Posted on 06/17/2005 10:47:19 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith
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Today's topic: what's on your summer reading list? Whether you are going on vacation, sitting on the beach or just hanging out on your front porch, there's usually a good novel nearby. Any particular plans or will it be a more serendipitous approach?
The "Left Behind" series. Already finished books 1 and 2.
This version?
H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds - Silicon Valley FReep-in for FReepers, FRiends, and FRamlies (Vanity)
Read the thread first...
Phyllis Dorothy
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.
I just finished watching it yesterday. Very enjoyable.
TS
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Ohhh ok. I hadn't heard of her before.
Red
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Have you read The Instance of the Fingerpost by Ian Pears?
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?
Another must read is "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoyevsky (unsure of the spelling).
Another is Xenophon's Anabasis.
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