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Maesin
| Monday, August 04, 2003 - 11:38 am
I recently read Dead Famous by Ben Elton. I picked it up while on vacation and I am not sure if it is available in the states. It's Big Brother gone bad, very bad. 10 people, one murder. Who-done-it/dark comedy. Light read, foul language and such. I wouldn't recommend this to everyone, but if you have a sick side and don't mind the R rating, it's really funny.
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Not1worry
| Monday, August 04, 2003 - 12:08 pm
This is terrible. The library had book 3 & 4 from the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series, but I have to wait on book 2. I can't start the others, but I can only keep them 3 weeks. I can't renew them because everyone else wants them on hold. I hate to not get them, because I'll have to wait weeks before they are available again. I'm afraid book 2 won't be available till the end and I'll have to devote all my time to reading all 3 books before they are due. They did have the latest Jonathan Kellerman though. At least I can get going on that one.
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Honey51
| Tuesday, August 05, 2003 - 5:23 am
In the last two weeks I've read To The Nines by Evonovich, The Lake House by Patterson and listened to Cold Heart by Kellerman. I enjoyed all three, none were deep but for light summer reading they hit the spot. Now I guess it's time to do a little housecleaning .
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Lizajane
| Tuesday, August 05, 2003 - 4:01 pm
Right now I'm reading Purity in Death by JD Robb (aka Nora Roberts). It's a pretty good series.
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Denecee
| Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 4:14 pm
I'm reading To The Nines right now and just finished Dean Koontz "The Face"
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Mak1
| Friday, August 08, 2003 - 10:49 am
I'm reading "Empire Falls" by Richard Russo. It's about to be made into a movie to be filmed here in Maine.
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Trishan
| Friday, August 08, 2003 - 12:12 pm
Hello, all. I just finished reading "Taste of Honey" by Eileen Goudge. I really enjoyed it; I'm looking forward to next book in the trilogy. (Previous one: "Stranger in Paradise", next one: "Wish Come True"). In previous weeks I've read: "Never Change" by Elizabeth Berg. If you don't like very sad stories, you should not read it...I found it left me depleted--has that ever happened to anyone? I enjoyed her "Open House" so much more. Also read "A Married Man" by British author Catherine Alliott--I quite liked it, although I found it boring in the middle (actually considered not finishing it), but the ending completely made up for its slow middle. Finished reading "Flirting with Pete" last week, by Barbara Delinsky. I absolutely loved "An Accidental Woman" & was hoping that Pete would be just as beautifully written & as engrossing, but it was not. Check BN.com or Amazon for reviews. As you all may have noticed, I'm a first time Library poster. 
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Denecee
| Friday, August 08, 2003 - 1:28 pm
Trishan, you've been too busy reading books! Good girl!
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Trishan
| Friday, August 08, 2003 - 7:12 pm
Thanks, Denecee! Will probably stop by BN tomorrow to buy a couple of bargain books (I've found $3.00 hardcovers) or might just stop at local library. 
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Ophiliasgrandma
| Saturday, August 09, 2003 - 9:56 am
Saw 'The Hours' and am now about ten pages from the end of 'Mrs. Dalloway'. It's about like slogging through thick, gooey mud. I don't recommend it by a long shot. In my humble opinion, Virginia Wolfe didn't meet a word she didn't like. Why am I bothering to finish it, you ask...just plain stubborness, I guess.
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Seamonkey
| Saturday, August 09, 2003 - 10:26 am
Good to see more people posting, Trishan.. I've read quite a few of Berg's books and like them. OG.. LOL.. I understand about that stubborn thang.. Just finished a long read, A Life Unfinished about JFK. Quite interesting and seems to be very very evenhanded. Now starting on the Oprah pick, John Steinbeck's East of Eden. I realized that is one of his books I hadn't read and just a few pages in, am enjoying his wealth of description.
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Ric_Munoz
| Saturday, August 09, 2003 - 6:02 pm
EOE is definitely the acme of Steinbeck's career; it's classic in the extreme.
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Trishan
| Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 4:21 pm
Hello, all. Just finished reading "The Perfect Summer" by Luanne Rice and quite liked it. I'd read her "Cloud Nine" several years ago...think I'll go to library and check out a few of her other books. Seamonkey, will check out Elizabeth Berg's other works. Went to BN today & got a couple of bargain books: "Gramercy Park" by Paula Cohen & "Rhode Island Blues" by Fay Weldon. Can't wait to start reading them both... 
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Not1worry
| Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 5:09 pm
Trishan, I just read The Secret Hour by Luanne Rice and enjoyed it a lot. She's got a series about the family that lives on the coast there, can't think of the name. But there's several books in the series. The nice thing is each book stands alone. I didn't read them in order and it was no problem, and I'm usually very picky about that! Finished A Cold Heart by Jonathan Kellerman. I enjoyed it, but there was one detail that bugged me! He had a fictional band named Tic 469 and that is such a take-off on Blink 182. It annoyed me that he couldn't be more original. Did I mention I'm picky?
