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Jan 07, 2009 10:33AM

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No he can't take his time. It is over ayear I found out about this book and it isn't easy.....
When I read the first time what it was about, I had to tell immediately my friend. She is now also very curious because the summary of his new book makes me very curious but also makes me wonder if it will be good. But everytime I am wondering about that, afraid that he won't write a new treasure for me...
When I read the first time what it was about, I had to tell immediately my friend. She is now also very curious because the summary of his new book makes me very curious but also makes me wonder if it will be good. But everytime I am wondering about that, afraid that he won't write a new treasure for me...
Atishay, I read that once too.
You know when I was living in London I felt even more close to his books becasue he was in England more to the west of London....but I even thought about making a trip once to where he lives. didn't do it in the end. Jsut liek I wanted to visit the place where Agatha Christie lived.
You know when I was living in London I felt even more close to his books becasue he was in England more to the west of London....but I even thought about making a trip once to where he lives. didn't do it in the end. Jsut liek I wanted to visit the place where Agatha Christie lived.

You know when I was living in London I felt even more close to his books becasue he was in England more to the west of London....but I even thought about making a tr..."
Oh, Jeane, I'm so jealous. I really want to go to England. Also, I love, love, love Agatha Christie.
Same here Kathy. I love Agatha Christie's too, esp Poirot ones and the independent mysteries. I hated the Miss Marple ones.
I love Miss Marple.
I think I would have felt like being ina wondeful dream when visiting the region, place she lived. It would feel so unreal for me!
I think I would have felt like being ina wondeful dream when visiting the region, place she lived. It would feel so unreal for me!
So finally Jeane, we disgree on something. :)
I simply hated the idea of Miss Marple as an investigator. But of course, the element was mystery was superbly handled as always in all Agatha Christie novels.
I simply hated the idea of Miss Marple as an investigator. But of course, the element was mystery was superbly handled as always in all Agatha Christie novels.
Fiona, what? I mean, is that possible? Didn't every single person existing in this worl read at least one book by her????????? The world keeps suprising.....
Atishay, I started to know her books mainly through the Miss marple stories and later Poirot, then Tuppence..... In the begining I didn't knew she had also other characters and I thought she was Miss marple!
Atishay, I started to know her books mainly through the Miss marple stories and later Poirot, then Tuppence..... In the begining I didn't knew she had also other characters and I thought she was Miss marple!

I started with her too.But I really couldn't associate with Miss Marple. I read plenty of them and it didnn't work out for me. I was going to leave Agatha Christie hadn't it been for Poirot. He reminded me so much of Sherlock Holmes that I became an instant fan.
Kathy wrote: "Tell me it ain't so, Joe. Atishay, you used hate and Miss Marple in the same sentence. Nooooooooo! And, Fiona, you haven't read any Agatha Christie? Noooooooo! Jeane, you are the only one whos..."
hah, you are wlecome thy. Your post saved me to of applying for the mad house..again!
I love Miss Marple. Whenever I watched the tv series I would hope it was with the little, thin old lady and not the bigger one.
But I adore it whenever someone says to Poirot he is French!
hah, you are wlecome thy. Your post saved me to of applying for the mad house..again!
I love Miss Marple. Whenever I watched the tv series I would hope it was with the little, thin old lady and not the bigger one.
But I adore it whenever someone says to Poirot he is French!
Sherlock Holmes boring Fiona ?!! He is the most believable detective ever to born in the history of fiction. I don't think any other name has reached larger number of ears than this one.

I used to ..."
I agree, Fiona, I liked the older ones better. Jeane, I too prefer the thinner Miss Marple. She just fits.

Atishay wrote: "Hey people! September 3rd! The release of The Brave as claimed by Amazon. "
Atishay, I am already waiting for more than a year and I know it is still more than half a year.....too long!!!!!!
Atishay, I am already waiting for more than a year and I know it is still more than half a year.....too long!!!!!!
Fiona, what's next on your list? It had better be Loop or Smoke Jumper :)
I hope we all get it asap Kathy, me and Jeane have been waiting for it too long :(
I hope we all get it asap Kathy, me and Jeane have been waiting for it too long :(
Fiona, that is the only problem with his books. he does so much research that it takes long before he writes a new book. Then the moment it is in the shop I buy it but can't wait to start reading it. And the moment i know I don't have to work I jsut take the book and read it in one time without breaks. And then the book is finished and have to wait more than a year for another one and longer... So I wait some years and in one day I read what I have been waiting for so long...

