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FR Book Club: What's on your Summer Reading List?
June 17, 2005

Posted on 06/17/2005 10:47:19 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith

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To: Tanniker Smith

The "Left Behind" series. Already finished books 1 and 2.


281 posted on 06/20/2005 8:32:56 AM PDT by wizr (Freedom ain't free.)
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To: Tanniker Smith
As for me, picking up a DVD of "The War of the Worlds" is giving me the desire to give Wells another go (I've never made it through any of his books).

This version?

H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds - Silicon Valley FReep-in for FReepers, FRiends, and FRamlies (Vanity)

Read the thread first...

282 posted on 06/20/2005 8:37:34 AM PDT by null and void (You will never be really good at anything you do just for the money...)
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To: Lemondropkid31

Phyllis Dorothy


283 posted on 06/20/2005 8:39:56 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
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To: Tanniker Smith
I'm nearing the end of the second book of Neal Stephenson's three-book series, The Baroque Cycle, a book called The Confusion. The first book in the series is Quicksilver and the last one (which I have yet to read) is The System of the World.

I highly recommend these books. Basically, they are historical novels set in the late 17th century about a key "hinge time" -- the transition from magic to science and from feudalism to free market capitalism. Highly entertaining, literate, and fun.

284 posted on 06/20/2005 8:46:23 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
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To: null and void
That would be the one. (I haven't read the entire thread yet, just the first 50 posts, but I recognize the pictures.)

I just finished watching it yesterday. Very enjoyable.

TS

285 posted on 06/20/2005 8:56:44 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: Tanniker Smith

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286 posted on 06/20/2005 8:58:36 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: Conservative4Ever
Your secret is safe with me, LOL! I like my wife to think that I'm unique anyway. I think she realized that I had, shall we say, unusual reading habits when she found out that I read Ben Hur when I was in 5th grade and used to read books while riding my bicycle.
287 posted on 06/20/2005 11:38:29 AM PDT by Pablo64 ("Everything I say is fully substantiated by my own opinion.")
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To: Cincinatus

Ohhh ok. I hadn't heard of her before.


288 posted on 06/20/2005 2:13:08 PM PDT by Lemondropkid31 (If we do not pray for our leaders, we cannot expect them to do what is right.)
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To: Pablo64
You beat me by a few grades. Read Ben-Hur when I was in 8th grade. After Mom gave final warning for lights out at bedtime...read with a flashlight under the covers.

Red

289 posted on 06/20/2005 3:37:26 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (God bless America...land that I love...stand beside her and guide her...)
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To: Conservative4Ever
LOL!, I wasn't allowed my own flashlight. Luckily, my bed was fairly close to the closet on one side, so I would turn on the closet light and slide the closet door open a crack. Just enough to to read if I tipped the page toward the closet.

I'm sure my kids use their flashlights (yeah, they've got 'em even if I didn't) to read under the covers after lights out, but I haven't "busted" them for it yet.

290 posted on 06/20/2005 4:54:07 PM PDT by Pablo64 ("Everything I say is fully substantiated by my own opinion.")
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To: meowmeow

Last week I led a book discussion group on Middlesex and would be willing to share several points of research I found regarding author, etc., if you're interested after you finish the book.


291 posted on 06/20/2005 11:53:03 PM PDT by MHT
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To: babaloo

Devil in the White City is chilling. I enjoyed the murderer part more than the engineering but found the contrast fabulous. History can be stranger than fiction and it is almost as if the story wrote itself.


292 posted on 06/20/2005 11:55:01 PM PDT by MHT
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To: peacebaby

A friend of mine writes science fiction and said that TTWife violated some of the physical prinicples upon which fictional time travel is based. PBS/Nova has a website where the consistencies you must maintain in fictional time travel are outlined. It's true; she did---but, in the meantime, what a story! Can you imagine what her storyboard must have looked like? The network of strings leading from one point in the plot to another must have been like a spider's web!


293 posted on 06/20/2005 11:58:40 PM PDT by MHT
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To: MHT
Last week I led a book discussion group on Middlesex and would be willing to share several points of research I found regarding author, etc., if you're interested after you finish the book.

I would like that - thanks (I finished the book). And by any chance does that include an explanation on the brother's name? That was driving me crazy.

294 posted on 06/21/2005 3:34:30 AM PDT by meowmeow (Gardeners for Global Warming)
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To: MHT

I'm not trained in writing...maybe I should take some courses...but I don't understand the strict rules of writing time travel, and why the author violated them.

Can you give me the PBS/Nova website address? I'm curious now.

Have you read "Dogs of Babel?" The storyline was somewhat complex, not as complex as The Time Traveler's Wife, though.


295 posted on 06/21/2005 6:29:36 AM PDT by peacebaby (We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are. Oprah Winfrey)
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To: peacebaby

http://www.geocities.com/naran500/features/time_travel.html

It took me awhile to find it because I couldn't remember exactly how I found it to begin with! Glad you made me look it up. As an example, the main character did change part of his past, yet refused to tell his mother-in-law that she should watch out for cancer.


296 posted on 06/21/2005 11:46:25 AM PDT by MHT
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To: twigs

Have you read The Instance of the Fingerpost by Ian Pears?


297 posted on 06/21/2005 11:48:02 AM PDT by MHT
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To: MHT

No, I've never heard of it. But I looked on Amazon after I read your message. It sounds wonderful and like excellent summer reading. I'm guessing that you liked it?


298 posted on 06/21/2005 12:00:39 PM PDT by twigs
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To: tioga; daisyscarlett
Just found this thread and noticed both your posts. Janet Evanovich's eleventh book in the Plum series is released today.
299 posted on 06/21/2005 12:13:28 PM PDT by Quilla
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To: Tanniker Smith
Everyone should read Winston Churchill's 6 volume "History of World War II".

Another must read is "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoyevsky (unsure of the spelling).

Another is Xenophon's Anabasis.

300 posted on 06/21/2005 12:16:06 PM PDT by yarddog
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