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I actually have both read and viewed The Prestige; I wouldn't have thought of that as steam punk so I want to consider that a bit. I haven't read any China Mieville because I thought his work was supposed to be very dark, urban punk fantasy. How does the steampunk fit into that? Or is my ... ... Millhauser
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The Third Policeman by O'Brien
Homo Zapiens by Pelevin
The Prestige by Priest
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Flicker by Theodore Roszak
The Moor's Last Sigh by Rushdie
All the Names by Jose Sarama ... ... for the second half.
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. It could never live up to the book, but still good.
The Prestige by Christopher Priest. One of the few occasions were I preferred the movie. I liked the changes Nolan made to the story.
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. An ... finished The Prestige by Christopher Priest
category: Speculative Fiction
C2005 416 pages 4stars
When I finished watching the movie The Prestige I was in awe of the story. It is a well-crafted tale and I was curious to see what the source material was like. When I discovered that it ... I'm starting The Prestige by Christopher Priest.
It wasn't in my original 999 list but I've found myself making a lot of substitutions lately! I know you said you watched The Prestige but did you know it was a book first? It's by Christopher Priest and it's very good. I have not seen the movie version. ... Diaries
New Moon
The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Oryx and Crake
The Prestige
Peony in Love
Shutter Island
The Terror
True at First Light
I'll do a separate post for non-fiction. But my real goal is to read 15,000 pages in ... ... spoilers. Giving specific examples would be sort of counter-productive.
But, since you asked:
****SPOILERS*****
For The Prestige, I would rather not have seen the tag "twins" before reading the book.
For Breaking Dawn, though this one was spoiled for me by a friend rather than by ... The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Pet Cemetary by Stephen King ... more often.
Edit: Also look for anything that's been made into a film - Atonement, Perfume, The Virgin Suicides, The Prestige, Mystic River. All of those, incidentally, are good or great books, with good or great movie adaptations. ... the beginning, although it's not necessary to read the first few (which I don't think are particularly good anyway).
Try The Prestige by Christopher Priest. The book and movie have different takes on the story and I had many internet discussions on it when the movie came out.
For ... If you like stories about magicians, try The Prestige. It was awesome! For something with a bit more fantasy twist, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is pretty good. ... Cormac McCarthy
One True Thing by Anna Quindlen
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
Silence of the Lambs by T ... ... - Joe Hill
Sandman, Volume 5: A Game Of You - Neil Gaiman
Hellboy, Volume 1: Seed Of Destruction - Mike Mignola
The Prestige - Christopher Priest
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
* The Stand - Stephen King
The Year Of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion ... ... wrap-up!
Total books read: 48
Fiction: 42
Nonfiction: 6
Top picks: the baker's dozen of 2008, in random order:
The Prestige
The Graveyard Book
Jane Eyre
Persuasion
The Book Thief
World War Z
Watchmen
Out of the Silent Planet
Canterbury Tales
Cyrano de Berger ... ... In Flames
The Three Musketeers
Wyrd Sisters
The Year Of Magical Thinking
Disgrace
Guards! Guards!
The Prestige
20th Century Ghosts
Moving Pictures
Dreams From My Father
Small Gods
An Anthropologist On Mars
The Graveyard Book
Girl With A Pearl Earring ... The Prestige is now added to the HUGE tbr pile Yep. The Prestige was fantastic! I'm one of those people who separate out the movie from the book, and love both. We just sent the movie back to netflix this morning. Read The Prestige lat night. Three words:
Fantastic!
Fantastic!
Fantastic!
Oh, and mesmerizing and spellbinding as well. :)
This book was absolutely marvelous. I could not put it down. It started out a bit slow (partially because I was not expected for the layout of the book - the movie ... Forsook all other tasks to finish The Prestige last night. Absolutely fantastic! I could not put it down! It started out a bit slow, especially since I went in thinking about the movie. This book is WAY better than the movie. There are so many more plot lines, characters, character nuances...oh, I ... ... by Kenneth Johnson (5/9/2009)
8. Regenesis by C J Cherryh (3/26/2009)
9. The Prestige by Christopher Priest (7/19/2009)
CATEGORY COMPLETE 8.9.2009 I loved The Prestige, then read it the book. It was different from the movie, but also excellent. So two finds in one!
