Name the last three books you have read...

The Five People You Meet In Heaven= Mitch Albom

The Lovely Bones I wanted to read the book before I got round to seeing the film, it was good, sad but uplifting, going to grab the dvd when i see it.


Been through a ton of Dean Koontz stuff, I made a great friend of an American woman at the gym and she's a mad fan of Dean she's lent me a ton of books which is great.

One Door away From Heaven
The Good Guy
Seize The Night
Velocity
The Face
Hideaway

To many to list them all.
 
I'm in the process of a Dean Koontz book titled Brother Odd. I have that Velocity book, but I haven't read it yet.
 
Britty25 said:
I'm in the process of a Dean Koontz book titled Brother Odd. I have that Velocity book, but I haven't read it yet.
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Volocity is pretty good actually, the guys wife is in a coma and this guy keeps killing people and making it look like he did it, ie he comes home and finds a body in his house, so bad does it look he starts to think he has some alternate personality or something, wont tell the rest as it will spoil it. :D

Brother Odd is a good one too, very scientific horror, really good.
 
francie1982 said:
Volocity is pretty good actually, the guys wife is in a coma and this guy keeps killing people and making it look like he did it, ie he comes home and finds a body in his house, so bad does it look he starts to think he has some alternate personality or something, wont tell the rest as it will spoil it. :D

Brother Odd is a good one too, very scientific horror, really good.
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Hmm, I think I will read that Velocity one next, I like murder mysteries.
Yeah, I like Brother Odd so far but I'm still in the beginning, me and my mom are arguing over whether his little white dog friend is a ghost or not. She read it before me and let me borrow it to read it. If the dog is a ghost, I missed it, because I think it's a real dog. :confused:
 
Britty25 said:
Hmm, I think I will read that Velocity one next, I like murder mysteries.
Yeah, I like Brother Odd so far but I'm still in the beginning, me and my mom are arguing over whether his little white dog friend is a ghost or not. She read it before me and let me borrow it to read it. If the dog is a ghost, I missed it, because I think it's a real dog. :confused:
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Sorry Britty, it's a Ghost dog, he's one of the spirits that hang around Odd Thomas bit like the mute Elvis who keeps turning up wearing various costumes from his films.
Unless your talking about the weird shape animal thing he keeps seeing in the snow, that is definitely not a ghost.
 
francie1982 said:
Sorry Britty, it's a Ghost dog, he's one of the spirits that hang around Odd Thomas bit like the mute Elvis who keeps turning up wearing various costumes from his films.
Unless your talking about the weird shape animal thing he keeps seeing in the snow, that is definitely not a ghost.
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Uggh, heh, I'm going to have to start over, heh. I thought the dog was real. I'll have to find where I missed it being a ghost. :smt095
 
Im reading
"Jazz Singers Handbook; the artistry and mastery of singing jazz" by Michele Weir.
 
Just finished reading an excellent three volume set on the Late Bruce Lee by Sid Campbell and Gregion Yimm Lee. I learned more about this man in his early years when he came to this country as a legal immigrant than many of the other books I have read about him that dealt primarly in his extraordinary skills as a martial artist. I highly recommend this set to the martial artists of this site.

"The Dragon and the Tiger: The Birth of Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do, The Oakland Year's, Vol 1

"The Dragon and the Tiger: Bruce Lee, The Oakland Years, The Untold Story of Jun Fan Gung-Fu and James Limm Lee (author Greglon Yimm Lee's father), Vol 2

"Remembering the Master: Bruce Lee, James Yimm Lee and the Creation of Jeet Kune Do", Vol 3

I now know why Time Magazine recognized this man as one of the 100 most influential people of the last century.
 
Sir Nose said:
Interesting. Do you sing FG? And do you like Jazz?
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No I hate Jazz and hate singing!
Oh sorry, I was on a sarcasm roll:-)

I have a secret dream of being a Jazz Lounge singer... course its a pipedream, but a girl can dream, right?

I have been singing since forever and Jazz is my favorite genre to sing (singing occurs these days only at my house or in my car).

and Yes, I do love Jazz.
 
I just started this one, it was recommended to me by a new friend who is an historian from Mexico City:

"Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers..."

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Sir Nose said:
Be honest, don't front.
I'll bet this will tell us something about you.
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The Bourne Sanction by Robert Ludlum
The Bourne Betrayal by Robert Ludlum
Duma Key by Stephen King

People will know Jason Bourne from the Bourne Identity movies. These are the latest books (which are MUCH better than the movies btw...)
 
Cannondale said:
The Bourne Sanction by Robert Ludlum
The Bourne Betrayal by Robert Ludlum
Duma Key by Stephen King

People will know Jason Bourne from the Bourne Identity movies. These are the latest books (which are MUCH better than the movies btw...)
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I read The Bourne Identity and it was so far removed from the movie, that it could have been a completely different story. LOL.

I want to read the others, but at this point, I'll have to start at the beginning and read Bourne Identity again.
 
Bookworm616 said:
I read The Bourne Identity and it was so far removed from the movie, that it could have been a completely different story. LOL.

I want to read the others, but at this point, I'll have to start at the beginning and read Bourne Identity again.
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very true! when I saw the movie I was P!SSED! Everybody said it was great, but I was disappointed!

The books were incredible. But then again, books are always better than the movies...lol
 
Cannondale said:
very true! when I saw the movie I was P!SSED! Everybody said it was great, but I was disappointed!

The books were incredible. But then again, books are always better than the movies...lol
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It's true, movies can't possibly encompass all the intricacies of a book. However they're getting very good at it these days!

Worst example of a movie not living up to the book, IMO: The Power of One. It was a shame they wasted that one on a 1990s production, I think if they made it again now they'd do a much better job. I suppose it's always possible. Here's hoping!
 
Cannondale said:
very true! when I saw the movie I was P!SSED! Everybody said it was great, but I was disappointed!

The books were incredible. But then again, books are always better than the movies...lol
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I'm one to read the book before seeing the movie and I'm ALMOST always disappointed...with a few exceptions:

The 8 hour miniseries of The Stand, which was on in the 90s was good.

The LOTR Trilogy was unbelievably good considering how intricate those books are.

Angels and Demons was much, much better than The Da Vinci Code.

The Harry Potter movies are fairly good, though they do lack something from the books.
 
Books

My three last books are:

-Kate White-HUSH
-Jamies. L . Dames-PUSHING UP DAISIES
-Anita Shreve-ALL HE EVER WANTED
 
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