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Post by ragincajun on Feb 26, 2009 11:18:59 GMT -5
anyone read Entertaining Mr. Stone, which was written by a VDO Fan who wrote it with the mannerism of Bobby Goren but it contains a lot of sex. Not to infringe on the character she writes him as an executive with a hmmm healthy appitite.
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Post by jeffan on Mar 9, 2009 15:28:35 GMT -5
I have just finished reading L'Etranger (The Outsider) by Albert Camus. This book has been described as one of the greatest pieces of twentieth century literature. I now aim to read his other two works in the cycle. His quest to answer the question, "how do we live in an absurd world without being absurd ouselves", I find fascinating. He was a forerunner of the French Existentialist Movement and Satre paid tribute to him in his obituary notice when Camus was killed in a car accident in 1960.
Has anyone read any of the outstanding works of this philosopher?
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Post by deathroe on Mar 9, 2009 19:21:24 GMT -5
I read L'etranger in high school French and remember finding it extremely vivid, especially in the way it shows alienation. Some of the CI villains may be similarly alienated, although none of their crimes are as irrational.
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Post by romulanavatra3 on Mar 12, 2009 13:10:03 GMT -5
anybody read any geroge orwell. animall farm was great very grim and relevent to today i would think. Henry feilding(the judge and the person who started the bow street runners) is also intresting( read tom jones once intresting use of narrator). read some Dickens over the years some better than others. also read Conrads heart of darkness really grim( and very revalling). i have read some Robert Louis Stevenson, dr Jekyal and mr Hyde being one of the most intresting. Kidnapped was also intresting. To Kill a Mocking Bird and Midgnight in the Garden of Good and Evil are worth reading.
i would like some sugestions on historical novels worth reading. any one read war and peace or any other russian works.
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Post by jeffan on Mar 12, 2009 13:48:29 GMT -5
Hi Rom
I would recommend Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. A wonderful, comic little book in which the author transports you on his journey with him and his stubborn donkey called Modestine. So good, I remember the name of the donkey!
Fydor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. My introduction to this author. This is a multi-layered, intense story of a young man's crime and his ultimate redemption. A real page turner.
One day I hope to have time to read more Dostoyevsky starting with the Brothers Karamazov.
Jeffan
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Post by ragincajun on Mar 12, 2009 14:23:29 GMT -5
Guess I have been bad, read one of Shayla Black's Books now I am hooked, but my hubby isn't complaining, lol.
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Post by romulanavatra3 on Mar 14, 2009 4:55:15 GMT -5
jeffan thanks for the suggestions, i will probabbly read crime and punishment soon.
regards Rom
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Post by aintnocrime on Jun 1, 2009 19:08:14 GMT -5
I recommend "Old City Hall," a Toronto-based police procedural by Robert Rotenberg. You sort of need a scorecard to keep up with all of the characters, but Det. Goren fans might be particularly interested in homicide detective Ari Greene, who rang a bell with me. He has a lot of charm and intelligence and, well, the other stuff that makes Bobby so endearing.
Here is how he is described when the (female) defense attorney first lays eyes on him: "Just as she reached for a napkin, a tall man wearing a beautifully tailored suit, a well-pressed shirt, and gleaming black loafers approached her table. He was handsome in a rugged kind of way." Later on in the chapter he asks if she has any questions so far, and she says to herself, "How about another cup of coffee? How do you get your shoes to be so shiny?" etc. etc. Yet another woman knocked out by Gorenesque charisma.
In addition to Ari Greene and playing the "name the similarity" game, the book is very well-written and pulls you in from the get-go. I hope the author makes it a series.
