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Post by hermoine on Sept 21, 2004 15:51:56 GMT -5
Well I guess she was.
Rain, you're a bookworm. No way of denying it.
No I haven't actually WW, but I checked up on them, and they seem very interesting indeed. The Edge Chronicles is about a pirate isn't it? I've also checked on Tamora Pierce and the Immortals Trilogy sound like a good read too.
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Post by Lynn Nightshade on Sept 29, 2004 11:10:29 GMT -5
I just finished The DaVinci Code last night. If you want a book that can really get your wheels turning, pick it up. It's a really great read.
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Post by hermoine on Sept 29, 2004 12:32:03 GMT -5
Oh oh! I seriously want to read that book! There's also its sequal Lynn; Angels and Demons.
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Post by RainFrost on Oct 2, 2004 13:44:50 GMT -5
WW, I'd probably have to say that Tamora Pierce is one of my favourite authors. I've read every single one of her books and with the exception of her newest one I've probably read all of them atleast three times each.
Yea Hermoine, I think you're on to something with me being a bookworm. By the way, 'The Immortals' is a quartet.
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Post by hermoine on Oct 3, 2004 4:50:08 GMT -5
Oh, sorry about that. On Amazon it showed up as a trilogy. Dunno.
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Post by Ritsu on Oct 3, 2004 9:47:47 GMT -5
I'm reading two books at the same time, one for school and other that isn't. So:
Os Maias, Eça de Queirós (school; he's a brilliant Portuguese author we're going to study in a while... the book would be more enjoyable if I wasn't under such pressure to finish it in two weeks, and I'm still on page 200 and something - the book has 500. But it's a really good and entertaining book, a very accurate critic to that age's society (1870/1880) and it's curious to see that some things still happen nowadays. Curious and sad, because it means our evolution has been a bit... a bit? slow.
In Search of Lost Time, Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust (I'm reading it in Portuguese, obviously... I couldn't handle the English version neither the original one. My French is something... hilarious).
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Post by Simply Panda on Oct 3, 2004 14:51:08 GMT -5
Right now I am reading a book called "The curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime" and it's pretty good. I havn't had a lot of time to read because of all of the school work I also have to do... but I'm sure I'll finish it soon, and when i do, I'll let y'all know how it was!
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Post by Zicdeh on Oct 11, 2004 23:07:48 GMT -5
I just finished the Da Vinci Code- an awesome book. I loved the anagrams in it
Another book i just finished before hand is called A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth. It's a big, big read (1500 pages of really small print), but it's worth it. You almost wish it kept going.
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Post by Calavera Diablos on Oct 19, 2004 3:47:56 GMT -5
portrait of the artist as a young dog by dylan thomas a boy's own story by edmund white someone you know by gary zebrun by ash, oak and thorn by d.j. conway drawing down the moon by margret adler
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Post by hermoine on Oct 26, 2004 11:40:02 GMT -5
I started reading Want to Play? by P.J. Tracy just this morning. It's a great read! Nice thriller, inviting the reader in the very curious parts of the gruesome human anatomy a.k.a. someone died. But I find it a very good book to get my mind of things like how confused my future is right now. With this book, you'll find yourself pondering on stuff, death being one of them.
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Post by hermoine on Nov 2, 2004 15:18:51 GMT -5
I finished Want to Play? today. It was so awesomly cool! I experienced the thrill of page-turning again!(Although I was supposed to be studying physics ) When I finished, I was like "How does she(the author) do it? She is such a great writer!" And then I went in the same pondering of whether I will ever meet such writers' standards.
But now, happily, I'm gonna start The Da Vinci Code!!! Weepee!!! I've been wanting that book for ages.
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Post by hermoine on Nov 25, 2004 12:30:14 GMT -5
(Hate to be posting yet again after 2 of my previous posts )
I have just finished The Da Vinci Code. Like an hour ago approximately. I've decided to read a book in Maltese, which I haven't done since last year's summer. In English the title would be "The Witness Who Didn't Show Up" I'm not going to write the title in Maltese; you wouldn't be able to read it anyway.
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Post by Nie on Nov 27, 2004 8:23:25 GMT -5
I've been reading alot of late. In one night I read The Chocolate Hollow Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin, and He Died With a Falafel in His Hand by John Birmingham. Two good reads. I highly recommend He Died with a Falafel in His Hand to anyone who's ever lived in a share house. But yeah, I read htem both in one night. Then I read The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett in a night. I've really fallen in love with the Terry Pratchett books I've read. In particualr I like the characters in The Watch in Anhk Morpork. I also read The Da Vinci Code in a night. Not only was a book that kept you riveted with it's plot twists, but it had an awful lot of things in it that sparked my iinterest. I won't go into detail for fear of giving too much away. I read The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett in a night as well. I seem to be unable to put a book down once I've picked it up these days. I just love reading and didn't do much of it for a while because I had run out of books to read where I was. I've started just buying books that I want to read when I see them now and have had to go buy a new bookshelf to store them all in. Oh well. Now I'll have to fill that one up too. ;D
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Post by hermoine on Nov 27, 2004 8:54:17 GMT -5
You read The Wee Free Men Nie? I bought it, and will be receiving it in exchange for the vouchers(the whole prize day procedure) together with Lirael(now I know where you had got your name from;)) and Sabriel.
The book I'm reading is turning out to be quite interesting too.
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Post by En on Nov 27, 2004 13:43:59 GMT -5
Oo, Panda, I just got a copy of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime in my shop, and it looks interesting - would you tell me about it? (because booksellers have no time to read )
I did sneak some time to finish Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Neuland, which was... whoa. It's loosely based on the events in Melville's Moby Dick, though you don't have to have read Moby Dick to appreciate this book. There are some interesting cameos by 19th-century famous historical figures - an astronomer, some writers (including Hawthorne and Emerson), etc. - and there are adventure scenes in with family scenes in with history - but it's got some pretty tense moments, so if you're not into dark, don't read it. Fascinating though. Oddly, suspenseful - I mean the storytelling is really good, really makes you want to know what happened next, or sometimes what happened first, because it's not like 1, 2, 3, in order, you know? It goes big thing, some background, weird thing, some effects, not necessarily in chronological order. But I liked that about it, a lot.
Plus it has a girl disguised as a boy, some bizarre childhood superstitions, and all these awesome real historical people in interesting situations, so it felt like - like revisiting people I knew and finding out more about them, oddly enough. But overall - yay. And yay for having a leading female character who is in no way a wilting save-me chick. She's very feminine and also tougher than granite. Yay.
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