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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #425 on: December 26, 2012, 06:35:57 AM »
Quote from: Boudicca on December 24, 2012, 10:39:47 AM
Yep, me too, she and Sherilyn Kenyon got me hooked on paranormal romances.  Do you enjoy any other authors in that genre?
Yes , i like the paranormal , shape shifter books..., i love mysteries too....
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #426 on: December 26, 2012, 09:32:05 AM »
Quote from: seahorse513 on December 26, 2012, 06:35:57 AM
Yes , i like the paranormal , shape shifter books..., i love mysteries too....

I'm just finishing up another shapeshifter (werewolf) book by Lori Handeland.  Do you have a Kindle or other ebook reader?  Because, for you or anyone else who does and is not already aware, there's a website you can join at bookbub.com.  They will send you a daily list of free/cheap ebooks you can order, specifically tailored to your reading interests.  I've managed to acquire quite alot of these books in the short period of time I've been registered at the site.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #427 on: December 26, 2012, 10:54:28 AM »
Quote from: debk on December 26, 2012, 03:44:04 AM
I got The Joy of Hate by Greg Gutfeld but haven't had time to read more than the introduction....  :(
That's a very good book. I'm sure once you get around to it you will have many laughs.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #428 on: December 26, 2012, 04:41:30 PM »
I just finished reading my first Clive Cussler novel, Dark Watch. It definitely won't be the last. I enjoyed it.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #429 on: December 26, 2012, 04:48:20 PM »
Quote from: Boudicca on December 26, 2012, 09:32:05 AM
I'm just finishing up another shapeshifter (werewolf) book by Lori Handeland.  Do you have a Kindle or other ebook reader?  Because, for you or anyone else who does and is not already aware, there's a website you can join at bookbub.com.  They will send you a daily list of free/cheap ebooks you can order, specifically tailored to your reading interests.  I've managed to acquire quite alot of these books in the short period of time I've been registered at the site.

I have a nook....let me try that!!!
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #430 on: December 26, 2012, 04:59:35 PM »
Quote from: Boudicca on December 26, 2012, 09:32:05 AM
I'm just finishing up another shapeshifter (werewolf) book by Lori Handeland.  Do you have a Kindle or other ebook reader?  Because, for you or anyone else who does and is not already aware, there's a website you can join at bookbub.com.  They will send you a daily list of free/cheap ebooks you can order, specifically tailored to your reading interests.  I've managed to acquire quite alot of these books in the short period of time I've been registered at the site.

I just signed up and already downloaded a free book that sounds interesting. Thank you for the info!
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #431 on: December 26, 2012, 05:22:59 PM »
Quote from: seahorse513 on December 26, 2012, 04:48:20 PM
I have a nook....let me try that!!!

Hope you like the site!
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #432 on: December 26, 2012, 05:23:22 PM »
Quote from: dixierose on December 26, 2012, 04:59:35 PM
I just signed up and already downloaded a free book that sounds interesting. Thank you for the info!

You're more than welcome, dixierose!
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #433 on: December 26, 2012, 10:20:08 PM »
Quote from: Boudicca on December 26, 2012, 05:22:59 PM
Hope you like the site!
Just awitining an answer to a question...How do I send it to my nook?
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #434 on: December 26, 2012, 10:25:21 PM »
Celtic Rose recommended Outlander a couple weeks ago.  The first book is excellent.  The second book is okay, not really my cup of tea, but I'm looking forward to checking out the third.  It's violent, bloody, and filthy.  Great stuff.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #435 on: December 26, 2012, 10:52:34 PM »
Quote from: Chris_ on December 26, 2012, 10:25:21 PM
Celtic Rose recommended Outlander a couple weeks ago.  The first book is excellent.  The second book is okay, not really my cup of tea, but I'm looking forward to checking out the third.  It's violent, bloody, and filthy.  Great stuff.

I would say that the first and the third books are my favorite, though if I remember correctly, the third book starts off slowly.  I'm really glad that you are enjoying them. 
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #436 on: December 26, 2012, 10:55:40 PM »
Quote from: seahorse513 on December 24, 2012, 09:00:20 AM
Reading Dark Demon by Christine Feehan. I love her books!!

I used to read her a lot, but I started feeling like her Carpathian novels were getting repetitive  :(

If you like Christine Feehan, then I highly recommend C.L. Wilson's Tairen Soul series.  It starts with Lord of the Fading Lands.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #437 on: December 27, 2012, 08:50:07 AM »
Quote from: Celtic Rose on December 26, 2012, 10:55:40 PM
I used to read her a lot, but I started feeling like her Carpathian novels were getting repetitive  :(

If you like Christine Feehan, then I highly recommend C.L. Wilson's Tairen Soul series.  It starts with Lord of the Fading Lands.
Thankyou, I will check her out!!
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #438 on: December 27, 2012, 09:45:32 AM »
Quote from: Celtic Rose on December 26, 2012, 10:55:40 PM
I used to read her a lot, but I started feeling like her Carpathian novels were getting repetitive  :(

If you like Christine Feehan, then I highly recommend C.L. Wilson's Tairen Soul series.  It starts with Lord of the Fading Lands.

