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Hussy
Member
08-06-2004
| Monday, June 12, 2006 - 3:33 am
My sister just finished Marley and Me, she said it was a little so and told me the ending so I am passing on it...
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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Monday, June 12, 2006 - 5:40 am
In Cold Blood is about a family in Holcomb, Kansas that was murdered in their beds one night by two men who met in prison. Me, being a Kansas kid, had always heard about the book, but not read it. I think that it's just too "heavy" of reading for when I have time to sit down and read, which is right before bed. I can't get one or two pages of that read before I fall asleep. last night, I read the first 17 pages of Marley and Me before I turned my light off.
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Spoton
Member
09-16-2005
| Monday, June 12, 2006 - 6:06 am
In Cold Blood is a VERY intense read! I first read it when I was in high school, then saw the movie when it came out ((1969, perhaps?) It so happened that it was the FIRST movie my girlfriend ever went to (her parents were very, very strict), and she went to it with me. She about freaked out! But the book is quite good - Capote is a talented author.
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Zachsmom
Member
07-13-2000
| Monday, June 12, 2006 - 6:45 am
hmmm... I "think" I might have read it, not sure though. I have read so many books that I forget what I have and haven't read! I will go to barnes & noble this weekend and check it out.
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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Monday, June 12, 2006 - 11:10 am
It is definitely a very intense read. One of the reasons it is not a good bedtime read for me! LOL
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Zachsmom
Member
07-13-2000
| Monday, June 12, 2006 - 11:15 am
LOL, You should see some of the stuff I read at night! Wow, what nightmares are made of! I love true crime books, one of my favorite genre. I don't like the crimes that were committed, mind you, but I do take away a little something. Sometimes it's just nice to remember the victim.
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Spoton
Member
09-16-2005
| Monday, June 12, 2006 - 11:31 am
I like the "true crime", too. I like a lot of Ann Rule's books - she really gets down to the detail of what led up to the crime - how the personalities developed, etc. There have been a few interesting cases around here that I'd love to have he dig into!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, June 12, 2006 - 11:45 am
I enjoy Ann Rule's books very much.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, June 12, 2006 - 3:33 pm
Has anyone read Sebastian Junger's new book about the Boston Strangler? It's called A Death in Belmont, and it just arrived in my mail. It's a true crime story, and he is an excellent reporter, so I'm looking forward to reading it. However, I'm finishing up Hoot (DS said I had to read it before we saw the movie! LOL), and Battle Cry by Leon Uris. I love being out of school! Finally - -time to read for more than 10 minutes. I have to read 100 Years of Solitude this summer, too, since it's on the AP reading list for next year. Anyone have any suggestions for how to approach magical realism and Marquez's writing???
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Monday, June 12, 2006 - 5:11 pm
Battle Cry by Leo Uris is one of my all time favorites. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Monday, June 12, 2006 - 8:24 pm
Zach's mom: It's not that the stuff is gory and nightmare causing, it's just that there's so much that Truman put into his book. I have done a lot of Dean Koontz reading at night. Some of his stuff is pretty "fun." LOL I guess that now that it's summer and I just want to relax outside of work, I need a book that is easier to relax with! In Cold Blood isn't a relaxer. It is good though!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, June 13, 2006 - 3:32 pm
I just finished the most wonderful book called The Book Of Bright Ideas by Sandra Kring. It made me laugh, cry, smile and just warmed my heart.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, June 14, 2006 - 6:41 pm
I wrote to Sandra Kring after I finished reading the book to tell her just how wonderful it was. She sent me back a lovely email and told me that I was her first fan letter for the book so she'd like to send me an autographed copy. I thought that was so sweet!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 5:59 am
Kay Hooper's Hunting Fear. She's one of my favs.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 10:30 am
I really liked Hunting Fear too. Problem with Kay Hoopers books is I don't want to quit until I've finished the whole book and DH thinks he needs to eat three times a day!
