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Archive through July 14, 2005

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Mak1
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08-12-2002

Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 1:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
Evanovich has written some books other than the Plum mysteries, too. The first Plum book is One for the Money.

Is the violence holding you back from finishing Watership Down, perhaps? I loved the author using the word "lollop" for the way the bunnies moved sometimes. That's exactly the word for that movement!

Scout
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01-20-2005

Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 1:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scout a private message Print Post    
Race ya, Vee.

Vee
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02-23-2004

Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 1:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
LOL! Scout, you'll win...I am on page 283/492...have been reading since February. Sheesh, a lesser woman would have quit by now, right?

Mak, I don't know what it is. I sometimes enjoy a passage or two. It just doesn't grip me. My son loved it and told me to stop thinking of the bunnies as rabbits. Think of them as people he said...well that's a stretch. Maybe that's it...usually I can make the animals in allegories and such into people and I am having a hard time doing that with this book.

One for the Money is looking better all the time.

Saxywildcat
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05-30-2005

Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 2:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Saxywildcat a private message Print Post    
I am currently working on Dark Rivers of the Heart, by Dean Koontz. But earlier this summer, I read Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, books 1, 2, and 3. They are an easy read, but very enjoyable. I would suggest them to anyone.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 3:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Saxy, weren't they really good? My daughter and I both read all three. We went and saw the movie on Sunday. They made some changes to the book but overall, it was very well done.

You guys all talked me into it and I just ordered the first 6 Plum books. I can't believe that I haven't read one yet.

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 3:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
You'll enjoy them, Mamie! They get better as the characters develop, and what great characters they are!

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 6:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I'm really looking forward to them! You all have made them sound like so much fun. I'll probably just go ahead and order the other 5!

Saxywildcat
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05-30-2005

Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 6:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Saxywildcat a private message Print Post    
mamie: they were great! I'm headed home to spend some time at my parents tomorrow, I think I need to take the books with me to get my mom to read.

Myjohnhenry
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01-02-2002

Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 10:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Myjohnhenry a private message Print Post    
I am currently reading One Tuesday Morning by Karen Kingsbury and in the car I am listening to John Adams, written by David McCullough.
The John Adams book is absolutely fascinating and I am going to listen to Truman by the same author next. I want to read his latest book 1176...I read part of it at Borders and I watched him on PBS the other night talking about it.

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 10:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
Vee: You simply have to finish Watership Down because, imho, it has one the most beautifully written endings in modern literature. I want to say more but won't so as not to spoil it for you!

Vee
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02-23-2004

Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 10:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
Calamity, while I have your attention , are you the one who doesn't like spiders? Somehow I got Scout mixed up with someone and I am wondering if I got the two of you confused in my thinking.

I am working on that book...

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 1:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
Vee: Yeah, I am a bit of an arachnophobe. But I only freak out over the those ultra scary, sometimes hairy, big spiders. Of course, as we all know, "big" is a relative term...

Actually I saw a tarantula on tv the other day and thought to myself, "you know, they're not that creepy - in fact, they're almost cute". But then I came back to my senses.

ETA: Let's just say that if Watership Down had been about spiders instead of rabbits, I never would have read it.

Scout
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01-20-2005

Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 2:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scout a private message Print Post    
I just finished Watership Down and I thought the book had some really amazing symbolism. I also think that Lost borrowed heavily from it. Many of the characters correspond to characters in the book such as the Walt and Fiver who both know things that others don't know.

I noticed that Lost used "White Rabbit" as the title of one episode, and "Deux Ex Machina" which was the title of one of the last chapers in the book as well.

I think, though, that the main thing they "borrowed" was from the folk tale of the Black Rabbit of Inle. I think that holds the answers to the hatch that Locke found. It also might explain the white and black rocks found earlier at the caves.

I agree, Calamity, about the powerful ending. I don't want to say more either, because I don't want to ruin it. I have an idea where the storyline might go if they do continue to use ideas from the story.