The wife and I haven't really connected with anything this fall so far. The season premiere of Chuck is coming up, and that'll be fun. There are a couple of new shows I want ... ... set in New York, not London/England.
Fingersmith and Affinity by Sarah Waters, author of Tipping the Velvet.
The Prestige by Christopher Priest is very good, and differs quite a bit from the excellent movie adaption.
The Flashman novels of George MacDonald Fraser are a must, ... ... space machine to political near-future thriller The quiet woman (amazing wrong touchstone just came up!) and, of course, The prestige, which was the basis for the film of the same name.
Priest is also active in fandom, and made a stunning critique of Harlan Ellison over some anthology or ... ... - although Inverted World is the most overtly sf novel he's written. Definitely worth reading are The Separation, The Prestige, and The Glamour. Oui c'était mon premier livre de lui, la description que tu en fait est juste :-D Enfin c'est ce que j'ai ressenti ! ... fan de Christopher Priest ! Et La Séparation est je dirais mon deuxième livre préféré de cet auteur (après Le Prestige).
Je ne sais pas si c'était le premier livre de lui que tu lisais ; c'est assez déroutant au début et clairement, il faut aimer les puzzles :) Mais bon, j'ad ... ... Prayers
3. The Meaning of Night: A Confession
4. Cyrano de Bergerac
5. The Prestige
6. The Dante Club
7. The Caine Mutiny
8. Cold Sassy Tree ... with the Scientists (also includes An Adventure with Ahab)
Goodbye to All That
The Meaning of Night: A Confession
The Prestige
The Lady and the Unicorn
And none of the books were over $10! :) ... I'll buckle down (get away from all the other books in my house) and read straight through it next.
>52 I tried to read The Prestige for a book club and I couldn't finish it becasue it was boring. Then I saw the movie and loved it. The thing is, I wouldn't understand the movie without ... The Prestige, mainly. Very good so far; I honestly think I like it more having seen the movie. ...
I was at a meeting of the Birmingham SF Group last night, where Christopher Priest talked about the process by which The Prestige turned from book to film. That process was long-winded, did not hold out prospects of generating much in the way of money for a long time, and separated Chris ... ... chiridion
The Grand Inquisitor
A Letter Concerning Toleration
Plato: Apology
The Politics of International Law
The Prestige
The United States and the Rule of Law in International Affairs
The Wrong Stuff: The Extraordinary Saga of Duke Cunningham
Twilight
New Moon
Eclips ... ... and I am willing to read any premise by him (and it helps that he comes up with really neat ideas)- I've already read The Prestige and The Glamour.
I got The Genizah at the House of Shepher which I've been wanting to read since it came out the first time in hardback. ...
14. A Sword from Red Ice by J.V. Jones
15. The Escapement by K.J. Parker
16. Julius Winsome by Gerard Donovan
17. The Prestige by Christopher Priest
18. Stranger in Paradise by Robert B. Parker
19. Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
20. The Nymphos of Rocky Flats by Mario Acevedo
21 ... ... me up, carried me off then deposited me gently when it was done. It reminded me why I've been a constant reader.
15 The Prestige Christopher Priest
Here's the thing, I loved the movie, so much I wanted to read the book. I find most of the time a book will explain things the movie ... ... than one book...haha..
I am reading:
*The Host by Stephenie Meyer
*Dragon's Keep by Janet Lee Carey
*The Prestige by Christopher Priest
and I'm going to reread Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien for last minute school purposes
I'm pretty sure that's my list ... ... ription!
Also, avoid hideously ugly covers. I honestly don't know what the person who designed the movie-tie-in cover for The Prestige was thinking. I've literally never seen a worse cover in my life. ... is happening, but a secondary timeline of people trying to figure out the mystery.
Geek Love, Water for Elephants, The Prestige all have the one main timeline with a framing secondary structure, although the two timelines don't interplay quite so much as in the other books you list.
Y ... 13. The Prestige by Christopher Priest.
