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[Lori, Super Mod]

Just started Pain Killers by jerry stahl.

[Bridgit]

Thanks everyone for the Dune commentary. Think I will wait awhile before (if) pursuing the next in the series. I am content with it as a standalone i think.

Just finished The Elegance of the Hedgehog and Mad Dash: A Novel. Starting Speaker for the Dead and am SUPER excited about it. Enders Game was one of my favorites ever.

[Sasha]

Oh man, I loved Ender's Game but hated everything else Orson Scott Card ever wrote. Not to discourage you or anything; maybe you'll get something out of it that I didn't.

[Edith]

I'm just about to finish Fireworks over Toccoa which is so good. Beautiful story! Then I'll start Making Toast: A Family Story.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Started 206 Bones, by Kathy Reichs, last night.

[Bridgit]

Alex wrote: "Oh man, I loved Ender's Game but hated everything else Orson Scott Card ever wrote. Not to discourage you or anything; maybe you'll get something out of it that I didn't."

Oh really?? so strange. I guess people either love or hate SotD. Someone in another group just said they think that it should be the one book 'everyone' should read. I've heard lots of others say that it is even better than Enders Game...

You've killed my dreams Alex. I hope you are happy. *moping back over to my bookshelf...*

[Sasha]

That's me. Killer of Dreams.

Well, I hope you're one of the ones who loves it. Entirely possible that I just missed the point or something. I sorta soured on Orson Scott Card himself when I learned that he's turned into a crazy old man who doesn't believe in global warming or gay marriage, so I went into it probably predisposed to dislike it. But really, one shouldn't judge a book by the author's personal beliefs.

[Carol]

Now Alex you are someones dream maker(wife, children and parents to be exact)

[Sasha]

Just wife and mom, actually, and only if my wife's dream was to be married to a guy who builds giant Q Tips out of PVC and foam so he can duel his friends in the back yard. :)

[Carol]

Sounds like an enchanted evening in the back ways of Boston. Her own personal Camelot, are you Robert Goulet?

[Amanda]

Alex wrote: "How's Brave New World going for you, Amanda? I haven't read it since high school. I remember liking it, though I found it a bit difficult in parts."

I'm not too far into it yet - just one chapter. It starts out with the babies in the test tubes. Weird.

[Sasha]

Of course! I am always Robert Goulet!

I've never been sure how much of my liking Brave New World was just that I wanted to like the slightly more obscure book instead of 1984, to be all "more obscure than thou." Which is why I'd like to re-read it sometime.

[Sasha]

By the way everyone, fair warning: Amanda's blog, "Adventures Between the Covers," does not turn out to be as dirty as it sounds.

[Carol]

I can't remember much about Brave New World. I won't re-read it unless forced to.

[Sarah]

Sharon McCrumb's The Devil in the Lawyers, an advance review copy. We talked at the recent VA Press Women conference where my novel Waltzing Cowboys won second place in their communications contest in novel category. Life is glorious.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

I certainly preferred Brave New World to 1984. We had the latter shoved down our throats - but I guess we were asking for it.

I was a member of the Class of 1984.

[Amanda]

Alex wrote: "By the way everyone, fair warning: Amanda's blog, "Adventures Between the Covers," does not turn out to be as dirty as it sounds."

Haha, thanks for warning everyone. :-) I wanted a catchy title - apparently I succeeded.

I read 1984 for the first time last summer and LOVED it so I figured I'd like BNW, too. Although my reason for reading it is because it's a LOST book, and I'd like to make my way through all of those at some point.

[El]

Ooh, everyone should read Zamyatin's We. It's the one that inspired Huxley and Orwell to write Brave New World and 1984, and I think it's better than both of them. Just a shout out to the Russians. :)

[Sasha]

Amanda wrote: "it's a LOST book, and I'd like to make my way through all of those at some point. "

Ha...sortof a fun plan. I'm a Lost fan too. You've got your work cut out for you though!

I've actually read 36 of those. Huh.

That list probably is more exhaustive than you really need to get, though. I noticed Bluebeard is on the list solely because Sawyer called Tom "Bluebeard" once. Bit of a stretch there.

[Sasha]

Oh - and Brave New World isn't even on that list!? I could swear I've hear that it was referenced by the show too, though.

[Flora]

Carol (kittykat) wrote: "I can't remember much about Brave New World. I won't re-read it unless forced to."


I agree, I remember reading it in high school and all I remember was that I didn't like it then.

[[ JT ]]

Bridgit wrote: "Oh really?? so strange. I guess people either love or hate SotD. Someone in another group just said they think that it should be the one book 'everyone' should read. I've heard lots of others say that it is even better than Enders Game... "


Let me bring a bit of sunshine to your choice-- I absolutely LOVED Speaker For the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind. ;)

Ender's Game was good, but not amazing by any means. The following three, however, were awesome! My opinion appears to be in the minority since most people are all ga-ga over Ender's Game.

[Bridgit]

Amanda (JT) wrote: "Bridgit wrote: "Oh really?? so strange. I guess people either love or hate SotD. Someone in another group just said they think that it should be the one book 'everyone' should read. I've heard lots..."

Yay! Bouncing back to my happy place!

