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01-09-2006, 10:04 PM
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Take my hand
Location: Everywhere, but nowhere
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Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz
Stack and Sway: The New Science of Jury Consulting (can't remember the authors, it was for a business law class) Life Expectancy - Dean Koontz Deception Point - Dan Brown Books #1 and #2 of the Frankenstein series - Dean Koontz (can't wait until the summer for book #3)
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01-10-2006, 12:36 AM
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Adequate
Location: In my angry-dome.
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Beyond too much reference material this has been a light year for books, but two stick with me:
The End of Faith - Sam Harris Freakonomics - Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195 |
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01-10-2006, 04:52 AM
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Junkie
Moderator Emeritus
Location: Chicago
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - mark haddon
the year of magical thinking -joan didion(depressing as hell but beautifully written) 102 minutes - jim dwyer Trance - Christopher sorrentino Snow - Orhan Pamuk
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Free your heart from hatred. Free your mind from worries. Live simply. Give more. Expect less.
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01-10-2006, 09:43 AM
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human
by Cherie Carter-Scott Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life Spencer Johnson
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01-10-2006, 10:31 AM
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Functionally Appropriate
Location: Toronto
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I mostly read fluffy stuff this year. The real stand out for me was "Jonathan Stange and Mr. Norrell" by Susannah Clarke. It's the most original work of fantasy I've read in a long time (not a humble "chosen one" to be found!)
Other fun books I enjoyed include: "Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident" by Eoin Colfer "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi "Harry Potter" HBP "Eat, Shoots and Leaves" by Lynne Truss
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01-10-2006, 11:13 AM
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You had me at hello
Location: DC/Coastal VA
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Harry Potter HBP - JK Richerthanbillgates
Deception Point - Dan Brown's pre-Robert Langdon book re-read A Man In Full - Tom Wolfe A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest Gaines Oh Pure And Radiant Heart - Lydia Millet I can't recommend Millet enough. She wrote mostly quirky small books up until "Oh Pure..", "Omnivores", "Everyone's Pretty", "My Happy Life", and my favorite title, "George Bush, Dark Prince of Love". She mostly writes for environmental mags, but after grad school at Duke, she started out as a copy editor.... At Hustler. I e-mailed her after reading "My Happy Life" and to my surprise, she answered and has since been very gracious in discussing her books.
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01-10-2006, 11:55 AM
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Harry Potter
"Stranger at the Gate" by Mel White "Visible Amazement" by Gale Zoe Garnett and a lot of fluff books.
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01-10-2006, 12:14 PM
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I got blisters on me fingers!!!
Location: In my stressless expectation free zone.
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Harry Potter (all of them - my 1st read)
City of Quartz - Mike Davis (social/cultural history of the city of Los Angeles) Snow Crash - Neil Stephenson (15th read since 1999) Mythologies - Roland Barthes
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