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Maureen Boccaccio
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07-24-2009 07:03
I've just finished reading the entire Anita Blake series for the third time. I can't get interested in anythign else just yet, so Ima leave it for a while lol. When I do pick up my next book, it's prolly gonna be to re-read Jane M Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear series...again. LOL...I just re-read the last three AB books.  |
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Amaranthim Talon
Voyager, Seeker, Curious
Join date: 14 Nov 2006
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07-24-2009 07:03
Yeah - last night I thought it was Wednesday. I was shocked when I was told it was Thursday. I am reading several books for work, but they don't count. For myself I'm reading "Princess of Mars" by Edgar Brown Rice Burroughs and "The Artist's Guide to GIMP" by Michael J. Hammel. The first one just in case I ever find myself a princess on Mars. It could happen. . Big YAY!! For Burroughs I loved the Barsoom novels- it's part of the road that led to Gor._____________________
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Seven Okelli
last days of pompeii
Join date: 4 Dec 2008
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07-24-2009 07:05
Big YAY!! For Burroughs I loved the Barsoom novels- it's part of the road that led to Gor.Uh oh! Do you turn left or right after Barsoom? The reason I'm reading it is that my friend who recently came to visit once set up a Dungeons and Dragons game that was based on the Barsoom stories. My sister is interested in D&D, so it kept coming up in conversation. . _____________________
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3Ring Binder
always smile
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07-24-2009 07:05
I loved the Barsoom novels- it's part of the road that led to Gor. /me notes this and vows to avoid Barsoom completely.  |
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Maureen Boccaccio
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Join date: 28 Feb 2008
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07-24-2009 07:05
Just finished Eisenhower (At Ease; http://www.librarything.com/work/171517/book/48016028) and am now reading Lindbergh (Under the Wing; http://www.librarything.com/work/435175). Was going to read Kennedy next (http://www.librarything.com/work/963572/book/48191076), but I had Under the Wing with me also and glanced at it. Ended up starting it. Oh, what an interesting trio! |
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Rioko Bamaisin
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07-24-2009 07:06
Oh wait, I have been reading a Photoshop CS3 book. Does that count?
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Amaranthim Talon
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07-24-2009 07:07
Uh oh! Do you turn left or right after Barsoom? The reason I'm reading it is that my friend who recently came to visit once set up a Dungeons and Dragons game that was based on the Barsoom stories. My sister is interested in D&D, so it kept coming up in conversation. . All roads lead to Glorious Ar  _____________________
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Seven Okelli
last days of pompeii
Join date: 4 Dec 2008
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07-24-2009 07:07
Rereading Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince. I often reread the book after seeing it's related movie. I read all the Potter books and will prolly read them again. . _____________________
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Amaranthim Talon
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07-24-2009 07:09
/me notes this and vows to avoid Barsoom completely. They really were fun and Mr. Norman plagiarized extensively - Burroughs has exotic creatures, big fighting manly men and swooning girls and feisty ones- just not the 'adult' overtones. _____________________
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Seven Okelli
last days of pompeii
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07-24-2009 07:09
All roads lead to Glorious Ar Ar, matey! I shouldn't say, but I have already been to Gor. I left with my you-know-what intact. . _____________________
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3Ring Binder
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07-24-2009 07:10
I read all the Potter books and will prolly read them again. . i have one HP. hardcover. never cracked it open. i don't even know where it is. i'm just proud of myself for finally breaking away from my holding pattern with John Grishom. i was really addicted for awhile. |
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Skell Dagger
Smitten
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07-24-2009 07:10
POLL: what are you reading? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Strange_&_Mr_Norrell _____________________
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Amaranthim Talon
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07-24-2009 07:11
Ar, matey! I shouldn't say, but I have already been to Gor. I left with my you-know-what intact. . I only have a passing acquaintance with SL Gor- have window shopped a couple times but have never immersed as it were. _____________________
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3Ring Binder
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07-24-2009 07:11
They really were fun and Mr. Norman plagiarized extensively - Burroughs has exotic creatures, big fighting manly men and swooning girls and feisty ones- just not the 'adult' overtones. .... i do like manly men .... |
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Lindal Kidd
Dances With Noobs
Join date: 26 Jun 2007
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07-24-2009 07:12
'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell' by Susanna Clarke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Strange_&_Mr_Norrell Yeck. I plowed through that whole thing, hoping that at some point it would get better. It didn't. _____________________
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3Ring Binder
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07-24-2009 07:12
'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell' by Susanna Clarke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Strange_&_Mr_Norrell this has potential. what is your favorite part about this book/writer so far? Yeck. I plowed through that whole thing, hoping that at some point it would get better. It didn't. oh noooos. this review is worrisome. Yeah, it's pretty dour going, but I'm sticking with it. Next on the reading list is China Mieville's 'The City & the City'. okay, nevermind. i'm not interested. |
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Skell Dagger
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07-24-2009 07:13
Yeah, it's pretty dour going, but I'm sticking with it. Next on the reading list is China Mieville's 'The City & the City'.
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Skell Dagger
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07-24-2009 07:13
this has potential. what is your favorite part about this book/writer so far? _____________________
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Lindal Kidd
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07-24-2009 07:15
LOL...I just re-read the last three AB books.  Maureen! _____________________
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3Ring Binder
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07-24-2009 07:15
LOL Skell.
i won't make myself read something like that. not when there's so many fab books waiting to be cracked open. |
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Maureen Boccaccio
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07-24-2009 07:18
'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell' by Susanna Clarke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Strange_&_Mr_Norrell Oh, that looks like a good one! *scurries off to reserve it at the library* |
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Brenda Connolly
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07-24-2009 07:18
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Soji Slade
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Join date: 28 Mar 2007
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07-24-2009 07:18
I've just finished reading the entire Anita Blake series for the third time. I can't get interested in anythign else just yet, so Ima leave it for a while lol. When I do pick up my next book, it's prolly gonna be to re-read Jane M Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear series...again. I've read most of the Care Bear . . I mean Cave Bear series (I see no connection with Care Bears, but that was just a one letter change and so). I think there are 2 that I haven't read. Depending on how many have been written since I last looked. Which has been a long while. _____________________
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Maureen Boccaccio
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07-24-2009 07:19
Maureen! And I've read her other series, as well...about Meredith Gentry. |
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Lindal Kidd
Dances With Noobs
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07-24-2009 07:19
/me notes this and vows to avoid Barsoom completely. No, no...you MUST read them. Not all of them, just the first three will do. Burroughs was a master of the "sword and sorcery" type of adventure novel. His two most famous characters are Tarzan and Captain John Carter of Barsoom...they've become iconic, in the same way that Sherlock Holmes has. I would say that to get to Gor from Barsoom, you have to take a sharp right turn, go down, and wade through some stinky swamps. It's not an obvious path by any means. _____________________
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