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JodyAnthony

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Favorite books of the past year
« on: 25 Apr 2006, 14:08 »
Anyone? Mine has to be King Dork by Frank Portman, aka Dr. Frank, of the Mr. T Experience.

although it might just be because MTX is the best band ever.

discuss.
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KB_Hurr_Hurr

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« Reply #1 on: 19 Sep 2006, 11:07 »
do you mean ones that have come out in the past year??? if so then i'd have to say Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich....
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« Reply #2 on: 19 Sep 2006, 14:09 »
I've only read two or three new books this year, most of them train/bus reading.

That said 'Barbarians' by Terry Jones and Alan Ereira.
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« Reply #3 on: 19 Sep 2006, 15:10 »
Please Don't Come Back From The Moon, by Dean Bakopoulos.

Set in a small town in America, where one day all the fathers get up and leave (supposedly for the moon) without explanation. It's sort of a coming of age story that focuses on this kid Mikey as he goes from being a teenager to an adult with a family and such. The book conveys a great sense of longing and uncertainty, of struggling for identity and such.

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« Reply #4 on: 20 Sep 2006, 08:15 »
In the last year I haven't read as much.  "Smilla's Sense of Snow" was good if you like mystery novels.  I've been burning through the Ian Fleming Bond Books but they are no great fiction but rather good novella. "Unbearable lightness of Being" rubbed me the right way.  "Krakatoa" was a dud.

but I'd say that my favorite book from the last year has been "From Russia with Love."  The characters made mistakes had doubts and insecurities.  There were lasting consequences and regrets. It struck me.
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« Reply #5 on: 20 Sep 2006, 08:21 »
"Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea"
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« Reply #6 on: 20 Sep 2006, 09:22 »
I read Memoirs of a Geisha this year and absolutely loved it...then I watched the movie and got three hundred different kinds of angry...also really liked Unbearable Lightness Of Being and House of Leaves.  I know none of those were published this year, but that's when I finally got around to reading them, so I'm posting them in this thread.  HMPH!
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« Reply #7 on: 20 Sep 2006, 10:08 »
memoirs was a great book and a horrendous movie. they butchered it and it lost the beauty that was in the book. and they had chinese actors playing japanese people, which is almost wrong.

i think the only new book i read was the last book in sara douglass's Wayfarer Redemption trilogy, but technically that came out in australia in '99. way to take 7 years america!
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