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Post by BorderWolf on May 10, 2009 10:44:53 GMT -5
Dragons Luck by Robert Asprin It is the second book of this new seris. Griffin McCandles after finding out that he is a dragon (while looking human) is learning to take over for an older dragon that runs several gambling houses down in New Orleans. The ghost of a voodoo priestess has asked him to sit in on a convention of 'magical' beings, to moderate talks and debates. Someone wants the convention to fail, and make Griffin look bad. Meanwhile Griffin's siseter Valerie (also a dragon that looks human) is tring to figure out whay another dragon is tring to kill her. From what the dragon claims, she wants to get rid of the 'play toy' (in other words Valerie) of her brother. All the while the assassian (who is named George) from the first book who failed at killing Griffin is hanging around for an over due vacation. What did you think of it? It was very good. The first book: DRAGONS WILD, is also good and funny. But it is a pity that Robert Asprin past away last year. So DRAGONS LUCK and MYTH-FORTUNES (cowritten with Jody Lynn Nye) are the last two books he wrote.  |
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Post by Pickle on May 22, 2009 15:12:26 GMT -5
If we read a book of short stories...how do we rate those?
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Post by May on Jun 4, 2009 20:18:56 GMT -5
Hm, I just finished My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. Very sad, but good. It's about a girl who was born to donate organs, bone marrow, etc. to her sister, who has a type of cancer. And she decides to sue her parents for the right to make her own decisions about her body. It was really interesting and completely unpredictable. I loved it.
And, sadly, I missed the whole Harry Potter craze when I was what, eleven? So now I'm reading them, and I'm on the second one. I have a feeling I've read the first couple before, but I'm still reading them. Very well-written, I like them a lot.
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Post by Butterscotch on Jun 5, 2009 8:16:56 GMT -5
If we read a book of short stories...how do we rate those? However you want. Me, I'd probably rate the overall impression and maybe pick out a few stories I especially liked (or disliked). The last book I read was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. I've read it before, several times actually. It's such a fun book! True, there are some parts where you can't help but cringe at the racist dialouge, but overall, it's just a fun, innocent story about a boy who has an overactive imagination, and has some fun adventures. A true classic. |
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Post by tootsieroll on Jun 5, 2009 22:09:26 GMT -5
The Last book I read was Bloomability
A ve5ry nice book. it's about a girl who was "kidnapped" (not exactly) and brought to Ticino. There she tries to fit in but just can't get the language. Later on she finds a bunch of friends and happy happy!!! (not much of review right?)
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Post by Pickle on Jun 6, 2009 17:22:58 GMT -5
Winter Study:
By: Nevada Barr
Basiclly, a winter study is being done in a wolf reserve, and with the discovering of wog (mix breed of a wolf and a dog, which tend to be more agressive and less wary of humans), but leads to more of a case of cabin fever and death. It heaviy deals with people in tight quaters as well as some of the differences between society, the bad side of nature, and men and women. A thriller. Interesting. Not for the weak of heart, though.
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Post by Butterscotch on Jul 25, 2009 19:29:26 GMT -5
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy,
It's about two young Irish women, Benny and Eve,who have been best friends since childhood. Benny's father is a tailor and hopes that Benny will one day marry his young assistant. Eve was raised by nuns after her parents died when she was little. Her mother's parents are wealthy, but Eve wants little to do with them.
When they go to college they meet several new people. Nan is a young woman from a working class background who is determined to climb up the social ladder. Jack is a handsome doctor's son.
The book is really good; the twists and turns can feel a bit soap opera-ish at times, but at the same time, it still has the feeling of something that could really happen.
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Post by Anime Fangirl on Aug 1, 2009 18:26:52 GMT -5
Princess Resurrection book 6
Hime and the others, after just surviving a zombie invasion, have gotten the blame (it was really Hime's brother). So they're in prison (in the demon world, there is no detention center for if you haven't been put on trial - you go to jail until then). Then at the trial, Hime suggests that she and her brother have a duel and the winner will be considered innocent, because they have no proof against/for either of them.
Hiro and Hime's little sister, along with a couple of androids, Reiri, and a normal boy from Hiro's class, go looking for a new monster that they have heard about - as a royal, it is Hime's sister's job to help with classification of new and rare monsters. They find it and it attacks them... It's about the size of the house and it has 2 heads. There are also about 5 of them. Fortunately, an even bigger one comes and saves them. They decide somebody else can classify them.
Riza gets "bitten" by a copy plant, and suddenly there are hundreds of half-werewolf girls exactly like her outside Hime's house... and they're all attacking it. They all think they're the original Riza. There's also a second Hime, and she and Hime are trying to figure out who is the real one while the rest of them are fighting. Hime and Copy!Hime decide who they think is the copy, and she comes out to help fight.
