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View Poll Results: Vote for one of the following for the March 2012 MR Bookclub selection: | |||
Along came a spider by James Patterson | 14 | 35.90% | |
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane | 25 | 64.10% | |
Voters: 39. You may not vote on this poll |
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03-01-2012, 06:08 AM | #31 |
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I've read Shutter Island, and I REALLY liked it...HOWEVER I haven't seen the movie, and from what I've heard the endings are completely different...so you can't get away with watching the movie on this one!
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03-01-2012, 10:25 AM | #32 |
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03-01-2012, 12:07 PM | #33 |
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03-01-2012, 03:02 PM | #34 |
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Got the epub on Overdrive from my local library. Forgot to up the time to 21 days so I'll have to read fast.
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03-02-2012, 10:05 AM | #35 |
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I didn't manage to vote in the run-off, but I haven't read either book or seen either movie, so I'm sure I shall be as pleased/appalled/righteously indignant as if I had voted.
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Just started it...
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03-02-2012, 03:21 PM | #37 |
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03-03-2012, 08:08 PM | #38 |
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Thanks to WTSharpe for nominating Shutter Island, and to everyone who voted for it (yay me too!). I'm really, really liking it so far...back to the book
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03-04-2012, 09:07 AM | #39 |
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I'm still number one one the wait list! I would have though I'd get it faster than this, since the library has two copies. But it can't be long now...
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03-04-2012, 09:54 AM | #40 |
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I'm a third through, and it is good. Unfortunately, as I feared, my reading of it is coloured by having seen the film and knowing the denoument.
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03-04-2012, 11:26 AM | #41 |
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Well, don't tell me. I'm enjoying the hell out of it. And there's a lot of hell in that book to be enjoyed out of.
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03-06-2012, 08:13 AM | #42 |
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I finally got the book from the library and I have returned it early to give someone else a chance to read it. (FLP)
The book is a relatively quick read (less than 250 pages, not much text per page) and as far as I remember the movie it is very true to the book. I can't say I completely remembered the movie when I started the book, but I all came back to me as I kept reading. I can't think of anything in the book that I don't recogninze from the movie. The movie was great and really "spooky", as is the book. A very interesting plot, indeed! |
03-08-2012, 10:35 AM | #43 |
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Well I've finished it now, and despite knowing the story already, I did think it was an excellent read. Raring to go once the discussion thread is up .
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03-08-2012, 11:17 AM | #44 |
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Having read the book, I wonder if I should now see the movie, or would that get my facts jumbled up in the discussion?
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03-08-2012, 11:38 AM | #45 |
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I haven't seen the movie for a while, but there were some differences that could confuse. You could make your review notes now, then you could watch it?
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