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Gonna have to read the book, I reckon.

Your twelve year old might enjoy: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle Little Britches by Ralph Moody Ride the River by Louis L'Amour So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane Dragonsinger, Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George I'm thinking of your twelve year old reads any of these, your ten year old is sure to follow.... Enjoy!

Joanne Fluke writes a murder mystery series and each book has several sweet recipes. If things are slow today you might enjoy "Wrath's Adventures in Cooking"... http://www.calarts.edu/~dk/cookies/1.html http://www.calarts.edu/~dk/cake/2.html But only if things are really slow....

More likely Olaf will be killed; esp. if they are coming to St. Louis. And, yes....a more traditional Anita story would be welcome.

I read this book a year ago and am now encouraged to try some more. Having read American God's, I thought one was enough by this author. It was clever on many levels and had some nice surprises but sometimes it just seemed to be yearning for something to ... happen. It was a good read but there were little emotional pay-off for me and so, little satisfaction by the craft of writing. I've wondered about the readers in this forum who don't care for the fantasy genre; did those same not care for movies like Big, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, Freaky Friday, Lord of the Rings, King Kong, Chicago, The Wizard of Oz, ET or Raiders of the Lost Ark? Steps up on the Soapbox: Fantasy is not just dragons and magic swords, though they are popular. Fantasy taps into the collective unconscious, the archetypes, the gestalt and the mythology of the human race. Fantasy (and science fiction) has built our vision for the future; our ever-shrinking cellphones are the devices imagined in Star Trek. Authors have imagined worlds just one step abstracted from the one we live in and our technology is following suit. It has elements of mystery, romance, horror, old west, gothic-history and even biography in alternate universes. It has shaped our story-telling, expanded the craft beyond the trilogy and given us worlds to which we can escape. Elements of fantasy are commonplace in novels (Time Travelers Wife), in horror (Steven King's Dark Tower) series, mystery (Sherlock Holmes) and even romance (Nora Roberts - Dance of the Gods). All forms on some level have been tainted by the fantasy genre; while I can understand rejecting it, I'd plead for a least a small chance when the genre truly shines.

Big Chief hiding behind his broom with wads of Juicy Fruit gum under his bed. An amazing commentary on the time of electro-shock therapy and frontal lobotomy. The whole "one man against the system" that was so common of books in that era (think M*A*S*H), this book had a profound impact on my life. My sole regret is that I've never seen the stage play. Wonderfully written, colorful characters, sadness and liberation - a true Great Novel in my opinion.

Guilty Pleasures (many of the books titles are fun names for local clubs or hangouts) is the first of a wonderful series. For me, it served as an introduction to the world and was not really a strong enough effort to keep a reader coming back -- even though I did. My first romp through Anita Blake found me buying two books at a time, madly tearing through them and then buying the next until none more were published. Then I did something I've never done before -- I started at the beginning and read them all through again. I think the strength of the books are the characters. The growing cast over so many books are really old friends -- when Anita returns to St. Louis in Narcissus in Chains and meets Stephan and she just can't stop smiling; I kinda felt the same way. It's also an accumulative series, each book builds upon the last. I might guess that Obsidian Butterfly (a club outside of Santa Fe) is the book most likely to stand on it's own. At this point in the series there are some things that may or may not happen, though I think there are plenty of hints. Here's my list for the Book Club Forum to encourage discussion: Will Olaf return? Will the un-oathed vamps of the church be tapped for a huge power source? What is the 5th and unknown strain of lycanthropy in Anita? (actually I'm not sure of the four known: wolves, panthers, lions, rats?) How is Dolph doing with his daughter? Will Anita continue to develop Master-Vamp skills like The Voice? Will there be another showdown with the Council? (I'd love for Anita to meet Padma now, five books later!) Is Anita done with the FBI and those guys with the black folders? In Micah, we learned with were-wolf blood she can raise a graveyard, how will this continue to threated the vamps in her skill in calling the dead? Keep the blood, sex and magic coming!

