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RobinMarie
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just finished.... 'Dive From Clausen's Pier" for a class in school....not impressed !
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Currently getting ready to wrap up Isaac Asimov's "The Gods Themselves." A fantastic book!!!
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I am just finishing up Memnoch the Devil. I'm rooting for Lestat to serve the Devil. God is one mean dude. Good book though. It challenges ideas of this whole grand scheme.
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Hi all! I'm so good glad I thought to search for this site.

I'm currently reading Dracula by Bram Stoker. I totally get how Anne Rice could have used this for a springboard.

But, OMG, Lucy~Die already!

I just finished reading Momo by Michael Ende. Very well written!
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Hope you are enjoying Dracula ... I read it many years ago & found it way more frightening than Vincent Price could ever be - never mind more recent efforts at depicting vampires (Pathetic). If you do enjoy it you might like to follow it up with The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Another absolutely marvelluous book in my humble opinion.
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Fran wrote:If you do enjoy it you might like to follow it up with The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Another absolutely marvelluous book in my humble opinion.
I loved The Historian. I can't wait for Elizabeth Kostova to write more books.
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Just finished "The Picture of Dorian Gray" - Oscar Wilde, (Brilliant!) and am now starting on "Possession" - A.S.Byatt.
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Currently reading:
Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
It Sucked and Then I Cried by Heather Armstrong
High on Arrival by Mackenzie Phillips
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Bowlie wrote:
Fran wrote:If you do enjoy it you might like to follow it up with The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Another absolutely marvelluous book in my humble opinion.
I loved The Historian. I can't wait for Elizabeth Kostova to write more books.
I have this in my bookcase waiting to be read.
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A Victorian mystery series by Anne Perry. The series with the detective William Monk.
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im reading the covenant of genisis by andy macdermott ...brilliant y the way
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Currently reading The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne (author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas) .... beautiful book, beautifully written so far
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I'm reading Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen; I've hardly made it fifty pages in, and already I'm in love. It has grabbed my attention quicker than Persuasion, or even my beloved Pride and Prejudice, did.
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I just finished Endymion by Dan Simmons.

I'm about to start, The Kite Runner for the October Book of the Month. I can't wait!
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tinyViolin
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Fran wrote:Hope you are enjoying Dracula ... I read it many years ago & found it way more frightening than Vincent Price could ever be - never mind more recent efforts at depicting vampires (Pathetic). If you do enjoy it you might like to follow it up with The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Another absolutely marvelluous book in my humble opinion.
I am enjoying it. It's freaky. I read the older tale, "The Vampyre", that preceded Stoker, and it wasn't good at all. Stoker definitely developed his material well. Freaky!

I've read the The Historian, but maybe I'm in for a re-read. I wasn't impressed by it. It seemed like Kostova was just copying a formula without adding much new. Every chapter ended like I should go "oh!" but I just went, "I think Big Love is on tonight." :oops:

Still, I agree that modern adaptions of vampires have gotten really tame, as in lame. I wasn't afraid of anyone in the Twilight series. Aro? Meh. Jasper? ...That name alone would prevent me from taking him seriously.

Dracula? OMG shut the windows!
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