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[Laura]

Well, but I want her to read LOTR after TH. I don't know if I'd read LOTR w/out The Hobbit first...but it's been a while, so I can't really say!

(My carpal tunnel's been acting up, so really liking the abbr.'s these days!)

[Laura]

How long ago, Lori? Like back in HS, or since?

[Lori, Super Mod]

once when i was in HS, and then once when the first movie came out, I tryed to read the book to my oldest son... it just wasnt for me (or him)....

[Emma]

LOL! Ack, my computer crashed on me. I was panicing for 6 minutes! Yes, I'm going to read it as soon as I finish my Halloween reads. No, I haven't my newspaper gave it a good review and I wondered what you thought about it.

[Laura]

Wow...well, when GEmma reads it, I'm planning on re-reading it too. So we'll see. I read them all in middle school, I think. I loved them so much, I read into the wee hours w/a flashlight under the covers (in my house, you got in trouble if lights weren't out by like 11pm).

I loved those books! I'd really like to go back and re-read them though, and see how my perception's changed.

[Emma]

I'm kind of regretting not buying all of them, because the editions in the store were so pretty! But that little voice in my head was saying "wait Emma, see how you like it before you spend money" so I listened. For the first time ever.

[Laura]

I'm w/Logan, you'll like LOTR even better! But I predict you'll like TH too.

(I was kidding about the cat!!)

LOL

:)

[Emma]

LOL! I'm sure I will!

[Emma]

It would bug me a lot to read the second book before the first.

[Emma]

Oh no. Now I need to go to sleep. I'm cleaning tomorrow (finally) so I might not be on tomorrow! See you guys later. :) And hopefully by the time I come back on I'll be on my way to The Hobbit! (And I hope you get Rebel Angels from the library, or buy it, soon Laura).



EMU OUT!

[Allison]

I just finished The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson. It was excellent! I'd highly recommend it. If you haven't heard of it yet, go check it out. :) It was really well written and thought out.

Next, I'm starting on Night by Elie Wiesel.

[Dawn]

I'm just about finished with "Something Borrowed" and I looooooved it!!! Such a cute read:) Can't wait to start "Something Blue" this weekend!!!

[Vipiflower]

I'm currently reading Living Dead In Dallas by Charlaine Harris

[Atishay]

Kellie - I was so moved after reading "The Horse Whisperer" that even a day after finishing the novel, I used to pick it up again ang again to flip through the pages and read the ending climax. Guess, it was too difficult to take in what actually happens..
Laura - Its an undeniable fact that books are better than their adapted movies in 99.99% of the cases. The same goes with the Horse Whisperer. So, if you liked the movie, there's no way you wouldn't like the book. GO ahead and read it. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

[Atishay]

I read LOTR before I read the Hobbit. It wasn't a good choice because a lot of background on Middle Earth is given in The Hobbit and it took me some imagination to visualize their world. I'm a big big fan of LOTR and would recommend it to anyone. I'm looking forward to read the other tolkien's books.
Currently I'm reading "Goodnight and God bless" by Anita Nair which I can safely say is an ideal novel for your bedside table. I'm also finishing up on "The Divide" by Nicholas Evans and needless to say, its another tearjerker from Nicholas Evans. I recommend it to everyone who liked the Horse Whisperer.
Could anyone help me with 'A bend in the road' by Nicholas Sparks ?

[Jeane]

kellie, me too. It is such a nice story and it made me adore all the books Nicholas Evans writes!

Laura, if you like The horse whisperer you should try his other books. The loop is my favourite but different than the others. Maybe it's the outsider of all his books. And he's writting another book!!!!!!

[Kellie]

A Bend in the Road...
That's probably one of the only ones of Sparks I haven't read.
I'll need help on that too!

[Jeane]

Atishay, The Divide was another of his books I had to read in one time. You know what the only thing is thatI hate of his books? I love them so much that I don't do anything between (or I try) but then they are finished immediately and I have to wait for another of his books. Did you read his other books? I adore them.

[Gina]

I read an excellent Nicholas Sparks book. It's titled A Walk to Remember. I saw the movie first, not knowing there was a book, but the book is absolutely amazing. It's such a sweet story, but it made me sob. :)

[Kathy]

Allison, I'm glad to read your positive review of The Gargoyle. I hope to read it this month. It's waiting patiently for me on my nightstand. I'm re-reading The Secret Life of Bees right now before I go see the movie.

[Kathy]

Atishay, I agree wholeheartedly about The Horse whisperer. The movie was good, but the book was so much better. I, too, would pick it up after I read it to flip through the pages and read again parts of it.

[Sera]

I agree with the posts about The Horse Whisperer - the book really takes the story to another level in the ending.

I finished Dracula this week and loved it. I am almost finished my current non-fiction read This Land is Their Land, which is an interesting commentary by the author of how our country has changed over the last 8 years. I hope to start Heart-Shaped Box this weekend. I was also hoping to read House of Leaves this month, but I don't think that I am going to make it. I'll probably end up switching from the horror genre, and save that book for later.

[Ann from S.C.]

I finished Whitley Strieber's 2012. It really fell into the horrow theme. I am now really getting into THE BELL JAR. I really like it! I have had that book on my shelve for years!! It took this wonderful group and the fall challenge to get me to pick it up.
Thank you again!

(Btw...I will be picking up EMPIRE FALLS where i left off after I finish THE BELL JAR.)

[Laura]

Go, Ann, go! I loved Emp. Falls. The end gets a little wild, but I really hope you love it too. I wanted to make Russo one of my gods when I was finished.

