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endobenthic · 10-02-2011, 02:45 PM

Thanks all for the welcome:

I think a person's interest in rereading depends on what they're looking for when they read a book.

If you're looking for new storylines that you've never seen before, only a *new* story will do.

But if you look at reading as a way to *go* to a place you're enriched by being at, with people (characters) that you're interested in being with, and if what happens to them and the choices they make feed your mind, your emotions and sometimes even your soul and spirit, then rereading can take you back to a place that you like being at without the concern that the writer might take you to some place you *don't* want to go.

When it's good, though, new is great.

pdurrant · 10-02-2011, 03:14 PM

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Next, a new Liaden book: Ghost Ship by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

Well, that was good. At last, a continuation of the story from the point reached at the end of I Dare, and Saltation. (The same scene ends both books, having followed different characters to get there.)

Highly recommended, but if you're new to the series, start with the earlier books.

Next up: Citizens edited by John Ringo and Brian M. Thomsen. An anthology of Mil SF shorts stories.

xg4bx · 10-02-2011, 11:56 PM

Birth of the Dread Remora by Aaron Rosenberg. its basically about a deep sea dwelling race of humans and their first experience with space flight.

lila55 · 10-03-2011, 11:39 AM

Just reading "The Falls" by Joyce Carol Oates. It is extremely hard to put down and even though I am just about one third into it I am sure that this will be one of the books I'll remember long after I finished reading it.

Crusader · 10-03-2011, 01:37 PM

Finished reading and reviewing Manhattan in Reverse by Peter F. Hamilton. It's a collection of short stories and a great read. I don't read many short stories and this collection has me seriously rethinking that omission. My favorite must be Watching Trees Grow. It spans over 200 years and is excellently done.

WT Sharpe · 10-03-2011, 02:01 PM

Yesterday I finished reading When the Emperor Was Divine, a novel about a Japanese-American family's experience with the internment camps during and after World War II. It's by Julie Otsuka, and it uses fiction in a powerful way to shed light on a most unpleasant episode in U.S. history.

Today I finished The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene. I found it to be sometimes hard going, but always enlightening and well worth the effort. Brian Greene has a wonderful writing style, but most of the endnotes that began with the words "For the mathematically inclined" completely swamped me. This is an endlessly fascinating subject explained by a most competent instructor. Highly, highly recommended.

MickeyC · 10-03-2011, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Today I finished The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene. I found it to be sometimes hard going, but always enlightening and well worth the effort. Brian Greene has a wonderful writing style, but most of the endnotes that began with the words "For the mathematically inclined" completely swamped me. This is an endlessly fascinating subject explained by a most competent instructor. Highly, highly recommended.

I'm about half way through and, so far, totally agree

kennyc · 10-03-2011, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Yesterday I finished reading When the Emperor Was Divine, a novel about a Japanese-American family's experience with the internment camps during and after World War II. It's by Julie Otsuka, and it uses fiction in a powerful way to shed light on a most unpleasant episode in U.S. history.

Today I finished The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene. I found it to be sometimes hard going, but always enlightening and well worth the effort. Brian Greene has a wonderful writing style, but most of the endnotes that began with the words "For the mathematically inclined" completely swamped me. This is an endlessly fascinating subject explained by a most competent instructor. Highly, highly recommended.

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I'm about half way through and, so far, totally agree

I've tabled it for the moment....

Carriebear · 10-03-2011, 09:25 PM

I'm finally beginning Alice in Wonderland after being harassed for months by my two best friends. How I got to be my age without having read it I don't know. But it's the first book for my new commonplace book project, so I'm excited.

xg4bx · 10-03-2011, 10:52 PM

Star Soldier by Vaughn Heppner. its sci-fi thats kind of a cross between Orwell's 1984 and military science fiction featuring super soldiers vs an earth ruled by "big brother" types.

Dr. Drib · 10-04-2011, 11:07 AM

I picked up "The Hangman's Daughter," by Oliver Potzsch, when it was on sale from Amazon for .99 cents.

I'm about 1/3 of the way through it and I'm very much enjoying it.

Don

Nancy Fulda · 10-04-2011, 11:17 AM

Still creeping my way through The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett.

My gastropodic pace has nothing to do with the quality of the book (it's excellent) or the fact that I'm reading a German translation (long story).

It's far more attributable to the number of preschool- and school-aged children inhabiting the house.

Quake1028 · 10-04-2011, 04:10 PM

Just finished up book 2 of the Hunger Games, Catching Fire. Overall I liked it quite a bit, not as much as the terrific first entry, because I had guessed where they were going with it from the beginning. Still, a solid middle entry that sets up an exciting finale.

Up next is The Murderer Vine from the Hard Case Crime series. Always good reads, hope this one doesn't disappoint.

caleb72 · 10-04-2011, 09:27 PM

Just finished The Survival of Marvin Baines by Michael Meyer. Review will be up on my site in a couple of days. Pretty entertaining is the short answer to the question you didn't ask.

I've just started, The Island of Doctor Moreau, the book club read for this month. Always expected by first Wells to be The Time Machine (one day, damn you), but I was always interested in this book as well.

endobenthic · 10-04-2011, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Carriebear

I'm finally beginning Alice in Wonderland after being harassed for months by my two best friends. How I got to be my age without having read it I don't know. But it's the first book for my new commonplace book project, so I'm excited.

