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Jurassic Park - the park is created and then things go bad

I have read several of Armstrong's books, but not this one yet. In The History of God, she covers some of the same ground. I just finished a biography of Turgenev by V. S. Pritchett. He puts more emphasis on the work than the life, devoting many pages to describing each book, its plot...

Amazon U.S. has copies on both paperback and hard cover - used, but I find their used-book service to be reliable. Price start at $1.49 plus shipping.

Has anyone read any of these? Opinions?

Three very long ones: Middlemarch by George Eliot Bleak House by Charles Dickens War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Each will create a place and a time and a set of characters you won't want to leave.

No matter where I focus she continues to turn clockwise. I guess it's all over for me, mentally at least.

Madame Bovary? Having just finished our Book of the Month, Madame Bovary, I am pleased to compare Emma Bovary and Scarlett O'Hara. Both are young, beautiful, romantic. Both pursue their dreams resolutely and do not count the cost to others. Both were good at denial. Emma just borrowed more...

This entire analysis fits with my reaction to the book. Emma doesn't really have it so bad, but her life does not accord with her nature or her dreams. All of the women are trapped - so are the men, mostly - but they don't fight against it. I was also struck, especially in the Epilogue, by...

Two books that I have enjoyed very much are both by Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals, about Lincoln and his cabinet. No Ordinary Time, the Roosevelts in the White House during WWII Also, Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough, about the young Teddy Roosevelt

Thank you, Libra, for your scholarly review (only partly quoted here) of this word. I had understood the word to mean a sincere expression of regret for one's actions. Thus, I was irritated when some battered celebrity offered one of those non-apologies - "I am sorry if anyone was offended". The...

Congratulate me. I've finished Part 2. If Emma lived today, she would probably be on medication, although maybe not any happier for it. I have seen interpretations of Emma as a failed romantic, but also as a woman trapped in a constricted environment. I picked up on her emotional nature, who...

I like your list. You might add: Orwell, Animal Farm Skinner, Walden Two Howells, A Visitor from Altruria Wylie, When World's Collide LeGuin, The Dispossessed

I liked the movie, but read the book first.

I read Madame Bovary probably 40 years ago (at the age of three?) so I was happy when it became our Book of the Month and I would need to reread it. I am not finding it particularly difficult to get into - even though I know in a general way how it ends, so that there is not much suspense. I...

I am in two book clubs. We ask the members to nominate books and then set up a schedule so that people can read as they have time. Some books that resulted in very lively discussion: The Strange Incident of the Dog in the Night - novel written as a memoir by an autistic boy The Rise of Silas...

Wonderland I must be a classicist. I loved Alice in Wonderland and must have reread it every year until I was out of high school. Probably this was because each time I read it I saw or understood something I had not appreciated before. I also like the Oz series, Jane Eyre (read as a young...

Alex Guiness Has anyone mentioned the great old Alex Guiness movies: The Captain's Paradise Lavender Hill Mob Kind Hearts and Coronets The Horse's Mouth

A lot of good choices: 4 Russians and Hemingway. Maybe the runner-up could be the BOTM in June, unless it would be two Russians in a row.

The revised home page is worlds better. It looks brighter, livelier and actually packs more information on the screen.

I see that James Patterson is the most borrowed author in U.K. libraries. Someone gave me one of his "thrillers" on a recent trip when I ran out of the paperbacks I had brought from home. I found his female characters on the edge of hysteria and his choppy little chapters full of obvious tricks...