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  1. I absolutely refuse to read biographies or autobiographies! I can't bear the general theme of how people have struggled to reach fame, what a difficult life they've had or dishing the dirt on their friends and families - no matter how cathartic it is to the writer!

    I see it as a choice of who you read. These are the ones I have read. And I don't see them as a waste of time reading.

     

    Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom

    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

    The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw

    Faith of My Fathers by John Mccain, Mark Salter

    The Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill

    The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill

    Just As I Am by Billy Graham

     

    I don't read many cause I am picky.

     

    As far as other genre's/authors. I won't read Stephen King. I won't read MOST Science Fantasy but adore Science Fiction.

     

    Not big on war stories, usually because they're written by some oaf with testosterone poisoning.

     

    And those are MY favorites. :) Esp authors like Tom Clancy and W.E.B.Griffin. Liz

  2. Birthday: 16 June

    Age: 52

    Starsign: Gemini

     

    Single/Married/Other? Happily Married

    Children? 2 (stepdaughters, but they are mine)

     

    Where do you live? MI, USA for now, (hauling my southernlady rear back south to NC ASAP)

     

    Do you work? ARE YOU KIDDING? Too busy.

     

    Favourite author? Tom Clancy heads the list but that's not carved in stone

    Favourite book? Gone With The Wind

     

    How did you get here? Michelle and I met at TAZ, and got to be good friends from there.

  3. Oh, I have a favorite here. Altho you almost have to be from the Southern USA to truly appreciate her books.

     

    Haywood Smith The Red Hat Club and The Red Hat Club Rides Again

     

    I just can't wait to see what the next one reads like...they are the most enjoyable books.

     

    You see, I'm a RedHatter and altho her books are NOT sanctioned by the Red Hat Society, they are a good read and very true to the South. Liz

  4. I seen that tag. A bold claim and uncorroborated, but I digress.

     

    Most of us, as forum owners, us a tag line borrowed from somewhere. And as a TAG line, it usually does not have the space to give credit. If you can find the credit line I am sure Michelle would be glad to include it.

     

    Now this thread is starting to act like a flame war...a you said/I said and that is NOT what a REVIEW of the book should be. Can we either go BACK to reviewing the book in question or close this thread and say the review is finished? Liz

  5. Kell, I agree with you about re-reading old favorites, esp well-written ones.

     

    There have been times I have read a book a second time and realized a missed a particular point in the plot the first time that ended up making a difference in the book.

     

    No, I have not read any of Dan Brown's books so I will not comment on his ability as an author but I do know that far more is being made out of this than need be.

     

    To all esp in this thread:

     

    The written word, AS WE ALL KNOW can be miscontrued. And the tone used by someone can be misunderstood as well.

     

    Remember, there is another person talking at the other end of the computer with feelings and opinions that matter to them. With anonymous communication through a computer, it's easy to lose sight of this as interaction with people' not just with a machine. People have feelings. Your comments may mean something different to a different person.

     

    Liz (the almost absent admin)

  6. I've read most of W. E. B. Griffin's books. He's most famous for the Brotherhood of War Series. http://www.webgriffin.com/index.html

     

    Ken Follett wrote so many but you probably have heard of these:

    The Key to Rebecca

    On Wings of Eagles

    The Pillars of the Earth

    Night Over Water

     

    Haywood Smith is a relative newcomer compared to those two. She is writing women's books aimed toward the Red Hat Society community that aren't sanctioned by them. But they are also Southern books. And they are priceless. Liz

  7. Debbie, I loved his books...read almost every book he wrote. If I didn't read it, it was because I couldn't find it. Some of his books, I read three or four times.

     

    Favorites:

    "Time Enough For Love"

    "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls"

    "I Will Fear No Evil"

     

    And his collection of quotes:

    "The Notebooks of Lazarus Long"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Notebooks_of_Lazarus_Long

    The Notebooks of Lazarus Long is a selection of catchphrases and pearls of wisdom from one of Robert A. Heinlein's main characters (Lazarus Long). These were originally published as two "intermissions" in the 1976 novel Time Enough For Love. In the context of the novel, these quotes were selected from Long's much longer memoirs (which make up a significant portion of the novel).

     

    Two of those books are based on one of his earliest characters and books: Methuselah's Children which leads me to believe I prefer his ealier work written as his more modern work :D Does that make any sense? I guess he took his earliest character and grew up with him. Liz

  8. Not only that, but his Laws of Robotics became the standard for literature afterwards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

     

    The Three Laws are an organizing principle and unifying theme for Asimov's fiction, appearing in the Foundation Series and the other stories linked to it. Other authors working in Asimov's fictional universe have adopted them, and references (often parodic) appear throughout science fiction and in other genres. Technologists in the field of artificial intelligence, working to create real machines with some of the properties of Asimov's robots, have speculated upon the role the Three Laws play in such research.

     

    Asimov's Laws of Robotics http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/SOS/Asimov.html

     

    This article examines Asimov's stories not as literature but as a gedankenexperiment - an exercise in thinking through the ramifications of a design. Asimov's intent was to devise a set of rules that would provide reliable control over semi-autonomous machines. My goal is to determine whether such an achievement is likely or even possible in the real world. In the process, I focus on practical, legal, and ethical matters that may have short- or medium-term implications for practicing information technologists.

     

    http://www.robotics.utexas.edu/rrg/learn_more/history/

    The word 'robotics' was first used in Runaround, a short story published in 1942, by Isaac Asimov (born Jan. 2, 1920, died Apr. 6, 1992). I, Robot, a collection of several of these stories, was published in 1950.

     

    One of the first robots Asimov wrote about was a robotherapist. A modern counterpart to Asimov's fictional character is Eliza. Eliza was born in 1966 by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Joseph Weizenbaum who wrote Eliza -- a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine.

     

    She was initially programmed with 240 lines of code to simulate a psychotherapist by answering questions with questions.

     

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov

     

    "What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for", September 20, 1973, Yours, Isaac Asimov, page 329.

     

    Liz

  9. I knew his name looked familiar...yes, I read two of his books long ago. Tai-Pan and Shogun. I also watched the mini-series, Shogun.

     

    I'm not surprised that you can only find his stuff in used book stores now. He died of a stroke following cancer in Switzerland in 1994. Liz

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