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Old 12-31-2006, 08:29 AM   #616
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I loved Last Kingdom and Pale Horseman. I haven't read the third yet, but I will acquire myself a copy asap!
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Old 01-02-2007, 01:19 AM   #617
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Finished book 2 of the crappy romance series, taking a break from it (it was raining and book three is in the car) and am reading Eragon.
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Old 01-02-2007, 08:13 AM   #618
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...am reading Eragon.
As is lil' Pete.
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Old 01-02-2007, 11:36 AM   #619
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At about 1/3 through, I'm not sure if I'll continue with the series or not.
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Old 01-05-2007, 05:41 PM   #620
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Freakonomics. I've just started it, but I don't get a whole lot of time to read, so I'll be a while with it.
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Old 01-05-2007, 07:01 PM   #621
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I've just finished reading, "Don't Get Too Comfortable," a collection of writings by David Rakoff. He's described as 'skewering' by critics, but I thought his commentaries on the excesses of the '1st world' U.S. were really just smart-assed funny and very thoughtful. Maybe if I had a different mindset, I'd have been more shocked by his opinions, I don't know. I'm glad I don't know.
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Old 01-06-2007, 12:43 AM   #622
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Currently reading?

Hmmm

The Weight of Nothing -Steven Gillis
See Delphi and Die -Lindsey Davis
Mister Posterior and the Genius Child -Emily Jenkins

Eclectic, no?

and a whole heap of new stuff that is as yet unpublished. Some of it it very good, though.
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Old 01-06-2007, 04:51 AM   #623
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Great titles; especially the last one.
At a slight tangent, a book I am not currently reading, but which I read last year and which had a title that really stuck in my mind: Ludmilla's Broken English, by D.B.C. Pierre.
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Old 01-08-2007, 10:52 PM   #624
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Just finished Cannery Row, then Gibran's The Prophet, now re-reading Brave New World.
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Old 01-08-2007, 11:25 PM   #625
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A Game of Thrones. George R R Martin

an author so cool, he has two middle initials
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Old 01-09-2007, 02:39 AM   #626
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I liked some of his standalone books (like Tuf Voyaging), but never got into the unendingly long series he's written.

I am now trudging my way through the last of the 3 crappy romance novels. As expected, the good guy vampire is falling in love with the queen.

I hope I didn't ruin it for anyone.

On second thought, I hope I just saved you from any possible curiosity that would lead to purchasing these books.

The on-deck circle contains the first book of a series about the only wizard listed in the Chicago YellowPages.
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Old 01-09-2007, 04:34 AM   #627
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I'm reading the final chronicles of thomas covenant by Stephen Donaldson.
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Old 01-09-2007, 04:44 AM   #628
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Game of Thrones is unrelentingly grim, and I'm not sure I see the point of the unrelenting grimness going on for a couple thousand pages. I'm having great trouble finding any character in those multitudinous pages that I actually like, except perhaps the two or three very young characters not corrupted yet by this praetorian power struggle.

I've been reading from this quadrilogy (or is it longer?) every now and again as a way of sampling current F&SF work and taking a break from reading nonfiction.

I am presently engrossed in Whittaker Chambers' Cold Friday. It's dated nowadays, but he was a vivid writer. He seems to have concluded big-C Communism happens in societies in which religion has faded. I haven't found any explicit statement of this in Cold Friday, but the implication behind a lot of his writing about Communism is that it was a kind of religion. Other writers have stated that -- perhaps they'd read Chambers and drew this same conclusion from his work.
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Old 01-09-2007, 04:51 AM   #629
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Bernard Cornwell fans [I've only read some of his Sharpe's Rifles novels] would probably enjoy Patrick O'Brian, too. I'm reading all the Aubrey-Maturin novels I can get hold of in order of publication, which is roughly their order in the time they're set in -- the Napoleonic era.

But watch out -- these novels will give you the dangerous and unjustified impression you could go out and conn, fight, and trim the sails of a circa-1800 ship of the line with a week's hands-on experience, such is their vividness of time and place!
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Old 01-09-2007, 05:09 AM   #630
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Ooooh Ali, Runes of the Earth? What a corker. I can't wait for the rest of the series to come out! Did you know this last set is a set of four, not three?
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