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Marysafan

Friday, April 18, 2003 - 10:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Wink!!!....Neville...lol!....well I was close! Nelson DeMille ...by the time I finish this book...I won't forget his name! I am already thirsting for more of his stuff.

I know Mr. DeMille knows about the names, because in the book he talks about meeting his former boss in front of the Wall at the point of the Tet offensive. You see that's the neat thing about having the names in consecutive order...you can go to a part of the wall and be at a point in time. Buddies who died together...are together on the wall.

...but I may go there just to let them know...that I noticed...and it really bugs me.

Wink

Friday, April 18, 2003 - 11:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mary I've yet to read a Nelson DeMille I haven't liked. Paul Brenner is a great character and I hope he does so more novels with this leading man. John Corey is another interesting character and he appears in Plum Island and I think a couple of others. Thanks for the heads up on the names at the Wall and I really think you should mail him.

Mak1

Friday, April 18, 2003 - 7:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm reading Afterimage by Helen Humphreys.

Seamonkey

Friday, April 18, 2003 - 7:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mak, will look forward to your impressions.. I've read her Lost Garden and really enjoyed that. I think Helen Humphreys is quite a good writer.

Zachsmom

Friday, April 18, 2003 - 10:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I love getting lost in Nelson DeMille..so far my favorite has been "Charm School"

Has anyone read that one? Was is so close to the truth that it's scary?

Stacerita

Sunday, April 20, 2003 - 9:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I am reading "Jarhead" by Anthony Swofford. Great book.

Wink

Monday, April 21, 2003 - 4:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Zachsmom, Charm School is one of my all time favourite books. Apparently that one along with Plum Island and Up Country have recently been optioned for a movie. It was the first of his books I had ever read and made me a fan for life.

Marysafan

Monday, April 21, 2003 - 7:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I was watching MSNBC this weekend when a commercial came on. The ad was for the book "Up Country"! It was so bizarre...first of all because how often do you see an ad for a book, but then to have it be for the book I was reading....well that was just way weird!

I read where Paramount Pictures has optioned the movie rights (They also did "The General's Daughter") and are in negotiations with John Travolta to reprise his role of Paul Brenner...but if it doesn't work out...Bruce Willis is their second choice.

ON page 216...the following conversation takes place between Susan Weber and Paul Brenner....

She smiled. "You keep up pretty good for an old guy. Do you swim?"

"Like a fish."

"Hike?"

"Like a mountain goat."

"Dance?"

"Like John Travolta"

I laughed right out loud.

Mak1

Monday, April 21, 2003 - 6:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What an odd coincidence, Marysafan. I don't recall ever seeing a book commercial. Funny quote, too, especially when you think of Travolta possibly being in the movie.

Seamonkey

Tuesday, April 22, 2003 - 7:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I saw that same ad..

Finished Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine.. enjoyed it very much and will likely read more of her books.

Starting Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife by Peggy Vincent.

Mak1

Tuesday, April 22, 2003 - 10:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Love Medicine was very well written, wasn't it, Seamonkey?

I finished Helen Humphreys' Afterimage and will definitely read Lost Garden. She is such a good writer, very descriptive, but not overly so. I liked the way she mixed some history of Ireland, mapmaking, and photography into the story, too.

Today I'm starting High Five by Janet Evanovitch.

Marysafan

Tuesday, April 22, 2003 - 10:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Stacerita, Can you tell us was "Jarhead" is about? I am assuming US Marines...but I have been known to be wrong about these things.

Djgirl5235

Tuesday, April 22, 2003 - 11:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just finished reading "The Breaker" by Minette Walters (who also wrote "The Sculptress"). While I truly enjoyed the book, it didn't grab me like Sculptress did. It was very well written, and the ending really got me, simply because it was sooooo obvious! I'm starting another by the same author tonight... Acid Row about a doctor who visits a patient in a low-income tenement. What the doctor doesn't know is that the home she is going to is the home of a known paedophile... The doctor gets trapped at the center of a siege when a child disappears... I'll let you know about this one when I'm done...

Seamonkey

Tuesday, April 22, 2003 - 1:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mak, yes.. Love Medicine was quite well-written. Lost Garden and you are quite right.. not overwritten at all. Very sweet; I think you'll like it.

Marysafan

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 10:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Okay...You folks who have read "Up Country"...did you ever reach a point in the book where you just wanted to yell..."FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.....ABORT THE MISSION!!!!!" or is it just me?

Weenerlobo

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 12:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I'm in between books. I got The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins for Christmas, but I haven't started it yet and I've got Silas Marner by George Eliot too. Can't decide which one I'm in the mood for.

Mak1

Thursday, April 24, 2003 - 12:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm reading I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.

Djgirl5235

Friday, April 25, 2003 - 11:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I finished Acid Row yesterday by Minette Walters (also wrote The Sculptress). EXCELLENT book - a definite "Can't put down", very well written and well paced! I would definitely recommend it!

Snee

Friday, April 25, 2003 - 12:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i'm just about to start 'the eyre affair' by jasper fforde.

Seamonkey

Saturday, April 26, 2003 - 11:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I finished Baby Catcher last night and was sad to reach the end. I loved her stories of each unique and wonderful client.. and I also came away, again, with anger at the shut-out of midwives by the US medical power structure. She gives some really telling statistics about US rates of infant mortality, etc.

Started a book recommended here, Laurie Graham's novel The future Homemakers of America which promises to draw me in.. my initial reaction is that this Brit doesn't have an ear for American speech, but that doesn't put me off from continuing to read :)

The covers of both of these books are so appealing!! I don't judge books by their covers but often find myself really treasuring some covers over others.

Marysafan

Saturday, April 26, 2003 - 1:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I finished Up Country by Nelson Demille this morning and am having a hard time saying good bye to Paul Brenner. I loved his sarcastic wit and his banter with Susan Weber. In comparison to the rest of the book, the ending was a bit of a disappointment, but that's all I'm saying.

I am not ready to move on, so that is making the choice of my next book rather difficult. I have a couple of Jeffrey Archer books, The Eleventh Commandment and The Fourth Estate so if anyone has read these, I would appreciate your recommendation.

In the meantime, I am going to read John McCain's book "Faith of My Fathers".

Marysafan

Sunday, April 27, 2003 - 5:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Okay...really felt the need for more of Nelson Demille especially his character Paul Brenner so I won an ebay auction of 9 Nelsom Demille books for $10.01! I can't wait until they get here!

Mak1

Sunday, April 27, 2003 - 5:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Good going, Marysafan!

I'm reading Hot Six by Janet Evanovich. We're going on a vacation to visit family in Baltimore tomorrow, and I'm taking Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd with me. I'm excited to get started on it because of the great reviews in this thread.

Seamonkey

Sunday, April 27, 2003 - 7:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mak.. be sure to have a fun hat to wear while reading Bees.. (it can just be in your imagination, of course)..

Bobbie_552001

Monday, April 28, 2003 - 4:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I've been absorbed in the "Left Behind" series for the last couple of months,and am currently about 1/2 of the way through #10...The Remnant. Has anyone else read the series and if so, do you have any idea when #11 is due out?? I'm afraid that I will go through withdraw!! But looks like I may have to find me a copy of Up Country. Thanks everyone for sharing.