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« Reply #150 on: Nov 17, 2005, 06:50 AM »
Cold War Canada: The Making of a National Insecurity State, 1945-57.

I need to get out more.   :(

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« Reply #151 on: Jan 02, 2006, 09:58 PM »

I am currently reading the pianist - such an unbelievable story haven't watched the film yet but i imagine it doesn't live up to the book at all as they never usually do. But i find it better to watch a movie then read the book cos u tend to be so much more impressed e.g. shawshank redemption, rather than read the book 1st then see the movie e.g any harry poter altho movie & book r both fantabulous u can't help but point out all that is missing in the movie.
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« Reply #152 on: Jan 02, 2006, 10:04 PM »
Hate to tell you this, but we have a thread like this already:

http://www.trailerparkboys.org/forums/index.php?topic=461.0

Hopefully this topic can be merged with that one (attn. Shake!) ;)
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« Reply #153 on: Jan 02, 2006, 10:06 PM »
what thread do i look under. haven't seen anything
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« Reply #154 on: Jan 02, 2006, 10:23 PM »
Quote from: irish on Jan 02, 2006, 10:06 PM
what thread do i look under. haven't seen anything

"What Do You Read " in "General Chat"
 or click the Link Melba provided

A search for key words like "read" or "book" would bring ya there pretty quick.
Glad to see another lover of books here! :D
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« Reply #155 on: Jan 02, 2006, 10:26 PM »
yeah found the thread nobody has replied since november so hoping to start a new 1.
 love all stephen king (except the dark tower series was never able 2 get in2 it). also love jonathan kellerman & james patterson altho they both write serail novels abouts alexs so it can get a little confusing at times.really love how practically every story of kings whilst set in the maine area always mentions a previous character from a previous book! how much do u love this man?!
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« Reply #156 on: Jan 02, 2006, 10:28 PM »
Quote from: irish on Jan 02, 2006, 09:58 PM

I am currently reading the pianist - such an unbelievable story haven't watched the film yet but i imagine it doesn't live up to the book at all as they never usually do. But i find it better to watch a movie then read the book cos u tend to be so much more impressed e.g. shawshank redemption, rather than read the book 1st then see the movie e.g any harry poter altho movie & book r both fantabulous u can't help but point out all that is missing in the movie.
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« Reply #157 on: Jan 02, 2006, 10:35 PM »
Quote from: melba the disco queen on Jan 02, 2006, 10:04 PM
Hate to tell you this, but we have a thread like this already:

http://www.trailerparkboys.org/forums/index.php?topic=461.0

Hopefully this topic can be merged with that one (attn. Shake!) ;)


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« Reply #158 on: Jan 02, 2006, 11:03 PM »
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« Reply #159 on: Jan 03, 2006, 12:10 AM »
Currently reading Smaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb
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« Reply #160 on: Jan 03, 2006, 12:31 AM »
You guys have gotta read A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It's a brilliant tale brilliantly told.
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« Reply #161 on: Jan 03, 2006, 01:23 AM »
Quote from: StoneChimes on Jan 03, 2006, 12:31 AM
You guys have gotta read A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It's a brilliant tale brilliantly told.

My dad read that to me when I was 7  :shock:  , 29 years ago.
Great book for  memories to have stuck with me for all those years
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« Reply #162 on: Jan 03, 2006, 01:24 AM »
Reading the posts 8)
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« Reply #163 on: Jan 03, 2006, 03:01 AM »
i READ ABSOULUTLY EVERYTHING BUT THE QUESTION IS -----DO I BELIEVE IT!!!!! :shock: :gethigh:

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« Reply #164 on: Jan 03, 2006, 03:06 AM »
Just finished The DaVinci Code, Going out to buy the prequel, Angels and Demons, today.
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« Reply #165 on: Jan 03, 2006, 07:23 AM »
I'm not reading nuttin! Hubby thought I was buying him the latest Stephen King book for the Dark Tower series and I thought he was buying it for me. So we both suck.. mind you I did buy it for my brother but that would be rude to ask if we could borrow it lmao...
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« Reply #166 on: Jan 03, 2006, 09:33 AM »
Quote from: StoneChimes on Jan 03, 2006, 12:31 AM
You guys have gotta read A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It's a brilliant tale brilliantly told.

