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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 4, 2019 22:37:23 GMT -5
Oryx and Crake
On p. 91.
Jimmy. Father. Mother. Crake. Pigoons. Rakunks.
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Post by mln59 on Feb 6, 2019 19:30:51 GMT -5
set in lackey's valdemar universe, this book continues the adventures of mags and amily. i've read almost everything set in valdemar and i've been waiting for this book for over 2 years.
i have finished my book about mags and amily. loved it. i will meow return to the veronica gerber bicecci book as the museum event is in 12 days finished the bicecci book. super fast read. toward the end, you get pages that have one line of text only. i'll hold onto the book for the museum thing.
i am excited for my next book: the golden tresses of the dead by alan bradley, the 10th book in his flavia de luce series. these books are soooooooooooooo good. i highly recommend them. flavia is a fantastic literary protagonist.
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Post by mln59 on Feb 15, 2019 11:44:56 GMT -5
Oryx and Crake On p. 91. Jimmy. Father. Mother. Crake. Pigoons. Rakunks. how is this going?
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 15, 2019 11:49:04 GMT -5
Oryx and Crake On p. 91. Jimmy. Father. Mother. Crake. Pigoons. Rakunks. how is this going? I was on p. 160 but I had to return the book to the library because someone had it on hold. So, I searched a different library and put it on hold there. I should have it by this weekend. So far so good. Of course, I’m a big Margaret Atwood fan so I knew I’d like it.
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Post by mln59 on Feb 16, 2019 1:16:15 GMT -5
i am excited for my next book: the golden tresses of the dead by alan bradley, the 10th book in his flavia de luce series. these books are soooooooooooooo good. i highly recommend them. flavia is a fantastic literary protagonist. finished the bradley book today. i think it's likely his best work in the series. there are scenes that simply grab your soul, especially if you've read the first 9. situations that let flavia absolutely shine. she is simply outstanding.
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Post by mln59 on Feb 16, 2019 10:33:49 GMT -5
set in lackey's valdemar universe, this book continues the adventures of mags and amily. i've read almost everything set in valdemar and i've been waiting for this book for over 2 years.
i have finished my book about mags and amily. loved it. i will meow return to the veronica gerber bicecci book as the museum event is in 12 days going to be heading to the museum event soon. have no idea what to expect. hope it's fun
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Post by mln59 on Feb 20, 2019 20:49:04 GMT -5
i am excited for my next book: the golden tresses of the dead by alan bradley, the 10th book in his flavia de luce series. these books are soooooooooooooo good. i highly recommend them. flavia is a fantastic literary protagonist. finished the bradley book today. i think it's likely his best work in the series. there are scenes that simply grab your soul, especially if you've read the first 9. situations that let flavia absolutely shine. she is simply outstanding.
will finish this tomorrow. switching back to fiction.
will read " uprooted" by naomi novik. i know nothing about this author but i bet i'll like it
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2019 21:38:57 GMT -5
I read Me Before You and the two sequels. I actually read the last one first, not knowing there were two previous books. I guess these are fairly popular novels and they are definitely readable. Not sure I could have read TWO sequels if I had read the first one first. There's a bit of repetition involved -- and, for me at least, the heroine ended up getting a little annoying.
Jojo Moyes is the author. Turns out there was a movie, starring the Khaleesi. Who knew? So it falls in both the Romance threads, too. Can't find it at Netflix, Amazon, Hulu or HBO.
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 20, 2019 22:04:14 GMT -5
I actually read the last one first, not knowing there were two previous books. I've done that. For instance, I read several chapters into The Candle Of Distant Earth until I stopped and said to myself, this MUST not be the first book. I looked more carefully and found out it was the third book. (It's from an amusing trilogy by Alan Dean Foster. The viewpoint character is just a regular guy who is kidnapped by aliens. Turns out they have a business selling sapient beings as exotic pets. If one of their samples isn't sapient enough, they uplift it a little. So he finds himself in basically a big holding tank with a bunch of other aliens in the same position as him, plus an Earth dog that can talk. Including the dog is a fantastic touch, because of course dogs basically expect to be pets anyway, so it gives a whole different spin on the idea. Anyway, a group of four or five of them, including the dog, escape and spend the next few books trying to exist as refugees in the galactic community, locate the planets they were taken from, and get home. Also, the pet-traders keep trying to recapture them, as it's something of a point of honor that they never lose any merchandise.)
