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Spunky
Member
10-08-2001
| Thursday, June 14, 2007 - 1:13 pm
just finished reading Rollback (Robert Sawyer) sci-fi, his latest, pleasant reading, but this time his future is too rosy (liked the idea of a personal robot, though)... yep the rollback is that your DNA can be reverted back to your youth... combined with the SETI experience, makes for a fun reading. I can't wait to read Axis (sequel to Spin) Robert J. Wilson. His future is not so rosy... But now I started some "deep" reading, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, very insightful for those who still ask the question "does He exist?". Oh well, in the end it's just a matter of faith, either you have it or you don't. If you have it and you like to think that way, good for you, if you don't have it and are happy with it, good for you as well. Both scenarios are perfectly acceptable. I have so many books on order, can't keep up...
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Friday, June 15, 2007 - 6:32 am
Mamie, I can't say that Three Junes is one of my favorites. I had a hard time warming up to the characters. Overall, it failed to engage me emotionally, but you are right, it is beautifully written.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, June 15, 2007 - 7:53 pm
Mary, I couldn't warm up to it either and just had to set it aside. I didn't feel like it was going anywhere even if it was so richly descriptive. I've picked up I've Heard That Song Before by Mary Higgins Clark and am having no problems getting through this one.
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Pamplemousse
Member
09-28-2003
| Sunday, June 17, 2007 - 12:16 pm
i am reading Pride & Prejudice .. my niece who got accepted at Smith wrote an excellent essay about Elizabeth Bennet which inspired me to read it... waiting in the wings is the newest Ann Rule book Too Late to Say Goodbye
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, June 17, 2007 - 1:05 pm
I'm reading The Last Summer (Of You & Me by Ann Brashares. I love her traveling pants books and am looking forward to see how she writes an "adult" book.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, June 20, 2007 - 4:59 pm
I was disappointed in The Last Summer. It wasn't bad but not very good either. I am on to Queen Of Broken Hearts by Cassandra King. I've loved the other books that I've read of hers so I'm being hopeful.
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Westtexan
Member
07-16-2004
| Wednesday, June 20, 2007 - 7:36 pm
I'm reading The Time Traveler's Wife. Let me hear rave reviews because right now it is just so strange and I feel like I am investing a lot of energy in making sense of what I'm reading. I'm hoping for a big payoff by the time I get to the end. It has the potential to be either amazing or a huge disappointment and waste of time.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Wednesday, June 20, 2007 - 9:01 pm
I only lasted a couple of pages with The Time Traveler's Wife.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, June 20, 2007 - 10:45 pm
I really loved it but I think it's an either you love it or hate it book.
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Knightpatti
Member
12-06-2001
| Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 8:57 pm
Just finished Thousand Splendid Suns. I read it in 3 days. Usually, it takes me forever to finish a book, but this one I could not put it down. I surprised myself that I understood most of the Arabic phrases (I have been taking Arabic classes for several months.) Heartbreaking story. I thought it was comical about the love for The Titanic and how they would hide and watch the movie. The first movie that my husband and I ever saw together was The Titanic. The Taliban rules were ridiculous! No kite flying! The whole country was a prison! Thank God for the USA!
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Knightpatti
Member
12-06-2001
| Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 8:58 pm
Now I want to go and buy The Kite Runner this weekend.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 10:34 pm
You should.
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Spunky
Member
10-08-2001
| Friday, June 22, 2007 - 7:43 am
The Kite Runner was for me a bit too melodramatic.. You'd like even more The Bookseller of Kabul. By the way I didn't realize there was so much talk on the book The God Delusion (which I just finished reading), especially on YouTube with videos etc,. Richard Dawkins is everywhere. But the matter is so simple it doesn't really require so much speculation. If we were meant to know we would know already. There is a good reason why we still don't know... it's for our own survival, the fact that we are kept guessing is what drives us on to live. so, we were meant NOT TO KNOW, by nature itself. Just like we cannot know the future but only the present and the past, for the same reason. Not knowing if there is a God or not it's imperative for our own survival. Let's say we finally received certain proof that God does not exist, we would be extinct in a very brief time since humans not wanting to put up with life's mysery will commit suicide at an increasing rate, and if only the rich and wealthy want to live we will end up with a cut-throat society which will eventually self-destruct. If we receive certain proof there is a God and a magnanimous one who will welcome us after death, we will no longer fear death and will not fight diseases or disasters to survive, thus will slowly become extinct. (and why would he not be magnanimous since we are the result of his creation, he made us the way we are, good and bad). So, there is a very important reason why we still don't know and will never know and both science and religion will give us palliative answers good enough for our survival. (those who kill themselves or kill others in the name of God are the weakest link, and luckily in the minority to imperil our survival).
