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[Poll #141149]

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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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, Ender's Game was good.

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.

[dragolyn.livejournal.com]

Oddly... I also read Ender's Game while in the San Juans. Did you like them? I go like once a month, not too far from here.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

My family and another two families from our sailing club had trailered sailboats up to um... what's that town? Burlington? Some B- word. We launched from there and spent two weeks, in August. It was a beuatiful place. And thankfully, it only rained on the day before we arrived and started again the hour we were leaving. I swear, we got the summer's two weeks of perfect weather.

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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[dragolyn.livejournal.com]

:D I'm so glad you liked it there- my favorite place, really.

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

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

BELLINGHAM! that's it. Ha.

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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[dragolyn.livejournal.com]

ROTFL

Oh my god. That's the funniest damn thing I've heard in a long time.

What a character she must be.

[crossouttheeyes.livejournal.com]

EG was on the list of required summer reading between 8th grade and 9th grade. You had to read two books from the list. I only put EG down to eat and sleep.

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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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I haven't read those. I've read... hm.... Lightning, Tick Tock, Watchers, and this other one about a woman and her son being chased by a fanatic cult.

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.