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 20, 2019 22:07:20 GMT -5
I went and looked up my Amazon review of that series. Here's my review of the first book (written in 2008).
The highlight of the whole trilogy is the camaraderie between the four main characters: a human, a dog with enhanced intelligence and speech, a smart but antisocial squid-like alien, and a huge alien with a love of bardic poetry.
"Camaraderie" comes from a word meaning "roommate", and that's how these four meet up. All of them have been abducted as "novelties". They are being kept in a sort of giant pen while they await eventually being sold as something like, perhaps, pets. The inclusion of a dog in the mix is an interesting twist, because of course that is the typical fate of a dog anyway. The others find the situation harder to accept.
The plot follows them as they find each other among the large crowd of other "merchandise", come to trust each other, plot an escape, and then carry it out. Sadly for them, this leaves them lost somewhere in the galaxy with no way to find their homes (the subject of books two and three in this series).
I thought this first book was quite good. Not only are the characters fascinating, but the plot was entertaining as well. It boded well for the next two books (which, sadly, don't quite live up to this one).
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 20, 2019 22:20:47 GMT -5
Looking at my Amazon profile, I wrote a lot of reviews there 10 years ago. Hardly any these past few years.
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Post by mln59 on Feb 22, 2019 14:16:22 GMT -5
In my library-borrowed copy of Oryx and Crake, there’s a preview of its sequel The Year of the Flood at the end. As a teaser, the publisher included the first 7 pages of The Year of the Flood at the end. I’ve seen teasers and previews like this in other media, see, e.g., first episode of season 2 on a season 1 DVD. But I’ve never seen it in a book — and I read a lot of books. It’s possible that it’s more prevalent in certain genres like sci-fi or fantasy where titles are commonly serialized into, say, three or four books, at the least, I don’t know. I mostly read snooty literary books. Now, it's possible I may have seen something like this in a children's or teen book. But I don't remember. i agree with your assessment about teasers in books being more prevalent in sci-fi or fantasy. i think those are the only books in which i've seen teasers.
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 22, 2019 18:17:09 GMT -5
In my library-borrowed copy of Oryx and Crake, there’s a preview of its sequel The Year of the Flood at the end. As a teaser, the publisher included the first 7 pages of The Year of the Flood at the end. I’ve seen teasers and previews like this in other media, see, e.g., first episode of season 2 on a season 1 DVD. But I’ve never seen it in a book — and I read a lot of books. It’s possible that it’s more prevalent in certain genres like sci-fi or fantasy where titles are commonly serialized into, say, three or four books, at the least, I don’t know. I mostly read snooty literary books. Now, it's possible I may have seen something like this in a children's or teen book. But I don't remember. i agree with your assessment about teasers in books being more prevalent in sci-fi or fantasy. i think those are the only books in which i've seen teasers. It is quite common in SF. Usually only among writers who have achieved hardcover status. Think about the precondition -- the next book must already be written in order for the preview chapters to appear in the previous book. Well, in hardcover authors the usual cycle is that the book is published in hardcover first. Then, when the next book is ready to be published (also in hardcover), a paperback version of the previous book is released. It is usually this paperback version that contains the preview chapter(s) for the next hardcover book. Authors of lesser status usually don't get printed in hardcover. So the first release is a paperback release and there is no later second release unless the book is such a hot seller that it goes through many multiple printings.
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Post by mln59 on Feb 23, 2019 17:44:06 GMT -5
will finish this tomorrow. switching back to fiction.
will read " uprooted" by naomi novik. i know nothing about this author but i bet i'll like it this book is a page turner. the last 5 chapters have been blistering. super emotionally invested
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Post by mln59 on Feb 27, 2019 9:14:26 GMT -5
will finish this tomorrow. switching back to fiction.
will read " uprooted" by naomi novik. i know nothing about this author but i bet i'll like it this book is a page turner. the last 5 chapters have been blistering. super emotionally invested have about 50 pages left. i think i should fake being sick so i can leave work and finish the book
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