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Post by tabatha on Mar 1, 2010 23:11:45 GMT -5
I'm going to read the latest by V. C. Andrews next. I really like Semantha. Poor girl went through a lot.
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Post by quietpirate on Mar 2, 2010 10:46:32 GMT -5
I was reading Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 by
Bryan Burrough. I had to stop because of school starting again. Hopefully sometime soon I'll be reading A Journey The Autobiography of Apolo Anton Ohno by Apolo Anton Ohno with Nancy Ann Richardson.
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Post by Mars on Apr 20, 2010 18:10:18 GMT -5
"After Diana" wasn't as good as I expected. It felt like I was just reading stuff I'd already read before. Repetitive, I suppose.
Digging my way through the twilight series, then on to more Anne McCaffrey novels. Woo!
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Post by goaao on Apr 21, 2010 15:40:28 GMT -5
I am reading a great book called On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah. I'm not far into it but it is hard to put down. My girlfriend is reading A Summer Affair by Elin Hilderbrand and she said it is fantastic. I'll be reading that next.
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Post by laura6 on Apr 23, 2010 18:50:39 GMT -5
Post Mortem by Patricia Cornwell
I am starting this series so late in the game~!! But I like it
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Post by kaydeelex on Apr 24, 2010 12:21:50 GMT -5
Well since I'm a psychologist I just got done reading The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo. He's famous for the Stanford Prison Experiment. It's a great book and wonderful insight into how even the best of us can do such horrible things. He parallels his own experiment from back in the 70s to what happened in Abu Ghraib. Really an interesting read!  |
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Post by Mars on Apr 30, 2010 16:13:51 GMT -5
Finished Breaking Dawn. Now -that- was interesting....I kept having nightmares that I was turning into a vampire, lol.
Now I'm on to one of the Stephanie Plum books. I want to say it's Hard Eight, but not positive. Also reading Masterharper of Pern, by Anne McCaffrey. Looooooove it! =)
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Post by kaydeelex on Apr 30, 2010 22:40:26 GMT -5
Finished Breaking Dawn. Now -that- was interesting....I kept having nightmares that I was turning into a vampire, lol. Now I'm on to one of the Stephanie Plum books. I want to say it's Hard Eight, but not positive. Also reading Masterharper of Pern, by Anne McCaffrey. Looooooove it! =) I must bow my head in shame and admit I'm a 26 year old who loves Twilight! The writing is awful in my opinion but you just get sucked into it! I think it's something about wanting someone to love you that intensely. At least that's my psychological opinion lol |
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Post by Leigul on Apr 30, 2010 23:13:25 GMT -5
I am 29, and I really have a love/hate relationship with Twilight! I read the first book and didn't like it, I was coerced into reading the second one and then I had to read the third and forth. By the end of the series I hated it! Such bad writing, and VERY anticlimactic! However like you kay I got sucked into it! I got sucked into not for the love story (which I thought was creepily dysfunctional) but because I was waiting, wanting something to actually happen! It was anticlimactic! LOL!
I have just been reading a lot of running books, and most recently I started "Beyond Winning" which is a fantastic book! I recommend it!
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Post by Mars on May 1, 2010 13:30:08 GMT -5
The end was ridiculously anticlimactic. I kept waiting for something to happen as well. Then I was like...Wait...that's it? Huh...
After Bella 'transformed' it felt like all the 'fun' was gone. That's my 2 cents on that, lol.
I think I'll stick with dragons for now though! =)
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Post by laura6 on May 2, 2010 17:48:23 GMT -5
I am reading The Wildflowers by VC Andrews
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Post by tdav on May 2, 2010 21:50:07 GMT -5
"Candide!" ~ Voltaire
"Crime and Punishment" ~ Dostoevsky
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Post by Bella on May 11, 2010 23:50:55 GMT -5
T dav - interesting choices - a good balance. We need to start an "I got sucked into Twilight" forum. I was bed-ridden for about 4 weeks in December and picked up the first book. Of course, reading one means you HAVE to read the rest. It's like one of those strange pieces of modern art in a museum that disturbs you, but you can't quite put your finger on why. Like a bad TV show you can't seem to look away from. Maybe the forum should be about Twilight analogies. Anyway, I'll give Myers credit for creating an empire based on a cast of characters that we simply can't look away from. And by the way, I'd like my own perpetually young, rich, attractive, clairvoyant, mythological, fragrant man with an old soul, who's universe and core being revolves around me, and is supernaturally compelled to protect me at his own peril, and goes weak in the knees from the smell of my hair, but somehow maintains his self control and buys me very nice cars which he prefers to drive me around in.  |
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Post by kaydeelex on May 13, 2010 14:03:00 GMT -5
LMAO I love that response Bella. I second the Twilight analysis!
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Post by tabatha on Oct 13, 2010 17:12:01 GMT -5
Light of the Moon ~ Luanne Rice
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