I love to read The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren every morning to express my English.
ok, that was fucking funny
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Posts: 23008 (08/13/08 1:14 PM) |
ok, that was fucking funny |
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loveski |
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Posts: 930 (08/13/08 2:00 PM) Registered user |
I read Twilight today. What a waste of 6 hours. I like the idea of vampires and all that but it just didn't work for me in this book. It read like fan
fiction by a 14 year old (maybe I'm not the right audience for this book). The main character has no personality or identity and the vampire is really
condescending. Plus it's weird how cool his family was about him dating a human being.
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Jewel |
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Posts: 429 (08/13/08 5:42 PM) |
Last night I started Sleeping With Fear by Kay Hooper. I liked the last book of hers I had read.
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rolandofthewhite |
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Posts: 1231 (08/13/08 5:54 PM) Registered User |
The Twilight books are disgusting.
I just finished Firestarter. I think now I'll pick up Imajica. |
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Posts: 110 (08/13/08 6:13 PM) |
My family obligations don't allow for undisturbed reading time. However, because of my 45 minute commute (each way), I have started listening to books on
CD. I'm currently listening to Anne of Green Gables. Although I've seen it on PBS multiple times, I got real sad when there
was a death on today's CD.
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Viking Pete |
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Posts: 804 (08/28/08 6:26 PM) Registered user |
TC wrote: Charo has a board? 
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DCReads56 |
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Posts: 1021 (08/28/08 8:00 PM) Registered User |
I've read a shitload lately ...
"Schrodinger's Ball" by Adam Felber - Eh. Clever at times but sort of stupid. Couldn't explain the plot if I tried. "The Yiddish Policemen's Unit" by Michael Chabon - I like Michael Chabon, but this book was shit. I gave up 100 pages in. "End of the Alphabet" by C.S. Richardson - Eh. Dying man wants to travel to 26 locations, A to Z. Short and sweet, unsatisfying ending. "19 Minutes" by Jodi Picoult - Eh. Aftermath of a school shooting. Very fast read, touching at times. "The Color Of Water" by James McBride - This was great. Memoir of a man whose white mother raised 12 black children "Belles On Their Toes" - Sequel to "Cheaper by the Dozen" - the story of the 11-children family after the father dies (the oldest is only 18) "The Last Chinese Chef" by Nicole Mones - Excellent. Food writer gets to watch as a Chinese-American chef prepares for a cooking competition. It is excellent with its praise of all the elements of Chinese cuisine and some of China's history. "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen - Third best book I've read this year (First being "The Time Traveler's Wife" and second being "Farewell My Subaru"). Loved the story, the protagonist, the behind-the-scenes-of-an-old-circus background "Can I Keep My Jersey" by Paul Shirley - Eh. Autobiography of team-less NBA player. Wasn't as fascinating as I thought it'd be, but he has a good sense of sarcasm and proportion. "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood - Reading now, am liking it so far. Sort of "1984" told in a woman's voice. |
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Posts: 12407 (08/28/08 8:07 PM) |
DCReads56 wrote:Really? Oh, pick it up again in a couple of months. Seriously. Your other opinions tell me enough that I think there's at LEAST the possibility it just caught you in the wrong frame of mind for it. It's definitely a different novel for Chabon, but I think it works really well for what it is. If you just accept the conceit and let the ramifications of it sink in, and relate to the characters at their face value under those circumstances, I think you'll end up really appreciating it. But maybe not. Different strokes. |
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shrewlaura |
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Posts: 1726 (08/28/08 8:34 PM) Registered user |
I'm working on War and Peace right now. Ask me in a couple months, I'll still be working on it.
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CBRetriever |
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Posts: 20555 (08/28/08 8:34 PM) MESS member |
that's how I feel about the Malazan book I'm reading - I keep falling asleep
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meatball77 |
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Posts: 8612 (08/28/08 8:42 PM) Registered user |
I'm reading Reconstructing Brigid. It's not great.
I just finished the twilight series. It was good, but there were sections of all of the books that just did not work for me. I liked the last book except for the entire section that was narrated by Jacob which I just wanted to be done with so we could get back to Bella's story. |
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Surge22 |
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Posts: 2112 (08/28/08 10:32 PM) Registered user |
Subtitles.
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Savannah Smyles |
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Posts: 6 (08/29/08 5:15 AM) |
I am reading Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral By Kris Radish. I love this author.
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yellow ledbetter |
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Posts: 4 (08/29/08 5:21 AM) |
I just finished reading Eat Pray Live... Interesting stories about a woman lost after a divorce with nothing keeping her in America. One year in her life,
travelling Italy (Eat), India (Pray), and Live (Indonesia)...
Very funny, and quite page turning :) |
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Mandie |
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Posts: 978 (08/30/08 4:53 PM) Registered User |
I've read a few books this week:
Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr. I didn't like her first book, so I'm not sure why I felt compelled to read this one. This one really dragged for me. I think I hated it more than Wicked Lovely. Devilish by Maureen Johnson. I just love her humorous voice, but probably my least fave of all her books. It felt rushed to me, and I didn't really care about the characters. The male hero was a bit too passive. The Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead -- wow I just loved this one. Now I have to get the next one in the series. And then I read the 12 chapters of Midnight Sun that Stephenie Meyer posted on her website. I found it interesting, couldn't really put it down, but at the end I sort of wondered what the point was--all the tension was gone because I'd already read the story from Bella's POV. I would be much more interested in a prequel from Edward's POV than a retelling of the same story. (I'm reading YA paranormals for a reason, so if you have any suggestions, I'm all ears. Ideally, ones without vampires.) |
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wrsrules |
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Posts: 911 (08/30/08 5:09 PM) |
i thought it was "eat, pray, love"
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meatball77 |
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Posts: 8631 (08/30/08 5:57 PM) Registered user |
I loved Devilish
Ok, YA paranormals. 
About a Teen witch http://megcabot.com/jinx/jinx.php Avalon High http://megcabot.com/avalonhigh/avalonhigh.php Lancelot and Arthur reborn The mediator series http://megcabot.com/mediator/mediator_shadowland.php Girl talks to ghosts, and one is very very hot Airhead http://megcabot.com/airhead/airhead.php Better if I don't tell you what it's about. I'm a little obsessed with Meg |
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Je Fa |
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Posts: 402 (08/30/08 5:59 PM) |
I'm reading The Invasion of America by Francis Jennings. It's an ultra-PC academic history about Native Americans, and that might turn off
readers. But it's really well-written, almost literary.
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CadyH.realitysucks |
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Posts: 94 (08/30/08 8:07 PM) |
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Dinosaurs on the Roof by Dave Rabe |
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loveski |
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Posts: 1008 (08/30/08 8:15 PM) Registered user |
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - the movie was fantastic but the book is amazing. I can't believe he "wrote" this with eye blinking. Very
moving.
Has anyone read Cormac McCarthy's The Road? If so, is it as good as people say? |
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