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glatt · 06-17-2009, 07:37 AM

I read Time Traveler's Wife a month or two ago, and liked it. It was pretty good. I'd recommend it.

DanaC · 06-17-2009, 06:36 AM

Oh I adored that book. It's an amazing story. In fact I think enough time has now passed that I might reread it.

Trilby · 06-17-2009, 07:40 AM

Hey glatt! I'm going to Sebago Lake! Yipppeeeeee!

Yes, much reading material required.

glatt · 06-17-2009, 08:22 AM

Awesome! Sebago is nice.

Sundae · 06-17-2009, 10:26 AM

Oops, I meant Choc.
Yes I would wholeheartedly recommend The Time Traveller's Wife for you Bri.
Just don't get so caught up in it that you miss your vacation!

Trilby · 06-17-2009, 12:12 PM

thanks! I'll be getting to the library just before we go.

monster · 06-17-2009, 07:05 PM

put it on order, bri -it's popular.....

Clodfobble · 06-17-2009, 09:29 PM

Well, they've got that whole "cellular reprofiling" thing, maybe it's way too easy to change fingerprints so nobody cares anymore? Ozzie is definitely Hendrix, although I picture him like Hendrix would have looked if he'd had the chance to get older--a little paunchy, a little more tired under the eyes...

DanaC · 06-28-2009, 05:38 PM

Nation, by Terry Pratchett. What a superb book. I think it was written with older children in mind. It doesn't pull its punches. Funny and also quite horrifying in places.

Tulip · 06-30-2009, 11:54 PM

Y'all seem to read quite a bit. I am impress how y'all have the time to read and be on here this often. If I'm here, I don't have time to read. If I'm reading, I am absent from the forum. :p

Anyways, I am currently reading (slowly) The Mission Song by John Le Carre.

DanaC · 07-01-2009, 04:12 AM

I don't read anywhere near as much as I used to. I tend to listen to audio plays and books a lot these days...mainly Doctor Who if I'm honest...

Trilby · 07-01-2009, 06:49 AM

Just finished Kate Atkinson's Scenes from Behind the Museum - brilliant! Loved every minute of it!

Time Traveler's Wife - left me cold. It was about 200 pages too long. *sorry!*

I know a lot of you loved it. I found the characters shallow and the author waaaay too eager to show off her vast hipness-factor (Punk rock! Art! Obscure artists! French phrases! GERMAN phrases! A rich girl with maids and a Mama and they dress for dinner!) And I felt like I'd lived all of this before. Then, I remembered: I had!

TV show Quantum Leap

"Theorizing that one could travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator, and vanished.
He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al; an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so, Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap, will be the leap home." -from the show's intro.

Now on to Yiddish Policeman's Union - Chabon.

a special thankee to the Dwellar who so kindly sent these books along!

Happy Monkey · 07-01-2009, 09:05 AM

The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman. Excellent, but it suffers from the "year 2000" problem, where 2000 seemed so futuristic in the '70s.

glatt · 07-01-2009, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman. Excellent, but it suffers from the "year 2000" problem, where 2000 seemed so futuristic in the '70s.

great book. I got a kick out of how technology changed so quickly from their perspective because of relativity and space travel.

I don't remember the "year 2000" problem, but I read it in the 80's so 2000 was still a little over a decade away.

Clodfobble · 07-01-2009, 09:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Brianna

Time Traveler's Wife - left me cold. It was about 200 pages too long. *sorry!* I know a lot of you loved it. I found the characters shallow and the author waaaay too eager to show off her vast hipness-factor (Punk rock! Art! Obscure artists! French phrases! GERMAN phrases! A rich girl with maids and a Mama and they dress for dinner!)

Oh thank goodness I'm not alone. I mean, sure, it was a reasonable concept, but I found the writing to be insipid, and I didn't care about the characters at all. In addition to all the hip-references, I found all the instances of sex to be really awkwardly crammed in as well (so to speak.) And the foreshadowing was anything but subtle. Anyway, I could see how people liked it as a bit of read-on-vacation fluff, but it was too "Oprah's Book Club" for me.

06-17-2009, 07:40 AM	#3
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	Hey glatt! I'm going to Sebago Lake! Yipppeeeeee! Yes, much reading material required. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

06-17-2009, 12:12 PM	#6
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	thanks! I'll be getting to the library just before we go. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

06-17-2009, 07:05 PM	#7
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	put it on order, bri -it's popular..... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

06-17-2009, 09:29 PM	#8
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Well, they've got that whole "cellular reprofiling" thing, maybe it's way too easy to change fingerprints so nobody cares anymore? Ozzie is definitely Hendrix, although I picture him like Hendrix would have looked if he'd had the chance to get older--a little paunchy, a little more tired under the eyes... __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

07-01-2009, 06:49 AM	#12
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	Just finished Kate Atkinson's Scenes from Behind the Museum - brilliant! Loved every minute of it! Time Traveler's Wife - left me cold. It was about 200 pages too long. sorry! I know a lot of you loved it. I found the characters shallow and the author waaaay too eager to show off her vast hipness-factor (Punk rock! Art! Obscure artists! French phrases! GERMAN phrases! A rich girl with maids and a Mama and they dress for dinner!) And I felt like I'd lived all of this before. Then, I remembered: I had! TV show Quantum Leap "Theorizing that one could travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator, and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al; an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so, Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap, will be the leap home." -from the show's intro. Now on to Yiddish Policeman's Union - Chabon. a special thankee to the Dwellar who so kindly sent these books along! __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum Last edited by Trilby; 07-01-2009 at 07:32 AM.

06-17-2009, 07:37 AM	#1
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I read Time Traveler's Wife a month or two ago, and liked it. It was pretty good. I'd recommend it.

06-17-2009, 08:22 AM	#4
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Awesome! Sebago is nice.

06-17-2009, 10:26 AM	#5
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Oops, I meant Choc. Yes I would wholeheartedly recommend The Time Traveller's Wife for you Bri. Just don't get so caught up in it that you miss your vacation!

06-30-2009, 11:54 PM	#10
Tulip Professor Join Date: May 2008 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 1,293	Y'all seem to read quite a bit. I am impress how y'all have the time to read and be on here this often. If I'm here, I don't have time to read. If I'm reading, I am absent from the forum. :p Anyways, I am currently reading (slowly) The Mission Song by John Le Carre.

07-01-2009, 09:05 AM	#13
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman. Excellent, but it suffers from the "year 2000" problem, where 2000 seemed so futuristic in the '70s. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

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