emilia1 said:

they r really popular at work- cant keep them on the shelves

im kinda hooked on jodi picoult...so thats all i have read aside from adult type books ...but the last one i finished was salem falls and im in the middle of change of heart and hearvesting the heart

Imago said:

Tell me about this guy and his writng (this book or any others you've read). I've been kind of wanting to read some of his stuff, because he's always just sitting there at Borders, and I'm tired of standing in the book store for 2 hours every week desperately trying to find something to read at the beach. People seem to love him, but I vaguely recall when he was writing "Iron Man" for Marvel, that some people were up-in-arms because he's a big neo-con. Is that true, and if so, does it come through in his writing?

Now reading;

chocolate1 said:

uhh so did i

prb said:

i believe it. i bought the first one and half way through it i bought the 2nd halfway through that one got the 3rd..pre-ordered the last one but i'm beginning to get impatient. time isn't going fast enough!!

next on my reading list

http://www.amazon.com/Oth...12&sr=8-10

From the description...

BabyGirl said:

change of heart is great- but my favourite is still my sister's keeper

i want to read salem falls next

she is coming to tasmania on her author tour

I've been reading Bond books lately:

Thunderball
Diamonds are Forever
Octopussy/The Living Daylights

all by Ian Fleming

crazyhorse said:

Man, that movie was fucked up...but really good. Christian Bale...

chocolate1 said:

The girl I work with is reading "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" right now. She says it's good. I'm waiting for her to finish it so I can borrow it.

KidaDynamite said:

I laughed at the Dr. Seuse S-E-X one. Hey, Green Eggs and Ham is still awesome.

estelle81 said:

It was so good! I didn't want to put it down!
The movie is coming on "Lifetime" on April 12th.

chocolate1 said:

I don't have lifetime.

estelle81 said:

I wanna read this as well.....heard it was really good.

Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Cake

Confessions of a Video Vixen

Broken Utterances: A Selected Anthology of 19th Century Black Women’s Social Thought

mirrorbestfriend said:

Raze said:

I wouldn't know what his political views are, truthfully.
I would be surprised that he was a neo-con, but then again--I dont know.


Orson Scott Card's characters are always deeply conflicted and flawed. His sci-fi novels stand out from other writers in that the story is ALWAYS based on the human experience--not the sci-fi. And Ender's Game is brilliant.
The first book is a terrrific fast read, and Speaker for the Dead is an incredible followup. What's so unique is that of the four books under the Ender Series:

Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind

None of them are similar to the others. They all are different types of stories that continue the saga. Unfortunately the first two books are absolutely brilliant with the third book being pretty good, and the forth book biting off more than he could chew--the fourth book is the only one that is truly sci-fi, and deals with so many concepts at the same time that the story of the protagonist (Ender Wiggen) gets lost in the mix.

Card's characters are three dimensional, conflicted, and his style of writing is biting, deliberate, and almost surgically delivered. You really care for the characters, and you really feel the stakes of each one's decisions.

What's really wierd is that in Xenocide, one of the overreaching themes is challenging the status quo or challenging 'myth' and 'religions', and throughout the entire series there's a rebellious nature to what is happening. I guess it could be taken as a libertarian type of thing --I just never really took it that way.

The books are excellent though.

If you REALLY want to read the Ender series, you may want to read them in this order:

Enders Game
Speaker for the Dead

Then the Hegemon series (which cronical Bean's life)

Then circle back around and read xenocide and Children of the Mind (cause they really kind of end the story on a downer quality wise and by the tone of the story).


Overall I love the Ender series.

OK, I just looked him up: http://en.wikipedia.org/w...Scott_Card

Yeah, it appears that he's a mixed bag. His views on homosexuality are not stellar, nor his his views on a few other pro-Bush stances. Odd as he identifies as a Democrat.
It looks like he's his own person politically, not just taking the status quo of his party.... though I disagree with his statements primarily on homosexuality.

I'm trying desperately to read "Paradise" by Toni Morrison. It's slow goin'.

I'm just beginning

CarrieMpls said:

A girl at my job has got me wanting to read this now because it's all she talks about and she hasn't even read it yet . I might have to put this one on my list with a couple of other ones I've gotten thanks to everyone's postings.

ThreadBare said:

I know how you feel. I'm dragging through my Tupac biography, "Holler If You Hear Me". It's very good, but I'm a lazy reader and I get easily sidetracked from my reading. I have picked a favorite line out of it though.

Afeni Shakur: "I taught my kids--and you have to do what you teach them, you know--'If you shit in the middle of the street, go to the middle of the street, and stand over it and claim it. If you can't do that, don't shit in the middle of the street. Bottom line." I love that!

estelle81 said:

Morrison's writing can be a challenge. I don't like the rhythm of it. I've been re-reading passages and have been a bit frustrated with her approach during this book. She's either a genius, or she just really wanted her readers to suffer, this time.

prb said:

salem falls was pretty good...but you can kinda predict the ending halfway through the book

Imago said:

Is that any good? I've flicked through it a few times and read short bits of it in the book shop but never bought it.

Fauxie said:

It's basically updated pulp fiction with an exotic 'Thai' feel.

Of course, you're in Bangkok so I don't know how exotic it would be to you.

Imago said:

Was Burdett interviewed on NPR's "Fresh Air" about this novel recently? It sounds familiar.