I know three people besides myself who finished The Gunslinger eager to read the rest. If it was really so unappealing to everybody, actually, I wonder if King would have even written more.[/QUOTE]...
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I know three people besides myself who finished The Gunslinger eager to read the rest. If it was really so unappealing to everybody, actually, I wonder if King would have even written more.[/QUOTE]...
Me too. :sigh:
(Can't really add anything meaningful to the topic of discussion - have been reading only the January issue of Forbes Russia for the entire week, and still have not finished it. No...
Oh, I'd love to read it! Even though I have not had much exposure to comics, so not used to them (and for me they are very different from reading a book), I definitely need to find out more about...
I think I liked Three Musketeers because I read it fairly early - at around 11 or 12. Since then, I've been unable to reread it - just could not get immersed in the book.
As to Monte Cristo - I am...
I absolutely loved Bradbury when I was in my teens :) His "All Summer In a Day" is one of the most soul-touching stories.
Heinlein has always been a bit difficult for me - not sure why, maybe it...
Same here, though not on purpose. Usually, after reading something that requires a good deal of thinking and processing (non-fiction, treatises, essays, etc.) I just sort of naturally pick up a much...
It's one of my favorite books of hers, along with All in Red and What the Dead Man Said. One of the best 'pick-me-ups' too :) It's a fairly old book, and it deals with her family traveling across...
:thumbsup: This book is awesome, I absolutely love it. Come to think of it, it's now time for another re-read :)[/QUOTE] It is a Russian tradition. Everyone knows it by heart, and everyone rereads it...
:thumbsup: This book is awesome, I absolutely love it. Come to think of it, it's now time for another re-read :)
Yes, I liked all that I've read so far, but then I've always been interested in that period in English history, and read some non-fiction books about it.
The Boleyn Inheritance was the first book...
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Have you read her other books from The Tudor Series? My favorite so far is The Constant Princess - but I have not yet read The Wise Woman and The Other Queen.
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I've heard people say that she's over the top (and the turns in the story are too grim), but I liked her, too.
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She's a very intriguing character, no doubt, but the level of...
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I've heard people say that she's over the top (and the turns in the story are too grim), but I liked her, too.
@Ricky: Personally, I did not feel that the story dragged too much - there...
Interesting how little things spark the memories...
There has been a bit of discussion in one of the movie threads about Waking Life movie, then Melike also recommended it in the Dreams and...
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I liked Millenium series (another name for Dragon tattoo books), so I second that recommendation.
Currently on my umpteenth re-read of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" by Choderlos de Laclos.
In addition to simply being an interesting read, it's such a good portrayal of the evil, spiteful and scheming...