This book kept me wondering even though I've seen the movie. I really enjoyed it! 16 The Prestige Christopher Priest
Here's the thing, I loved the movie, so much I wanted to read the book. I find most of the time a book will explain things the movie leaves open. Ok not this time, not so much. The book is good, I liked it, but found myself annoyed it didn't follow the ... ... and Noble and picked up:
Dzur by Steven Brust
Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
Spin State by Chris Moriarty
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Looking for Jake by China Mieville
Like my TBR pile needed any new additions. Oh, I was bad today.
Looking for Jake by China Mieville
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
Spin State by Chris Moriarty
Dzur by Steven Brust
...
The Affirmation by Christopher Priest.
The Glamour by Christopher Priest.
Dream Archipelago by Christopher Priest
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Darker Than You Think by Jack Williamson
Was by Geoff Ryman
Sea-Kings Of Mars by Leight Brackett (sword and planet)
The next ... ... the merits of the book--despite the fact that the book involves a conceit that seems unfilmable.
#16, I did read The Prestige before the movie was released, and I prefer the book. But I concede that the movie was worth watching. (Not as good as The Illusionist, though!) #16, fyrefly98 - I felt much the same about the two versions of The Prestige, and I read the book before I saw the movie.
I think the filmmakers did a really good job with High Fidelity. A lot of the writing came straight from the book, and it captured the tone just perfectly. 1) Mr. Vertigo by PaulAuster
2) The Prestige by Christopher Priest
3) The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes In Cold Blood
The Prestige
any of the Dresden Files
The Looking Glass Wars
The Girl Next Door
I thought The Prestige was actually better than the book (I enjoyed the book too, but I thought the movie was tighter and hung together a bit better). I wonder if my opinion would have been different if I'd read it first, then seen it. My Santa did a wonderful job, too. I got The Prestige and a retelling of the Odyssey from Penelope's pov by Margaret Atwood.
thanks, Santa! 107. The Prestige by Christopher Priest. 3.5 stars. It would have been 4 or maybe 4.5, but the ending was just so disappointing to me. #83 Storeetllr Yes, I did watch The Prestige because it contained 2 of my favorite actors in it...Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman. I had to watch it twice to fully understand it tho. LOL I saw the movie of The Prestige before I read it. I enjoyed the movie quite a bit, but I really liked the book. I'm glad I read the book second, because I think I wouldn't have enjoyed it nearly as much. (I thought the acting was great.) #78 Yes, The Prestige was adapted into a movie a couple of years ago. Did you see it? Is The Prestige the same one they made the movie out of? I'm liking The Prestige a lot more now that I'm a little further into it. ... by Robert Clark
The Madness of a Seduced Woman by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
honorable mentions -
Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman
The Chess Machine by Robe ... Just started The Prestige by Christopher Priest. Also listening to Mountains of the Pharoahs by Zawi Hawass, which tells about the building of the great pyramid at Giza. It's good, but I think it would be better as a book because of all the detailed descriptions. I'm sure the book must ... ... of the Blue Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Nickel and Dimed
Feed
Courtesan
The Hollow Kingdom
The Prestige
Stardust
Twilight
Close Kin
Schooled
Ella Enchanted
Mere Christianity
The Wealthy Barber
The Great Divorce
Luminous Cities
The Myth ... ... by Le Carre, just started (again) The Curse of the Pharaohs, second in the Amelia Peabody series and also just started The Prestige on audio. Those ought to keep me busy.
... Know by Mike Carey
The Chess Machine by Robert Lohr
Don't look now, but Heart-shaped Box might get the bump - by The Prestige. I'm not done with it, but it is excellent. Not much in common with the movie though I do like the movie for its own merits. ... is
Both about psychopathic killers, but with different approaches.
Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold and The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Both about magicians in a by-gone age, and both with wonderfully twisting-turning plots that keep you guessing till the very end!
... I'm reading The Subtle Knife and listening to The Prestige.
Kerian, what are you reading? ... X-men: The Tomorrow People by Marvel****
Y: The Last Man - Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan ***1/2
Audiobooks:
The Prestige by Christopher Priest ****
The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis ****
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger ****1/2
Read with my ... I finished listening to The Prestige which I enjoyed as much as the movie. The ending of the book was creepier than the movie and I actually had to pause five minutes from the end to let my heart calm down.