I'm not one to really give up on a series, but I finally did on the Wheel of Time. The first five books were fantastic! I was buying the hard bound issues as soon as they hit the shelf. Often 16 months between new editions. ....and then it got bogged down and I couldn't remember all the threads and the people's names after such a long time. Frustrating, I'm sure many will swear by the series; but I just ran out of gas.

King Rat is one of his books that shook me to the core. I found myself dreaming of dynamics and trying to apply the same power logic of a concentration camp to a small college faculty. So well written, the conditions are so matter-of-fact that by the time the camp is liberated you are shocked at how you accepted it. Amazing.

In The Sorceror, we found Merlin, now a mid- stage leper, wreaking havoc amongst Carthac and Peter Ironhair's troops. Dubbed the Ghost, he is isolated from friends and family because of the leprosy, injuries and a demented grief over all he has lost. I found this by googling...I'd forgotten which book it was in tho, the fifth of the series so maybe you didn't get to that yet. Sorry for the spoiler!

Yikes, how can I reduce it to a simple list? Tell ya what, I'll list my favorite soundtracks! Top Favorite Musical Soundtracks *They're Playing Our Song *Sweeney Todd *Avenue Q *A Little Night Music (London Cast version please) *Pacific Overtures *West Side Story *Oliver! *Chicago (1975 version with Gwen Verdon) *On the Twentieth Century *Guys and Dolls (likes mud, likes mud: can do, can do) *Cabaret *Camelot ....and to bring down the house, Defying Gravity from Wicked!

Robert Anton Wilson was a trip. He was a writer for Playboy magazine for a while and a long time friend of Dr. Tim Leary. He loved secret cults and conspiracies, math, the three stooges and sex, drugs and rock and roll. I am soooo glad I read Illuminatus! way before I read the Di Vinci Code. Illuminatus! is really a trilogy and is a spoof on conspiracy theories. The entire book is a lie. fnord. And a lot of fun too. In it we see ideas of quantum mechanics applied to the characters along with multiple universes and john dillinger on the grassy knoll. In it he also states that the number 23 keeps popping up everywhere he looks and soon you'll start seeing it too. It could have been 17 or 53 but it's 23. Click http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tilt/principia/ for the prinicipa discordia. All hail, Eris!

Jack Whyte has a good series: a sort of "how could Camelot be true?", in which Camelot is founded by ex-Roman military men, Excalibur is made from a sky stone, Merlin is so mysterious because he's actually is a leper ... I won't give away the rest but a very good series that has some fascinating ideas about the time era. The Once and Future King by TH White was pretty good, though it will probably seem dated now. I love it too, my sixth grade class (now you know how old I am) went to see Camelot with Richard Harris when it first came to the theaters. "Each evening from December to December; before you go to sleep upon your cot. Think back on all the tales that you remember ... of Camelot!'

Books I've read a minimum of five times.... Tarzan The Jungle Books Battlefield Earth DragonSinger and DragonSong Obsidian Butterfly The Magic Engineer The Sackett Brand Ride the River The Walking Drum Sitka Lando Ender's Game Does the Book of Romans or Ephesians count?

Someone mentioned Edward from the Anita Blake series and I'll echo that. Ranger from the Stephanie Plum series Sherlock Holmes' brother ... Mycroft. Hagbard Celine from Illuminatus! William Tell Sackett from the Louis L'Amour series Echo Sackett from the same series Menolly from the Pern Series Death in the Discworld series Merlin in the Jack Whyte series on Camelot Archie in Nero Wolfe ....and I've always like Lex Luthor in the Superman comix and books. I'll return and read some books again and again, these characters are like old friends who make me laugh and give me someone to cheer for!

I've read them all! I love Stephanie Plum and I love laughing out loud! Remember when the gangsters try to kidnap Bob the dog? He'd just eaten something gross and was puking all over the car .... I fell over laughing at the story. The characters are great; from grandma packing a .45 to Joe Morelli the cop to ...oh my .... Ranger.....

Yikes ... first posting! 1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey 2. M*A*S*H - John Hooker 3. Dragonsinger/Dragonsong - Anne McCaffrey 4. Battlefield Earth - L. Ron Hubbard 5. And ... ten hundred others!