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Post by creekcat62 on Aug 21, 2007 12:16:04 GMT -5
I have started several series late and had to backtrack. I have Eric Flints 1635. Would I be better off starting from the start on this series?
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Post by snarkalicious on Aug 21, 2007 18:00:34 GMT -5
Has anyone read the Outlander series by Diana Galbaldon?
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Aug 26, 2007 15:04:39 GMT -5
An old book I rescued from McKay's discard bin: "Haunted Houses of Ireland" copyright 1947.
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Post by Felix on Aug 28, 2007 9:56:17 GMT -5
Just finished The Devil's Highway, by Luis Urrea this past week. A non-fiction account of the botched border crossing in Arizona of thirty illegals, of whom ten survived.
If you want a look at real illegal immigrants and exactly what they risk to get into this country, this would be a good way to do it.
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Post by tcrashfx on Aug 28, 2007 14:12:56 GMT -5
Try "Lines and Shadows" by Joseph Wambaugh for another look into the issue.
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Post by Felix on Aug 28, 2007 14:45:11 GMT -5
Wambaugh really covers the whole of police work, doesn't he? I will check it out.
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Post by Justin Thyme on Aug 28, 2007 16:27:18 GMT -5
Just finished James Patterson's Lake House. It wasn't a bad read for the airport but I enjoyed the first book, When the Wind Blows, more. Neither book was like any James Patterson book I've ever read before.
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Aug 30, 2007 14:40:16 GMT -5
I liked those books by Patterson. Have you read his "1st To Die" series? Not really like his usal fare, either.
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Post by Justin Thyme on Aug 30, 2007 14:58:18 GMT -5
I've mainly read the Alex Cross series but I'll have to pick up 1st To Die.
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Aug 30, 2007 15:02:23 GMT -5
I have the first three in the series (1st to Die, 2nd Chance, 3rd Degree)...not sure if others have come out since. I'm guessing so, since I haven't been reading as much as I use to and as much as I'd like.
Another good book is "Derailed" by James Siegel
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Post by Thorne on Sept 1, 2007 4:16:53 GMT -5
Samara has read most of it and we recently picked up the series in it's entirety from Bookman in Nashville.
Has anyone read any Jack Whyte?? I've been tempted to get his latest, about Templars, and he has written a series based on the Aurthurian legends.
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Post by Longshot! [ Saint ] on Sept 5, 2007 1:32:48 GMT -5
I atually enjoyed 'Cell'; best he's done in a while, but only because of the 'The Stand' throwback-aspect to such. They don't compare, but he DOES have a knack for describing the likely dissipation of society, and that...I LIKE.
As a matter of fact, I just finished up his latest "Lisey's Story". It was the worst crap I forced myself to plow through since Clive Barkers 'Imajica' (which, I might add, I later drown in a bathtub to enjoy seeing it swell in the sunlight of my back deck and be slowly consumed by insects), but I DID like the last quarter of the story. Or was that an 8th? I took 6 mos. to get through the first three hundred pages; I finished the last two hundred in a few hours. Go figure.
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Post by SKB on Sept 11, 2007 6:30:38 GMT -5
As a matter of fact, I just finished up his latest "Lisey's Story". It was the worst crap I forced myself to plow through since Clive Barkers 'Imajica' Yeah I red Lisey's Story recently-was given the hardcover version of it and while I -loved- the dustjacket what was between the pages didn't do much for me.Oh to be certain there were things I loved in it-minor things like how King phrased this or that and the whole idea of the other world but all in all the book wasn't that great -shrug-
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Post by Felix on Oct 2, 2007 11:21:11 GMT -5
I just finished a new novel by Ann Patchett titled Run. I enjoy her writing very much. She deals with a variety of characters and different settings, but all her books are about families, conventional and unconventional. This book describes a family with adopted children of another race, politics, death and how to live through calamities of various kinds. Just reading such well-crafted prose is a treat, after some of the bloated, clunky stuff in much modern fiction.
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Post by Babs on Oct 2, 2007 11:59:15 GMT -5
I'm reading Crisis by Robin Cook. It's been a long time since I've read Cook's stuff, and it's good.
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Post by tcrashfx on Oct 16, 2007 3:41:19 GMT -5
I have read almost all of Michael Connelly's Hieronymus Bosch series.
