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Old 09-20-2004, 10:29 AM   #441 (permalink)
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2. Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. Finally! Eco's been in my 'reading queue' for years...but I just never got around to it. Then earlier this year I read Brown's Angels & Demons (which I enjoyed..but not without criticism) and read somewhere that Pendulum is in a similar vein, but much better.
So - I devoured the first half-ish of it on a wknd on the boat...and I still have half to finish. But it's sort of like a yummy treat - once I finish it, it's gone.
Love it, and I recommend it. Brilliant.

I tried reading this about five years ago, and couldn't get past page 13 or so. Just too...Oh, I don't know. It's not like I'm especially thick, or anything. At least, I don't think so. I loved Name of the Rose, but F's P is another kettle of fish entirely.
I'll have to try again - your enthusiasm is compelling - once I get the highly enjoyable Resurrection by Tolstoy out of the way
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Old 09-20-2004, 01:22 PM   #442 (permalink)
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I'm reading on "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk. I'm about to start on Richard Brautigan's "Trout Fishing in America".
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Old 09-28-2004, 06:47 AM   #443 (permalink)
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Just about to start Mystic River by Dennis Lehane.
Another book I want to read before I see the movie.
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Old 09-28-2004, 07:04 AM   #444 (permalink)
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I just knocked out Stardust by Gaiman. Awesome.

I have a lot of books on the pile, but one is A Canticle for Leibowitz, finally.
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Old 09-28-2004, 07:17 AM   #445 (permalink)
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The SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945
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Old 09-28-2004, 03:43 PM   #446 (permalink)
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The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn. Very disturbing non-fiction.
Hah! I just bought a recent translation of that. I recently finished Anne Applebaum's Gulag - A History, and it prompted my interest in some of the original source material.


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Old 09-29-2004, 07:59 PM   #447 (permalink)
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Plugging through American Gods (read Neverwhere last week). I was pretty sure where he was going when he started, but now I have not a clue. Gaiman always makes me so sad, but it's a good sad.
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Old 10-05-2004, 10:25 PM   #448 (permalink)
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i just finished reading the walking drum by Louis La'mour it was a good book and the main character was great, he meets like 7 beautiful women and they practically fall in love with him in just a few moments. you've gotta read it to know what im talking about. lots of history in it and lots of swordplay.

"for today he who rides before an army may tomorrow lie in it's dust. I have only a sword, but a strong man need wish for no more than this: a sword in the hand, a horse between his knees, and a woman he loves at the battle's end"

that's my favorite quote from the book
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Old 10-06-2004, 12:07 AM   #449 (permalink)
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Finished Girlfriend in a Coma (Douglas Coupland) on the train this morning. Didn't care much for the ending, but a good ready anyway.
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Old 10-06-2004, 06:43 AM   #450 (permalink)
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Reading The Garrett Files by Glen Cook, a compilation of the first three Garrett books. I am enjoying them, though they are occasionally somewhat opaque for a few chapters, where you're just carried along until things are explained.
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Old 10-06-2004, 06:42 PM   #451 (permalink)
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The Da Vinci Code

Those Opus Dei are a one wacky bunch of catholics... but I hope they don't read this.
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Old 10-07-2004, 03:20 PM   #452 (permalink)
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Just finished Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison. Been looking for it for awhile, it was just re-released recently. If you like sf or anthologies, I can't recommend it enough.
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Old 10-07-2004, 03:28 PM   #453 (permalink)
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Epic of Gilgamesh...not much of a read though.
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Old 10-07-2004, 10:24 PM   #454 (permalink)
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The Da Vinci Code

Those Opus Dei are a one wacky bunch of catholics... but I hope they don't read this.
I started with this one, enjoyed it so now I am going back to Angels and Demons.
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Old 10-07-2004, 10:44 PM   #455 (permalink)
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Reading Kate Chopin's The Awakening for a class, and Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert for fun - 4 down, two to go!
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Old 10-07-2004, 11:18 PM   #456 (permalink)
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Waiting for new harry potter
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Old 10-08-2004, 07:46 AM   #457 (permalink)
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The Confusion, book two of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. So far it's better than the first (Quicksilver), but just as hard to keep all the characters and names straight.

If you like Stephenson you have to read his 1996 Wired article, Mother Earth Mother Board, on the laying undersea fiberoptic cable. It's obviously a little dated now, but probably the best thing ever in Wired. Of course, in the grand tradition of Neal Stephenson, it's long and verbose --I remember getting this issue in college and being overwhelmed at how thick the magazine was -- be sure to set aside a few nights to read it.

