What is that beside your bed! (book thread)

G.I.Jane

G.I.Jane

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FluerVanderloo said:
SexyBoo and tonks:

I'm brand new here, hello! Anyway, you guys were talking about the Sleeping Beauty series. Did you know that they were written by Anne Rice? I'm currently enfatuated with her Vampire Chronicles, which, if I may add:

Merrick is on my bedside table at the moment, along with a nice big Civil War book :)

Anywho, Anne's an awesome writer, no?
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I have Anne Rices' book, The Witching Hour

Laurel K. Hamiltons', Circus of the Damned and

J.D. Robbs', Naked in Death

Just a little light reading before bedtime...
 
SexyBoo

SexyBoo

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FluerVanderloo said:
SexyBoo and tonks:

I'm brand new here, hello! Anyway, you guys were talking about the Sleeping Beauty series. Did you know that they were written by Anne Rice? I'm currently enfatuated with her Vampire Chronicles, which, if I may add:

Merrick is on my bedside table at the moment, along with a nice big Civil War book :)

Anywho, Anne's an awesome writer, no?
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Oh yes, she is awesome! I really love the Mayfair Witches books. I'm almost finished up with Merrick - pretty excellent so far.
 
SexyBoo

SexyBoo

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FunnyEggplant said:
I'm reading Stephen Kings *Hearts in Atlantis* rather good actually :)
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I'd love to hear a review of that one when you are done - it looks great.
 
Sharky

Sharky

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"Be Cool" by Elmore Leonard

The sequel to "Get Shorty".

Elmore Leonard rawks.

Chili Palmer OWNS.
 
chcr

chcr

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Currently rereading "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" by Douglas Adams.
 
Dave

Dave

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i gave up on Jean Auel's Shelters of Stone. boring.

guess i'm going to the book store today......
 
MrBishop

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Just finished "The Water Method Man" and "The Fourth Hand" by John Irving

You may know him from "The world according to Garp" or 'Hotel New Hampshire". He's got several books that were made into movies...the last, I think, was "The Cider House Rules"

Excellent author if you like character development over plot. His books are somewhat thin on complex plot-lines, but his characters are so well defined that you can almost reach out and poke them.

Before that, I was reading Robert Jordan (Book 10) of the Wheel of Time series...excellent, but I still don't know how he'll finish it.

I'm addicted to William Gibson, Umberto Eco, Irving and Jordan. I will go out of my way for Clancy because of his precise technical knowledge and vivid descriptions.

My next reads since I've finished Moby Dick, are "War and Peace" and "A Tale of Two Cities" if we're talking classics.

I may retouch some Asimov books that need a good dusting, the Dune series and the Ringworld series as well...should time permit.
 
SexyBoo

SexyBoo

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I'm keeping it simple - right now I'm reading Betty and Veronica's Double Digest (March 2004)... :)
 
O

Oz

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Irvine Welsh - Porno (second reading)
David Gemmell - White Wolf (first reading)
Niel Gaiman - Stardust (gazillionth reading)

:nerd:
 
BeardofPants

BeardofPants

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MrBishop said:
I may retouch some Asimov books that need a good dusting, the Dune series and the Ringworld series as well...should time permit.
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[hypnotic voice] You will read Dune.... [/hypnotic voice]


I'm currently reading Tad Williams Otherland series - up to bk 4.
 
MrBishop

MrBishop

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BeardofPants said:
[hypnotic voice] You will read Dune.... [/hypnotic voice]


I'm currently reading Tad Williams Otherland series - up to bk 4.
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I have yet to actually read Dune...I tried on a few occasions several moons ago, but kept putting it down out of sheer boredom after only 5 chapters. People keep telling me to read Dune...I guess that it's getting time to cave again.

Otherland is a great series!

I'm also revisiting Clive Barker's more recent works. The last one that I read by him was "Coldheart Canyon". Excellent read!
 
Dave

Dave

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max barry - jennifer government

saw the tatoo'd eye on the cover and couldnt resist. easy read. interesting premise.
 
MrBishop

MrBishop

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Spot said:
max barry - jennifer government

saw the tatoo'd eye on the cover and couldnt resist. easy read. interesting premise.
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Try "Passion Play" by...er...can't remember his name. I'll get it f'r ya tomorrow...another interresting premise.
"What if there had not only never been a seperation of church and state, but that politicians were put in place by their level of piety"

It's a hellova book!
 
MrBishop

MrBishop

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The author's name is Sean Stewart. He wrote it in 17 days.

http://www.seanstewart.org/novels/passionplay/notes/

The Redemption Presidency has transformed America. Adulterers are stoned. Executions are televised. But sin still exists. And so does murder...
It is a dark time. The great cities are dying, like the country, from the heart out. The Redemption Presidency tolerates vigilantes who kill according to Biblical example. The police subcontract freelancers to bring in criminals for quick and televised execution.
Diane Fletcher is one of these freelancers: a "shaper" cursed with the gift of seeing and feeling the emotions of others. Armed with hunter skills, she takes on the mysterious death of Jonathan Mask, a great actor found electrocuted in the costume of a demon. But even a shaper can become lost in the human labyrinth, where patterns of innocence, guilt, passion and deception lead inevitably into that treacherous territory between justice and vengeance.
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