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12-28-2010, 09:20 AM | #16 | |
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12-31-2010, 02:25 PM | #17 |
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Originally Posted by sara4
I joined, I saw the list, I voted , I read between work and chores, I read before I fell asleep because I have this marvelous light which shines on the page and not on my husbands face. I was only going to read a chapter a night but I had to find out how it ends. So I finished it it in 2 nights. I loved it, and am sorry I never read Wilkie Collins before. Now, since then I have read 2 more full ebooks and 3 hardcovers. Just finished the last of Sieg Larsens" the Girl who kicked the Bees Nest". Loved it also, sorry when it was over. All his books are ebooks and there is on or two movies also. happy Holidays, Syd |
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Hello everyone . Just got my Sony reader.
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Astrangerhere, thanks for the recommendations, I will have to check those out. Always looking for something new. Cheers!
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01-02-2011, 11:37 PM | #20 |
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I'm glad to see most people enjoyed The Woman in White. I'd read it in November as my first Collins and liked it a lot. I also wondered whether Fosco would keep his word; I agree that although he thought highly of honor, he'd done an awful lot of things that were dishonorable already!
Coincidentally, I just finished The Moonstone tonight - I tried it after WiW, and it is written in the same style of multiple first person narrators. A good mystery and not quite as long as WiW. |
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01-04-2011, 10:14 PM | #21 |
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I read "The Woman In White" years ago, and much of it was a slog. The "mystery" isn't really much of one. Collins is VERY verbose. But that said...there are moments in the book that are purest poetry. I think my favorite one is when Walter has this long preamble of discussion about Laura after learning she has died...and leads up to a simple declaration -- "I loved her." And that hit me right in the gut. And when he sees the woman in white in the graveyard...that spooked me.
It's definitely worth reading if only to see the progression of the mystery-romance novel...but it does tend to go on and on. |
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next book
Will there be a choice of new books to read soon?
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01-07-2011, 01:09 PM | #24 |
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The vote for January has already taken place, and the winner was The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Thread here. Jump in! I read it before, a long time ago, but I'm really enjoying the re-read!
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Hello. I am new at this. Allow me some time to get up to speed.
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03-04-2011, 01:18 PM | #26 |
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I didn't post earlier because it would have been another negative one for me!... but I did intend to ask a question and forgot when the thread was active.
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