Sidenote: I liked Neal Stepenson's old site better, when it was just a bunch of explanations about why he doesn't answer e-mail. I guess times change.
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Old 10-08-2004, 08:10 AM   #458 (permalink)
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Getting ready to start "The Way the Crow Flies" by Ann-Marie MacDonald. I loved her first novel and just happened to see this in the bookstore last weekend. Had to grab it
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Old 10-08-2004, 09:24 AM   #459 (permalink)
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Just finished 1984, moving onto Animal Farm when I have the opportunity. Can't believe in my so-called "edmucation" we never read them.
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Old 10-08-2004, 01:42 PM   #460 (permalink)
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Incubus Dreams by Laurell K Hamilton - An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
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Old 10-08-2004, 11:00 PM   #461 (permalink)
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I decided to check out the Harry potter books. See if they are as good as people have told me they are.
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Old 10-12-2004, 01:32 PM   #462 (permalink)
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About halfway through the Mars trilogy by Robinson. I must say it is rather slow going for a Hugo award winner. Still it was interesting to see the space elevator idea now being evaluated by Lockheed Martin.
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Old 10-12-2004, 01:49 PM   #463 (permalink)
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Reading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, along the same line as Da Vinci Code. Real good plot as well but how much of what is written is truth. I do believe that religion is/has been used for control over the masses. Anyone have suggestions on where one can learn more on the subjects Dan brown covers?
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Old 10-13-2004, 07:42 PM   #464 (permalink)
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i just finished "heavies than heaven" its a biography of Kurt Cobain and was a great book and very detailed, its by Charles R. Cross and its over 350 pages so it is very detailed
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Old 10-15-2004, 11:22 AM   #465 (permalink)
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i'm reading the thurber carnival; it's a collection of james thurber's short stories, and it's pretty good so far.
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Old 10-15-2004, 03:18 PM   #466 (permalink)
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Neal Stephenson's The System of the World, its the last of the Baraque Cycle. Great stuff.
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Old 10-15-2004, 04:32 PM   #467 (permalink)
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I'm reading C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters, and just finished Steven Hawkings The Universe in a Nutshell.
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Old 10-15-2004, 04:53 PM   #468 (permalink)
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C.S. Forrester: Midshipman Hornblower
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Old 10-15-2004, 05:00 PM   #469 (permalink)
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Just starting 1984, I have a feeling I will really like it.
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Old 10-15-2004, 05:00 PM   #470 (permalink)
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I should be reading Everyday Encounters: An Introduction to Interpersonal Communication for one of my Health Sci classes... Instead I'm reading Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon for the 9000000th time (its the 2nd one in the Outlander series).
 
Old 10-17-2004, 07:29 AM   #471 (permalink)
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Im reading the Dharma Bums. Great book about living life on the seat of your pants.
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Old 10-17-2004, 07:23 PM   #472 (permalink)
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Right now I am reading "Sign of Chaos" By Roger Zelanzy, one of the amber novels... but.... I just got emailed from my library that I can come and pick up The last Dark Tower Novel By Stephen King so I am gonna read that before finishing the amber novels...

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Old 10-18-2004, 05:22 AM   #473 (permalink)
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I finally knocked out the third of the Garret books. Now I have The Magicians' Guild, book one of the Black Magician Trilogy.
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Old 10-18-2004, 12:30 PM   #474 (permalink)
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I am reading "Rotten" -- a biography of Johnny Rotten ... although it's more a biography of the Sex Pistols.
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Old 10-18-2004, 12:50 PM   #475 (permalink)
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I am currently reading Tragedy and Hope by Quigley.

If anyone out there can handle this size (hold your comments), it is the bible for those who wish to know how global power (money) is truly held and used.

If you have ever felt that it doesn't seem to matter who is in power because it seems like the ultra-wealthy win either way, you are on to something...
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Old 10-18-2004, 12:59 PM   #476 (permalink)
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Sandy Koufax : A Lefty's Legacy by Jane Leavy.
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Old 10-18-2004, 01:46 PM   #477 (permalink)
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In the seemingly-eternal waiting period for George R. R. Martin's next book in the wonderful A Song of Ice and Fire series, I'm currently reading Battlecry of Freedom by James McPherson, an excellent history of the Civil War.
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Old 10-18-2004, 02:01 PM   #478 (permalink)
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Bill Bryson's "the lost continent".

Not his best but any book by him will bring a smile to my face.
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Old 10-18-2004, 07:52 PM   #479 (permalink)
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Just finished Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. Very cool book, if dense at times.

Now celebrating the end of my midterms by reading The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum.
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Old 10-18-2004, 07:54 PM   #480 (permalink)
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"Deception Point" by Dan Brown.
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