I really enjoyed this book. At times, it bogged down somewhat, but I thought it was well worth it to finish.

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 3:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
Scout: Highlight this...it's not really a spoiler but I don't want Vee to see it by mistake!
®It is a beautiful ending, isn't it? Sad but also joyful. I was crying and smiling at the same time.¬

Btw, there is a sequel, Tales from Watership Down. It's not a novel, strictly speaking, but a collection of short stories. Some are about the warren while others are more tales from the rabbit mythology.

Oh and the Black Rabbit always reminded me of my rabbit, Licorice (I didn't name her), whom I had when I was young. She was a dwarf rabbit, black as midnight, and absolutely mad!

I agree about the parallels between WD and Lost - as well as a number of other stories I've yapped about in the Lost thread, not to mention some I've kept to myself!

Vee
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02-23-2004

Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 3:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
Scout! Are you kidding me?! Is that where you've been all day? Lost in Watership Down? I read ten more pages today and thought that I was doing well. Sigh...

Scout
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01-20-2005

Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 3:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scout a private message Print Post    
I felt exactly the same way with the ending to "Watership Down", Calamity. Lost is such a fun series because it's one of the few tv shows that ever bothers with symbolism or an intricate plot.

I thought for awhile there they were setting up for a confrontation between the two groups when they split off and some went to the caves and some stayed at the beach. Maybe they still are. But I thought maybe they were going to go for a "Lord of the Flies" type thing.

What novels have you compared it to? I could see where it could be compared to many with all the good vs. evil symbolism that they've used. It also reminded me a lot of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" - the lost world, the beauty and happiness that all could enjoy except for an evil force, etc. I'll have to go over and read up on the Lost thread some of your ideas.

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 4:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
I agree about the beauty of the ending. Don't give up, Vee.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, July 08, 2005 - 8:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I pushed my through the last Marian Keyes book I read. Made myself finish it (Yes I did, Jackie!).

I started reading Circle of Five about a group of friends who are Wiccans and I think are going to help solve the murder of a young boy and disappearance of another.

Kattatude
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04-28-2005

Friday, July 08, 2005 - 8:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kattatude a private message Print Post    
Hi everyone. I'm a new poster here, but a longtime reader. Love this site!

Anyway...I just finished Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie McDonald and have now started on The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.

Although I found Fall On Your Knees disturbing at times, I did like the book a lot.

Sillycalimomma
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11-13-2003

Friday, July 08, 2005 - 8:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sillycalimomma a private message Print Post    
Hi Kattatude!

I just picked up Devil in the White City by Erik Larson.

Bringing Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life. Erik Larson's spellbinding bestseller intertwines the true tale of two men-the brilliant architect behind the legendary 1893 World's Fair, striving to secure America's place in the world; and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death.


Im going to try and start it today and wizz through it so I can be done before Harry Potter! Hope it's a good read!


Saxywildcat
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05-30-2005

Friday, July 08, 2005 - 11:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Saxywildcat a private message Print Post    
Well, I was stupid and left my Dean Koontz book at back at my apartment, so since I'm home at my parents for a few days, i got Judy Blume's Summer Sisters. I remember reading Judy Blume's younger ppl books when I was younger. I thought it'd be worth a try to see how she does for adult readers

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, July 08, 2005 - 12:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I read that a while back, Saxy and I liked it.

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Friday, July 08, 2005 - 1:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
Scout: I'll post about my Lost thoughts later - have to leave now. I liked reading your ideas though! I love that show.



Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Friday, July 08, 2005 - 6:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
I'm reading Anne Rice's Blood Canticle. Another vampire Lestat book. I just love Lestat and can't get enough of him.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 7:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I finished Emily Ever After which was a very sweet and fast read.

I started True Believer by Nicholas Sparks and I am breezing through it. I like it very much so far. I am trying to be done with it before Harry Potter.