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Post by 1dave on Dec 1, 2013 20:29:42 GMT -5
Mom handed me a paperback and said "Read this."
"Mom, that is a chick book,"
"No, it is a fun book. Try it. You will like it."
I did, and I did!
If I remember right, it was "False Colours." I was hooked. I bought all her books, but enjoyed her "Regency Romance" (hard to believe, but true!) books the most. I have re-read them until the covers fell off, then bought new copies to have available for whenever I need a good laugh.
Her name is
A list of her hilarious romances: A Civil Contract April Lady Arabella Bath Tangle Charity Girl Cotillion Cousin Kate Devil's Cub False Colours Faro's Daughter Frederica Friday's Child Lady of Quality Pistols for Two Powder and Patch Regency Buck Sprig Muslin Sylvester The Convenient Marriage The Corinthian The Foundling The Grand Sophy The Great Roxhy the Masqueraders The Nonesuch The Quiet Gentleman The Reluctant Widow The Talisman Ring The Toll-Gate The Unknown Ajax These Old Shades Venetia
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Post by mohs on Dec 1, 2013 20:56:35 GMT -5
Interesting This is the first novel I recall that had major impact I was in the 8th grade and the novel had just been released a librarian suggested it wanted to be a librarian after that you can't forget Ponyboy reading, "Gone With the Wind" to Dallas in the abandon church I didn't realize S. E. Hinton was a lady until years later it probably contributed to many of my bad habits many of them I kept especially reading mohs
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Post by 1dave on Dec 1, 2013 21:13:11 GMT -5
I was reading at 6th grade level in the 3rd grade, read everything in our school library. Three books stood out (and still do!) by A.E. van Vogt: Slan, The Weapon Shops of Isher, The Weapon Makers.
Later he got messed up in Technocracy. Never had the flare after that.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2013 21:20:49 GMT -5
I used to say Steve King. 20 years later I have read and continue to read so many books, I just read whatever is in the house bought by the kidlet or given to wifey by patients. I'll even go to the library and just borrow the novel with the most tore up cover. Lots of where means it's a good book, right?
Right now I am all gay about the Monkingjay/Girl on Fire/Hunger Games series. Need the third, Mockingjay. Those stories make me giddy like a schoolgirl.
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Post by mohs on Dec 1, 2013 21:32:20 GMT -5
Well Scott have you read 11-22-63 ? Or do I have get it for you? Happy Birthday! Ed
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 1, 2013 22:33:16 GMT -5
I'm such a monster reader that this is a tough one for me. Big Steinbeck fan, Love McMurtry, Lee Childs, Bernard Cornwell, Mickey Spillane, Frank Yerby and John Sanford and many more all for different reasons. Used to like Stuart Woods till he got godawful boring. Absolutely hate heaving bosom romance novels (my wife reads them in multitudes) and most all female writers. Not a woman hater, just don't like the way women write too dang much about clothes, feelings, food, surroundings etc while mishandling action and violence. Hate female forensic novels worst of all.....Booooor....ing.....Mel
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2013 22:48:36 GMT -5
Well Scott have you read 11-22-63 ? Or do I have get it for you? Happy Birthday! Ed Kidlet has it. She has it in queue for me. I have two ahead of that one.