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Kimmo
| Monday, August 11, 2003 - 12:45 am
Finally finished "How the Mind Works" by Steven Pinker, which was excellent! Still have to finish "That Hideous Strength" by C.S. Lewis (bedtime reading).... Still avoiding the randy autobiography of Frank Harris. I'm going to read "The Hours" next....
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Jan
| Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 12:48 pm
lizajane, I love the JD Robb "in death" series! Very sexy (well it is Nora Roberts!)but very fun take on a female homicide detective and her very wealthy husband in the "near" future. I have all 18 of them and I can't wait for the next one which is Imitation in Death due out next month. I also really like John Sandford and his "Prey" series with Lucas Davenport. HAs anyone read him? edited to add: in keeping with the theme of this thread, I am currently reading the elvis Cole series by Robert Crais. I am enjoying it but I am only 1/3 the way through the whole series.
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Kimmo
| Friday, August 15, 2003 - 1:16 am
I read one of the "Prey" books for the first time this year....I can't remember which one, it featured a murdered supermodel of sorts. It made me want to read the rest of the series but I haven't gotten around to that yet! I can't believe what a page-turner "That Hideous Strength" is! This is the best book in the "Perelandra" trilogy, I'm not even done yet! OG, I remember liking "Mrs. Dalloway," but reading "The Hours" makes me want to pick it up again. "The Hours" makes me almost wonder if I would actually like "Mrs. Dalloway" upon later reading. Can't believe this was the intent. I'm not blown away by "The Hours" but reserving judgment until the end...
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Not1worry
| Friday, August 15, 2003 - 10:10 am
Kimmo, what kind of book is "Hideous Strength"? It's part of a trilogy, right? So I'm assuming fiction at least. I've read snippets of C.S. Lewis and keep meaning to read more.
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Kimmo
| Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 1:33 am
Not, "Strength" is the 3rd part of Lewis's "Perelandra" trilogy...I got the trilogy for Mother's Day because I had just read all the Narnia books and really loved those. They're the interplanetary adventures of Ransom, a scholarly, middle-aged philologist (apparently based on Tolkien): #1, "Out of the Silent Planet," takes place on Mars-- It sets up the idea of life on other planets and how we self-centered, imperialist humans threaten to devalue life, etc. It was very funny (intentionally). I mean, they aren't new ideas now but I still liked how he wrote the book around them. In #2, "Perelandra," Ransom goes to Venus (Perelandra)-- Here we find Venus is like the Garden of Eden and Ransom has to help the Eve of this world avoid the mistake that was made on our world. Also funny, but more obviously spiritual/religious themes going on. I'm not religious, but enjoyed this and found those aspects, in the end, very touching. The third book is "That Hideous Strength"-- It's set on Earth and it's fantastic! It's so exciting, I love coming back and reading more. Conspiracy/ adventure/ war of the worlds type stuff. It pursues the same themes but completely differently from the first two books. I had never read C.S. Lewis when I was younger, except "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"-- I can't believe I waited so long to enjoy his books now.
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Kimmo
| Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 1:38 am
On "The Hours"-- Not even an hour after posting my underwhelm about this book, I got to the part where "it all adds up," I almost cried. It made me appreciate the book as a whole much more, and the subsequent chapters. But I think I'll still have to read "Mrs. Dalloway" to appreciate how Cunningham weaved that novel in. I recognized various allusions and quotes sprinkled throughout but I don't know if they resonated for me as much as I felt they were derivative or repetitive-- But maybe this is just because I have not read "Mrs. Dalloway" in 10 years.
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Mak1
| Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 4:03 am
Kimmo, I was overwhelmed by the end of the book. It was so clever how all the stories came together. I plan to read "Mrs. Dalloway", too. I haven't read it before, but feel like it's almost required after reading "The Hours".
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Seamonkey
| Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 6:53 pm
Just finished John Steinbeck's East of Eden and didn't want it to end, really.. Next book will be A. Scott Berg's new book, Kate Remembered which promises to be just great.. and has to be since it is about the Great Kate Hepburn. In the past I real Berg's long biography of Charles Lindbergh.
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Ric_Munoz
| Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 12:52 am
"Land's End" by Michael Cunningham. Reading "Mrs. Dalloway" before you read "The Hours" makes the latter experience infinitely more satisfying.
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Kimmo
| Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 4:56 am
Well, I just finished "That Hideous Strength"-- It got very apocalyptic/weird and quite gruesome toward the very end, which I expected, but not quite so horribly weird/violent as happened in one chapter. But then it spends the very, very end making sure we are properly acquainted with how love and marriage should really work (which was a theme running throughout the book for one of the characters, but given the excitement of the majority of the book I hadn't expected the book to END on this note). I still enjoyed it, but as you could see, I was high on almost the entire book, then the way it ended didn't seem as "big" or complete as I expected it to be. Still good!
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Kimmo
| Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 5:00 am
I still have "Mrs. Dalloway" on my bookshelf! Why, oh why did I not look before? Oh well. I think I will read through some other books, then read "Mrs. Dalloway," then read "The Hours" again. Next: Jane Smiley's "Moo" and Augusten Burroughs's "Running with Scissors"....
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