keep chugging away at it ...
"Let's check Idaho."
with my students.
Nothing but teen novels to choose from,
so I'm finally starting to read
'The Hunger Games.'
It would be swell to have those read
BEFORE
those films are out on super-limited-edition boxset.
Cheers.
I thought it was out already. Went to Amazon to get it for my Kindle... is it the 24th? Impatiently waiting.
Me too!
And need something a little "lighter" so I just started reading this yesterday....
One of Time magazine's 100 all-time best English-language novels.