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A Tale of Two Cities and A Wrinkle in Time are both on my on deck circle. Along with a hundred other books.
I plan to read most if not all of Dickens. (and Patricia Highsmith, and Henry Miller, and Kafka, *groan)
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quote:Originally posted by kenaustin: In 18 days I'll be reading Fatal Revenant by Stephen R. Donaldson, the second book of "The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant."
By the way, I've been meaning to ask you... did you happen to take your username from the Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant?
I just finished reading G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday. It was good, but I'm not sure what to make of it. I think I'll need to read it again.
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Just finished The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Some pretty powerful stuff, though the ending was actually a bit blah.
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I am finishing up Secret Daughter - a mixed race daughter and the mother who gave her up
It is a memoir. The author's mother ended up marrying Larry Storch of F-Troop fame.
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quote:Originally posted by Pov: The rumor and gossip about Quislet, Esq. Thread... some juicy stuff there...
But nothing about me and Larry Storch.
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Found time to read Guilty Pleasures by Laurell Hamilton.
This was the first in her (wildly popular?)Anita Blake, Vampire Killer series. I don't know much about the phenomena this series has become. I know fans liked it pretty well up until about book 9 or so... but I'm going to stick with what I thought of this book.
Overall: Not bad. Decent plot, but not out of the ordinary (might have been when it was first published though). Great pace to the book. Action sequences were fast and easy to visualize, characters were a little shallow, but I think that was more a result of the narrative choice than poor writing. My main gripe is that the book seemed terribly anti-climatic. I'll read some of the follow up books though.
Grade: B+ to A-.
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I'm trying to read Michael Chabon's "The Yiddish Policeman's Union." Unfortunately, it's not "Kavalier and Clay" -- but then, what is? It's an alternative history -- Europe's displaced Jews end up in Alaska, not Israel, after WWII. But it's also a noir murder mystery. I'm not that fond of the noir genre, but love alternate histories. So I'm torn.
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quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: Just finished The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Some pretty powerful stuff, though the ending was actually a bit blah.
Continuing on with the works of Carson McCullers, I've read Reflections in a Golden Eye and Ballad of the Sad Cafe, both of which were incredible!
Reflections in a Golden Eye is kind of a murder mystery in reverse, where you're told at the beginning that a murder is going to happen, but your left guessing who exactly is going to kill whom until the very end.
Ballad of a Sad Cafe is pure genius, and has one of the grooviest epilogues I've ever read.
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I finally finished the latest Harry Potter! Damn, that took a long time. The first third was good the last third was great! The middle? Man it just seemed to drag on and on!
Anyways, started reading the Great Gatsby. I read it in high school and never revisited it. I don't remember much so I am giving it another go.
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I just started on the Charles Schulz biography Schulz and Peanuts, and I had to tear myself away from it to go on the computer. From what I've read so far, I don't think it portrays him negatively like a lot of people are saying -- I think it humanizes him; I mean, everyone is more complicated than they appear.
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How about Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions? I've heard good things about it so I picked up a copy and I'm taking it on the road with me this week.
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