Tag: books
member name: N. L. D.
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January 24, 2009 10:43 AM EST --
Well, if you are here is a great Poe site. Quite a few of his poems and stories are in e-book form, so you can click on the link, print them out and read them later. Or just bookmark the . . .
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October 22, 2009 06:00 PM EDT --
I really enjoy reading and if I can get the books online for free, instead of being on a waiting list at the library, I am pretty excited. Here is a link to some free books including The GodFather . . .
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February 04, 2009 07:04 PM EST --
I recently recently reread this book after 25 years which, again, proved to be an intense experience. Mailer carefully details the events leading to and following the murders committed by Gary Gilmore. . . .
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November 03, 2009 09:50 AM EST --
I learned about this book in an interview on National Public Radio. The Collyer brothers were very bright, well-mannered, and gifted eccentrics who gained national attention in the 1930s for their extraordinary . . .
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September 27, 2008 10:25 AM EDT --
I'm sure you've seen the advertisements where famous celebrities sit next to a stack of books they haven't read and tell you to read more. While I agree with the message, the posters take . . .
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September 20, 2009 09:37 AM EDT --
Survival for the sake of surviving. What is the point? I really find myself asking this question after reading this book.
Let me preface by saying that this book is not for the faint of heart. There . . .
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January 14, 2009 07:39 PM EST --
I am a true fan of horror fiction and especially vampires novels. But I have to say the Twilight series is extremely way too childish for me. Here is a great link to The Vampire Library. . . .
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September 25, 2008 07:02 PM EDT --
Kathleen Kent's debut novel is an intimate look at the Salem witch trials through the eyes of a child, 10 year-old Sarah Carrier, whose mother has been convicted of being a witch. In the Heretic's . . .
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September 25, 2008 07:12 PM EDT --
In this book, the first part of his Riverworld series, Farmer introduces what is one of the most ambitious concepts in Science fiction. All of mankind who live to adulthood find themselves . . .
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September 28, 2008 10:42 AM EDT --
In her tweeds and sensible shoes, Miss Jane Marple of the quaint village of St. Mary Mead initially seems to be like any other elderly British Spinster-the type of sweet old lady who lives for . . .
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October 22, 2009 05:26 PM EDT --
Here is a link to the 10 most disturbing books of all time.
Click Here:
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/35172946.html?page=1#comments
What do you think? Have you . . .
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January 24, 2009 10:51 AM EST --
Does reading Death of a Salesman make you feel as depressed as Willy Loman? Willy has lost at trying to live the American Dream and the play can be viewed as commentary about our society. Willy . . .
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February 05, 2009 09:52 AM EST --
A fantasy which won the Booker Prize in 2002, Life of Pi tells the magical story of a young Indian, who finds himself shipwrecked and lost at sea in a large lifeboat. His companions are four wild . . .
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September 24, 2009 06:37 PM EDT --
If there’s one thing that geeks have a plentiful supply of, it’s books. We just revel in them, whether it is a software manual, a science-fiction novel or the latest comic book.
But as . . .
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November 03, 2009 10:17 AM EST --
Nine-year-old Sarah Carrier has moved with her family from Billerica to Andover, Massachusetts. She travels with her parents, three older brothers and baby sister bringing smallpox to the small and devout . . .
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November 03, 2009 10:30 AM EST --
Pearl and younger sister May enjoy a carefree life of relative wealth and privilege in Shanghai in the 1930s. As what is known as “beautiful girls,” the sisters model for painters who create . . .
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September 28, 2008 10:22 AM EDT --
One of the great delights of the literary arts is their ability to give form to dreams and fantasies. There is no limit to a writer's imagination, and a skillful writer can make the strangest . . .
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October 08, 2008 07:29 PM EDT --
The Story of Lucy Gault has the same sense of historical sweep as many of Trevor's other novels and short stories about the protestant Anglo-Irish landowner class in Ireland. It is set at . . .
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January 18, 2009 11:14 AM EST --
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo is an amazing book with love, death, war and politics. All the contents of a great book. Jean Valjean is a thief and crook at the beginning of the book but throughout the . . .
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January 24, 2009 10:33 AM EST --
An exhilarating horror novel by Stephen King called Dreamcatcher caught my attention from the very beginning. Henry, Pete, Jonesy, and Beaver were friends since their early childhood. Together they . . .
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