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Posted: Fri Oct 5th, 2007 02:53 pm | 401st Post |
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thanks for that link Stephanie! I downloaded Whiskey Sour and read the whole book yesterday. I stayed up until 1am  ! I feel like crap now, but I did enjoy the book 
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Posted: Fri Oct 5th, 2007 03:14 pm | 402nd Post |
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debinnh wrote: thanks for that link Stephanie! I downloaded Whiskey Sour and read the whole book yesterday. I stayed up until 1am ! I feel like crap now, but I did enjoy the book
I found them by accident. I was just perusing the books at the library and there it was. Sometimes I look at the books they have on special display to see if there is a new series or something that catches my eye and that's how I found this one. I'm reading the second one now, have the third one checked out too and the fourth one is on hold for me at the library when I get there to get it.
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Posted: Sat Oct 6th, 2007 04:25 pm | 403rd Post |
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Catnip wrote: gsc500 wrote: If anyone is interested in trashy romance novels, another author to consider is Stephanie Laurens. Steamy historical romances that don't require much thought are just the ticket for a cruise. 
Thanks for the tip! I have not heard of her before, but I do like trashy romance novels!
What time frame do they take place in?
I used to love "time travel" romance novels, but haven't seen any around lately.
Oooooooo, I love trashy romance and time travel novels.
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Posted: Thu Oct 11th, 2007 12:38 am | 404th Post |
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Oh my - I was lost in the wrong "book" thread, but thanks to Catnip, I found you guys. What an active thread. Anyway, here's what I posted over there:
I have this tradition of stopping in at the airport gift shop to choose a novel specifically for the cruise. I read a bit of it on the plane but am usually too excited to concentrate on it. I then bring it out on the ship while lounging on the promenade deck but am so distracted by the beautiful sea. I'm one of those cruisers who cruise just because I love the sea.
Ironically, I'm now an author who has published her first novel set on a cruise ship. It was a blast writing while we lived in Florida and I could just feel the cruise atmosphere all around me. I can't wait to get back on a cruise ship now that we're back living in the Pacific Northwest. I'll have to bring a stack of my books with me.
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Posted: Thu Oct 11th, 2007 02:00 am | 405th Post |
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Glad you found your way over!!!!!! I don't know how we ended up with 2 book threads.... oh, well..........
What kind of books do you prefer? Any favorite authors?
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Posted: Thu Oct 11th, 2007 03:05 am | 406th Post |
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romancing_the_seas wrote:
Ironically, I'm now an author who has published her first novel set on a cruise ship. It was a blast writing while we lived in Florida and I could just feel the cruise atmosphere all around me.
Tell us about your book!!!!!! How exciting to have a book published!!!! Way to go! 
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Posted: Thu Oct 11th, 2007 04:00 am | 407th Post |
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| I've finally finished reading "The Eight" and have a trashy romance novel packed for the flight and cruise. I rarely read a whole book during a cruise, but I can't go anywhere without one.
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Posted: Thu Oct 11th, 2007 04:25 am | 408th Post |
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Deb,
What did you think of The Eight? Honest review.
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Posted: Thu Oct 11th, 2007 09:26 pm | 409th Post |
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Catnip wrote: romancing_the_seas wrote:
Ironically, I'm now an author who has published her first novel set on a cruise ship. It was a blast writing while we lived in Florida and I could just feel the cruise atmosphere all around me.
Tell us about your book!!!!!! How exciting to have a book published!!!! Way to go!
Thanks for asking catnip! Actually, I just got a wonderful review of it and the reviewer was so good at capturing the flavor of the story. If you click on the link in my sig line it'll take you to my book blog with a link to the review.
Anyway, the short version is it's about 3 women on a Caribbean cruise, with at least 3 men, and a secret past that some of them share. A cruise ship was a great setting to bring characters together and to incorporate some of the idiosyncracies of cruising into the story. Like the fact that people will often reveal their secrets when they're thrown together in confined quarters, such as a plane, train, or cruise ship - and then avoid you later.
It was a lot of fun to write because I got to cruise vicariously through the characters. I'm also having fun working on a book trailer for it and hope to get it out there next week.
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Posted: Thu Oct 11th, 2007 10:37 pm | 410th Post |
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romancing_the_seas wrote: Catnip wrote: romancing_the_seas wrote: Ironically, I'm now an author who has published her first novel set on a cruise ship. It was a blast writing while we lived in Florida and I could just feel the cruise atmosphere all around me.
Tell us about your book!!!!!! How exciting to have a book published!!!! Way to go!
Thanks for asking catnip! Actually, I just got a wonderful review of it and the reviewer was so good at capturing the flavor of the story. If you click on the link in my sig line it'll take you to my book blog with a link to the review.
Anyway, the short version is it's about 3 women on a Caribbean cruise, with at least 3 men, and a secret past that some of them share. A cruise ship was a great setting to bring characters together and to incorporate some of the idiosyncracies of cruising into the story. Like the fact that people will often reveal their secrets when they're thrown together in confined quarters, such as a plane, train, or cruise ship - and then avoid you later.
