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I haven't started Jonathan Strange yet, but one of my co-workers says that it picks up after the first few hundred pages and becomes quite engrossing.
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sorry, I am awake now. I will really try soon to get into it but it is just casuing me to fall asleep...
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I was seriously considering buying Jonathan Strange, but now I'm apprehensive... I don't handle long, slow novels well...
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STU, I know that you have lots of experience reading long excruciatingly slow pieces of writing - I think you can handle it.
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Last book I finished was "Darwin's Children" by Greg Bear. I liked it. I'm currently in the middle of (as I have been for at least 2 years now) "You are being Lied to". It's interesting reading.
-------------------- Dan
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quote:Originally posted by Semi Transparent Fellow: STU, I know that you have lots of experience reading long excruciatingly slow pieces of writing - I think you can handle it.
Yes, but those have pictures!
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quote:Originally posted by rtvu2: Did yo hear the M. Night Shaylman (director of Sixth Sense, The Village) is set to adapt the novel(Life of Pi) for a movie?
Please, PLEASE say it isn't so! That man couldn't direct a bowel movement!!!
From: elizabeth,nj | Registered: Jul 2003
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I liked Life of Pi. Didn't think I would, but it was really quite good. The death of the Zebra was heart-breaking.
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It would be interesting to see M Night handle it. He is actually from the area in India that the book begins with. So I would have to wait and see how he envisions it coming to life.
And Stu, don't take my posts as indication of Johnthon Strange. I have liked what I have read so far, it is just alot more dense then I expected. Dense in a good way.
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I went to a book Signing last night. Tad Williams was signing his latest - Shadowmarch. He's a very personable fellow and since the group was small, there was plenty of opportunity for interaction with him. I took my set of the Otherland novels, and War of the Flowers, which he graciously signed and personalized based on our conversation. In addition, my copy of Shadowmarch was the first copy of that book that he has signed - and he annotated my book to indicate that.
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A friend of mine (the same one for whom I just finished catsitting) loaned me a copy... it's supposed to be terrific.
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