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I have just started The Romanov Cross by Robert Masello. A US epidemiologist is asked to go to an island off the coast of Alaska once settleed by a sect devoted to the mad Russian monk, Rasputin. This sect was wiped out by the Spanish flu in 1918, but now the permafrost is melting and bodies are appearing, is the virus still viable? WHOOOHOOOO!!
Did I mention the casket that the crabbing boat pulled on board just before it crashed into the rocks surrounding the island?
This is my motto on weekends.
I am not very far into it, but so far it has been very exciting!! Lots of strange goings-on.I took the kids to the library yesterday and looked for this book. Couldn't find it and it didn't occur to me to look it up in the computer there. Looked it up when I got home and they do have a copy so want to get it next time!
I did pick up three by Karen Russell on Dana Jean's recommendation in another thread.
Watch out for the sisters!!!!Bram Stoker's Dracula!
Speedygi81, you lost me on technical wha? i only understand 0's and 1's.
Now I'm getting what HollyGolightly said about the protag of We Need To Talk About Kevin. I really, really, really hate her. This book is depressing the hell out of me--not sure I can finish.
Yes! But worse. MM, this main character is so AWFUL...I felt that way when I read The Innocent Man by John Grisham . . .
Yes! But worse. MM, this main character is so AWFUL...
I think they were Rugby players, but yeah I remember seeing the movie... what a situation to be in, yar?Wild (From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail)~ Cheryl Strayed...a memoir...on the kindle fire, about 47% complete. An okay read...and I think Oprah did something...endorse?...plugged?...gushed?...about this book for her Book Club. A boot on the "cover"...and I'm reminded of Cell...the shoe on the wrist...which reminds me of the Argentine soccer players whose plane crashed in the Andes Mountains...remember that? They ate their fellow passengers to survive? And...at one point two or three of them hiked away from the crash site, one of them wearing a small sneaker on a wrist. I wonder if King had that in mind when he wrote Cell? Or if it is just one of those coincidences?
I think they were Rugby players, but yeah I remember seeing the movie... what a situation to be in, yar?
Was it (the movie) called "Alive"?Recently, one of the channels on local television had a documentary on their ordeal...and yeah, what a situation to be in. At one point, three of them hiked to the east and as they climbed a mountain, one of them spotted a sliver of highway in the opposite direction. There was some hotel in that direction, 18 miles away...although if the clip of the hotel they showed is any indication, not much help there. Looked like the proverbial haunted hotel. An avalanche buried the portion of fuselage they were using as shelter. I've seen a movie about their ordeal, as well.