It sounds good! I may check it out at the library.
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I just finished "Schmucks" by Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder. It is a series of essays, lampooning today's pop culture icons and it is hilarious.
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I'm re-reading the Harry Potter series in order to be ready for the new book in July. I'm on #3, and I started last week!
Hey, that's a great idea! I can read those books for hours and hours! So good, aren't they?Originally Posted by kluchetta
I'm re-reading the Harry Potter series in order to be ready for the new book in July. I'm on #3, and I started last week!
Definitely! And I forgot how "small" the first couple of books are, LOL.
Last week I finished reading The Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas F. Madden. The book isn't overly large and all of the information inside is broken down and presented in a nice manner. I learned a ton of things about the Crusades, the important figures involved and some of the politics. Good read for those interested in history.
I borrowed some other books from a coworker. The one I'm currently reading is 1453- The Holy War For Constantinople And The Clash Of Islam And The West. As the title suggests this book is about the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
The other two I borrowed are:
Queen Emma and the Vikings by Harriet O'Brien. This is about a little known woman monarch named Emma, the Normans and the Vikings.
1066 The Year of Three Battles by Frank McLynn. This one is basically about William the Conqueror.
I borrowed some other books from a coworker. The one I'm currently reading is 1453- The Holy War For Constantinople And The Clash Of Islam And The West. As the title suggests this book is about the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
The other two I borrowed are:
Queen Emma and the Vikings by Harriet O'Brien. This is about a little known woman monarch named Emma, the Normans and the Vikings.
1066 The Year of Three Battles by Frank McLynn. This one is basically about William the Conqueror.
I just started a Catherine Coulter novel called "The Cove". It's a bit dry so far. I'm up to about page 50 or so and it's not keeping my attention very well so far. It's supposed to be an "FBI-type" novel, so I'm hoping that the pace will pick up and get interesting. She has a series of about 9 novels that are based on the same FBI couple. I had planned on reading the others, but if this one is a bomb...nope, hehe
Right now I am reading
Fast Food Nation: the dark side of the all-American meal. By Eric Schlosser.
Here is the sumary from Google Book Search
"Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar Amerca. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled the juggernaut of American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning. Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from the California subdivisions where the business was born to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike where many of fast food's flavors are concocted. He hangs out with the teenagers who make the restaurants run and communes with those unlucky enough to hold America's most dangerous job -- meatpacker. He travels to Las Vegas for a giddily surreal franchisers' convention where Mikhail Gorbachev delivers the keynote address. He even ventures to England and Germany to clock the rate at which those countries are becoming fast food nations. Along the way, Schlosser unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths -- from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate. He also uncovers the fast food chains' efforts to reel in the youngest, most susceptible consumers even while they hone their institutionalized exploitation of teenagers and minorities. Schlosser then turns a critical eye toward the hot topic of globalization -- a phenomenon launched by fast food. FAST FOOD NATION is a groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that may change the way America thinks about the way it eats."
When I am done with that, probably by the end of the weekend I am going to start reading
The Coming Global Superstorm By Art Bell, Whitley Strieber
Here is the sumary for that one too.( I know Im a GEEK!)
"THE EXTRAORDINARY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.A DIRE WARNING FOR OUR FUTURE.The climatological nightmare portrayed in the motion picture The Day After Tomorrow isn't just a fantasy scenario.The first decade of the 21st century has seen some of the most violent weather on record, from devastating tsunamis to killer hurricanes. But scientific evidence suggests "the big one" is still in the making -- will you be ready?THE COMING GLOBAL SUPERSTORMWHAT WILL TRIGGER IT? Global warming is about to cause the North Atlantic current to drop to a more southerly route, sending Arctic air barreling into overheated temperate zones.WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE?Sudden, dramatic changes in climate all over the world. . . . The most severe blizzards in history. . . . 100 mile-per-hour winds. . . . Shocking death rates.WHAT CAN WE DO TO STAVE IT OFF?Plenty. Talk-show host Art Bell and #1 bestselling author Whitley Strieber, our leading investigators of unexplained phenomena, offer a wealth of viable solutions in this brilliant examination of modern environmental science and weather-related disasters. We can take action today to avoidTHE COMING GLOBAL SUPERSTORM."
Fast Food Nation: the dark side of the all-American meal. By Eric Schlosser.
Here is the sumary from Google Book Search
"Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar Amerca. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled the juggernaut of American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning. Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from the California subdivisions where the business was born to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike where many of fast food's flavors are concocted. He hangs out with the teenagers who make the restaurants run and communes with those unlucky enough to hold America's most dangerous job -- meatpacker. He travels to Las Vegas for a giddily surreal franchisers' convention where Mikhail Gorbachev delivers the keynote address. He even ventures to England and Germany to clock the rate at which those countries are becoming fast food nations. Along the way, Schlosser unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths -- from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate. He also uncovers the fast food chains' efforts to reel in the youngest, most susceptible consumers even while they hone their institutionalized exploitation of teenagers and minorities. Schlosser then turns a critical eye toward the hot topic of globalization -- a phenomenon launched by fast food. FAST FOOD NATION is a groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that may change the way America thinks about the way it eats."
When I am done with that, probably by the end of the weekend I am going to start reading
The Coming Global Superstorm By Art Bell, Whitley Strieber
Here is the sumary for that one too.( I know Im a GEEK!)
