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Post by PogsKlinc on Mar 6, 2008 15:27:59 GMT -5
Snap, I liked Next, but I am also a scientist who works with genetic information, so the whole idea of the book intrigued me. How interesting.  Genetics have always interested me. Right now, instead of reading, I'm just learning lines for the play I'm in. |
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Post by alyk on Mar 6, 2008 19:11:10 GMT -5
jlyn, I've read that. It's boring. Good luck on your test. With what kinds of animals do you want to work? I work with livestock.
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Post by jlyn1980 on Mar 6, 2008 21:10:27 GMT -5
The Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals... LOL, I'm trying to get certification as an Assistant Laboratory Animal Technician. I'm taking my test on Friday, so that is what I have been reading. Anything about bunnies in there? About not letting duplicates get too close together? ;D No, but it does say that bunnies really like cooler temps, so I hope they are not breeding them on the island. |
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Post by jlyn1980 on Mar 6, 2008 21:12:30 GMT -5
jlyn, I've read that. It's boring. Good luck on your test. With what kinds of animals do you want to work? I work with livestock. Thanks Alyk. It's intersting. I work with mice. Do you work in Animal Research or Agriculture? |
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Post by snap on Mar 8, 2008 8:45:24 GMT -5
NEXT was decent. Good, but not amazing. Is Crichton obsessed with embryo theft or what?
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Post by PogsKlinc on Mar 8, 2008 9:46:12 GMT -5
NEXT was decent. Good, but not amazing. Is Crichton obsessed with embryo theft or what? Well, if it makes a good book, what do I care?  I'm just starting Case of Need now. (It's another Michael Chricton book.) |
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Post by benxtaron on Mar 8, 2008 13:55:30 GMT -5
Just finished Stephen King's "IT". Gonna probably finish Bag of Bones next.
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Post by Robin on Mar 11, 2008 7:54:51 GMT -5
Ooh, that's a good one, too. Have you read and/or seen The Mist yet?
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Post by alyk on Mar 11, 2008 8:28:30 GMT -5
I'm back to my royal history books. At Costco yesterday I picked up Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe by Nancy Goldstone. I'm about 50 pages in and it's really interesting.
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Post by benxtaron on Mar 16, 2008 19:46:39 GMT -5
Ooh, that's a good one, too. Have you read and/or seen The Mist yet? Yup. Enjoyed the book and the movie immensly. |
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Post by Robin on Mar 17, 2008 13:36:24 GMT -5
I gotta say, I was pretty ticked at the tacked-on ending.  |
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Post by jlyn1980 on Mar 17, 2008 20:40:13 GMT -5
I'm going to start reading Harry Potter again, so I can be all caught up for the movie. But that is after I get done with "The Other Bolyen."
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Post by Robin on Mar 18, 2008 7:25:52 GMT -5
Yet another franchise that benefits from having an end. Yeah, great books. I went through those quickly. What book are you on?
I don't know if comic books count in this topic, but for all the comic geeks out there, I just got done reading Kingdom Come and Justice back-to-back and now after much delay and much prodding by my friends, I am about to enter the world of the Watchmen.
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Post by jlyn1980 on Mar 18, 2008 16:38:36 GMT -5
Yet another franchise that benefits from having an end. Yeah, great books. I went through those quickly. What book are you on? I don't know if comic books count in this topic, but for all the comic geeks out there, I just got done reading Kingdom Come and Justice back-to-back and now after much delay and much prodding by my friends, I am about to enter the world of the Watchmen. I've read them all before. I wanted to read them all before the movie comes out. But now I see it does not come out until November, so I can wait until it gets closer to start read them. |
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Post by Linda on Mar 18, 2008 16:57:10 GMT -5
"The Analyst" - John Katzenbach I had a little difficulty recently. Nothing major, just an error here, a glitch there, and all of a sudden I receive an unpleasant letter promising me a branding more indelible than that visited upon Cain. I was fortunately able to exercise a bit of quick damage control and get things corrected before they started to spiral out of control. All of it was the result of a simple error that was apparently unintentional. What was interesting, though, was that after the smoke cleared, the dust settled, and a half dozen computers between here and Colorado were satisfied, I got to thinking how crazed things might have been if someone had decided to screw around with my life just for grins and giggles.
And that, boys and girls, is exactly what happens in THE ANALYST, the new thriller by John Katzenbach. Dr. Frederick Starks is a psychoanalyst who is burned out on his profession, a vaguely unpleasant widower who is just going through the motions of his profession and who derives few pleasures from his life other than the predictability of his routine. This all changes, however, on his 53rd birthday when Starks receives an anonymous, and fateful, warning.
The warning is quite to the point. The sender advises Starks that Starks, somewhere, somehow, in the past, ruined his life, and now he is going to ruin Starks's life. It doesn't stop there, however. Starks is given 30 days to determine the identity of the sender. If Starks is unsuccessful, he must take his own life, or the life of one of his relatives --- most of whom he has not maintained contact with --- will be forfeit. Every aspect of Starks's life --- professional, emotional, and personal --- almost immediately begins to fall apart. Starks soon has only one asset left: his intellect, a tool he brings to bear on his dilemma as he recovers from the devastation and slowly begins to turn things around on his unknown persecutor --- an individual who literally could be anyone.
Katzenbach succeeds on so many levels with THE ANALYST that it is easy to overlook the most important one. Katzenbach takes Sparks, a thoroughly unsympathetic character, and infuses so much suspense into his plight that the reader is not only enthralled with the tale but compelled to continue, notwithstanding the nature of the protagonist. THE ANALYST also functions quite well as a cautionary tale for our times, whether such was Katzenbach's intent or not. The electronic web of information that clings to each of us, wherever we go, is by turns very strong and very fragile. What we gain in convenience is weighted by what we sacrifice in privacy. I'm not entirely sure that the scales balance at all times, if at all.
Katzenbach, whose literary career will be bolstered in any event by the film adaptation of his HART'S WAR, has seen his name become synonymous with psychological suspense. THE ANALYST should cement that reputation for good.[/soiler] |
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Genetics have always interested me. 
I'm just starting Case of Need now. (It's another Michael Chricton book.)
