Last book(s) you read?

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Re: Last book(s) you read?

Post by bluezephyr » Sat Feb 09, 2019 11:14 pm

The picture of dorian gray

The king in yellow

Let the right one in

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The goldfinch

I'll post some of my favorite books since i don't read as often, and I'd take for ever to write a recent list.:) Also there's alot of really good taste in these forums. Really been enjoying the fan fiction.

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Post by dongregg » Sun Feb 10, 2019 3:08 am

Haruki Murakami, "Cream." I'm a fan, but this short story was a bust. Much ado about nothing.
“For drama to deepen, we must see the loneliness of the monster and the cunning of the innocent.”

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Post by bluezephyr » Tue Feb 12, 2019 6:21 am

Hey at least it's short. easier to endure haha.

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Post by dongregg » Sat Nov 23, 2019 4:31 am

Reading The Queen's Tiara (Drottningens Juvelsmycke). Oskar found it while looking for a Christmas gift for Eli. (Er, that happens in a fan fiction.)
“For drama to deepen, we must see the loneliness of the monster and the cunning of the innocent.”

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Post by AntoNorbert » Fri Nov 29, 2019 8:19 pm

Some of the last books I read are
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
The Ice Storm (Rick Moody)
South of the Border, West of the Sun (Haruki Murakami)
and LTROI

It was funny, when I read The Hobbit last year and then I watched LTROI again. Well, I've read Tolkien in the Credits before, but I didn't know where or when.

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Post by dongregg » Fri Nov 29, 2019 9:04 pm

Good reads, and welcome to the forum!
“For drama to deepen, we must see the loneliness of the monster and the cunning of the innocent.”

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Post by a_contemplative_life » Sat Nov 30, 2019 12:07 am

The Hunters
Once Bitten
Let the Right One In
Reflections at Dawn
Redemption from Darkness
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Post by dongregg » Wed Dec 04, 2019 9:43 pm

dongregg wrote:
Sat Nov 23, 2019 4:31 am
Reading The Queen's Tiara (Drottningens Juvelsmycke). Oskar found it while looking for a Christmas gift for Eli. (Er, that happens in a fan fiction.)
Done. One comes away enchanted by Azouras Lazuli Tintomara--just as did all who crossed his/her path in the novel. As for the writing, it has the complex plot and the attractive (or repulsive) characters of The Three Musketeers. Alas, however, Carl Jonas Love Almqvist is not Alexandre Dumas. :(
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Re: Last book(s) you read?

Post by gkmoberg1 » Fri Jul 03, 2020 2:27 am

"It was a dark and stormy night..."

This isn't a book I have been reading but rather a string of web sites where I've had a good (and needed) laugh about writing. In this case bad writing. Including intentionally bad writing.

For example, open the 2011 Contest Winners link at
https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/winners

I had earlier arrived at bulwer-lytton.com from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulwer-Ly ... on_Contest

which is because I was reading
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how- ... fi-forever
(which is _not_ bad writing! but the reference near the top "(L’Engle’s first line winks at English novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s infamous purple prose)" led me to explore

Cheers!

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