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EDIT: Oh, this is ironic! Two people have rec'd Watchers by Dean Koontz. I've read that book 3 times, and loved it. The Outsider always made me so sad. I haven't read many of Koontz's other books (so many out there), but that is an old fav.
Remember guys, say the authors' names too! Or I might try the wrong one.
EDIT: Oh, this is ironic! Two people have rec'd Watchers by Dean Koontz. I've read that book 3 times, and loved it. The Outsider always made me so sad. I haven't read many of Koontz's other books (so many out there), but that is an old fav.
Remember guys, say the authors' names too! Or I might try the wrong one.
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Date: 2003-06-02 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-02 08:04 pm (UTC)The industrious book-reccers (like yourself I assume ^-^ ?) will take the opprotunity to spam me with recs via journal comments. For those less prone to gush about their favorite things, one is enough.
Mostly, I want a bunch of book recs, but not 300. And if by some miracle every person who's friended me were to give me a book title, that'd be 130 books. More than I cna read for a long time. :)
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Date: 2003-06-02 08:33 pm (UTC)On The Beach by Nevil Shute
Ooooh, Ender's Game was good. I read that right before I read On The Beach.
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Date: 2003-06-02 08:41 pm (UTC)I read EG at 15, over two days in the backseat of a car, going from the San Juan Islands (Washington) back down to San Jose. it was a change-your-whole-perspective book that I wish I'd known about when I was 12.
*points to shelf that has almost every books he's written*
Did you like Tick Tock? I've read that. I thought it was great. Very funny, and a break from his usual style. Also, it was cool having the hero be Vietnamese, not white. There's a strong Vietnamese population in Northern California, so it was cool to have that variety in book characters.
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Date: 2003-06-03 12:13 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-06-03 12:20 am (UTC)I liked the islands. Lots of blackberries everywhere. And we had fantastic creme brulee with fruit in a fancy restaurant on Roche.
The people were nice, and the sailing was good. :)
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Date: 2003-06-03 12:28 am (UTC)And don't tell.... but we have awesome summers. Seriously, it's almost always sunny. I adore our summers... but it's a secret. LOL.
Maybe the town was Bellingham? One of my favorite Washington cities.
my Bellingham story
Date: 2003-06-03 12:42 am (UTC)You ever been to the marina there? They have a very small 1-room aquariam in the marina. Lots fo tanks of small fish, crabs, seas slugs, anenomies, that sort of thing.
Well, My mom and I were leaning over the large open pool looking at the various squiggly things that would typically be found in a tidepool, when this little boy (4) and his mother wandered in. They looked at the tanks too, and the little boy came to stand by us and look at our pool.
Then his mother wandered back out and was standing by the door. Unfortunately, not visible from where we were. So the little boy finaly gets bored of watching lil crabs canabalize each other, and looks around to realize his mother's "gone". He gets this semi-worried look on his little blond face.
And my mother, bless her evil heart, looks right at him and says, "She left. She doesn't love you any more."
The boy stared at us for a split second, then bolted out the door bawling.
I sort of stood there and stared at my mother in shock. It was simultaneously the most horribly and funniest thing I'd ever seen her do. I wanted to be all righteously miffed at her, but it was just so hilarious that I couldn't hold a strait face. I spent the rest of the trip teasing ehr by sayign she scarred the child for life and probably gave him a complex.
A few months later, she gives me a bumbper sticker that says in bright flashy colors: "Mean People Produce Little Mean People". It's on my bedroom mirror.
That's my Bellingham story. :)
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Date: 2003-06-03 12:58 am (UTC)Oh my god. That's the funniest damn thing I've heard in a long time.
What a character she must be.
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Date: 2003-06-03 08:37 am (UTC)Tick Tock is on the list of books waiting for reading to happen. I started Shadowfires and then forgot to take that book when I went to court thingy. Took my giant 3 books in one big hard cover book to court and started The Servants of the Twilight. Almost finished with Shadowfires and then The Servants of the Twilight is next in line to be finished. Bad habit of going to the book store and buying books when I'm not done with the last books I bought.
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Date: 2003-06-03 11:06 am (UTC)Tick tock you will like-- it's funny. The wrap up in the end is a bit too neat and easy, but that doesn't stop the enjoyment of it.
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Date: 2003-06-02 09:24 pm (UTC)Re:
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Date: 2003-06-03 12:22 am (UTC)You'll just have to be pretty convincing, I guess.
But later, when i eventualy find & read that book. ;)
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Date: 2003-06-03 07:10 pm (UTC)Now I feel all illiterate. I read "Iolokus" by Mustang Sally and RivKa T. Not technically a novel, but very long.
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Date: 2003-06-04 12:47 am (UTC)But then I'm probably missing out on a lot of valuable classic literatue, so maybe it's a draw.
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Date: 2003-06-06 12:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-06 04:49 pm (UTC)If you care to know the words are from "Word on a Wing" by David Bowie...
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Date: 2003-06-03 09:18 am (UTC)Re:
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