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 1, 2013 22:54:53 GMT -5
Dante's Inferno
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Post by mohs on Dec 1, 2013 23:17:36 GMT -5
"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate" mostly
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Post by mohs on Dec 1, 2013 23:19:46 GMT -5
Well Scott have you read 11-22-63 ? Or do I have get it for you? Happy Birthday! Ed Kidlet has it. She has it in queue for me. I have two ahead of that one. Cool ! Let me know what you thought I think it more than just King's greatest novel It is a Classic American novel so well written with a complex theme
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Post by gemfeller on Dec 1, 2013 23:48:46 GMT -5
I was reading at 6th grade level in the 3rd grade, read everything in our school library. Three books stood out (and still do!) by A.E. van Vogt: Slan, The Weapon Shops of Isher, The Weapon Makers. Boy, does that sound familiar! I got kicked out of 7th-grade Study Hall for concealing a copy of Astounding Science Fiction with lurid BEM's (Bug-Eyed Monsters) on the cover inside a copy of Conrad's "Heart of Darkness." I was reading a great S.F. novella about non-Aristotelian logic by e.e. "Doc" Smith, as I recall. Or maybe it was his Lensmen series. I enjoyed the Conrad too, later on. I was hooked on S.F. when I went to summer camp with a genuine published S.F. author. I'll never forget the magic when I read mind-stretching stories by authors like Theodore Sturgeon, Vogt, Hal Clement, Kuttner, Campbell, Heinlein and many, many more. I've been on a lifelong reading binge. I've devoured everything from Shakespeare and Chaucer to John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series and much in-between. These days I rarely read fiction. Right now I'm fascinated by Diana West's "The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization." Sobering stuff.
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 2, 2013 0:01:28 GMT -5
Science Fiction inside of class books ? All I was ever caught with was the latest copy of Mad Magazine.
Biology teacher didn't see the humor in my book report. The sex life of the sand flea. She had no idea how many hours of research went into that report. No computers or google back then.
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Post by gemfeller on Dec 2, 2013 0:17:59 GMT -5
Science Fiction inside of class books ? All I was ever caught with was the latest copy of Mad Magazine. Biology teacher didn't see the humor in my book report. The sex life of the sand flea. She had no idea how many hours of research went into that report. No computers or google back then. LOL. No sand fleas where I grew up ... I got my sex education watching the livestock on our Idaho farm and reading National Geographic Magazine. I won't say I did actual "research" but one day, in a flash of insight, the relationship between what the cattle were doing and what happens with people became very clear. No computers, google -- or Mad Magazine -- back then either.
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Post by mohs on Dec 2, 2013 0:36:33 GMT -5
No Mad magazine!? How can anyone be older than Don?
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Post by mohs on Dec 2, 2013 0:37:01 GMT -5
No Mad magazine!? How can anyone be older than Don?
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Post by gemfeller on Dec 2, 2013 0:43:20 GMT -5
No Mad magazine!? How can anyone be older than Don? I know it's hard to believe but it's possible. I'm a curmudgeon too.
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Post by mohs on Dec 2, 2013 0:50:01 GMT -5
an old cuss huh? Ha Ha Nice to meet ya Rick! Your posts are fabulous an informative like reading a good non-fiction real gems on knowledge I learn lots
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Post by Rockoonz on Dec 2, 2013 0:59:28 GMT -5
My leanings in the area of fiction have always been SF. Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov and others. The twisted bizarre tales of Vonnegut were a favorite as well. Also the Chronicles of Amber series by Roger Zelazny, especially the first 5, the Corwin cycle. Seems like nowadays most of my reading is non fiction reading mainly just to keep the aging brain active.
Lee
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Post by mohs on Dec 2, 2013 1:06:23 GMT -5
I read a dusty old tome on the aging brain can't remember the name of it mohs
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Post by gemfeller on Dec 2, 2013 1:19:02 GMT -5
My leanings in the area of fiction have always been SF. Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov and others. The twisted bizarre tales of Vonnegut were a favorite as well. Also the Chronicles of Amber series by Roger Zelazny, especially the first 5, the Corwin cycle. Seems like nowadays most of my reading is non fiction reading mainly just to keep the aging brain active. Lee Those are all familiar authors Lee. Asimov in particular: "Nightfall" for deep thought and "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" for yuks. I truly enjoyed S.F. until reality caught up with it. After our Venus probes it was impossible to imagine the fabled Venusian Swamp Creatures -- Crispy Critters was more like it. I recall being entranced by Clarke -- I learned one helluva lot from him! But some grandiose schemes like Larry Niven's "Ringworld" came up hard against practical reality. Who in hell would finance such a thing? We won't even finance a decent space program. Unfortunately, much of current non-fiction is much scarier than the old S.F. themes. It makes compelling reading.
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