I heard the Crichton book is really good.I've only read his early stuff, including Five Patients, about his time as a med students(he did part of his training here in San Diego).Kristatos wrote:Currently reading Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton and also a copy of The Wind in the Willows that I downloaded as a PDF from somewhere. I never read it as a kid, and was curious to see what I'd been missing all these years. In addition, I borrowed a bunch of books on folklore as research for something I'm writing and am plowing through those whenever I have the time.
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It's not bad. Sort of an R-rated (or should that be Arrr-rated) Pirates of the Caribbean, but with less of the supernatural element and more sex and violence.katied wrote: I heard the Crichton book is really good.
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Started reading Where God Was Born which is a companion book to Walking The Bible. Very interesting so far!
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well they screwed up the percy jackson movie. I am reading book 2 right now, I can picture pierce chiron but the movie left out 4 or 5 major characters and made a few scenes scarier than than they were in the book for no reason.
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I've got the second Percy Jackson book but haven't read it yet. I know my nephew has the second book but I don't think he's started reading it yet. I kinda want to read theDiary Of A Wimpy Kid books-my nephews *love* those books.
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I read The Long Walk by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman). It's set in a fascist USA and is about a walking marathon for young people. The winner is the last person left alive as anyone who drops out or walks too slowly is killed by troops who follow the walk!
It would make a great film and Frank Darabont is planning to make one.
It would make a great film and Frank Darabont is planning to make one.
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Oooh like the news of a new movie based on a King novel The premise of the book you're reading sounds interesting!
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So it is about Obama Care.carl stromberg wrote:I read The Long Walk by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman). It's set in a fascist USA and is about a walking marathon for young people. The winner is the last person left alive as anyone who drops out or walks too slowly is killed by troops who follow the walk!
actually that reminds me of a scene in Soldier where Kurt Russel's character as kid (played by his son) was running in formation, a Humvee slowly follow them with the guards on board and they shot the kid who fell behind.
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Sea Of Monsters
It was good. I am really starting to like this series. Too bad the screwed the movie up so badly. I hope they make another but they have to change everything and get back to the books. The books so far are good enough to make great movies is translated directly.
It was good. I am really starting to like this series. Too bad the screwed the movie up so badly. I hope they make another but they have to change everything and get back to the books. The books so far are good enough to make great movies is translated directly.
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I have the second and third Percy Jackson books but haven't read them yet. Just starting Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, a memoir of living in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.
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Since the first part of HP 7 movie is coming out this November, I reread the book last week.
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I just started re-reading LOTR for the umpteenth time.
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In The Court Of The Air-a comparison would be with something like Phillip Pullan's His Dark Materials trilogy.
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The Passage by Justin Cronin.Teh comparisons with the Stand and World War Z are understandable..there's a bit of The Road in there as well.
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Alfred the Great - The Man who Made England by Justin Pollard. A lot of the books I read on Anglo-Saxon history are rather dry and academic, but I'd recommend this even to those who don't have a specialist interest like I do. It's written in a very lively and engaging style, shot through with an agreeably dry wit, but without dumbing down in any way.
Next up: Moonraker.
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Some history writers are a bit dull. But if the subject is really interesting then it is not such a big problem.Kristatos wrote:Alfred the Great - The Man who Made England by Justin Pollard. A lot of the books I read on Anglo-Saxon history are rather dry and academic, but I'd recommend this even to those who don't have a specialist interest like I do. It's written in a very lively and engaging style, shot through with an agreeably dry wit, but without dumbing down in any way.
Next up: Moonraker.
Moonraker is a classic!
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A good writer can make any subject interesting. There have been best-selling popular history books on subjects as unpromising as the importation of tulips (Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach) and the quest to create the world's first artificial colour (Mauve by Simon Garfield).carl stromberg wrote: Some history writers are a bit dull. But if the subject is really interesting then it is not such a big problem.
Moonraker is a classic!
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Those really are boring subjects!Kristatos wrote:A good writer can make any subject interesting. There have been best-selling popular history books on subjects as unpromising as the importation of tulips (Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach) and the quest to create the world's first artificial colour (Mauve by Simon Garfield).carl stromberg wrote: Some history writers are a bit dull. But if the subject is really interesting then it is not such a big problem.
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But not boring books, from what I've heard (I haven't read either of them, but Tulip Fever in particular had excellent reviews, and was even optioned for a movie).carl stromberg wrote: Those really are boring subjects!
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