The Road

[one cent]

A while back I recommended NO Country for Old Men by COrmac McCarthy. After reading that I purchased THE ROAD, his Pulitzer prize winner out of curiosity. The book is amazing.
It is dark, it has hope and I could not put it down. So much so, that for 1 week after finishing it, I could not pick up my next book. I emotionally carried it with me.

I was hesitant to recommend it due to its subject (It is post apocalypse for lack of better description) but am so interested in everyone else's take.

I hope you enjoy!:rolleyes:

[Pink]

I read his "All the Pretty Horses" years ago and it captivated me. He's quite gifted.

[jsejt]

A while back I recommended NO Country for Old Men by COrmac McCarthy. After reading that I purchased THE ROAD, his Pulitzer prize winner out of curiosity. The book is amazing.
It is dark, it has hope and I could not put it down. So much so, that for 1 week after finishing it, I could not pick up my next book. I emotionally carried it with me.

I was hesitant to recommend it due to its subject (It is post apocalypse for lack of better description) but am so interested in everyone else's take.

I hope you enjoy!:rolleyes:

I read this last year for a book club. I thought it was ok, not my cup of tea.

Books I've read recently:

Look me in the eye-asperger autobio (pretty good)
Celebrity Detox-Rosie O'Donnell (one long free verse poem, not bad, not really good)
Water for Elephants-BEST Book I've read in a long time
The Bible-Loved it, check it out! :)

[one cent]

I've sized up Water for Elephants - but was too nervous to buy. I believe it will soon be placed in my Amazon shopping cart!

[jsejt]

I've sized up Water for Elephants - but was too nervous to buy. I believe it will soon be placed in my Amazon shopping cart!

If I still had it I'd give it to you in March. Definitely buy it, you will not be dissapointed. :)

[BFSpin]

Books I've read recently:

Look me in the eye-asperger autobio (pretty good)

The Bible-Loved it, check it out! :)

Just finished this one a few weeks ago. . . my son has Asperger's. As a pre-teen who will be entering middle school in the fall, I'm reading as much as I can to help him navigate the big, bad world (including your other selection as well):cool:

Look Me In the Eye was excellent from my perspective. It's encouraging to see the qualities that are Asperger's manifested throughout a "successful" adult's life.

Beth

[NJspin]

Water for Elephants on the docket and I've kept putting it aside. Thanks for the reccommendation Shannnon, I'll get to it now.
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett currently reading
Beach Road by Jack Paterson just finished.

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Let us know how Bel Canto is.
I read Run by her over christmas. I literally finished the book just over 24 hours. I could not put it down. A very intriguing read.

[NJspin]

Bel Canto was a slow read. It took me over 4 days to read the first 1/3. lots of discriptive forays into the books characters etc. The last 2/3 was much faster... the ending upset me as some of the terrorists had grown on me. Opera was an interesting backdrop for the whole book. Just started Four Agreements. Water for Elephants still on hold.Let us know how Bel Canto is.
I read Run by her over christmas. I literally finished the book just over 24 hours. I could not put it down. A very intriguing read.

[one cent]

finished Water for Elephants

Awesome read.

Recommend;
A Girl Named Zippy - Haven Kimmel

[jsejt]

finished Water for Elephants

Awesome read.

Recommend;
A Girl Named Zippy - Haven Kimmel

Yahoo! Another Water for Elephants winner!

I read A Girl Named Zippy years ago, she's very quirky and I enjoyed her book as well. Do you like a good mystery?

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I honestly believe there has not been a mystery I have not enjoyed!

Any suggestions?8)

[amybatt]

Bel Canto was a slow read. It took me over 4 days to read the first 1/3. lots of discriptive forays into the books characters etc. The last 2/3 was much faster... the ending upset me as some of the terrorists had grown on me. Opera was an interesting backdrop for the whole book. Just started Four Agreements. Water for Elephants still on hold.

I tore through Bel Canto in about 4 days on the train. I loved it, but I'm weird like that.

I am 200 pages away from being done with Ken Follett's latest, which is good but toting 1000+ pages (hardcover no less) on the train everyday for the last 6 weeks has been tedious. It is fabulous, and every bit as good as its predecessor Pillars of the Earth. I may miss these characters when I'm done!

I have Water for Elephants on my bookshelf, but everytime I pick it up I kinda go "Meeehhh" and put it back. Good to hear a lot liked it here.

I just bought Allan Follsom's The Macchiavelli Covenant at lunchtime. I was telling a co-worker about his Day After Tomorrow (not the post-apocalypse one) and how amazing that ended, completely blew me away. Did anyone read that one? I'm hoping this one is as good....

[ChocolatePizzaRedWine]

Oooh, first my music bill goes up because of this forum, and now my book bill is going up too! I've been looking at both Water for Elephants and World Without End (Ken Follett), and now I'll have to pick them up.

I've just started March by Geraldine Brooks. I loved her Year of Wonders, and think I'll enjoy this one too.

[jsejt]

I tore through Bel Canto in about 4 days on the train. I loved it, but I'm weird like that.

I am 200 pages away from being done with Ken Follett's latest, which is good but toting 1000+ pages (hardcover no less) on the train everyday for the last 6 weeks has been tedious. It is fabulous, and every bit as good as its predecessor Pillars of the Earth. I may miss these characters when I'm done!

