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Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
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DATE: July 10, 2006 7:30 PM
BOOK: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
FORMAT:Background on author, group discusion, vocabulary test
next meeting decisions,backbiting,gossip and character
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Stranger In A Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
Reading and Discussing In March!
 | In the 1960s, the first science-fiction title to appear on The New York Times Book Review 's best-seller list.
Valentine Michael Smith is the stranger. A young human, reared by Martians on Mars, he is brought to Earth where he must adapt not only to the planet's social injustices and its population's foibles, but to its strong gravitational field and rich atmosphere. |
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Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
 | Okay all you hot mamas and cool daddies of The book forum...how about some pride and prejudice...Jane Austen style!
I won't give away any details except that it is brilliant.
A witty look at societal ideas and ideals of marriage and finding that 'special someone'. |
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'Salem's Lot, Stephen King
 | Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.
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Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
 | This book follows a young boy, augusten burroughs, through much of his tumultuous childhood. While still in grade school he is given to/adopted by his mom's psychiatrist, who is quite the character. In fact, all of the characters are pretty unique. There wasn't a whole lot of plot, per se, but entertaining nonetheless. The book was mainly a character analysis, with the budding homosexual, augusten the primary focus. A couple of parts were kinda disturbing, and a couple of parts were a little graphic. |
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The Stand, Stephen King
 | The Stand was awesome. When I was in Thailand I read Firestarter and that got me into stephen king. Then Justin recommended the stand. I thought they were both really well written. Despite its length, The Stand was able to keep my attention the whole way through, not always an easy task. It was not the typical horror story that I used to associate with stephen king. Rather, at its core it was a basic good guys fight bad guys. The book also addresses what is a good guy what is a bad guy, and in what manner can one "fight". Basically, 99% of the population of the world is killed by a virus. The book follows a number of the survivors through the post plague USA. At first they are thinly dispersed across the country. As the book goes on they slowly band together into two groups the good guys in Boulder and the bad guys in Las Vegas. The captivating plot is augmented by the accurately depicted and intriguing social situations that arise over their adventure. |
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Confessions Of A Recovering Slut, Hollis Gillespie
 | Ok, I know some of you ignorant left coast people like to imagine all us southerners as a bunch of stupid backwood hick rednecks. Well, we're no more stupid than people who elect Conan as the governor. And a good number, leave Jack and Justin's treasonist asses, of us are damn proud of it bein backwoods rednecks (from the city). Anyway, Hollis Gillespie is a great writer local atlanta writer. She has a column in Creative Loafing as well as a few books she has written. The one right before this one is called Bleachy Haired Honky Bitch, a title awarded to her by some crackhead she almost accidently ran over in East Atlanta. So, Confessions of a Recovering Slut, is a compilation of stories hollis gillespie has acquired during her adventures in the ATL. It's well written, it's funny, and it's a quick read. Apparently it is the second book in her bitch-slut-whore series. The thrid book's title will contain the word whore in some way. |
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Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
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He, She and It, Marge Piercy
 | This is not your typical science fiction novel. Labeled as "feminist science fiction" by many literary types, I would probably call it "simulacra science fiction with heavy jewish influence." Set in a post-apocolyptic world, Piercy introduces us to a world where things have progressed in an ominously realistic way. Humans plug directly into "the net" (the descendant of the internet), the middle-east is uninhabitable due to nuclear war, the ozone layer is gone, and corporations run the "civilized" world. Weaving throughout this fascinating tale of technology gone hay-wire is a love story centered around a human and a cyborg. And if this weren't enough, Piercy uses a clever and fascinating adaptation of the legend of the Golem of Prague as if analogous to the plight of our beloved hero cyborg Yod and his beloved human Shira. I think this one is DEFINITELY worth checking out, especially if you are a Jewish woman who likes science fiction and robots. :-) |
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Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
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The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Andrew Sean Greer
 | Wow this one was really great. Steeped in well-researched San Francisco history, we hear the implausible story of a man who ages backwards, born a shirvelled old man, and dying a baby! This was definitely a cool book with a strange twist. I would highly recommend to anyone. |
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The Persian Boy, Mary Renault
 | The Persian Boy by Mary Renault was one of those priceless historic novels that really transports you into a different era. A time when things were vastly different than they are now, and in this case, homosexuality is a normal part of life. The story tells of Alexander the Great's loving relationship with a eunuch or Persian decent named Bagoas. We follow along with Alexander and Bagoas on one conquest after another via Renault's extremely intricate and ornate desriptions. More later... |
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