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omni
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Too good to lay down
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Apr 4 06:00 UTC 1995 |
Have you ever read a book that completly envelopes you and takes
over, never letting you put it down even for sleep? I have encountered
this syndrome with the writings of Scott Turow (Presumed Innocent)
Michael Crichton (Disclosure) and John Grisham (The Firm, The Client
and The Chamber).
What books have you read recently that were so good, you just could
not lay them down?
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md
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response 1 of 31:
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Apr 4 12:21 UTC 1995 |
Unfortunately, Lord of the Rings did that to me during fall
term finals my sophomore year in college.
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katie
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response 2 of 31:
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Apr 4 16:16 UTC 1995 |
The stories of Ferrol Sams.
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md
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response 3 of 31:
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Apr 8 15:06 UTC 1995 |
On the strength of that comment, I went out and got _The
Widow's Mite_. Katie is right, Dr. Sams is quite a
storyteller.
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katie
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response 4 of 31:
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Apr 9 20:42 UTC 1995 |
Oh, Michael, make sure you read his series about Porter Osborne, Jr! Start
with _Run With The Horsemen_. I laugh out loud when I read these!
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md
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response 5 of 31:
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Apr 10 13:39 UTC 1995 |
Definitely will do. This guy is hilarious when he wants to be.
The combination of tragedy and low comedy in some of his stories
has me laughing out loud, too.
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gerund
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response 6 of 31:
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Apr 11 08:45 UTC 1995 |
Bukowski.
Have to say that for some folks an attitude and style are all that's
needed.
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spartan
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response 7 of 31:
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Apr 12 17:06 UTC 1995 |
Stephen King's Dark Tower series were just too good to put down. I read
through all three of them in like three weeks.
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omni
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response 8 of 31:
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Apr 12 18:27 UTC 1995 |
Lonesome Dove and Streets of Laredo were also a obsession for me. Finished
LD in about 2 weeks (900 pages) and Streets in about a week and a half.
I will read both again.
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raven
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response 9 of 31:
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Apr 20 02:21 UTC 1995 |
Jusabout anyting by Annie, Neal Stephenso"Snow Crsh."
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raven
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response 10 of 31:
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Apr 21 03:36 UTC 1995 |
Whops linenoise was bad when I typed that should be "Just about
anything
by Annie Dillard, neal Stephonson Snow Crash."
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lilmo
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response 11 of 31:
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Sep 20 05:24 UTC 1995 |
No offense, but I'm still not sure what you meant...
Call me a nerd if you must, but I'll start reading about something in the
encyclopedia, and then see an interesting entry over here, and then another
one, and another...
Of course, for me, I usually have difficulty putting down ANYthing I'm
reading, textbooks included (sometimes).
But I also recently ran across a unique take on the Arthur legend; most of
it is set in "the present", but two of the characters are reborn Arthur and
Galahad, and Merlin awakes from his 1000-year sleep. If someone asks, I'll
post the title (I returned it to the library).
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bjt
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response 12 of 31:
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Dec 10 01:51 UTC 1995 |
OK, I'll ask. I usually enjoy Arthurian books.
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