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No not at all. I just finished Stephen King's new Novella, which I know is less than 100 pages (it was on my Kindle), and it was great, well developed, suspensful...a real page turner. I usually don't--but I'm not put off.
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Funny thing about that is that it's set in France - LOL!
Then maybe that is what was wrong with it. LOL! Maybe it wasn't even an accent at all, whatever he was doing, didn't work for me. I also saw Much Ado and thought URGH! Why him? But then the rest of the cast was no better (except Emma and Kenneth).
Can we also go the other way? I love Alan Rickman, I could eat him, but his American accent drives me nuts (not in a good way). That voice was not made for the flatness of our accent.
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I finished Outlander last week, it was great, can't wait to read the rest. However, it took a lot out of me, what a dense read. I think I'll need a month off between books.
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I never knew what the line was. WWI sounds like a good place. I read a fair amount of classics, but they are usually known classics with no question.
Now I know where to draw the line.
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I'm all over the place with music.
70s music
Heavy Metal
80s music (I loved New Wave)
Classical (religious and non)
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Doorstep for 2011
The Given Day - Dennis Lehane (720)
2009 was not a good year for my chunkies. Let's try again. Since I joined a Historical Fiction Challenge for 2010, I think we'll see a lot more.
Doorsteps for 2010
Dragonfly in Amber - Diane Gabaldon (743)
Notebooks - Tennessee Williams (765)
Roses - Leila Meacham (624)
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I just read "UR" by Stephen King. It is only available for the Amazon Kindle. So if you guys haven't heard of it, that is probably why.
It is a novella, but hard to tell how many pages it is.
It starts out like a long advertisement for the Amazon Kindle, the first few pages seems to head in that direction, but toward the middle of the story it gets really interesting. In true Stephen King fashion, it is creepy and obviously only from the mind of Stephen King.
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2010 LIST
Last year I managed 14 Classics w/o trying very hard (list is below). Let's see if this year I can at least match that number.
1. The Life and Death of Harriet Frean (1922) - May Sinclair
Intersting read, haven't read anything like it
2. The Rats in the Walls (1923) - H.P. Lovecraft
Short Fiction (about 50 pages), very chilling
3. The Dunwich Horror (1928) - H.P. Lovecraft
Novella, not as good as "Rats".
4. The Man Who Would Be King (1898) - Rudyard Kipling
Novella.
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The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
And I think Agnes Gray - Anne Bronte, will take the place of one of these. I just finished it and I loved it.
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Welcome. have you tried any of the Stephen King books. There are a lot of readers here that enjoy his books.
Oh yeah, I'm a big fan of Stephen King!
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Thanks everyone for all the warm welcomes.
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I chose non-fiction, because my fav genre is memoirs/autobiographies/biographies. When I was in my 20s I found that I read a lot of books about rock stars and actresses, as I got older, I did read other types of books, but to this day I find that branch of non-fiction to be one I go back to again and again. I just think other people's lives are fascinating.
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I like book shops but I become inundated when I'm in one, and I cannot decide on books. When I shop online, I can read the synopsis and the reviews, and make my decision. Sometimes I'll do the research on line and then go to the store, sometimes I just buy. I can get books in 1 day here in NYC from Barnes & Noble, so it isn't much of a wait.
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You can edit it when you get to ten posts.
I did read that somewhere here, but I'm past 10 post and still can't. But I will once it 'kicks in'.
I thought "LOLITA" was just OK. Before I read it I heard mixed reviews but I wanted to judge for myself, but I wasn't thrilled. I would say 2 1/2 out of 5 stars.
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Hey there Liz, my names Ben. What genre to you tend to lean to when you're choosing a book then?
Hi. If I were to go through what I've read in the past 3 years, I lean more toward Memoirs/autobiographies. I've been trying to branch out, and read more historical fiction and horror.
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This is a running tally of what I have read in 2009.
Goal is 75.
