the Outlander series really should be read in order. historical action romance, seems to me it has it all in this lot. last full book/s i read were 3 or 4 of this series, not sure how many there were but thoroughly enjoyed them. i found them hard to put down for sure. they are long for novels but well worth the read. here they had a long long waiting list at the library but that was yrs ago. by now everyone has read them i'd guess. fwiw, j.
"Heidi" wrote... If you like historical fiction with a twist, the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. Outlander is the title of the first book.
I highly recommend listening to the Outlander series. Each one, unabridged, will get you through at least one quilt (from cutting to labeling!). The narrator, Davina Porter, does a superb job.
I included The Women in my seasonal book review this year. I preface it by saying that FLW is the only architect I know of who has been the subject of three novels. The Women is the third; then Loving Frank, and then....people are puzzled.
Do you know what the first one is? (I'll let people guess!)
I included The Women in my seasonal book review this year. I preface it by saying that FLW is the only architect I know of who has been the subject of three novels. The Women is the third; then Loving Frank, and then....people are puzzled.
Do you know what the first one is? (I'll let people guess!)
Wikipedia lists *two* others (1943 and 1990-1998). Neither of which I could imagine myself wanting to read even given all eternity to waste.
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I meant The Fountainhead -- granted, the plot summaries say "patterned after FLW." Similar to the way that Citizen Kane is "patterned after" William Randolph Hearst.
I have to confess I only read all the long political speeches in "Atlas Shrugged" the first time through. I think such speeches are like sex scenes in books. Read them the first time and that is good enough, you can skip them when you read it again, and it sometimes improves the book.
What I don't get is why some authors devote time and care to painstakingly describing something at length, and then never mentioning it again for the rest of the book. In the case of Proust (30 pages on getting out of bed?!!), or Dostoyevsky (the washerwoman in "Crime and Punishemnt", lovingly detailed never seen again after her description) for example, I have to wonder if it is something about translation. Was there some great symbology or allusion later in the book that was just poorly translated? On the other hand there is just no excuse for the likes of William Faulkner. His books aren't even all that long, yet it seems that he just goes on and on and on. Also there is just no excuse for a six page long run on sentance. Even I, with my very poor writing skills would not do a thing like that!
I do like long stories. I always feel gypped by an author who does not write a decent length book. Short stories are fine for magazines or textbooks, but I don't really much care for them. Probably why I have been fond of story cycles since I first read the Oz books in elemenary school. Nowdays I am a total sucker for a well bound omnibus edition. I have all of Oz in a two volume leatherbound set (G) I have several omnibus editions that convince me that publishers are often just evil. They read like one book, but were published as several. I think The Chronicles of Amber is the worst for that, it was originally published in what was it? Nine Volumes?
At present I am reading fluff. I got a new JD Robb book so I am rereading what I have, in order, again. JD Robb=Nora Roberts writing SF crime novels, the "*whatever* in Death" books.
Like speechmakers, some authors just love to hear the sound of their own voices.
I was never a huge Steinbeck fan. Too many words when fewer would work.
The story is the thing for me. I like long stories and I like a well written short story. I like anthologies, especially of Horror and SF.
Never heard of that series. Sounds like perfect summertime reading. Not a huge Nora Roberts fan, but that's the kind of book you need for sittin on the dock waitin for something to hit your line.
Nightmist - I feel exactly the same way about James Michener's books! I tried to read a couple of his books & by the time he was done describing the blue of the ocean or the green of the leaf on the tree, I was absolutely bored. But then, I always say I have a pretty short attention span anyway:)
I just picked up a JD Robb mystery - haven't started it yet, but I've read several of Nora Roberts' books - the ones that aren't too romancey!!
Yeah, Pauline! I feel exactly the same way! I don't have anything against romance novels, but I grew up with a mom who read Harlequin Romances by the truck load. I could never get her to read anything but romance novels.
She was in good company, but I always thought they were "popcorn" books. Plus, once I figured out that life was seldom "happy ever after", I kind of lost my taste for them.
But in my mom's world, it really was happy ever after and she lived that philosophy every day of her life.
So, when she could no longer get out to get them, I got them for her. I even put two brand new ones in her coffin.
Gosh, I miss her, even if we didn't share the same taste in books.
It is sort of like that. But the people involved were real Artists and Writers and the Americans were well meaning amateurs, who happened to be wealthy and have government connections. Kind of like the original participants in the war time OSS, the precursor to the CIA. Harvard and Yale types, who were selected for their language skills and overseas experience. Even Julia Child was chosen to join the OSS and that conjures up some seemingly funny images. Bon Appetite!
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