03-17-2009, 01:25 PM | #76 |
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03-17-2009, 01:26 PM | #77 |
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One thing to do is listen to the radio drama and then you will have the voices to go in your head as you read the printed edition. The TV mini-series was pretty good and the movie was awful. The best non-book version is the radio drama.
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03-17-2009, 04:24 PM | #78 |
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Bag of Bones by Stephen King. I keep saying "come on, make something happen already!"
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03-17-2009, 04:27 PM | #79 | |
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03-17-2009, 04:35 PM | #80 | |
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03-17-2009, 04:40 PM | #81 |
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03-17-2009, 04:51 PM | #82 |
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I loved Moby Dick.
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03-17-2009, 05:22 PM | #83 |
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Am I a heathen if I say I was too bored to ever finish the second book of the DUNE series? Which also means I never got to the third book.
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03-17-2009, 07:22 PM | #84 |
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03-17-2009, 10:17 PM | #85 |
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Saramago is a hard one to get to like. It's mandatory in high school and I hated it back then. After a few years in college I started liking him a lot. Try The Duplicated Man (O Homem Duplicado), if it's available in english. This one drew me into his world and changed the view I had about his novels!
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03-17-2009, 10:19 PM | #86 |
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"The Pidgeon Project", by Irving Wallace. I got it from an used book store for nothing and it took me six months to finish. Slow like hell, I was bored by the end of the first page.
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03-17-2009, 10:48 PM | #87 |
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I loved Moby Dick and have read it twice!
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03-18-2009, 12:40 AM | #88 |
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Loved Moby Dick. Loved the rambling natural history bits. Particularly the one where he concluded that a whale was a fish. My Grandfather was a whaler and as a child I tried to explain to him that a whale was a mammal not a fish. He said it tasted a lot like a fish! Read Moby Dick many times and always think of my Grandfather.
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03-18-2009, 03:12 AM | #89 |
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A Confederacy of Dunces. Loved the title, it won a pulitzer so I figured it wouldn't be but so bad.. but I doubt I made 40 pages into it.
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