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ndg
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Aug 2, 2009 - 12:17pm |
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MrsHobieJoe wrote:Box from amazon arrived today.....must NOT read before we go on holiday
1 Purple Hibiscus Ngozi Adiche 1 Wait for What Will Come Barbara Michaels 1 Late Season Cristobel Kent 1 Of Love and Other Demons Garcia Marquez 1 The Angel's Game Ruiz Zafon 1 August Heat (Montalbano 10) Andrea Camillieri 1 The Unbearable Lightness o... Milan Kundera 1 Alexandria (Falco 19) Lindsay Davies 1 The Girl with the Dragon T... Steig Larssen
The Angel's Game (Ruiz Zafon) ... It is almost a replica more looser of "The shadow of the wind" The girl whit the Dragon T... I am hooked on the Millenium Trilogy ... in spanish have given the title "The men who did not love the women"
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Aug 2, 2009 - 12:17pm |
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This thread intrigues me. How is summer reading different from fall, winter or spring reading? I was unaware of any seasonal significance to reading.
Perhaps I should ask the (almost) librarian.
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hobiejoe
Location: Still in the tunnel, looking for the light. Gender:
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Aug 2, 2009 - 12:01pm |
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jadewahoo wrote:I am half way through World Without End, the sequel to Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth. Dissapointing, I'd say. It is a clone of Pillars, the names have been changed but the plot characters are the same. Meh.
However, I have received my order for two of Christopher Brookmyre's books: A Snowball in Hell and Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks. He is a Scottish author with incisive wit. Suspense, Mystery, Humour... these are the classifications of his work, but I'd say they are just funny as hell! Always well worth the read.
Brookmyre is brilliant! First read his stuff about ten years ago and clicked immediately. Politics, cultural references &tc. Checked his bio and found that he is almost exactly the same age as me. Successful bastid. Very dark humour, even if some of the plots get a little far-fetched sometimes. Likes his music as well, got me into Teenage Fanclub. "....Rubber Ducks" and "Boiling A Frog" are personal favourites. Reminds me a bit of that Floridian author (Hiaasen?) when he was good.
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Manbird
Location: La Villa Toscana Gender:
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Aug 1, 2009 - 11:06am |
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jadewahoo wrote:I am half way through World Without End, the sequel to Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth. Dissapointing, I'd say. It is a clone of Pillars, the names have been changed but the plot characters are the same. Meh.
However, I have received my order for two of Christopher Brookmyre's books: A Snowball in Hell and Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks. He is a Scottish author with incisive wit. Suspense, Mystery, Humour... these are the classifications of his work, but I'd say they are just funny as hell! Always well worth the read. Ah, that's too bad - -I really loved Pillars - I'll give it a read anywho.
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jadewahoo
Location: Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica Gender:
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Aug 1, 2009 - 10:51am |
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I am half way through World Without End, the sequel to Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth. Dissapointing, I'd say. It is a clone of Pillars, the names have been changed but the plot characters are the same. Meh.
However, I have received my order for two of Christopher Brookmyre's books: A Snowball in Hell and Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks. He is a Scottish author with incisive wit. Suspense, Mystery, Humour... these are the classifications of his work, but I'd say they are just funny as hell! Always well worth the read.
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ditty
Location: Carolina on my mind Gender:
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Aug 1, 2009 - 10:51am |
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lostintokyo wrote:Currently reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (and really enjoying it). Next up is Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. After that, the Rand McNally Atlas? love Ayn Rand!
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MrsHobieJoe
Location: somewhere in Europe Gender:
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Aug 1, 2009 - 10:42am |
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Loved:
"the Girl with the dragon tattoo"
stonking good read
probably helped that we were on holiday visiting some of the locations that he mentions
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muzik
Location: Montana Gender:
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Jul 10, 2009 - 5:32am |
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Just finished Kite Runner
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Manbird
Location: La Villa Toscana Gender:
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Jul 8, 2009 - 9:33pm |
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I was going to order the saffire-21 book but I can't get in touch with the author. I have a couple new martin cruz smith books to catch up on, tho.