[Maria]

i set aside Pillars of the Earth for now, i need something lighter to give my mind a break! who knew running could be such a mentally challenging activity? anyway, i picked up Deep Dish yesterday and i'm more than halfway through, so that's the fluff i need to get me back in to the reading groove!

[Lori Ann]

I absolutely think Brave New World is superior to 1984 because it forces you to question whether this "new world" is that terrible. What is wrong with no free will if everyone is happy? As opposed to 1984 where its very clear there are no redeeming qualities about the world Orwell created. Aldous Huxley Island is just as good.

El I am in total agreement with you about We! Not as well known as it should be.

[Madeline]

You're all making me think I should read Brave New World, which I was hedging around because I hated 1984. I generally enjoy dystopia, but 1984 was so unredeemable, a little too bleak for me.

I loved Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow almost as much. I plan to read Speaker, but haven't picked it up yet.

I just finished Animal Farm, which was much better than 1984, and am now reading Dragonhaven. Though I normally love Robin McKinley, the young writer autobiographical style she's using is getting on my nerves. I hope it improves.

[Carol]

I think someone needs to nominate it next month for a group read . That is about the only way i will re-read it. haha I will be Brave and face the New World.

[Karen]

J.A. Jance

number 3 in JP Beaumontseries

[Carol]

I like Joanna Brady series better, than Beaumont

[Marti]

I just received Beachcombers: A Novel by Nancy Thayer. I picked it up to look at the beginning and the next thing I knew, I was 52 pages into it. I am moving this to the front of the line!

[Liz]

I am reading The Maze Runner & really love it so far! It's hard to put down!

[tiasreads]

I just finished The Help and loved it! Now I'm 1/3 of the way through The Poisonwood Bible. Next up is Daughter of Fortune. Isn't this sad- these books are a few years older and my library just got them in.

[F1Wild]

Vaashti wrote: "I'm just over halfway through with Moloka'i by Alan Brennert and am still undecided whether or not I like the book. Neither the writing nor the story is very compelling, but something about it is ..."
Wow, I'm totally surprised as I absolutely loved Moloka'i. Hope it gets better for you!

[F1Wild]

I just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo today, actually making a doctor wait a minute or two until I finished the last page (yes, I have cajones) - and of course loved it.

Instead of jumping right into ...Played with Fire I decided to start the newly released (for Kindle) Pearl of China: A Novel by Anchee Min mostly because of my deep love for Pearl S. Buck and love of Anchee Min's writing.

[Sasha]

Sometime this summer we should do a little group read of We, Brave New World and 1984.

[Dana *]

I have started I Am Not A Serial Killer

very good so far. Reminds me of Dexter.

[Katie]

Alex wrote: "Sometime this summer we should do a little group read of We, Brave New World and 1984."

I'm so in! That sounds like great fun.

[Petra]

F1Wild wrote: "...I decided to start the newly released (for Kindle) Pearl of China: A Novel by Anchee Min mostly because of my deep love for Pearl S. Buck and love of Anchee Min's writing..."

F1, I'd be interested in your thoughts on this book. It's on my TBR list as well.

[Petra]

I started the third Gretchen Lowell book, Evil at Heart. I really enjoyed the first two of this trilogy, especially the first one, Heartsick.

[Jayme]

If you did as many read-alongs as you thought up, you'd have to quit your day job, Alex. I'd so be in for that too though.

I freakin' loved 1984, you are all crazy not liking it. I still need to read BNW though and We sounds pretty awesome, I'd like to try that out too.

[Jayme]

Speaker for the Dead's pretty good, Bridgit. But it's really weird too. At the end of mine there was an interview with the author where he said that when he wrote Ender's Game he only meant for it to be an introduction to Speaker and that he had no idea Ender would become a classic and Speaker would get so ignored. I guess I kind of get that, the topics are deeper than in Ender...but still, Ender was the better book.

[Sasha]

I know Jayme. I get so excited about things. Sigh.

[Lori, Super Mod]

I read 1984 a few summers ago, as it was one of those books that I had never read before, and felt I should have.

I was not impressed with it at all. Just not my cup of tea I suppose. Although I usually LOVE dystopian futuristic books.

[Carol]

Alex wrote: "Sometime this summer we should do a little group read of We, Brave New World and 1984."

If you promise not to twist my arm ,I will try to join in also.

[Sasha]

How about if I promise not to stick your face in a cage full of rats?

[Carol]

I am a cat remember. Plus born in the year of the rat. I am always at odds with myself.

I just finished a wonderful book of short stories calledTurbo's Very Life And Other Stories.If you like short stories it is very well written.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Just finished a Kathy Reichs, 206 Bones.

[Susanna]

Made myself finish The Lost Symbol . Really, Dan Brown? I mean, really.

Anyway, was supposed to pick up Skeleton Crew but decided to finally read some Bradbury. The parents have Fahrenheit 451 on their shelf but I'll save it for later and go with A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities .

I also would not mind joining in on Brave New World and We. I didn't enjoy 1984 much but that could have been due to the translation which is why I'll most likely re-read it sometime in the future.

[Carol]

Hmmmmmmm maybe WE for me also, sounds interesting.

[Sasha]

What language did you read it in, Susanna?