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Paulo Pereira
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Matt wrote:
| 'm not a fantasy guy to start with. Among the multitude of books that are out there, I'm as likely to start reading fantasy as I am to pick up a Harlequin Romance. But friends have told me that Tolkien is different. |
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Yeah. I would guess that's typical for those who don't care for the genre. |
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Richard White
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After seeing it mentioned on the site (and I see JB mentioned it again here) I'm coming to the end of On the Beach. Hmmm...what next?
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Thomas Moudry
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| Posted: 19 March 2011 at 3:12pm | IP Logged | 3
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I'm reading Bill Bryson's AT HOME, and I just finished John Boyne's THE BOY
IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 19 March 2011 at 3:28pm | IP Logged | 4
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Today started on THE GREAT MONKEY TRIAL, by L. Sprague de Camp, a BIG book on the infamous Scopes trial in Tennessee in 1925. This is the trial dramatized (and fictionalized) as INHERIT THE WIND.
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Matt Reed
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I'd be interested in that book, JB, so let me know your reaction when you finish. Darrow, in particular, is a fascinating character to me.
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John Byrne
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I'm about 20 pages in an thoroughly engrossed, Matt. The book is written in almost novel form, with many pages of dialog taken from court transcripts and reports of conversations. De Camp was evidently most thorough in his research.Had to find a library copy, on sale on Amazon, tho. Book appears to be out of print.
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Ryan Maxwell
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Just started Dracula (I have a new love for Barnes & Noble Classics cheap paperbacks). Good grief, I can't get Keanu Reeves' voice out of my head for Jonathan Harker.
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John Byrne
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I'll be very impressed if you finish, Ryan! Aside from the crawling-down-the-wall scene, which I found one of the creepiest I had ever read, I found DRACULA an enormous snooze-fest!
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Ryan Maxwell
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I read it about 15 years ago, but my wife was just going on and on about how much she loves it, so I picked it up again. I don't recall liking it that much the first time. The ending chase across Europe was the, ah, final nail in the coffin. The erotic legend women seem to have in their heads is definitely blown out of proportion.
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Richard White
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It's interesting you say that about Dracula JB, I'm a big fan of F.W. Murnau, Sunrise ranks as one of my favourites but Nosferatu beyond a couple of scenes does nothing for me.
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Michael Wolner Jr
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I just started reading Pronto by Elmore Leonard on my Kindle. I am really enjoying the Justified TV series so I thought I give the books about Raylan Givens a try. So far pretty good.
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I'll be very impressed if you finish, Ryan! Aside from the crawling-down-the-wall scene, which I found one of the creepiest I had ever read, I found DRACULA an enormous snooze-fest! *** That's come up several times here in the years I've been on the forum and it seems to be the one big exception to the fact that I usually seem to have the same taste in things as you, JB. I tend to agree with you on comics, definitely on everything Star Trek related, and on most books that we've both read (Fleming, Tolkein, Zelazny, to name a few), but with DRACULA, complete opposite opinions. It's one of my favorite novels. I always thought the pace of it was perfect for the atmosphere that Stoker was building.
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