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Summer Reading (pg. 7)
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by EvilDust
ya, do it do it do it! :)
It's got so many jaw-dropping "I can't believe that just happened!" scenes!
Very memorable and almost realistic characters and very witty dialogue. If you loved Silk, you'll love Tyrion even more! |
Silk was a cool character, didnt bond with him a load, but i LOVED his antics. and then u find out he's not even poor! LOL
Im looking forward to starting that series. "Tyrion" is a cool name too.
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| kabelicious |
| I cannot WAIT for the new Harry Potter book to come out. :) Only two more books left in the series - cannot wait to see how it all ends... |
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| rubyriva |
i just finished reading and highly recommend yann martel - life of pi
and if you enjoyed the davinci code and are interested/curious about reading more on the knights templar, conspiracies, etc., then i highly recommend reading umberto eco - foucalt's pendulum. it starts a little slow, but stick with it, it's great! i really enjoyed the davinci code and foucalt's pendulum really helped me to be realistic about all of the 'what ifs' introduced by dan brown.
next up is john grisham - the last juror for a light and entertaining summer read. :) |
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| muzzybear |
| quote: | Originally posted by rubyriva
i just finished reading and highly recommend yann martel - life of pi
and if you enjoyed the davinci code and are interested/curious about reading more on the knights templar, conspiracies, etc., then i highly recommend reading umberto eco - foucalt's pendulum. it starts a little slow, but stick with it, it's great! i really enjoyed the davinci code and foucalt's pendulum really helped me to be realistic about all of the 'what ifs' introduced by dan brown.
next up is john grisham - the last juror for a light and entertaining summer read. :) |
Thanx, ruby! |
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by rubyriva
next up is john grisham - the last juror for a light and entertaining summer read. :) |
Thats next or second next on my list. |
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| Jem_hadar |
Was in Barrie over the weekend and bought 4 novels at Chapters... actually, I was so lucky bc they had a deal going on, buy 3 get 1 free! I didn't even know, I just happened to decide to LIMIT myself to only purchasing 4 novels.
Hahahah, ask the girl I was with, I had a stack of 13 I was trying to decide between... and was it hard! FAR TO HARD!!
Ended up buying:
Jennifer Fallon - TREASON KEEP (Book 2 of the Hythrum Chronicles)
George R. R. Martin - A GAME OF THRONES (Book 1 of A Song of Ice and Fire Saga)
John Case - THE SYNDROME and
John Case - THE 8TH DAY |
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| *~LiSa-LoO~* |
Okay I just finished reading Portrait of a Killer, and I wasn't really impressed with the ending. As I mentioned before, I kind of enjoyed the book, but I didn't really like how the author jumped around a lot. The end I was really disappointed in though. The book is about Jack the Ripper right, and proving who he is. Well listen to what the last part of the book is (don't worry, it doesn't give anything away really)...it talks about how the guy who was Jack the Ripper, his wife died, and he didn't really marry her for love. Well he creamated her and was going to bury her by their house and have a nice ceremony and put a gravestone down with all this on it. What he did? He had a gravestone put down, with nothing special like he said (her family had to do it afterwards), and then during the ceremony, instead of burying her, he threw her ashes into the wind, which was blowing in such a way that the ashes blew all over the faces of her family.
I think that's pretty disturbing, but like I just didn't like how it ended on that note. I thought it would be something about how he was Jack the Ripper, and that the case was closed or something like that. Maybe it's just me.
Now I just started reading this other book...Itty Bitty Lies by Mary Kay Andrews. It's a girlie book, an easy read, and pretty good so far, (I'm about 100 pages in). It's about an OC type community and how all these couples are splitting up, and how everyone's trying to pretend that their families are perfect and not as corrupt as they actually are. When the husband of the main character takes off with all her money, she makes up this "little" lie about how he died. It seems like it'll be pretty funny. One thing I notice, they have a lot of commercial names in the book, like always mentioning McDonalds, Coca Cola, Home Depot...that kind of stuff, I just found it odd.
