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Middleage Adn Digging Graves I think you will enoy both MIDDLEAGE and GRAVEDIGGERS DAUGHTER Would love to know what you think after you've read them. :)

Jco Hits The Mark Almost Every Time HI DOLLYMIXTURE and all Since you asked, yes, I read BLACK GIRL/WHITE GIRL over the winter. As is the case with most of JCO's books she takes an issue and runs with it. In this case it's college life, rascism, non-communication, fear of approaching...

HAS ANYONE READ HER 3rd I think book CRY TO HEAVEN? IT WAS PUBLISHED SOMEWHERE ABOUT 1982. A BIT ABOUT THIS BOOK Anne Rice demonstrates her power to enthrall as she makes real for us the exalted and fearful life of an extraordinary society--the 18thC world of the castrati, the lives of the...

I inherited a set of hardback Lewis books many many years ago and continue to keep them close to my heart. I read MAIN STREET first, then BABBIT and then ARROWSMITH. I always think of Lewis as a writer with his hand on the pulse of the US and it's various populations. I didn't read ELMER GANTRY...

POE and DOYLE Love your name POEDOYLE! The method of solving crimes that Poe invented is RATIOCINATION and since he came long long before Doyle or any other mystery offerings we have to assume that Holmes uses a deduction method similar to ratiocination. Each of these writers were so...

Cornwell Reichs Forensics Anthropology Patricia Cornwell is a forensic pathologist in real life ... and they are the folks who help solve the crime ... as Kay Scarpetta does along with her team. I think since the police are almost always involved with forensic pathologists who don't work on...

Why Crime/mystery/suspsense/thriller Novels?

HI In 2006 George wrote WITH NO ONE AS WITNESS a book starring Lynley, his wife Helen and partner Barbara. They were after a seriel killer. But something happens that changes not only the lives of the characters but the whole course of what has become a trilogy. In 2007 she wrote WHAT CAME...

THE CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE + FOUR GATED CITY by DORIS LESSING changed my life and changed my perspective of things i had felt unhappy about because i didn't understnad my feelings. Lessing seemed to be talking to me in those books.

HI I have read all of Ayn Rand's books and realized I had to approach them as novels of her personal philosophy ... which she said in interviews is exactly what she wanted to do. She was a person who certainly believed in Darwinism in that she felt people must compete in an open market and the...

soooo many booooooks Hi I think all of you are on target but in a simpler approach to English LIt. I alwaays look for NORTON CLASSICS editions ... they are true to the text and have lit. crit. in the back VIRAGO is another fine publisher who offers mainly 19C and early 20thC classic...

RECOMMENDS AND recommends dollymixture looks slike gmta about books who are richard and judy? do you get charlie rose? interested in talking

[/B] pontalba I agree with you 100% ... just because a writer jumps genres doesnt' mean he loses his special writing talents his second benjamin black book was excellent too and book of evidence is awesome

HI I don't know if you are still around but perhaps this post will catch someone else's eye. TONI MORRISON is an American Icon, an internationally respected writer and a Nobel Prize winner for LIterature. TONI MORRISON is in my top 5 favorite writers of all times. I don't watch Oprah anymore...

BANVILLE = NABAKOV; CAMUS; BECKETT in spirit LOL LOL LOL I am w/you completely. Can anyone tell me what drawback is entailed in being compared to CAMUS, BECKETT and NABAKOV?

Books Or Writers I Will No Longer Even Try STEPHEN KING HIS STYLE IS SO JUVENILE I TRIED 2X DIDN'T PASS P2 JEFFREY DEAVER SAME PROBLEM ALSO BORING ROBERT B. PARKER FORMULAIC AND I DON'T CARE FOR HIM JAMES PATTERSON OUT OF A FACTORY PANDERING JOHN BARTH...

Keeping Track My list is now in a D/B as follows TITLE LAST NAME FIRST YEAR BOOK # GENRE (COMMENTS ... THIS GOT TOO COMPLICATED SO I STOPPED PUTTING COMMENTS IN) THIS WORKS FOR ME I ALSO KEEP TEH SAME LIST IN A BIG JOURNAL BOOK

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Happy Birthday Lolita Don't Know If Anyone Posted This: Lolita Appeared In The Us In 1958 ... We Are Celebrating Its 50th Anniversary.