04-22-2008, 02:23 PM | #1126 |
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none of you freaks and hippies read anything I do and I am wondering about that. is it YOU or is it ME?
It's you.
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04-22-2008, 02:50 PM | #1128 |
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I love historicals, gothic esp vampire novels.
I read Wicked for a lark. It started off good then the author just got lost. It was disappointing. (edit- I'm sure Wicked's a great play though. I love the stage) I just read Emma and Me which is totally nothing like I have ever read before.I don't like disturbed children stories. I have vowed never to read the book called,' A Child Called It' or anything like it. I'll take a good blood sucker book or Mary Queen of Scots or Russian royalty,ancient China ect. Last edited by skysidhe; 04-22-2008 at 03:04 PM. |
04-23-2008, 12:31 AM | #1129 |
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http://www.dzancbooks.org/BLP/temporarypeople.html it promises to be fantastic! I just got back from a launch reading and I can't wait to get stuck in. But i must at least until Saturday, otherwise the things I need to do won't get done.
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04-23-2008, 01:30 AM | #1130 | |
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DO SO! in fact, I get an added dynamic.....the narrator makes a huuuge difference in my enjoyment of the book(as evidenced in George RR Martin's Series that changed from the really excellent narrator of the first 4 books, to some one that was NOT excellent), and I have to pay attention cuz rereading a paragraph is a big pain in the ass.
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04-23-2008, 11:03 AM | #1131 |
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Egyptian Magic - E.A. Wallis Budge
Debating Calvinism - James White and Dave Hunt 1776 - David McCullough (This is incredible, and could be a great Cellar Book Club Discussion Book. I'm only just finishing chapter 1, but wow. I don't remember history being this exciting in high school.)
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04-23-2008, 11:14 AM | #1132 |
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I was underwhelmed by 1776 actually.
and audio books may count for entertainment, or even education, but not as reading. Brianna: different strokes, ya know? the books we choose to read are highly personal.
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04-23-2008, 11:46 AM | #1133 |
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Cloud- 'twas joke.
Also, I like to name-call.
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04-23-2008, 11:58 AM | #1134 |
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not name calling if'n it's the truth!
but I do think the choice of books is personal--can't tell you how many times people have recommended books to me as wonderful, and I can't get into them. maybe it's just that I have to choose. a bit stubborn, ya know?
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04-23-2008, 12:04 PM | #1135 |
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I was just wondering how so many of you guys here know about authors I've never heard of!! I feel very out of the loop here which is weird as I read nearly constantly (apologies to Dorothy Parker, Constant Reader column!)
Is it sci-fi/fantasy that you're all wild about? coz I hate that genre. too technical----I just want some hot sex in my book, ya know?
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04-23-2008, 12:05 PM | #1136 |
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I undertstand what y'all are saying. I haven't even heard of most of the sci-fi authors, but that doesn't mean anything. I have tried to get into the fantasy/sci-fi books but it's not my cup of tea. I remember my friends raving about "A Wrinkle In Time" when I was young but I just couldn't get into it. It disappoints me, a little, that a whole genre(s) is out of reach to me. However, if the book were about hidden passages, haunted houses, witches who rode vacuum cleaners (The Wednesday Witch was a really funny kid's book) I liked it.
These days I prefer the slice of life type books (I mentioned this in another thread). Then, I recommended Life of Pi to my brother. He's not a big reader, but I thought if I could just cajole him into reading until the "big event" or the "wtf" moment he would be hooked. He just couldn't make it that far, and I was like HUH? What is wrong with you? Yes, to each his own. I always figure as long as someone reads something, anything, it's a good thing. Edit: Hey, Bri!
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04-23-2008, 12:09 PM | #1137 |
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hmm. I am a lifelong SF and fantasy reader and fan. To a lesser extent, I also like romance, mystery, historical fiction, thrillers. I do read a lot of history and non-fiction, also, but for fiction--I don't like it to be too real. Present day, real drama--why would I want to read that? I live in the real world, I don't necessarily want to read about it.
I want to be taken awaaaaaaay! . . . wait. that didn't come out right!
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04-23-2008, 12:11 PM | #1138 |
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Hey, Shawnee! I went to Glenn Helen yesterday! 'Twas brillig!!!
<---'tis favorite smilie now
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04-23-2008, 12:15 PM | #1139 |
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Beautiful area. Haven't been for years. I wonder what will happen to the Antioch campus? Let's buy it and start our own school!
I love Yellow Springs! It's like the Key West of Ohio. @ Cloud: I get that. I do like to be taken away, too. But, I have this obsession with human feelings, emotions, reactions, and the like, though. I am touched by reading about real people: screwing up, wanting acceptance, loving, learning, screwing up, feeling happy, sad, screwing up. It' s more about the depths of the writing and the words that pull me in. For instance, The Glass Castle was a brilliant memoir. That certainly was real life, but nothing at all like my life!
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Not terribly easy to find, but a classic.
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