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winter
Location: in exile, as always Gender:
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Jul 8, 2009 - 8:58pm |
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lostintokyo wrote:Currently reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (and really enjoying it). Next up is Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. After that, the Rand McNally Atlas? Nice theme there. One doubts Rand would approve, but she's not the boss of you, so why not?
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Coaxial
Location: Comfortably numb in So Texas Gender:
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Jul 8, 2009 - 8:58pm |
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lostintokyo wrote:Currently reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (and really enjoying it). Next up is Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. After that, the Rand McNally Atlas? Very thematic.
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lostintokyo
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Jul 8, 2009 - 8:53pm |
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Currently reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (and really enjoying it). Next up is Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. After that, the Rand McNally Atlas?
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MrsHobieJoe
Location: somewhere in Europe Gender:
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Jul 8, 2009 - 2:36pm |
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Inamorato wrote:This is a fine stack of books. You must be planning an extended holiday! Only two weeks. I got a bit carried away at the ordering stage... I am a very fast reader though and sans kids I'd definitely get through the lot. Fortunately we have another holiday planned later in the summer.
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Inamorato
Location: Twin Cities Gender:
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Jul 8, 2009 - 2:32pm |
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MrsHobieJoe wrote:Box from amazon arrived today.....must NOT read before we go on holiday
1 Purple Hibiscus Ngozi Adiche 1 Wait for What Will Come Barbara Michaels 1 Late Season Cristobel Kent 1 Of Love and Other Demons Garcia Marquez 1 The Angel's Game Ruiz Zafon 1 August Heat (Montalbano 10) Andrea Camillieri 1 The Unbearable Lightness o... Milan Kundera 1 Alexandria (Falco 19) Lindsay Davies 1 The Girl with the Dragon T... Steig Larssen
This is a fine stack of books. You must be planning an extended holiday!
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MrsHobieJoe
Location: somewhere in Europe Gender:
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Jul 8, 2009 - 2:20pm |
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Box from amazon arrived today.....must NOT read before we go on holiday
1 Purple Hibiscus Ngozi Adiche 1 Wait for What Will Come Barbara Michaels 1 Late Season Cristobel Kent 1 Of Love and Other Demons Garcia Marquez 1 The Angel's Game Ruiz Zafon 1 August Heat (Montalbano 10) Andrea Camillieri 1 The Unbearable Lightness o... Milan Kundera 1 Alexandria (Falco 19) Lindsay Davies 1 The Girl with the Dragon T... Steig Larssen
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laprincessa
Location: A happy girl Gender:
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Jul 8, 2009 - 1:28pm |
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I just read What Dreams May Come - GREAT book. Highly recommend it.
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HoneyBearKelly
Location: Brooklyn
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Jul 8, 2009 - 11:33am |
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Drood.At 784 pages also good as a weapon.
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phineas
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Jun 30, 2009 - 2:40pm |
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Painted_Turtle wrote:I know! I'm just trying to be frunny OK, then I have to tell you, for the last time, it's not The Mona Leslie... seriously.
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Painted_Turtle
Location: Land of Laughing Waters Gender:
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Jun 30, 2009 - 2:20pm |
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phineas wrote: Didn't mean nothin'...
I know! I'm just trying to be frunny
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Painted_Turtle
Location: Land of Laughing Waters Gender:
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Jun 30, 2009 - 2:17pm |
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lunar1963 wrote:Plague : Barbara Tuckman (not sure of the title anymore) Spanish Flu - Dennis Lehane - Any Given Day (?) Awesome book! TB - Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Isn't Death in Venice not about typhus as well? The Plague - Albert Camus - bubonic plague and the town of Oran's reactions to it. Incredibly frightening on so many levels
Equally chilling, for me at least, was Edgar Allan Poe's The Mask of the Red Death. I read this as a teenager, but its' certainly not a "teen book" per say. Death in Venice is probably the only TM I've read, at least that I recall right now.
Food or water contaminated with the cholera bacteria or louse-transmitted typhus? Not sure which, both sound equally unpleasant to me.
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