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WT Sharpe · 06-13-2010, 03:03 PM

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Currently reading the local council regs on bonfires. Fascinating stuff, but a bit short, so suspect I will be moving on to something else very soon

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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

I hope it has a happy ending!

I find such works to be short on plot and character development.

poohbear_nc · 06-13-2010, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I find such works to be short on plot and character development.

But heavy on special effects!! Fire!!

kennyc · 06-13-2010, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

But heavy on special effects!! Fire!!

....and Hot Action!

edbro · 06-13-2010, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by nekokami

Maybe I'll read Inkheart next. I have a paper copy I borrowed that I haven't read yet.

Did you ever read Inkheart? I'm considering it (in paperback). It looks interesting but is labeled as for geared towards ages 9-12. Can anybody recommend it?

pilotbob · 06-13-2010, 08:18 PM

I think I'll read Fang... the newest Maximum Ride book. We have it in paper since my wife reads them and isn't into e yet. (I'm trying.)

Although... they go pretty quick so probably will take me less than a week to read it.

Guess I will read the Paris Hilton Bio after that.

BOb

Dr. Drib · 06-13-2010, 08:21 PM

I'm 2/3 through Shantaram. (The baby is keeping me busy).

This is a great book, in my opinion.

I highly recommend this.

Don

Mindy · 06-14-2010, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by edbro

Did you ever read Inkheart? I'm considering it (in paperback). It looks interesting but is labeled as for geared towards ages 9-12. Can anybody recommend it?

I haven't read it, but I did see the film. Brendan Fraser is yummy, Helen Mirren is fabulous and Paul Bettany is... sulky.

Erm, OK, so not so helpful, but it didn't make me want to run out and read it either.

(Did I mention Brendan Fraser is yummy?)

bookwerm · 06-14-2010, 10:11 AM

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I am now reading the non-fiction Columbine book, based on ten years of reporting and interviews. Should be interesting!

Are you talking about Columbine, by David Cullen? If you are - it's a really good book, one of the best I've read this year so far. Cullen does an amazing job of taking an unbiased approach to all aspects leading up to the events of 4/20/99, and I thought he really only interjects his point of view when indicting the media for all of the false reporting.

Hope you enjoy! It's powerful reading, and pretty much debunked everything I thought I knew about Columbine.

columbus · 06-14-2010, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I'm 2/3 through Shantaram. (The baby is keeping me busy).

This is a great book, in my opinion.

I highly recommend this.

Don

Interesting, Shantaram is next on my tbr list. (Scary picture

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I am reading The Book Thief at the moment. After the first pages I was beginning to think it was not for me but the further in I get the more difficult I find it to put down.

Latinandgreek · 06-14-2010, 11:05 AM

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Interesting, Shantaram is next on my tbr list. (Scary picture

)

I am reading The Book Thief at the moment. After the first pages I was beginning to think it was not for me but the further in I get the more difficult I find it to put down.

I had picked up The Book Thief several times and put it back down after reading the first few pages. When I finally got through them, I couldn't put the book down! I think you will enjoy Shantaram as well, I read it a few years back and it is a great book. I believe that a sequel is set to come out soon, and a movie adaptation as well.

Bluesman7 · 06-14-2010, 11:09 AM

"The Book Thief" is an interesting (and rewarding) read.

ficbot · 06-14-2010, 11:51 AM

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Are you talking about Columbine, by David Cullen? If you are - it's a really good book, one of the best I've read this year so far.

Yes, that is the book. I like a really solid piece of non-fiction from time to time. The last really good one I read was 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' by Rebecca Skloot, which was excellent. The Columbine one is off to a good start so far---I like that he does not spend as much time on the actual shooting---I think he's focusing more on the investigation afterward, where is where I think the 'story' is here.

pdurrant · 06-14-2010, 12:56 PM

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Live Free or Die by John Ringo. This is set in something close to the first contact years of the Schlock Mercenary universe.

