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| Emner | | meddelelser | Sidste meddelelse | | | Science Fiction Fans : Recommendation | | 29 | bobmcconnaughey, juli 2 |  |
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| Aberdeen Bibliophiles : What are you currently reading? | | 27 | Eruntane, april 29 | |
| Reading Globally : Describe your reading year | | 27 | almigwin, marts 30 | |
| LT's list of great books you should read : Action thread | | 60 | medievalmama, marts 24 | |
| I dvale: GenX in PDX: A Librarians Book Group : January 2008 - Alternate History | | 1 | librarianna, januar 26 | |
| I dvale: 50 Book Challenge : Akiyama's list | | 25 | Akiyama, oktober 2007 | |
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| I dvale: 50 Book Challenge : Busy91's 50 book challenge | | 4 | busy91, maj 2007 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Bookshelf Must-Haves | | 12 | Eruntane, august 29 |
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| Time Travel, Alternate Histories and Parallel Worlds : Great alternative history books? | | 23 | richardderus, juli 2 |
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| Historical Fiction : Alternate History | | 26 | xenchu, maj 30 |
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| I dvale: The Green Dragon : Your Pedigree? | | 205 | Jesmona7, februar 9 |
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| I dvale: Book talk : Actors who write books | | 42 | hailelib, marts 2007 |
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... Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
Making History - Stephen Fry
Gentlemen and Players - Joanne Harris
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
The Song of Troy - ... ... by Peter Delacorte - a man goes back in time to the 1940s to kill Reagan so he won't become president in the 1980s.
Making History by Stephen Fry* - a scientist prevents Hitler from being born, but ends up creating a worse present.
* haha. Stupid touchstones. Some author called Ste ... You might want to try Making History by Stephen Fry. It explores what might happen if Hitler was never born and half of the novel is set in an alternate United States. There is also the Tuesday Next series by Jasper Fforde which is set in an alternate United Kingdom. The first book is The ... #48: Elsa Morante
Marieke, I have History: A Novel, but it's still on my insanely long 'to read' list. Thanks for bringing it up again!
#49: because you don't agree with the concept doesn't mean you have to ruin it for everyone else... The thing is... If everyone reads a certain ... ... Wall, Monica Baldwin
Dark Fire, C J Sansom
Death of a Murderer, Rupert Thomson
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
Making History, Stephen Fry
The Shakespeare Secret by J L Carrell
Blaze, Richard Bachman/Stephen King
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Special recommendations this ... ... Wall, Monica Baldwin
Dark Fire, C J Sansom
Death of a Murderer, Rupert Thomson
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
Making History, Stephen Fry
The Shakespeare Secret by J L Carrell
Blaze, Richard Bachman/Stephen King
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Special recommendations this ... ... month we met at Erin's place to talk about alternate history novels:
Alvin Journeyman and series by Orson Scott Card
Making History by Stephen Fry
Shadow of Albion by Andre Norton
Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
... I got Making History for Christmas, and had finished it by Boxing Day. It was a really good read - not quite what I would have expected from Stephen Fry, but very gripping.
Still plugging through War and Peace, but I got a lot of reading done over the holiday, so the end is in sight! Not ... ... always so good, though. I started reading Hitler's Willing Executioners on the basis of Fry recommending in his book Making History, but I thought it was terrible and gave up after 60 pages.
If you like Stephen Fry you should check out his autobiography, Moab is my Washpot.
I've ... ... Kathleeen Kurtz, Neal Stephenson, Philip Jose Farmer, Tom Clancy, Julian May; non-fiction: Cornelius Van Til, J.G. Machen, John Calvin, Gerald Weinberg
FAVORITE BOOK(s): My favorite all-time books are JRR Tolkein's The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings, nothing else even comes close, ... Some I liked more than others. I really liked his autobiography Moab is my Washpot and I liked Revenge and Making History. I thought The Liar and The hippopotamus were just OK.
I haven't read anything else. ... from the Black Writers series. This took a while to get as they only have one circulating in the NY public library.
9. Making History by Stephen Fry
Fiction work by Stephen Fry. Pretty interesting.
10. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
The characters could have been more ... ... of Choice by John Birmingham, about a fleet from the future that ends up in WW2 as a result of a botched experiment, and Making History by Stephen Fry (which I will say nothing about because I don't want to spoil the plot).
Some other books you might want to check out: Years of Rice and Sal ... My favourites are The Children's War by J.N.Stroyar and Making History by Stephen Fry. I've read both of them several times. I would also recommend Under the Yoke and The Stone Dogs by S. M. Stirling (out of print I'm afraid) and Collaborator by Murray Davies. I guess I have a thing about ...
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