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Moonhead -> RE: Books. That plain and simple (1/10/2012 5:59:24 AM)
Sounds good, Steven. kaliksharma: about the best two vampire novels I've read are Kim Newman's Anno Dracula (which was finally reprinted last year) and Richard Matheson's I Am Legend (ignore the shitawful Will Smith film, though the earlier Vincent Price and Charlton Heston versions are a lot more fun).

Moonhead -> RE: Books. That plain and simple (1/10/2012 7:54:46 AM)
Chelsea Quiin Yarbro's Comte De Sainte Germaine series is excellent as well. Rather like Anne Rice's series with less whining, appealing characters and a prose style that doesn't mostly read like somebody who was dropped on their head as a baby failing to do Dickens...

DesFIP -> RE: Books. That plain and simple (1/10/2012 8:53:16 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ScatteredRose I can't go back to my library...I owe too much money. >> Pay them off five dollars a week, no matter how long it takes. Libraries are essential, they are places of escape for children with no other outlet. They are also seriously underfunded. Think of it as paying it forward. Every time you pay them back, you help another kid just like you were read a book. And I own both a kindle and paper books. They each have their place.

xssve -> RE: Books. That plain and simple (1/10/2012 10:04:58 AM)
My library usually forgives me after a couple of years.

kalikshama -> RE: Books. That plain and simple (1/10/2012 10:12:37 AM)
quote: I can't go back to my library...I owe too much money. My manager was embarrassed to pay his large fine. I told him they'd be delighted to receive it. I brought them the money for him and they didn't blink an eye. If it's too much for you to pay you could ask if they will forgive some of it or if you can work it off. Or make payments.

GreedyTop -> RE: Books. That plain and simple (1/10/2012 10:23:54 AM)
one series I really enjoy is the J.D. Robb "Death" books. if you'renot familiar, JD RObb is a pen name for Nora Roberts (I love these books too).

Moonhead -> RE: Books. That plain and simple (1/10/2012 11:43:35 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: DesFIP quote: ORIGINAL: ScatteredRose I can't go back to my library...I owe too much money. >> Pay them off five dollars a week, no matter how long it takes. Libraries are essential, they are places of escape for children with no other outlet. They are also seriously underfunded. Think of it as paying it forward. Every time you pay them back, you help another kid just like you were read a book. And I own both a kindle and paper books. They each have their place. This. Fucking hell, this.

ScatteredRose -> RE: Books. That plain and simple (1/10/2012 7:56:48 PM)
Haha, I should. I just don't have the ability to go to my local library. :P Whenever I get a chance to go to a bookstore, I'm getting a ride. My library is two bus rides. I'm getting my bike fixed to start going on long treks. I read one Nora Roberts book. It was Midnight Bayou. I only picked it up because it was about New Orleans. I'm not too big of romance novels.

slaveluci -> RE: Books. That plain and simple (1/10/2012 8:06:31 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ScatteredRose I can't go back to my library...I owe too much money. >> As a librarian, I must say.........[sm=blasted.gif] Pay your fines and get back to the library, missy.........luci the librarian[;)]

slaveluci -> RE: Books. That plain and simple (1/10/2012 8:09:54 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: kalikshama quote: Now onto The Demonata. Whoo boy. Obtained from the library and on my Kindle in under a minute. Take that you paper snobs! [:D] Love it! Like I always say, buying an e-reader does NOT mean you have to turn in your library card or give up paper books. Geesh, folks, it's a supplement to books, not a replacement. I LOVE my Kindle but I don't ever choose it over "real" books. I just use it when I can't carry a stack of those with me. It's OK to love both.........luci

slaveluci -> RE: Books. That plain and simple (1/10/2012 8:11:55 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: DarkSteven Since you live in Nawlins, I'd recommend the Dave Robichaux books by James Lee Burke. They're a different kind of book in the hard-boiled PI genre - shambling plots, haunting evocations and descriptions, fatally flawed people, and vicious violence. They take place in Louisiana. They're sort of a successor to the Travis McGee series. James Lee Burke is my absolute favorite no matter what he's writing but the Dave Robicheaux series is definitely my favorite. I've read them all and I've never really been into series'. They make me laugh out loud and shed tears. Not much fiction can do that for me. I recommend JLB to everyone...........luci

ScatteredRose -> RE: Books. That plain and simple (1/10/2012 8:12:11 PM)
[8D] I know..I just like to tease about the kindle. But I do have a little bit of a fear that it slowly will replace printed word. Not completely, but slowly. I'm a bit of a weirdo.

slaveluci -> RE: Books. That plain and simple (1/10/2012 8:13:49 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: DesFIP quote: ORIGINAL: ScatteredRose I can't go back to my library...I owe too much money. >> Pay them off five dollars a week, no matter how long it takes. Libraries are essential, they are places of escape for children with no other outlet. They are also seriously underfunded. Think of it as paying it forward. Every time you pay them back, you help another kid just like you were read a book. And I own both a kindle and paper books. They each have their place. QFT!!!! And btw....our library system is great about working with people by waiving fines, allowing small payment plans, etc. Ask. I bet they'll work with you.....luci

LadyHibiscus -> RE: Books. That plain and simple (1/10/2012 8:18:12 PM)
I am reading Neal Stephenson's Reamde. Less than a hundred pages in, I am both hooked, and convinced it will go absolutely nowhere for the next 900 pages.

