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 SilverRaindrops
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Thu Mar 22, 2012 3:30 am Post subject: |
 
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I haven't read a book in a month and three days  .
I hope Mark Gatiss' "The Vesuvius Club" can get me back to my 10-books-per-month ratio. |
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 Dutchbat
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I had a long period of finishing halfread books and magazines.
But now I picked up a British thriller by Ali Knight:
HET MOORDENAARSSPEL (org.title: Wink Murder)
Very good readable story about the wife of a TV-tycoon who gives him an alibi for a murder he confessed to her. A thriller about the influences of social media and TV.
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 LadyInque
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 Tonks
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Sat Mar 31, 2012 4:58 am Post subject: |
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At last:
Stieg Larsson's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (or "Men Who Hate Women" as we know it in Poland).
beautiful language. I recommend to those who still did not read it...
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BuyerQueen
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I am reading the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. An interesting vampire series and a little (ok, a LOT) trampy, very romance novelish, but I like the interpretation and vampire characteristics. JR Ward is the author.
And I am also reading a series by Chuck Hogan and Guillermo del Toro. Vampires again, but it's more of a disease/virus that turn folks into Vampires. I finished The Strain and loved it, so I got the next two and will start working on them soon.
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LadyInque
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I read Batman: The Black Mirror in a marathon session yesterday, and hated it. I know it's a horror comic, but it was so thoroughly unpleasant I had to finish it to be done with it. I know that doesn't make sense, but I have trouble not finishing books. I always wonder what was there.
This book has mostly glowing reviews on Amazon, and the internet in general. If this is what they're putting out for Batman now, because this is what people like, then I'm out.
In other news, currently reading Danse Macabre by Stephen King, and a graphic novel called Habibi by someone whose name escapes me. |
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zgurl49
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Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:52 am Post subject: |
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And I am also reading a series by Chuck Hogan and Guillermo del Toro. Vampires again, but it's more of a disease/virus that turn folks into Vampires. I finished The Strain and loved it, so I got the next two and will start working on them soon.
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This series sounds awesome! My library even has all 3! YAY!
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 anya
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Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:12 am Post subject: |
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I read :
- "Lord of the Flies" (didn't expected it to be very dark all along) by William Golding
- Primary Inversion by Catherine Asaro
I started :
- The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
- World's end (sequel)
SF novel, so beautifully written! I don't especially like the story but the universe is interesting.
I bought the Hunger Games trilogy (couldn't help but started it a bit)
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Caliburn
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Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:24 am Post subject: |
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I just finished the first book of 'Game of Thrones'.
Awesome, just started with the second book. |
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LadyInque
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anya
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LadyInque
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Of course, I read the first one, anya. I mentioned it in this thread a little while ago.
I just don't think the second one is that great, for a number of reasons. So if you're going to try to convince me of its awesomness, you may find it a hard sell. |
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anya
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Sorry, I didn't see you spoke of it earlier.
I'm not gonna try to convince you  I didn't even finish the first one (and didn't officially started it).
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BuyerQueen
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I tried out this "borrow a book from a friend via my Kindle" spiel to read Catching Fire. Or, as I prefer to think of it, Hunger Games: All Stars.
Honestly, not that impressed with it. We'll see how I feel after the third book. |
I just finished reading Hunger Games and Catching Fire too. Maybe there is just to much hype that I'm disappointed, but Catching Fire felt super rushed. Almost like she was like "I have make my deadline, get outta the way!".
I will start the 3rd book this week. I am almost reading them because I feel obligated by the popularity of them. Which, I realize, isn't a good reason. -shrug-
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tinkerbelle
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Sun May 06, 2012 10:39 am Post subject: |
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I have started with the first book of the "Artemis Fowl"-series of Eon Coifer and I'm not impressed - neither with the kind of writing nor the story itself.....
I do have the others on my ebook reader, but I'm not sure if I will actually read them ...
I'll give it one more try,though .....
Oh ... and I'm rereading (for the 5th time I think) the Bond-Stories of Ian Fleming ... and I still DO love them!!
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