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remmers
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response 81 of 298:
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Aug 9 12:54 UTC 1994 |
Oh, and I also finished _Concrete Hero_, a mystery thriller by Rob
Kantner, which I already mentioned in the Michigan Authors item.
Basically a standard-issue formula yarn, unexciting despite the
interest added by the familiar locations -- Detroit, Ann Arbor,
Belleville, Saline, etc.
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omni
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response 82 of 298:
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Aug 9 20:23 UTC 1994 |
sounds neat.
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af296
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response 83 of 298:
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Aug 12 19:37 UTC 1994 |
Does anyone out there belong to a book discussion group?
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wjj
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response 84 of 298:
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Aug 17 04:14 UTC 1994 |
Just finished a collection of short stories by Richard Ford called "Rock
Springs." Ford's writing is very sparse and direct...not a lot of hidden
meaning in his words. Most of his works take place in the West...mainly
Montana...and often involve families where wives have left husbands, or
husbands left wives, or are in the process of leaving, and these family
relationships play into the plot. Anyway, while I really enjoyed these
stories, they didn't impress me as much as his longer works--mainly "Wildfire
" and "The Sportswriter." Still, I think Ford is one of the top fiction
writers in the U.S. today.
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arwen
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response 85 of 298:
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Aug 20 00:53 UTC 1994 |
The last book I read was a science fiction co-authored book.
_The City Who Fought_ by Anne McCaffrey and S.M. Stirling is ok
execpt for one teensy bit of regionalism that ticked this
Southern Belle right off! A character named Patsy is made to speak
with a drawl...ok in its own right,but the authors insist upon
writing it as "Patsy says 'Ah don' know whatcher talkin 'bout'"
GRRR! I have never been so mad at one of my favorite authors.
I may even write her a letter..and him...I like them
both. I just wanted to vent. sorry.
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melinda
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response 86 of 298:
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Aug 21 19:00 UTC 1994 |
re: #83. Check with the Ann Arbor Community Rec. I think they list two book
reading groups in their course catalogs.
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kami
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response 87 of 298:
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Aug 22 22:34 UTC 1994 |
when did "The City Who Fought" come out? Hard or soft? Yeah, that's pretty
poor on the accent.
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arwen
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response 88 of 298:
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Aug 23 13:36 UTC 1994 |
Hard has been out and soft? I dunno...I just saw it and my hand
is trained to grab all Anne McCaffrey's without thought.
Next time I will think.
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kami
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response 89 of 298:
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Aug 23 15:44 UTC 1994 |
she once said she wouldn't do a sequel to "Ship Who Sang" because it was
written during a messy divorce (or something) and she didn't want to suffer
that much if that's what it takes to generate such good writing. Pity. I
like that book and wanted more OF THAT QUALITY or not at all.
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arwen
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response 90 of 298:
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Aug 23 18:15 UTC 1994 |
Try the other ship who books. Co-authored as well, but not bad.
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kami
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response 91 of 298:
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Aug 24 03:10 UTC 1994 |
"not bad" did NOT make me laugh and weep as the first did!
Sorry, try again :^{
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arwen
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response 92 of 298:
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Aug 24 15:17 UTC 1994 |
I know...but Partnership did make me weep! and laugh
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kami
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response 93 of 298:
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Aug 25 07:00 UTC 1994 |
eh? "Partnership? Did I miss something? Sigh.
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luci
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response 94 of 298:
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Oct 30 19:31 UTC 1994 |
The best reads I've had lately were "Watcher's" by Dean R Koontz
"The Misanthrope" Richard Moliere
The Timothy Zahn Star Wars series
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nicely
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response 95 of 298:
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Dec 11 06:52 UTC 1994 |
"Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys
It's a prequel (although I hate that word) of
Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" and the main character is the mad
wife in the attic.
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anne
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response 96 of 298:
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Dec 11 07:00 UTC 1994 |
how is the mad wife the main character?