I read it in University for a course, it is an excellent book, I think the word magical is good to describe it.
Currently, I'm trying to re-read The Stand by Stephen King, but new DVDs are getting in the way.
Irish, what's your favourite Stephen King novel? What stopped you from getting into the Dark Tower series?
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« Reply #167 on: Jan 03, 2006, 04:11 PM »
Been years since I read The Stand. I love the post apocaliptic thing.
My mom bought me the latest Gunslinger book , but I stopped at #3 many years ago and don't know if I'll be able to restart without going back to #1.

Presently , I am reading a great non fiction by Candace Savage , Crows. It builds on and reinforces what I know and love about corvuses. As smart as a chimp ( by weight). Tool building and using ,socially complex , advanced reasoners ! I love those birds , something that spans at least 4 generations in the Saucy familly.
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« Reply #168 on: Jan 03, 2006, 04:15 PM »
Anne Rice...Merrick.....i was shooting along really good reading Blood and Gold then Blood Canticle (finished those two in less than a month)....but i can't seem to get moving on this new one  :drugged:
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« Reply #169 on: Jan 03, 2006, 08:42 PM »
Right now reading Hells Angels: Into the Abyss by Yves Lavigne... I like true crime stories and books about different bands... recently read Marilyn Manson's biography and Motley Crue - The Dirt.  I'm an incredibly slow reader cuz I was a proof reader for a few years and ever since then I not only read a book, I check it for spelling too... can't help it!!!
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« Reply #170 on: Jan 15, 2006, 05:41 PM »
i have re-read all my stephen king books about a million times, its hard to pick a fave. never been quite sur why i didn't get into the dark tower series, i just remember starting to read the 1st one & it just didn't grab me but that was a few years back & i'm a much more patient reader now so maybe i'll give them another shot, at least it would be lots of new sk books for me to read! Currently reading maximum ride - the angel experiment altho it is a young adult novel its based on 2 other books he wrote previous called when the wind blows & the lake house. it's about weird kids with 98% human dna & 2% bird dna who have escaped from their lab - its nice light reading. also just finished the time traveler's wife by audrey niffenegger - great book - strange plot! also just about to start ham on rye by charles bukowski love his henry chinaski books (altho go back to what i said earlier about books not always transferring to film hollywood & matt dillion made a hash of factotum). i like to have 2 - 3 books on the go at the same time
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« Reply #171 on: Jan 15, 2006, 06:02 PM »
Iv finished reading for a while, mostly because all iv been doing for the past 3 weeks or so is reading history text books and sources etc, no not just because im a boring nerd, iv had exams..!! honest...

 Medievil History of England 1042 - 1400
 Industrial revolution: social history of Britain 1700 - 1870

both great reads... highly recomended for those with sleeping problems..!!!
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« Reply #172 on: Jan 22, 2006, 02:35 PM »
I've been reading a book of short stories by Stephen King , on and off for 8 months. It's called "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" .
 :shock: :shock: Holy fuck , this is King at his WEIRDEST!! Stuff that he could never pull of in a novel , crazy shit , but a good read none the less.


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I'm a very proud dad at this moment. My 8 year old son just finished his first novel!! 176 page book , written for young adults. Dragonsong , by Anne McCaffrey , the first in a 3 part series that I read to them last fall (I'm actually , presently , reading a 4th book by her to them , but not from that series. By his comments , I know that , not only is he reading the words , but he's really Grocking the story , evidenced by the subtlties that he's picking out to discuss with me ,stuff that explains some of what's going on in the book that I'm reading to them right now ( not the same series , but set on the same planet , with some of the same characters).

And 2 years ago , my worry wart wife thought that he'd never learn to read  :roll:
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« Reply #173 on: Jan 22, 2006, 02:39 PM »
Quote from: saucy bastard on Jan 22, 2006, 02:35 PM
I've been reading a book of short stories by Stephen King , on and off for 8 months. It's called "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" .
 :shock: :shock: Holy fuck , this is King at his WEIRDEST!! Stuff that he could never pull of in a novel , crazy shit , but a good read none the less.


I read that one to Saucy, definetley King at his weirdest, but good reading none the less.

I started "Homeland" by John Jakes today a tome but very interesting.
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« Reply #174 on: Jan 23, 2006, 12:53 AM »
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AWESOME!!!!!   no prouder moment than when our children can read at great lengths....keep up the reading dad and son will surely follow!!!!  :clapping:
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