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#112941 - 05/30/05 09:28 AM
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If I may make a suggestion. Read "Animal Farm" next.
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#112942 - 05/30/05 09:38 AM
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Brave New World -- by Aldous Huxley
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#112944 - 05/31/05 08:12 AM
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2dogs said:
If I may make a suggestion. Read "Animal Farm" next.
Will do. 
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#112945 - 07/02/05 08:08 AM
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The Merman
Registered: 11/11/04
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Joseph said:
I just started Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. I am about fifty pages in, and I like it as much as The Da Vinci Code.
(I really wish I could fly on the Boeing X-33 prototype mentioned!)
My how my opinion changed in a month.
Here is my take on Angels & Demoms.
I just finished Dan Brown's first Robert Langdon novel, Angels & Demons. It took me several weeks to read it. I read quite quickly, so that is a bad sign. I would probably never have finished this book had I not been told by several people that is was a "real page-turner".
In a way, I guess it was a "real page-turner". I kept turning the page to see when something shocking would happen. I read The Da Vinci Code in April, and I loved it. While lacking any real, profound message that the reader must find for himself/herself, it was very suspenseful. Sometimes I want a good read, not a masterpiece. Angels & Demons couldn't even deliver that until I got somewhere around page 450. Through the whole book, I just kept thinking it was a typical Dan Brown book: Robert Langdon is dragged into a murder investigation that ties him in with the victim's vengeful relative, a beautiful European woman; and they, together, must save society from a culture-shattering revelation.
I'm not trying to spoil the plot...but...this book is almost too wild. Only Dan Brown could trick the masses into loving a book where the Pope is murdered by his son who was conceived through artificial insemination and mothered by a love-struck nun.
Read Angels & Demons, but please read The Da Vinci Code first.
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#112946 - 07/04/05 08:34 AM
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I am on my third attempt to finish The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien. The complexity of the stories in it, and the beautiful language used to tell those stories, is what makes this book wonderful. I tends to be dry, but a book written with this much creativity and attention-to-detail doesn't need to have a page-turning plot. I imagine it will take me a while to read this book. While it isn't long, it is a slow read. A good memory and a love of detail and language--along with being a Tolkien nut--is certainly required to be interested in this book. The last two books I read were paperback trash. I need something to read and think about.
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#112947 - 07/04/05 08:43 AM
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I'm working my way through. "A Treasury of Irish Folklore".
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#112948 - 07/04/05 08:57 AM
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Has anyone read the Autobiography of Chuck Yeager ?
One hell of a read if I do say so myself, read it many years ago .
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#112949 - 07/04/05 09:04 AM
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Yes I have a signed copy.
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#112950 - 07/04/05 09:16 AM
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excellent read isnt it ? Wow, cherrish that copy !!!!! that is cool
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#112952 - 07/05/05 06:05 AM
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Just raided my father's bookshelves in the basement. I found a bunch of Ray Bradburry books, as well as a couple Robert Ludlum books (The Chancellor Manuscript, The Road to Gandalfo) that I haven't read yet. I'm excited
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#112954 - 07/05/05 12:31 PM
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I'm not bulletproof
Registered: 10/28/03
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Joseph said:
I am on my third attempt to finish The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien. The complexity of the stories in it, and the beautiful language used to tell those stories, is what makes this book wonderful. I tends to be dry, but a book written with this much creativity and attention-to-detail doesn't need to have a page-turning plot.
I imagine it will take me a while to read this book. While it isn't long, it is a slow read. A good memory and a love of detail and language--along with being a Tolkien nut--is certainly required to be interested in this book.
The last two books I read were paperback trash. I need something to read and think about.
Gah! That book took me 3 freakin' months to finish!
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#112958 - 07/08/05 03:16 AM
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See what happens when you don't practice safe literacy
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#112960 - 07/11/05 04:44 AM
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Has anyone read The Historian or 1776 ? I'm interested in both and wonder if anyone has read either.
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