Now listening to The Magician's Nephew read by Kenneth Branagh which I tried ... #273 & 274 sandragon and xicanti, I was so creeped out listening to the ending of The Prestige! It was late at night and I ended up waking up my husband 'cause it just freaked me out. Very cool ending. I listened to the book before seeing the movie and found it really spoiled the movie for me ... ***SPOILERS FOR THE PRESTIGE BELOW***
I actually thought that the movie handled the twins twist much better. I found it unsatisfying in the book; I was sure it couldn't be the real answer. I bought into it in the movie, though, perhaps because of all the little visual hints that ... #215 - xicanti, I finished listening to The Prestige last night and I really enjoyed it as well. I watched the movie first and I felt the book fleshed out the movie story and added to it, even though the book was more purposely vague about who was who. But maybe I preferred this vagueness ... ... Travers ****
Currently working on:
Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
The Prestige by Christopher Priest on audio
... and the changes didn't bother me at all.
I can think of two movies that I actually thought were better than their books; The Prestige, and Brokeback Mountain. Anyone else have any? ... I'm going to pace out her books as they are big and meaty and I don't want to OD on her.
At the moment I'm listening to The Prestige by Christopher Priest and reading The Last Days by Scott Westerfeld. I've also picked up In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson to dip in and ... sandragon, I'll be interested in hearing what you think of The Prestige. I read it about a year ago and really enjoyed it, though I felt that certain plot twists were handled much better in the movie.
Yesterday I finished Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb in a marathon reading session. (I kind ... ... by Neil Gaiman, which I may pick up again to read another short story and just to get it done. I'm now listening to The Prestige by Christopher Priest.
#20 and 21 - I have Snow Flower and the Secret Fan on audio but I haven't started it yet. I keep hearing about the foot ... Didn't care for So You Want to be a Wizard, but ended up finishing The Thief Lord which I did enjoy. Now listening to The Prestige by Christopher Priest. I watched the movie last weekend and I'm hoping the book is as good (though I am aware it is quite different from the movie). I ... ... last couple years, I thought I should check this one out. I did like it but I don't know, wasn't super impressed.
21. The Prestige by Christopher Priest
I saw the movie first, and the book is incredibly different. It made me wish I had read it before watching the film, but I still ... ... which is fantastic and easily the best book I've read all year. I'm also meaning to work on King John of Canada and The Prestige, both of which I'm halfway through and being strongly encouraged by other people to finish.
LF2: The Hollow Kingdom, of course! ... Era by Robert J. Sawyer
19. Jennifer Government by Max Barry
20. Robota by Doug Chiang and Orson Scott Card
21. The Prestige by Chistopher Priest
22. Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer
23. The Facts Of Life by Graham Joyce
24. Travels by Michael Crichton
25. Confessions Of ... ... had fun writing it. I liked how the authors would play on what the other had written. Has made me reconsider picking up The Prestige, which I believe is written in letter form.
I too got confused at first between the aunts but that didn't bother me at all. I just thought of them as that ... ... hoping to finish a few of the books that I'm halfway through, including Voices from Chernobyl, King John of Canada, and The Prestige. ... Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Stand by Stephen King
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
All excellent books from different genres and all well worth picking up. I've loved all of these and if you try them, I hope you'll ... ... Goldman - it's one of those wonderful books that has everything you could possibly want!
I also highly recommend The Prestige by Christopher Priest - MUCH better than the film and full of intrigue.
If you like classics, Pride and Prejudice and Northange Abbey, both by Jan ... ... one book I started last month - The Separation by Christopher Priest - I enjoyed it, but not nearly so much as I did The Prestige. This one didn't feel as complete and well-rounded.
Then I read and reviewed Daughters of the Doge by Edward Charles for The Book Bag, but it was ... ... - perhaps it was just too over-hyped for me.
