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I've tried and given up on reading The Fountainhead a half dozen times. I've never made it further than page fifty or so.
There's something unsettling about the way Rand's settings (at least in that book) seem untethered from reality -- they just didn't seem to be a part of "this" world, yet didn't seem detached enough to be part of some fantasy world, either.
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quote:Originally posted by Fat Cramer: BTW, yesterday I saw a copy of J. Strange with a black cover - mine (from Amazon) was white - I wonder if they're playing on the white/black magic idea, and which cover is selling better?
I just saw an edition with a red dust jacket.
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"Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme"...its about the woman who was a member of The Manson Family that tried to assinate President Ford in 1975
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"Graves End"
Supposed to be a true story of an old haunted home in Brooklyn. Creepy & cool. Bt Elaine Mercado. Before that: "Take a Walk on the Dark Side: Rock & Roll Myths, Legends & Curses" by R. Gary Patterson. Fun, but too much speculation. but that's why their myths & legends.
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From: OA | Registered: Nov 2004
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I'm reading the Da Vinci Code and I'm rolling on the floor laughing every five minutes or so. It's obvious this guy has never set foot in Paris when he describes the city and the different places he goes to... Having worked both at the Louvre and the Orsay Museum, I can tell you that the whole beginning is just bullcrap LOL
For example, in the first chapter, there's no way a car can drive in the Jardin des Tuileries (you have to go around it) and you can't see the Louvre lobby from the outside of the pyramid... And of course, the Louvre never had that nifty security system they describe in the first chapter...
But I think it's the most hilarious book I've read this year so far
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From: Edinburgh, Scotland | Registered: Oct 2004
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I actually read a bit into how these codes are derived. A lot of it involves rearranging the letters in whatever way is more convenient. Worst of all, you can find a _lot_ of the same words in most any lengthy book.
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From: Newburgh, NY | Registered: May 2004
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I'm about halfway through Imajica now.....I've found barker hit or miss in the past; this one is one of his hits
From: Fort McMurray | Registered: Nov 2004
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I enjoyed DaVinci code (and Angels/Demons). I gotta say I enjoyed the Code mostly cause I was reading it while traveling in Italy. But as a big mythology fan i gotta say the author made some big leaps where I thought were pretty silly sometimes.
Had to explain some of the real history to my gf.
Anyways reading Count of Monte Cristo...damn it's long. Sometimes I ferget what the hell is going on. Talk about continuity...i may need to by cliff notes...doh!
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Actually Angels and Demons was pretty far fetched psuedo history/mythology as well. ick. I am just into history and europe so i am a sucker.
Blood and Gold by Ann Rice (story of Marius) was pretty good in that regard (european history) just finished that two weeks ago.
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Just finished five Star Wars Books in the last month: Planet of Twilight, The Crystal Star, and The Black Fleet Crisis Trilogy.
The first two were generally ill received by SW fandom, so I was wary about them before I started reading them. "Planet" was probably the weakest SW book I've read to date and The Crystal Star was not without its problems but a little more enjoyable.
The Black Fleet Crisis Trilogy was pretty decent though. Terribly anti-climatic in my opinion, but the author wrote the characters very well, both new ones and the main ones.
Only four more Star Wars books to go, and I'm finished with the Expanded Universe.
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From: NOVA by way of NOIN | Registered: Jul 2003
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Haven't been able to finish book two of the Dark Tower yet. Just not hooking me in at the moment. So I picked up Caleb Carr's The Angel of Darkness, the sequel to The Alienist. Pretty good read so far. About 450 pages into it.
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