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05-24-2013, 09:18 PM | #16682 |
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I finished a really good nonfiction book called Behind the Beautiful Forever by Katherine Boo about a group of people who live in a slum in India. Now I'm reading Life After Life by Kate Atkinson, and so far it's really good too.
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05-24-2013, 11:58 PM | #16683 |
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I'm currently reading Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter's Time's Eye (Time Odyssey). Fascinating. Didn't expect Rudyard Kipling to be one of the main characters.
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05-25-2013, 12:37 AM | #16684 | |
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05-25-2013, 05:03 AM | #16685 | |
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It was also a fix up of short stories written before Roger Ackroyd, so really should be read first. I am not tremendously impressed with the canonical reading order of the Poirot stories - particularly when it comes to the short stories - and have yet to find a good guide online. Luckily it doesn't usually matter very much, and I'm lagging behind on the short stories anyway, but still it does bug me. |
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05-25-2013, 05:23 AM | #16686 | |
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05-25-2013, 09:41 AM | #16687 | |
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The problem with the canonical order is that it relies on the book publications, and hardly any of the early stories first appeared in book form. Even the novels were serialised first. I suspect Big Four/Ackroyd is the only case where novels are out of order, but the story collections are more patchy. I have Poirot: The Complete Short Stories, which collects them in order of first publication. The tricky part is figuring out where to stop before each novel. And then there are the crossovers... |
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05-25-2013, 11:39 AM | #16688 | |
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I can't tell if this was not a very good novel, or it really was good and I'm hopelessly unqualified to make a judgment. I have no idea how I'm going to write a review of it. It sometimes felt like each paragraph could have been one sentence and it felt like multiple paragraphs were sometimes the same sentence repeated, but wrapped in different obscure literary stylings. I felt myself having to reread paragraphs to try and "get" what the author was saying and even then it felt like a lot of guesswork. Maybe a reread would give me a greater appreciation, but I don't really have time for a reread. When I catch up to this book for review, I'll just have to muddle through it. Maybe with some time my thoughts will be a little clearer. Now for something I know will get the blood pumping. It's the second book in the Bangkok series by Simon Royle. This one is called Bangkok Wet. I really enjoyed the first one (Bangkok Burn) and I'm sure I'll enjoy this one as well. |
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05-25-2013, 01:00 PM | #16689 |
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Thanks for the tip. Just d/l it from Amazon at £0.49, a bargain!
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05-25-2013, 07:37 PM | #16691 | |
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EDIT: Well, I couldn't wait... So I just downloaded both of them to my iPhone. Being that I'll be back in Bangkok in just 11 more days, I figure these will get me back into the right frame of mind. Stitchawl Last edited by Stitchawl; 05-25-2013 at 07:45 PM. |
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05-26-2013, 03:50 AM | #16692 |
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05-26-2013, 04:23 AM | #16693 |
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John Sandford has done it again. "Silken Prey," the 23rd book in the 'Prey' series, the new Lucas Davenport thriller has grabbed me from the second page and won't let me put the book down for more than a few minutes at a time. I'm only 40-50 pages into it, but he's already brought in most of the old characters from the Kidd series, the Virgil Flowers series, and of course the Prey series. This is gonna be fun!
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05-26-2013, 11:49 AM | #16695 |
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I have finished Soulless, which turned out to be a great book! I'm glad I stuck with it. I will definitely be reading the rest of the series at some point. For now, however, I will be reading The Great Gatsby. I wonder what is so great about this Gatsby person.
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