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wolf · 08-13-2009, 11:07 AM

A movie of the Graveyard Book could go either way ... could be really cool, could be sort of lame, like Neverwhere. But I doubt that the BBC would get the contract to make the movie, so that makes good to awesome more of a possibility.

Trilby · 08-13-2009, 11:48 AM

Did you like Coraline? I didn't see the movie but I want to. The book was good. I liked the Graveyard Book a bit better, though.

wolf · 08-13-2009, 12:07 PM

Haven't read Coraline. Probably will get around to it eventually.

I'm reading Conspiracy - Gary North

Sundae · 08-15-2009, 10:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brianna

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

Someone is asking for a spanking!

Shawnee123 · 08-16-2009, 06:36 PM

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout.

I was looking for a book to take to my day at the pool yesterday, and found this one in Wally World.

I think the writing is lovely and the emotion real, not sentimental. I've only just started into Chapter Two (I guess it's really not a chapter per se as it is a series of stories that tie in somehow with the Olive Kitteridge) but so far I really like it.

wolf · 08-16-2009, 08:51 PM

Second Spring - Maoshing Ni

regular.joe · 08-16-2009, 09:17 PM

I have a couple of brands in the fire right now, Marcus Aurelius "Thoughts of the Emperor"....I really, really like this guy.

I'm also reading "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells.

I read more on deployments.

skysidhe · 08-25-2009, 12:49 PM

The Darkest Evening Of The Year by Dean Koonz

I love his positives and his prose but I didn't like anything else about this book.

Chocolatl · 08-25-2009, 11:01 PM

I believe Neil Jordan has already signed on to direct the film version of The Graveyard Book, so it's on its way!

monster · 08-25-2009, 11:11 PM

crap by crappy author, -decadence

Statue of Limitations by Tamar Myers

it's ok. it's mindless which is my main criteria right now

wolf · 08-26-2009, 12:45 AM

Garden of Beasts - Jeffrey Deaver

Meant to keep me entertained during the plane ride. Worked most of the time, except for when the dude in the row ahead of me projectile vomited and apparently didn't know enough to grab the air-sickness bag. Of course, they don't label them as to purpose any more, so perhaps dumbass thought it was some kind of trash bag or something.

Worst thing in the world, puke on a plane. The rest of the flight is a challenge for everyone else to keep from chain-hurling.

So, anyway, the book is set in pre-WWII Germany, at the time of the Berlin Olympics. There is a moderate amount of intrigue, some Stormtrooper bashing, and a really, really thin plot that gets twisted out of all recognition in the last 75 pages or so.

wolf · 08-26-2009, 11:59 AM

The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien

I'm only a chapter into it, but I'm finding it captivating. I would like to hear a Vietnam Vet's perspective on it, though ... it reads like the stories my late friend told, so it feels like it touches truth.

Alibar · 08-28-2009, 08:52 AM

Why We Make Mistakes, Joseph Hallinan. How we look without seeing, forget things in seconds, and are all pretty sure we are way above average.

Well written and fun information....

wolf · 08-30-2009, 10:39 PM

The Sari Shop Widow - Shobhan Bantwal
Free Kindle download, has romance-ish aspects to it, but it's more of a slice-of-Indian-immigrant-and-first-generation-offspring-life in New Jersey. It was interesting, but not a book that I would ever have picked up otherwise. I'd be interesting in knowing what someone Indian thinks of it. The writing wasn't the greatest, a bit wooden, but the story kept moving along okay.

Her two previous novels look interesting, both set in India dealing with culture bound issues like arranged marriages and birthing girl-children. I might read those eventually.

House Unauthorized: Vasculitis, Clinic Duty & Bad Bedside Manner - Leah Wilson, editor.
Nowhere near as interesting as House and Philosophy. No real insights or revelations offered.

The Brass Bed - Jennifer Stevenson
Free Kindle download that was SO awful I abandoned it after chapter 3. Surprised I made it that far. Please remember that I have a type of literary OCD that requires me to finish any book I start. Apparently I have an awfulness threshold that this book crossed.

Hostile Intent - Michael Walsh
Yet another Free Kindle Download. This one is pretty good ... adventure/thriller, starts off with a bang, peopled with the kind of darkly mysterious guys that know like two dozen ways to kill you with a credit card.

DanaC · 08-31-2009, 07:37 AM

Currently I am listening to the audiobook Dead until Dark (the first of the Southern Vampire Mysteries. I am very impressed. Very entertaining stuff.

I am also reading Oeconomy and Discipline, which is a detailed appraisal of the British army in the eighteenth century. It's fascinating. Very well written and very informative.