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Monday, June 19, 2006 - 8:16 am
Just finished Edge of Evil A new series started by J.A.Jance. The book is getting a lot of mixed reviews. I like her Detective Beaumont of Seattle series especially but I enjoyed this book. It was a nice easy read and I did not know who the killer was until the last chapter. I was wanting it to be some other scum-ball characters. Good rainy day book.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, June 19, 2006 - 8:32 am
I might have already said this, but Ann Rule has a wonderful website that she keeps up-to-date on all the time -- she is an active participant in their chats and writes a blog pretty frequently. It is annrules.com if you want to check it out. She has updates on some of her stories over the years and lets you know what she is writing now.
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Monday, June 19, 2006 - 3:17 pm
I finished reading And You Know You Should Be Glad by Bob Greene, this afternoon. Although it has a sad premise---an old friend is dying and his closest friend comes to be with him--it has all the memories and joys they shared. They met in kindergarden, and thru Greene's other books on growing up in the 50s and 60s in Bexley Ohio,{Be True To Your School} you meet Allen Jack Chuck Bob and Dave. Ordinary people in an ordinary world, but the author makes them come so alive, you'll feel as if you have known them for years too.
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Bluejaxrock
Member
04-23-2004
| Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 5:33 am
Z'mom...In Cold Blood is one of those novels that I revisit about every other year. (Others are Gone With the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird because I consider them classic reads. I watched the movie, Capote, recently, and had forgotten that he and Harper Lee were friends before she became famous for Mockingbird. I liked the movie because it told the story of how Capote got the story of Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, and how close he became to Smith ("you and I are the same, except you walked out the back door and I the front"). Good movie. Great book.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 1:31 pm
my girlfriend's aunt used to hang out with tyrone power and truman capote in long island. (the aunt translated books into english for a very famous south american woman and the rumors about them being lovers was true...) anyway, she told me she was hosting a birthday party for truman many years ago and she walked into the kitchen and he was counting his candles, sitting on the counter with his legs crossed, and crying his little heart out because he was getting old. LOL she said he looked like a homosexual elf and they both laughed and started throwing pieces of cake at each that they tore into with their bare hands. i read "in cold blood" when i was in junior high and it scared the crap out of me, it was that good. i was just happy i didn't live like the clutter family out in the middle of kansas. the movie, with robert blake was excellent, too, and i love films that are done in black and white. i also had trouble believing robert blake got off on the murder rap, considering he was an actor and had played both murderers and cops and probably knew a whole lot about 'how to act'...
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 2:26 pm
Cablejockey, are you saying that someone of ABCD&J is sick and dying!!! "Be true to your school" is one of my favorite books of all time and the only book I have read twice.
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Wednesday, June 21, 2006 - 7:05 am
Unfortunately that is so. It was Jack and I think he died last year of cancer. I only found the book a couple of weeks ago. Have you read All Summer Long? Its another book about this group if guys spending the whole summer together like they did as teens, only in this book they are in their 40s.
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Wednesday, June 21, 2006 - 9:45 am
I am reading Dispatches From the Edge by Anderson Cooper and I'm wishing I could take the rest of the day off to finish it. I guess I'll have to wait until this evening.
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Cdbga
Member
10-04-2004
| Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 7:45 am
Native, I have that one on my personal reading list. I hope to get to it soon. I just love Anderson Cooper. I just finished The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, which I absolutely loved. So much so that I ordered her follow-up (The Mermaid Chair) today. I am struggling to finish Digital Fortress by Dan Brown, which I pretty much hate. I don't know why I even bought the thing, since I didn't care much for his writing style when I read The DaVinci Code, but I can't just not finish it, because once I start a book I have to finish it. I'm also struggling with Reading Lolita in Tehran. It has just been hard for me to really get into...I haven't adjusted to the author's writing style. It seems like I'm always reading 2 books at a time (I carry one with me as my "travelling book" to read when I'm on my lunch break, or waiting in line somewhere and keep another at home. I find that if I take out the travelling book to read at home, more often than not I forget to take it with me the next time I leave) and it can be hard to get into a book if the writing style is too different from the other one I'm reading. With Reading Lolita it always seems that by the time I've fallen in with the writing style again, my reading time is up. Next on my list is The Borgia Bride by Jeanne Kalogridis. It is the historical fiction that I love so much, but had sort of OD'd on, which is why I took a break with the last few books.
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Saggkl
Member
07-17-2002
| Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 10:22 am
I saw Anderson Cooper on The Daily show and he said he wrote every word. No ghost writer for him.
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