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11-24-2011, 07:43 PM
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#2951
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Salem, OR
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Anyone ever read any Anne Rice? I never have but it seems like the best case scenario for the moment...
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11-24-2011, 07:48 PM
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#2952
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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I wouldn't recommend her to anyone. Her prose is fine but there's just something really lifeless about the way she writes, in my experience. I've only read Interview With A Vampire and Servant Of The Bones though, and to be fair the first half of Servant was actually good.
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Agatha Christie? You disgust me!
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Its a quick read, and I hate how gory more modern mysteries are. After Girl With The Dragon Tattoo I've grown quite an appreciation for Christie.
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11-24-2011, 08:49 PM
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#2953
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Salem, OR
Posts: 25
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Hmm maybe I'll put a little effort into my search..
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11-24-2011, 09:11 PM
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#2954
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Cali
Posts: 8,030
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Saya
there's just something really lifeless about the way she writes
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I find this highly amusing (cuz, ya know, she writes about vampires and stuff)
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11-25-2011, 12:50 AM
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#2955
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Salem, OR
Posts: 25
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Ah, missed that. Ha! Found Michael Crichton's Sphere, never read anything by him before justI vaguely remember a movie so it is what I'm going with.
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11-25-2011, 05:04 AM
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#2956
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 729
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The thing with Anne Rice is that she writes with lavish detail, but the plot tends to meander. She also works the interview-as-story device quite a bit...
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Originally Posted by Entity0013
Ah, missed that. Ha! Found Michael Crichton's Sphere, never read anything by him before justI vaguely remember a movie so it is what I'm going with.
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Pick up 'Prey' if you're into science fiction, the interpersonal sub-story annoys me but predatory evolving swarm of robots are wicked. I'm not sure the science is watertight but it gives an interesting look at nanotechnology.
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11-27-2011, 10:24 PM
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#2957
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Originally Posted by Solumina
I find this highly amusing (cuz, ya know, she writes about vampires and stuff)
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I wish I caught that so I could add: http://instantrimshot.com/
Reading Harbour by John Ajvide Lindqvist. So far I don't love it as much as I loved Let The Right One In, but its still pretty good and I can't put it down, which is inconvenient since I have to get up early.
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11-28-2011, 12:36 PM
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#2958
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Pretoria, South Africa
Posts: 526
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R.A. Salvatore's Promise of the Witch King. Interesting seeing Artemis Entreri in the lead role for a change.
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11-28-2011, 05:55 PM
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#2959
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Atlanta
Posts: 272
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Saya
I wish I caught that so I could add: http://instantrimshot.com/
Reading Harbour by John Ajvide Lindqvist. So far I don't love it as much as I loved Let The Right One In, but its still pretty good and I can't put it down, which is inconvenient since I have to get up early.
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo bothered you but you loved Let the Right One In? Remember the acid and the skin and the...ugh. I mean, it's an excellent book. But Lindqvist makes me squirm way more than Larsson ever has... I made my way through the entire Girl trilogy without ever taking a nausea break. Can't say the same for Let the Right One In.
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11-28-2011, 07:15 PM
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#2960
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Originally Posted by wolf moon
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo bothered you but you loved Let the Right One In? Remember the acid and the skin and the...ugh. I mean, it's an excellent book. But Lindqvist makes me squirm way more than Larsson ever has... I made my way through the entire Girl trilogy without ever taking a nausea break. Can't say the same for Let the Right One In.
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Oh, I should have clarified. They were too "shocky" to me, like the rrape scenes and the SPOILER SPOILER: killer turning out to be the mild mannered brother who actually is a psycho serial killer who's been killing for fun for years, and no one ought to know this. With Christie its not gory, but a lot of thought went in behind whodunit and why, and you make your logical guess before the big reveal. The only one so far where I felt like it could have been anybody in the book turned out that it actually was everybody. with GWTDT it was just "AND ISNT THIS SICKENING AND HORRIFYING?!" when the killer was revealed, and it could have been anyone else and lose nothing. The only surprise was the twist about the victim. I also understand the the original title was Men Who Hate Women, but did the main character have to be the only man in the book who wasn't in any way an ass, and look at all the pussy he gets because he is the only man in the world who isn't an ass? The relationship between Lisbeth and Mikael I thought was really weird particularly, I know Larsson was traumatized after witnessing a rrape and I don't like picking at things that are created as a healing tool, but if you don't know that about Larsson its really easy to take the book as a "finally the Nice Guy finishes first" kind of thing.
With Let The Right One In, the pedophilia thing I didn't enjoy, obviously, but the whole point of the book was to scare the shit out of you and scare the shit out of me it did, like vampire book should.