January
1. The China Study - Colin & Thomas Cambpell
2. Sugar Blues - William Dufty
3. Daisy Miller - Henry James
4. 1001 Books for Every Mood - Hallie Ephron
February
5. The Beach House - Jane Green
6. The Rosary - Gary Jansen
7. A Short Guide to a Happy Life - Anna Quindlen
8. Being Perfect - Anna Quindlen
9. Showboat – Edna Ferber
10. I Never Promised You A Rose Garden – Joanne Greenberg
11. How Starbucks Saved My Life – Michael Gates Gill
12. The Prodigal God – Timothy Keller
March
13. Outlander – Diana Gabaldon
14. Agnes Gray – Anne Bronte (audio)
15. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
16. UR - Stephen King
17. Summer - Edith Wharton (audio)
18. Lamb - Christopher Moore
19. Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
20. Silas Marner - George Eliot (audio)
21. Beasts of New York - Jon Evans
22. You Can Heal Your Life - Louise Hay
23. Go Ask Alice - Anonymous (Beatirice Sparks)
24. Biblical Mysteries - Lonely Soul
April
25. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (audio)
26. Turbulent Souls - Stephen J. Dubner
27. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel - Thomas Monteleone
28. The Glimpses of the Moon - Edith Wharton (audio)
29. The 80/10/10 Diet - Dr. Douglas Graham
May
30. Shades Children - Garth Nix
31. Singer and the Sewing Machine: A Capitalist Romance - Ruth Brandon
June
32. Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz
33. Called Out of Darkness - Anne Rice
34. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell (audio)
35. Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt - Anne Rice
July
36. The Roman Pronunciation of Latin why we use it and how to use it - Francis Lord
37. Believe - Daniel Oran
38. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (audio)
39. Roasting in Hell's Kitchen - Gordon Ramsey
40. The Little Lame Prince - Dinah Mulock Craik
41. Heroic Measures - Jill Ciment
August
42. Old New York - Edith Wharton
43. Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing - Stephen King
44. Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story - Etta James
45. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia - Marya Hornbacher
46. The Third Jesus - Deepak Chopra
47. The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
48. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
49. Finding Peace - Dr. Charles Stanley
September
50. The Year of Living Biblically - A.J. Jacobs
51. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
52. The Sunflower - Richard Paul Evans
53. Duma Key - Stephen King
54. Dead Man's Cell Phone - Sarah Ruhl
55. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
56. What Difference do It Make? - Ron Hall et al.
57. Einstein: His Life and Universe (audio) - Walter Isaacson
October
58. When the Heart Cries - Cindy Woodsmall
59. The Last Song - Nicholas Sparks
60. Have A Little Faith - Mitch Albom
61. Night Flight - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
62. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate - Jacqueline Kelly
63. The Christmas List - Richard Paul Evans
64. The Well - Mildred Taylor
65. Finding Purpose Beyond Our Pain - Meier & Henderson
66. Crossing Over - Ruth Irene Garrett
November
67. When The Morning Comes - Cindy Woodsmall
68. A Treasury of Christmas Miracles - Karen Kingsbury
69. Skipping Christmas - John Grisham
70. The Liturgical Year - Joan Chittister
71. Goodbye Mr. Chips - James Hilton
72. The Thirteenth Tale (audio) - Diane Setterfield
December
73. A Victorian Christmas - Catherine Palmer
74. You: Staying Young (audio)- Dr. Roizen & Dr. Oz
75. SuperFreakonomics - S. Levitt, S. Dubner
76. The Golden Ring: A Christmas Story - John Snyder
77. The Next Queen of Heaven - Gregory Maguire
78. Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works (audio) - Andrew Saul
79. Angel Time - Anne Rice
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NovemberThis is a running tally of what I have read in 2010.
Goal is 100
the goal probably won't happen as I plan to read a bunch of Historical Fiction books this year, and we all know they are like 1,000 pages each.