Evening Carriebear:

I read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass in University in a Complex Imaginary Worlds tutorial and was really impressed with Lewis Carroll's writing.

I had always thought of the story as imaginative but simple, however, Carroll definately did create a complex imaginary world which drew me in and was very satisfying as an adult (if being 20 years old is adult).

Enjoy!

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10-02-2011, 02:45 PM	#10936
endobenthic Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 18 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: Kindle DX	Thanks all for the welcome: I think a person's interest in rereading depends on what they're looking for when they read a book. If you're looking for new storylines that you've never seen before, only a new story will do. But if you look at reading as a way to go to a place you're enriched by being at, with people (characters) that you're interested in being with, and if what happens to them and the choices they make feed your mind, your emotions and sometimes even your soul and spirit, then rereading can take you back to a place that you like being at without the concern that the writer might take you to some place you don't want to go. When it's good, though, new is great.

10-02-2011, 11:56 PM	#10938
xg4bx Are you gonna eat that? Posts: 1,633 Karma: 23215128 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Phillipsburg, NJ Device: Kindle 3, Nook STG	Birth of the Dread Remora by Aaron Rosenberg. its basically about a deep sea dwelling race of humans and their first experience with space flight.

10-03-2011, 11:39 AM	#10939
lila55 Fanatic Posts: 595 Karma: 456534 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Stuttgart, Germany Device: PocketBook 360° , iPhone 5, PRS-650, Sony PRS-T2, Sony PRS-T3, Tolino	Just reading "The Falls" by Joyce Carol Oates. It is extremely hard to put down and even though I am just about one third into it I am sure that this will be one of the books I'll remember long after I finished reading it.

10-03-2011, 01:37 PM	#10940
Crusader Space Cadet Posts: 1,180 Karma: 4030536 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: South Africa Device: Sony PRS-T1, Cybook Opus, Kobo Glo	Finished reading and reviewing Manhattan in Reverse by Peter F. Hamilton. It's a collection of short stories and a great read. I don't read many short stories and this collection has me seriously rethinking that omission. My favorite must be Watching Trees Grow. It spans over 200 years and is excellently done.

10-03-2011, 02:01 PM	#10941
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	Yesterday I finished reading *When the Emperor Was Divine, a novel about a Japanese-American family's experience with the internment camps during and after World War II. It's by Julie Otsuka, and it uses fiction in a powerful way to shed light on a most unpleasant episode in U.S. history. Today I finished The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos* by Brian Greene. I found it to be sometimes hard going, but always enlightening and well worth the effort. Brian Greene has a wonderful writing style, but most of the endnotes that began with the words "For the mathematically inclined" completely swamped me. This is an endlessly fascinating subject explained by a most competent instructor. Highly, highly recommended.

10-03-2011, 09:25 PM	#10944
Carriebear Polar Bear Posts: 86 Karma: 48314 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Georgia, USA Device: Nook Color (rooted), iPod Touch (jailbroken)	I'm finally beginning Alice in Wonderland after being harassed for months by my two best friends. How I got to be my age without having read it I don't know. But it's the first book for my new commonplace book project, so I'm excited.

10-03-2011, 10:52 PM	#10945
xg4bx Are you gonna eat that? Posts: 1,633 Karma: 23215128 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Phillipsburg, NJ Device: Kindle 3, Nook STG	Star Soldier by Vaughn Heppner. its sci-fi thats kind of a cross between Orwell's 1984 and military science fiction featuring super soldiers vs an earth ruled by "big brother" types.

10-04-2011, 11:07 AM	#10946
Dr. Drib Grand Sorcerer Posts: 45,445 Karma: 59592133 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Peru Device: KINDLE: Oasis 3, Scribe (1st), Matcha; KOBO: Libra 2, Libra Colour	I picked up "The Hangman's Daughter," by Oliver Potzsch, when it was on sale from Amazon for .99 cents. I'm about 1/3 of the way through it and I'm very much enjoying it. Don

10-04-2011, 11:17 AM	#10947
Nancy Fulda I write stories. Posts: 700 Karma: 16437432 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Northern Germany Device: kindle	Still creeping my way through The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett. My gastropodic pace has nothing to do with the quality of the book (it's excellent) or the fact that I'm reading a German translation (long story). It's far more attributable to the number of preschool- and school-aged children inhabiting the house.

10-04-2011, 04:10 PM	#10948
Quake1028 Guru Posts: 917 Karma: 9155462 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Tampa, FL Device: See signature	Just finished up book 2 of the Hunger Games, Catching Fire. Overall I liked it quite a bit, not as much as the terrific first entry, because I had guessed where they were going with it from the beginning. Still, a solid middle entry that sets up an exciting finale. Up next is The Murderer Vine from the Hard Case Crime series. Always good reads, hope this one doesn't disappoint.

10-04-2011, 09:27 PM	#10949
caleb72 Indie Advocate Posts: 2,863 Karma: 18794463 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: Kindle	Just finished The Survival of Marvin Baines by Michael Meyer. Review will be up on my site in a couple of days. Pretty entertaining is the short answer to the question you didn't ask. I've just started, The Island of Doctor Moreau, the book club read for this month. Always expected by first Wells to be The Time Machine (one day, damn you), but I was always interested in this book as well.