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RE: Member's fav books... - 6/30/2009 3:58:50 PM   
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How The Mind Works, by Steven Pinker; a definitive intro (fairly technical) to what the neurosciences have discovered about the brain & how it creates this thing called 'mind' . . . . . .


ever read "the man who mistook his wife for a hat" by Dr. sacks
it's a goody

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RE: Member's fav books... - 6/30/2009 5:47:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm doing a little light reading this week. 

"I'm Down" A MEMOIR, by Mishna Wolff.  Miss Mishna recounts her life as a  white girl growing up in a poor black neighborhood with a white father that believed he's black.   

It May sound condesending, but, so far reading the story, I'm hooked and laughing hysterically.    It seems like one of those books I'm going to miss when it's over.  Sweet summer read, so far.

After I will be reading:

She Always Knew How  Mae West, A Personal Biography......  By, Charlotte Chandler

In the Company Of Cheeful Ladies.....By, Alexander McCall Smith.... Its will be my first time reading any of this series from The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. 

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RE: Member's fav books... - 6/30/2009 7:19:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		One of my favorite all time books was Through  A Glass Darkly by Karleen Koen.
This is a beautiful, poignant love story about a young womans relationships and life during the 1700,s in  London and France. This is  a story about expectations, the view of life and love and choices the characters have and how emotions color those views. The characters have extraordinary depth. Another very visual, descriptive book of the period. A very emotional read. The ending is surprising. Great book!

I also loved The Clan Of The Cave Bear by Jean Auel. The series included maps in the front and backs of the books which are historical fiction that depicted the areas the clan moved to each season and showed all of the earth changes during each cycle. The series was incredibly detailed, so much so that I could see and imagine all the plants and animals and details of the topography.  These books were the most vivid stories I've ever read.
I cannot think of a thing about them I disliked or found negative.

The movie based on the first book was horrible.

For anyone interested in the series: The Clan Of The Cave Bear
                                                       The Mammoth Hunters
                                                      The Valley Of Horses
                                                     The Plains Of Passage
I have not read the last book      The Shelters Of Stone

I also love anything by John Grisham, Lawrence Sanders and Tom Clancy.

On a very different note Gary Zukav wrote a wonderful book called Seat Of The Soul.  A beautiful book about Authentic Power, emotional awareness, responsible choice, intution and trust. This is a book I can pick up years apart and still find something new that applies to my current situation in life and my feelings at that moment. A timeless book.


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RE: Member's fav books... - 6/30/2009 7:25:41 PM   
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I loved Haunted by Palahniuk. A bizarre book that I couldn't put down.


God...anything by Palahniuk is bizarre and extremely hard to put down. Haunted is excellent and very thought provoking. I'd have to say my favorite novel by him (so far) is Diary.  Lullaby is also great. I find the subject matter of his books fascinating but also the way he structures the stories. He's just a one of a kind writer...

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RE: Member's fav books... - 6/30/2009 7:30:56 PM   
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The OUtlander series by Diana GAbaldon.

Just finished the 4th one (Drums of Autumn).. hoping that the library gets Fiery Cross in soon....

Historical/time travel/romance/action/adventure all in one.   There is awesome historical research done for these books, which includes the Jacobite rising of '45 in Scotland.  It covers Scotland, England, France, the Indies, and America during the late 1700's.

TOTALLY LOVING THESE!!!



OMG...these are awesome books!!! You will love The Fiery Cross when you get your hands on it. These are a couple of very few books that I reread from time to time, they're just extremely entertaining and the story is rich enough to sink your teeth into over and over again. I learned a lot of history from reading these as well.

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RE: Member's fav books... - 6/30/2009 7:39:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		My favorite books of all time are The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay and Alien Earth by Megan Lindholm.

I'm on a steady diet of fantasy and architecture books this summer. Just got an R.A. Salvatore book from the library, haven't started it yet.

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RE: Member's fav books... - 6/30/2009 7:40:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		When my late husband (my son's father) and I and our son use to travel we always took a book to read aloud to our son. The first time I read "The Island Of The Blue Dolphins" my voice would break  while reading and it was all I could do to not cry. Such a beautifully descriptive and poignant book!
Thanks for reminding me!


