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01-24-2013, 02:52 PM | #15422 |
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01-24-2013, 02:55 PM | #15423 |
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Earlier today I finished Among Others by Jo Walton. I highly recommend it. It was an excellent read. I really enjoyed the ending.
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01-24-2013, 03:56 PM | #15424 |
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01-24-2013, 04:00 PM | #15425 |
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It's like reading the Bible. It really does have the "feel" of a religious text to it. Takes a while to get into the spirit of the thing. Not easy reading, but very rewarding if you still with it.
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01-24-2013, 04:43 PM | #15426 |
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01-24-2013, 05:40 PM | #15427 |
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Oh yes, a very good book and the ending actually worked. I was afraid that the books was going to have the kind of ending I do not like but fortunately it did not.
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01-24-2013, 07:35 PM | #15428 |
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01-24-2013, 08:29 PM | #15429 |
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I just finished Steve Perry's The Ramal Extraction: Cutter's Wars.
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01-25-2013, 05:11 AM | #15430 | |
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01-25-2013, 06:55 AM | #15431 |
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If I've read it before, I'd completely forgotten it. Although readable, it has too much of pulp superscience in it for modern SF (which it is - written after 2001), and I won't be looking out for any more by this author in particular.
And with this book, my TBR pile has dropped below 300 for the first time since I started keeping a record of it in 2010! Next: Dragon Ship by Lee and Miller. Not actually from my TBR pile. This one I've borrowed. Last edited by pdurrant; 01-25-2013 at 07:01 AM. |
01-25-2013, 10:38 AM | #15432 | |
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Stories of note in this were: The Fourth State of Matter - Jo Ann Beard - (available here in the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/199...urrentPage=all Embalming Mom - Janet Borroway Visitor - Michael W. Cox (very chilling) Leap - Brian Doyle (a take on the Twin Towers Disaster) - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...ions/leap.html Small Rooms in Time - Ted Kooser (a memoir by a past Poet Laureate) The Undertaking - Thomas Lynch - (there was a Frontline Show based on this: http://video.pbs.org/video/1082075672/) The Love of My Life - Cheryl Strayed - (this is kind of the lead-in to "Wild" her latest best selling Story of Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail) it also includes Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace which I've yet to be able to read and do not 'get' the fascination people have with him. Last edited by kennyc; 01-25-2013 at 10:42 AM. |
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01-25-2013, 12:22 PM | #15433 |
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I am currently reading The Sundered (Star Trek Lost Era I) on my Kindle.
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01-25-2013, 11:11 PM | #15434 |
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Just completed Persuasion by Jane Austen. It really was slow going for the first half of the book and I was worried that I was going to have a pretty poor perception of it on completion.
Luckily, all started to flow nicely for me in the second half of the book and I came to enjoy it quite a bit by the end. I'm certainly not done with Austen. Now, to an indie read/review, I'll be reading The Followers by Evan Bollinger. It's a supernatural novella that seemed to me to be quite artistic in the telling. So I'll see how it goes. |
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