Sorry if this is long and babbly...I'm a little bit high! |
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| adityaindian |
| quote: | Originally posted by k@tie
awwww you're too sweet!!:D to be honest, I don't know everything I will need, because I have to do it through correspondence:whip: :whip: it's so much harder because I have to teach myself everything, and can't ask an english teacher for help. :( And what do you need to know about Scott Fitzgerald? I just may be able to help you! ^_^
I'm not doing that language book YET, but I'm sure I will have to do it at some point during my course. UGH I hate correspondence!! If anyone wants to do my English credit for me, I will give you $20!!!:D :wtf: :happy2:
p.s. Requiem for a Dream is supposed to be amazing. I hope to read that one too sometime |
The book requiem for a dream, is the movie Requiem for a Dream based on it?
I like books which are sort of based on real facts but which twist the real facts a bit and create fiction out of them. For example, Dan Brown's the Da Vinci Code. In the book Dan Brown picks up on Christianity and its history and twists it completely to make an amazing fiction out it. After reading the book, I got really inqusitive about what the truth about this whole thing is - the people, the cults, the secret organizations, the rituals etc etc. I found it great reading and thought provoking.
Can you guys think of any book like that? I would love to pick up one of those types. |
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by adityaindian
The book requiem for a dream, is the movie Requiem for a Dream based on it?
I like books which are sort of based on real facts but which twist the real facts a bit and create fiction out of them. For example, Dan Brown's the Da Vinci Code. In the book Dan Brown picks up on Christianity and its history and twists it completely to make an amazing fiction out it. After reading the book, I got really inqusitive about what the truth about this whole thing is - the people, the cults, the secret organizations, the rituals etc etc. I found it great reading and thought provoking.
Can you guys think of any book like that? I would love to pick up one of those types. |
All of Michael Crichton's latest are like that. He does years and years of research before his next novel is released (kinda annoying when you're waiting 2-3 years to read his next novel! :whip: )
I think you'd really enjoy PREY and his most recent, FEAR. They are so bloody facinating and intruiging. You'll love them I'm sure... where he takes his novel is mindblowing! Trust me, you'll have a hard time wanting to put them down!
Also is his 3rd most recently novel, TIMELINE (but do not let the movie jade you, it's an awesome novel, the movie really wrecked if, IMO) |
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| muzzybear |
| I'm almost finished Wally Lamb's "She's Come Undone" (an Oprah selection). It's a moving read. You can get really emotionally involved with Dolores, the main character. Disturbing and explicit at times, though. But really good. Just finished the sequel to "something borrowed" called "something blue". Really great books, too! I remember something borrowed was a little slow to get into, but again, you either really love or hate the characters, and the second book puts you into the other ones shoes. I love how authors can make you love and hate a character, and how they redeem themselves. Like the Shopaholic books. Becky Bloomwood I can relate to, yet she drives me crazy! |
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| *~LiSa-LoO~* |
| quote: | Originally posted by muzzybear
I'm almost finished Wally Lamb's "She's Come Undone" (an Oprah selection). It's a moving read. You can get really emotionally involved with Dolores, the main character. Disturbing and explicit at times, though. But really good. Just finished the sequel to "something borrowed" called "something blue". Really great books, too! I remember something borrowed was a little slow to get into, but again, you either really love or hate the characters, and the second book puts you into the other ones shoes. I love how authors can make you love and hate a character, and how they redeem themselves. Like the Shopaholic books. Becky Bloomwood I can relate to, yet she drives me crazy! |
My friend totally loves the Shopaholic books! How are those? Like what are they about?
Also, Wally Lamb...there's another one I read by Wally Lamb, and was also in Oprah's selection...dammit what's it called? It's about two twin brothers, and one is schizophrenic. I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE! That's what it was...read that if you haven't already! |
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