Tag: literature
group name: talkaboutbooks
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June 16, 2008 04:44 PM EDT --
I like to read fiction, and I tend to pick up books that I find more entertaining than thought provoking. When a story gets to deep or complex I put it down and move on to the next one. Yes, I can be . . . more
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July 22, 2007 03:40 PM EDT --
Dear Ms. Rowling:
I have finished reading "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" and my mood is somewhat melancholy. It is not that your final tome in Harry's epic fails to measure up to . . . more
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September 12, 2007 10:39 PM EDT --
Reviewed by Magdalena Ball
The Road
By Cormac McCarthy
Picador
ISBN: 9780330447546 , June 2007, 256 pages, paperback, A$22.95
It’s probably fair to call The Road a perfect novel. . . . more
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July 30, 2007 01:35 PM EDT --
In the halcyon aisles of Good vs Evil Horror novels The Stand Reigns supreme. I've always been a fan of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic tales; beginning with Andre Norton's, Star Man's . . . more
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October 15, 2007 04:54 PM EDT --
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
(5/5 stars)
I haven't seen more than a few minutes of the famous 1975 film version of this novel. But even for me, it's hard reading this . . . more
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March 21, 2008 03:40 PM EDT --
You are invited to participate in the Fiction Readers Online Book Club. Connect with Avon A fiction authors and learn about their new book releases.
April's Featured Books Are: . . . more
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October 10, 2007 10:35 AM EDT --
The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
(3/5 stars)
This is the kind of book I finish reading and have to begin a search of my own. I look for Cliff Notes, Wikkipedia entries, Amazon reviews, anything . . . more
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December 24, 2007 04:12 PM EST --
I may regret announcing this resolution to my fellow Gatherers, but I have officially challenged myself to read 50 books in 2008. Quick math shows that I'm signed up to ingest a book about every . . . more
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September 19, 2007 09:29 AM EDT --
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
(4/5 stars)
For someone whose only real exposure to Jewish culture growing up was watching "Seinfeld" on TV, "Portnoy's Complaint" seems . . . more
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September 19, 2007 09:42 AM EDT --
Feast of Love
by Charles Baxter
(3/5 stars)
In honor of the new movie adaptation of the novel--and me scoring a free copy of the book because of it--I'm posting the review I wrote of the book when . . . more
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October 02, 2007 10:57 AM EDT --
Money
by Martin Amis
(3/5 stars)
While "Money" is a highly entertaining, raunchy yarn, it suffers when read 20+ years later from being an '80s novel. Like every story . . . more
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April 07, 2008 06:32 AM EDT --
The other day I read When Sophie Gets Angry by Molly Bang. The book is about a young child getting angry and how she reacts in anger and later how she calms herself down. Molly is a good . . . more
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December 19, 2007 05:53 PM EST --
My Inflatable Friend
by Gerald Everett Jones
La Puerta
ISBN 9780979486616, paperback, April 2007, 15.99
Let me be honest here. This is not a genre I'd normally read. I had to be dragged, . . . more
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January 19, 2007 10:17 AM EST --
I desperately want my son to love books. He's a third grader now, and he can read independently, but he'd much rather be out on his new skateboard trying to fracture something. I don't . . . more
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March 17, 2007 06:21 PM EDT --
Author, Shannon Hale (same as Enna Burning)
This book, like the other, has the theme of a young woman finding her "voice". In Enna Burning, the lead found she could control fire, while in Princess . . . more
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May 10, 2008 03:29 AM EDT --
Tremolo: Cry of the Loon: A Gus LeGarde Mystery
By Aaron Paul Lazar
Twilight Times Books
November 15th, 2007, ISBN 9781933353081, Paperback, 230 pages
Aaron Paul Lazar is more . . . more
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September 26, 2007 12:23 PM EDT --
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
(2/5 stars)
I think I might have liked this book a lot more if I hadn't listened to the audiobook version. 22 hours of stereotyped Indian and Jamaican accents was . . . more
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October 01, 2007 04:14 PM EDT --
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
(5/5 stars)
Salman Rushdie is the third author I've read recently that I'd put off reading for many years out of a misplaced fear I'd find . . . more
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November 01, 2007 09:24 AM EDT --
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
(3/5 stars)
The farther I got, the more obvious the conclusion that I read this too late in life. Had I read this as a teenager or in college I could have romanticized . . . more
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November 02, 2007 10:38 PM EDT --
The Painted Bird
by Jerzy Kosinski
(3/5 stars)
The next edition the publisher prints could use the tag line: If you loved "The Road" you'll love "The Painted Bird!" . . . more
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