I have read Animal Farm, but not 1984. The former applies even today and from what I have heard about 1984, it is probably more relevant today.StephenKingman wrote:I have actually never read that book in my life, nor 1984! Two literary classics and i never read them, but i would like to fix that as soon as my next book is finished. Do both books still hold up in 2010 i wonder?
What is the last book you read, and your rating?
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I do not feel I got the theme of the book. I probably should re-read it at sometime.
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Excellent reading on the investigation of Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald from the their childhood to the day they died and beyond. Many many facts from US to Cuba to Russia from the FBI to the CIA to Organized Crime. A seperated investigation from the Warren Commission, many lies uncovered, many more facts revealed. Will read it again. I will give it a 10
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It's about a cholera outbreak in Victorian London. It describes the impact of the industrial revolution on London and it's sanitation systems (or lack thereof). It sounds like it would be boring but it's actually fascinating to read how people of that era were able to track the cause and spread of the disease.
7 out of 10
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It's a murder mystery with Sigmund Freud as one of the characters. The murder story is interwoven with Freud's actual visit to America. There are some real people featuring in the book and some fictional too. It involves a lot of psycho-analysis. The concept of mixing real and fiction, using real characters in the book is good, but the story itself gets complicated and messy in the end.
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This is not a book I would have chosen for myself at the time. I actually forgot to bring the novel I was currently reading to work with me, and my superviser let me borrow it from her. During the slower hours, I started to read it so I had something to pass the time. I was very surprised to find it totally hooked me and I couldn't stop. I finished it in two workdays (I don't know if this is because we were so slow or I read too fast, LOL!).
It was really refreshing from what I had been reading lately and I was so surprised at how good it was. I intended to hunt down a copy for myself and perhaps pick up some of the author's other works.
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I love culinary mysteries and was way into Diane Mott Davidson's books when I discovered Ms. Flukes's writing.
I have to say, DMD's character, Goldy Schulz, seems to have taken some steps backward in her development, doing things that seem way out of character for her. Because of that and the rushed feeling to the endings of the last three of her books, I'm sort of off those.
Flukes's character, Hannah Swensen by contrast, grows with each book and I'm enjoying those a lot more. Plus, the endings don't seem so tacked on at the last minute.