Yes, that was fun. Next up is The Tuloriad by John Ringo & Tom Kratman.

This is another novel in Ringo's Posleen universe. It reveals more than any other about the Aldenata and Posleen origins. The story is quite fun, although the climax seems oddly pointless.

It has a preachy and irritating (to me) afterword. It's as if C. S. Lewis had added an afterword to "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" emphasising how important faith is. Sigh...

Anyway, now for something different. Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars and Green Mars in an omnibus volume. Hey - it's even still available from Fictionwise, though only in PDB or PDF formats. But a lot cheaper than buying the separate volumes at Amazon.

I've heard good things about these, now to find out if I agree.

bookwerm · 06-14-2010, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by ficbot

Yes, that is the book. I like a really solid piece of non-fiction from time to time. The last really good one I read was 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' by Rebecca Skloot, which was excellent. The Columbine one is off to a good start so far---I like that he does not spend as much time on the actual shooting---I think he's focusing more on the investigation afterward, where is where I think the 'story' is here.

LOL, we have similar interests in nonfiction - I just finished 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' yesterday! Ha. I'm taking a break and making a brief trip to fiction land, but if you hear of more good nonfiction, definitely recommend it to me!

Exer · 06-14-2010, 05:26 PM

Just finished The Passage, by Justin Cronin. Wow, that is about the first word that springs to mind. A 700+ page book that I read in the span of 2 days (my Kindle nearly passed out), that is how hooked I was. I finally polished it off a little after 3 A.M this morning after a marathon reading session (my GF is out of state, I needed something to occupy me).

“It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.”

I thought this story was going to go one of two ways: a completely cliché filled retelling of every other like-themed book and movie, or something different, that would catch me by surprise. It turned out the surprising thing was the fact that it DID use some of the most well known thought fodder, but in a way that left me nodding, thinking that every myth, legend, or campfire story really could have some basis in fact.

The funny thing about the story is I can't quite shoehorn it into one theme. To me it seems a mash-up of creature-feature horror, biological thriller, and a post-apocalyptic / rebuilding / survival yarn. And I mean that in a good way. I'm not sure how he did it, and made it so believable, but he did. For me at least. I set the book down a couple times and felt like I could flick the TV onto a news channel and see a live broadcast of what I was just reading about.

It had everything I like in a book.

Of course mileage will vary.

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06-13-2010, 08:18 PM	#5210
pilotbob Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,832 Karma: 11844413 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Tampa, FL USA Device: Kindle Touch	I think I'll read Fang... the newest Maximum Ride book. We have it in paper since my wife reads them and isn't into e yet. (I'm trying.) Although... they go pretty quick so probably will take me less than a week to read it. Guess I will read the Paris Hilton Bio after that. BOb

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Exer I see Russia! Posts: 205 Karma: 234787 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Alaska Device: Etch-A-Sketch	Just finished The Passage, by Justin Cronin. Wow, that is about the first word that springs to mind. A 700+ page book that I read in the span of 2 days (my Kindle nearly passed out), that is how hooked I was. I finally polished it off a little after 3 A.M this morning after a marathon reading session (my GF is out of state, I needed something to occupy me). “It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.” I thought this story was going to go one of two ways: a completely cliché filled retelling of every other like-themed book and movie, or something different, that would catch me by surprise. It turned out the surprising thing was the fact that it DID use some of the most well known thought fodder, but in a way that left me nodding, thinking that every myth, legend, or campfire story really could have some basis in fact. The funny thing about the story is I can't quite shoehorn it into one theme. To me it seems a mash-up of creature-feature horror, biological thriller, and a post-apocalyptic / rebuilding / survival yarn. And I mean that in a good way. I'm not sure how he did it, and made it so believable, but he did. For me at least. I set the book down a couple times and felt like I could flick the TV onto a news channel and see a live broadcast of what I was just reading about. It had everything I like in a book. Of course mileage will vary.