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Post by bermuda on Jun 4, 2009 19:44:28 GMT -5
anybody read any geroge orwell. animall farm was great very grim and relevent to today i would think. Henry feilding(the judge and the person who started the bow street runners) is also intresting( read tom jones once intresting use of narrator). read some Dickens over the years some better than others. also read Conrads heart of darkness really grim( and very revalling). i have read some Robert Louis Stevenson, dr Jekyal and mr Hyde being one of the most intresting. Kidnapped was also intresting. To Kill a Mocking Bird and Midgnight in the Garden of Good and Evil are worth reading. i would like some sugestions on historical novels worth reading. any one read war and peace or any other russian works. I have read "War and Peace" like stated above, very layered and intense. Doctor Zhivago-interesting viewpoints regarding Russian history (Civil War, etc) for what it's worth. Historical novels or autobiographies? If you want to go historical fiction route, re: Tudor era, Phillipa Gregory ( I don't think much of her writing because she claims to be a historian and she has a degree in English Lit and her knowledge is stunted, imo), Susannah Dunn, Jean Plaidy. Historical non-fiction regarding that period-David Starkey, even though he has underminded women in a recent interview, stating that H8's 6 wives were mere armchairs ( I took great offense). He does do his homework with the highly anticipated "The Virtuous Prince." I've just currently re-read Madame Bovary, Hamlet (one of my favorite's from Shakespeare), The Great Gatsby and a new fictional piece written by Charlaine Harris, Dead and Gone. The most latter book series is based loosely on Alan Ball's series, True Blood. I tend to return to the classics again and again. I did read several fictional books last year, Beautiful Children-chilling, The Informers-eh imho and some others that escape me currently. I read a lot-one of my main hobbies.
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Post by Leonore on Jun 10, 2009 14:17:03 GMT -5
Charlaine Harris has written several series. The HBO series True Blood is based on her vampire books. I liked her Aurora Teagarden mysteries and her Shakespeare series featuring an interesting character, Lily Bard.
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Post by heikimikey on Jun 16, 2009 12:05:26 GMT -5
The first thing I thought when I started watching "Criminial Intent" was that Det. Goren reminded me of my favourite character in the Terry-Pratchett-Books about the Discworld: a Copper in the streets of Ankh-Morpork (which is New York, probably.....) called Sam Vimes. Thus, I can only recommend to read "Guards! Guards!" and "Men at arms" - generally all the Discworld-Books written about the Night Watch. Satire on a high level and the parallels between Sam Vimes and Bobby Goren alone are worth it....
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Post by alliehalliwell on Oct 22, 2009 18:29:59 GMT -5
There are some books that you seem to need to hit at the right age. I waited too long to read DRACULA, but was glad I waited until my mid-20s to read CATCHER IN THE RYE. I think that if I'd read that when I was in my teens I'd gone looney. (I was pretty looney to begin with.) Patcat I read Catcher in the Rye when I just turned 19 and loved it. I wasn't a fan of Dracula, for some reason I found it boring. I recommend: 'The Baby Trail' by Sinead Moriarty (SO funny! I don't see men liking this though...but it was really funny. 3 people borrowed it from me and loved it too). 'The Stand' by Stephen King 'The Cider House Rules' by John Irving 'Along Came a Spider' by James Patterson 'Pay it Forward' by Catherine Ryan Hyde - children/teen book - (LOVED this book. I was blubbering and crying at the end but it was great and MUCH better than the movie - which I hated). 'The Princess and the Goblin' by George Maconald - children's book - (LOVED IT! It was published in 1872. I love this book so much. My dad bought it for me when I was 8. The one I have has two books combined. The Princess and the Goblin then The Princess and the Curdie which was the continuation. I didn't like the second book 'cause it had - in my opinion - a bad ending). It's supposed to technically be a fairy tale but its just a fun read.
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Post by DonnaJo on Oct 22, 2009 19:19:02 GMT -5
Adore "The Stand" by Stephen King. Have read it several times.
For anyone's whose never read "Gone With The Wind," please do....it still stands the test of time. Such a well-written epic novel.
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Post by NikkiGreen on Nov 4, 2009 15:14:51 GMT -5
Anything and everything by Betty Neels, if you want nice, clean (the operative word being clean), light romantic tales that are great for just relaxing and de-stressing the brain. Harlequin has been re-releasing 4 Best of BN every 3 months. The next 4 come out next week.
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Post by idget on Nov 5, 2009 2:42:58 GMT -5
I love the Richard Jury mysteries by Martha Grimes. They are contemporary British mysteries. Each one is named after a pub that usually figures prominently in the story. My favorite character is Melrose Plant an aristocrat who has given up his titles voluntarily and usually helps Richard out with his cases.
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