You Asked For ItethelflaedJuly 18 2009, 02:25:44 UTC
Wait wait wait - do not read (or listen to) Gaudy Night out of order, whatever you do. Trust me on this one. It works well on its own, but I think once you've started reading them you need to go in order. Granted, I did not read them in order and I started with Gaudy Night, but. . .um. Just trust me!
. . . .unless you've read all the books leading up to it and I somehow missed that, in which case, carry on.
I just started Master and Commander and so far am thoroughly enjoying it - but I am probably under a hundred pages in, so I may not know what I'm talking about. There is an audiobook, though.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a pretty sweet story, and is available on audiobook.
Despite certain recent disappointments, I really really recommend the Josephine Tey books Miss Pym Disposes and Daughter of Time. I'm not totally sure if either is available on audiobook (looks like they're both available on cassette, and the latter on CD). My one caveat is that Daughter of Time gets kind of heavy-handed toward the end
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Re: no i will never stop pimping this outethelflaedJuly 18 2009, 02:53:45 UTC
I started to read Gone with the Wind several years ago and I think I got as far as the attack on Atlanta.
. . . .oddly, I was enjoying it, but never read any more of it. Then I saw the movie and hated it, and I guess I sort of forgot about being part of the way into the book. And so my copy (or rather, the copy that I think I accidentally stole from my grandmother) has sat peacefully on my bookshelf ever since. Along with Nicholas Nickelby, which I got at about the same time. Maybe I should do something about that. . .like read them. ^^;
Also, I remember what I was forgetting! Dumas! :> He is good crazy fun. I also really liked 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which is by Jules Verne, not Dumas, but which is still crazy fun.
Re: You Asked For ItryanitenebraeJuly 18 2009, 13:10:26 UTC
^^ Okay. In that case, I will get Clouds of Witness for myself. My Mom and I agreed that we will each pick out one audiobook, so I'm going with The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, as it's just about perfect for my use. Thank you!
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Most of the books mentioned here are not at my Grandma's library. I'm seriously surprised. Actually, essentially all of them, though they have Master and Commander and the cassette of Daughter of Time(but not the CD or book)
Name of the Rose they do have, and I will get, though I have a copy at home, but ah well. I'll also pick up the Cadfael short stories book for myself. They don't have the first proper book. (They're selection isn't as bad as it seems, but it's sort of random.)
But these others they don't have I will keep in mind if we go to the used bookstore today. Thanks!
(And of course, Sherlock Holmes. I will be coming armed with murder and mayhem.)
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. . . .unless you've read all the books leading up to it and I somehow missed that, in which case, carry on.
I just started Master and Commander and so far am thoroughly enjoying it - but I am probably under a hundred pages in, so I may not know what I'm talking about. There is an audiobook, though.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a pretty sweet story, and is available on audiobook.
Despite certain recent disappointments, I really really recommend the Josephine Tey books Miss Pym Disposes and Daughter of Time. I'm not totally sure if either is available on audiobook (looks like they're both available on cassette, and the latter on CD). My one caveat is that Daughter of Time gets kind of heavy-handed toward the end ( ... )
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GONE WITH THE WIND.
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. . . .oddly, I was enjoying it, but never read any more of it. Then I saw the movie and hated it, and I guess I sort of forgot about being part of the way into the book. And so my copy (or rather, the copy that I think I accidentally stole from my grandmother) has sat peacefully on my bookshelf ever since. Along with Nicholas Nickelby, which I got at about the same time. Maybe I should do something about that. . .like read them. ^^;
Also, I remember what I was forgetting! Dumas! :> He is good crazy fun. I also really liked 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which is by Jules Verne, not Dumas, but which is still crazy fun.
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Most of the books mentioned here are not at my Grandma's library. I'm seriously surprised. Actually, essentially all of them, though they have Master and Commander and the cassette of Daughter of Time(but not the CD or book)
Name of the Rose they do have, and I will get, though I have a copy at home, but ah well. I'll also pick up the Cadfael short stories book for myself. They don't have the first proper book. (They're selection isn't as bad as it seems, but it's sort of random.)
But these others they don't have I will keep in mind if we go to the used bookstore today. Thanks!
(And of course, Sherlock Holmes. I will be coming armed with murder and mayhem.)
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