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Post by Dragonlily on Mar 11, 2010 20:35:04 GMT -5
@justin I have read the 3 Gaiman books you listed in your post above, plus Stardust. I am currently reading Coraline plus Smoke and Mirrors, then I will try to get to Odd and The Frost Giants. I just downloaded Interworld on my Kindle too, but I am going to try to read Atomic Lobster before the other stuff.
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Post by Justin Thyme on Mar 12, 2010 17:35:06 GMT -5
At some point in the near future I'm going to pick up Stardust and put it at the front of my reading stack. I was at a bookstore in East Atlanta a couple of nights ago attending a writer's workshop being led by a murder mystery author. As I was leaving I picked up a copy of Good Omens by Gaiman and Pratchett. I've pushed it toward the front of my reading stack.
I've finished The Sword-Edged Blonde by Alex Bledsoe. It was an interesting book and Bledsoe pulled of the mixed genre very well. This was his first published book I think and was written while he was a teenager.
Next on the stack is Stuart Woods' Loitering With Intent.
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Post by Dragonlily on Mar 12, 2010 22:57:53 GMT -5
I love Good Omens! I can't believe I forgot to add that to my list. That was the first book I read by Gaiman. I do hope you enjoy that one He is a wonderful speaker and I have a great little video clip of him explaining why he used Rock City as a setting in his book American Gods.
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Post by Tookie on Mar 14, 2010 18:55:27 GMT -5
A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny
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Post by Justin Thyme on Mar 24, 2010 13:32:08 GMT -5
I just finished a couple of books by the author Michael Wiley, The Last Striptease and The Bad Kitty Lounge. He has written two murder mysteries and both are good reads. I can't list them as great reads because a couple of things bother me about his writing. He does a great job of developing characters but he uses this skill on characters that should be left undeveloped because they are "red shirt" characters. He will also drop in a character that will make you wonder where in the world they came from and where in the world did they go. It's almost like he has written himself into a corner and then has to create a character from nowhere to pull him out of the corner he's written himself into.
I have met this guy and had a conversation with him at an East Atlanta bookstore. He's a friend of Stychen's on Facebook and they correspond some about books. I like him and I enjoyed the books but I think the books could have been so much better had he spent a little more time in the revision process. These could have been great books rather than just good books.
I'll still recommend him and I'll look for his next book but it will probably stay on my to be read stack until its turn comes around rather than jumping ahead of others already there.
I started Karin Slaughter's Fractured this morning.
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Post by Babs on Apr 2, 2010 14:53:46 GMT -5
Reading Fried Green Tomatoes. As mentioned in another thread, the book is always better than the movie, although the movie was good!
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Post by daworm on Apr 4, 2010 7:17:06 GMT -5
Just finished Dangerously Funny, a biography of the Smothers Brothers. Fairly interesting read, and I learned a few things I didn't know, like how Steve Martin was one of the writers for the show.
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Post by Babs on Apr 10, 2010 11:44:17 GMT -5
Blindness by Jose Saranego. Mildly unsettling to say the least. Very good, however.
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Post by Justin Thyme on Apr 10, 2010 13:23:46 GMT -5
Just finished Hunter's Moon by Randy Wayne White. Not a bad story and the fellow's writing is decent enough but he leaves a few too many holes in his story.
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Post by mikeydokey on Apr 10, 2010 17:04:07 GMT -5
One time I read a book, no it was a menu, no it was a book about cooking, it was about how to cook a pot roast.
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Post by daworm on Apr 10, 2010 23:35:35 GMT -5
Reading Pride & Prejudice & Zombies at the moment...
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Post by goomba on Apr 11, 2010 10:38:50 GMT -5
listening to "his excellency, George Washington"
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Post by Copperhead on Apr 24, 2010 21:20:40 GMT -5
Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson.
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Post by Tookie on May 4, 2010 12:45:43 GMT -5
Just finished The 9th Judgment by James Patterson.
Just started The War Against Miss Winter by Kathryn Miller Haines.
