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Actually, I really, really enjoyed the film. But I'm hung up on the fact that I know the twist and I wonder if that ruins the book for me. I wonder if I'm just rationalizing not reading it because a) I've seen the movie and b) I'd rather start with Two Thousand Splendid Suns.
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03-27-2008, 12:35 AM | #514 |
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I just finished "Getting Mother's Body," the 2003 first novel of Pulitzer winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks.
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I also finished the Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci. It's YA literature, but it's an absolutely excellent mystery that also deals with a lot of social issues relevant to high school kids (bullying, popular kids vs. outcasts, the falsehoods of the perfect appearance). Currently reading Spanking Shakespeare by Jake Wizner, and I have about 10 pages left. Tore through it in a couple of nights before bed. Hilarious book that is great for any teenage boy who you don't mind reading something a little edgy. Sort of similar in tone and theme to my other favorite YA read of this year, King Dork by Frank Portman. For more weighty fare, I have the Omnivore's Dilemma lined up in the queue.
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03-27-2008, 09:46 PM | #516 |
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If there are any Arthur C. Clarke fans out there, I'm about 200 pages into his last work and loving it. It's a collaboration with Stephen Baxter (British Hard Sci-fi author) called "A Time Odyssey". The trilogy is "Time's Eye", "Sunstorm", and "Firstborn". I think Baxter had the most to do with book 2, it's not as good as the first and last (so far).
Clarke called it an "orthoquel". In "A Space Odyssey", the intelligences that sent the Monolith were cultivating "mind" throughout the galaxy. In "A Time Odyssey", their goals and methods are considerably different. It's no "Childhood's End", but what is?
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I think this was one of my favorites of his, along with American Pastoral. His early writing seems to be whimsical and funny, while the later writings have a lot more anger and emotion. Reading the Human Stain and American Pastoral just got me really riled up and got me to think a lot about our country. He is definitely my favorite author. Hopefully you got around to a book of his that you actually like.
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03-28-2008, 12:52 PM | #518 |
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I just started rereading "A Game of Thrones", first in George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire".
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03-28-2008, 01:03 PM | #519 |
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The last four I've read are:
The Street Lawyer by John Grisham Obsession by Jonathan Kellerman Power Play by Joseph Finder The Collectors by David Baldacci Collectors and Power Play were easily the best of the four, followed by The Street Lawyer, and I didn't care much for Obsession I am now reading Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child and it is good so far |
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03-28-2008, 01:07 PM | #520 |
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"Overhearing the Gospel" by Fred B Craddock.
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Still reading The Client. I wake up at 6:00AM and get an hour of reading in before the rest of the family wakes up. I make a fresh pot of coffee, sit at the kitchen table in my robe and read for an hour. Its' quality time. I try to read at night, in bed, but after about 10 minutes, I'm nodding off.
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03-28-2008, 07:41 PM | #522 |
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Nelson's Trafalgar by Roy Adkins.
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03-28-2008, 09:31 PM | #524 |
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Finished James Crumley's The Final Country about 3 am this morning. Not his best novel (that would be 'The Last Good Kiss' or 'Dancing Bear') but very good 'hardboiled' detective fiction.
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I've been re-reading some of August Wilson's plays from his Century Cycle: Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Jitney, Radio Golf, etc). I'm about to start on some things I picked up at the North Kansas City Public Library book sale: "Last House," by my beloved M.F.K. Fisher, and "The Eleventh Draft," a book on the craft of writing by former students and faculty of the Iowa Writer's Workshop. |
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