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Re: Latest book you have finished

PostPosted: February 7th, 2012, 3:53 pm
by karenleslie
laila_6045 wrote:i was curious enough to read this book about a dystopian society, where people are controlled and monitored by the government ensuring them a long and safe quality of life...Cassia just turned 17 and eligible to be matched through the tried and tested pooling match system of the society...she end up being matched initially to her best friend Xander yet when she went over the microchips containing data of her matched, another face of a boy was displayed for just a min. and she knew the boy and thus begins Cassia's awareness that their govt' is not perfect and not always right, that if given a choice and a chance at all there is a possibility of a different path, a diff. life that may not be perfect and safe like the one she had known her whole life...would she dare to break from the norm, risk her family's safety to be reunited with Ky an aberration, the boy she glimpsed on the monitor as her matched. there were other interesting concept in the story, like in the society only the approved 100 songs, poems, books, etc are being taught everything else is forbidden even writing down letters with pen is no longer practiced so the citizens in the society don't know how to write by pen only by encoding into the computer. cursive form of writing is considered the old ways...so the kind of dystopian world the author has created was interesting enough but not much action in the story because the characters are very much constrained w/c is understandable considering the controlling atmosphere of the setting. i might read the next book of the series.


Very Interesting. Reminds me of the 2005 movie The Island.

Re: Latest book you have finished

PostPosted: February 7th, 2012, 6:56 pm
by thevinethatwrites
Just finished 1Q84 and Divergent. :) I also posted my latest book review here:

http://thebookvineyard.wordpress.com/20 ... al-legacy/

It's about "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks". :)

Re: Latest book you have finished

PostPosted: February 8th, 2012, 12:04 pm
by Memnoch26
... just finished 1Q84... a great piece of work by Murakami...

a bit long -- 3 books....

Re: Latest book you have finished

PostPosted: February 9th, 2012, 8:51 am
by Wanda
Just finished 11/22/63 by Stephen King! Its about a man who travels to the past to stop the assassination of jfk. It was enjoyable but I think Under The Dome did a better jon of holding my attention even if it was 1000 pages long and 11/22/63 was just 800... The middle part was a bit slow.... But picked up towards the end.

I wrote about it here: http://wandafulworldofbooks.blogspot.co ... -king.html

Re: Latest book you have finished

PostPosted: February 9th, 2012, 8:52 am
by Wanda
Hi ivy, how did you find 1Q84?

thevinethatwrites wrote:Just finished 1Q84 and Divergent. :) I also posted my latest book review here:

http://thebookvineyard.wordpress.com/20 ... al-legacy/

It's about "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks". :)

Re: Latest book you have finished

PostPosted: February 9th, 2012, 9:49 am
by karenleslie
Wanda wrote:Just finished 11/22/63 by Stephen King! Its about a man who travels to the past to stop the assassination of jfk. It was enjoyable but I think Under The Dome did a better jon of holding my attention even if it was 1000 pages long and 11/22/63 was just 800... The middle part was a bit slow.... But picked up towards the end. Will post my review on this one soon!



This is on my to read list but have difficulty of finding. have you got a hardbound copy or a paperback one?

Re: Latest book you have finished

PostPosted: February 9th, 2012, 10:20 am
by Wanda
Hi Karenleslie! I read the hardbound one. I don't think the paperback is out yet. It's available in Fully Booked Greenhills (Promenade) and also Eastwood and Gateway. Where are you near? I suggest to call the branch before making the trip :-)

here are the phone numbers for Fully Booked:
fully-booked-branches-t68.html-a

National:
national-bookstore-branches-metro-manila-t67.html


karenleslie wrote:
Wanda wrote:Just finished 11/22/63 by Stephen King! Its about a man who travels to the past to stop the assassination of jfk. It was enjoyable but I think Under The Dome did a better jon of holding my attention even if it was 1000 pages long and 11/22/63 was just 800... The middle part was a bit slow.... But picked up towards the end. I wrote about it here: http://wandafulworldofbooks.blogspot.co ... -king.html



This is on my to read list but have difficulty of finding. have you got a hardbound copy or a paperback one?

Re: Latest book you have finished

PostPosted: February 9th, 2012, 10:25 am
by jenius_03
Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare

I like the series where this book belongs than the Mortal Instruments series (same author).

Re: Latest book you have finished

PostPosted: February 9th, 2012, 10:32 am
by jenius_03
Th1rteen R3asons Why by Jay Asher

Though I've finished this last year, I still would like to share it. It's about how one lie/rumor about a person can snowball into one big emotional burden. It also falls to the lines of "It Gets Better" project.

Re: Latest book you have finished

PostPosted: February 10th, 2012, 10:21 pm
by conan_barbero
Never imagined i'll have the patience to finish a book that's a thousand pages long. But I just finished 3 and I'm on to my 4th :)