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06-04-2009, 05:33 PM
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton. Quite good so far, but shit, I'm a good 300 pages in and we're just barely out of "introduce all the characters" mode. I'm not complaining, because it's been very enjoyable--but I'm questioning whether he'll have enough pages left to pull off the rest of the plot...
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06-17-2009, 09:05 PM
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I can hear my ears
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wow...I was reading this at that same time and didn't notice your post! I'm on Judas Unchained (sequel) now. These books are quit a bit like the George R R Martin Series, A Song Of Ice and Fire, in that they encompass LOTS of characters and plot lines. It makes the story seem so ....BIG. I'm right at the end of the second book......1.75 hours of the audio book left.... There were a couple things that stuck in my logic filters, but I was able to get it unjammed and enjoy it. (there's a scene where someone gets stabbed, and the knife is left in the victim...and they can't figure out who did it....and no mention of fingerprinting the knife is made.......it's way in the future, and I assume we'll still have fingerprints..... but...yeah....good big long books, neat tech stuff and a few likeable characters....I picture Ozzy looking like Hendrix, btw...
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We have to go back, Kate!
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Which is why we need a bookclub!!!! *grins*
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06-27-2009, 05:01 PM
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"Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie"
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06-28-2009, 06:05 PM
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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane - Katherine Howe
Pretty good for a first novel, but there were a couple of times that I wanted to shout at the main character's stupidity, being that she's a doctoral candidate in American History and she can't figure out something blazingly simple for close to two whole chapters. Other than that, it's very cool, story jumps between Colonial and Modern(ish, set in 1991, probably because she didn't want to have cellphones) New England. Just started Glenn Beck's Common Sense Still chugging along with Raven.
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