"THE EXTRAORDINARY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.A DIRE WARNING FOR OUR FUTURE.The climatological nightmare portrayed in the motion picture The Day After Tomorrow isn't just a fantasy scenario.The first decade of the 21st century has seen some of the most violent weather on record, from devastating tsunamis to killer hurricanes. But scientific evidence suggests "the big one" is still in the making -- will you be ready?THE COMING GLOBAL SUPERSTORMWHAT WILL TRIGGER IT? Global warming is about to cause the North Atlantic current to drop to a more southerly route, sending Arctic air barreling into overheated temperate zones.WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE?Sudden, dramatic changes in climate all over the world. . . . The most severe blizzards in history. . . . 100 mile-per-hour winds. . . . Shocking death rates.WHAT CAN WE DO TO STAVE IT OFF?Plenty. Talk-show host Art Bell and #1 bestselling author Whitley Strieber, our leading investigators of unexplained phenomena, offer a wealth of viable solutions in this brilliant examination of modern environmental science and weather-related disasters. We can take action today to avoidTHE COMING GLOBAL SUPERSTORM."
I love those books and have read them all. There are several series, that I have been following for years:
J.A. Jance: "Joanna Brady" and "J.P. Beaumont"
Jonathan Kellerman: "Alex Delaware"
Faye Kellerman: "Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus"
Laurell K. Hamilton: "Anita Blake - Vampire Hunter"
Patricia Cornwell: Kay Scarpetta
Linda Fairstein: Alexandra Cooper
Rita Mae Brown: Mrs. Murphy
Carole nelson Douglas: Midnight Louie
Shirley Rousseau Murphy: Joe Grey
Stuart Woods: Stone Barrington and Holly Barker
Lilian Jackson Braun: "The Cat Who......"
I make a weekly trip to the library, carrying a large tote bag.
Keep at it! The Cove is really really good!
Has information on the page count been divulged yet?
I stand by my previous comment that somehow, some way, there will be an eighth.
That reminds me of one of the neater moments of my life. Back in the mid-'80s, I worked as a volunteer for my hero, Carl Sagan, during the week of the 20th Annual Planetary Sciences Conference in Austin, and had occasion to talk with him a little bit here and there. To my total amazement, he remembered me (not my name, but my face) years later when I went to hear him and Ann Druyan speak in Dallas. I had brought my copy of his novel, "Contact," for him to sign, and I told him the book had deepened a lot of my friendships.
"Really? How's that?"
"Well," I explained, "I give a copy to anyone I think will appreciate it, and they always come back to me with one of two responses. About half of them say, 'Finally, the whole god-illusion debunked!' And the other half say, 'Finally, proof of God through mathematics!' Either way, it leads to some heavy-duty conversation."
Dr. Sagan laughed and said, "Perfect! A perfect response!" And he signed my book, and he and Ann both signed their new book, "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors," for me... and that was the last time I saw him before he died.
Anyway... your familial debate made me think of that.
I wasn't that impressed by it. I found that it rambled and there seemed to be too many stories going on at the same time and that one was forgotten for extended periods of time that when it was finally revisited I had almost forgotten what had taken place.
I think she should have taken a less erratic approach.
Father killed
Daughter blamed
Daughter being hunted
Missing couple
murder
suicide
psycho doctor
kidnapping
group conspiracy
I found it was just too much in one novel. It was like she had all of these ideas for a story in her head and she couldn't make up her mind which one to write. Plus it was her first novel and to me the writing was very "simple" and very obvious that it was her first writing attempt.
I just finished reading "The Target". It was better, but it was also very disturbing because it was about child sexual abuse and I found that at some point it was more graphic than it needed to be. But other than that I found the writing better. In addition she kept to one story and didn't have a dozen over-lapping ones which made the book more interesting and easier to follow along with.
I'm now working on "The Edge" and I'm not very far along with it...about page 40 or so, but I'm having a bit of a difficult time staying interested at this point. Other than a nightmare, a banter to get a beer out of the nurse and a phone call to his brother or someone, nothing much has happened. I hope it gets better.
I'm very picky and critical of books that I read and quite hard on the authors. A book has to be exceptional in order for me to recommend it to anyone. As it stands now, I while the books were a decent read for the most part, I wouldn't recommend them to anyone who was looking for a good book to read. Maybe "The Target", but I would forwarn the person of the graphic child abuse description at some points in the book.
I am reading the Aurora Teagate mysteries by Charlaine Harris. They are light reading and very entertaining.
Now I'm reading "Riptide" by "Catherine Coulter"
I can honestly say that I'm enjoying this novel very much. I started it last night and am already more than 1/2 way through it.
The only problem I have with the plot is that she revealed way too early who is behind the "protection". I think it would have been better to keep that part a mystery until near the end of the book.
I borrowed the hard cover from the library and I swear it ways about the same as a gallon of milk!!! The book is only 385 pages but it's slightly over 2 inches thick. The paper they used is very thick. When I turned a page at first I thought maybe 2 or 3 pages were stuck together, but it was just a single page...a very thick one.
I can honestly say that I'm enjoying this novel very much. I started it last night and am already more than 1/2 way through it.
The only problem I have with the plot is that she revealed way too early who is behind the "protection". I think it would have been better to keep that part a mystery until near the end of the book.
I borrowed the hard cover from the library and I swear it ways about the same as a gallon of milk!!! The book is only 385 pages but it's slightly over 2 inches thick. The paper they used is very thick. When I turned a page at first I thought maybe 2 or 3 pages were stuck together, but it was just a single page...a very thick one.
I hate it when that happens!
I am re-reading all the Harry Potter books again, in anticipation for the new one!
I'm reading Blood Ties by Judith E French
Right now I am re-reading the Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. I really enjoy this series but have to admit I liked the first 3 books of the series the best.
The Gunslinger.
The Drawing of Three
The Wasteland.
Are by far the best of the series.
The Gunslinger.
The Drawing of Three
The Wasteland.
Are by far the best of the series.
I gave up reading Stephen King after I tried to read the first of that series and couldn't get into it at all.
Haven't read his books since.
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