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Old 09-14-2003, 08:39 AM   #281 (permalink)
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Old 09-14-2003, 10:11 AM   #282 (permalink)
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Once an Eagle, by Anton Myrer.
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Old 09-14-2003, 10:20 AM   #283 (permalink)
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Just finished Worlds Enough & Time by Dan Simmons, starting A Winter Haunting, also by Dan Simmons.
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Old 09-14-2003, 12:18 PM   #284 (permalink)
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Re-reading "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" by stoppard. I read it in highschool and I now find out I have it for my Humanities class my first year of college.. happy days! =P
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Old 09-14-2003, 03:32 PM   #285 (permalink)
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Just started "Quicksilver" by Neal Stephenson
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Old 09-14-2003, 05:27 PM   #286 (permalink)
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Just started "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People", by Toby Young.
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Old 09-14-2003, 05:38 PM   #287 (permalink)
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slaughterhouse five
by kurt vonnegut

and ZONE by marcel dube
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Old 09-14-2003, 08:39 PM   #288 (permalink)
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Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan
Utopia by Thomas Moore
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Old 09-14-2003, 08:44 PM   #289 (permalink)
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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

One of the rare gems that I am able to laugh aloud while reading. It is a superbly well-written and witty book.

I highly recommend it to those looking for a good, enjoyable read.
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Old 09-16-2003, 06:19 AM   #290 (permalink)
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crime & punishment - fyodor dostoevsky
so choice....
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Old 09-16-2003, 06:33 AM   #291 (permalink)
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ok, so right now i´m reading a manuscript for some casual publishing job i´m doing.

its about a families extended holiday in Greece.

playfully written... but i´m not entirely enraptured.
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Old 09-16-2003, 07:00 AM   #292 (permalink)
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"Stalin and the Shaping of the Soviet Union" by: Alex De Jonge

"The Elegant universe" by: Brian Greene

"Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" by: Douglas R. Hofstadter

"Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller" by: Gregg Herken

"Gulag: A History" by: Anne Applebaum

"The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene" by: Richard Dawkins

"The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956" by: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

These are the last several books I have read and recommend all of them. The extended phenotype is a series of books that also include "The Selfish Gene" and another one that I cant remember at the moment. all are excellient.

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Old 09-16-2003, 07:13 AM   #293 (permalink)
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Cisco CCNA Training manual.
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Old 09-17-2003, 04:30 AM   #294 (permalink)
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Textbooks, textbooks and more textbooks. *blaaaaaaaaaah*
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Old 09-17-2003, 04:32 AM   #295 (permalink)
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Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett.

I love the Discworld series
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Old 09-17-2003, 04:35 AM   #296 (permalink)
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Textbooks, textbooks and more textbooks. *blaaaaaaaaaah*
Same here. ugh.
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Old 09-17-2003, 07:08 AM   #297 (permalink)
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"Die Broke" and believe me, I'm well on my way!
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Old 09-17-2003, 09:10 AM   #298 (permalink)
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Location: At my daughter's beck and call.
I'm reading
"The Great Dragon's Fleas"
by Tim Ward
It's a great travel book/search for spirituality (primarily Buddist leaning).
Also reading
"Water", forgot the author.
Book about the state of the world's water supply.
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Old 09-17-2003, 02:03 PM   #299 (permalink)
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Now I am reading A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson. I have read about half of it in the past two days, and it is one of the most hilarious books I have ever read.
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Old 09-17-2003, 02:50 PM   #300 (permalink)
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just finished "survival in auschwitz" -- fantastic book about someone who lived through it. Now I'm reading Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett, it's about the theory of evolution and tons of misconceptions that people have about it.
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Old 09-17-2003, 03:57 PM   #301 (permalink)
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Just started book 7 in Wheel of time books...its really good so far
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Old 09-18-2003, 07:33 AM   #302 (permalink)
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just started the new Tom Clancy -Teeth of the Tiger. Not as good as those before, so far.
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Old 09-18-2003, 07:45 AM   #303 (permalink)
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Lies and the lying liar that tells them- Al Franken

Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes- Brian Lumley
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Old 09-18-2003, 10:03 AM   #304 (permalink)
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Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
One of the greatest books of all time.

Silverthorn by Raymond Feist
Feist is my new favorite Fantasy Author

~smeesh
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Old 09-18-2003, 11:45 AM   #305 (permalink)
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OK, so now I finished "A Walk in the Woods," and am starting Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls."
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Old 09-18-2003, 11:55 AM   #306 (permalink)
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GENDER POLITICS AND MTV, by Lisa A. Lewis...

facsinating!
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Old 09-19-2003, 07:35 PM   #307 (permalink)
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WHOO HOO! Two more Repairman Jack books by F. Paul Wilson:
Hosts and The Haunted Air
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Old 09-19-2003, 09:56 PM   #308 (permalink)
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When I have the time its The Subtle Knife, itherwise its doing math problem after problem. Why cant I pick the stuff up more easily?
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Old 09-19-2003, 10:22 PM   #309 (permalink)
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Lullaby by Palahniuk

Yes, it's typical... but I haven't read it yet!!!
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Old 09-20-2003, 12:04 AM   #310 (permalink)
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"Drop City" by T.C. Boyle.

Set in 1970 in a hippy commune. Fiction. Only on page 54, but shows great promise. It was recommended to me by a friend with good taste in books.
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Old 09-20-2003, 01:01 AM   #311 (permalink)
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"Paul Britton - Picking up the pieces"

He's Britain's most famous and successful criminal profiler. The book is full of criminal investigations he participated in throughout his life.
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Old 09-20-2003, 07:06 PM   #312 (permalink)
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission by Hampton Sides.

Great book!
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Old 09-20-2003, 09:12 PM   #313 (permalink)
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
not bad but not really my style
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Old 09-20-2003, 10:12 PM   #314 (permalink)
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not sure if manga counts... but i just finished Love Hina. I wish there was more

with my obsession i checked out the anime and was severely dissapointed, despite the warnings.

i have meant to read 1984, and some vonnegut this past summer but the one time i went to the library, it was checked out. then summer lazyness hit...
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Old 09-20-2003, 11:03 PM   #315 (permalink)
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Nearly finished 'The Painted Bird' by Jerzy Kosinski.

bloody depressing...

Next up; 'The Clinton Wars' by Sidney Blumenthal.
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Old 09-20-2003, 11:11 PM   #316 (permalink)
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The Right Stuff
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Old 09-21-2003, 02:48 AM   #317 (permalink)
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"Omerta" by Mario Puzo

Not sure if I like it.
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Old 09-21-2003, 08:01 PM   #318 (permalink)
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"A Random Walk Down Wall Street," Burton G. Malkiel. I figure its about time I really understand how it all works...
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Old 09-22-2003, 07:19 PM   #319 (permalink)
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Textbooks, textbooks and more textbooks. *blaaaaaaaaaah*
Yeah....I hear ya.....

Core Organic Chemistry
Turning Points 2000
Teaching Children Literacy
American Education - A History..

Whew...exciting stuff...
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Old 09-22-2003, 07:47 PM   #320 (permalink)
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