Oh Fiona, read The Loop as soon as you can. It is wonderful!

Hahaha, it is wonderful how you are talking to Fiona! So beautiful:-))))
she will give in soon....
she will give in soon....
Well, here's what a site says about Brave:
"The motto of the boarding school to which eight-year-old Tommy Bedford is dispatched is 'Fortune Favours the Brave'. It's England in 1959 and the school bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. Tommy, a quirky loner, obsessed with Cowboys and Indians, will need all the bravery he can summon - and not simply to cope with school. Everything at home is suddenly turned upside down when he learns that his sister Diane, a glamorous actress, is in fact his mother and that his elderly parents are really his grandparents.
When Diane finds fame and falls in love with one of Tommy's heroes, TV cowboy star Ray Montane, she snatches him from school and whisks him away to live with them in Hollywood. Suddenly all Tommy's fantasies seem to have come true. With a handsome new president promising a New Frontier, the world seems golden and full of promise. But as the Cold War casts its shadow, the sinister side of Tinseltown starts to show through. When scandal erupts, Diane and Tommy are forced to flee to Montana. There, Tommy learns about the natural world and the cruel truth of how the West was won. He also has to learn at last the true meaning of bravery.
Unmasking the brutal reality behind the macho cowboy myth and how that myth affects the world today, THE BRAVE explores our quest for love and identity, the fallibility both of heroes and of parents, and the devastating effects of family secrets."
England ---> Hollywood ----> Montana... What does this guy have in his mind? Sounds fast, this one..
"The motto of the boarding school to which eight-year-old Tommy Bedford is dispatched is 'Fortune Favours the Brave'. It's England in 1959 and the school bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. Tommy, a quirky loner, obsessed with Cowboys and Indians, will need all the bravery he can summon - and not simply to cope with school. Everything at home is suddenly turned upside down when he learns that his sister Diane, a glamorous actress, is in fact his mother and that his elderly parents are really his grandparents.
When Diane finds fame and falls in love with one of Tommy's heroes, TV cowboy star Ray Montane, she snatches him from school and whisks him away to live with them in Hollywood. Suddenly all Tommy's fantasies seem to have come true. With a handsome new president promising a New Frontier, the world seems golden and full of promise. But as the Cold War casts its shadow, the sinister side of Tinseltown starts to show through. When scandal erupts, Diane and Tommy are forced to flee to Montana. There, Tommy learns about the natural world and the cruel truth of how the West was won. He also has to learn at last the true meaning of bravery.
Unmasking the brutal reality behind the macho cowboy myth and how that myth affects the world today, THE BRAVE explores our quest for love and identity, the fallibility both of heroes and of parents, and the devastating effects of family secrets."
England ---> Hollywood ----> Montana... What does this guy have in his mind? Sounds fast, this one..
don't wanna read it what you posted, don't want to read it....I already almost don't manage now so if I put in my head even more what it is about....nono..september is still to far away.
Yeah. This one sounds so different! Unlike anything we have seen from Evans so far. Fingers crossed.
his sound so different everytime that with every book i am worried but always end up adoring it.
No, of course not. He's more of a 'emotions' writer, and a great one at that. He's just able to capture them so finely in his writing and they are very natural. That's what stands him apart.


Atishay, you are right: finally!!!!! can't wait!!!!! the 3rd is on a ..... thursday...maybe I can go after work, or on friday after work ebcause then I cna just read it immediately. I can never read anymore one of his books in parts. Since the loop i have to read them in one time.so planning is needed as from the moment I buy it I have a difficult time not starting it.
Kathy, you're right. September is going to be very busy!
And yeah Jeane, I'm hoping I land a job soon before 3rd. I'll be free then.
And yeah Jeane, I'm hoping I land a job soon before 3rd. I'll be free then.
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