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11-28-2011, 07:31 PM
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#2961
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Atlanta
Posts: 272
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Well that makes sense. I was comparing them purely from a squickiness factor and was surprised at your preference. I didn't know any of Larsson's background. My mom found the Girl trilogy in a bookstore in Sweden a while ago, and I read them all up rather delightedly but never did any research on them. Now they're available here and I suddenly have people to discuss them with, which is sort of awesome. I keep hearing completely different interpretations and it's making me want to go back and re-read.
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11-28-2011, 08:10 PM
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#2962
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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I read it earlier this year after it was pumped up as the most feminist thing ever, so you can imagine my disappointment.
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11-29-2011, 06:34 AM
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#2963
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Atlanta
Posts: 272
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Yeah, most people read Lisbeth in a way that I find confusing. I mostly just see her as a badass Machead.
Currently reading A Jealous Ghost. It's surprisingly engaging.
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11-30-2011, 05:27 AM
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#2964
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 708
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J. G. Ballard - Drowned World. A lot less freaky than I was expecting after Crash - seems like a straight up sci-fi so far. Good though.
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11-30-2011, 02:50 PM
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#2965
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: a sneeze away from San Francisco
Posts: 2,144
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Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
A commentary on women in North Africa with a subtly post-apocalyptic, magical-realism twist. Beautifully written and quite gripping!
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12-05-2011, 08:15 PM
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#2966
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Massachusetts ('cause I like the chowda)
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Novels of varying Horror...
I just finished American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin, and I'm now reading ****** by Vladimir Nabokov. It is a very intriguing novel, fascinating in its own way; like a lot of the novels I read, not for the faint of heart.
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12-13-2011, 11:40 PM
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#2967
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Except The Dying by Maureen Jennings.
I stayed up late to finish it, and I kinda wish I didn't now. The book isn't bad but the ending is such a let down. I understand who the murderer was, but the motive is barely explained. It was just like "this insignificant character turns out to be a complete psycho sexual predator but we're not going to explain his connection to the victim at all."
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12-16-2011, 08:39 PM
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#2968
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,271
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BDSM erotica.....shut...up.....
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12-16-2011, 10:09 PM
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#2969
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Texas
Posts: 44
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
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12-21-2011, 01:55 PM
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#2970
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 2
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I just finished reading Pale Demon from Kim Harrison. I cant wait for the next book! I absolutely love Al! Now Im reading Vampire Kisses 8.
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12-21-2011, 02:05 PM
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#2971
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Hell, it's other people & both of them are you
Posts: 1,001
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An Introduction to Crime and Criminology, by Hennessey, Hayes and Prenzler.
Thrilling, I know. :|
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12-21-2011, 05:20 PM
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#2972
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Fort Worth, TX
Posts: 2
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I'm reading Dance of Death by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, and a book for my review site, The Hoax by Adrienne Jones.
I'm enjoying both a lot.
The review book is so good so far, I've taken a look at what the author has on Amazon (there are 4 other books) and am seriously considering getting all 4. If The Hoax holds together, Jones is going to be someone to watch.
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12-21-2011, 08:29 PM
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#2973
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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So I tried reading The Fallen Blade by Jon Courtenay Grimwood, but eventually it just pissed me off too much. I was reading it because, confession, I really do love vampires, but it seems like most vampire books now are romance novels, and I was promised this wasn't. Well, its not, but its probably more misogynistic than Twilight, although its a lot more honest about being misogynistic. It takes place hundreds of years ago so I get that a lot of the male characters aren't feminists, but the way he describes women and writes them is really troubling too. Most of them are rraped, killed and murdered, and described as sexy and voluptuous. Even an 11 year old girl gets her naked body described in uncomfortable ways, is rraped and later murdered. The only two other prominent women who aren't evil witches are virgins who do fuck all. And one of them is impregnated by a spell a mage puts on her, and a werewolf falls in love with her but she views him more as a friend and falls in love with the vampire who is obsessed with her from the first time he sees her OH WAIT THIS IS LIKE TWILIGHT AFTER ALL ISNT IT.
My roommate is a huge Agatha Christie fan and keeps giving me books to read, so I'm reading Murder At The Vicarage until I'm over my vampire rage and I'll continue my search for a decent vampire book.
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12-22-2011, 07:25 PM
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#2974
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: northeast us
Posts: 887
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Lev Grossman, "The Magicians".
Loving it.
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12-27-2011, 01:20 PM
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#2975
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Bloodshot by Cherie Priest.
Surprisingly good so far, not poorly written but not great, but I'm not a fan of stream of consciousness narration so that could just be my personal taste. But a likeable vampire protagonist who kills? So far, I'm in.
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