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Which one Nunu?
Which one Nunu?
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Indeed. Poor Carmines... I can't remember if there are more.
Indeed. Poor Carmines... I can't remember if there are more.
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Anthony Carmine
Benjamin Carmine
C______ Carmine
D______ Carmine
Makes sense, doesn't it?
yep, and I would bet real money on the next Carmine to show up will have his first name start with a C. Think about it...
Anthony Carmine
Benjamin Carmine
C______ Carmine
D______ Carmine
Makes sense, doesn't it?
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So, I just recently finished two Young Adult books that I randomly found at our store and I feel the need to discuss the one and since no one else in the store would probably read it, I'm going to chat about it here. A semi-blog if you will.
The first one I read was called "Intertwined" by romance author Gena Showalter. It's a "Harlequin teen" and has about as much "suggestive situations" in it as "Omg, look at his butt!" and "If I change out of my wolf form, I'm going to be naked, you know." But then, I really didn't get the book for that. I'd get a full blown romace if I wanted sex scenes. This one grabbed me with a description of the main character's eyes. See, he's got four souls living in his head and each time one of them 'talks' to him, his eyes change color and the description given was how they looked like they were striped: blue, green, brown, and hazel but when the light hit them, they turned black. I don't know why, but I liked that. The book's pretty decent, actually and does keep you guessing a little bit through it (though there's other parts where the plot telegraphs itself.) It's Aden's quest to figure out why the girl he meets actually shuts the souls up and what his connection is to her. Ohyes, and the souls...have powers. One timetravels, one predicts the future, one raises the dead (not as handy as you think), and the other can possess people. Finished it in about two days, and that was with a sleep interruption, so I consider it good. The ending...can go either way. She's either tying things up (though very loosely) or she's setting it up to be a series but isn't sure if it's going to keep going. Still, if you like fantasy with a little bit of intrigue, check it out.
The second one was called "Hero" and the author escapes me at the moment. Take the heroes of the DC Universe, add in the movies "Sky High" and "Mystery Men," make the main character gay and you've got this book. Reading through, if you have even a passing familiarity with comic book characters, you can pick out where the inspriations for the heroes like Warrior Woman and King of the Sea came from. Some other reviews I read complained that there wasn't enough development of the heroes. I wanted to reply that these people obviously never read comics before in their lives. Anyway, the story follows Thom, a budding hero who winds up attracting the attention of the League, a band of supers that blackballed his father (a disgraced former hero) and now want him to join up. What follows is him trying to balance the whole "secret identity" in learning to be a hero with not letting his father find out on top of being your average 17ish year old kid (I don't recall his age ever really being defined, though you often forget he's supposed to be a kid.) On top of that, Thom is gay and he has several moments where that becomes a factor into his difficulties as well, including one climactic (no pun intended) scene in the book. Again, it's teen audience, but outside of a few masturbation references and one make out session, it's pretty tame. Ohyeah, and he eventually has to save the world, too. This is the one that I wasn't really sure about. I liked it, and yet, there were things, I don't know, I'd have done differently? Things that were a bit of a plot hole and other things that kind of just got dropped that I would have liked to see develop more. There's still the happy, if but bittersweet, ending and it is nice to see Thom develop as a character, but I think I would have liked to see more out of this. Good read, though, if you like superhero fantasy type fiction and don't mind that the character deviates from the norm with regard to your typical hero.
So, I just recently finished two Young Adult books that I randomly found at our store and I feel the need to discuss the one and since no one else in the store would probably read it, I'm going to chat about it here. A semi-blog if you will.