A Bend in the Road - I've read that one!! It's really good, I enjoyed it. I have to be in the mood for N. Sparks, so this isn't coming from someone who loves everything N.S., all the time. But I really liked A Bend in the Road. My favorite by him was the Guardian.

Goodnight and God Bless - sounds like sweet dreams??? I'm adding that one to my TBR. Thanks, Atishay!

[Laura]

FOR NICHOLAS SPARKS FANS:

What is the BEST novel by Sparks?

[Stella Bryndís]

Currently, I'm reading Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer. I L-O-V-E the Twilight series.

[Marsha]

Wow- I started American Gods by Neil Gaiman and am really loving it. Fast paced, keeps-ya-wonderin'-what's-next kind of story.

I finally finished Atonement. I just didn't enjoy it.

[Linda]

Donna, Haven't read Smashed, Squashed, but know the feeling of concern that people might think you are from another planet when you start laughing out loud when no one else gets the joke. I recently had that happen with Christopher Moore's Dirty Job.

[Chloe]

Well, I really can't decide what I want to read right yet so I'm going back and forth between four different reads, none of which are particularly daunting. I just can't decide what mood I'm in yet. I'm still reading Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. I'm about a third of the way through the 3rd Sookie book, Club Dead, and about two stories into Bruce Sterling's A Good Old-Fashioned Future. I also started David Wellington's Frostbite yesterday and am a couple chapters deep there. It's just frustrating because, while none of the books I'm reading are at all bad, they're just not what I'm in the mood for now.

[Allison]

Kathy, I hope you enjoy The Gargoyle! :) Let me know what you think when you get to it. :)

[Laura]

Don't you hate that, Logan? This happens to me a lot. Then if I'm lucky, I pick up that next book and it just grabs me.

[Linda]

Ann, let me know what you think of 2012. I started it about a year ago, but got bogged down in the middle and gave up. It began going in a direction that I wasn't too sure would work out. Or maybe it was just me, but I'd would like to know what you think.

If anyone wants to read some good vampire books, try the 30 Days of Night novel series. The graphic novels are good, but the adapted novels read faster.

[Allison]

i'm currently reading
the monsters of templeton- lauren groff
annie freeman's fabulous traveling funeral- kris radish
the red leather diary- lily koppel

i couldn't get through LOTR either. i loved loved the hobbit, but cannnot get into any other tolkein books.

[Ann from S.C.]

Linda, I loved the movie 30 DAYS OF NIGHT. I did not know it was adapted from a book. I did like 2012, but it did go a little crazy. You just have to stick with it to "get" it.

[Liz]

Right now I'm reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and excerpts from Homer's The Iliad--both for school. I never have much time for leisure reading during school!

[JG (Introverted Reader)]

Donna, re: your avatar. I don't know if you know this, but that was a scene in a book by Robert Morgan also. I think it was This Rock, but it might have been Deep Creek. Reading that part really bothered me.

[JG (Introverted Reader)]

I read The Hobbit first and loved it. I tried reading LOTR a couple years later (in high school) and didn't get past the first two. I was bored by all the description. I may have to pick them up and try them again though, because I do love fantasy and I loved the movies.

[ScottK]

I was a geek way back in the day and have read ,both TH and LoTRMany times , at least 5, yeah there are times when it gets dull BUT i still love them. Great Expectations is a WONDERFUL book. I am currently reading Hood, and loving it.

[Angela]

My Favorite Nicholas Sparks books hands down is Bend in the Road, so for those of you that are considering it... just do it!!

[ScottK]

I am loving it it is an interesting spin on the old tale. Has nothing to do with Nottingham Forest in England but takes place mostly so far in Wales. It has some graphic scenes of violence. Yea I would recommend it. So far there is no cursing or sex for that matter.

[Jessica]

I had to turn in House of Leaves today so from here on out I'm just going to read it on my breaks at work.

That being said, I am now onto A Tale of Two Cities.

[Laura]

I tried A Tale of Two Cities, couldn't get into it, but I love Dickens. Should I give it another try? That is the question.

I loved Great Expectations! And enjoyed David Copperfield. Everyone says A Tale...is good, so I should probably try it again.

[Jessica]

Laura, I'm only a few pages in so I can't really give a recommendation yet. The only other Dickens I have read is A Christmas Carol and that's just a classic.

[ScottK]

If you Love Dickens you should try it again. Once you get sucked in it is great!

[Cynthia]

I Love Nicholas Sparks...I haven't them all yet but each one seems to get better and better...they all make me cry...his newest The Lucky One was fantastic and the one before that the Choice was too...of his early works A Walk To Remember is probably my fav.

[Laura]

Thanks everyone for the comments - how long to get sucked in Scott? 20 pages? 50?

[ScottK]

Its been a while since I read it. I would give it 50.

[Tara]

OMG. . .Emperor's Children. I am SO not getting the wide spread mass appeal of this book. These characters are KILLING me!!! I am seriously contemplating quitting this one. Anyone else read/reading this one?
Anyone, Bueller, Anyone?

In the immortal phrase of: "I'd rather be. . . "
I'll be over here poking my eye out with a sharp stick so as not to have to read another paragraph.

[ScottK]

OUCH pretty old movie about it ......I saw that movie in the theatre...... :( but like I always say 42 is the new 40!!!

[Jill]

Currently reading The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, The Shining by Stephen King, and The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

Yeah, I get distracted by shiny objects. Why do you ask? ;)