| # | Author | Message |
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| JohnS1
Mon 10/2/2006 10:53p | PS - I agree with you, Miss Candice, about the excessive and cavalier depictions of violence in today's detective and suspense novels. That's why I like the classics, I guess. We start with a dead body and the bulk of the book is the detective trying to find the killer. Today's books all seem to graphically recount how the murder takes place, and as the detective seaches for the killer, he/she continues to kill, with each murder again graphically described. I just don't need that sort of violence in my free time. There's enough on the 11 o-clock news to suit me, thank you. |
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| alexbook
Wed 10/4/2006 12:35p | Neil Gaiman - Fragile Things |
893
| MissCandice
Wed 10/4/2006 2:02p | Amsterdam by Ian Mcewan. |
894
| JohnS1
Wed 10/4/2006 9:40p | Yellow Pages, by my local phone company. |
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| disney pete
Thu 10/5/2006 5:16p | ''cetri krasti - brainstorm
suckers have only put us online at work :)''
sorry should have been in what are you listening to now thread. |
896
| TALL Disney Guy
Thu 10/5/2006 8:27p | Started the Halloween nighttime reading season before bed..."Old Ghosts of Louisville" by David Domine. He has a fascinating way of using sensuous, extensive vocabulary to paint beautiful pictures, especially when describing wonderfully old Victorian mansions. |
897
| Tinkerbell819
Sat 10/7/2006 8:28p | I just finished "The Times we Had" by Marion Daives. We visited Hearst Castle this summer and I was interested in reading about the people that lived there. I got two of the books that I saw for sale in the gift shop out of the library when I got home. (Cheapskate that I am, I can save that book money for a lunch in DL!) This book was basically her rambling on a tape and someone else typing it. It didn't have a flow to it and it took a long time to finish. She contradicted herself all the time, too and it got on my nerves. lol
The other book is "The Chief" which is a biography of WR Hearst. It looks better, but it's about 800 pages long. I'll probably still be reading it at Christmas... |
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| DAR
Sun 10/8/2006 6:30a | A Gentleman's Game by Greg Rucka |
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| irishfan
Sun 10/8/2006 5:46p | In Cold Blood, Capote.
I'm going through a bit of an American Literature phase at the moment. |
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| DAR
Mon 10/9/2006 9:36p | World War Z:An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks(who happens to be the son of Mel Brooks.) |
