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#441
July 9th, 2010, 5:59 pm
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Re: Rate the last book you read
The ABC Murders - 7/10
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#442
July 9th, 2010, 10:05 pm
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Re: Rate the last book you read
The Westing Game - 10/10
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#443
July 13th, 2010, 1:47 pm
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Re: Rate the last book you read
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I loved it, but I like the movie much better,
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#444
July 15th, 2010, 7:54 am
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White Night by Jim Butcher.
 More Thomas in this one, which is always a good thing.
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#445
July 15th, 2010, 3:01 pm
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Re: Rate the last book you read
10/10 What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Different from the movie adaption in certain ways, but still good on it's own.
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#446
July 15th, 2010, 11:00 pm
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6/10 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
It's ok for the most part, but some of it is rather hard to follow at times.
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#447
July 16th, 2010, 11:17 am
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 .A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I think that book is really worth reading. 10/10
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#448
July 17th, 2010, 8:06 pm
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. Love Thomas...Loved this book as well... one of my favorites by Jim Butcher.
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#449
July 18th, 2010, 3:17 am
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The Life of Pi by Yann Martel - 6/10 - I almost gave up reading this book, but a stopped train during a tornado warning, and nothing else to reed, got me to the interesting part. It is better not to know anything about the ending, but it was one of those endings that has an impact. If they chop off the first half of the book, I would have enjoyed it a lot more.
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#450
July 20th, 2010, 7:22 am
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The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie - 9/10
Wow. That is a twist. Though having read all the stuff about how controversial and unprecedented that novel was, I was kind of prepared. I even guessed the murderer shortly before s/he was revealed. Still mightily shocking though!
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#451
July 20th, 2010, 10:08 am
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 It's not Christie's best book, IMO, but a masterpiece of sorts, anyway. The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan - 8/10 I love Mughal history and I loved this book. Mehrunnisa is such a strong, independent character set in a time when women were considered as nothing but decorative objects. Sundaresan not only captures the mood and atmosphere of the Mughal era, but also tells a beautiful story of the relationship between Emperor Jahangir and Mehrunnisa. Based on the real life legend of the love story between Jahangir and Nur Jahan, as he later called her, this is a great read for fans of Indian or historical fiction
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#452
July 20th, 2010, 11:21 pm
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#453
July 21st, 2010, 2:50 am
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Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman - 9/10
Smoke and Mirrors is a collection of short stories by Gaiman. Some of them are wonderful, some of them are disturbing, some of them are thought-provoking, some of them are impossible to understand, and some of them are all four things. I really loved it, and I would recommend it, but some of the stories were a bit (very much) too un-family-friendly for my liking. Which is why I didn't give it 10 points, and also why I doubt I will reread the whole book again. But I know I will take it out from its book shelf and read some of the stories again. I have several favourites, and one of them, called Snow, Glass, Apples, has scarred me forever. You read the stepmother's, the queen's, perspective of the story. I don't think my future children will ever hear Snow White read to them by me. Nor do I think I will ever read it the same way. I was warned, though, and Snow, Glass, Apples will be reread.
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#454
July 21st, 2010, 8:50 am
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#455
July 21st, 2010, 2:54 pm
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10/10 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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#456
July 22nd, 2010, 2:55 pm
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Re: Rate the last book you read
Finished the first book in the Martian Tales Trilogy:
7/10 The Princess of Mars
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#457
July 23rd, 2010, 7:18 pm
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The Protector (#4 O'Malley Series) by Dee Henderson
3 out of 5 stars It's a fun read. I like the characters. I love the O'Malley family. The story is very predictable, though. Read the first chapter and you know who's going to get with you and what's going to happen. The good thing is I found the mystery of the story, who the arsonist is, to be a real mystery and that's the reason for reading the book.
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#458
July 23rd, 2010, 7:43 pm
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I've read 3 of the books in the Chronicles of Narnia novel I bought 3 wks ago. Took me a bit to get used to the older English used, but so far they have all been great stories.
-Tibbetts
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#459
July 24th, 2010, 1:12 pm
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Re: Rate the last book you read
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. The book is quite emotional from begining to end. I don't remember my eyes tearing that often while reading any book, (silly, I know,
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#460
July 26th, 2010, 3:00 pm
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Re: Rate the last book you read
10/10 The Shining
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