quote:Originally posted by RTVU2: Thrusday is a lousy night! How about the OC!
RT, I don't watch the OC. Absolutely nothing on Thursday, Monday, Tuesday or Saturday interests me. I should be able to get a lot of reading done, eh? I'm now at page 125 in Jonathan Strange. It's picking up and getting quite good. Two major new spells have been cast.
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I'm currently reading Otherworld: City of Shadows. It's a trilogy, but I only bought the first one because I wasn't sure I'd like the book. And considering it's 780 pages long, I want to know I like it before spending my money on the others. It's definitely a good book with a nice blend of sci-fi and fantasy (more sci-fi but with some elements of fantasy).
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ferroboy, did you mean, "Otherland, City of Golden Shadow" by Tad Williams? If so, the series is actually 4 very long volumes. As I posted above in this thread, I recently went to a book signing and had Tad Williams sign all 4 volumes of the Otherland series.
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Yes, that's the one, Semi. I find it quite enjoyable so I will be getting the rest. I'm actually moving through it faster than I would have expected but I still haven't made page 300.
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Has anyone read Jonathan Franzen's (sp?) The Corrections? My Chapters store is selling it for $9.99 (CDN) with an additional10% off and it's the hardcover edition. Is this worth the buy despite the low price tag? I heard it got a lot of buzz after the author was against wanting it on Oprah's Book Club.
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I read The Corrections. It's funny. Dysfunctional family that still manages to function in the end - but not so dysfunctional that most of us wouldn't recognize some of the elements in our own families. I wouldn't classify it as Pultizer material - too light - but the author had a way of tying together very disparate sub-plots which I enjoyed.
quote:Originally posted by ferroboy: I suppose I could read that, but I'm not a fan of her philosophy - or at least what I can remember of it from my Ethics class.
Her philosophy is not really up my alley either, but i do find her to be an excellent writer.
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I read a bunch of Ayn Rand books back in university. The best one for me was "We the Living", which I believe was one of her earlier works. It's not as preachy as the others. Atlas Shrugged was always famous for John Galt's 50 page speech. Readers seemed to be divided into 2 camps - those that plowed through those 50 pages and those that skipped it. I can't remember which I did. Nevertheless, I do not subscribe to her philosophy.
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