What good books have you read
01-20-2005, 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by DiamondDave2005,Jan 20 2005, 11:16 AM
If you like time travel books, and you haven't read Jack Finney's Time and Again, you should read it. It's still my favorite time travel novel, and still gives me chills when I read it, which is at least once every couple of years.
01-20-2005, 01:10 PM
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One of my all time favorites, REPLAY by Ken Grimwood
From the inside cover of the US trade paperback
A time-travel classic in the tradition of Jack Finney's Time and Again, Ken Grimwood's acclaimed novel Replay asks the provocative question: "What if you could live your life over again, knowing the mistakes you'd made before?" Forty-three-year-old Jeff Winston gets several chances to do just that. Trapped in a tepid marriage and a dead-end job, he dies in 1988 and wakes up to find himself in 1963, at the age of eighteen, staring at his dorm room walls at Emory University. It's all the same...but different: Jeff knows what the future holds. He knows who will win every World Series...every Kentucky Derby...even how to win on Wall Street. The one thing he doesn't know is: Why has he been chosen to replay his life? And how many times must he win - and lose - everything he loves?
From the inside cover of the US trade paperback
A time-travel classic in the tradition of Jack Finney's Time and Again, Ken Grimwood's acclaimed novel Replay asks the provocative question: "What if you could live your life over again, knowing the mistakes you'd made before?" Forty-three-year-old Jeff Winston gets several chances to do just that. Trapped in a tepid marriage and a dead-end job, he dies in 1988 and wakes up to find himself in 1963, at the age of eighteen, staring at his dorm room walls at Emory University. It's all the same...but different: Jeff knows what the future holds. He knows who will win every World Series...every Kentucky Derby...even how to win on Wall Street. The one thing he doesn't know is: Why has he been chosen to replay his life? And how many times must he win - and lose - everything he loves?
01-20-2005, 04:52 PM
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"Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini, about two boys in pre-Taliban Afghanistan and how their lives developed.
"Brunelleschi's Dome" by Ross King, about how he built the dome of Florence's Duomo. Not as good as his "Michelangelo & the Pope's Ceiling," about Michelangelo's sculpture and fresco, and also about Pope Julius II's control of early-1500s Italy.
"Brunelleschi's Dome" by Ross King, about how he built the dome of Florence's Duomo. Not as good as his "Michelangelo & the Pope's Ceiling," about Michelangelo's sculpture and fresco, and also about Pope Julius II's control of early-1500s Italy.
01-20-2005, 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Kyras,Jan 20 2005, 05:10 PM
One of my all time favorites, REPLAY by Ken Grimwood
From the inside cover of the US trade paperback
A time-travel classic in the tradition of Jack Finney's Time and Again, Ken Grimwood's acclaimed novel Replay asks the provocative question: "What if you could live your life over again, knowing the mistakes you'd made before?" ?
From the inside cover of the US trade paperback
A time-travel classic in the tradition of Jack Finney's Time and Again, Ken Grimwood's acclaimed novel Replay asks the provocative question: "What if you could live your life over again, knowing the mistakes you'd made before?" ?
01-21-2005, 07:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Kyras,Jan 20 2005, 05:10 PM
One of my all time favorites, REPLAY by Ken Grimwood
From the inside cover of the US trade paperback
A time-travel classic in the tradition of Jack Finney's Time and Again, Ken Grimwood's acclaimed novel Replay asks the provocative question: "What if you could live your life over again, knowing the mistakes you'd made before?" Forty-three-year-old Jeff Winston gets several chances to do just that. Trapped in a tepid marriage and a dead-end job, he dies in 1988 and wakes up to find himself in 1963, at the age of eighteen, staring at his dorm room walls at Emory University. It's all the same...but different: Jeff knows what the future holds. He knows who will win every World Series...every Kentucky Derby...even how to win on Wall Street. The one thing he doesn't know is: Why has he been chosen to replay his life? And how many times must he win - and lose - everything he loves?
