04-03-2007, 03:23 PM | #821 | |
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One of her best surprise ending books is "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd".
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04-07-2007, 01:04 PM | #822 |
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I have to say,
I just got finished with a little Dostoyevsky myself. I just finished The Idiot... Wow... That was an amazing book. I couldn't put it down. So I had to be careful not to pick it up just before I had a paper due I Just started reading Reality Isn' What It Used To Be, I'm not very far in, but it's really interesting so far.
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04-09-2007, 04:09 PM | #823 |
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Just finished Rice's Queen of the Damned, and am now polishing off Joseph Pearce's The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde.
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04-10-2007, 11:02 PM | #824 |
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Finished that; now reading Memoirs of Hadrian. I quite like it so far.
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04-10-2007, 11:09 PM | #825 |
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The only free time reading I've been doing has been...quite harmless. Nothing extraordinary.
I have nearly gotten through ALL the Hank the Cowdog series. Quite good reading, I MUST say. It's not Dostoyevsky...but do I have time to read Dostoyevsky during school? No.
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04-11-2007, 06:34 PM | #826 |
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I have time to read Yourcenar, don't I? You can manage it!
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04-12-2007, 12:36 PM | #827 |
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Currently reading The Prestige, by Christopher Priest. Very good. I saw the film, which was excellent, and thought I'd read the book. Very good so far, I've been reading it for two days and am already half-way through. Interesting mode of telling the story, and differs enough from the movie to give a few surprises and mysteries. I'd recommend it.
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It's New Years Day, just like the day before; Same old skies of grey, same empty bottles on the floor. Another year's gone by, and I was thinking once again, How can I take this losing hand and somehow win? Just give me One Good Year To get my feet back on the ground. I've been chasing grace; Grace ain't so easily found One bad hand can devil a man, chase him and carry him down. I've got to get out of here, just give me One Good Year! |
04-16-2007, 01:28 PM | #828 |
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A follow-up on The Prestige. I'm very glad that the movie-makers decided to change the ending, for if they had made the ending in the book, you would have left the cinema completely disappointed. After about the mid-way point in the book there are no more surprises (well, one; but it is so unrealistic that it doesn't really register as a surprise), and the ending peters out without impression.
Still, it's a very interesting read, especially if you've seen the film.
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It's New Years Day, just like the day before; Same old skies of grey, same empty bottles on the floor. Another year's gone by, and I was thinking once again, How can I take this losing hand and somehow win? Just give me One Good Year To get my feet back on the ground. I've been chasing grace; Grace ain't so easily found One bad hand can devil a man, chase him and carry him down. I've got to get out of here, just give me One Good Year! |
04-16-2007, 11:29 PM | #829 |
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Starting reading Anne Rice's Call to Heaven, but it ended up being basically homoerotic porn. Shame, the story was pretty interesting.
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04-17-2007, 09:19 AM | #830 |
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I'm reading any Frank Perretti books and some books by Melody Carlson. Also like the Redwall series.
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05-01-2007, 12:25 PM | #831 |
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I'm currently reading Dale Brown's 'Battle Born' Right now. Interesting.
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05-01-2007, 11:46 PM | #832 |
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Frank Herbert's Dune. Oh, yeah. THE Dune. And it's not too bad. I'm about a third of the way through, and I like what I'm seeing. Not quite what I expected, but it's really cool. It reminds me of the plotting of GRR Martin.
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05-02-2007, 01:34 AM | #833 |
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*waits in ambush for BoP*
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05-02-2007, 01:47 AM | #834 |
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<_< I don't know what yer talking aboot.
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05-02-2007, 01:35 PM | #835 |
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*pantses Shee*
Har, har!
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05-12-2007, 01:23 PM | #836 |
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I have been reading the Chronicles of Prydain series. And lots of books by Avi.
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05-12-2007, 02:04 PM | #837 |
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Jesus and the Eyewitnesses
Quite a challenge for the form and redaction critics, I must say! http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Eyewitne...8992955&sr=8-1
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05-13-2007, 10:02 AM | #838 |
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I've just started reading the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency and if I enjoy the rest of the book as I've done so far, I'll be seeking out the others in the series.
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05-13-2007, 10:10 AM | #839 | |
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