pinkozcat
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Jun 29, 2005 2:14:02 GMT -5
Post by pinkozcat on Jun 29, 2005 2:14:02 GMT -5
I've finished reading Comanche [see Currently reading]. I must say that I have actually read worse books - not often but there are a few of them out there.
I thought that I'd share my favourite lines with you - it was one of the conditions of the Comanche bookring that we posted them on the bookcrossing site.
The book ran to 409 pages and I obviously became numbed to the purple prose by about halfway through because there are no favourites beyond the halfway mark.
1. "Tell me, are you going to kill, rape and mutilate like the rest of your kind?" [P.36]
2. Then he turned and stood, and she saw the front of him, the noble face and broad chest, the trim waist, the thick manhood nestled among black curls. [P.80]
3. The beast hadn't given her a corset, so only two thin layers of cloth - her dress and chemise - separated her from his hot, muscled body. [P.94]
4. "Woman," he said with husky urgency, "you had best not wiggle against me again like that unless you want me to give you something to wiggle about." [P.97]
5. She must already be sore as blazes after yesterday's ride - and he sure didn't want to see her tenderest parts ruined, especially not before he got a chance to enjoy them. [P.99]
... and my favourite ... ?
6. Scant weeks ago she had been a refined Boston lady; now she was parading about in a squaw uniform, scandalously minus her undergarments; [P.127]
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Jun 29, 2005 7:54:20 GMT -5
Post by Nulla on Jun 29, 2005 7:54:20 GMT -5
thank you!, pink, for saving me from even the temptation to see what a Fabio might write.... thank you, thank you, thank you!!!... ;D
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Jun 29, 2005 13:54:07 GMT -5
Post by Aravis on Jun 29, 2005 13:54:07 GMT -5
I needed a laugh; thanks for providing it, pink!
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Jul 30, 2005 8:06:34 GMT -5
Post by pinkozcat on Jul 30, 2005 8:06:34 GMT -5
I have just finished reading Erin Hart's second book 'Lake of Sorrows'. I enjoyed it better than her first, 'Haunted Ground'.
The story is put together better and there were no loose ends as there were in the first book. I can understand that the heroine, Nora, feels the need to return to her own family - it is so that the ambiguity of her relationship with Cormac can be continued throughout the series, if a series is what is intended, but I think that Erin Hart could have manufactured a better reason.
However, I know how characters in books have a habit of taking on a life of their own regardless of the author's intentions so perhaps this is an example and she had originally been going back to America for a much more mundane reason.
I am looking forward to reading more books by Erin Hart - hopefully she will continue to write ...
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Jul 30, 2005 12:46:50 GMT -5
Post by Aravis on Jul 30, 2005 12:46:50 GMT -5
Like you, I believe Hart is writing a series. She's a new author, so I think these little awkwardnesses will smooth out over time. I'm interested in seeing where she goes from here with it.
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Oct 19, 2009 9:30:49 GMT -5
Post by pinkozcat on Oct 19, 2009 9:30:49 GMT -5
Just looking back over the posts here - Erin Hart has only written two books. Every so often I google her to see if she has published a third book, but so far - nothing.
I have just finished reading Terry Pratchett's latest book, 'Unseen Academicals' and I must say that I was sadly disapponted with it. It was boring, boring, boring!
I didn't like his latest YA book, 'Nation', either. It is sad ... but I will probably keep buying his books (if there are any more) in the hope that he manages to regain his spark but I hope that there are no more because I hate feeling let down and disappointed by my very favourite writer.
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Oct 22, 2009 21:18:20 GMT -5
Post by pinkozcat on Oct 22, 2009 21:18:20 GMT -5
On the subject of books and the Catholic Church, I have just read, and am now reading another book of what I call the "Dan Brown genre".
The book I have just finished (The Tongues of the Dead) was about the Vatican's determination to kill the last survivor of the Nephilim, half human and half angel (Genesis 6;4) and the bloody trail of murder to achieve this.
I am now reading a book called "The Borgia Ring" about the Vatican's plan to kill Elizabeth 1 which flips back and forth from 16th century to modern times and again there is a trail of bloody bodies.
Such fun ... !!
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Oct 22, 2009 21:30:51 GMT -5
Post by Wyndham on Oct 22, 2009 21:30:51 GMT -5
You know, I always liked books like that. No time to read them these days Pink.
Give me some thumbs up. I'm going to have to take some books with me in Jan, and anticipate some time to read.
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Oct 23, 2009 0:07:17 GMT -5
Post by pinkozcat on Oct 23, 2009 0:07:17 GMT -5
Um - In Tongues of the Dead by Brad Kelln was good up to the end when it suddenly went all soggy and feelgood.
So far the Borgia Ring by Michael White is a bit bloody and revolting and since history tells us that Elizabeth 1 lived to a ripe old age I suspect that our gallant heroes are not going to win one for the Vatican.
If you want Dan Brown Genre books then you can't beat Dan Brown himself for fast moving and totally impossible deeds of derringdo. A bit James Bondish with less sex.
If you are looking for very funny whodunnits then you can't beat Ruth Dudley Edwards. She is Irish and very, very politically incorrect. Her books have recently all been re-issued. My favourite is 'The Anglo-Irish Murders' and my least favourite is 'Murdering Americans'.
Fantasy?? Terry Pratchett - but not his latest books. Try his 'Witchs' series or his 'DEATH' series. Very funny ...
Carl Hiaasen?
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