What are you reading? May 2011
05-23-11, 05:04 PM
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Re: What are you reading? May 2011
Finished: Blood Lines (Victoria Nelson #3) by Tanya Huff
Started: Blood Pact (Victoria Nelson #4) by Tanya Huff
Started: Blood Pact (Victoria Nelson #4) by Tanya Huff
05-24-11, 09:55 AM
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05-24-11, 12:46 PM
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05-24-11, 07:41 PM
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I just downloaded this and will be reading this after I finish the book on ESPN:
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
05-24-11, 08:16 PM
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That's a good book. I'm about 3/4's of the way through it and I like it a lot. I don't know if I believe everything in it but its well-written and the information is presented well.
05-27-11, 08:31 PM
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Just finished:
Great book. Definitely lived up to the hype.
Now reading:
Good book so far (I've read about 25% of it). I wasn't sure what to expect since its Steve Earle's first novel and the story seems a bit out there (its set in San Antonio around the time of JFK's assassination and the characters include a drug-addicted former doctor who performs illegal abortions and the ghost of Hank Williams, Sr.).
Great book. Definitely lived up to the hype.
Now reading:
Good book so far (I've read about 25% of it). I wasn't sure what to expect since its Steve Earle's first novel and the story seems a bit out there (its set in San Antonio around the time of JFK's assassination and the characters include a drug-addicted former doctor who performs illegal abortions and the ghost of Hank Williams, Sr.).
05-27-11, 11:00 PM
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It's as if some editor with no faith in human imagination said, "No one will accept a lamp post in the woods if we don't start by explaining why it's there.
As originally written, the reader is presented with a gas lamp post in the middle of the forest, with the flame lit. It's eerie. Over the course of four or five volumes, you become familiar with it, and the characters are so used to it that they use it as a landmark. Then, in The Magician's Nephew, it's origin is explained, and the reader goes, "Ooooh! That's why it's there!"
That happened over and over again in The Magician's Nephew. But not anymore.
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05-28-11, 03:44 PM
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Re: What are you reading? May 2011
Finished: Blood Pact (Victoria Nelson #4) by Tanya Huff
Started: Blood Debt (Victoria Nelson #5) by Tanya Huff
Started: Blood Debt (Victoria Nelson #5) by Tanya Huff
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05-29-11, 09:24 PM
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Re: What are you reading? May 2011
Unfortunately the publisher has mucked up the continuity by putting the flashback story at the front. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe has one of the coolest beginnings in literature, and the backstory was published years later as The Magician's Nephew.
It's as if some editor with no faith in human imagination said, "No one will accept a lamp post in the woods if we don't start by explaining why it's there.
As originally written, the reader is presented with a gas lamp post in the middle of the forest, with the flame lit. It's eerie. Over the course of four or five volumes, you become familiar with it, and the characters are so used to it that they use it as a landmark. Then, in The Magician's Nephew, it's origin is explained, and the reader goes, "Ooooh! That's why it's there!"
That happened over and over again in The Magician's Nephew. But not anymore.
It's as if some editor with no faith in human imagination said, "No one will accept a lamp post in the woods if we don't start by explaining why it's there.
As originally written, the reader is presented with a gas lamp post in the middle of the forest, with the flame lit. It's eerie. Over the course of four or five volumes, you become familiar with it, and the characters are so used to it that they use it as a landmark. Then, in The Magician's Nephew, it's origin is explained, and the reader goes, "Ooooh! That's why it's there!"
That happened over and over again in The Magician's Nephew. But not anymore.
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