The first one I read was called "Intertwined" by romance author Gena Showalter. It's a "Harlequin teen" and has about as much "suggestive situations" in it as "Omg, look at his butt!" and "If I change out of my wolf form, I'm going to be naked, you know." But then, I really didn't get the book for that. I'd get a full blown romace if I wanted sex scenes. This one grabbed me with a description of the main character's eyes. See, he's got four souls living in his head and each time one of them 'talks' to him, his eyes change color and the description given was how they looked like they were striped: blue, green, brown, and hazel but when the light hit them, they turned black. I don't know why, but I liked that. The book's pretty decent, actually and does keep you guessing a little bit through it (though there's other parts where the plot telegraphs itself.) It's Aden's quest to figure out why the girl he meets actually shuts the souls up and what his connection is to her. Ohyes, and the souls...have powers. One timetravels, one predicts the future, one raises the dead (not as handy as you think), and the other can possess people. Finished it in about two days, and that was with a sleep interruption, so I consider it good. The ending...can go either way. She's either tying things up (though very loosely) or she's setting it up to be a series but isn't sure if it's going to keep going. Still, if you like fantasy with a little bit of intrigue, check it out.
The second one was called "Hero" and the author escapes me at the moment. Take the heroes of the DC Universe, add in the movies "Sky High" and "Mystery Men," make the main character gay and you've got this book. Reading through, if you have even a passing familiarity with comic book characters, you can pick out where the inspriations for the heroes like Warrior Woman and King of the Sea came from. Some other reviews I read complained that there wasn't enough development of the heroes. I wanted to reply that these people obviously never read comics before in their lives. Anyway, the story follows Thom, a budding hero who winds up attracting the attention of the League, a band of supers that blackballed his father (a disgraced former hero) and now want him to join up. What follows is him trying to balance the whole "secret identity" in learning to be a hero with not letting his father find out on top of being your average 17ish year old kid (I don't recall his age ever really being defined, though you often forget he's supposed to be a kid.) On top of that, Thom is gay and he has several moments where that becomes a factor into his difficulties as well, including one climactic (no pun intended) scene in the book. Again, it's teen audience, but outside of a few masturbation references and one make out session, it's pretty tame. Ohyeah, and he eventually has to save the world, too. This is the one that I wasn't really sure about. I liked it, and yet, there were things, I don't know, I'd have done differently? Things that were a bit of a plot hole and other things that kind of just got dropped that I would have liked to see develop more. There's still the happy, if but bittersweet, ending and it is nice to see Thom develop as a character, but I think I would have liked to see more out of this. Good read, though, if you like superhero fantasy type fiction and don't mind that the character deviates from the norm with regard to your typical hero.
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Well, they seem interesting, but as a rule of thumb I try to stay away from Young Adult books. I'm sure there's some out there that I would love, but I've been reading adult books since I was six (F. Paul Wilson's "The Keep" anyone... "Nightworld"?) and so have come to expect something better... planted in the real world I suppose is what I'm grasping for here. Sex, violence, swearing, its all part of the real world, even a teenager's world, so seeing it avoided just to release something for a younger audience bugs me. I just can't get into it... that's just my views on it all. I'm horribly biased.
Well, they seem interesting, but as a rule of thumb I try to stay away from Young Adult books. I'm sure there's some out there that I would love, but I've been reading adult books since I was six (F. Paul Wilson's "The Keep" anyone... "Nightworld"?) and so have come to expect something better... planted in the real world I suppose is what I'm grasping for here. Sex, violence, swearing, its all part of the real world, even a teenager's world, so seeing it avoided just to release something for a younger audience bugs me. I just can't get into it... that's just my views on it all. I'm horribly biased.
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Try "Hero," then, if either of them, Sin. Like I said, I had a tendency to forget that Thom was supposed to be a kid and there's a lot of crap that happens in that book. Granted, it is fantasy, so some of the solutions to the problems are little unorthodox but they're not wholly out of the realm of the norm for a super hero.
As for the short, yeah, I can agree there, but then, I'm a fast reader anyway. Job bonus is me getting to borrow books and bring them back, but Hero's priced (at my store anyway) at 8.99 (which is only slightly more than a mass market paperback) and Intertwined is either 12.99 or 14, but it's also hardback, so it doesn't seem too bad to me, but then, I'm not sure how you feel about book pricing, so *shrugs*
Try "Hero," then, if either of them, Sin. Like I said, I had a tendency to forget that Thom was supposed to be a kid and there's a lot of crap that happens in that book. Granted, it is fantasy, so some of the solutions to the problems are little unorthodox but they're not wholly out of the realm of the norm for a super hero.