Excellent crime novels with an excellent protagonist in Det. Harry Bosch. A dark, but easily understood and instantly likable character. Kind of like Wambaugh in the good guys don't almost always win, but they always get the bad guy.
Connelly goes even deeper into the cop psyche than Wambaugh or Maas. Always a page turner with intricate plots and characters.
I got his recent one "The Narrows", but it is written in first person and I can't stand those. Anybody wanna check it out from the tcrashfx library? Babs, Marvell?
I may have to force myself to read it as I am down to one book left from my last Books-a-Million trip.
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Post by tcrashfx on Oct 16, 2007 4:15:27 GMT -5
I am currently reading Martin Cruz Smith's "Stalin's Ghost - An Arkady Renko Novel", but it is more confusing than a Mexican's checkbook.
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Post by SKB on Oct 16, 2007 18:08:07 GMT -5
Not quality reading by any means but I've been browsing a World of Warcraft guide-for maps and that sort of junk.
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Post by tcrashfx on Oct 17, 2007 6:58:09 GMT -5
Is Robin Cook the same guy that wrote "Coma"?
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Post by Felix on Oct 17, 2007 7:09:34 GMT -5
Tcrash commented: Michael Connelly's Hieronymus Bosch series. Whoa! That name for a series detective? Must be dark. The Bosch paintings are like waking nightmares. Yeah, if the Tcrash Lending Library is available, I'd like to try that one. I still have your Both Sides of the Fence, so we could exchange books.
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Post by tcrashfx on Oct 17, 2007 7:26:52 GMT -5
Yea, his name part of the back story.
Keep the book, Marvell, or lend it to someone else. Lemme read "The Narrows" and I'll send it to ya.
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Post by SKB on Oct 17, 2007 11:22:02 GMT -5
Robin Cook did indeed write Coma -lmao- I remember my grandmother having it in the house for several months when I was really young-I ended up confiscating it and reading it myself
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Post by victoriasuzette on Oct 27, 2007 22:54:24 GMT -5
Just finished re-reading the Beauty Series, by Anne Rice, and am currently reading 'Whistling Dixie,' by John Shelton Reed.
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Post by SKB on Oct 29, 2007 6:11:20 GMT -5
In between books at the moment but Ares and I did a decent amount of reading up about greek dance this weekend on the web.
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Post by daworm on Oct 29, 2007 8:19:34 GMT -5
The Book Of Lost Tales II, Tolkien.
Yeah, I'm one of "those" people.
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Post by tcrashfx on Oct 30, 2007 20:58:52 GMT -5
OK, Marvell I am done with "The Narrows" and it turned out to be excellent.
Off to read another "Ludlum" book.
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Post by spastikcomma on Oct 31, 2007 14:14:40 GMT -5
I read a really good memoir lately that was not written by a gay guy. "The Glass Castle" was well-written and the author's love for her disfunctional parents came through clearer than in a lot of memoirs. One part touched me so much that I re-read it for pointers for a story I was working on.
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Post by samara on Nov 1, 2007 5:27:40 GMT -5
I have been reading several written by Margaret George. She develops characters well. They are all about historical figures so you almost always know how it ends. I particularly enjoyed the one about Mary Magdalene...it was not one of the currently popular treatments that parade her as the wife of Jesus.
I believe Snark asked about the Gabaldon 'Outlander' series. Absolutely loved them!!!!! But then I have a thing for Highlanders and time-travel books. She combined them beautifully. I revisit 'Outlander' quite often over the years. It is a favorite read of mine. I would enjoy hearing your take on it once you finish it regardless of whether or not you enjoyed it.
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Post by snarkalicious on Nov 1, 2007 9:10:46 GMT -5
The "Outlander" series is one of my favorite reads, I have gone through them all at least 4 or 5 times and recently started over with "Outlander" again. I've also read the "Lord John" series.
I can lose myself in Jamie and Claire's travels and forget about the rest of my life for a while....
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Post by samara on Nov 1, 2007 15:56:56 GMT -5
"I can lose myself in Jamie and Claire's travels and forget about the rest of my life for a while...."
As can I. Thorne has my entire collection right now out on the road with him. I would love to see a movie made from the book.
I have not read the Lord John series. I am leery of such things since Anne Rice disappointed me so horribly years ago. I know it is a ridiculous fear, but it is what it is. LOL. However, if you found them as enjoyable as the Jamie & Claire books, I'll give them a go.
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