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Cloud · 07-30-2009, 12:06 PM

ugh. I agree--I can't stand C.J. Cherryh!

wolf · 08-07-2009, 02:22 PM

Manifold: Time - Stephen Baxter
Free Kindle download, wouldn't have read otherwise. Science Fiction, quite heavy on the science, quite heavier on the super-duper technological advancements we don't have to make the story work. There are apparently two other manifold books that are supposed to cover the same events from different viewpoints or something? Not going to read those.

Puritan Economic Experiments - Gary North

The Last Witchfinder - James Morrow
When I started reading this book, having no idea where the story would lead, I thought that I may end up drawing comparisons between it and Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, because in the first few pages I was directed into a world that somehow managed to have room for both Witchfinders and Isaac Newton. In short, I was wrong. I should have known that James Morrow would dance on an entirely otherly oriented Cartesian plane, perhaps one that would be described, imprecisely, as "just off center."

Fortunately, I enjoy that kind of thing.

Each turn of the page brought a new adventure for our heroine, and for her compatriots, at least one of whom becomes a well-known Patriot.

Suspend your disbelief and have some fun.

I always wondered what my books were doing behind my back. I don't know whether to be worried or comforted by the information

Trilby · 08-07-2009, 03:42 PM

The Drunkard's Walk - how randomness Rules our Lives : L. Mlodinow (nice counterpoint to "Blink")

bio of Ben Franklin - forget who but was a Pulitzer finalist

My Life in France - Julia Child

OnyxCougar · 08-07-2009, 06:30 PM

Kafka - The Metamophosis
Flambert - Madame Bovary
Augusten Burroughs - Dry

Happy Monkey · 08-07-2009, 07:03 PM

Just finished Paradise Postponed, by John Mortimer. The parallels to Bleak House were enough to get me Googling, and I found that Mortimer indeed used Bleak House as inspiration for it.

08-08-2009, 04:13 AM

harry potter

The Last Witchfinder - James Morrow

Sundae · 08-10-2009, 05:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

TTTW... [was] a book about a relationship and how it has to crack and bend along the way. With an imaginative external device. And blood and spew and drunkeness and the Violent Femmes and beautiful beautiful hair. And world enough, and time.

And now I have seen trailers for the film. And Claire Abshire has shoulder length hair. Why? In these days of hair extensions? Why? When it's stated in the book that she feels there are there are three of them in the relationship; Claire, Henry and her hair. Why not even bother?

I've been spanked here before for making too much of a deal of original texts (aka beloved books - note the viewpoint.) So I am not going to mention this again.

EXCEPT! EXCEPT! The wedding is outside! How can Henry hide?

No, I mean it.
I didn't go see the Narnia films, Coraline, The Dark Is Rising, The Golden Compass. I won't go see this. So you'll be spared my grumpiness. FTR - this didn't fit in the other thread, not being a children's book - it's just been discussed here recently.

Sundae · 08-10-2009, 05:33 PM

ETA - Welcome colemanmmorgan

DanaC · 08-10-2009, 06:36 PM

The Steep Approach to Garbadale, by Iain Banks.

I haven't read any Banks in ages. Hasn't totally grabbed me yet but I was trying to read it whilst sitting in the Jurors' Lounge at the courts and had to keep half an ear out for the semi-regular announcements.

Am also tentatively approaching the Poldark books.

Aliantha · 08-10-2009, 06:40 PM

I'm still reading the same book I started about 8 months ago. Not bad for a person who used to go through one book a week.

skysidhe · 08-11-2009, 10:54 AM

I have down time so I am devouring the books. Last night I bought 'I am Legend' and a budget book of poetry at Borders.

I thought the poetry would get my mind muscles working for learning anything.

I was looking for 'From Time To Time' by Jack Finney having just read Timeline by Micheal Crichton but they didn't have it.

( previously, read all of the Diana Gabaldon's books too and what? the 7th volume in the time traveller series is being released september 22nd!

)

OnyxCougar · 08-11-2009, 02:05 PM

Finished Dry and Metamoprphosis. Still working on Madame Bovary and have picked up America: the Book by Jon Stewart.

I also have about 6 Nicholas Sparks books to read. I finally saw the movie "The Notebook", and I rushed out and bought the first Nicholas Sparks book I could find. I've since collected all of them. I read "Nights in Rodanthe", and lovedthe book so much I went out straightaway and bought the movie, and was horrbily, horribly disappointed. So now I'm afraid to read the Notebook, because I really loved the movie.

There. I said it.