From the inside cover of the US trade paperback
A time-travel classic in the tradition of Jack Finney's Time and Again, Ken Grimwood's acclaimed novel Replay asks the provocative question: "What if you could live your life over again, knowing the mistakes you'd made before?" Forty-three-year-old Jeff Winston gets several chances to do just that. Trapped in a tepid marriage and a dead-end job, he dies in 1988 and wakes up to find himself in 1963, at the age of eighteen, staring at his dorm room walls at Emory University. It's all the same...but different: Jeff knows what the future holds. He knows who will win every World Series...every Kentucky Derby...even how to win on Wall Street. The one thing he doesn't know is: Why has he been chosen to replay his life? And how many times must he win - and lose - everything he loves?
05-04-2005, 06:31 PM
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Well, I took your advice and read Replay, and it was indeed excellent.
Then my wife read a book, which she then pressed on me--The Time Traveler's Wife, a first novel by the author, which was a moving, remarkable book, which I just finished. It's a great love story, but not in the least schmaltzy; powerful and sometimes difficult, yes.
I think I need a light book for my next read.
Then my wife read a book, which she then pressed on me--The Time Traveler's Wife, a first novel by the author, which was a moving, remarkable book, which I just finished. It's a great love story, but not in the least schmaltzy; powerful and sometimes difficult, yes.
I think I need a light book for my next read.
05-04-2005, 06:58 PM
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I finally finished one of my most eagerly awaited series, Stephen King's "The Dark Tower". A total of 7 volumes, it has been a series of books I have read and re-read over and over while awaiting the next volumes. It's finally finished, and I am immensely satisfied with the outcome (although many may feel the ending is hokey, I found it to be perfectly in line with the theme of the series.) I wound up replacing my copies of the first three books (large volume trade paperbacks) as they became so worn they were falling apart. I was able to obtain the reissues of the hardcover versions with the original artwork.
I'm now just finishing up "Duel of Eagles" by Peter Townsend, a first hand account of the Battle of Britain and the events leading up to it. Townsend was a squadron leader flying Hurricanes during the BoB, and his first hand accounts provide incredible insight into how slim a margin England was able hold off Germany's air attacks. A great read that covers an important part of history.
I'm now just finishing up "Duel of Eagles" by Peter Townsend, a first hand account of the Battle of Britain and the events leading up to it. Townsend was a squadron leader flying Hurricanes during the BoB, and his first hand accounts provide incredible insight into how slim a margin England was able hold off Germany's air attacks. A great read that covers an important part of history.
05-04-2005, 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by 124Spider,May 4 2005, 07:31 PM
Well, I took your advice and read Replay, and it was indeed excellent.
Then my wife read a book, which she then pressed on me--The Time Traveler's Wife, a first novel by the author, which was a moving, remarkable book, which I just finished. It's a great love story, but not in the least schmaltzy; powerful and sometimes difficult, yes.
I think I need a light book for my next read.
Then my wife read a book, which she then pressed on me--The Time Traveler's Wife, a first novel by the author, which was a moving, remarkable book, which I just finished. It's a great love story, but not in the least schmaltzy; powerful and sometimes difficult, yes.
I think I need a light book for my next read.
05-05-2005, 03:49 AM
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Originally Posted by 124Spider,May 4 2005, 09:31 PM
Well, I took your advice and read Replay, and it was indeed excellent.
Then my wife read a book, which she then pressed on me--The Time Traveler's Wife, a first novel by the author, which was a moving, remarkable book, which I just finished. It's a great love story, but not in the least schmaltzy; powerful and sometimes difficult, yes.
I think I need a light book for my next read.
Then my wife read a book, which she then pressed on me--The Time Traveler's Wife, a first novel by the author, which was a moving, remarkable book, which I just finished. It's a great love story, but not in the least schmaltzy; powerful and sometimes difficult, yes.
I think I need a light book for my next read.