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changolote is currently reading Grammar Devotional and DailyLit's Sci Fi Channel.

I’m 50 years old, male, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since February 22, 2007. My reading interests include Adventure.

The Girl in the Golden Atom - Classic fun

Remember Steve Martin and "Let's Get Small"? Mix that with Horton Hears a Who, and that's this book. A chemist devises a way to grow and shrink a person infinitely small or large. Turns out, entire universes exist in the atoms of other objects. Quite simplistic, but nonetheless an entertaining read.

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Operation Terror - more classic sci fi fun

I love Robert Heinlein's juvenile books, and this is in a similar vane. Short, fast moving--something alien has crashed into a Colorado lake, people are disappearing, their futuristic weapon disables everything--motors, electiricity, even causing paralysis. Can they be stopped? Apparantly only one man can! How awesome is that!

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Brigands of the Moon - classic sci fi fun

This is a real fun read. Cummings died in 1957, yet published (according to infallible Wikipedia) 750 novels and short stories. Brigands of the moon is a tale in the future where interplanetary travel is common, and the moon is being exported for her minerals. Some kind of ultra valuable mineral is due to be shipped to earth but brigands posing as tourists have bought tickets to the ship. One could easily see this book as an old time Saturday matinee serial with a cliffhanger every week. Great read by the man who gave us The Girl in the Golden Atom.

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King Solomon's Mines - Great fun

Looking for an adventure book and this fit the bill. Lots of fun, the daily lit email format provides a nice cliffhanger effect so that over the last three days I read the final 25 installments (dailylit.com for "I couldn't put it down").

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Question of the Week - Favorite Banned Books

The Bible. It's gotten more people killed than any of these others.

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Question of the Week - Off to Lilliput!

Narnia. Or perhaps Middle Earth.

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A Study in Scarlet - good

readable.

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The Island of Doctor Moreau - Interesting

Classic tale emphasizing man's beastliness. A survivor of a sunken ship is picked up by a ship with odd cargo and even odder passengers. He's dumped on an island with said cargo and passengers, to discover that it is a macabre experimental station--the classic mad scientist in charge performing a primitive form of genetic engineering.. Interesting read, lots of food for thought about--are we really that much higher than the animals? evolution--are we that far along? or are we so unique in creation that the gap can't be bridged?

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Adventure Books - Adventure Fans

If you want Heinlein, most public library's have Stranger in a Strange land.

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A Scandal in Bohemia - hmm

Didn't know that Holmes could be outdone by a woman. Nice story with a twist ending for us Sherlock Holmes newbies. Compares well with the recent movie (released Jan 2010).

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The Final Problem - Surprising

I didn't know that there was a grand finale to the Sherlock Holmes tales of Doyle, but this is it. Very good, brief, and pithy. Lot of fun.

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The Tell-Tale Heart - The Tell-Tale Heart one of Edgars best

Nice, short, emotive. My daughter got flustered because I thought the ending was funny. But I love how Poe created the emotions and atmosphere.

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Ivan the Fool - nice moral

Perhaps a nice moral for today--the honor of hard work, necessity of sharing.

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Dr. Heidegger's Experiment - Nice and quick

A nice, quick read. Somewhat predictable ending, but probably subsequent "fountain of youth" stories took their cue from Hawthorne so, had we been contemporaries of Hawthorne the plot would have been unique and the ending less predictable.

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The Lost World - Loved it

Though familiar with Sherlock Holmes, I had never actually READ any of Doyle's stuff. This was tremendous. If it had been written today, someone would pressure him into making it a trilogy. Best introduction one could have to dailylit, as every day was like a cliff hanger.

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - oh

they made a whole movie out of this?

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Overclocked - Pretty good

Six short stories, I had never heard of Doctorow but this was pretty cool. Two stories were dull/pointless--I, Rowboat and Printjob (or whatever the first one was called). The other 4 were all great stories and in fact reflected a great variety. Anda's Game I thought was very creative; I,Robot moved at a great pace; the one about the seige started kind of slowed, but the last 20 installments--I just kept clicking "send next installment immediately." Would like to have had the book copy for my recent trip.

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Etc. - Question of the Week #12: Unfinished Books

I'd have to go with Robinson Crusoe. I started it with daily lit, but goodness I couldn't get through the fourth day. BTW, Moby Dick--I spent a year in rural Mexico--no tv, no english radio, and that is the kind of situation you need to be in (NO OTHER ENTERTAINMENT). In fact, that was the situation when I also finally read A Tale of Two Cities(in high school, I did the cliff notes thing). Turned out to be a great read. Maybe many of the classics, especially those written before say, 1930, are so tough for us moderns as all our technology and other venues are too distracting.

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From the Earth to the Moon - Lots of fun

If you're a physics/chemistry/history geek, this is a blast, literally. A great look at the level of science in post-Civil War USA. Very interesting in understanding what they understood about the moon and space travel.

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The Art of War - Interesting

Reads like a leadership guide, fascinating in its age. I have often stereotyped ancient man as not near our level of intelligence, but this book and its guiding principles could have been written today. It's about tactics and strategy, insight into a great man's mind.

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100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money - 100 ways? I'm not even sticking around for #3...

I'm nearly done, and nothing really earth shattering. Like Peters himself, I could take it or leave it.

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How the Leopard got His Spots - ok, but be forwarned

Quaint little tale by Kipling, a nice quick read (3 parts at daily lit). Be warned: in today's society an unforgiveable word is used (starts with "n"). I highly regard Kipling (though I've never kippled), just extreme p.c. types may want to avoid.

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The Jacket (Star-Rover) - different, yet the same

Jack London writes a sci-fi!! Wow, that's different. Yet in this tale of a condemned convict who experiences something akin to astral projection, it is typical ( a good thing, btw) London adventure. This convict, when placed in a strait-jacket like contraption for perceived violations of death-row protocol, retreats in his consciousness and re-lives past lives across history. Some are simple events that maybe did or didn't happpen; in one instance he is a child in the Mountain Meadows Massacre in April 1857 (Mormon terrorists slaughtered a group from Arkansas headed to California). The book is pretty good if you like Jack London, by no means his finest. The various adventures are almost like extra-short short stories. While reading the short story parts, it's typical London tales of human will overcoming and being overcome.

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The Lost World - word meaning "van"

You're right, this was an excellent book for this format. I never knew Doyle was as humorous as Lost World shows. I never got into Sherlock HOlmes much, and was very surprised at how involving this was. And of course, the ending sets up the sequel Lost World II, which I'm sure would have been infinitely better than Jurassic Park II & III.

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