As for the short, yeah, I can agree there, but then, I'm a fast reader anyway. Job bonus is me getting to borrow books and bring them back, but Hero's priced (at my store anyway) at 8.99 (which is only slightly more than a mass market paperback) and Intertwined is either 12.99 or 14, but it's also hardback, so it doesn't seem too bad to me, but then, I'm not sure how you feel about book pricing, so *shrugs*
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I go through about 300 pages in an hour's leisurely reading. It's why I don't read anymore. I can't keep myself in books. Spending ~$25 every week just so I have some bedtime reading isn't worth it. So whenever I pick up anything that's less than 600 pages or so, I'm almost always disappointed.
I go through about 300 pages in an hour's leisurely reading. It's why I don't read anymore. I can't keep myself in books. Spending ~$25 every week just so I have some bedtime reading isn't worth it. So whenever I pick up anything that's less than 600 pages or so, I'm almost always disappointed.
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I suppose I could go fast, but I don't, so I don't miss crap. Especially with books like Game of Thrones (recomended to you Alias if you like fantasy. First book is about 900 pages, second is 1000, third is 1100). I take my time and bask in the words and enjoy the little world that the author has made for me to romp about in.
Currently reading Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell, about the battle of Agincourt.
Why he switched the 'g' for a 'z' I have no idea... but its a good book so far. I liked his Arthurian mythology series as well, which I believe I recommended earlier on in this thread.
I suppose I could go fast, but I don't, so I don't miss crap. Especially with books like Game of Thrones (recomended to you Alias if you like fantasy. First book is about 900 pages, second is 1000, third is 1100). I take my time and bask in the words and enjoy the little world that the author has made for me to romp about in.
Currently reading Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell, about the battle of Agincourt.
Why he switched the 'g' for a 'z' I have no idea... but its a good book so far. I liked his Arthurian mythology series as well, which I believe I recommended earlier on in this thread.
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Relevant quote is relevant?
Also, on the point of missing stuff, I miss stuff when I read, but I make up for it by re-reading. I've read all the books I own at least twice, most of them five times or more. And I almost always find some little nugget of writing that I missed the previous times, so there's always something new. =)
Relevant quote is relevant?
Also, on the point of missing stuff, I miss stuff when I read, but I make up for it by re-reading. I've read all the books I own at least twice, most of them five times or more. And I almost always find some little nugget of writing that I missed the previous times, so there's always something new. =)
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Yeah... relevant quote is relevant. Well then, yer just a top notch reader and there's nothing I can recommend for you.
Yeah... relevant quote is relevant. Well then, yer just a top notch reader and there's nothing I can recommend for you.
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Meh, I prefer just strolling into Indigo and picking up books that look good. Worked with Bernard Cornwell, worked with Mr. Martin, worked with R.A. Salvatore... so I'll stick with it.
Meh, I prefer just strolling into Indigo and picking up books that look good. Worked with Bernard Cornwell, worked with Mr. Martin, worked with R.A. Salvatore... so I'll stick with it.
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Sly is reading that right now... it seems... different.
Sly is reading that right now... it seems... different.
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Lol I've been meaning to get it for a while now and I had the money this week and went to Cardiff. I haven't read the original yet though. There was another I was gonna buy, Mr. Darcy, Vampire but I didn't know whether I'd have enough money for Crisis Core as well.
Lol I've been meaning to get it for a while now and I had the money this week and went to Cardiff. I haven't read the original yet though. There was another I was gonna buy, Mr. Darcy, Vampire but I didn't know whether I'd have enough money for Crisis Core as well.
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I saw next to that on a bookshelf in a shop Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.