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Join Date: Aug 2002
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Right now reading Lonely Planet guide books to St Petersburg (Russia) and Finland -- getting ready for a vacation, yeah
 -- and finally started on the Silmarillion.Just finished Balthazar, Book 2 of Durrell's Alexandria Quartet -- I'm really looking forward to Book 3, Mountolive. Also just finished Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods -- desperately funny, funny book!!! Still struggling with Ernesto Sabato's Of Heroes and Tombs -- why is magic realism such a difficult form for me? Tolkien is certainly magical, and the world he writes about feels real... 
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11-27-2002, 08:53 PM
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11-27-2002, 09:12 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Down the road on your left...No your other left.
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I trying to read Ann Frank as well as The last od the wine and LOrd of the rings. Screwy yes. I like to start books but then I get interested in another book and start that one then I try to finish one book as well as the other. So I just read one then when I get bored of it read some more of the others.
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11-27-2002, 09:23 PM
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You live dangerously, Sicirus! I've been warned repeatedly that my book list is out of control and running (NOT ruining) my life... 
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11-28-2002, 12:43 AM
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I Antha
Join Date: Sep 2002
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I have that problem too. Im always reading atleast 4 books at a time.
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11-28-2002, 01:11 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Australia
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I'm juggling three books at the moment: The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, The Treason of Isengard (HoME book 7) and The Problem of Pain by CS Lewis (thanks to Rian for recommending it). Plus various fan fiction stories I am reading on the web.
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11-28-2002, 11:17 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: In a hot-hot place, heh
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A brief review of a book I just finished (not Tick-Tock)
Ports of Call by Amin Maalouf. (Originally in french) Ossyane's father was the son of the mad daughter of a deposed Ottoman sovereign and an Adana physician; his mother was an Armenian. Raised in Beirut, he was given the name Ossyane ("Disobedience") and educated to be a revolutionary leader... Studying medicine in Montpellier at the outbreak of the Second World War, he joins the French Resistance, working first as a courier and then a forger. Returning home as a hero, he marries a Jewish woman met during the war. But then the 1948 Arab-Israeli War comes between them, fraternal enmity raises its head, and Ossyane's life is put on hold. Now, thirty years on, he awaits a meeting on a Paris bridge that will decide whether his tale is a tragedy or not... This is the story Ossyane pours out over three days to an unnamed narrator, who has recognised him from a photo in a history book. With a sparse plot and lean prose, Ports of Call is a kind of fable, a fable of madness and family ties, of love and despair, of mixed and uncertain identities. Maalouf is able to touch lightly on grand themes and big topics without being either superficial or artificial. The historical background, for example, is fascinating - the Armenian genocide, the French Resistance, the breakdown of order in Beirut - but it remains background, never taking over the story. Ports of Call is masterly short novel, captivatingly readable and hauntingly memorable.
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11-28-2002, 11:27 PM
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the Shrike
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: San Francisco, CA <3
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Juggling the next Ender book (speaker for the dead), HoME 5, and Mammoth: Silverhair. Plus someone at work has lent me a flakey Egyptian/Aliens type book that I promised I'd read....
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11-28-2002, 11:28 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi
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I made the mistake of glancing at the children's mystery section of my library and am currently rereading all 34 of the trixie beldens
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11-28-2002, 11:29 PM
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi
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"The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!” |
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11-28-2002, 11:39 PM
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the Shrike
Join Date: Mar 2002
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I don't mind depressing stuff. I like my sci fi (and fiction in general) to be heavy going.
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11-28-2002, 11:40 PM
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi
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Do you like on the floor crying depressing cuz that's what it is
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"The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!” |
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11-29-2002, 01:02 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: In a hot-hot place, heh
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Is it bad that I don't have the slightest clue about what the heck your talking about? 'cause I don't.
BoP and TS: I really like your Avatars. BoP- Mega scary. TS- Gotta love Anime type stuff.
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11-29-2002, 01:06 AM
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi
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Recap: the Enders game series starts off happy but the ending is downright depressing. BoP said she didn't mind, and I asked if she liked crying
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"The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!” |
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11-29-2002, 01:31 AM
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the Shrike
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The only time I've cried when reading a book was the end of LOTR - Grey Havens. I don't make a habit of crying if I can help it.
Thanks Aeryn.
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11-29-2002, 09:26 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: 2nd star to the left.....
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Twirling String, you must be having great fun! I grew up on Trixie Belden and she was my all-time favorite girl sleuth. Loved her much better than Nancy Drew. Still have about a dozen of the books that I've saved since I was little. Loaned the first book in the series to a young girl I was counseling, but she never returned it.
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11-29-2002, 03:16 PM
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the Shrike
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No way is Trixie better than Nancy.
Starr: Ender's Game was in the children's section of the book chain I visited as well. (8-12 years no less!)
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11-29-2002, 07:38 PM
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11-29-2002, 07:41 PM
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Elven Warrior
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Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi
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"The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!” |
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the Shrike
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Too much to read!
I'm so happy, cos I just found the next two foundation books - some ignorant bastard from Borders told me they were OOP. But now I've got like five books on!
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