07-06-2003, 11:42 AM | #43 (permalink) |
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The Darwin Awards II by Wendy Northcut... it's amazing how stupid people are, bless them when they don't breed.
and miked: both of those are great books, animal farm has some interesting (and quite deliberate) parallels to the communist russian revolution.
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07-06-2003, 01:54 PM | #44 (permalink) |
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Location: Belgium
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Dragonlance Defenders of Magic trilogy by Mary Kirchoff
ok, so it's no great and epic literature of the world. It's still entertaining. (I think, I'm through the first half of the first book )
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07-06-2003, 02:12 PM | #46 (permalink) | |
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This morning I started the latest Clive Cussler novel to hit paperback. Last week I was in Alaska on a cruise and I worked through my TFP withdrawl by reading Harry Potter #5 and "Hard Eight" by Janet Evanovich. That was the funniest of the series so far. I guess you can tell I am in the mood for easy but fun reading now.
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07-06-2003, 08:24 PM | #48 (permalink) |
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currently consumed with One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
just finished the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I can't believe he created entire languages, sheesh!
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07-06-2003, 09:00 PM | #50 (permalink) | |
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Started on Water Touching Stone, by Eliot Patterson.
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07-06-2003, 09:24 PM | #51 (permalink) |
Condition: Stable and Improving
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Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
It's been awhile since a book made me stop and giggle out loud. If I weren't such a hermit, I'm sure people would be wondering what's so funny. I've decided after reading this thread that I'm picking up a Heinlen book, which one should I get? I'll for sure pick up Starship Troopers, the overt fascism in that movie was great, as a poli sci student it's my bread and butter.
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07-07-2003, 10:57 AM | #52 (permalink) |
Modern Man
Location: West Michigan
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Just finished up "Demian" by Hermann Hesse, see sig.
Reading Granta #81 Best of Young British Novelists 2003 Reading The Zizek Reader by Slavoj Zizek. Reading The Odyssey by Homer Reading The Renaissance by Graham Dixon.
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07-07-2003, 12:42 PM | #54 (permalink) |
Follower of Ner'Zhul
Location: Netherlands
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J.D.Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye and
Marco van Leeuwen - Dune Advent (fanfic) neither of which is turning out to be particularly good... after this comes Joseph Heller - Catch-22 which I have higher hopes for...
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07-07-2003, 02:37 PM | #55 (permalink) |
We can't stop here! This is bat country!
Location: SL,UT
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Pillars of Creation by Terry Goodkind. Waiting anxiously for the next in the series to be released (July 21). The whole Sord of Truth Series is excellent. I highly reccomend it.
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07-07-2003, 02:53 PM | #56 (permalink) | |
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07-07-2003, 03:54 PM | #57 (permalink) |
Loser
Location: With Jadzia
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I'm reading 'The Avengers' by Rich Cohen and 'The Night Trilogy' by Elie Wiesel.
The Avengers is about Abba Kovner, Vitka Kemper and Ruzka Korchaz, three Jews in Lituania who fought the Nazis. If you haven't read The Night you should. It will make you feel like you are right in the middle of Holocaust. |
07-07-2003, 04:04 PM | #58 (permalink) |
Exhausted
Location: Northeastern US - please send help!
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I'm part of the Harry Potter crowd - but up next is the latest John Sandford, followed by catch up work on all of Jonathan Kelleman's works.
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07-07-2003, 04:42 PM | #60 (permalink) |
Inspired by the mind's eye.
Location: Between the darkness and the light.
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Working my way through, "God Emperor of Dune." By Frank Herbert. It's the fourth book in the Dune saga.
For anyone who hasn't read "Dune," I suggest you do. Even if you're not a science fiction fan, because that book doesn't read like your typical sci-fi. And as a sci-fi fan, it has completly changed my view about the genre.
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07-07-2003, 05:32 PM | #61 (permalink) | |
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07-07-2003, 11:32 PM | #63 (permalink) |
Jesus Freak
Location: Following the light...
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This summer I'm reading the books that I will be reading in the fall in my Humanities class in college. That way when I don't have time to read them and have to, I'll be able to go through them faster just to refresh my memory.
Right now I'm starting Plato's "The Trial and Death of Socrates." And I just recently read Epictetus' "Enchiridion."
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07-08-2003, 08:46 AM | #66 (permalink) |
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I am reading "All Souls" by ______. It is a true story about growing up poor white Irish in south Boston projects around the time of bussing. It is a bit depressing.
I usually read fiction: Wilbur Smith is a current favorite as well as the John Sandford "Prey" mysteries. |
07-08-2003, 12:27 PM | #69 (permalink) |
Talk nerdy to me
Location: Flint, MI
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Just finished "Scotty Bowman: A LIfe in Hockey" and am now reading Dave Barry's "Big Trouble".
Next up, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"
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07-08-2003, 12:28 PM | #70 (permalink) |
Getting it.
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I am currently reading Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the
All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser I just finished the new Harry Potter and How Insensitive by Russell Smith I haven't read any Vonnegut in years... I loved Slaughter House 5 and Cat's Cradle.
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07-09-2003, 04:48 AM | #75 (permalink) |
will always be an Alyson Hanniganite
Location: In the dust of the archives
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I am currently re-reading Orwell's "1984", then I plan to re-read Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451". There are books that I like to read again every few years or so, and these are two of those. They were required reading for me back in high school, back...oh, 24 years ago, or so. (yeesh, I'm gettin' old) They made an impact on me and have stuck with me ever since.
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07-09-2003, 12:36 PM | #76 (permalink) |
Pro Libertate
Location: City Gecko
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Funny, 1984 and 451F they just made us watch the films....
Just finished (tonight) Douglas Adam's "The Salmon Of Doubt" - Don't bother, just makes you want to read a complete story. Still on - Robert Kiyoski Rich Dad, Poor Dad "Cash Flow Quadrant" Alvin Hall "Your Money or Your Life" William J. O'Neill " How to Make Money in Stocks" In Good Times Or Bad And D. Brent Chapman and Elizabeth D. Zwicky "Building Internet Firewalls" - One of the Best Low Level hacking books I've read. Really lost interest in Fiction recently, but now realise I need some easy reading to remind me its not all hard work.
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