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02-13-2012, 03:20 AM | #12362 |
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sir arthur conan doyle - the adventure of solitary cyclist
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02-13-2012, 05:33 AM | #12363 | |
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Next I read a freebie, the first in a series that had been recommended, and that was on my wishlist at Fictionwise: Infected:Prey by Andrea Speed Which was indeed a quick fun read. Werecats and private detectives. (Although obviously also an AIDS/HIV analogy in some ways.) So I did take advantage of the 60% off fictionwise sale to pick up the other books in the series, and I've gone straight onto the second in the series, Infected:Bloodlines by Andrea Speed |
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02-13-2012, 06:06 AM | #12364 |
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1. Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkien (3 in one volume) - [20%] 2. Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami - [5%] 3. Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler - [7%] 4. 11/22/63 - Stephen King - [3%] |
02-13-2012, 09:29 AM | #12365 |
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You are reading Feast for Crows and Dance with Dragons at the same time? Um... why?! Unless... had you read FFC already and are just rereading it to remember?
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02-13-2012, 10:31 AM | #12367 |
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Crap. It's not available as a ebook. I thought there was a reason I hadn't read it.
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02-13-2012, 10:40 AM | #12368 | |
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They take place simultaneously and are split by characters. All of my favorite characters are in ADwD, so I don't want to have to wait 700+ pages to find out what happens with them. |
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02-13-2012, 04:06 PM | #12370 |
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I usually read several books simultaneously, so it is a rare book that can grab my attention enough for me to focus solely on one book until it is finished. One such book is Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, which captivated me this weekend. Admittedly I was first intrigued by the wonderfully bizarre photographs found throughout the book, but the story lives up to them. I was reminded firstly of Slaughterhouse Five and also The Lathe of Heaven, then of Nightmare on Elm Street. After which the book morphed into a sort of Rick Riordan universe of children saving the world. Well, sort of children ... peculiar children.
Warning ... the photographs and hand-written letters do NOT display well at all on a Kindle (of any size) ... I switched to reading on a Kindle Fire to fully appreciate the photos (you just have to zoom and study some of the details) (be sure to zoom in on the photo of the creepiest school bus driver you'll ever see outside of a nightmare!) - so I recommend reading this book on a LCD screen device, rather than on an eInk screen. It's a magical, warped, somber yet hopeful book - a carnival sideshow that has never lost its humanity. |
02-13-2012, 04:39 PM | #12371 |
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^Okay, you're the second person who has basically said they started and couldn't put it down. I had it on my potential read list and removed it. It has officially been put back on the list.
I started Gao Xingjian's Soul Mountain. We'll see how this one goes. The last 500+ page Chinese-author book I read was a bit of a struggle. |
02-13-2012, 07:21 PM | #12372 |
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Checked out The Eleventh Plague from my local library this morning and just finished it (it's only a couple hundred pages in ebook form). It's the debut novel of Jeff Hirsch, published in September, I believe -- YA, post-apocalyptic, and the first few pages had me thinking I was revisiting The Road. That changed pretty quickly and while it was not an unpleasant read, there's just not that much there that I can find to recommend. Were I to give it a one-word review, I'd probably say, "Forgettable".
Looking over my TBR list now to hopefully find something a little meatier. |
02-14-2012, 02:41 AM | #12373 |
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Harry Potter
I Just finished re-reading Year 6, 'Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince' and tomorrow I'll begin re-reading Year 7, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'.
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02-14-2012, 07:28 AM | #12374 |
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02-14-2012, 07:36 AM | #12375 |
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I was just thinking the same thing!
I'm re-reading 'Spring Snow' by Yukio Mishima. It's an old favourite. I've had a bad week, and re-reading old favourites is like comfort food to me. The beautiful prose never ceases to amaze me. |
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