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Old 07-10-2011, 02:35 PM   #10051
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Mostly because he introduced a lot of new families and characters that was less interesting to read about, and not writing anything about the characters that was taking a more active part in book 3.

It was first when I got to the end of the book that the author informs the reader that some of the main characters of book 3 had been in book 4 but that the book had gotten too big and the story too complex so it was split into two books. Book 5 is supposed to be about the characters that we didn't get to follow in book 4.
sounds... interesting... *yawn* maybe reading Song of Ice and Fire wasn't a brilliant idea, after all...

From Russia With Love has been going well
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Old 07-10-2011, 02:36 PM   #10052
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Thanks David ..curious mostly since these are on my tbr list....
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Old 07-10-2011, 02:38 PM   #10053
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Possibly my favourite Bond, certainly the movie was . I loved the fight on the train between Connery and Robert Shaw (young and blond, way before his appearance as the crusty boat skipper in Jaws).
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Old 07-10-2011, 02:51 PM   #10054
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Thought I would provide brief summaries of two recently completed books.

Rabbit Boss by Thomas Sanchez is a fictional account of the experience of Native Americans (Washo of the Lake Tahoe area in N. California) from the time of first contact with Europeans until their near annihilation literally and culturally over a period of about 100 years. In this second reading of the novel after almost 30 years I still found it powerful and entertaining. I will say that this time around I did notice much more how much it was flavored by the whole hippie/counter culture movement of the late 1960s to early 1970s, influences of the drug culture and veneration of Native American culture, much more noticeable than I did on the first read. Sanchez wrote the book in the early 1970s.

Bleak House is the July selection for the MobileRead Literary Book Club so I won't say much about it. Only that for those who have just tried Dickens once, especially if it was Tale of Two Cities or Great Expectations, and were turned off Dickens by that reconsider. I would rate Bleak House as my second favorite serious novel by Dickens, with David Copperfield still being number one with me. The Pickwick Papers being my favorite light/comic novel.

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Old 07-10-2011, 03:21 PM   #10055
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Yes, the third party plays a very important role later on and I think the second series will focus exclusive on them. I essentially view the whole Lost Fleet series as one long book separated into smaller installments. It could very easily have been just a 1800+ page novel, but I guess a series makes more money.
I just noticed there are 6 books in the series. My library only has the first 4 so I thought that was all of them.

Yeah, the other party probably is a factor in why the war is so long and in the difficulties of returning home.
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Old 07-10-2011, 03:53 PM   #10056
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Reading "Burn" by Nevada Barr. It's 16th in the Anna Pigeon series. Anna is a park ranger, but she's been thoroughly traumatized in the last two books, so she's on administrative leave. She's staying with a friend in New Orleans, and becomes involved in a very weird case involving her friend's other boarder. The last few Anna books have been more and more "thriller" type to me, but even this one, that I didn't think I was gong to like after reading the blurb, sucked me in. I got to chapter 12 last night while waiting on Alan to come pick us and the Blazer up (see What Are You Doing Right Now thread). It's not as disturbing as I was afraid it would be. I plan on finishing it today.
School starts again for me tomorrow, which means my fiction reading time will be drastically reduced.
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Old 07-10-2011, 04:32 PM   #10057
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Possibly my favourite Bond, certainly the movie was . I loved the fight on the train between Connery and Robert Shaw (young and blond, way before his appearance as the crusty boat skipper in Jaws).
That fight was awesome! The Connery fights were always entertaining...I love how they would throw everything but the kitchen sink at each other haha.
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Old 07-10-2011, 05:13 PM   #10058
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School starts again for me tomorrow, which means my fiction reading time will be drastically reduced.
Dang school!

Just read the short story "Greatness Strikes Where it Pleases" by Lars Gustafsson...

Man! What an incredible story! Totally over-analyzed here: http://www.novelguide.com/a/discover...2_0_00018.html

....from the anthology You've Got to Read This

This book is full of some of the best stories you're ever likely to read: http://www.amazon.com/Youve-Got-Read.../dp/0060982020

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Old 07-11-2011, 12:03 AM   #10059
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Just finished Kate Morton's latest "The Distant Hours". I loved it as I loved her other two books. They are all in a similar vein, the sort of book you can get lost it. The main character is a young women who becomes involved in solving old family mysteries, just wonderful escapism, really well written.
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Old 07-11-2011, 03:10 AM   #10060
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I finished Scott Nicholson's Ashes, a collection of short horror stories, last night. Although I'm not a big fan of short stories and I didn't find the stories scary I did like them.

I'm taking a short break from James Clavell's Shogun, which I'm really loving. I'm now reading Donald Allen Kirch's Manchester House, which starts promising despite some format conversion errors (the & inserted instead of spaces).
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Old 07-11-2011, 05:39 AM   #10061
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When Frank Turner informs his wife and teenage son they are emigrating from Liverpool to sunny South Africa, he is unprepared for their hostile response. His defiant son makes his own silent protest, and his wife’s assertion that “we never shoulda come” is parroted at every minor calamity.

The bewildered working-class scousers are thrust into an alien world of servants, strange African customs, unintelligible accents, and unexpected wild life
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Old 07-11-2011, 09:29 AM   #10062
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Finished Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand - lovely and dark like all her work. Definitely a 4 - 4.5 star book.

Now starting Nothing Lasting, the new one from Glen Krisch. I really enjoyed his first two books so I'm hanging out to see how this one goes.
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Old 07-11-2011, 11:32 AM   #10063
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I found a public domain collection of Poe's works...so I'm reading that. And I have a tone of writing craft books to read: On Writing By King, Zen in the Art of Writing by Bradbury, and one by Terry Brooks haha
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Old 07-11-2011, 11:37 AM   #10064
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I finished _The Gods Themselves_. It was a good book although it seemed a bit unfinished to me. Although, I guess a good book is one that has you thinking about it and still asking questions.

I started the MRBC July selection _The Name of the Wind_... which is good... back to Fantasy which is one of my favorite genres.

After that the next join nebula/hugo winner would be _Rendezvous with Rama_ although I don't see it in the Kindle store. The one the year after that is _The Dispossessed_ which is in the Kindle store... so this will probably be what I read after MRBC book.

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