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I'm currently starting Plum Island by Nelson DeMille thanks to brownsfansince79's recommendation.
I loved that book. I've found with DeMille I either really like his stuff, or I really hate it.
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Question: For November, is that we'll discuss the book in December while reading Plum Island?
Or do we have to have the book read by November 1?
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For November, is that we'll discuss the book in December while reading Plum Island?
That's how I'm understanding it.
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For November, is that we'll discuss the book in December while reading Plum Island?
That's how I'm understanding it.
That's what I was thinking. I would never get a book read between now & Nov.1st.
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i like to read but my genre is more historical non-fiction. Reading about the War of 1812 right now....book called "1812" by Walter R. Borneman
pretty good so far, about 1/3 of the way in and about to get into the chapter about Lake Erie's finest Oliver Hazard Perry
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i like to read but my genre is more historical non-fiction. Reading about the War of 1812 right now....book called "1812" by Walter R. Borneman
pretty good so far, about 1/3 of the way in and about to get into the chapter about Lake Erie's finest Oliver Hazard Perry
It's a good book  Read it for a social studies class in college
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Just put "The Road" on hold at the library, so I'm going to pick it up within the next couple days. I know that many of you were wondering when I would do that.
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Just put "The Road" on hold at the library, so I'm going to pick it up within the next couple days. I know that many of you were wondering when I would do that.
I read it in one day...wasn't too bad
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I read historical and non-fiction/science.
The last book I read was Hot Flat and Crowded. Before that Ben Franklin.
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Umm, right now I'm reading the new IIS study guide and various SQL and T-SQL manual. Are you sure you're game for this?
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Everybody's telling me what they like but they're not adding books to the list...
November 2009: The Road
December 2009: Plum Island
January 2010: The Shack
February 2010: ????????????
Add it to the list and I'll read it and talk about it with you.
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For February, 2010, can I suggest "The Rising Tide" by Jeff Shaara? It's the first in a trilogy. I believe it's historical fiction based in WWII.
A suggestion...
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Sounds good. The list is . . .
November 2009: The Road
December 2009: Plum Island
January 2010: The Shack
February 2010: The Rising Tide
March : ????????????????????
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Your probably not going to get anything from me... haven't really read alot in the past 10 years. Except for textbooks...
As for The Road and Plum Island... I'm done with The Road... finished it in a day. Pretty short book.. thought it was good, not great. The first 100 pages or so we're pretty hard to get through IMO. Also, the writer seems to love to play with words... and I found myself reading things over just so I could understand the sentence. Maybe I'm a tard... but either way. I felt like he was trying too hard cause true content was lacking.
Plum Island I am about half way through.. love this book and the writer. The one liners in it are classic.
"I'm a mog. Half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend."
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I really love reading DeMille's stuff, especially the John Corey series. I will laugh out loud a lot with him.
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Good idea. I will participate as well. The Road is an intense novel. I'm looking forward to the film.
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Just got finished reading a couple of very good books...
The State of Jones (great Civil War book...appalling in some of the details)
1812 (about the War of 1812 and the surrounding time period/events)
Reading a book now called "The Grand Turk" about Mehmet II, Ottoman emperor during the conquest of Constantinople in the 1400s.....i've read the first 3 chapters....so-so so far....will update once I finish
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I really love reading DeMille's stuff, especially the John Corey series. I will laugh out loud a lot with him.
If you really love DeMille's writing try reading Gold Coast, i've read everthing he has written and that is the best by far.
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I read the Gate House not knowing it was the sequel to Gold Coast, and I freakin' loved it.
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Yeah the sequel was pretty good also, but the Gold Coast is by far his best work imo.
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I do read but nothing on this list looks interesting to me. I'm working through P.B. The Paul Brown story right now
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All kinds of books being mentioned but not one in the March slot yet . . .
November 2009: The Road
December 2009: Plum Island
January 2010: The Shack
February 2010: The Rising Tide
March : ????????????????????
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Figured I might as well start the Dawgtalkers' Book Club discussion here.
Just finished The Road. I'll say as a starter that the writing style was certainly unique. Kind of tough to get used to at first, but then it just worked.
Overall, I thought the book was pretty good. It seemed to me that there was so much emphasis put on describing every little thing going on. Sometimes, it got tedious.
I'd give this book a B+.
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I was able to get used to the writing style. It was kind of like an odd, stream of consciousness style. Definitely a powerful book. The theme that comes through strongest for me is that of parents' love and devotion for their children and keeping the bloodline going at any cost. The man just has to be so damn strong in keeping his son alive while hell on earth is upon them. I'm anxious to see the film now. It looks like it will amp up the fight for survival a bit. From the first previews it looked like they might try to explain exactly what it is that has caused this apocalypse they are living in but I really hope they don't. It isn't important to know whether it was all caused by man or by natural causes. I'm sure mega-liberals are torn between war and global warming. 
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I very much enjoyed the book...I did not have a problem picking up on the writing style
I would give the book an A+ and look forward to discussing it
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I never thought it was anything other than some sort of nuclear global apocalypse. The absolute absence of anything living, the ash all around, the dirty water, etc.
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I very much enjoyed the book...I did not have a problem picking up on the writing style
I would give the book an A+ and look forward to discussing it
We're discussing it now. You're up . . .
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Was anyone else confused during the 1st third of the book when the story jumped back and forth between the present and right after the Apocalypse? That was the major problem that I had when reading the book
The conversation was unique compared to other books that I have read. I sensed a very broken bond from the sons perspective, he thought his father lied to him a lot, and a very powerful bond of protection and love from the father.
The detailed description of basically everything they encountered made it very easy to paint a picture in my head and allowed for easy reading. (Some books are too vague)
The book showed two perspectives of the same event, which was pretty unique. For example, when the old blind man was in the road starving, the boy wanted to help him right away, while the man did not want to give him any of the food. The boy was more worried about others, showing compassion, while the man was worried about his sons survival over anyone else.
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Geez, popular idea I came up with, huh? I just bought Book# 2, Plum Island, so hopefully people are more into discussing it. Will be starting on it shortly. Yeah, PA, it did take a little while to figure out the time shift in the book. But not too long. I feel like the different perspectives of the child and his father made the story that much more heartbreaking. It had just been a time that the toughest of love was necessary so that the father could keep the boy alive but also insure that he was ready to survive should they be seperated. As bleak as this book is, it was a great father/son book. I gave it to my dad and to my uncle as well.
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Sorry, I didn't have a chance to read "The Road". Had so many things come up in November that I didn't have any time. I've started Plum Island however.
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Still haven't started it. But I'll be done w/ class here shortly and should have extra time. I'd hate to be the slacker who started this thread but doesn't have the books read. 
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Still haven't started it. But I'll be done w/ class here shortly and should have extra time.
I'd hate to be the slacker who started this thread but doesn't have the books read.
I finished it, pretty long book...
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