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Free Republic Book Club, Week of 2/26/05
week of 2/26/05

Posted on 02/26/2005 5:14:03 PM PST by Tanniker Smith

Welcome to the Free Republic Book Club

This is the place to discuss any book under the sun.

First of all, my apologies for not getting to this thread until Saturday evening.

Second, as has been suggested by several people on the previous threads, we're only going to make one thread per week, starting on Saturdays. We'll see how that works out.

Third, let's try to pick a topic for the week. Granted, "off-topic" posts are to be expected (and practically mandatory, if reading other threads is any indication).

Fourth, I pulled a lot of names from the previous threads to add to a ping list. As a result, I have a very lengthy ping list. So at this point, I'll add people who ask to be added (and remove those who ask to be removed). My apologies if you don't get added right away.

And, finally, here are the links to the previous two threads. Please! Do NOT add new messages to the older threads! Move on to this one (and the ones to follow in the weeks to come). Thank you.

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To: Tanniker Smith

Here's my vote:

1. Humor (Fiction or Non-Fiction)

2. Religious Fiction

3. Political and Current Affairs


21 posted on 02/26/2005 6:11:56 PM PST by borntobeagle
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To: hinckley buzzard

My 8 year olds have found Snicket's books not an easy read, but enjoy hearing me read it to them.

It has been fun, but I look forward to reading for myself again.



I loved that little George! Always had himself in a mess!!


22 posted on 02/26/2005 6:15:39 PM PST by borntobeagle
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To: sandalwood

I have not read any of the Quest Books. Which, in particular, is your favorite or do you recommend the entire series?


23 posted on 02/26/2005 6:20:51 PM PST by borntobeagle
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To: Tanniker Smith

You can ask the Admin Moderator to lock those old threads so that they won't receive new replies.

You might want to post the link to this thread before locking the old threads.


24 posted on 02/26/2005 6:22:02 PM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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To: Tanniker Smith

Please add me to your list. Thanks!


25 posted on 02/26/2005 6:25:58 PM PST by mathluv
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To: borntobeagle
I haven't read them...I was just picking up on what a few people had mentioned on the last thread.

I am very interested in hearing more about them, though, so anyone out there know about these "Quest" novels?

26 posted on 02/26/2005 6:28:24 PM PST by sandalwood (The sky was yellow and the sun was blue)
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To: Tanniker Smith
1. Romantic Suspense - I have recently found some good Christian books in this category.

2. Science Fiction/Paranormal.

3. political - fiction and non-fiction.

27 posted on 02/26/2005 6:30:19 PM PST by mathluv
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To: Tanniker Smith

I detest bios. Enjoy fiction with a mystery. Just today finished up a Cait London paperback entitled "Hidden Secrets". Will be starting "French Quarter" by Stella Cameron. Have also Lisa Jackson's "The Night Before".


28 posted on 02/26/2005 6:36:32 PM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: exnavychick; All

Some good biographies I have on the shelf:

Patton: A Genius for War, by Carlo D'Este
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, by Edward Rice
A Battle from the Start (Gen. Bedford Forrest), by Brian Steel Wills
Alexander of Macedon, by Peter Green
Wisdom and Innocence (G.K. Chesterton), by Joseph Pierce
The Reckoning (Christopher Marlowe), by Charles Nicholl
Life of Patrick Henry, by William Wirt


29 posted on 02/26/2005 6:36:59 PM PST by Tax-chick (Donate to FRIENDS OF SCOUTING and ruin a liberal's day!)
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To: sandalwood

We were discussing these on the other thread, and someone called Cormac McCarthy's "Border Trilogy" a quest novel, but it's really not. It's Literature, big L. Try it, you'll never be the same.

All the Pretty Horses
The Crossing
City of the Plain = trilogy.


30 posted on 02/26/2005 6:39:19 PM PST by Burn24
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To: sandalwood; borntobeagle

"Quest" here is a category, not a series. Any fiction or nonfiction with a hero(es) on a journey of discovery. "Huckleberry Finn" is an example; Jim is in search of freedom, and Huck is in search of adulthood (in effect.)


31 posted on 02/26/2005 6:39:51 PM PST by Tax-chick (Donate to FRIENDS OF SCOUTING and ruin a liberal's day!)
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To: Tanniker Smith; All
I just bought Hand of Providence - The Strong and Quiet Faith of Ronal Reagan by Mary Beth Brown. Has anyone read it? I'm planning to start reading it later tonight.

I have also been reading The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., PhD.

32 posted on 02/26/2005 6:46:47 PM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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To: Tax-chick; sandalwood

My apologies.

I thought sandalwood was referring to the series authored by Barbara Hambly.


33 posted on 02/26/2005 6:47:27 PM PST by borntobeagle
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To: borntobeagle

No problem. Barbara Hambly is writing one of my favorite historical mystery series, about a free black doctor in 1830's New Orleans.


34 posted on 02/26/2005 6:51:27 PM PST by Tax-chick (Donate to FRIENDS OF SCOUTING and ruin a liberal's day!)
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To: Tanniker Smith
Great thread.

The last two bios I read were last spring and summer, and both were on Reagan. One was "When Character Was King", I think, by Peggy Newnan. The other was by Mike Deavers..? Both were good.

I like John Grisham -- but I read his all in one sitting, so it gets expensive to buy them.

The most recent book I've read was by Cassandra King (Pat Conroy's wife) -- "The Same Sweet Girls." It was just okay.

35 posted on 02/26/2005 7:01:43 PM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch (THANK YOU LORD -- John Kerry is still just a senator.)
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To: Tanniker Smith

Tanniker, thank you so much for taking this on. Looks like there is a very enthusiastic response, kudos to you!


36 posted on 02/26/2005 7:12:39 PM PST by squarebarb
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To: Tanniker Smith

I am okay with biographies on this thread --- which is this week's thread.


Next week, I would like the "Quest" genre. That means people could discuss LOR, and any other quest boos.

My third choice of genre is 'relationship'novels; that would include anything from Jane Austin to White Oleander.


37 posted on 02/26/2005 7:16:14 PM PST by squarebarb
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To: Tuscaloosa Goldfinch

Each time my wife and I go to Australia, we bring back Aussie historical novels; two of the best I have read are by Evan Green, Kalinda and Adam's Empire, a two book series.

I had to buy Kalinda from used book section on Amazon, prices all the way up to $107US per copy.


38 posted on 02/26/2005 7:16:33 PM PST by formerlytempaussie (Minnesota--recovering liberal state.)
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To: borntobeagle

No, 'quest books' as in a genre, which would include everything from the Odessy to Lord of the Rings. --- heroes on a quest. Or anti-heroes or heroines on a quest.


39 posted on 02/26/2005 7:17:49 PM PST by squarebarb
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To: Burn24

Ditto!

But it is still a 'quest' type novel. Young hero on a search for something, self or treasure or whatever, strikes out into unknown lands,etc.

Pretty Horses is a masterpiece.


40 posted on 02/26/2005 7:19:15 PM PST by squarebarb
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