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Old 01-02-2010, 01:20 PM   #31
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Not sure to what extent Dickens' novel is a basis for Simmons'; but the narrator is Wilkie Collins and Dickens is the principal character.

In Simmons' book, Drood is an evil underworld villain (according to the back cover which is all I've read so far ).
That sounds quite good, I might have to check it out.
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Old 01-02-2010, 01:22 PM   #32
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I was surprised by the "to be continued" , having missed the info that the 3 book where now 4 books.
Yes a bit annoying that once I finish Brisingr which will probably be another week, I will be left dangling until the 4th and final book of the series is completed!

By the time the last installment comes out, I'll probably have to read the first 3 books again to get back into it. SIGH Should have done my homework first then I'd have known it was incomplete but I downloaded the Eragon audio from the library on a whim and enjoyed it so much I bought the ebook version.
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Old 01-02-2010, 01:31 PM   #33
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I finished "the alienist" by Caleb Carr and decided to re-read "the time traveler's wife". I will then go over to "her fearful symmetry". The next one after that will be "Homer & Langley".
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Old 01-02-2010, 01:33 PM   #34
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Finishing The Demon Apostle by R.A. Salvatore.

For those interested, I think the first two books in the trilogy are still free on Kindle. Just download The Demon Awaken's. It actually has that full book, plus all of The Demon Spirit.

It's not super great though. Not nearly as good as his long dark elf series.
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Old 01-02-2010, 01:33 PM   #35
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Yeah! for Homer and Langely! Doctorow is excellent! It's right up their with Last Night in Twisted River for the best I've read recently.
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Old 01-02-2010, 02:40 PM   #36
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What is it?

Myself, I am finishing off two books started in '09 right now but I think my first 'fresh for 2010' read is going to be Under the Dome since I think it will be the book club choice.
Minda Webber's "The Remarkable Miss Frankenstein".
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Old 01-02-2010, 03:26 PM   #37
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I'm still finishing up "Owl's Well that Ends Well" by Donna Andrews from 2009 in pbook (not available in ebook so I caved and bought the rest of the series in pbook in October - Ms. Andrews needs to horsewhip her publishers IMHO). Started "Dial Om For Murder" by Diana Killian last night, because I was too lazy to hold the pbook open but had to read to get my brain to shut off before I could sleep. I usually have two or three books going anyway, so no worries there.
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Old 01-02-2010, 04:54 PM   #38
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I'm finishing up some re-reads, and then I'm gonna get cracking on Christopher Moore's "Fluke" as my first start-to-finish fresh read of 2010...at least that's the plan.
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Old 01-02-2010, 05:08 PM   #39
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Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy
Now that was excellent!

I may read Flash Forward on the Kindle, but I've also just gotten out Widdershins by Charles de Lint (in trade paperback), which I may dig into first.
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Old 01-02-2010, 05:19 PM   #40
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Having finished Map of Bones by James Rollins between Xmas and New Year I decided to start the year off with some humour and read A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore. What a strange book that was
Right now I am reading the humorous nonfiction ebook A Walk In the Woods by Bill Bryson where he tells the story of his trek along the Appalachian Trail.
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Old 01-02-2010, 05:23 PM   #41
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i started to read "the family" by jeff sharlet
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Old 01-02-2010, 06:40 PM   #42
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Old 01-02-2010, 06:52 PM   #43
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i started to read "the family" by jeff sharlet
I read that last year. It's dry going at times, but very well researched. In amazing detail Sharlet shows on the one hand just how frighteningly saturated the upper echelons of our government are with anti-intellectual fundamentalists, and on the other hand just how twisted and manipulative their version of "Jesus only" Christianity can be.

Great choice for your first ebook of 2010!
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Old 01-02-2010, 06:58 PM   #44
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I finished "the alienist" by Caleb Carr and decided to re-read "the time traveler's wife". I will then go over to "her fearful symmetry". The next one after that will be "Homer & Langley".
The Time Traveler's Wife was a wonderful novel. Now I'm waiting for the DVD to be released (Feb. 2010, last I heard), to see what kind of job Hollywood did with it. Some say that if you haven't read the book, the movie will lose you.

Sometime during 2010 I plan to read Her Fearful Symmetry.
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Old 01-02-2010, 07:09 PM   #45
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I'm reading (for the first time) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I'm also doing a "re-listen" to Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Retrieval Artist while commuting, and just finished A Father's Heart by Karen Young.

I don't usually read more than one book at a time, but lately I've had two going at the same time - one on the reader and one in print. I've got to get rid of the print library that aren't keepers! So I've taken to keeping the reader during the day (lunch / evening breaks at work) and reading the paper books at home. The audiobook was a fluke - I started it on the trip to and from Cleveland for the Christmas holiday, and now I've just GOT to finish it!
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