Am now moving onto The Separation by Christopher Priest. I read The Prestige earlier in the year and really enjoyed his style, so I'm hoping this one will be just as good! I'll be starting The Separation by Christopher Priest today. I read The Prestige earlier in the year and loved it, so I'm hoping I'll enjoy this one just as much! # 4 richardderus - I have The Separation waiting on my shelf. I read The Prestige earlier in the year and loved it, so I went straight out and bought another Christopher Priest book. :) ... need to start my new books immediately, before I'm done with the previous ones). So I really should finish at least one of The Prestige, The Secret History, and Voices from Chernobyl. But I think I'm being overly ambitious, since I have two essays to write and exams to study for.... ... in that period of history, but I've since picked up a copy of The Separation by Christopher Priest (having read The Prestige and really enjoying his style). I have a huge pile of books to read (about 70 at the moment), but I plan on getting to it as soon as possible... I've had quite a good crop of reading so far this year:
Books:
The Prestige - Christopher Priest
The Eagle in the Sand - Simon Scarrow
The Boleyn Inheritance - Philippa Gregory
Adept - Robert Finn
The Complete Maus - Art Spiegelman
Karma - Holly A Harvey ... ... Lee (40th anniv.)
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Insight Meditation: A St ... Re: The Prestige - I read the book back in October, then rented the movie a couple of weeks ago. I think I enjoyed the latter more. It was very different, but it felt like some things came together better in the movie than in the book. For example, I didn't really buy Borden's trick in the ... ... resist. It's short and sweet, another era.
Why is it Lions touchstone never works??
firefly and phlox, I read The Prestige first and really enjoyed it, although I thought the ending a bit odd. But it really spoiled the movie for me because the movie was SO different. My husband ... >63 - Phlox - Have you seen the movie version of The Prestige? How did you think they compared?
I actually liked the movie better than the book, which is really rare for me (I did like the book a lot too)... although I saw the movie first so I "knew how the trick was done" when I read the ... Finished The Prestige by Christopher Priest recently and now reading The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman. I really enjoyed The Prestige and I'm thoroughly enjoying The Golden Compass as well. I intend to continue with the other two books in Pullman's His Dark Materials series ... I read several very good books in January, but the best one was The Prestige by Christopher Priest. I was so impressed I had to go out & buy another book by him, just to see if it could possibly be anywhere near as good. i've not started it yet (due to reading group commitments), but I plan ... ... to the plot at all.
Next up is Sorcery and Cecelia, which I just barely started last night. I'm also partway through The Prestige; The Sleepwalkers; Gödel, Escher, Bach; Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution; The Exact Sciences in Antiquity; Episodes ... I'm reading The Prestige and really enjoying it, though I don't have much time to devote to it. I may run a bath and just read straight through tonight.
I'm also reading Pride of Baghdad this week to catch up before my book club meeting on Feb 8th! It's a graphic novel, but supposed to be ... morphidae, I love Flowers for Algernon!
The next books that I'm planning to read are:
The Prestige by Christopher Priest (already started)
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich (already started)
Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics by Asger Aaboe (already ... ... really started yet - it currently consists mainly of assorted Greek prose for my upcoming exam. But I'm reading snatches of The Prestige by Christopher Priest and Specials by Scott Westerfeld, and I should finish at least one of them by next weekend. I'm really enjoying The Prestige, ... ... continuation of his Cartoon History of the Universe (renamed for arcane publishing reasons). I'm also halfway through The Prestige, which I'm enjoying a lot. Possibly even more than the movie, though I liked that too. ... past couple of weeks, since I have exams coming up at the beginning of next week. But I've slowly been progressing through The Prestige by Christopher Priest and Specials by Scott Westerfeld. I'm enjoying The Prestige a lot more, but Specials is good for light reading despite ... ... a copy! I don't know whether I'll get around to it before the Canada Reads broadcasts, though.
Right now I'm reading The Prestige by Christopher Priest. I'm really enjoying it so far; I think I've been reading too much YA lately, so this is just what I needed. I put down Specials ... ... Nothing
Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie by Holly Black
Harry Potter 7
Adult Fiction
The Historian
The Prestige
Fabrizio's Return
Books 2-7 of the Pelbar Cycle by Paul O. Williams (these are post-apocalyptic, and I really liked the first one)
Apple: New Crimson ... ... of it - but my wife gave up after just a few pages.
