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The wait list at the library was already about 7 or 8 people deep. Maybe I'll just buy the damn thing. Or else I'll kill time and read some of the other books that are tied in with the Dark Tower series first.

just went to Barnes and Noble and picked up Johnthon Strange and Mr Norrell. Could someone have warned me that the book was a brick and a half?


Heard great things and can't wait to read it though.

RTVU2, Susanna Clark was in San Francisco yesterday at a local bookstore. She spoke about how she developed the story and then read a passage. I got my copy signed. It is a big book, isn't it. I like big books.

I just started 'A Series of Unfortunate Incidents' at the advice of my coworker but have also started The Iliad (only read The Odessey in high school) and The Alchemist. Oh and I got the Ultimate Spider-Man hardcovers so I wouldn't be too intellectual

That's a bit of an understatement, but then again who dosen't like big stuff.

So what did she say? It seemed from reading the jacket flap and stuff that it took here more then maybe three years to write the entire thing. That's alot of dedication there. Did everything she say seem that more intelligent and witty because of her british accent?

Just finished "Momo", by Michael Ende, who also wrote "Neverending Story". It's written in a very simple style, but it's rather engaging.

To all the people whoa re reading Johnthon Strange and Mr Norell---thoughts so far?

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.

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.

Is Talisman a work of fiction, or is it written ostensibly as non-fiction?

I love reading about secret-society conspiracies.

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.

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.

Anyone here read Augesten Burroughs? He wrote Running with Scissors and Dry. His new book of essays -Magical Thinking?- comes out today.

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.

Are you looking forward to the live-action movie?

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.

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'.

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).

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.

Nope, not yet, although Chris keeps meaning to go and buy it. I'm kinda wary of it simply because I like the end of Rosemary's Baby so much that i sort of don't want to know what might happen next.

I'm really excited about this. The trailer looks great and managed to convince me of the casting choices, which I had some hesitation over (I needed to get my mental images of Patric Stewart as Count Olaf and Maggie Smith as Aunt Josephine out of my head). I dunno if I can get over it if more movies happen and anyone aside from Parker Posey is cast as Esme Squalor.

I've got Casper on my Netflix list just to remind me what the director can do with a franchise film.

I was initially interested in this book but I saw some really bad reviews... this was the book that came out within the last ten years or so, long after the original, right?

There was also a made-for-TV sequel where Patty Duke took over the role of Rosemary, I tried watching it but couldn't make it past the first 30 minutes.

Anyway, I think I'd be interested in the new miniseries, see a contemporary translation of the material.

Son of Rosemary was release in 1998 I think, so it is pretty recent.

And I remember the TV sequel, 'Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby'. I don't remember much but do recall that Adrian was adopted by a brothel madam. Should have known then that the movie would go downhill from there.

From the "Why Would I Ever Buy This Book? Department"... at the Amazon site, a customer's review of a fantasy book "Kushiel's Dart" - the funny thing was this reviewer was generally favourable to the book.

There were segments of boredom, the first 250 pages is a real drag, I had to push myself through these pages in hopes the book would get better, fortunately it did.

The last three hundred pages could have been told within the span of 100-150 really. Pages 600-900 was a forced read.

I guess it got better after page 900...

Oy, reminds me of the comics reviews that say "This issue was even worse than the last. Joe Blackink's take on the Superteam Extravaganza is the worst take on the Superteam Extravaganza ever written. This series has become just painful to read and I bet the next issue will manage to be even worse."