10-05-2007, 05:46 PM | #976 |
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oh, yeah, that's it. I knew I knew it. Can't imagine anything darker than that.
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10-05-2007, 07:11 PM | #977 |
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Rk, that isn't the one i was thinking of, but it looks quite interesting. The one I read was a trilogy set mainly in America with hi-tech alien take over of the earth having first stripped us of electricity and radiowaves and pretty much anything like that (planes dropping out the sky and pace makers stopping, no telecoms etc).
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10-06-2007, 04:17 PM | #978 |
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Yeah, I still have problems with matches working and gunpowder not working.
Just make a cannon/guns that run on match heads/formula. I am trying to reserve judgement... It's hard to with this oversight. |
10-06-2007, 04:36 PM | #979 |
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like the end of Escape from L.A. Long live Snake Pliskin!
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10-06-2007, 05:50 PM | #980 |
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Just finished the gravedigger's daughter by Joyce Carol Oates-now, I hate myself.
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10-11-2007, 01:45 AM | #982 |
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It's even easier to read this comic: Doc Rat.
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10-11-2007, 10:55 AM | #983 |
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Re-read Ender's Game in anticipation of finally reading the rest in the series, but then Speaker for the Dead got put aside for I Am America. I'll be back on track shortly though.
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10-11-2007, 02:26 PM | #984 |
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Shapeshifter - Tony Hillerman
The Federalist Papers Dreamcatchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality -Philip Jenkins
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10-12-2007, 03:54 AM | #985 |
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I just finished reading A Beautiful Mind which was surprisingly good. I even learned a thing or two about maths.
Now i'm reading a biography of Marlene Deitrich.
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10-12-2007, 11:01 AM | #986 |
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Reading I, Lucifer - a Modesty Blaise book by Peter O'Donnell.
It's corking - recent enough to be racy (late sixties) but dated enough to offer a glimpse into another world. I remember Dad telling me he read Ian Fleming's books for the sex and fast paced lifestyle when he was took young and shy to have a hope of either himself. I'll have to ask him if he read any of these too. Read Prey by Michael Crighton last night instead of packing my bag. Meh. Should've saved it for the train here. The literary equivilant of the peanuts they give you on flights (except unlikely to be fatal). Lent my Mum Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson when I was last here - she loved it. Talking to her (Mum) about it reminded me why I enjoy Atkinson's books so much - her wonderful portrayal of women. So many female characters are described purely by their looks and/ or their relationship to another character. They are the love interest, the mother, the daughter. Atkinson writes about the "ordinary" women who muddle through, the ones who suddenly realise they aren't the heroine after all, that there won't be an exciting plot twist which brings them happiness. They can't work out where their life has gone, wonder why they squandered the years when they were lissome. And yet she's funny with it. Sorry, I am contractually obliged to sing her praises at regular intervals.
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I got 2 absolutely adorable "Catwing" books by Ursula Leguin. They are "chapter" books, and I'm going to give them to a granddaughter for Christmas. I want a catwing! You can take a peek here:
Catwings at Google Books Orson Scott Card had this to say about the series: Quote:
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10-20-2007, 06:00 PM | #988 |
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I haven't read them but I have a high opinion of Ursula Le Guin - will look out for them at the library.
I've just finished The Skin Gods by Richard Montanari - a so-so crime book, but it appealed to me because it was set in Philedelphia and made the city an integral part of the book. So I'll see if I can find the others now.
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10-20-2007, 06:23 PM | #989 |
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Okay, not strictly speaking a book, but I am just in the middle of reading an journal article on the Coventry ribbon weavers and their disputes with the Warehouse Men in the last decades of the 18th century. Fascinating stuff.
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10-22-2007, 11:16 PM | #990 |
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The metamorphism
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