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« on: May 05, 2007, 06:58:24 PM »
Me: Brother Odd by Dean Koontz
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« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2007, 07:27:27 PM »
Facing The Frozen Ocean.....Bear Grylls

(He's the guy on Man vs The Wild on Discovery Channel)

Almost finished then will be reading: The Kid Who Climbed Everest....Bear Grylls
(He did this when he was 23!)
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« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2007, 08:01:12 PM »
The entire Charlie Bone series by Jenny Nimmo.  It's a Harry Potter wanna-be, but not bad.  I've been checking out books from the kids section lately at the library - fast, fun, total escapist reading material!
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« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2007, 10:52:55 PM »
i just finished Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl, the editor of gourmet magizine and the former new york times food critic for six years- besides being a foodie book- it was a very good story-plus some excellent recipies.

I am glad she wrote two others.
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« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2007, 04:43:31 AM »
Cell... Stephen King.. my favorite author.  :2thumbsup;
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« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2007, 10:54:18 AM »
A Mercedes Lackey Trilogy
Magic's Pawn
Magic's Promise
Magics' Price
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« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2007, 05:12:55 PM »
Currently re-reading the 3 autobiography books of Clive James. They've been put together as one volume now, but I can't remember what it's called.
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« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2007, 07:13:44 PM »
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flag (Comedian who also wrote Fried Green Tomatoes) I read a couple of books a week - so always have a stack ready. Sometimes educational, but right now I need some easy reading.
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« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2007, 07:16:45 PM »
"blood of the Fold" book 3 in Terry Goodkind's Sord of Truth series.  there are 7 in the series, nice big fat books :)
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« Reply #9 on: May 08, 2007, 09:50:08 PM »
I LOVED those books. That was the best series of books I have ever read!
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Ivanova: "Old Egyptian blessing: May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk." Babylon 5

Remember your present situation is not your final destination.

Take it one day, one hour, one minute, one second at a time.

"If we don't find a way out of this soon, I'm gonna lose it. Lose it... It means go crazy, nuts, insane, bonzo, no longer in possession of ones faculties, three fries short of a Happy Meal, wacko!" Jack O'Neill - SG-1
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« Reply #10 on: May 09, 2007, 08:43:03 AM »
Enslaved by Ducks
by Bob Tarte

I'm going to stick with just a dog but a part of me would like a menagerie of fowl and hoof. The author keeps ducks + other birds as pets but I kinda like the idea of eating what I raise. It has an appeal to this city boy who's always gotten his food from cellophane packages.
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« Reply #11 on: May 09, 2007, 11:05:27 PM »
Gump and Company.... Still cant believe they made Forrest cus, lol, but its a cute book  :popcorn;
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« Reply #12 on: May 10, 2007, 12:54:34 AM »
what's a book and how do you read it?


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« Reply #13 on: May 10, 2007, 04:54:42 AM »
On a Beam of Light

the sequel to K-Pax
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« Reply #14 on: May 10, 2007, 06:28:54 AM »
Quote from: aharris2 on May 10, 2007, 12:54:34 AM
what's a book and how do you read it?


puzzled,


Rolando  :thx;

lol. I don't understand how anyone can dislike reading  :) I've always loved it.
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« Reply #15 on: May 10, 2007, 11:05:36 AM »
100 Little Horror Stories
The Husband by Dean Koontz is next.
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Ivanova: "Old Egyptian blessing: May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk." Babylon 5

Remember your present situation is not your final destination.

Take it one day, one hour, one minute, one second at a time.

"If we don't find a way out of this soon, I'm gonna lose it. Lose it... It means go crazy, nuts, insane, bonzo, no longer in possession of ones faculties, three fries short of a Happy Meal, wacko!" Jack O'Neill - SG-1
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« Reply #16 on: May 14, 2007, 06:10:45 PM »
Dean Koontz seems to be popular. I really do not like his style of writing. At all.
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« Reply #17 on: May 14, 2007, 06:47:15 PM »
I read one Dean Koontz, scared me so much I was afraid to read another.

Don't remember the title & much of the story, but never forgot this part:

 A man picked up a teenaged hitchhiker took her to his home & strung her up in a pitch dark basement with just the tips of her toes touching the floor.

After several days he opened some air vents & let in thousands of ants & over the next week or so they slowly ate her alive.

I kept thinking he was giving some depraved psyco an idea on how to torture someone.

Anyone know the title of that book & are all his books like that?

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« Reply #18 on: May 14, 2007, 09:09:43 PM »
Holy Bologna! That short paragraph is enough to invoke my busy imagination-I sure hope I don't dream about it tonight!!!
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« Reply #19 on: May 14, 2007, 10:02:20 PM »
I'm glad I read Glitter's first.... I did not read McJane's.   :o

I'm reading "Three weeks with my brother" by Nicholas Sparks.  Good so far.
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« Reply #20 on: May 15, 2007, 12:20:12 AM »
Quote from: mcjane on May 14, 2007, 06:47:15 PM
Anyone know the title of that book & are all his books like that?

I don't, but I've read stories even scarier by Clive Barker!

Oh and don't worry about the psychos. They will come up with their own creative and just-as-cruel practices. Horrible thought, that, but having read so much true crime material, I now know that fiction just does not compare.
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« Reply #21 on: May 15, 2007, 06:33:05 AM »
I am currently on book 3 (Silverthorn) of the Riftwar series by Raymond E. Feist.  There are only 4 books to this series, but about 20 books that all occur in this same world.  I really like these so far so I think I will have to check the rest out.  For more info on Raymond E. Feist go to www.raymondfeistbooks.com/index.htm

The Riftwar-Series:
Magician (1982) - This one was split into 2 books Magician: Aprentice, and Magician: Master
Silverthorn (1985)
A Darkness at Sethanon (1986)
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« Reply #22 on: May 15, 2007, 08:44:49 PM »
Oh, it's really bad, glitter, the description of torture & suffering that girl went through. There was more of it, but that part never left me.

I'm going to Google it & see if I can find the title.
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« Reply #23 on: May 16, 2007, 04:18:22 AM »
I've got a feeling I started reading Magician at some stage, many years ago. I don't think I finished it, and I also can't remember any of it.

I can't be sure it was Magician but it was Feist, and it was a huge fat book.
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« Reply #24 on: May 16, 2007, 06:17:05 AM »
Quote from: cycobully on May 16, 2007, 04:18:22 AM
I've got a feeling I started reading Magician at some stage, many years ago. I don't think I finished it, and I also can't remember any of it.

I can't be sure it was Magician but it was Feist, and it was a huge fat book.

In it's original release it would had to of been around 700 or so pages since each book separately is over 300 pages.
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