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Post by Babs on May 4, 2010 19:43:28 GMT -5
Just finished Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger. She wrote "The Devil wears Prada. Starting James Patterson's "Run for Your Life." I think I may have read it before, but I was short on time and needed A book!
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Post by justme on May 20, 2010 11:01:23 GMT -5
Just finished "Can't Wait to Get to Heaven" (by Fannie Flagg, author of "Fried Green Tomatoes") and "First Wives Club." "Can't Wait" was a can't-put-it-down. "FW" was okay - in an absolute rarity for me, I actually preferred the movie because of the ending.
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Post by Babs on Jun 19, 2010 12:01:44 GMT -5
THAT'S the book I need to read next. Love Fannie Flagg! I'm reading an Amanda Cross mystery now.
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Post by SKB on Jun 19, 2010 17:09:37 GMT -5
Culling the Herd
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Post by Felix on Jul 8, 2010 11:23:01 GMT -5
I recently finished a new novel by a man we met at last year's book conference, Tom Bibey. Doctor B., as his blogging friends call him, is a North Carolina doctor who is also a bluegrass musician, and now is an author of a medical malpractice mystery, with bluegrass music the backdrop.
Intricately plotted and packed with vivid characters, who talk colorfully and stick by their friends, the book kept me alternately turning pages and laughing.
When he was here last year, Doctor B. had his mandolin with him, and jammed at the Signal Mountain Opry. He will be there again on July 30, after stops during the day at a barbecue place in Hixson and a bookstore somewhere in town.
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Post by el Gusano on Jul 8, 2010 11:26:30 GMT -5
I just finished "Inside the Revolution" by Joel Rosenberg. I highly recommend it if you want an inside look at Islam (both the Radical terrorists and the Reformers opposed to terrorism), some of it from former terrorists, and why our presence there is important.
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Post by daworm on Jul 8, 2010 23:01:15 GMT -5
Re-reading a classic, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
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Post by Fatally Yours on Jul 10, 2010 16:50:39 GMT -5
The Count of Monte Cristo at current; Sun Tzu's work next.
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Post by justme on Jul 13, 2010 12:50:12 GMT -5
Finished reading "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien. It was both haunting and disturbing and is probably one of those I will re-read to catch details I probably missed the first time. Once I picked it up, I had trouble putting it down, but once I put it down, I didn't pick it up again easily. I've never had a book affect me quite that way before.
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Post by BlackFox on Aug 17, 2010 15:25:36 GMT -5
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. A little difficult to get used to the way he wrote, but very, very, good.
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Post by chazandjerry on Aug 23, 2010 13:30:20 GMT -5
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Post by Babs on Aug 23, 2010 14:11:29 GMT -5
The Things They carried is one of my favorites! Currently reading "Full of Grace" by Dorathea Benton Frank. Really good!
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Post by RuneDeer on Sept 20, 2010 5:22:14 GMT -5
Driven to Distraction by Edward M. Hallowell MD and John J. Ratey MD. Bestseller that describes attention-deficit disorder in children and adults. It's staggering how many of us have carried this into adulthood after struggling in school, and how effective treatment can be.
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Post by el Gusano on Sept 20, 2010 9:10:30 GMT -5
"I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!" by Bob Newhart. Funny book by one of the funniest people ever. (I never knew that he sold more records than the Beatles in the 60's, and his first two records held the number 1 and 2 spots on the chart, a feat that wouldn't be beaten until G 'n' R in the 90's.)
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Post by el Gusano on Oct 21, 2010 14:24:24 GMT -5
"The Naked Truth" by Leslie Nielsen. It's his autobiography. Especially riveting were the tales of how he broke up Lewis & Martin, destroyed Elvis, and how it destroyed Michelle Pfeiffer when he divorced her.
There's not much in it at all that's true. Maybe nothing.
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Post by rsimms on Nov 4, 2010 14:53:33 GMT -5
I just finished Audio Book version of "The Secret Life of Bees." It's a girly story, but I still loved it. The writing is fantastic, as well as the narrator on the audio version.
Thank goodness for Books on DVD or I would be more illiterate than I am.
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