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Sorry, RTVU2, I've bought Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (2 copies, actually) but I haven't started it yet. I'm sitll reading Oryx and Crake. But, the good news is that one of the guys at my firm finished it and is raving about it. He says it really picks up after a while and the ending is very satisfying.
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reading "Talisman," which weaves together all the neat secret-society conspiracies. it's a lot of fun, whether or not there's any thruth to it.
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Betty Edwards ("Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain") was at a local bookstore today. I spent my lunch hour listening to her and got my copy of Drawing signed, as well as her new book "Color". She's a very sweet lady.
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I think I'm going to make my annual attempt at reading "Main Street" by Sinclair Lewis. I've read "Babbitt" and "Elmer Gantry" in the past but every time I try "Main Street" I either get distracted or lose interest. Maybe this will be the time I get through it. I feel like I have to throw in something to balance out the fluff sometimes.
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Anyone here read Augesten Burroughs? He wrote Running with Scissors and Dry. His new book of essays -Magical Thinking?- comes out today.
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I'm rereading "The Slippery Slope" since the next Series of Unfortunate Events book came out a week ago. I love the books, but then I'm the kind of fancy pants elitist who would go ga-ga over puns about Virgina Woolfe and JD Salinger snuck into children's books.
I also like the idea of the a children's book that makes such a big deal of the protagonists thinking their way through problems, even if their solutions get pretty absurd at times.
quote:Originally posted by Semi Transparent Fellow: Sorry, RTVU2, I've bought Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (2 copies, actually) but I haven't started it yet. I'm sitll reading Oryx and Crake. But, the good news is that one of the guys at my firm finished it and is raving about it. He says it really picks up after a while and the ending is very satisfying.
Actually just saw this book as a featured selection from SFBC. I'm considering picking it up as well as the 50th anniversary copy of A Canticle for Lebowitz, one of the best post-apocalyptic novels ever written.
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quote:Originally posted by Semi Transparent Fellow: I've heard about the Canticle for Lebowitz. Isn't that about the shopping list?
Yeah, that's one of the items being illuminated by the monks at the beginning of the book while they are trying to get Lebowitz cannonized. It is a very good novel and I recommend it to anyone who likes that style (end of the world/future after a nuclear holocaust). With me it ranks right up there with 'On the Beach'.
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Just started 'Monstrous Regiment' by Terry Pratchett and it's very good so far (but then again Pratchett is always good. Some of his books, however, are brilliant. To early to tell which category this one fits into).
And I just finished 'Rosemary's Baby'. I kinda wish I hadn't seen the film beore seeing it since obviously I knew what was going to happen but that wasn't a huge problem. You still have that same sense of creeping dread that you get with the film. It's a pretty quick read and deceptivly simple. Very much worth reading, whether you've seen the film or not (and it has to be said the film is a *very* good adaption of the book).
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Ira Levin wrote a sequel to 'Rosemary's Baby' called 'Son of Rosemary'. Have you read it Bevis? Also ABC is making a mini-series based on both novels.
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