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| Wed, 09-14-2005 - 10:50am |
Details of your current read -- genre, author, a bit about the plot?
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| Wed, 09-14-2005 - 10:50am |
Details of your current read -- genre, author, a bit about the plot?
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Jasper Fforde's #1 book in his new Nursery Crimes mystery series, "The Big Over Easy" was a real disappointment for me :(.
Thanks for the info about Gods in Alabama, I've added it to my tbr list! Please post when you get a ways into Snowflower & the Secret Fan - it's also on my tbr list. I love Amy Tan and the synopsis reminded me of things she's written.
Lisa
P.S. I also put The Moon Pearl on my tbr list - thanks to the poster for that info as well.
Oh, I so agree. I thought this book sounded like a lot of fun. Jasper Fforde is a wonderfully imaginative writer, but I just couldn't care about any of the characters. I got through 50 pages or so, set it down, then never went back to it.
I thought The Eyre Affair was very clever and especially loved how much Fforde evidently loves books. But I haven't read any of the sequels.
TK
MissTK
I'm halfway in Ghost Story by Peter Straub...
This is my absolute favorite scary book.
TK
MissTK
Hey Marge, are you having a hard time getting into this book? Have you read it before?
I've started reading it 3 times and each time I end up putting it down and started something else. I have heard that it is one of the scarriest books but I just don't see it.
Should I keep reading or not bother?
Re: Ghost Story by Peter Straub (Group Read for Sept. over on Thrillers & Horror)
This'll be my 2nd try with this book.
Oh, then you should stop by when we discuss this book on the 25th over at Thrillers & Horror, we'd love your input on it
I'm not having a hard time getting into it, but being 1/2 way in and still waiting for the 'action' to start is a bit disheartening.
I just finished 3 books
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb ( I thought it was amazing and surprised that it was written by a man)
*Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally orbits into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before she really goes under.
Velocity by Dean koontz ( Had me looking over my shoulder and jumping in my seat a few times)
"Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. But that is about to change. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car." "If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have six hours to decide. The choice is yours." "It seems like a sick joke, and Bill's friend on the police force, Lanny Olson, thinks so too. His advice to Bill is to go home and forget about it. Besides, what could they do even if they took the note seriously? No crime has actually been committed." "But less than twenty-four hours later, a young blond schoolteacher is found murdered, and it's Bill's fault: he didn't convince the police to get involved. Now he's got another note, another deadline, another ultimatum...and two new lives hanging in the balance." Suddenly Bill's average, seemingly innocuous life takes on the dimensions and speed of an accelerating nightmare. Because the notes are coming faster, the deadlines growing tighter, and the killer becoming bolder and crueler with every communication - until Bill is isolated with the terrifying knowledge that he alone has the power of life and death over a psychopath's innocent victims. Until the struggle between good and evil is intensely personal. Until the most chilling words of all are: The choice is yours.
"Twist the bones and bend the back, itch-it-a-cop-it-a-mala-ka-mis-ti-ka, trim him of his baby fat, itch-it-a-cop-it-a-mala-ka-mis
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