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spartan
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response 97 of 298:
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Dec 11 18:04 UTC 1994 |
_Forrest Gump_, by WInston Groom. It's completely different from the movie.
And, in many cases, more interesting. It's a really funny book!
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omni
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response 98 of 298:
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Dec 11 20:09 UTC 1994 |
Lonesome Dove and Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry.
LD starts out with Augustus McRae and Woodrow Call, both ex-Texas
Rangers starting out on a cattle drive to Montana, whe McRae and Call
hope to begin a ranch on the Yellowstone River. It would be woefully
inadequate if I went into a lot of detail here, but suffice it to say
929 pages was not enough for Lonesome Dove.
Streets of Laredo is a continuation of LD, but instead of driving cattle
Call is now chasing a fairly ruthless bandito named Joey Garza who loves
to rob trains and kill those aboard. But this is not the whole theme of
the book. Pea Eye Parker is now married to Lorena, the whore that once
occupied the upper room of the Dry Bean in Lonesome Dove, and they have
5 children and are living on a farm in Quitaque, Texas.
These 2 books are worth buying and savoring like fine wine; reading
them should not be hurried, because the end comes all too soon. Sorry
about waxing romantic about these 2, but at first, I wasnt going to
waste my time with them, however now, I'm certainly glad that I read them.
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nicely
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response 99 of 298:
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Jan 27 07:00 UTC 1995 |
Anne, Wide Sargasso Sea tells the story of the mad wife before she
meets Edward Rochester. Then we see her meeting Rochester and how
he is partially to blame for making her mad. It's great!
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anne
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response 100 of 298:
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Jan 28 00:48 UTC 1995 |
Hey, it sounds like a book I should read! Thanks, I'll look into it.
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omni
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response 101 of 298:
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Feb 3 23:12 UTC 1995 |
Just finished "Disclosure" and it's interesting to say the least. Mostly
it's about an executive at a high-tech computer firm who thinks he's in
line for a promotion but finds out different; in fact a lot of things
happen to this guy that shouldn't happen to a dog.
Suffice to say, it's an interesting look at sexual harrassment in the
workplace and in general. I highly recommend it.
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mekare
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response 102 of 298:
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Feb 8 09:45 UTC 1995 |
I just finished a book called Bug Jack Barron.
It's a futuristic/sci-fi kinda book but it really makes you look at your
own morals, or lack there of, and compare them to what would be considered
human nature. It shows the power of the media and what it could be capable
of, after all everbody has a price.....
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raytlee
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response 103 of 298:
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Feb 9 06:15 UTC 1995 |
mekare, do you know that BJB was once denounced on the floor of the British
Parliment?
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md
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response 104 of 298:
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Mar 13 13:19 UTC 1995 |
I just finished Neil Steinberg's _Complete and Utter Failure_.
It's billed as being a satirical work about various product
failures, with chapters on the real, unknown, inventor of the
telephone, the national spelling bee, etc. It gets off to a
rollicking start - early on, Steinberg names his all-time worst
failed product brand name, a yellowish lemon flavored concoction
made by Nestea, called "Tea Whiz." He also does a number on
R.J. Reynolds' Premier Cigarettes, the ones that were impossible
to light and tasted literally like shit. But the book quickly
bogs down in boring autobiographical meanderings and ends up
nowhere.
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rcurl
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response 105 of 298:
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Mar 14 07:21 UTC 1995 |
_WHAT'S GNU_ - A History of the Crossword Puzzle, by Michelle Arnot
(Vintage Books, 1981). The first crossword puzzle was printed in The New
York World on 21 December 1913 - and the world has never been the same.
This book describes this history, and the personalities and publishers
involved, and it includes the landmark and famous puzzles for you to solve
- 47 of them. No, I have not solved them all - if I had, I'd still be
"reading" the book.
"Who can worry about the rent when you're trying to solve 25 Down?"
Margaret Farrar
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