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danie

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I am part way through Koontz's Frankenstein book four....and I must take a break. I may or may not get back to it.

Someone has sent me three boxes of book. One of them has quite a few by Lee Childs. I looked through and one of them is the first Jack Reacher novel, so I'm going to try it.

You know how a lot of King books have a Constant Reader note either at the front or the back? Well, this book has an Introduction. I'm sure it was added in a reprint because it sounds like it was written after the series had been published. It's rather long actually....but I'm guessing the fact that I got quite in to reading it means I may like his writing of the actual book when I finally get to it. Lol
One word for you, AnnaMarie: "shrugged." You will understand after reading the Jack Reacher book.
 

skootie

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Reading The Bad Seed by William March a book from the 1950's-why? I have only seen the movie and always wanted to read the book!
I can recall scenes from the movie vividly when I watched it as a kid on tv many, many moons ago. That little blond girl was one scary chick! Then, some time back, maybe a year or so, somebody on the thread posted about reading the book, and I made a note to check for it at the library, but never did. Glad to see you mention it again; I will definitely check the next time I'm at the library.
 

kingricefan

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I can recall scenes from the movie vividly when I watched it as a kid on tv many, many moons ago. That little blond girl was one scary chick! Then, some time back, maybe a year or so, somebody on the thread posted about reading the book, and I made a note to check for it at the library, but never did. Glad to see you mention it again; I will definitely check the next time I'm at the library.
When I was about 14 or 15, my brother, who is two years older than I, proudly boasted that this was the only book he had ever read on his own, without being forced to in school. It's not a very thick book.....;-D
 

blunthead

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Reading The Bad Seed by William March a book from the 1950's-why? I have only seen the movie and always wanted to read the book!
This is one I'd really like to read. When I was kid the movie was on TV and I remember my mom not liking a child being portrayed as evil. Apparently, I didn't inherit my love for the macabre from mom. I watched the movie a while back and found it a good thriller. I'll bet the book is really good.
 

kingricefan

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I started Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck last night. God, his writing is superb! There's lots of humor in this one. He even pokes fun at himself in the prologue, which shows a character talking to his friends about how he would have written The Grapes Of Wrath differently, by inserting chapter headings that, in a few short sentences, would tell you what the chapter was about so if it didn't interest you then you could skip over it! Too funny! ;-D
 

Walter Oobleck

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Hooptedoodle. :) Yeah, I liked Sweet Thursday...I think that line
The dirty Romans are forming up for Calvary again.
is in this story. Nope...that quote was in Winter of Our Discontent.
Sometimes I want a book to break loose with a bunch of hooptedoodle.
Elmore Leonard noted Steinbeck's use of the last word in his 10 Rules of Writing.
 

skootie

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I made a library stop today, and our local branch doesn't have "The Bad Seed". I remembered then that I HAD checked on it before, and didn't find it. However, one of the other branches in the system has a William March Omnibus book, a collection, I assume. I may have them order it in for me, but in the meantime, I checked out a couple of Wallace Stegner novels and a collection of Truman Capote stories, plus I have to finish "The Secret History". So, will put March on hold for the time being.
 

The Nameless

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I have started Wind Through The Keyhole, I'm only about 20 pages in but it's nice to get back to Roland, Eddie, Suze, Jake and Oy (the Throcken). It's like I never left, all the mid world speak like Thankie, and "Ye ken". Reading the Dark Tower books seems to feel like your being told a camp fire story (to me, anyway) and starting this one makes me feel like I've just settled down to hear another one.
 
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