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#807762 - 05/14/08 03:50 PM
Whatcha Readin'?
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past tense
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Registered: 03/05/03
Posts: 29608
Loc: Houston, TX
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I put aside "The Periodic Table" by Primo Levi (a little heavy for summer reading) to pick up "The Northern Lights" by Lucy Jago. It's the story of Kristian Birkeland, a physicist who studied the lights at the turn of the century and it's really good. Very readable for the layman - reads like an adventure tale.
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#807771 - 05/14/08 03:59 PM
Re: Whatcha Readin'?
[Re: Z Genius Lusifer]
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NYTwinsFan
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Registered: 03/27/08
Posts: 1405
Loc: Valiente Corazones Fantasma
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I Will Fear No Evil Robert Heinlein
The title is taken from Psalm 23:4. Ancient billionaire Johann Sebastian Bach Smith is dying, and wants to have his brain transplanted into a new body.
[edit] Plot summary
Smith advertises an offer of a million dollars for the donation of a body from a brain-dead patient. Coincidentally, his beautiful young female secretary, Eunice Branca, is murdered, so her body is used, since Smith never thought to place any restriction on the sex of the donor. He is rechristened Joan Eunice Smith.
For reasons never made clear, Eunice's personality continues to co-inhabit the body. (Whether Eunice's personality is real or a figment of Johann's imagination is addressed but never fully resolved in the novel.) Joan and Eunice agree never to reveal her continued existence, fearing that they would be judged insane and locked up. The two of them speculate that it may have something to do with the supposed ability of animals to remember things using RNA rather than the nervous system. (At the time the book was published, biologist J.V. McConnell had done a series of experiments in which he taught a behavior to flatworms, ground them up, and fed them to other flatworms, which supposedly exhibited the same behavior. McConnell's experiments were later discredited, but they were used in science fiction by several authors, including Heinlein, Larry Niven, and Dean Koontz.) However, Joan and Eunice decide that this possible explanation is irrelevant, and near the end of the book, a third personality, that of Joan's new husband, joins them by means that can only be explained via religion or mysticism, not science.
Edited by NYTwinsFan (05/14/08 04:00 PM)
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#807777 - 05/14/08 04:11 PM
Re: Whatcha Readin'?
[Re: AnneSmile]
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Registered: 03/05/03
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I liked Wicked, although it took me until about halfway through to really get invested. I've never read any of his other stuff but I have a few friends who love them.
Next: "Into the Wild".
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#807793 - 05/14/08 04:35 PM
Re: Whatcha Readin'?
[Re: AnneSmile]
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Registered: 03/05/03
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Yes, it's the book the movie was based on. I haven't seen the movie in its entirety. I always try to read the book first.
I think Sean Penn screened that movie in Fairbanks - but I think it was before I moved there.
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#808140 - 05/15/08 03:26 AM
Re: Whatcha Readin'?
[Re: nymmamma]
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Registered: 03/05/03
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Loc: Houston, TX
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I'm a big Patterson fan. Kellerman's Alex Delaware novels are my favorite "airplane reading".
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#808335 - 05/15/08 11:33 AM
Re: Whatcha Readin'?
[Re: countrygirl]
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Tiger Lily
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Registered: 07/01/04
Posts: 4411
Loc: lost
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I just finished, last nite in fact, a book by Chuck Negron from Three Dog Night. Remember them? It's called Three Dog Nighmare and that is what it is. He was so rich and had it all and blew it all on herion. He ended up losing it all and sleeping in the streets. Well, I won't tell you any more in case you want to read it. I also go the library and I got another one by Stephen King, his newest called Duma Key. I will probably start that one today later.
Thanks for starting this thread PT, I love to read too.
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#808411 - 05/15/08 02:25 PM
Re: Whatcha Readin'?
[Re: Tiger Lily]
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Registered: 03/05/03
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Loc: Houston, TX
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Two of our first stops in Anchorage were the Muni and the UAA libraries. It's a must-read summer! I've pledged to stop buying so many books, especially until we're done moving. Most of my summer reading will start veering toward Alaska Native history when my internship starts but I'm hoping to knock out a few other books I've had lying around but haven't had time to read.
Ellie - I love that you're doing Dickens! A Tale of Two Cities is one of my favorite books ever. I like to pick up the classics myself - it's important to read them I think. I did Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde last Christmas. I'll have to pick another to add to my summer list. Plenty of daylight to read by now!
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#808457 - 05/15/08 04:41 PM
Re: Whatcha Readin'?
[Re: Bing Bong]
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LionQueen
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Registered: 12/13/05
Posts: 139
Loc: The Woods
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Readiing
Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals about Abraham Lincoln
Just finished
James Patterson's Cross and Double Cross
and
Cormac McCarthy's The Road
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