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Post by Kahlessa on Apr 23, 2007 12:56:40 GMT -5
I’m reading Noble House by James Clavell, a novel about Hong Kong in the 1960s. I’m also reading Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson, a collection of his columns from Natural History magazine. Tyson is an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History and is the Director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium. I saw him speak on Book TV recently and he’s hysterically funny, as well as brilliant.
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Post by jessicam on Apr 24, 2007 17:52:47 GMT -5
I just finished reading "Gone with the Wind" again. The book's better than the movie. Rhett is smarter in the book.
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Post by Kickup on Apr 26, 2007 3:23:12 GMT -5
I always manage to leave home without my current book, so I've taken to keeping a box of books in my car. When I find myself waiting in lines, eating lunch, waiting for appointments and I'm without my book, I'll get one out of the car.
So I'm reading three right now, LOL! Sphere (MC), Eaters of the Dead (MC), and The Alexandria Link by Steve Berry which is about the Arab/Israeli conflict and the search for a vault of the ancient scrolls from the library of Alexandria.
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Post by The One on Apr 27, 2007 12:04:29 GMT -5
Today I bought and started reading The Garden of Rama by Arthur C Clarke and Grentry Lee. It is the 3rd of a series which has four books, namely; Rama, Rama II, The Garden of Rama and Rama Revealed.
It is a great novel about an Alien Spacecraft that comes toward Earth in 2100s. I loved the first two, and hope this too will be an excellent read.
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Post by Kahlessa on Apr 29, 2007 8:58:46 GMT -5
I just finished reading "Gone with the Wind" again. The book's better than the movie. Rhett is smarter in the book. Welcome Jessicam! I agree, the book is better than the movie; that’s usually the case. When I first saw the movie of Gone with the Wind, I was halfway through the book, so I enjoyed the second half of the movie more than the first half. Books add, movies subtract.
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Post by Kahlessa on Apr 29, 2007 9:02:06 GMT -5
I always manage to leave home without my current book, so I've taken to keeping a box of books in my car. When I find myself waiting in lines, eating lunch, waiting for appointments and I'm without my book, I'll get one out of the car. I always have a book in my purse. In fact, I buy purses based on how well I can fit a book in them. And like you, I keep books in the car. The important thing is to keep books handy, in case you’re stuck somewhere boring.
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Post by Kahlessa on Apr 29, 2007 9:06:23 GMT -5
Today I bought and started reading The Garden of Rama by Arthur C Clarke and Grentry Lee. It is the 3rd of a series which has four books, namely; Rama, Rama II, The Garden of Rama and Rama Revealed. It is a great novel about an Alien Spacecraft that comes toward Earth in 2100s. I loved the first two, and hope this too will be an excellent read. I’m a big fan of Arthur C. Clarke’s but I haven’t read the Rama novels. Aside from the space odyssey novels, I enjoyed The City and the Stars and Childhood’s End. Doesn’t Arthur C. Clarke live in Sri Lanka? I thought I read that he did.
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Post by Clarke on Apr 30, 2007 11:43:41 GMT -5
Kahlessa, I suggest you read the RAMA series. It's really interesting! Yes, I have read Childhood's End, but not The City. Is it good? And what's it about?
By the way, he does live in Sri Lanka and he is hugely respected here. We also have a Arthur C Clerk Centre for Modern Technologies in Sri Lanka which is named after him as a sign of respect to him. But I think he's stopped writing now at late 80s of his life.
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Post by The One on Apr 30, 2007 11:45:50 GMT -5
Oh, I just made a mistake. That previous post is by me. I just forgot to login before publishing it...
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Post by Kahlessa on May 28, 2007 21:40:50 GMT -5
Lately I’ve been reading short stories by Stephen King. (I think I read somewhere that Michael Crichton reads Stephen King’s books.) The collection I’m reading now is titled Everything’s Eventual. It contains a great (and scary) story “1408” about a haunted hotel room. A movie based on it is coming out in July. I first heard the story in audio, and it was chilling. Even Stephen King said the audio scared him, and he’s the one who reads it.
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Post by The One on Jun 4, 2007 21:14:28 GMT -5
Yesterday I started the last of the RAMA series by Arthur C Clarke, which is named RAMA REVEALED. As the name suggest, it's supposed to reveal all the mysteries that were in the previous three books. I can't wait to finish it, by my work demands lot of my time, so it's gonna be a slow read.
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Post by Kahlessa on Jun 17, 2007 11:33:14 GMT -5
I just finished reading an excellent book The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate. It recently won the Pulitzer Prize for best biography. The book gives a fascinating look not only at 19th century life and Protestant Christianity, but also of the abolition of slavery movement in America. Beecher was an electrifying speaker, and he went to England and gave speeches to discourage England from siding with the Confederacy during the Civil War.
In those days, people attended speeches the way people go to the movies and watch TV today. Beecher was the equivalent of a modern day movie star.
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Post by Kahlessa on Jul 2, 2007 20:14:52 GMT -5
Now I’m reading Future Perfect: Confronting Decisions About Genetics by Lori B. Andrews. She’s a law professor who was a major source for Michael Crichton’s research for Next. The book is brilliant and very enjoyable reading. Here’s her website: www.loriandrews.comHere’s some information on the book Future Imperfect
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Post by The One on Jul 3, 2007 6:50:05 GMT -5
Just finished RAMA REVEALED. It's awesome!!!
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Post by Kahlessa on Jul 4, 2007 7:38:46 GMT -5
Just finished RAMA REVEALED. It's awesome!!! Well, now you’re getting me in the mood to read Arthur C. Clarke again, so perhaps I’ll pick up the Rama series soon. You asked what The City and the Stars is about. It’s been so long since I’ve read it that I don’t remember the plot. I do remember that there is this man living in an enclosed city, and he discovers that if he goes to an extreme edge of the city and climbs up, he can see a very small open section of the sky. He goes there to see the stars come out, something the other residents of the city never see. And he starts to wonder what else is out there. I read the book first when I was 11. My dad is a huge sci-fi fan so there were always plenty of books around. The City and the Stars is one that he suggested I read.
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