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<A< Is it bad to post a new list for each year of reading?
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Rainbows -- I don't think so, I mean, you wouldn't want to wipe your past accomplishments. =D
Over the weekend I finished Physics for Future Presidents by Richard A. Muller, and Truth, by Peter Temple. They were great, of course, I mentioned them a bit last week. Yesterday was soooo slow, as it was a non-holiday day, so I read Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino, which is a book of survivors stories, with some good hard science about the bomb, centering on the people who, after surviving the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, took the train to Nagasaki and lived through that bomb, too. It was well done, but I'd read the survivors stories before, for the most part. But again, it had the good hard science too, instead of treating the bomb like some crazy voodoo, that you sometimes see in other portrayals. There's some controversy regarding Last Train, because of some religious glurge material that found its way in, but who'da thunk that would be inaccurate. :roll: That's what happens though, with "popular" non-fiction, it won't be the first time or the last. I started reading Berlin Noir, last night, not hugely impressed, but it's well-written for what it is, historical crime fiction. |
Rainbows>> but you might want to tell Knerd that you have a new one when she comes on.
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Richard Muller? I was his student about a decade ago, not in the course which he always called "Physics for Future Presidents," which was the non-majors course, but in the majors course. He was really great, horribly tactless but very funny, and I remember him with great fondness. He actually learned the names of us shrimpy freshman majors. Funny that he's published a book with that name, after batting it around as a fictitious course title for so long. :D
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Woah, really? I knew he was gettin' old...but I don't think I knew he'd died yet. *sigh* I still wanna read the rest, though. I hate it when I never finish a series...
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I want to join in!!!! Hmmm.. I'll start when I finish this book, I'm most of the way through, but I've been reading it for a while and I can't remember when I started. I'll aim for 100 books.
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Ehh...whatever list I had disappeared when my computer got infected. Ohhh darn. I guess I'll just have to start over. The horror. >.>
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carzeebear>> good luck :)
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Hiyas again! I'm done with one series now. Shaman King.
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I updated my list last night but as usual I didn't have the books close enough to check the page counts. XD
I just finished a Sherlock Holmes book that was Holmes-less for a large part of it and now I'm over a quarter of a way through a Poirot book which the Belgian has yet to appear in. Darn runaway detectives. |
I'm working on reading Kurohime right now.
Anyone want an excerpt (rough one) out of a vampire book I'm writing? |
Aaaahg! I would be done with The Sacrifice (book one of the Fey series) right now, but my friend asked me to go to the pool with her, now I'm off to dinner with my family in a bit, and after that, I'm going out with the same friend I went to the pool with. I just want to finish this book! I've fifty pages left and it's soooo good! :gonk:
Kat- I've not read any Sherlock Holmes, but I've heard he likes to not be present in some books. :lol: Did it center on Watson, then? Taiyo- Sure! I like to write about vampires myself, it's always neat to see how others portray them. ^^ |
Okies. I'm not sure if you guys are gonna barf at it or not. It's a little gross and freaky.
SPOILERRemember, this is only a very rough draft. |
I want to read more! lol It's great!!
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I doesn't start out as creepy as that, I'll guarentee it. It actually gets off to a very slow start and appears to have a lot of teenage melodrama. Well, considering how that kind of thing happens to them, I'd say it certainly doesn't stay that way very long. I'm getting into the part where the weird and creepy stuff happens. And that's only the first book! There's gonna be three more after it!
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Anime_Scholar -- Very cool. I also remember reading his book Nemesis quite a long time ago and enjoying it very much.
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I'm writing something that's reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes as well. Still a bit gruesome, but you've gotta remember....the girl's related to Holmes himself and is a detective genius.
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Oh, boy! I want to Half-Price Books, and they had the entire Fey series! :drool: I was not expecting that, and it made me really happy. So I bought all the books, except the first one, since I've already got it. I did feel bad, leaving it there all by it's lonesome... Hopefully someone will pick it up, it's great! That book deserves a reading. Also, I think a different artist did the cover for all the books that followed the first... And I like the first's cover way more. The art is more appealing to me and it's exactly how I would have imagined the characters even without having seen it.
So anyway, in short, four (probably really amazing) books in good condition for thirteen dollars. HAPPY. <3 Taiyo- Like you said, it's still in the rough stages, but it seems like it will be really good! Is it about vampire detectives? Best of luck getting all the books written. :) |
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When Holmes catches the murderer there's a huge section devoted to the backstory of the people involved and the motives. I think it returns to the 'present' in the end so Holmes can explain exactly what happened and how he figured it out so Watson can say "Gosh Holmes!" or something similar. I know from the Jeremy Brett series Holmes can spend the whole story pretending to be a beggar or in another disguise. XD |
I want to get one of the complete Sherlock Holmes volumes so I can read all of it, I can just never find them when I actually have money with me!
Oh, I see. I think he's not around awfully much in The Hound of the Baskervilles as well, or that was the impression I got from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The main character in that book love Sherlock Holmes and talked about The Hound of the Baskervilles a whole lot. |
If you guys ever get the chance, listen to the old Sherlock Holmes radio series. I personally think that it's even better than the books - Some stories just have to be read aloud. I love sitting with my father and listening to these stories at night!
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I have the Lord of the Rings audiobooks, and I simply can't go back to reading them anymore. They really come to life when read aloud.
(Do audiobooks count on our lists?) |
If you want them to count, they can count. :yes:
I listen to Harry Potter audiobooks on long roadtrips and I put them on my list. I just don't add the page count since I'm technically not reading any pages, haha. |
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