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RE: Member's fav books... - 7/1/2009 5:49:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		Some of my favouritest ever books, copied and pasted straight from my Facebook page : The Age of Reason and Being and Nothingness by Sartre, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, The House of the Dead, Notes from the Underground and Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky, The Trial and Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, The Stranger by Camus, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, 1984 by George Orwell, London Fields by Martin Amis, Dorian by Will Self, The Divine Comedy by Dante, Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. Basically anything that when read makes you think there's something just a little bit off about reality, and possibly the best thing to do would be to walk naked into the night and just start running.

At the moment I'm reading the Gor series, not out of any particular interest, I just thought it would be polite to have a clue about what the Goreans are on about. I'm on the second right now.

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RE: Member's fav books... - 7/1/2009 6:39:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		Another Guy Gavriel Kay fan here.... I've literally read and owned everything he's put out. The Fionavar Tapestry (The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire and The Darkest Road) are incredible, must-reads that I go back to time and again. Tigana and A Song for Arbonne are extremely well-loved and read so many times that I've gone through multiple copies.

Of course, being the hard-core Sci-Fi/Fantasy bookworm that I am, a year is not complete if I haven't read J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings at least once. Just about anything from Ann McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey (Dragon Riders of Pern and the Valdemar worlds) though I love also love Lackey's Elemental Masters series, recently read Reserved for the Cat and enjoyed it. Other favourite authors that I keep returning to are Marion Zimmer Bradley (Darkover especially), David and Leigh Eddings, Terry Brooks, Gayle Greeno (The Gatti's Tale), Karen Miller (The Innocent Mage) and a number of others. H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy series is an all-time favourite as well, along with Lovecraft and Poe.

I've discovered some great biographies lately, namely Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman and Doctor Dealer by Mark Bowden. I also find myself returning to Madeleine L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time books with Meg, Calvin and Charles. I'm not ashamed to admit that some of the best fiction is written for juveniles. They may have been aimed for a younger crowd but they cross lines and boundaries, reaching all ages.

And yes, I do enjoy the Outlander series, Greedy. In fact, it's on my list the next time I go to the bookstore, which obviously won't be today since everything is shut down tighter than Fort Knox on maximum alert, it being a holiday here. (Though I'd really prefer to find it at the used bookstore... I just need to get down there.) 

           

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RE: Member's fav books... - 7/1/2009 6:44:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		a biography I read that I found fascinating was Leap of Faith by Queen Noor.  Also, a fictionalized biography (deeply researched, turned into a novel) is The LAst Queen about Queen Juana of Spain by C. W. Gortner.

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RE: Member's fav books... - 7/1/2009 12:57:30 PM   
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RE: Member's fav books... - 7/1/2009 1:00:06 PM   
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Some of my favouritest ever books, copied and pasted straight from my Facebook page : The Age of Reason and Being and Nothingness by Sartre, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, The House of the Dead, Notes from the Underground and Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky, The Trial and Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, The Stranger by Camus, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, 1984 by George Orwell, London Fields by Martin Amis, Dorian by Will Self, The Divine Comedy by Dante, Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. Basically anything that when read makes you think there's something just a little bit off about reality, and possibly the best thing to do would be to walk naked into the night and just start running.

At the moment I'm reading the Gor series, not out of any particular interest, I just thought it would be polite to have a clue about what the Goreans are on about. I'm on the second right now.


The Stranger by Camus, was one of my favorite reads from a couple of years ago.  A most facinatingly, disturbly, interesting read.

"The Class Castle", by, Jennette Walls was another good read for those that enjoy Memoirs.  I loved this book.  So touching.

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RE: Member's fav books... - 7/1/2009 1:17:52 PM   
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How The Mind Works, by Steven Pinker; a definitive intro (fairly technical) to what the neurosciences have discovered about the brain & how it creates this thing called 'mind' . . . . . .


ever read "the man who mistook his wife for a hat" by Dr. sacks
it's a goody



Guess you haven't.........

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RE: Member's fav books... - 7/1/2009 5:45:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		Right now I'm reading "The Bell Jar" By Sylvia Plath...I'm sure I'll add it to my favorites list.

Also "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera, "Bitch"by Elizabeth Wurtzel, "American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis, "I, RigobertoManchu","Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut...

several short stories by Eudora Welty and anything by Henry Rollins or Fran Leibowitz. I hate that she doesn't write much anymore.

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