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    Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers

    the 3 M It's a pretty good book... You can really tell it was serialized novel... It roams around and branches off quite a bit... My personal favorite is Counte of Monte Cristo... It seems a bit more focussed... but I must admit I haven't read tons of Dumas...
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    Article on the Bookselling Websites

    Thanks... Thanks for the info...
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    Books you wish you'd never bought in the first place!

    Ummmm... I would have to say that the only books I truely wish I'd never bought are the ones I bring home and discover I already own... This has only happened 2 maybe 3 times.... Which is a miracle all things considered... but it mis truely irritating....
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    Mein Kampf, by Adolph Hitler, in school libraries?

    As a school librarian... I try very hard not to censor materials available to students. It is the parents' job to be aware of what their child is reading and be prepared to discuss and help them understand disturbing / confusing material... The role of the library is to present as many reading...
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    Hello all...

    ahhh Market square arena the place that is no more....
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    historical fiction recommendations

    Caleb Carr The Alientist is a really good murder mystery with a historical fiction background.... It's very well done and touches on early psychiatry, historical police corruption in late 1800"s NY and various other historical issues of that time period...
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    Hello all...

    Answers 1st QUESTION: As far a genres go I'll read just about anything if it's good and somethings which aren't so good... I've even read romance stuff... If you count Austen as romance (which some people do)... Currently I'm on a bender where I'm trying to find and read as many books as I can...
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    Hello all...

    I just discovered this site last week and I have been enjoying poking around in threads and getting new perspectives and reading ideas. I'm always on the look out for another good book (as if I didn't already have more than I can possibly read in this lifetime) and hope to get to know a few new...
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    looking for something new

    If you've not read... Lloyd Alexander's Book of Three - High King books... You've missed some classics...
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    Comic books vs. books

    Actually A large part of learning to read well is using context clues to develop meaning from confusing words, paragraphs, or situations. Pictures are an acceptable and respectable form of context clues... They are no less subtle or complicated than text, just a bit more readily digestable...
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    Esoteric Authors: Do they serve a purpose?

    Ummm I don't see you as attacking any authors or as possing an unworthy question, but I'm unsure it's an answerable one. It would be my best guess that many of these authors that some see as dificult to read, are simpley writing in a style they find useful. There have been many times when...
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    Music in literature

    Herman Hesse Hesse often involves music in his novels and does a very good job of building a sense of the emotional depth that characters feel about music...
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    Comedy books!!!

    Hello Try anything by Christopher Moore... My Favorite is "Lamb"...
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