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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2017 22:39:08 GMT
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold - John LeCarre
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Post by camimac on Mar 16, 2017 22:42:50 GMT
Hanta Yo by Ruth Beebe Hill. I know it tells the history of the Lakota Indians. I remember that it had this interesting concept about message bearers, but I couldn't tell anyone the details about that or anything else about the book. But, I remember liking the book a lot.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2017 23:47:45 GMT
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant fantasy series written by Stephen R. Donaldson, read the books twice once in JR. and then in College? If you asked me about them in detail, I would only say that there was nothing quite like it at the time and don't read them if your depressed. One problem with a books board is that people have just recently read a book or are reading the works of a particular Author and you have read alot of their works long ago and you wish you could join right in  but brain-freeze, there are just too many books on your brain besides the one you are currently devouring. That's why general literature questions sometimes succeed fairly well. 'Authors that you find are pretentious?' |
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Post by HirundoRustica on Mar 17, 2017 1:31:10 GMT
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant fantasy series written by Stephen R. Donaldson I remember reading those books ages ago, but all I can recall from them is that the main character suffered from leprosy and that there was a bit with him biting into some bread (?) that somebody had baked razor blades into. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2017 1:57:23 GMT
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant fantasy series written by Stephen R. Donaldson I remember reading those books ages ago, but all I can recall from them is that the main character suffered from leprosy and that there was a bit with him biting into some bread (?) that somebody had baked razor blades into. LOL, your close to describing the entire series. For a set of books that have such a great impact on the reader of them, isn't it curious that years later all that you tend to remember is the suffering and being depressed. I mean Stephen R. Donaldson was trying really hard to touch on alot of various themes and sending alot of messages. Maybe when you try that hard they don't stick that well and a little bit of honey helps it to stay there. |
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Post by Nalkarj on Mar 17, 2017 15:34:23 GMT
I'm a great fan of the books of John Dickson Carr (his picture is my avatar here), and Nine--and Death Makes Ten is one of my favorites of his Sir Henry Merrivale books.
Yet, for God knows what reason, I can never, ever remember the murderer in this one. It's not that the murderer's an insignificant character [to the contrary], just that for some reason I can never remember his identity before I read the book again.
That may not be so remarkable, but it hasn't happened to me with any other whodunit I've ever read. (Oh, yes, sometimes I forget after not having read it for a long time, but, with Nine--and Death Makes Ten, I completely forget--I don't know, just a few days after I finish it?)
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Post by filmfan95 on Mar 17, 2017 18:31:31 GMT
Some of the Narnia books. I've read all of them, and I liked all of them, but some of them I can't remember the plots of at all. That's probably why the movies didn't bother me as much as they did for other people.
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Post by hardball on Mar 18, 2017 14:30:11 GMT
I remember liking Rose Madder, but now I can't recall a damn thing about it lol.
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Post by Squelchy on Mar 21, 2017 15:32:15 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2017 3:05:18 GMT
I'm a great fan of the books of John Dickson Carr (his picture is my avatar here), and Nine--and Death Makes Ten is one of my favorites of his Sir Henry Merrivale books. Yet, for God knows what reason, I can never, ever remember the murderer in this one. It's not that the murderer's an insignificant character [to the contrary], just that for some reason I can never remember his identity before I read the book again. That may not be so remarkable, but it hasn't happened to me with any other whodunit I've ever read. (Oh, yes, sometimes I forget after not having read it for a long time, but, with Nine--and Death Makes Ten, I completely forget--I don't know, just a few days after I finish it?) I've read every Agatha Christie novel (OK pedantics, except the Mary Westmacotts) and I can't remember the murderers in probably half of them. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2017 3:06:53 GMT
I remember liking Rose Madder, but now I can't recall a damn thing about it lol. The painting comes alive and she walks into it, something something maze? It was OK but not one of his best, and the fantasy element was chintzy. |
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Post by hardball on Mar 25, 2017 12:20:44 GMT
I remember liking Rose Madder, but now I can't recall a damn thing about it lol. The painting comes alive and she walks into it, something something maze? It was OK but not one of his best, and the fantasy element was chintzy. Thanks, yes now I remember. And her husband was the crazy psycho. True, it doesn't rank among King's best, but I think it's better than Gerald's Game or Dolores Claiborne. |
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 27, 2017 3:00:36 GMT
Slaughterhouse Five. I only read it a couple of years ago, and thought it was a great read, but can't recall much. Something about a guy that was an alien POW? I have no idea. I was on somewhat of a reading binge at the time (I also read 1984 and Lord of the Flies, among others), so maybe it just got lost in the shuffle.
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Post by lunda2222 on Aug 2, 2017 9:05:04 GMT
Most of the Hardy Boys books I read as a kid, but that's pretty much it.
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but brain-freeze, there are just too many books on your brain besides the one you are currently devouring.
