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Post by Redd on Dec 7, 2009 20:53:27 GMT -5
That'd be nice, alas, human greed gets in the way.
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Dec 8, 2009 14:03:53 GMT -5
That'd be nice, alas, human greed gets in the way. ... yeah something like that
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Post by Arc Arsenal on Dec 12, 2009 19:14:41 GMT -5
World War Z so far its good
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Dec 13, 2009 15:23:54 GMT -5
World War Z so far its good So what is WWZ?
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Post by Arc Arsenal on Dec 14, 2009 4:11:03 GMT -5
World War Z so far its good So what is WWZ?
It is a 2006 post-apocalyptic horror novel by Max Brooks. World War Z is a collection of individual accounts in the form of interviews with characters conducted by the author. Brooks plays the role of an agent of the United Nations Postwar Commission who published the novel a decade after the Zombie War. The United Nations left out much of his work from the official report, choosing to focus on facts and figures from the war rather than individual stories; these form the bulk of the novel. The interviews chart a decade-long war against zombies from the view point of many different people of various nationalities. The personal accounts also describe the changing religious, geo-political, and environmental aftermath of the Zombie War.
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Dec 14, 2009 13:51:19 GMT -5
So what is WWZ?
It is a 2006 post-apocalyptic horror novel by Max Brooks. World War Z is a collection of individual accounts in the form of interviews with characters conducted by the author. Brooks plays the role of an agent of the United Nations Postwar Commission who published the novel a decade after the Zombie War. The United Nations left out much of his work from the official report, choosing to focus on facts and figures from the war rather than individual stories; these form the bulk of the novel. The interviews chart a decade-long war against zombies from the view point of many different people of various nationalities. The personal accounts also describe the changing religious, geo-political, and environmental aftermath of the Zombie War. that sounds really cool, maybe I should read it.
(when I have time.. )
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Post by INeverLikedYou on Jan 2, 2010 19:58:27 GMT -5
Aria by Nassim Assefi
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Post by INeverLikedYou on Jan 2, 2010 19:59:11 GMT -5
So what is WWZ?
It is a 2006 post-apocalyptic horror novel by Max Brooks. World War Z is a collection of individual accounts in the form of interviews with characters conducted by the author. Brooks plays the role of an agent of the United Nations Postwar Commission who published the novel a decade after the Zombie War. The United Nations left out much of his work from the official report, choosing to focus on facts and figures from the war rather than individual stories; these form the bulk of the novel. The interviews chart a decade-long war against zombies from the view point of many different people of various nationalities. The personal accounts also describe the changing religious, geo-political, and environmental aftermath of the Zombie War. I've heard of that. How is it?
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Jan 3, 2010 5:52:49 GMT -5
what is it about?
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Post by INeverLikedYou on Jan 3, 2010 22:49:28 GMT -5
what is it about?
It's about an Iranian-American doctor who lost her daughter to a car accident (she was hit by a car) and she's to find ways to cope with her loss; she also lost the father of child (not sure what happened to him; think he died of cancer before his daughter was born) by taking time off venturing to Guatemala, dealing with her estranged Iranian parents and slowly turning to traditional Persian ways to deal with grief. It's kind of weird because it's written like diary/letter. She writes letters to her mother in Iran and she also writes letters to her deceased daughter and partner. I don't know... I'm kind of bored with it already. haha
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Jan 4, 2010 14:13:32 GMT -5
what is it about?
It's about an Iranian-American doctor who lost her daughter to a car accident (she was hit by a car) and she's to find ways to cope with her loss; she also lost the father of child (not sure what happened to him; think he died of cancer before his daughter was born) by taking time off venturing to Guatemala, dealing with her estranged Iranian parents and slowly turning to traditional Persian ways to deal with grief. It's kind of weird because it's written like diary/letter. She writes letters to her mother in Iran and she also writes letters to her deceased daughter and partner. I don't know... I'm kind of bored with it already. haha hmm... is it based on a true story or fiction?
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If you like criminal fiction I would recommend you this series:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Girl Who Played with Fire The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
I think they are great. But I'm not sure we have the same taste..
