Kit M.
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Post by Kit M. on Feb 13, 2006 13:01:02 GMT -5
Hi y'all! I just remembered, The Nancy Drew Series. I read up to 4 then stopped, I had become bored with them. There's also the Wolf Tower series starting with Wolf Tower and I believe ending with Wolf Wing.
Amanda, I completly agree with you about the Little Princess.
I could swear I've read more than those books and fairy tales my life.
Bye.
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Post by phoenix73 on Mar 9, 2006 15:12:21 GMT -5
elle, new sarah dunant book... something about a countess and a dwarf. sounds fun.
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Post by phoenix73 on Mar 10, 2006 15:19:34 GMT -5
sorry, courtesan, not countess. oops!
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Post by blackngold on Mar 10, 2006 16:13:34 GMT -5
Thank goodness. The Countess and the Dwarf sounded like the start of a particularly ribald joke.
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Post by Fins on Oct 24, 2007 10:26:42 GMT -5
Don't know if anyone has read Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Its is one of the best books I've read.... its about the building of a church in medeival times (forget the dates)... somewhere in the 1200's give or take a couple of hundred years. It goes into the politics of the time, the struggle between church and state and people trying to scrap out a living. Its really fascinating...
Anyway, the point of this is that Follett just came out with a sequal called World Without End... and its 1,024 pages long in hardback. I guess you need a crane to hold the book for you while you read it. Even JKR's weren't that long!
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Post by Fins on Sept 23, 2009 13:53:09 GMT -5
I've just finished reading Dan Brown's new book The Lost Symbol. Pretty good book although I liked The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons better. I like the overall theory it proposes... won't say any more until others have read it.
I also finished reading The Kite Runner and thought it was an excellent book. So much so that I bought 1000 Splendid Suns by the same author.
What else is everyone reading?
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Post by blackngold on Sept 24, 2009 8:09:43 GMT -5
I am reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. My book group picked it for our October meeting which is typically monster themed. I am in a bit of a book slump at the moment. Tried reading Inherent Vice but couldn't get into it. I am reading the latest Stephanie Plum book by Janet Evanovich more out of habit than hope that it will be good. The series started going downhill a while ago. Very repititious. I have "The Girl with the Dragon Tatto" by Steig Larsson on hold at the library based on a review I read in USAToday. We'll see if it's any good.
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Post by blackngold on Sept 24, 2009 8:20:15 GMT -5
Oh yeah, and Zen and the Art of Poker. How to be calm in the face of all your losses.
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Post by Richard on Sept 25, 2009 3:51:21 GMT -5
BnG, I saw the movie of the Steig Larsson book last week. One of my mates read the book while we were on holiday in Greece. The movie was really weird, mostly due to the fact that the dialogue was in some Scandanavian language (I thought it was Norwegian, but it could have been Swedish as well), and I had to rely on subtitles to understand that part. Nevertheless, the story / plot was really interesting. My friend said it was close to the book. There are some shocking scenes in the book and movie (I think this movie would have been rated R in the US), but you really get involved as a viewer.
I want to read the books (there are sequels) as well, because I think there a good read. As to the new Dan Brown book, the Dutch translation comes out October 30th and I think I'll buy it then. I read all the other Brown books in Dutch, so that's why I'm waiting for the translation (unlike HP of course). I hope it's good!
Question for you American readers. I read in a Dutch book from a Dutch reporter stationed in the US that there is this huge series of books written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins (I think it's called 'Left Behind') about the Second Coming of Christ and the Apocalypse, told in a science-fiction like style as if it was happening today. Has anyone read these books?
Richard
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Post by blackngold on Sept 25, 2009 7:02:46 GMT -5
I have not read any of the series but I know they are very popular. They made a movie of the first book which was released to theaters a few years ago but did not do very well. I think they have made other movies that went direct to DVD.
Since Larsson is Swedish, my guess that it was a Swedish film.
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Post by amandajg on Oct 6, 2009 22:50:34 GMT -5
I started to back read some of these posts and I have to say I read a few books that were mentioned a few years back. I read the book about the courtesan and the dwarf, not so great. But then this summer the same author (Sarah Dunant, author of one of my favourite books "The Birth of Venus" which you all should read), came out with a book called "Sacred Hearts" which was excellent, albeit a slightly claustrophobic book, about nuns in a Renaissance-era convent. Riveting and horrific (totally not "Sound of Music" - these women were basically sentenced to life in prison when they were 14 simply because the world was unsafe for women and unmarried women had no other choice unless they wanted to be poor beggars/prostitutes. And a lot of women weren't married because of expensive dowries.) Dunant's attention to detail when describing life in Renaissance-era Italy is fantastic. The only other good book I read was "Flapper" a nonfiction book about women in the 1920's. Highly recommended even if you're not a non-fiction person. The rest of the books I read this summer were mediocre to bad. I always pick up a few YA books because ever since HP I've been interested in seeing where that particular market is headed. Unfortunately YA has been going no where this summer... every book that's been popular in the last few months in YA-land is like a rancid mix of Gossip Girl and Twilight. No thanks. And the obscure award-winning YA books this year (which I've been trying to read since my mom recently became a part-time middle school librarian) are all didactic fluff written by washed-up birkenstock-wearing hippies. And I love hippies, I really do, but not when they drone on about feminist nerds and questioning social norms in dull, preachy YA lit. Still waiting for something good to emerge there this year. Oh, but like Gayle may have mentioned on another thread (if I recall) the City of Bones/City of Ash/City of Glass books are pretty decent. They are also written by a former HP fanfic writer (HP's influence on the books is apparent, but the books are still fresh enough with intriguing enough characters to be interesting). The author is going to be in Montreal next month and I'm planning on going to see her. Excited to get an autographed copy of one of the books. Currently I'm reading a little Jane Austen (I'm sad to admit I haven't read all of her works.) Loving it. When in doubt, I go back to my "classics" reading list... need to fill in a few gaps.
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Post by Richard on Nov 4, 2009 14:11:59 GMT -5
Hey,
Finished 'The Lost Symbol' yesterday. I have to say it was once again a page turner, but I still prefer DaVinci and Angels & Demons (I thought A&D was better than DaVinci). Anyway, as to the plot (spoilers coming up). I liked the whole scientific bit about the existence of souls and how it can affect matter and stuff like that. I read once that a similar experiment as described in the book (weighing someone who dies) was performed and that it showed a 21 grams difference due to the death of the person. Pretty interesting stuff.
As to the whole 'threat to national security', I thought that was a bit too far-fetched. Oh, and I realized the identity of the abductor about halfway through, that was a bit obvious.
Overall, I thought it was a good read, but I have to admit the formula gets a bit old. I mean, all his novels sort of have the same story-development. Then again, Brown manages to keep it thrilling and keeps giving us these interesting factoids. So, I'll probably read the next one too!
Oh, did anyone else think Langdon drowned?
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