Re: no....
#238236 - 01/13/06 09:17 AM
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jaime g
Reged: 07/27/05
Posts: 961
Loc: new york city
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i definitely plan to give it another shot at some point. i just wasn't in the right mood for it then.
-------------------- jaime
ibs-a (mostly d) // vegetarian
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re: Blind Assassin. I haven't picked that one up yet but it does look good. By far, Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake are my favourites of hers, both a bit similar in their dystopic outlook. However, Surfacing also really really sucked me in. It's another kind of weird one but really REALLY good.
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Re: no....
#238270 - 01/13/06 11:29 AM
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CathUK
Reged: 05/25/04
Posts: 373
Loc: Cambridge, UK
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I love Surfacing. Another one that I would really recommend is Cats Eye.
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I don't know why, but I love Ayn Rand, STILL!!! Is that tacky? I still reread THE FOUNTAINHEAD!
Kate.
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not tacky at all! i really enjoy her writing. (she's what stopped me from being a total socialist - i relized i'm too much of an elitist/meritocratist ) i just always had to skip the inevitable rant at the end.
-------------------- jaime
ibs-a (mostly d) // vegetarian
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Ah..."Love in the Time of Cholera!" I'm staring at it right now. Might have to make Marquz my bedfellow for the afternoon.
I love Isabel Allende, too--"The Stories of Eva Luna" most especially.
I completely agree re: "The Handmaid's Tale." Honestly, it has marked me for life! Speaking of Canadians, I find Robertson Davies a lot of fun.
Okay, I think I like your library!
Kate.
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Frank X. Gaspar..... (he's my brother)
-------------------- Carol
nós somos o que nós somos e o descanso é merda
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ok funny story: I got sucked into Ayn Rand WHEN I WAS 10 YEARS OLD! I know! OK, I didn't read Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged or anything as a fifth grader, just her play The Night of January 16th, which I probably read about twenty times, but since then I can't help but love her
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I was so like the Laura who let Nelly stand in the creek just so she would get leeches on her legs...serves her right for being a prissy-pus!
When Michael Landon died I felt as if I had lost my Pa!
-------------------- Have a blessed day!...Rachel
stable and sooooooo thankful!
I have IBS but it doesn't have me!
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I beat up the bullies in our neighborhood ALL the time!
-------------------- Take care,
Michelle
...the greatest of these is LOVE. (I Cor 13)
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