| # | Author | Message |
611
| Labuda
Thu 2/23/2006 9:47a | Just finished Live from Death Valley (and wrote a review that should be up on AMazon in the next day or so).
Now time to read Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without A Country. :) |
612
| alexbook
Thu 2/23/2006 10:20a | MissCandice: It's a great job with some nifty perks, but the pay's pretty lousy.
jasmine7: I agree about "Watchmen." There's been talk about a movie, but I'm sort of hoping it doesn't happen. I skipped the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and "From Hell" movies 'cause I liked the original comics so much I knew I'd be disappointed. I'm not sure whether I'll check out the "V for Vendetta" movie or not. |
613
| threeundertwo
Thu 2/23/2006 2:30p | ^^^please try "From Hell". I think the directors had a lot of respect for the source material. The extras on the dvd are very interesting as well.
And you might not care, but Johnny Depp is particularly delicious . . . |
614
| JohnS1
Thu 2/23/2006 10:30p | Thanks Labuda for your wonderful review at Amazon.com! I hope none of the rest of you are afraid to write one as well. Of course, you have to get the book first! Several used on sale at Amazon, and Alexbook carries them at Compass Books. Ort your local library may have them for free!!! (But you have to give them back after you read them!) |
615
| alexbook
Fri 3/3/2006 9:38a | I just finished "Bleeding Through Kingdoms: Cinderella's Rebellion" by Riley LaShea. It reads like the rough draft of what could have been a really good fantasy novel. The plot involves a mysterious figure called Grimm who creates a land where the inhabitants are forced to act out classic fairy tales, until Cinderella decides she doesn't want to marry Prince Charming and everything falls apart. Unfortunately, there are frequent grammar and punctuation errors, run-on sentences, and absurdly overblown descriptions. ("Something deeper, darker, and much more powerful is working beneath the surface, toiling to put everything back the way it was intended.")
Right now, I'm reading an advance copy of Sara Gruen's "Water for Elephants" (due out in May). I haven't read her other books, so I don't know how this compares, but I'm really enjoying it, even if it is a bit more "literary" than the stuff I usually go for. |
616
| disney pete
Fri 3/3/2006 12:55p | aggressor -andy Mcnab |
617
| MissCandice
Thu 3/9/2006 8:09p | I just finished re-reading all the Harry Potter books. I don't know what I will start next. |
618
| mele
Thu 3/9/2006 8:10p | Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
I bought the book last year. Figured I should probably read it. Then I'll watch the movie. |
619
| JohnS1
Thu 3/9/2006 9:42p | As a guy, I have always felt somewhat odd admitting that I love Jane Austen novels when one might assume I should be into books by Tom Clancy or Crichton or Clive Custler, et all, but in this crowd, I feel I can admit that anything by Austen or all the other 19th century British women writers have always been more enjoyable to me than any contemporary writers - especially writers of the "male genre" books. For that matter, anything by any 19th century British writers are exactly the sort of writing I love to read. My favorite writer of all time is Thomas Hardy, and in some respects, I judge the success of a writer by his or her ability to transcend time and changing culture. In the case of Austen, Hardy, Dickens, the Bronte sisters and others, a real test of their ability to please readers nearly 200 years later is the fact that producers and directors continue to make movies based on their novels. |
620
| MissCandice
Fri 3/10/2006 12:03p | I just finished reading "Back When We Were Grownups" by Anne Tyler. |