January
1. The Jeruselum Diet - Ted Haggard (audio)
2. The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great - Benjamin Merkle
3. Once upon a Summer - Jeannette Oke (audio)
4. Plot & Structure - James Scott Bell
5. The Life and Death of Harriet Frean - May Sinclair
6. The Rats in the Walls - H.P. Lovecraft (considered a short story but it runs about 50 pgs)
7. Password Incorrect - Nick Name
8. Serial - Jack Kilborn, Blake Crouch
9. The Dunwich Horror - H.P. Lovecraft
10. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading List - Shelley Mosley
February
11. The Man Who Would Be King - Rudyard Kipling
12. The Omnivore's Delimma - Michael Pollan (audio)
13. Dragonfly in Amber - Diane Gabaldon
14. Nigger: An Autobiography - Dick Gregory
15. Doubt: A Parable - John Patrick Shanley
March
16. Notebooks - Tennessee Williams
17. The Master Cleanse - Stanley Burroughs
April
18. Roses - Leila Meacham
19. Push - Sapphire
20. Lose Weight, Have More Energy & Be Happier in 10 Days - Peter Glickman
21. The Walk - Richard Paul Evans
May
22. Under the Dome - Stephen King (audio)
23. When The Soul Mends - Cindy Woodsmall
24. Rumble Fish - S.E. Hinton
25. The First Time We Met The Blues - David Williams
26. The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
June
27. Life After Death - Deepak Chopra (audio)
28. Know it All - A. J. Jacobs
29. I Am Nujood Age 10 and Divorced - Nujood Ali
30. Island Beneath the Sea - Isabel Allende
July
31. Beatrice and Virgil - Yann Martel
32. Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain... - Sharon Begley (audio)
33. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
34. Stoner - John E. Williams
35. Bronx Accent: A Literary and Pictorial History of the Borough - Lloyd Ultan
August
36. Why is God Laughing - Deepak Chopra
37. How To Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnagie (audio)
38. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (audio)
39. If You Want To Write - Brenda Ueland (audio)
September
40. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Dale Carnagie (audio)
41. The Power - Rhonda Byrne (audio)
42. Elizabeth Street - Laurie Fabiano
October
43. Call of the Wild - Jack London
44. The Metamorphosis - Frank Kafka
45. Thoughts are Things - Prentice Mulford (audio)
46. Mustaine - Dave Mustaine (audio)
47. Promise Me - Richard Paul Evans
48. Double Your Creative Power - S.L. Stebel
49. The Spontaneous Healing of Belief - Gregg Braden (audio)
November
50. The Key: The Missing Secret for Attracting Anything You Want - Joe Vitale (audio)
51. The Hope of Refuge - Cindy Woodsmall
52. Zero Limits - Joe Vitale (audio)
53. Winds of Autumn - Janette Oke (audio)
December
54. The Christmas Box Miracle - Richard Paul Evans
55. Manifesting Change - Mike Dooley
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The angel was cleaning out his closets when the call came.
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by Christopher Moore
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I can think of a few.
Yes, the Green Mile was one.
Some of the Harry Potter Books
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
All of the books by Richard Paul Evans
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Oh...and Keanu Reeves in "Dracula".
Keaunu's British accent is pretty bad, and I'm not even British. I watched Dangerous Liasons the other day and thought 'urgh'.
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Hi everyone.
I'm Liz from New York City. How are all of you? I love reading books, and stumbled on this forum. Looks like there are a lot of interesting discussions going on. Hope to speak to you soon.
LIZ K
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Sometimes, if I anticipate being 'into' the book, I will probably read it, if it is not too long. Sometimes it helps to read it, sometimes it is a waste.
New IT movie!
in Music / TV / Films
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Ahhh, probably won't be as good as "Stephen King's It". I like the movies he is involved in. It doesn't look like he is involved in this one, thus it is just called "It". Very few of the movies that he has no hand in, I don't like. The last one that I liked was "The Mist".
Edit: Just went to the Stephen King board, and found out he just found out about this Remake. He had no clue. So he is looking into that. So how can they option a movie from his book w/o his knowledge?