Oh yes, Celtic Rose, the Tairen Soul series was very outstanding! :cheersmate:
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #439 on: December 27, 2012, 03:52:32 PM »
am very excited, was able to send the bubbook straight to my nook....yeeeha!!!! Also bought the first of the sequel by CS wilson....
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #440 on: December 30, 2012, 04:07:39 PM »
I just finished the Wool Omnibus.  A good story (or several stories) about life after the earth has been devastated.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #441 on: January 03, 2013, 10:10:16 PM »
Quote from: Boudicca on December 27, 2012, 09:45:32 AM
Oh yes, Celtic Rose, the Tairen Soul series was very outstanding! :cheersmate:

I love this book!!!  Looking forward to getting the others!!! and I love Ebub...downloaded like 8 already!! all free!!
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #442 on: January 04, 2013, 10:57:39 AM »
Quote from: andhe78 on December 30, 2012, 04:07:39 PM
I just finished the Wool Omnibus.  A good story (or several stories) about life after the earth has been devastated.

Hugh Howey is two books into a trilogy that follows the Wool/Silo series.  I'm going to wait, as the author himself suggested at the amazon blurb, to order all three on Kindle when he's finished this spring.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #443 on: January 04, 2013, 10:01:35 PM »
I'm currently reading the Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. I like it. His writing style is very different, it almost matches the KJV Bible sometimes so I can see why some people don't like his writing style. Like he says Hearkened a few times. His characters talk in old English. He explains everything thoroughly though, he was most definitely a passionate writer.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #444 on: January 04, 2013, 10:31:27 PM »
Just started Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. So far, so excellent.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #445 on: January 05, 2013, 08:48:08 AM »
Quote from: ColonelCarrots on January 04, 2013, 10:01:35 PM
I'm currently reading the Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. I like it. His writing style is very different, it almost matches the KJV Bible sometimes so I can see why some people don't like his writing style. Like he says Hearkened a few times. His characters talk in old English. He explains everything thoroughly though, he was most definitely a passionate writer.

J.R.R. Tolkien was great at descriptive detail--to the Nth degree. However, he was literally building new places, races, and creatures. Such detail was required to do that.

To be honest, I envy people that can read novels and actually enjoy them. I am so used to reading technical/scientific information requires you to understand every phrase in detail without the remaining text turning into gibberish As a result, my attempts to read novels are laborious and unenjoyable.

Wrt to 'The Hobbit', after reading an entire page (slight exaggeration) describing the texture of the hair on the mole on the nose of the dwarf, I couldn't take it anymore. I understand why he went into such detail but I couldn't continue reading because it was not enjoyable. Which is sad because I actually like the stories.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #446 on: January 05, 2013, 09:42:53 AM »
Quote from: Conservative Libertarian on January 05, 2013, 08:48:08 AM
J.R.R. Tolkien was great at descriptive detail--to the Nth degree. However, he was literally building new places, races, and creatures. Such detail was required to do that.

To be honest, I envy people that can read novels and actually enjoy them. I am so used to reading technical/scientific information requires you to understand every phrase in detail without the remaining text turning into gibberish As a result, my attempts to read novels are laborious and unenjoyable.

Wrt to 'The Hobbit', after reading an entire page (slight exaggeration) describing the texture of the hair on the mole on the nose of the dwarf, I couldn't take it anymore. I understand why he went into such detail but I couldn't continue reading because it was not enjoyable. Which is sad because I actually like the stories.


One writer that I thought went into excruciating detail to the ridiculous nth degree, needlessly and wantonly, was Alistair MacLean. I read his stuff, but was distracted by the level of detail.

Oddly enough, I'm not having that sort of trouble with Tolkien's "The Hobbit." The pace, for me at least, is brisk enough.

My problem is I can't stay awake when I begin to read. I'm good for a few pages or maybe a short chapter before it's light's out.  :censored:
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #447 on: January 05, 2013, 10:15:48 AM »
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey by Michael Collins.  Being a huge project Apollo junkie, I have read the biographies of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldren and now Michael Collins.  I find Collins' book to be the most informing and entertaining.
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #448 on: January 05, 2013, 05:46:23 PM »
Agenda 21 and No Easy Day.  Both good reads. 
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Re: New last book you read thread
« Reply #449 on: January 06, 2013, 03:45:10 PM »
Been busy reading Laura Griffin.  I'm so obsessed I've been reading pages while making lasagna.  Perfect blend of romance, mystery, thrills and forensic science.

BUT, I have a date after the lasagna goes in the oven, to watch Pandorum with the hubby.  I hope it's good.

Since I seldom, if ever, read one book at a time, I am currently also reading Hopeless,  \a bookbub freebie.  It kinda reminds me of Twilight except the heroine was abused sexually by a relative.
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