carolinetyler
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posted on September 13, 2005 06:51:42 AM
Just curious... I get on a roll reading one author and read almost all their books.
Last month it was Rita Mae Brown - most of her books are based on the Charlottesville, Virginia area - which is about 2 hours from here. She has some great characters in her books!
Also just finished 4th of July - the latest James Patterson - it was his best book by far!
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 Caroline
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fenix03
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posted on September 13, 2005 07:26:01 AM
Caroline - Do you read .... oh dammit... I can't read remember her name... not Reichs but the other female author with the Medical Examiner charachter... (someone help me here... lesbian, ex FBI, helicopter pilot niece Lucy..) that was also based in Virginia for so long?
I'm getting irritated with her books at this point because the case seems to play second fiddle to convoluted whack-jobs in her life. It's like she finishes up the story that she wanted to write and then realizes that she forgot to solve the storyline of the actual mystery and gives it 10 more pages but I always enjoyed the references to areas I used to be familiar with.
I also enjoy Reichs, Grisham (I must be twisted - I thought the Bretheren was flat out funny), Clancy, Jonathan Kellerman (but not his wife), and Patterson (haven't read the last couple books - sounds like I need to play catch-up)
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carolinetyler
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posted on September 13, 2005 07:32:39 AM
Patricia Cornwell? Or something close to it? I've been catching up on a bunch of her books by playing books on CD while painting the upstairs. I overloaded on them and think Kay Scarpetta should take a vacation!
Haven't read any Kellerman books except for Monster.
About to listen to or read Grisham's King of Torts. Anybody read it? If so, is it any good?
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Caroline
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cblev65252
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posted on September 13, 2005 07:34:16 AM
There was a time (long ago) that I was reading a lot of VC Andrews. Now, I read just about anything. My mother gave me some wonderful old history books that belonged to my grandfather and I've been reading them. Ken laughs because I seem to read everything I pick up. Including the backs of the cereal boxes.
Cheryl
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carolinetyler
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posted on September 13, 2005 07:42:43 AM
I forgot all about the VC Andrew's series. It's not even her anymore, she passed away and the family hired someone to write under her name, didn't they?
I really liked some of those stories - they were all the same - evil grandmother, lovely mother who is unfortunately very weak, loving, doting father who is killed - strong female main character who overcomes all obstacles.
All the same formula, but I really like them! I might have to catch up on some of those.
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Caroline
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fenix03
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posted on September 13, 2005 07:44:02 AM
Cheryl - is it just me or did VC Andrews have some serious issues? 
I enjoyed her books for awhile but the concept of romantizing incest bothered me. It seemed that even after her death it became a twisted tradition that the other writers under the Andrews umbrella ran with.
Side note - Second biggest screwing of a book when made into movie.... Flowers in the Attic. Talk about some pathetic script writing & acting...
(Biggest was Clancy's Sum of all Fears - The only thing that one had in common with the book was the charachter names)
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fenix03
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posted on September 13, 2005 08:03:15 AM
Caroline - she died almost 20 years ago - the guy who wrote Devils Advocate (made into movie with Keanu Reeves) took over.
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RedStateRising
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posted on September 13, 2005 08:49:13 AM
Biggest was Clancy's Sum of all Fears - The only thing that one had in common with the book was the charachter names
fenix - in the event you haven't done so, rent the DVD and listen to the commentary. Its the director Phil Alden Robinson (who's directed some good flicks in the past) and Clancy. During the commentary Clancy just tears up Robinson and constantly puts down the film. It almost becomes embarrasing to listen to. Clancy probably uses the phrase "thats bullsh@*" about a hundred times during the commentary and then goes on to explain how the particular scene could never happen. Robinson then defends the scenes. Its one of the best commentaries I've listened to because of the tension in it.
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cblev65252
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posted on September 13, 2005 09:23:35 AM
fenix
I will agree she must have had some issues. Hopefully, she wasn't drawing on experience. Flowers in the Attic was a terrible movie.
Another book made into a movie that I didn't like was Pet Cemetery. I found the book to be more frightening. Stephen King's books scare the you-know-what out of me, but I don't care for the movie versions at all. Well, except Rose Red. I liked that one.
Cheryl
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fenix03
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posted on September 13, 2005 09:24:16 AM
Red - I just read a review of the DVD where it said that Clancy introduced himself as "The author whose book was ignored." I added it my Netflix list because I had a feeling that his commentary might be a bit more..um...outspoken than most after reading that. Can't wait to get it now - even though I guess it means I have to watch that dumbassed ending again
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dblfugger9
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posted on September 13, 2005 09:34:16 AM
I always thought non-fiction was factual based stories? 
Havent read too many fiction books lately and I dont usually do author series, but if I had to say who I could pretty much count on likeing, it used to be: Anne Tyler, Judy Blumne, Jacquline Susan, Susan Howatch, Grisham, Patterson...Im sure there's others, but I cant remember off-hand...oh, and that guy who wrote that smart mouthed detective series in the 80ties (I cant think of his name. The books always had sin in the title somewhere if I remember right.)-but I think I read almost all of that series. Used to read alot more novels when I was commuting back and forth on the trains.