It was a lot of fun to write because I got to cruise vicariously through the characters. I'm also having fun working on a book trailer for it and hope to get it out there next week.
Inquiring minds want to know... Did you take a cruise to "research" (according to the U.S. Tax Code) for your book???  I'm considering taking up authoring just for the travel benefits!  (Read James Patterson some time -- that man knows the meaning of the phrase, "tax write-off"!!! As does Dan Brown.)
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Posted: Fri Oct 12th, 2007 03:43 am | 411th Post |
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Speaking of James Patterson... For you Alex Cross fans! Release date: 11/13/07
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Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game--this time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case becomes increasingly complex. There's only one thing Alex knows: the killer adores an audience. As victims are made into gruesome spectacles citywide, inducing a media hysteria, it becomes clear to Alex that the man he's after is a genius of terror--and he's after fame. The killer has the whole city by its strings--and he'll stop at nothing to become the most terrifying star that Washington D.C. has ever seen.
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Posted: Fri Oct 12th, 2007 11:12 am | 412th Post |
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Sounds good!
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Posted: Fri Oct 12th, 2007 05:46 pm | 413th Post |
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Inquiring minds want to know... Did you take a cruise to "research" (according to the U.S. Tax Code) for your book??? I'm considering taking up authoring just for the travel benefits! (Read James Patterson some time -- that man knows the meaning of the phrase, "tax write-off"!!! As does Dan Brown.) Hi Becky - Actually, no. I've been cruising since 1982 and just love being at sea. This book was the third novel I wrote and the book that got me a literary agent. Perseverance is the name of the game and when we didn't sell to the big publishers, I knew this was the one to publish anyway. I blog about my whole writing journey on my web site.
The novel I'm writing now is set in Las Vegas - another place I've frequented since childhood.
Maybe some day when I'm "big, rich, and famous" I'll find a way to get those tax write-offs. 
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BeckyThane wrote: I've been stuck on James Patterson's "Black Sunday" for several weeks. It's supposed to be an edge-of-your-seat thriller that you can't put down, but I've found reading a chapter or two at a time and putting it aside far too easy. Is it me, or is it the book? Inquiring minds want to know...
Finally finished Black Sunday today... two months later! So much for it being a page-turner. This was apparently a reprint of an early Patterson novel. You can tell that the main character Arch Carroll is the basis for the later Alex Cross. Interesting to see how the character evolved in the author's mind.
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Posted: Fri Oct 19th, 2007 11:15 pm | 415th Post |
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Somebody mentioned time travel romance novels. I read a good one by Nora Roberts several years ago but I don't remember the name of it. But I think she's written several. I should look into them - I love time travel themes. Anybody watch the new show "The Journeyman" about a time traveler in San Francisco? It's so cool.
BTW, I finished the book trailer for my novel Real Women Wear Red. You can watch it by going to my web site, blog, or going directly to YouTube. Just search on "Real Women Wear Red." Maybe it'll inspire you to book your next cruise (or buy my book?).
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Posted: Wed Oct 24th, 2007 02:57 pm | 416th Post |
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romancing_the_seas wrote: Anybody watch the new show "The Journeyman" about a time traveler in San Francisco? It's so cool.
We are watching it!
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Posted: Wed Oct 24th, 2007 03:07 pm | 417th Post |
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debinnh wrote: I'm thinking the first one is in paperback and I might go pick it up tonight to get me started. The sooner I get the books the faster I will get through them, but I will save one or two for the flights/cruise.
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Deb,
Have you read any yet? Which ones are you taking on your cruise?
Do you still want me to send you the newest one, "Wheel of Darkness"?
It is a good book, but not one of their better ones, imho. You could read it without having read any of their other ones, as it is not a sequel to the "Trilogy". But I would recommend reading the Trilogy first before reading it, as some things will make more sense.
This is from the authors website:
Q. I want to read all your books in which Pendergast appears. What order should I read them in?
A. Ideally, Relic, Reliquary, Cabinet of Curiosities, Still Life With Crows, Brimstone, Dance of Death,The Book of the Dead andThe Wheel of Darkness.
Q. What is the 'Diogenes Trilogy'?
A. Three novels that, together, form the story of Agent Pendergast's epic confrontation with his brother, Diogenes. These books, in order, are: Brimstone, Dance of Death and The Book of the Dead
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| No, I ended up picking up some other "fluffy" books. I don't recall which ones. An Evonavich, A Roberts and one other.
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Posted: Wed Oct 24th, 2007 07:29 pm | 419th Post |
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Do you want me to send The Wheel of Darkness?
If not, let me know when you want it, and I'll send it on to you.
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Posted: Fri Oct 26th, 2007 12:10 am | 420th Post |
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Catnip wrote: Deb,
What did you think of The Eight? Honest review.
