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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2010 20:25:40 GMT -5
I highly recommend the Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez.....it's one of the best reads I've had in awhile. I just looked it up, and surprisingly my local library has it. It's a small town, so their selection isn't always the greatest. Whenever I buy a book from Amazon, I donate to them to help their collection. I'll definitely check that one out. Thanks. The author is a Michigan girl
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Post by biglin on Apr 23, 2010 17:24:41 GMT -5
Is she a Michigan Magpie?
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Post by biglin on Apr 23, 2010 17:26:19 GMT -5
And is her book a real 'Paige' turner?
(My sense of humour's terrible, I know, but most people's lack of it's the REAL worry!)
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Post by michiganmagpie on Apr 23, 2010 17:35:25 GMT -5
And is her book a real 'Paige' turner? (My sense of humour's terrible, I know, but most people's lack of it's the REAL worry!) Good one, Lin. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2010 17:39:26 GMT -5
Always a difficult choice.
Drama is easy - Shakespeare. My favourite of his is Cymbeline.
Fiction - Stendhal's 'The Charterhouse of Parma; Dostoevski's 'The House of the Dead;' F M Busby, 'Rissa Kerguelen; Mario Puzo, 'The Godfather;' and, my all-time favourite for personal reasons (most of her novel is an exact account of my own troubled teenage years, down to the smallest detail - absolutely uncanny. So much so, in fact, that I corresponded with her for a while but backed off when I discovered that she had become an Anglican nun!) Caroline Glyn, 'The Tower and the Rising Tide.'
Poetry - Alexander Pope, 'The Rape of the Lock' and 'Essay on Man;' Robert Browning's 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.'
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2010 17:41:11 GMT -5
For non-fiction it's also hard:
History - Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' Philosophy - Arthur Schopenhauer, 'The World as Will and Representation' Science - Jacques Monod, 'Chance and Necessity.'
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Post by alanseago on Apr 29, 2010 10:17:28 GMT -5
My number one is still William Golding but I have not read a book in years. There was a time when I would devour one on a Sunday.
Stephen Donaldson was probably a close second.
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Post by annaj26 on Apr 29, 2010 14:33:22 GMT -5
My number one is still William Golding but I have not read a book in years. There was a time when I would devour one on a Sunday. Stephen Donaldson was probably a close second. What books did they write?
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Post by dewey on Apr 29, 2010 15:15:37 GMT -5
Generally speaking I love to read Patricia Cornwell, but her last couple of books have not lived up to my expectations. I am currently reading The Scarpetta Factor. I normally finish a book in a couple of days. I have been reading on this book for weeks. I read a page and quit, it's just not holding my interest.
Is it me or do others of you find that she isn't as good as she once was?
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Post by beth on Apr 29, 2010 19:21:21 GMT -5
Generally speaking I love to read Patricia Cornwell, but her last couple of books have not lived up to my expectations. I am currently reading The Scarpetta Factor. I normally finish a book in a couple of days. I have been reading on this book for weeks. I read a page and quit, it's just not holding my interest. Is it me or do others of you find that she isn't as good as she once was? So good to see you, Dewey . I have to agree that Cornwell's books don't have the same spark they once did. I've watched them slowly go down hill for what seems like a long time, though right now, I'm thinking of reading All That Remains - about the "couple murders". Have you read that one? I like her Pete Marino and Benton Wesley characters, but Lucy gets on my nerves - not because she's a lesbian but because she's annoying. Glad to know to skip The Scarpetto Factor. MO - Cornwell is tired of meeting those deadlines and doesn't need the money.
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Post by alanseago on Apr 30, 2010 6:36:01 GMT -5
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Post by alanseago on Apr 30, 2010 6:44:50 GMT -5
Stephen Dolaldson, 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever'. Be sure to begin at the beginning with Lord Foul's Bane.
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Post by beth on Apr 30, 2010 8:03:07 GMT -5
Stephen Dolaldson, 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever'. Be sure to begin at the beginning with Lord Foul's Bane. If there is such a thing as "guy books", I think the Thomas Covenant books must fit that category. All the males in my family and some friends have read and loved them. I couldn't get into them because I'm not all that sympathetic with anti-heroes - at least I think that's the reason. It's been awhile.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2010 9:04:28 GMT -5
There are anti-heroes and anti-heroes.
One of my favourite 'anti-heroines' is the main character in Liza Cody, 'Bucket Nut.'
It really is a quite extraordinary tour de force and completely different from Cody's other books.
Essentially the anti-heroine is a professional female wrestler who also works as a security guard, a part-time private eye and a criminal. It is one of those books where you simply cannot give a flavour of it from extracts but it is both hilariously funny and bitingly sharp, as well as exceptionally well written. I thoroughly recommend it.
In terms of Golding, although 'The Lord of the Flies' is his best known work, my personal favourite is 'The Inheritors.'
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Post by alanseago on May 1, 2010 11:42:02 GMT -5
Could not find anywhere appropriate for this. I heard the original broadcast on BBC radio in the 1950s and it still sends shivers up my spine.
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