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11-10-2004, 02:12 PM
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What are you reading right now?
I was just curious to see what my fellow bookworms were into right now.
I've just finished Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. It's a very strange but interesting book about two English magicians in the last century. A very long read, but it was engaging and enjoyable. I've also just finished Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. Funniest book ever! If you've seen the movie, the novel is like everything x10. It's told in a Scottish accent written phonetically, with a lot of odd Scottish slang. Here's a little sample: "Whoah. Likesay, gaunnae huv tae stoap ye thair, catboy. The O Grades wis bull****, ken? Thought ah'd use that tae git ma fit in the door. Showin initiative, likeseay. Ken?" (that's one of the more understandable passages..) There's even a glossary in the back of the book to translate the slang words. It's radge. (radge = crazy) As of now, I'm reading Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz. It's about a young man that can see ghosts. It seems pretty cool so far. 
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11-10-2004, 02:22 PM
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I just got Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell in the mail from Amazon yesterday! I'm going to start it tonight, since it'll probably take me 6 months to finish it...
 Last week I finished Christpher Rice's The Snow Garden (which sat on my shelf for almost a year before I got around to it...)
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11-10-2004, 02:29 PM
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I just finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (second time reading it) - it was even better then second time around..I LOVE Harry Potter..
I just started reading The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks - I haven't seen the movie yet - and I was buying a journal at a Barnes and Noble when I saw TN at the checkout stand - it was an impluse buy 
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11-10-2004, 02:35 PM
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Just finished a book called Faerie Tale, by i can't remember. It was good, another real life/fantasy tale. (love those. If anyone else likes them, i recommend Jonathan Carroll, and Elisabeth Hand) But i haven't been able to get a new book, so before i go to bed i've been rereading my Calvin N Hobbes.
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11-10-2004, 02:37 PM
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 ) I didn't see the movie either, but I'd like to. I LOVE HP too!Right now I'm trying to get through Bill Clinton's autobiography. His childhood was very interesting. I am halfway through it and have stalled with my reading. Anyone get through this one?
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11-10-2004, 02:41 PM
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Although next in line after the Notebook is The Las of Similars by Chris Bohjalian.
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11-10-2004, 02:42 PM
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Among God's creations, two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes in order not to be separated from the man.---Andres Segovia
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03-05-2005, 10:50 PM
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I got quagmired about mid way too...
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Authors I read over and over: Marion Zimmer Bradley, the Avalon series. Roger Zelazny, the Chronicles of Amber, Diana Gabaldon, Butterfly in Amber/Outlander/Voyager/Drums of Autumn (I want a Jamie Frasier of my OWN! HUBBA HUBBA) I just finished Da Vinci Code, the Red Tent, and Digital Fortress. I think Dan Brown is AWESOME. Truly. Last edited by irishgrl; 03-05-2005 at 10:53 PM..
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03-05-2005, 10:54 PM
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Welcome to The Ledge, Marissa!
 Right now, I'm finishing up Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave, which is pretty depressing, and Bev Marshall's Right as Rain (again). After that, it's on to Ellen Gilchrist's I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with my Daddy. (For class).
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03-09-2005, 02:11 PM
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11-10-2004, 02:33 PM
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11-10-2004, 02:43 PM
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Seriously though - Harry is a little pain in the ass like in this one - refusing to listen to Hermione toward the end....that always gets me... But the one I wanted to slap around in that book was Umbridge - ugh - I HATE that character...I don't think a book character has even inspired so much anger in me haha...
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11-10-2004, 02:52 PM
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Umbridge's quill punishment also got to me -that character is pure evil...I think I disliked her more than I do Voldemort lol McGonagall kicks ass for sure - one of my absolute favorite Hogwarts profs 
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11-10-2004, 02:42 PM
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I finally finished A Place of Execution by Val McDermid last week, and I haven't decided what's next -- In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent or a re-read of 1984 by George Orwell.
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