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K.in.your.book

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About K.in.your.book

  • Birthday 04/14/1990

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    Hotel Pastis - Peter Mayle
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    Tolkien, Photography, Blogging, Painting, Coffee, Chocolate, Baking

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  1. Glad to see you liked White Fang, have you read Call of the Wild by the same author? That's definitely on my list!
  2. Let me know what you think of White Fang, I loved it but don't know anyone else who has read it! I just started on Hotel Pastis by Peter Mayle, really enjoying it so far.
  3. I read Angels and Demons when I was 16 and back then I actually thought it was one of the best books I've ever read. But having read the rest of his books since then, I agree that they are very formulaic and I can't really tell them apart anymore. The Lost Symbol started out well but I found it very anti climatic. I'm not sure that I like Robert Langdon as a protagonist; sure he has a cool job but as a person he isn't riveting! I will probably read Inferno though simply because I've read everything else he's written, and it's not like I didn't enjoy it.
  4. Have you read White Fang by Jack London? Fiction with animal characters tends to be really lighthearted but this is much more primitive...White Fang isn't personified like animals usually are in books but the story is told from his point of view, sort of subconsciously. It was a really good read.
  5. Thanks Booknutt, I will look those up!
  6. Aww thank you He probably has more embarrassing stories about me to be honest, things could get ugly
  7. Definitely Middle Earth...either in The Shire (but I would be adventurous and want to visit other places too unlike most hobbits who live there) or I would live in fourth age Gondor. I'll just have to settle for a trip to New Zealand one day!
  8. It does indeed! The only problem is now I can't read any other fantasy author without thinking Tolkien does it better!
  9. I read The Conquest a few years ago at the suggestion of my friend who loves Elizabeth Chadwick. I really enjoyed it, more than I thought I would, and I don't know why I haven't read more of her work. What does everyone consider the 'best ones'?
  10. I quite like Robert Harris, I've read Enigma, The Ghost, Fatherland, Archangel and Pompeii. His stories always come across as very well researched and I like his style of writing. I think that when you read a book like Pompeii you have to just choose to ignore the fact that the language isn't appropriate for the time, that's what I did and I enjoyed it. I can't really remember much of it now, I read it months ago, but I do recall really liking the engineer and I enjoyed how he interacted with everyone else, as a sort of outsider.
  11. It is indeed Tim! Good detective work haha Hi, not nosy at all, I studied photography (and then decided I didn't want to be a photographer so I'm pursuing the art gallery/museum career!)
  12. Hi there! My name is Kate and I'm a newbie! My husband has been using this forum for a while now and I've finally decided to join; I was hesitant for so long because in my experience internet forums can often be pretty hostile places, but this place seems so friendly! The first thing you should know about me regarding books is that I love Tolkien, to the extent that I read the Lord of the Rings when I was 11 and life was never the same. I don't really have a favourite genre, I just like things that are well written, with strong story lines and believable, original characters
  13. I read this last summer and I have very mixed feelings towards it. I struggled through the first part set in Amiens because it seemed choked with detail; a lot of description about the setting but not enough about the characters to make their love story believable. The chapters set during the war were amazing, in my opinion. I felt like with every emotion the characters were going through, I was going through it with them. The climax of this part of the story was one of the best I've ever read, it was an emotional U turn that felt so real, so raw and so poignant. If the book had ended there I think I would have been a satisfied reader. But the parts in 1979 just didn't interest me at all. The characters felt forced and I didn't care for being taken out of the action into such monotony. Unfortunately it's this section of the story which closes book, and I should have just skipped that chapter; it felt like it was written for a completely different reader to the rest of the book. A few months ago I read On Green Dolphin Street, because I wanted another Faulks novel to compare Birdsong to, and it fell flat for me.
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