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Post by Redd on Jan 4, 2010 22:18:27 GMT -5
Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale Harrison. A novel about WWI from a Canadian soldier's perspective. It's short, but apparently it's a very, very bitter account of the war. Once I finish that, I'm going to start Solzhenitsyn's third and last volume of The Gulag Archipelago.
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Post by INeverLikedYou on Jan 5, 2010 5:17:17 GMT -5
It's about an Iranian-American doctor who lost her daughter to a car accident (she was hit by a car) and she's to find ways to cope with her loss; she also lost the father of child (not sure what happened to him; think he died of cancer before his daughter was born) by taking time off venturing to Guatemala, dealing with her estranged Iranian parents and slowly turning to traditional Persian ways to deal with grief. It's kind of weird because it's written like diary/letter. She writes letters to her mother in Iran and she also writes letters to her deceased daughter and partner. I don't know... I'm kind of bored with it already. haha hmm... is it based on a true story or fiction?
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If you like criminal fiction I would recommend you this series:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Girl Who Played with Fire The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
I think they are great. But I'm not sure we have the same taste.. It's fiction and i've stopped reading it. I'll keep those books in mind. I need to go back to the library anyways. Who is the author? -------------------------------------------------------------- Tears of Pearl by Tasha Alexander. She wrote Elizabeth: The Golden Age (film with Cate Blanchett and Clive Owen). Anyways, too lazy [and tired] to write the plot: Looking forward to the joys of connubial bliss, newlyweds Lady Emily and Colin Hargreaves set out toward Turkey for an exotic honeymoon. But on their first night in the city, a harem girl is found murdered--strangled in the courtyard of the Sultan's lavish Topkapi Palace. Sir Richard St. Clare, an Englishman who works at the embassy in Constantinople, is present and recognizes the girl as his own daughter who was kidnapped twenty years earlier. Emily and Colin promise the heartbroken father they'll find her killer.
As a woman, Emily is given access to the forbidden world of the harem and quickly discovers that its mysterious, sheltered walls offer no protection from a ruthless murderer. Soon, the Valide (mother to the Sultan) is found strangled with a silken bowstring and the head Eunuch is brutally slain.
When the killer strikes again, kidnapping a concubine and threatening to kill her unless Emily agrees to meet him in secret, she cannot wait for Colin or the authorities to come to her rescue. In a heart-stopping finale, Emily must rely on her own sharp wits if she is to stop a killer bent on taking revenge no matter how many innocent lives he leaves in his wake.
It's actually pretty interesting.
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Jan 5, 2010 15:42:44 GMT -5
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Jan 5, 2010 15:54:21 GMT -5
It's fiction and i've stopped reading it. I'll keep those books in mind. I need to go back to the library anyways. Who is the author? -------------------------------------------------------------- Tears of Pearl by Tasha Alexander. She wrote Elizabeth: The Golden Age (film with Cate Blanchett and Clive Owen). Anyways, too lazy [and tired] to write the plot: Looking forward to the joys of connubial bliss, newlyweds Lady Emily and Colin Hargreaves set out toward Turkey for an exotic honeymoon. But on their first night in the city, a harem girl is found murdered--strangled in the courtyard of the Sultan's lavish Topkapi Palace. Sir Richard St. Clare, an Englishman who works at the embassy in Constantinople, is present and recognizes the girl as his own daughter who was kidnapped twenty years earlier. Emily and Colin promise the heartbroken father they'll find her killer.
As a woman, Emily is given access to the forbidden world of the harem and quickly discovers that its mysterious, sheltered walls offer no protection from a ruthless murderer. Soon, the Valide (mother to the Sultan) is found strangled with a silken bowstring and the head Eunuch is brutally slain.
When the killer strikes again, kidnapping a concubine and threatening to kill her unless Emily agrees to meet him in secret, she cannot wait for Colin or the authorities to come to her rescue. In a heart-stopping finale, Emily must rely on her own sharp wits if she is to stop a killer bent on taking revenge no matter how many innocent lives he leaves in his wake.
It's actually pretty interesting. yeah.. it sounded a bit dull to be honest.
Stieg Larsson, is the author. It is a best seller all over Europe so I think it cant be that hard to find in the states.
I loved Elisabeth, it is an amazing movie.
the story seems pretty interesting. Is it better than the Aria book so far?
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