I have Water for Elephants on my bookshelf, but everytime I pick it up I kinda go "Meeehhh" and put it back. Good to hear a lot liked it here.

I just bought Allan Follsom's The Macchiavelli Covenant at lunchtime. I was telling a co-worker about his Day After Tomorrow (not the post-apocalypse one) and how amazing that ended, completely blew me away. Did anyone read that one? I'm hoping this one is as good....

Gosh I haven't heard this title in about 10 years. I picked up this book when my daughter was a baby and put it down, I never finished it. Maybe I should pick it back up! I remember it didn't grab me from the beginning.

[amybatt]

Day After Tomorrow (not the post-apocalypse one) and how amazing that ended, completely blew me away. Did anyone read that one? I'm hoping this one is as good....

Gosh I haven't heard this title in about 10 years. I picked up this book when my daughter was a baby and put it down, I never finished it. Maybe I should pick it back up! I remember it didn't grab me from the beginning.

The last 15-20 pages haunts me to this day....stick with it!

[jsejt]

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The last 15-20 pages haunts me to this day....stick with it!

Okie dokie, I'm dusting it off Ms. Amy, I'll let you know. :o

[JFK]

I am 200 pages away from being done with Ken Follett's latest, which is good but toting 1000+ pages (hardcover no less) on the train everyday for the last 6 weeks has been tedious. It is fabulous, and every bit as good as its predecessor Pillars of the Earth. I may miss these characters when I'm done!

I loved Pillars of the Earth. Is the new one the same (or a continuation of) the characters/story?

I just started Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. I love her stuff, plus, she came to speak in our community two weeks ago and she is a fabulous and engaging speaker.

[NJspin]

Ok, Shankzan.. Done with Water for Elephants! Great story.. loved the ending... I want to go like that when I am ready! :D Yeah.. a long time away... 40+ years!

[jsejt]

Ok, Shankzan.. Done with Water for Elephants! Great story.. loved the ending... I want to go like that when I am ready! :D Yeah.. a long time away... 40+ years!

The ending was my favorite part, and it's Kazan, get it right buster!

[amybatt]

I loved Pillars of the Earth. Is the new one the same (or a continuation of) the characters/story?.

It's the same town and cathedral, just 100 years later, so they are descendants. But you don't have to have read the first for this one to make sense at all. I finished it last night and am really going to miss some of the characters, it was really good reading. And I thought at first that 1015 pages would be overkill, but I wouldn't have cut a thing. It was a great story.

Now I'm faced with the "Now what?" after a really good read....

[ChocolatePizzaRedWine]

I just started Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. I love her stuff, plus, she came to speak in our community two weeks ago and she is a fabulous and engaging speaker.

Eeek, tough book if you have school-aged kids. But like most of her stuff, it makes you think.

I guess I'm especially sensitive because I just received voice mail from my daughter's school principal. Apparently there has been an "unspecified threat" against the school and there will be a "police presence" at school tomorrow. I still haven't decided whether to send her to school or not. We'll decide in the morning, hopefully with more information.

She's in 3rd grade... this stuff shouldn't be happening!!!

[JFK]

Eeek, tough book if you have school-aged kids. But like most of her stuff, it makes you think.

I guess I'm especially sensitive because I just received voice mail from my daughter's school principal. Apparently there has been an "unspecified threat" against the school and there will be a "police presence" at school tomorrow. I still haven't decided whether to send her to school or not. We'll decide in the morning, hopefully with more information.

She's in 3rd grade... this stuff shouldn't be happening!!!

Yikes, that is terrifying! I hope it turns out to be a whole lot of nothing. I guess it's better that threats are no longer ignored...<sigh>

We're about to start sending our daughter to the local (large) public high school after 12 years in a tiny private school where her graduating class has 20 kids. It's going to be a big shift for all of us.

When we used to talk about "surviving high school" it was stuff like social issues, academics, maybe staying away from drugs. Now there's a whole new element to it. :(

[Pink]

Eeek, tough book if you have school-aged kids. But like most of her stuff, it makes you think.

I guess I'm especially sensitive because I just received voice mail from my daughter's school principal. Apparently there has been an "unspecified threat" against the school and there will be a "police presence" at school tomorrow. I still haven't decided whether to send her to school or not. We'll decide in the morning, hopefully with more information.

She's in 3rd grade... this stuff shouldn't be happening!!!

Yoikes, that's scary. Hope you can get some information before tomorrow. I am no way making light of your situation, CPRW, but I can't believe how timely this is. I got an email from a friend last night who told me that her son's former pre-school was in lockdown (he just left it 3 weeks ago). Nothing bad happened, but it was unnerving just the same. So I just answered her back this morning with a story from my son's school years. I'll just cut and paste from the email:

That’s really scary about the school lock down. We had a situation like that when Matthew was in high school. There’s a wooded park next to the school and people actually saw a bunch of men in camouflage outfits with machine guns running through the park, hiding within the bushes/trees. The police were called & the school went into immediate lockdown. They called in special forces from the Willow Grove airbase. They swarmed the park…well (you’ll never believe this) it was the 7th & 8th graders from the Catholic school in Jenkintown, who were doing a WWII re-enactment for history class! As it turns out, the school got into a lot of trouble because they should have gotten a permit. Pretty funny really, but it could have been tragic. Anyway, I didn’t know about it until after the fact – thank goodness – because I would have been frantic if I had thought the school was under attack by an army with machine guns!