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#10052 |
The Dank Side of the Moon
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Location: Denver, CO
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Thanks David ..curious mostly since these are on my tbr list....
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Close to the Edit!
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Location: UK
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#10054 |
Nameless Being
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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. Last edited by Hamlet53; 07-10-2011 at 04:07 PM. |
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Join Date: Jun 2010
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ZCD BombShel
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: The Frozen North (aka Illinois, USA)
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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.
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Andrew Kincaid
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Location: Ohio
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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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The Dank Side of the Moon
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Location: Denver, CO
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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 Last edited by kennyc; 07-10-2011 at 09:12 PM. |
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#10059 |
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Location: SW Australia
Device: Eco Eclipse, Sony PRS 350 (pink), Ipod Touch, Kindle Touch
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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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Grand Sorcerer
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Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands
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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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Location: Norway
Device: Kindle, E.Edge (sold), Irex Iliad (retired)
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Indie Advocate
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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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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Andrew Kincaid
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Location: Ohio
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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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Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Tampa, FL USA
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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. BOb |
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The Dank Side of the Moon
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Location: Denver, CO
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