I won't say I thought it was VERY good, but it was good enough. I'm one of those people that if it bores me, it won't get finished. I enjoyed the mix of history and adventure along with all the twists and turns in the plot.
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Catnip wrote: debinnh wrote: I'm thinking the first one is in paperback and I might go pick it up tonight to get me started. The sooner I get the books the faster I will get through them, but I will save one or two for the flights/cruise.
deb
Deb,
Have you read any yet? Which ones are you taking on your cruise?
Do you still want me to send you the newest one, "Wheel of Darkness"?
It is a good book, but not one of their better ones, imho. You could read it without having read any of their other ones, as it is not a sequel to the "Trilogy". But I would recommend reading the Trilogy first before reading it, as some things will make more sense.
This is from the authors website:
Q. I want to read all your books in which Pendergast appears. What order should I read them in?
A. Ideally, Relic, Reliquary, Cabinet of Curiosities, Still Life With Crows, Brimstone, Dance of Death,The Book of the Dead andThe Wheel of Darkness.
Q. What is the 'Diogenes Trilogy'?
A. Three novels that, together, form the story of Agent Pendergast's epic confrontation with his brother, Diogenes. These books, in order, are: Brimstone, Dance of Death and The Book of the Dead
After I finished "The Eight" it was time to cruise. I took a "trashy romance novel" along but only read the first chapter. I put it aside when I got home and have started "Wheel of Darkness". As expected, it's a page turner!
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dwrist wrote: Has anyone read Dean Kuntz? My opinion is he beats King all over the place. one of my favorites is "The Watcher".
How about Jean Auel and the Earth Children series? I bought her first book, "Clan of the Cave Bear", back in the 70's for a dollar.
I enjoy reading Michener, specially before cruises, "Carribean", "Alaska", "Hawaii", etc.
My all time favorite read is Allen Drury and his "Advise and Consent" series, political scene that fortold today's political climate.
I'm new here but am trying to catch up by going through all the posts. I think that, instead of trying to remember where all the ones I want to comment on are located, I'll just post as I see them. Hopefully, you'll all put up with me.
Dwrist, we must be close to the same age, because I love the Allen Drury series, the Earth Children series and Michener. I think Centennial was my favorite.
Somewhere, I saw a post on The Glass Castle. I didn't find it depressing. Yes, they were horribly poor, but they didn't know or resent it. Great book, imho.
I also love Lee Childs, Harlan Coben, James Patterson, P.J. Tracey, Kate White, Tess Gerritson, Greg Iles, Sandra Brown, Douglas Preston, John Sandford, Jonathan Kellerman, Fay Kellerman, Kathy Reichs, Tammi Hoag, and on and on. Some of the best books I've read in the last year or so are The Kite Runner, Life of Pi, Memoirs of a Geisha, Year of Wonders, The Road, Ishmael, probably more that my small brain can't remember.
Off to read more posts.
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Posted: Sat Oct 27th, 2007 07:28 pm | 423rd Post |
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dwrist wrote: Okay, now I have to go back and reread the whole Earth Children's series again for about the 12th time.
Try James Patterson's women detective series. I think they read better than his Alan Cross series. Has anyone read Pattterson's series on the bird children?
I'm new and still reading all the posts, so this has probably been answered but, yes, I read and enjoyed them.
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BeckyThane wrote: BeckyThane wrote: Here it is! The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Release date: 8/28/07
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Pendergast has taken Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure and a sense of the world that she's missed. They head to Tibet, where Pendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritual studies. At a remote monastery, they learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen. Pendergast agrees to take up the search. The trail leads him and Constance to the maiden voyage of the Queen Victoria, the world's largest and most luxurious passenger liner--and to an Atlantic crossing fraught with terror.
Okay, I'm resurrecting my old post because...
I'll be reading this on my Carnival Victory cruise on 9/3!
    :cloudnine:  :breakdancer::bunny:
Remember how we talked about doing an Agent Pendergast tribute cruise in conjuction with this book's release, but we were all already booked up? Well, I booked myself up even more, and last night reserved this cruise. Can't wait to get aboard, and can't wait to crack the cover on the latest Pendergast novel!!!
Hi, Becky. John and I will be with you on the Gem in December. You and I can have a mini-Fans of Pendergast reunion. Beth
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Posted: Sat Oct 27th, 2007 07:38 pm | 425th Post |
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beth4652 wrote: dwrist wrote: Okay, now I have to go back and reread the whole Earth Children's series again for about the 12th time.
Try James Patterson's women detective series. I think they read better than his Alan Cross series. Has anyone read Pattterson's series on the bird children?
I'm new and still reading all the posts, so this has probably been answered but, yes, I read and enjoyed them.
Hi Beth, not only do our husbands have something in common but we also. I just ordered the audio of the Earth Children and will upload "Clan of the Cave Bear" unto my mp3 plalyer to listen on the way over to Barcelona. It's 20 hours so should last all the way, if the batteries hold up. Last edited on Sat Oct 27th, 2007 07:39 pm by dwrist
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