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View Poll Results: How many books do you read in a year?
None 11 4.18%
1-4 49 18.63%
5-10 60 22.81%
11-20 57 21.67%
21+ 74 28.14%
Do picture books count?? 12 4.56%
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Old 08-28-2007, 08:00 AM   #321 (permalink)
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Recently I finished Lisey's Story by Stephen King, what a piece of shit! I wish he would go back to the way he was before!
You have to admit though that other-world (Bouyah Moon) was pretty cool and creepy. I wanted a description of those howling things.

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Old 08-28-2007, 08:21 AM   #322 (permalink)
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I used to read more when I was in High School and had time...
Drinking and sucking dick does eat up a lot of time...
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Old 08-28-2007, 08:22 AM   #323 (permalink)
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Ugh. MUST YOU??

Also, that's angel. You must be nice to her or you will have to deal with the wrath of Dee.
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Old 08-28-2007, 08:26 AM   #324 (permalink)
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Ugh. MUST YOU??

Also, that's angel. You must be nice to her or you will have to deal with the wrath of Dee.
I'll try to control myself
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Old 08-28-2007, 08:40 AM   #325 (permalink)
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Recently I finished Lisey's Story by Stephen King, what a piece of shit! I wish he would go back to the way he was before!
Ya.

King's gotten so engrossed in spooky supernatural devices that he's lost his narrative style.
  • Carrie was great because of the evolving story line leading up to an explosion of her powers
  • The Stand was fantastic up until 'the hand of God'
  • The Shining - just built up and built up! Great work where the plot and what was happening was the force, not the spooky stuff - that just added to it. Wasn't the focus.
Etc....

My favorite King works are "The Stand," "The Long Walk," and "The Green Mile"
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Old 08-28-2007, 09:24 AM   #326 (permalink)
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Wow its really amazing how many of you read the same books that I love!

I read a lot (21+ books per year easily) - basically everything that comes in front of my eyes and seems interesting.

- Crichton, Robert Ludlum, Dan Brown, Henning Mankell for suspense
- Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Jasper Fforde, Janet Evanovich when I need something funny
- Ann Rice, Laurell K. Hamilton, Diana Gabaldon, Jean M. Auel when I need something easy and cheesy; I love Marion Zimmer Bradley the Darkover books are great but I also really liked the Avalon series - BTW Thanks Rhian for mentioning the "Ravens of Avalon"

With all the fantasy books listed I am completely amazed that nobody mentioned the "Wheel of time" series by Robert Jordan yet - this is definitely one of my favourites. I can't wait till the last book is finished!
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Old 08-28-2007, 09:28 AM   #327 (permalink)
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With all the fantasy books listed I am completely amazed that nobody mentioned the "Wheel of time" series by Robert Jordan yet - this is definitely one of my favourites. I can't wait till the last book is finished!
It's obvious you like the Wheel of Time. Nice screen name. I started reading that series way back in high school. Will it never end?!
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Tell me about it - I have been reading Wheel of Time for half my life now as well.

But according to Robert Jordans blog (http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/) he is fighting his illness so I still have hope:

In an article on Forbes.com, Tom Doherty, president of Tor Books, said he expects that Robert Jordan will, "submit the final book in 2008 for publication in 2009."
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Old 08-28-2007, 10:21 AM   #329 (permalink)
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Tell me about it - I have been reading Wheel of Time for half my life now as well.

But according to Robert Jordans blog (http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/) he is fighting his illness so I still have hope:

In an article on Forbes.com, Tom Doherty, president of Tor Books, said he expects that Robert Jordan will, "submit the final book in 2008 for publication in 2009."
Who are you over at DM?
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Old 08-28-2007, 10:41 AM   #330 (permalink)
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Recently I finished Lisey's Story by Stephen King, what a piece of shit! I wish he would go back to the way he was before!

I still haven't been able to finish it because it's boring me so much. I also thought Cell was shit. He's always done alarmist stuff about technology biting us in the ass, but that one just sounded more like a pretentious old man ranting about how horrible these new fangled cell phone things are and how everyone is so rude today. It wasn't a decent entry to the "zombie" genre. His old man rants in Entertainment Weekly have gotten odd, too. I think he's getting senile.
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