FrostedFlake -> RE: Books. That plain and simple (1/10/2012 8:55:23 PM)
quote: ScatteredRose I'm getting my bike fixed to start going on long treks. Something like this : http://www.bikeparts.com/search_results.asp?ID=BPC367529 Bigger is better. Top flap a requirement. Water resistant spray a helpful. Bright color is easier to see. Something like this : http://www.bikeparts.com/search_results.asp?ID=BPC110803 Or this : http://www.bikeparts.com/search_results.asp?ID=BPC128216 Pedals take a special thin wrench : http://www.bikeparts.com/search_results.asp?ID=BPC112145 Body must be metal, not plastic. Spindle must turn smoothly. The studs around the pedal rim engage the tread in your sneakers. This lets you push forward and pull backward. That creates a power stroke that exceeds 180 degrees. This is most of what a clipless pedal can do, with the bonus of not having to struggle out of the pedal while you are falling. I have a permanent blue mark on my knee from falling many times with clipless pedals and landing the same way each time. Ouch. I like these tires : http://www.bikeparts.com/search_results.asp?ID=BPC343619 Michelin City 26x1.85 in. Reflective strip black tire. Works great until you hit mud, which I never do. Reflective stripe helps a lot at night. Fat helps with bumps. Smooth helps with vibration. Armor prevents most flats. [image]local://upfiles/769649/6BA96C9D771A48E9856752FF7A513FC3.jpg[/image]

Moonhead -> RE: Books. That plain and simple (1/11/2012 5:19:50 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ScatteredRose Haha, I should. I just don't have the ability to go to my local library. :P Whenever I get a chance to go to a bookstore, I'm getting a ride. My library is two bus rides. I'm getting my bike fixed to start going on long treks. I read one Nora Roberts book. It was Midnight Bayou. I only picked it up because it was about New Orleans. I'm not too big of romance novels. If the N'awlins thing appeals, have you read any Poppy Z Brite? She's a writer who started off doing horror novels, then switched to a series of comedy mysteries set around a restaurant that puts booze in all the food. The first two of those Liqour and Prime are great, but the series runs out of steam very quickly. As for the horror stuff, I feel her first novel (the frankly shitawful vampire novel Lost Souls) is a bad joke, and just as responsible for the glut of mind numbingly self satisfied vampire power fantasies where everybody magically gets a black lipstick and a full set of Bauhaus albums the second they rise from the dead that clogged up the '90s and early millennium like cholesterol in a vein until it was decided that vampires were actually sparkly instead. (Mark Rhein Hagen goy a very successful RPG out of Lost Souls, but there's little to endear it to anybody else.) Her second and third novels, on the other hand (Drawing Blood and Exquisite Corpse) are an awful lot better: the first is a very good ghost story, and the second is a much better serial killer one. Her first short story collection (variously published as Swamp Foetus, Wormwood and a few other titles) is also very good indeed, but sadly the later collections get steadily worse.

Moonhead -> RE: Books. That plain and simple (1/11/2012 5:21:33 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: slaveluci quote: ORIGINAL: kalikshama quote: Now onto The Demonata. Whoo boy. Obtained from the library and on my Kindle in under a minute. Take that you paper snobs! [:D] Love it! Like I always say, buying an e-reader does NOT mean you have to turn in your library card or give up paper books. Geesh, folks, it's a supplement to books, not a replacement. I LOVE my Kindle but I don't ever choose it over "real" books. I just use it when I can't carry a stack of those with me. It's OK to love both.........luci Apart from anything else, a paper book will bounce rather than breaking if you drop it on the tile floor when you're reading it on the crapper...

TheFireWithinMe -> RE: Books. That plain and simple (1/11/2012 5:33:03 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: slaveluci quote: ORIGINAL: kalikshama quote: Now onto The Demonata. Whoo boy. Obtained from the library and on my Kindle in under a minute. Take that you paper snobs! [:D] Love it! Like I always say, buying an e-reader does NOT mean you have to turn in your library card or give up paper books. Geesh, folks, it's a supplement to books, not a replacement. I LOVE my Kindle but I don't ever choose it over "real" books. I just use it when I can't carry a stack of those with me. It's OK to love both.........luci Exactly. I'm using one at the moment because my right thumb is screwed up royally and I can't hold books in my hands. However, if the surgery I'm having in April works I'll go back to reading books and save the eReader for travel. Fire

tweakabelle -> RE: Books. That plain and simple (1/11/2012 11:26:02 AM)
Scattered Rose, have you come across Fat White Vampire Blues by Andrew Fox? It's set in New Orleans. I found it as intriguing (and funny) as the title suggests. The idea of a 450 lb white trash vampire on a diet cracked me up - would he target people with thin blood? What might a low cholesterol diet look like to a vampire? [:D]

Clickofheels -> RE: Books. That plain and simple (1/11/2012 1:11:57 PM)
What a great thread idea!!!!!!! Books....(swoons). Barnes & Noble is my home away from home. I dash in for a supposed 15 minutes and come out 3 hours later. I'm like a kid in a candy store! Electronic books? Not me. I'm with the folks who love the feel, and the smell, and the crackle of a book. (smiles) I'm greedily reading the many classics not allowed us in the parochial school system...In Cold Blood, Lord of the Flies, etc. etc. Otherwise, my interests are everything from biographies, to whodunits, to sci fi, etc. etc. Personally, I've had enough of vampires, and I don't do the "sweaty loin," "throbbing member" romance novels. (snickers) Some interesting books to suggest? WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams...a true classic IN THE SANCTUARY OF OUTCASTS by Neil White...an amazingly, true story TH1RTEEN R3ASONS WHY (spelled exactly that way) by Jay Asher... incredibly thought-provoking THE BELLS by Richard Harvel...for anyone who loves music any books by Robert Hicks, if you enjoy reading stories of the Civil War that involve women. And when I start chipping away at the 50 books awaiting my winter reading once the snow flies (I know, no snow here yet), then I will share any goodies with you too. Happy Reading, everyone! (Smiles)

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