08-13-2009, 11:07 AM	#1546
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	A movie of the Graveyard Book could go either way ... could be really cool, could be sort of lame, like Neverwhere. But I doubt that the BBC would get the contract to make the movie, so that makes good to awesome more of a possibility. __________________ 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, 11:48 AM	#1547
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	Did you like Coraline? I didn't see the movie but I want to. The book was good. I liked the Graveyard Book a bit better, though. __________________ 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

08-13-2009, 12:07 PM	#1548
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Haven't read Coraline. Probably will get around to it eventually. I'm reading Conspiracy - Gary North __________________ 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

08-16-2009, 06:36 PM	#1550
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. I was looking for a book to take to my day at the pool yesterday, and found this one in Wally World. I think the writing is lovely and the emotion real, not sentimental. I've only just started into Chapter Two (I guess it's really not a chapter per se as it is a series of stories that tie in somehow with the Olive Kitteridge) but so far I really like it. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

08-16-2009, 08:51 PM	#1551
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Second Spring - Maoshing Ni __________________ 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

08-16-2009, 09:17 PM	#1552
regular.joe Старый сержант Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NC, dreaming of large Russian women. Posts: 1,464	I have a couple of brands in the fire right now, Marcus Aurelius "Thoughts of the Emperor"....I really, really like this guy. I'm also reading "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells. I read more on deployments. __________________ Birth, wealth, and position are valueless during wartime. Man is only judged by his character --Soldier's Testament. Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. - Marcus Aurelius.

08-25-2009, 12:49 PM	#1553
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	The Darkest Evening Of The Year by Dean Koonz I love his positives and his prose but I didn't like anything else about this book.

08-25-2009, 11:01 PM	#1554
Chocolatl Glutton for Gluttony Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 1,409	I believe Neil Jordan has already signed on to direct the film version of The Graveyard Book, so it's on its way!

08-25-2009, 11:11 PM	#1555
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	crap by crappy author, -decadence Statue of Limitations by Tamar Myers it's ok. it's mindless which is my main criteria right now __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

08-26-2009, 12:45 AM	#1556
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Garden of Beasts - Jeffrey Deaver Meant to keep me entertained during the plane ride. Worked most of the time, except for when the dude in the row ahead of me projectile vomited and apparently didn't know enough to grab the air-sickness bag. Of course, they don't label them as to purpose any more, so perhaps dumbass thought it was some kind of trash bag or something. Worst thing in the world, puke on a plane. The rest of the flight is a challenge for everyone else to keep from chain-hurling. So, anyway, the book is set in pre-WWII Germany, at the time of the Berlin Olympics. There is a moderate amount of intrigue, some Stormtrooper bashing, and a really, really thin plot that gets twisted out of all recognition in the last 75 pages or so. __________________ 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

08-26-2009, 11:59 AM	#1557
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien I'm only a chapter into it, but I'm finding it captivating. I would like to hear a Vietnam Vet's perspective on it, though ... it reads like the stories my late friend told, so it feels like it touches truth. __________________ 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

08-28-2009, 08:52 AM	#1558
Alibar Jotter of Notes Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 11	Why We Make Mistakes, Joseph Hallinan. How we look without seeing, forget things in seconds, and are all pretty sure we are way above average. Well written and fun information....

08-30-2009, 10:39 PM	#1559
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	The Sari Shop Widow - Shobhan Bantwal Free Kindle download, has romance-ish aspects to it, but it's more of a slice-of-Indian-immigrant-and-first-generation-offspring-life in New Jersey. It was interesting, but not a book that I would ever have picked up otherwise. I'd be interesting in knowing what someone Indian thinks of it. The writing wasn't the greatest, a bit wooden, but the story kept moving along okay. Her two previous novels look interesting, both set in India dealing with culture bound issues like arranged marriages and birthing girl-children. I might read those eventually. House Unauthorized: Vasculitis, Clinic Duty & Bad Bedside Manner - Leah Wilson, editor. Nowhere near as interesting as House and Philosophy. No real insights or revelations offered. The Brass Bed - Jennifer Stevenson Free Kindle download that was SO awful I abandoned it after chapter 3. Surprised I made it that far. Please remember that I have a type of literary OCD that requires me to finish any book I start. Apparently I have an awfulness threshold that this book crossed. Hostile Intent - Michael Walsh Yet another Free Kindle Download. This one is pretty good ... adventure/thriller, starts off with a bang, peopled with the kind of darkly mysterious guys that know like two dozen ways to kill you with a credit card. __________________ 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

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