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Recently Purchased/Borrowed

I've just bought the following:

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse - Robert Rankin
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown (I read the Da Vinci Code and loved it, so I bought this)
The Game - Laurie King
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynne Truss

Anyone read these and/or have any comments about them? Please just don't give anything away.

I cannot leave a bookstore without a book purchase....
 
Hi Jules, you probably don't know me (I think YOU KNOW WHO is watching) but I liked Angels & Demons a lot. If you like The D.C. you'll like this one too.

I've heard good things about the Time Traveler's Wife & will probably get it myself eventually.

And is The Game King's latest in the Mary Russel series? I've read a number of Kings earlier works and I would think you'll enjoy it.

Nice meeting you... uhmmm...what's your name again?


RaVeN
 
Yes - The Game is the newest in the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series. I had to get it. When I get hooked on a book in a series, I have to read the entire series. I'll let you know what the others are like.

Have we met before? You seem so familiar. Maybe in another lifetime. ;)
 
I've read 4 (I think ) from that series and liked them a lot but haven't read The Game. If you're into that type of thing you should enjoy it.

'til my thoughts cross your dreams. The guy that smells...kinda familiar,

RaVeN
 
Against a Dark background: Iain M Banks
Thieves World - Book 8: Asprin
Dear Me: Peter Ustinov

All second hand
 
SillyWabbit said:
I agree, love the south. I never met a yankee I liked :D

Regards
SillyWabbit
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You should see my in-laws...my mother-in-law is definitely a RI Yankee and my father-in-law is from South Carolina. Their mothers couldn't even understand one another when they met, because their accents are so thick. So I married a half-Yankee, but he's mostly Southern, so that's ok. ;)


Raven said:
My humble apologies Miss ChEwbecca,

Next time I'm down South I'll stop by your trailer and pay my respects. :p
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Hey now, I've a house since that last tornado took out my trailer :p
 
SillyWabbit said:
Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord by Louis De Bernieres
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Have you read The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts? I read these a few years ago and LOVED THEM but if I remember correctly reading this one first will really help.
 
My Mum just bought (she didnt actually expect to get to read them first, honest!!)

His Dark Materials Trilogy
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series

Which i shall be reading shortly :)

Phil
 
Ashlea said:
Have you read The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts? I read these a few years ago and LOVED THEM but if I remember correctly reading this one first will really help.
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No, I have not read that :)

You think it is essential to read the other one first???

Regards
SillyWabbit
 
SillyWabbit said:
No, I have not read that :)

You think it is essential to read the other one first???

Regards
SillyWabbit
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Maybe not 100% essential but STRONGLY recommended.
 
I just read the synopsis on Amazon of The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts and it sounds great! I'm going to have to pick it up soon. :)
 
I've recently added 3 hardbacks to my collection.

In Cold Blood- Truman Capote
Fatherland- Robert Harris
Idlewild- Nick Sagan


RaVeN
 
I hope the forum doesn't go down again for quite some time. I had time to kill today and went on a spending spree at 2 bookstores (and ebay). Today I bought the hardbacks of:

Blindness- Jose Saramago
Everything is Illuminated- Jonathon Safran Foer
Diary- Chuck Palahniuk
The Five People You Meet in Heaven- Mitch Albom
Oryx and Crake- Margaret Atwood
Ender's Game & Speaker For the Dead- Orson Scott Card
Hyperion & The Fall of the Hyperion- Dan Simmons

And a pair of book club editions by Michael Moorcock - The Elric Saga ,Parts 1 & 2. They contain 3 stories in each that I assume were each seperate books when first published.


RaVeN
 
Have just taken advantage of my local bookshop's 3 for 2 offer. Wait, on seconds thoughts my local bookshop has just taken advantage of me; I only wanted one book but decided I might as well pay for a second in order to get the third free. I hate marketeers!

Anyway, here's the books:
Bryan Magee "Confessions of a Philosopher"
Jared Diamond "Guns, Germs and Steel"
Joseph Conrad "The Secret Agent"
 
RaVeN! You're a good man!!

Blindness and Everything is Illuminated are brilliant!!

By the way, when was the site down?

Cheers, Martin
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I just got...

Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling -- Ross King
Dark Eagles -- Curtis Peebles
Nine Stories -- J.D. Salingers
The Gnostic Gospels -- Elaine Pagels
and The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey -- Kenneth Blanchard ..for work...gotta love it... :rolleyes:
 
Welcome back, Martin. Did you have a nice holiday? Or are you still on holiday?

I'm with you there on "Blindness" by Saramago.

Happy - belated - whit sunday.

Hobitten :)
 
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