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RedStateRising
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posted on September 13, 2005 09:37:34 AM
fenix, I don't know about you but I also could never get on board with Ryan being played by Ben Affleck. Even setting aside that the Ryan character in Sum of All Fears is much older, I belong to the camp that thinks Affleck couldn't act his way out of a paper bag. I've never liked him in anything with the possible exception of Good Will Hunting. I always thought Alec Baldwin played the best Ryan in Hunt for Red October and Harrison Ford was decent in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger. But Ben Affleck? Whats next, Adam Sandler as Ryan in Executive Orders?
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RedStateRising
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posted on September 13, 2005 09:45:21 AM
On topic - now here's a great series of books:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=mHu1WvbXuD&isbn=0439049989&itm=2
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WashingtoneBayer
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posted on September 13, 2005 10:29:42 AM
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 
I also enjoy Earl de Biggers, Earl Stanley Gardner and Clive Cussler.
Among others.
ooops these are all fiction.
I like true crime mostly in the non-fiction category. Haven't read much lately. Trying to read Patricia Cornwells book about who Jack the Ripper was.
Ron
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fenix03
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posted on September 13, 2005 11:43:29 AM
I don't nessasarily dislike Afflek but I think it was horrible casting to make him Jack Ryan (maybe Jack Jr in Teeth of the Tiger - Clancy has not really fleshed him out enought that I have a pic in my mind yet). But I think they have always done a bad job casting his charachters...i.e. Willam DaFoe as John Clark!?!?!
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piinthesky
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posted on September 13, 2005 11:58:06 AM
Does fiction that is based on fact count? If so I really liked reading The First American series by William Sarrabande. It was along the lines of the Clan Of The Cave Bear series but with a little more fact and history based on anthopological studies thrown in to, in my opinion, make it more interesting.
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kraftdinner
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posted on September 13, 2005 12:22:24 PM
Wow, some people (up there) can't seem to grasp what the words non-fiction mean.
I wonder what the Bible would be classified under?
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cherishedclutter
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posted on September 13, 2005 12:23:56 PM
kd - I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps the definition of non-fiction changed when we weren't looking.
[ edited by cherishedclutter on Sep 13, 2005 12:24 PM ]
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kraftdinner
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posted on September 13, 2005 12:38:12 PM
Cherished, even Double and Piinthesky mentioned it and they just ignored them like they were all in a trance!
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RedStateRising
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posted on September 13, 2005 12:57:56 PM
What?? Are you telling me that the Captain Underpants series is not non-fiction? Suuure. What are you going to tell me next - there's no Easter bunny?
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carolinetyler
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posted on September 13, 2005 01:54:29 PM
Dbl - you're absolutely right! I sure did mean to put Fiction, rather than non-fiction - I meant the not-true stories!
I always have to remember they are opposite Non-fiction=true - Fiction=not true. I don't know why I can't just remember it offhand! And I'm an avid reader.
I'm glad most everyone knew what I meant by reading my first post!
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carolinetyler
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posted on September 13, 2005 01:58:08 PM
By the way - there was one Stephen King book that ended up being a great movie - it was the one with Kathy Bates killing her husband - not Misery, but the other one.
I think most of King's movies have been horrendous except for this one that I can't think of!
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dblfugger9
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posted on September 13, 2005 02:06:46 PM
I always have to remember they are opposite Non-fiction=true - Fiction=not true. I don't know why I can't just remember it offhand! And I'm an avid reader...
lol Caroline...I know! -I think I've done the same thing in my younger years as well. Far as I am concerned, they're all friggin fiction. But when you come from a family of writers, you figure that out real fast. Even with something factual, writers often put their own skew or subjective interpretations into it.
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piinthesky
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posted on September 13, 2005 02:16:02 PM
Dolores Claiborne, staring Kathy Bates.
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dblfugger9
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posted on September 13, 2005 02:16:40 PM
Dolores Claiborne? That the one? That was Stephen King, right?
I've liked some of his stuff. Particulary as he's shown more of his off-beat humor.
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dblfugger9
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posted on September 13, 2005 02:17:25 PM
Pi!! ya brat! beat me to it!
lol!
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piinthesky
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posted on September 13, 2005 02:25:40 PM
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NearTheSea
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posted on September 13, 2005 02:34:42 PM
I don't know if I have any favorite non fiction writers...... Tom Brokaw I guess (last non fiction I read)
Now for fiction! Stephen King
Best S. King movie (mini series) The Stand
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colin
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posted on September 13, 2005 02:46:12 PM
I'd have to go with Chilton. His is the non fiction I alway lean towards.
Amen,
Reverend Colin
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carolinetyler
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posted on September 13, 2005 03:18:26 PM
Dolores Claiborne! That was it - best line for a movie - "Sometimes being a B#*!@ is all a woman has." I think that's how it went anyway. My boss and I used to quote it all the time.
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