> 13: fyrefly98 : Thanks for the encouragement to see the movie of The Prestige - if it's not going to be ruined by my preconceptions from the book then I will probably seek it out.
I'm definitely not well versed in 'Eng Lit' but did ... Greyhead - I enjoyed both the movie and the book of The Prestige, although I did it in the opposite order - movie first, book second. I would still recommend the movie, even if you know the "trick"(s), because the movie actually adds/changes some elements that I thought made it a little tighter ... ... AustenAnother Christopher Brookmyre this week: Not the end of the World - delightful; and close to finishing The Prestige by Christopher Priest - thoroughly good bed-time reading but has probably spoiled any chance of my enjoying the movie. ... Pain 1914
1996 Graham Swift
Last Orders
1996 Alice Thompson
Justine
1995 Christopher Priest
The Prestige
1994 Alan Hollinghurst
The Folding Star
1993 Caryl Phillips
Crossing the River
1992 Rose Tremain
Sacred Country
1991 Ian Sinclai ... ... Pain 1914
1996 Graham Swift
Last Orders
1996 Alice Thompson
Justine
1995 Christopher Priest
The Prestige
1994 Alan Hollinghurst
The Folding Star
1993 Caryl Phillips
Crossing the River
1992 Rose Tremain
Sacred Country
1991 Ian Sinclai ... ... Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce. Actually, change that to "anxiously trying to get through Lady Knight so I can dive into The Prestige".
morphidae - I've heard about Color: A Natural History of the Palette and have been intrigued. What do you think of it so far? Any good for a non-art-hi ... The film version of The Prestige by Christopher Priest is out in theatres now. I only found out it was a novel after seeing the movie, but the movie is excellent! I'm still reading The Prestige by Christopher Priest, but I've also started Elfquest: Wolfrider volume 1 as a sort of an aside. It arrived in the mail today and I couldn't resist digging in right away. ... fiction, but the books are about a forensic entomologist so I thought I'd give them a try, hehe)
From Amazon:
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Woman in White by Wilkie ... I'll be starting The Prestige by Christopher Priest soon, but I think I'll quickly whip through Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers by Bill Willingham et al first. It just came in for me at the library, and I'm in a graphic novel sort of a mood. ... heard of Lisa Goldstein or James Blaylock, ahhh, yet more to add to my TBR list!
You've captured it well with The Prestige, mysterious, yet incomplete - perfectly put, just seemed to leave me wondering. I was very disappointed in the movie last night - TOTALLY different from the ... katylit, I also listened to The Prestige recently, and I enjoyed it -- mostly -- but it definitely is odd. I had the feeling at many junctures that the story was supposed to feel mysterious but that it actually just felt incomplete, and I thought (possibly incorrectly) that some of the period ... ... to have to get the John Cleese version I think - I keep seeing it mentioned and recommended.
I finished listening to The Prestige (I think we're going to see the movie tonight) and it was very good - the ending was odd though - I thought. What did anybody else think?
I've spent the ... ... re-reading Harry Potter right now along with a Wilkie Collins classic Armadale for a book group. I'm also listening to The Prestige on my iPod. So my tastes are eclectic, that's the joy of reading eh? So many books, so many subjects and styles, way too little time!
I keep hearing about ... ... the book many times so I guess unabridged shouldn't be too critical, but would appreciate your opinion.
I also recommend Prestige as you mentioned, it's really good!
Aren't iPods wonderful? And also put Prestige on the list. I haven't read any of Priest's stuff yet, but it looks intereting. ... reading Armadale for my book club. It's great, lots of Victorian gothic mystery, secrets etc. I'm also listening to The Prestige, the previews for the movie look good and I've wanted to "read" the book first, the narrator is pretty good and the story is intriguing. I just finished ... That sounds good Storeetllr, I'm listening to Prestige right now on my iPod, also good - intriguing. I just finished listening to The Time Traveler's Wife which was WONDERFUL!! Two awesome narrators who really made the story come alive.
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