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Old 04-02-2012, 07:45 PM   #121
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Crusie is great at dialog, but her books seem (to me) to be plot driven, that is, characters behave as they do not from anything intrinsic to their nature but as the plot demands. you therefor do get inconsistencies. And Agnes and the Hitman is a romp but not in the least intended to be realistic. I do enjoy Crusie, but I admit in limited quantities. And I think she's a better author by herself than in her colabs with Bob Mayer.
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Old 04-02-2012, 09:00 PM   #122
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Cruisie is hilarious--I haven't read that one yet.
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Old 04-03-2012, 02:24 AM   #123
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Crusie is great at dialog, but her books seem (to me) to be plot driven, that is, characters behave as they do not from anything intrinsic to their nature but as the plot demands. you therefor do get inconsistencies. And Agnes and the Hitman is a romp but not in the least intended to be realistic. I do enjoy Crusie, but I admit in limited quantities. And I think she's a better author by herself than in her colabs with Bob Mayer.
Her last collaboration was awful. I could not even get past Chapter 3 of Wild Ride. Not a romance but it was so bizarre I still have a hard time believing she wrote parts of it.
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Old 04-03-2012, 04:03 AM   #124
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Old 04-03-2012, 09:48 AM   #125
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At the Boston Public Library, 1 copy with 124 on the waiting list for Fifty Shades of Grey. How sad is that?
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Old 04-03-2012, 09:56 AM   #126
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At the Boston Public Library, 1 copy with 124 on the waiting list for Fifty Shades of Grey. How sad is that?
Yes, they really should buy a lot more copies of such a popular book.
Oh, wait, that wasn't what you meant?
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Old 04-03-2012, 09:58 AM   #127
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Yes, they really should buy a lot more copies of such a popular book.
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Old 04-03-2012, 10:00 AM   #128
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The 50 Shades trilogy are currently the 4th, 5th and 7th overall best selling eBooks on Amazon. The Hunger Games takes up spots 1, 2, 3 and 6.
Guess women really do buy more eBooks than men?
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Old 04-03-2012, 10:14 AM   #129
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I noticed the 50 Shades books out on our library site the other day and the waiting lists were about twice as large as the Harry Potter queues. I guess I never knew all my neighbors had it in them.

Hey JsWolfe if you really want to weep with moral indignation, you should check yourself out some Maya Banks.
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At the Boston Public Library, 1 copy with 124 on the waiting list for Fifty Shades of Grey. How sad is that?
So where are you in the queue?
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Old 04-03-2012, 10:27 AM   #131
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I noticed the 50 Shades books out on our library site the other day and the waiting lists were about twice as large as the Harry Potter queues. I guess I never knew all my neighbors had it in them.

Hey JSWolf if you really want to weep with moral indignation, you should check yourself out some Maya Banks.
One thing I am thinking is that people are checking out Fifty Shades of Grey because of all the hype.

As for Maya Banks, would I regret it?
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One thing I am thinking is that people are checking out Fifty Shades of Grey because of all the hype.

As for Maya Banks, would I regret it?
Yes.

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As for Maya Banks, would I regret it?
Or even worse, you might like it.
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Things have gone from bad to worse. The Boston Public library now has a wait of 133 for one copy of Fifty Shades of Grey.
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Things have gone from bad to worse. The Boston Public library now has a wait of 133 for one copy of Fifty Shades of Grey.
You should have gotten in line earlier.
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