Just finished Jane Austen's Letters and am still working on Different Seasons.
Just finished Jane Austen's Letters and am still working on Different Seasons.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
The Stand. My goal is to have it finished by August first. I'm only on page 75 or so right now I hope I can make it.
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sugarpop <3
That's one that I want to try to pick up again soon and finish before the comic comes out.Originally Posted by maerlyn
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I went to the local library and checkedout IT, started reading IT, and then my mother in law gave me Insomnia. I have wanted to read both of these books for a long time so I am currently reading both. And enjoying both of them.
::interested::
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Clan of the Cave Bear is a really good Book. The whole Neanderthal Vs Cro-Magnon thing is massively interesting, and Jean Auel's attention to detail is wonderfull.::interested::
The follow-on books (Valley of Horses, Mammoth Hunters, Plains of Passage, Shelters of Stone) are also great in themselves, if only she could have seen her way to leave all the gratuitous sex out of them - it is totally not needed in books of this quality. Those books are all well worth reading regardless - the insight into much of what life might have been like back then is amazing.
Jean-Bear, yes - you would love the reverence in which the Cave Bear is held by the Neanderthal people.
Much as my opinion of Gary Jennings books.
Awesome books, the sex wasn't needed.
just finished Raptor btw, it was good, but not as good as Aztec. I'm done with Jennings.
"So many vows. They make you swear and swear. Defend the King, obey the King, obey your father, protect the innocent, defend the weak. But what if your father despises the King? What if the King massacres the innocent? It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or another."
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Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I found Jean Auel to be very cheesy. I did enjoy Clan of the Cave Bear, but like Anne Rice I found her writing to be overly romanticised.
I went on to read the other books about Ayla, but more out of boredom (I was in hospital) and the fact that they were all I'd taken with me.
I agree, too much sex and also...did Ayla have to invent everything single handedly?!
i asked that myself. Like, right, there were no men around inventing stuff, so a lowly woman had to do it?> Like That's gonna happen.
"So many vows. They make you swear and swear. Defend the King, obey the King, obey your father, protect the innocent, defend the weak. But what if your father despises the King? What if the King massacres the innocent? It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or another."
Oh no you di'int!!
:snaps fingers:
oh yeah i did, whatchoo goan do?
"So many vows. They make you swear and swear. Defend the King, obey the King, obey your father, protect the innocent, defend the weak. But what if your father despises the King? What if the King massacres the innocent? It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or another."
*Puts on glasses*
Phone your mother young man, thats what!
Yes, it becomes overpowering that nearly ALL the early discoveries of evolving mankind were down to the efforts of one woman.
I still think Clan is a great Book, and the others are well worth a read - but she could have made it better.
I'm currently reading "Monkey" by Wu Cheng-En. It's a XVth century Chinese book telling the journey to the West in a more entertaining way, and if you're familiar with the uses of traditional Chinese bureaucracy, it's really funny. Then I guess I'll be taking Les liaisons dangereuses that I haven't read until now (which is actually a shame with me being French...)
Hey! - you the original, .net, stonerosedoor?
Well met - again! Long time no see!
who did you think she was? yes, it's her, la lumiere de mes jours!
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i just bought American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I saw that he was the author of the Good Omens book that we were talking about and I got American Gods and Neverwhere since I liked Good Omens... and the movie Stardust () i'm hoping he doesn't let me down...
Human kind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one and only truth.
I did! I figured at least his books have a protagonist and it's not all characters that I either feel sorry for or hate.so that means what? you're moving on to another king novel?
I was going to read The Talisman again but I can't find it. I think it was so battered (missing the cover, pages dog-eared, coffee-stains) that I chucked it.
Reading The Stand now. And over the weekend, my fella and I went bookshopping. I picked up a used copy of The Talisman, Life of Pi and a book of short stories by Roald Dahl that I've been looking for. SCORE!
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”-Mark Twain
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me....Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
-Shel Silverstein
Beam - you so will not be disappointed! Neil Gaiman is a GOD!!!
There you go!Beam - you so will not be disappointed! Neil Gaiman isaGOD!!!
The Count of Monte Cristo
just finished The Road, Tesla: Man Out of Time, and the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
American Gods ROCKS
I've heard nothing but good things about it, I'm going to need to see if the library has it on CD.
I've run through all the Koontz and King.
The kindness of close friends is like a warm blanket
I just finished The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands. It was a great read and I can't wait to start Wizard & Glass...I hear it's a really good one. Woo!
A NEW GAME BEGINS
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