Tookie
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Post by Tookie on May 13, 2008 15:54:39 GMT -5
Dark Light by Randy Wayne White
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HonorH957
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Post by HonorH957 on May 13, 2008 21:33:50 GMT -5
I'm working on Dragonriders of Pern again.
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Post by spastikcomma on May 16, 2008 8:15:12 GMT -5
I started "How to Breath Underwater" last night. I didn't read as far into it as I planned because the first story was sooo good I had to put it down and do something else. Thanks for the recommendation.
If you like short stories, "The Book of Other People" edited by Zadie Smith is worth checking out. A.L. Kennedy has a story in it that will probably be in my top ten list forever.
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Babs
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Post by Babs on May 25, 2008 18:05:26 GMT -5
Shipping News. Really good.
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Post by daworm on May 26, 2008 7:28:56 GMT -5
1812: The Rivers of War by Eric Flint. Still haven't figured out the title, as everything seems to be happening in 1814 so far...
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Post by mightejoe on Jun 20, 2008 9:39:39 GMT -5
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem. Highly recommend - not sure how to describe other than good fiction.
*edited for grammar & spelling
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Post by daworm on Jun 23, 2008 7:52:53 GMT -5
Finished 1812, finished 1824: The Arkansas War, returned to where I left off on "The Lost Road and Other Writings" from the History of Middle Earth series. I think if I read one more version of the Silmarillion, I'm going to scream.
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Post by thb on Jun 23, 2008 8:51:15 GMT -5
Last real book, Icy Sparks thanks to the Goodwill bin.
Plot summary Icy Sparks is a young girl living in Midwestern America with her grandparents in the 1950s/1960s. She doesn't get along well with her peers and suddenly starts having tics and croaks. Icy goes down into the root cellar to hide these urges from her grandparents and finally tells her friend, Miss Emily Tanner, a local store owner who is also an outcast from society at 300 pounds. Her teacher tries putting her in a solitary classroom but even that doesn't work and her grandparents have Icy admitted to a mental institution for observation. Even in the institution, Icy is an outcast. She sees herself as not as mentally ill as her peers there and is being tormented by one of the hospital workers. She befriends a second worker but really just wants to go home.
Otherwise quick, entertaining, fun stuff to get me through the summer.
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thb
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Post by thb on Jun 25, 2008 18:52:34 GMT -5
$1 Dollar General Store paperback mystery about a malamute dog show.
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Post by snarkalicious on Jun 26, 2008 8:22:58 GMT -5
"Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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Post by Justin Thyme on Jun 27, 2008 12:30:43 GMT -5
Currently reading "Inherit The Stars" by James P. Hogan. Good book. Do you still have this book?
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Post by Tsavodiner on Jun 28, 2008 2:33:32 GMT -5
Koyaanisqatsi.
2,000th post. whoop.
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Babs
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Post by Babs on Jun 28, 2008 8:55:55 GMT -5
Just finished Step On A Crack by Richard Patterson. Another one of his great murder/mysteries. Working on Lee Smith's Agate Hill.
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Post by Babs on Jun 28, 2008 11:28:41 GMT -5
Helen Keller...Excellent book, aresvladimer (spelling bad)
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Post by tcrashfx on Jun 29, 2008 6:07:22 GMT -5
So what'd you think about the book, Worm?
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Post by daworm on Jul 2, 2008 8:31:15 GMT -5
So what'd you think about the book, Worm? Pretty good, although a tad over the top in a few areas, which distracted from, rather than added to, the enjoyment. Sometimes it worked, but more often it didn't, in the same way that The Lone Gunmen worked occasionally on the X-Files, but sucked as its own show. The tech was for the most part fine, because there was never enough detail to get caught by. As is typical of many SF books, characters tend to be one dimensional. Currently reading Niven's The Integral Trees. The guy has a way with coming up with weird worlds. Not sure why they always seem to be ring shaped, though!
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Tookie
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Post by Tookie on Jul 2, 2008 12:27:11 GMT -5
Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich
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thb
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Post by thb on Jul 6, 2008 6:33:08 GMT -5
Just finished Fast Track by Fern Michaels.
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Post by tiarella on Jul 7, 2008 8:04:43 GMT -5
Recently read Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card, a few decades late but enjoyed both though Card had improved as a writer by the time he wrote Ender's Shadow. I enjoyed seeing the two different main characters' perspectives of the same events.
Currently reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon for my book club.
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Post by bob60215 on Jul 7, 2008 10:15:01 GMT -5
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch with Jeffery Zaslow
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Post by daworm on Jul 8, 2008 8:27:28 GMT -5
Just finished Niven's "The Integral Trees" and "The Smoke Ring", starting on the third Thomas Covenant series.
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Post by spastikcomma on Jul 8, 2008 10:16:35 GMT -5
I loved "Curious Incident", Tiarella. What a great book.
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Babs
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Post by Babs on Jul 12, 2008 17:32:25 GMT -5
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. One of the very best books that I have ever read!
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Post by spastikcomma on Jul 14, 2008 7:54:18 GMT -5
I looked that up on Amazon, Babs, and it looks really good. I'm going to try and get it at the library on lunch.
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Post by Scarlet&Gray on Jul 15, 2008 22:27:57 GMT -5
Slash by Slash GNR gut
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Post by dvc on Jul 16, 2008 13:44:38 GMT -5
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
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Post by spastikcomma on Jul 18, 2008 7:59:52 GMT -5
Just finished "Water for Elephants" and it was great. It was one of those perfect books where you effortlessly follow the path the author has made. And the story jumps from the words on the page into your head and you're neither tripped up by sloppiness nor pausing to reread a beautifully written sentence.
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Post by thb on Jul 18, 2008 21:59:06 GMT -5
Finished Falling Awake and Fault Lines, currently on Point of Origin. I want to read "Water for Elephants".
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Post by tcrashfx on Aug 17, 2008 17:55:05 GMT -5
Jacksonville Public Television had a marathon of The Civil War, By Ken Burns on when I got here.
I finally succumbed to the temptation and ordered "The Civil War: A Narrative" by Shelby Foote.
I am going to endeavor to read the entire series, start to finish.
These men are true storytellers. A part of our history, and the lessons learned, we seem to have forgotten.
I am sure KKKoaaster hates the series (And the books) 'cause the South lost.
No matter how many times he watches it.
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Post by Tsavodiner on Aug 17, 2008 18:24:04 GMT -5
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch with Jeffery Zaslow Poor Randy finally succumbed; a real prophet for our times....
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