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 5:48 am
I am going to reread 'A Mighty Heart' by Mariane Pearl. It is so interesting and so well written... really cannot recommend this book enough.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 6:20 am
Has anyone read "Three Cups of Tea"? What did you think? It's certainly an adventure story.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Wednesday, June 27, 2007 - 7:21 am
I finished "Wildfire" by Nelson DeMille on my trip up north last week. I was bound and determined not to have to take it back to Iowa again. I really enjoyed it. On the trip back to Iowa, we stopped at a couple of garage sales or "Rummage Sales" as they are known in those parts, and I found a few more books to add to my collection. I started reading "The Good, the Bad, and the Really Ugly" by Sondra Locke (Clint Eastwood's long time live in girlfriend). I am about 1/3 of the way in and I am thoroughly enjoying it. Like me, Sondra was born into a family where she didn't fit. Her love of books and thirst for knowledge was threatening to her parents especially her mother. (Wow! So close to home!) I have spent the better part of these beginning chapters being totally envious that she had such a unique and fascinating individual as a best friend. Gordon Anderson is someone that I would love to know, and I am so glad that Sondra is sharing him with me through these pages. When the heat becomes unbearable, I just sit in front of the fan and go off to be with Sondra and Gordon. I love these folks. They are so very different from me...but yet I feel a kinship. I am rooting for them.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Wednesday, June 27, 2007 - 11:45 am
Sharinia, is that the same Mighty Heart as the Angelina Jolie movie that's coming out soon?
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Wednesday, June 27, 2007 - 4:30 pm
Movie is in theaters starting last Friday. I saw it. Very good. Angelina is getting excellent reviews. I'm getting the audiobook (abridged). It's read by Mariane Pearl.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Friday, June 29, 2007 - 12:10 pm
Cool. The movie really looks good, didnt' know it was based on a book. I'm one of those 'try to read the book before I see the movie' people, so glad to know it's a book first.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Saturday, June 30, 2007 - 4:06 pm
I finished the Sondra Locke autobiography last night because I just couldn't put it down. Hubby was patiently waiting for me to go upstairs with him, but I told him I wasn't going until I finished the book...got there before midnight though! lol! I have started on another of the books I found at the "Rummage sale" last week. It is Called Twenty Grand and is a book of short stories by some well known authors, such as Sinclair Lewis, John Steinbeck, William Saroyan, and Irwin Shaw among others. The first story was by Majorie Kinnan Rawlings, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I am looking forward to reading the rest of them.
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Emmy
Member
05-05-2004
| Saturday, June 30, 2007 - 8:02 pm
I'm reading Jane Eyre for the first time. I must be the only one who didn't have it as required reading in school.
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Eris
Member
11-13-2003
| Tuesday, July 03, 2007 - 8:08 am
Just picked up Steven Kings Liseys Story cause it finally went to paperback,....also finally got Tori Amos Piece By Piece-I have wanted that for what seems like eternity now if i can just pull myself off the net long enough to read either of them lol
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, July 03, 2007 - 8:18 am
I'm going through a Stuart Woods phase. So far in the past week or so I've read NY Dead, Santa Fe Rules, and Cold Paradise.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, July 03, 2007 - 8:19 am
I've just started reading The God Of Animals by Aryn Kyle. A lot of my fellow online book clubbers have raved about it so I'm hoping that I'm not disappointed.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Friday, July 13, 2007 - 5:25 pm
Just finished Invisible Prey by John Sandford. Good plot with lots of freaky parts. He is a good writer to hold your attention.
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