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#51
08-23-2007, 06:34 PM
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
Nothing wrong with short stories. They're sometimes great and often at least as good as an author's longer works. Since most novelists start out on short stories, they're also a great introduction to a writer at a digestible pace, and give you a sense of where he's come from and where he's going. Reading through a lot of the short stories an author wrote before he was ready to write novels can give me a sense of being privy to the story of his developing skill and imagination. I think that's by far the best introduction to a novelist.
If nothing else, it lets you know whether you're likely to want to put in the energy to read his novels, or maybe even two or three of them in case the first one or two are iffy or outright duds. 
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#52
08-23-2007, 11:27 PM
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
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How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker -- Penn Jilette [/ QUOTE ] i read that one, and a couple others about cheating in poker. This one was probably the best one, although they have all seemed alittle unbelievable, this one espically, but its short and i read it in like a day and ahalf. i just finished no country for old men, it was meh to me. I read the road also and didnt like it, but people spoke so highly about no country on 2+2 so i got it. right now im reading motherless brooklyn, and the crying of lot 49, but i cant seem which one i want to commit to andfinish first.
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#53
08-24-2007, 05:07 PM
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
Vintage books have just brought out a "Vintage Twins" promotion here, where you can buy various double packs of books that supposedly complement each other. I've just bought The Brothers Grimm complete fairytales, which came with Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber".
I don't think I've ever read any of the Grimm stories before, so I'm looking forward to starting a batch of them sometime tonight. I'd never even heard of the Carter book, but from the cover it seems she's revised a bunch of fairy tales and looks like it's going to be a pretty fun read too.
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#54
08-24-2007, 05:48 PM
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
Fairy tales are fantastic, have fun. If anyone today could write anywhere near well enough to have it carried down as oral tradition for hundreds of years, the world would beat a path to his door.
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#55
08-24-2007, 05:52 PM
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
Just finished reading To Air is Human: One Man's Quest to Become the World's Greatest Air Guitarist. It was a very funny book and I recommend it for anyone looking for something fun and not too serious.
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#58
08-24-2007, 08:39 PM
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
I was just given I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak. I will be reading this shortly after Catcher in the Rye I think. Has anyone read this or heard good/bad things about it?
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#59
08-25-2007, 01:56 AM
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
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I'm reading these books at the moment: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson Ironweed by William Kennedy Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden [/ QUOTE ] Have you read William Kennedy before? I really love his book "Roscoe". I also enjoyed "Flaming Corsage" a lot. I liked Roscoe more because the theme was more interesting to me, but "Flaming Corsage" was narrated in a style I liked a lot.
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#60
08-25-2007, 02:54 AM
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Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?
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[ QUOTE ] I'm reading these books at the moment: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson Ironweed by William Kennedy Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden [/ QUOTE ] Have you read William Kennedy before? I really love his book "Roscoe". I also enjoyed "Flaming Corsage" a lot. I liked Roscoe more because the theme was more interesting to me, but "Flaming Corsage" was narrated in a style I liked a lot. [/ QUOTE ] whoa....deja vu....didn't you ask me this already a little while ago??
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