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[Re: Wendy Lefebvre ]
#293453 - 08/25/2010 12:29 PM |
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That may still be my favorite novel of its genre.
For a while it was my favorite novel, period! I think it was supplanted by Cold Mountain.
Right now I am rereading Jane Austen. I am so annoyed at the small number of books she wrote.  I have to wait a year or two in between so every line is no longer memorized and I can re-read.
Not really even Emma as much as Persuasion and maybe Mansfield Park. I'm in the middle of Pride and Prejudice now and just finished Sense and Sensibility. Even the very tongue-in-cheek Northanger Abbey bears re- and re-reading.
She is just so funny, so wry and observant.
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Re: What are you reading?
[Re: Wendy Lefebvre ]
#293454 - 08/25/2010 12:30 PM |
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I'm a HUGE Stephen King fan.
Me too!
I can re-read his books over & over.
I like Stephen King, too, but I haven't read him in a long time.
I can remember reading 'Salem's Lot in high school, in my basement bedroom in Maine (at night), and scaring the @x#& out of myself when I heard a tap at my window. Probably just a large moth... 
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Re: What are you reading?
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#293456 - 08/25/2010 12:33 PM |
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"The Book of Basketball" by Bill Simmons, "Counterfeit Gods" by Tim Keller, and "Excel-Erated Learning: Explaining in Plain English How Dogs Learn and How Best to Teach Them" by Pamela Reid
Louie!
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Re: What are you reading?
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#293457 - 08/25/2010 12:35 PM |
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I'm a HUGE Stephen King fan.
Me too!
I can re-read his books over & over.
I like Stephen King, too, but I haven't read him in a long time.
I can remember reading 'Salem's Lot in high school, in my basement bedroom in Maine (at night), and scaring the @x#& out of myself when I heard a tap at my window. Probably just a large moth...
You hope!!
his books have never really scared me...i don't think his scary book translate well into movies either.
except for:
The Green Mile & Shawshank Redemption.
Does anyone remember the tv-movie of It where the clown Pennywise was played by Tim Curry?
http://www.nefariousfilms.com/Images/Monsters/pennywise.jpg
now that clown freaked me out!!
*disclaimer* is you're afraid of normal circus clowns DO NOT CLICK ON THAT LINK!!!
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Re: What are you reading?
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I agree with you about Stephen King. Supermarket fiction or not, he's such a good writer. What an ear for dialogue!
Absolutely! There is really only one of him, isn't there?
I've read almost everything of his at least once (except for much of the Dark Tower series), and most his books I've read two or three times.
My favorites I've had to re-buy two and three times because they've been 'read to shreds' by being dragged around, slept on, shoved in a beach bag or even just folded over. I tend to buy paperbacks more often than hardcover (or paperback copies of things I have in hardcover) because I just read them to death
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Re: What are you reading?
[Re: Wendy Lefebvre ]
#293464 - 08/25/2010 01:10 PM |
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Re: What are you reading?
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#293465 - 08/25/2010 01:17 PM |
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Oops. 
I digress.
Back to books!
I agree with you about Stephen King. Supermarket fiction or not, he's such a good writer. What an ear for dialogue!
Absolutely! There is really only one of him, isn't there?
I've read almost everything of his at least once (except for much of the Dark Tower series), and most his books I've read two or three times.
My favorites I've had to re-buy two and three times because they've been 'read to shreds' by being dragged around, slept on, shoved in a beach bag or even just folded over. I tend to buy paperbacks more often than hardcover (or paperback copies of things I have in hardcover) because I just read them to death |
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Re: What are you reading?
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I'm also a big fan of post apocalyptic books (what does that say about me LOL) and speculative Fiction
I agree that the Stand might be the best of the Genre, it is another I carried around until I was finished....I think it took a thanksgiving holiday or somethin else ridiculous.
SM stirling is my favorite author of the Genre, but sadly I have read everything he has available. 
Alas Babylon is a good classic
The Road was just painful
I was on a Neal Stephenson kick for a while and read Anathem, Cryptonomicon and Snow crash but I got tired of having to skip parts I didn't understand and just in general feeling stupid while reading.
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Kelly wrote 08/25/2010 05:41 PM
Re: What are you reading?
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Just finished The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks. I cried.
Gonna re-read The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans. I will cry.
I really should read stuff that doesn't make me cry....
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Re: What are you reading?
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I've always been a devourer of novels, but I haven't been able to concentrate on a book since my heart attack. However, I was thrilled to learn that the 3rd Spencer Quinn (Chet the Dog) book is coming out in September.
Anyone read The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon? Many people have suggested it to me, but I haven't picked them up yet.
Ripley & his Precious
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