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Post by Mel on May 30, 2007 23:47:24 GMT -5
Hey I thought that we needed some where to talk about all those Non ST books that are out there. YES there are other book out there besides ST books, hard to believe!
If you have read something let us know.
I read the Time Traveler's Wife By: Audrey Niffenegger
I loved this book. It is a science fiction book with a hint of romance seeing that it is a love story. If you do read it, dont try to keep up with the dates it will give you a head ache, if you just read it you can tell what time they are in.
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Post by Janeway Forever on May 31, 2007 0:01:42 GMT -5
YES there are other book out there besides ST books, hard to believe! While I have heard rumor of this, I've yet to see any valid proof.... LOL. |
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Post by lauren05 on May 31, 2007 23:55:58 GMT -5
I will have to read that, Mel. I've seen good reviews on it.
Recently I read Nineteen Minutes, by Jodi Picoult. It's about a school shooting (that takes place within nineteen minutes) and the aftermath, and it was excellent. I recommend it to all of you.
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Post by Mel on Jun 4, 2007 1:14:08 GMT -5
That hits too close to home, I dont think i will be reading that. Jodi Picoult is a very good author, all of her books are supposed to be excelent.
I normally dont read that type of book, genre i mean. I am a fantasy sci fi reader.
Another good book is the Fairy Godmother By: Mercedes Lackey
It is a cute, light hearted, love sotry in the relm of fantasy with a fairy tale twist. The series is called Tale of Five Hundred Kingdoms.
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Post by KateJaneway on Jun 4, 2007 2:06:36 GMT -5
Hummm, well currently I an re-reading ALL of the Harry Potter books before next month and it will sadly be the end. When 'Half Blood Prince' came out I read it in ten hours and bawled at the end.....now that its the end....*sigh* Ill be a wreck. I may have to seek therapy, depending on how the end does go.
I have soooo many books to start.....Gaaaa!
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Post by Mel on Jun 5, 2007 13:56:00 GMT -5
Another great book is Oryx and Crake By: Margaret Atwood
Another science fiction, I know, about the future of the human race. This books takes you through why Snowman is alone and gives us a glimpse of what could happen in our future. This book kept me hooked.
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Post by nay on Jun 6, 2007 17:22:29 GMT -5
Hummm, well currently I an re-reading ALL of the Harry Potter books before next month and it will sadly be the end. When 'Half Blood Prince' came out I read it in ten hours and bawled at the end.....now that its the end....*sigh* Ill be a wreck. I may have to seek therapy, depending on how the end does go. I have soooo many books to start.....Gaaaa! Me too. To all of it basically! I am currently re-reading Goblet of Fire. I have loads of books that I need to start/ finish. I've put them on hold for now because of wanting to reread Harry Potter before Deathly Hallows comes out. |
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Post by Mel on Jun 6, 2007 23:20:12 GMT -5
I am listening to the HP books again. The reader is excelent
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Post by jcvoyager on Jun 7, 2007 13:38:27 GMT -5
i have read all of jodi picoults books and there was only one or two i wasn't keen on but the rest are fantastic. i also love all the charmed books
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Post by Mel on Jun 7, 2007 14:22:24 GMT -5
I finshed my book alst night, yes it was a late night. It was really good. The only thing that i didnt like about this book was that it got really good towards the end.
The Title was The Chronicles of Faerie The Light Bearer's Daughter By: O.R. Melling This is book three in ther series, I have not read the other two. You can read this book without reading the others, it made sense to me.
This book give you the tale of a young girl trying to find out who she is and who her mother is. She has to find her place between the two worlds, the human world and the Faerie.
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Post by jcvoyager on Jun 7, 2007 14:24:48 GMT -5
oo i'll have to read that book
i read one last nite called made in heaven it was really good
it basically involved a wedding and an affair
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Post by KateJaneway on Jun 7, 2007 22:00:47 GMT -5
Okay, this is extremely old but a total classic......
Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing.....
Soooo funny.....I am a HUGE Beatrice FAN!!! The wit exchanged between Beatrice and Benedick is hilariously outrageous!!! Not to mention their cutesy love story. I have to read it at least once a month for a good laugh.
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Post by Rowan on Jun 8, 2007 6:58:15 GMT -5
I completely agree about much ado! i thought i was the only one who read shakespeare for fun! I love the 2 laurel k hamilton series too, merry gentry and anita blake, i can't wait for the new ones
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Post by KateJaneway on Jun 8, 2007 14:08:35 GMT -5
I am now starting my Dublin saga.....
The first one is called 'The Princes of Ireland' and then followed by 'The Rebels of Ireland' by Edward Rutherfurd. I'm giving you something from Publishers Weekly cause I hate summarizing books myself.
From Publishers Weekly
Distinctly evocative of James Michener's all-encompassing recapitulations of history, this lackluster saga by the author of bestselling London and, most recently, The Forest (2000), is the first of a projected two-volume series billed as the Dublin Saga. Rutherfurd begins his tale of the Emerald Isle in pre-Christian Ireland in A.D. 430 with a tragic romance between a maiden, Dierdre, and a Celtic warrior, Conall, hearkening to the legend of the mythic first-century Celtic hero, Cuchulainn. After Conall is offered up as a sacrifice to the Druid gods, the narrative jumps ahead 20 years to Pat Rick's (St. Patrick's) arrival in Ireland in A.D. 450 and his establishment of a small Christian toehold at Dubh Linn. Five centuries later, the Vikings make their mark, and Rutherfurd skips ahead with chronicles of the monastery at Glendalough, the Book of Kells and the death of Brian Boru (founder of the O'Brians) with his Pyrrhic victory over the high king of Tara in 1014. A retelling of King Henry II's arrival in Ireland in 1171 is followed by a cursory account of the reformation of the Irish Church at the Council of Cashel and the story of an obscure 1370 skirmish at Carrickmines Castle (a minor landmark presently doomed to make room for a highway). Rutherfurd sets the last of his ill-connected and artificial sketches in 1537, with Henry VIII hanging Silken Thomas, and Dublin poised at the dawn of the Renaissance. Readers who persevere will glean plenty of historical detail from these pages, but Rutherfurd's uninspiring storytelling makes the journey a slog.
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Post by Mel on Jun 8, 2007 19:01:46 GMT -5
I have those on my list to read, along with 800 other books.
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