Trilby · 08-11-2009, 02:20 PM

Olive Kitteridge - e. strout

wolf · 08-12-2009, 07:38 PM

Auspicious Eggs - James Morrow

The Philosopher's Apprentice - James Morrow

Both of these are weird morality tales, but in different ways.

The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman

Delightfully creepy. Not sure about the Newbery Medal-ish-ness of it, though.

Trilby · 08-13-2009, 10:42 AM

ooooooooo- I loved the Graveyard Book! Hope it's made into a movie!

07-30-2009, 12:06 PM	#1531
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	ugh. I agree--I can't stand C.J. Cherryh! __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

08-07-2009, 02:22 PM	#1532
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Manifold: Time - Stephen Baxter Free Kindle download, wouldn't have read otherwise. Science Fiction, quite heavy on the science, quite heavier on the super-duper technological advancements we don't have to make the story work. There are apparently two other manifold books that are supposed to cover the same events from different viewpoints or something? Not going to read those. Puritan Economic Experiments - Gary North The Last Witchfinder - James Morrow When I started reading this book, having no idea where the story would lead, I thought that I may end up drawing comparisons between it and Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, because in the first few pages I was directed into a world that somehow managed to have room for both Witchfinders and Isaac Newton. In short, I was wrong. I should have known that James Morrow would dance on an entirely otherly oriented Cartesian plane, perhaps one that would be described, imprecisely, as "just off center." Fortunately, I enjoy that kind of thing. Each turn of the page brought a new adventure for our heroine, and for her compatriots, at least one of whom becomes a well-known Patriot. Suspend your disbelief and have some fun. I always wondered what my books were doing behind my back. I don't know whether to be worried or comforted by the information __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

08-07-2009, 03:42 PM	#1533
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	The Drunkard's Walk - how randomness Rules our Lives : L. Mlodinow (nice counterpoint to "Blink") bio of Ben Franklin - forget who but was a Pulitzer finalist My Life in France - Julia Child __________________ 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

08-07-2009, 06:30 PM	#1534
OnyxCougar Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kingdom of Atlantia Posts: 2,979	Kafka - The Metamophosis Flambert - Madame Bovary Augusten Burroughs - Dry __________________ Impotentes defendere libertatem non possunt. "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

08-07-2009, 07:03 PM	#1535
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	Just finished Paradise Postponed, by John Mortimer. The parallels to Bleak House were enough to get me Googling, and I found that Mortimer indeed used Bleak House as inspiration for it. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

08-08-2009, 04:13 AM	#1536
colemanmmorgan Guest Posts: n/a	harry potter The Last Witchfinder - James Morrow

08-10-2009, 05:33 PM	#1538
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	ETA - Welcome colemanmmorgan __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

08-10-2009, 06:40 PM	#1540
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	I'm still reading the same book I started about 8 months ago. Not bad for a person who used to go through one book a week. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

08-11-2009, 10:54 AM	#1541
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	I have down time so I am devouring the books. Last night I bought 'I am Legend' and a budget book of poetry at Borders. I thought the poetry would get my mind muscles working for learning anything. I was looking for 'From Time To Time' by Jack Finney having just read Timeline by Micheal Crichton but they didn't have it. ( previously, read all of the Diana Gabaldon's books too and what? the 7th volume in the time traveller series is being released september 22nd! )

08-11-2009, 02:05 PM	#1542
OnyxCougar Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kingdom of Atlantia Posts: 2,979	Finished Dry and Metamoprphosis. Still working on Madame Bovary and have picked up America: the Book by Jon Stewart. I also have about 6 Nicholas Sparks books to read. I finally saw the movie "The Notebook", and I rushed out and bought the first Nicholas Sparks book I could find. I've since collected all of them. I read "Nights in Rodanthe", and lovedthe book so much I went out straightaway and bought the movie, and was horrbily, horribly disappointed. So now I'm afraid to read the Notebook, because I really loved the movie. There. I said it. __________________ Impotentes defendere libertatem non possunt. "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

08-11-2009, 02:20 PM	#1543
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	Olive Kitteridge - e. strout __________________ 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

08-12-2009, 07:38 PM	#1544
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Auspicious Eggs - James Morrow The Philosopher's Apprentice - James Morrow Both of these are weird morality tales, but in different ways. The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman Delightfully creepy. Not sure about the Newbery Medal-ish-ness of it, though. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

08-13-2009, 10:42 AM	#1545
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	ooooooooo- I loved the Graveyard Book! Hope it's made into a movie! __________________ 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

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