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04-18-2008, 05:43 PM
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Im still reading the Dragonlance series...I know I know...but it sucked me in further when the MCs you grow to love have kids and they all end up adventuring together 
Noticed something though, and its something I've been wanting to mention but it probably doesn't deserve its own thread.
Mostly in like...the last 5 books, I've noticed alot of typos. Like...big, bad ones. Like the wrong character saying the wrong thing O.o
Is this common when the author already has a ton of books published? Do editors tend to look over those things accidently - more easily? It was strange
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Warning: Contains mass amounts of cheese.
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04-18-2008, 07:49 PM
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I am reading more Stephen King crap that I keep finding in the bathroom.
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04-18-2008, 07:51 PM
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Double post....site is going really slow for me....
Last edited by Battlemage : 04-18-2008 at 07:52 PM.
Reason: Dubbed my post.
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04-18-2008, 08:26 PM
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I recently finished rereading a Lewis Grizzard novel - he is still the best. Currently, I am reading the newest Jodi Piccoult. All of her books are good. Like yad4u, The Stand by Stephen King is one of my all time favorites, no matter how many times I read it.
The measure of a good book, movie, whatever? Makes me want to be there. Remember Northern Exposure? I wanted to live in Cicely. Harry Potter - I wanted to go to Hogwarts. The Stand - I want a shot a reforming society from the ground up. Awesome plot that you can take in any direction you want.
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just another day in paradise
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04-19-2008, 07:41 PM
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Just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez (see my post in this forum). Just stared the Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. It's the first Philip Marlowe book. So far, I'm digging it. Kind of like finding Robert Johnson after you've been listing to Clapton and the Stones for years.
jellyfish, The Stand is on my all-time top ten. It is one of the few books I've read more than once.
TJ
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04-20-2008, 10:11 AM
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For the first time ever I stop reading a book I wasn't getting into - getting impatient in my old age lol. will go back to it later though, just in case it gets better (Great Expectations)
Now I'm on Phillipa Gregory Wideacre
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04-20-2008, 12:12 PM
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I'm reading the Quicksilver trilogy by Stan Nicholls.
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04-20-2008, 09:46 PM
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I only read Danielle Steele, she's the best. I stopped reading everything else...why bother??
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04-21-2008, 05:43 PM
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I am currently reading The Scar by China Mieville. I finished one of his other books, Perdido Street Station, just days ago.
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04-22-2008, 02:00 PM
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Just finished reading Cabal by Clive Barker (absolutely brilliant, I strongly recomend it) aqnd now I'm reading Rebel Fay by Barb & J.C. Hendee (also awesome ^.^)
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04-22-2008, 02:45 PM
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Finishing up Against the Tide by John Ringo. Picked up East of the Sun, West of the Moon a few days ago, so I'll probably delve into that as soon as I sit Against the Tide on the table, lol.
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04-23-2008, 06:12 AM
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Yesterday I started The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion by Ford Madox Ford
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04-25-2008, 12:38 AM
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Wit'ch Fire by James Clemens
The Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
And I finished 13 reasons why in b&n..oops
also a manga, though I'm not sure if that counts as straight-out reading..
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04-25-2008, 08:47 AM
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I'm currently reading The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield.
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04-29-2008, 05:13 AM
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My goal is to finish all of the books I have not yet read that are in my current apartment before I move out at the end of the summer.
So I just knocked off a YA book I've had for a while called Tell it To Naomi. Not so good, but I'm glad I finally read it.
And I'm re-reading Bruce Coville's The Unicorn Chronicles.
The third in the series is coming out this summer (14 years after the first one!) and I want to be caught up, haha. Dont know why he took so damn long to write the third (the second was 5 years after the first in 1999, now this one is 9! years later...), especially since all his original readers are adults now.
Oh well.
Racheal
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I have about 200 books in my apartment that are mine, roughly 50 of which I have not yet read... it's going to be a good summer!
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