I can't believe the cliffhanger it was left at, and the next book doesn't come out in the US until November! DX
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Post by Rozewater on Aug 5, 2009 2:54:28 GMT -5
The Valley of Horses: by Jean M. Auel
The sequel to Clan of the Cave Bear, a classic in itself. It picks up after the ending of its parent book. A young girl named Ayla is left alone in the wilderness to fend for herself after her the clan that adopted her as a lost child deserts her. Its based in the Ice Age and a VERY interesting read. It explores what might have happened with early humans - back when homo sapiens branched out from their more primitive "cave man" cousins. The more advanced humans look down at their cousin species like they're animals, although the two aren't so much different in other than looks.
In the book before, a human girl named Ayla is adopted by a tribe of "cave men" (for lack of a better word - I can't remember the scientific name) at five after she was orphaned. She grew to love her new "family" although some members of the tribe disliked and feared her for her obvious differences from the rest of them - one of them being her intelligence. But by the end of the book, Ayla is in her teens and is exiled from the rest of the clan. Her adoptive clan mother had always told her to one day go out and find "her own kind", so that's exactly what she plans on doing.
Ayla ends up getting lost though and finds a home in an valley empty of anything other than a small herd of horses. The horses are her only companions, and you end up exploring all that crazy mind-game stuff that comes with being isolated from any human contact for a long period of time. She nearly goes insane, but that's until she find another human boy that was mortally wounded in her valley. She heals him to health and the two end up falling in love. All I have to say is that it is a beautiful book that you ought to pick up sometime soon. :)
REALLY LONG POST!! ...Sorry. ^^;
Although I'd recommend reading the first book first - it'd make more sense then.
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Post by Butterscotch on Aug 5, 2009 7:14:28 GMT -5
I really like the first few books in the Earth's Children series, especially Clan of the Cave Bear. The series starts to go downhill about mid-way through the third book though.
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Post by Rozewater on Aug 5, 2009 13:33:15 GMT -5
I really like the first few books in the Earth's Children series, especially Clan of the Cave Bear. The series starts to go downhill about mid-way through the third book though. Oh, boo... I was really looking forward to the rest! That sucks. D: |
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Post by Butterscotch on Aug 5, 2009 15:04:11 GMT -5
They're still worth reading; even though I'm not as big a fan as I was, I still intend to follow the series to its conclusion. The last two books aren't bad, just not as good as the first three.
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Post by Zero on Aug 5, 2009 18:49:49 GMT -5
The Orc King
By R.A. Salvatore
Continuing the long multi series Drizzit Legacy, the legendary drow is now many years into the future, helping creatures he once slayed and hunted, the orcs, from highwaymen and bigots. As an elf tribe comes and looks over the situation, Drizzit begins to remember about the past, and just how much has changed since the ill fated battle against the army of Orc King Obould and his hundreds of thousands of orcs and alliances with both Frost Giants, Trolls, four drow, and goblins.
This has to be one of the longest book series I've ever read. Over twenty books and still going strong. Even his son has written a book with Drizzit in it (with his fathers help and permission of course), It's beautifully done, with betrayl, fear, anticipation, lust, love, loss, finding anew, starting over, dying, everything a novel could ever need. Magic, weapons, races and regions abound, this series will not dissapoint readers new or old.
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Post by Butterscotch on Aug 6, 2009 17:56:00 GMT -5
Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
Wizard and Glass is the fourth book in King's Dark Tower series. It picks up where the third book left off, although most of W&G is actually a flashback to Roland's youth, and the doomed tale of his first love.
Roland and his friends, Cuthbert and Alain, are sent to the Barony of Mejis, to keep them out of the way of The Good Man, John Farson. But they soon discover that something is wrong, and uncover a treasonous secret.
The book is really good, though some parts fall flat, particularly the romance of Susan and Roland. They fall in love too quickly. I'm not sure if this is an actual failing on King's part or a deliberate deconstruction of the doomed lovers story. This is also the book where it becomes obvious that many of King's other books are part of the Dark Tower series. There are many references to The Stand.
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Post by BorderWolf on Aug 9, 2009 12:23:01 GMT -5
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
It's about a convictby the name of Shadow, who nearing the end of his 3rd year of the 6 he is suppost to servre, finds out the he will be released early for being a model of good standing to be let back into society. But 2 days before his release date, he finds out that he will be released later that day. The reason is that his wife was killed in a traffic accident. One of the guards who was friendly told Shadow that it was kind of a bad "good new\bad news" joke. After his release and on his way to the funeral aboard an airplane, a man sitting next to him introduces himself as Mr. Wednesday. Somehow Mr. Wednesday knows a lot about Shadow then it is possible. He asks Shadow to work for him. Shadow is reluctant, but after reading that a friend of his who was going to give him his old job back has also died, goes to work for Mr. Wednesday. The job was to be a bodyguard, but Shadow learns the truth who Mr. Wednesday is. It turns out that Mr. Wednesday is the god Odin, and there is a storm brewing of the new gods againts the old gods. Odin is tring to recruit all of the other old gods that are living in America. The new gods want the old gods to be removed, or as the god that is somewhat known as the Internet puts it "delete the old gods". As Odin and Shadow travel around America they find several of the old gods of various cultures. In the end Shadow finds somethings about himself, and manages to make both the new and old gods see that they all can live peacefully in America.
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