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12-11-2007, 07:29 PM | #1036 |
Franklin Pierce
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Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower - William Blum
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12-11-2007, 07:33 PM | #1037 |
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ooh, another Darkover fan!
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12-11-2007, 10:43 PM | #1038 |
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
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Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
After coming off a long Orson Scott Card re-reading streak, Palahniuk's style of writing is very, very different, and I'm having a hard time settling into it. But I recognize that this is temporary; the book itself is very good so far. |
12-21-2007, 04:55 AM | #1039 |
Recruit or Something
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The Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher
the Nightside books by Simon Green and working my way slowly through "The Last of the Mohicans". I despise Fenimore Cooper's overblown writing, but at least it's better than "The Deerslayer" I read a ton, so what I'm reading is ever-changing. |
12-28-2007, 03:12 AM | #1040 |
Sir Post-A-Lot
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Books you're currently reading???
Dave Barry's "History Of The Millennium" (So Far)...Which actually starts January 1, 1000 (And the Y 1K Problem therein) and can only be described as a look at history as seen by the warped mind of Dave.
Read it in a public place and watch as people stare at you strangely as you randomly laugh out loud.
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12-28-2007, 08:55 AM | #1041 |
erika
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Just finished I Am America (And So Can You!) by Colbert Himself, and now i'm reading A.J. Jacobs' The Year Of Living Biblically. SO interesting! (if a little too pro-religion for me). Well, I guess it's not pro-religion at the beginning.... anyway it's still incredible.
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12-28-2007, 10:51 AM | #1042 |
Freethinker/booter
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Got Jeff Pearlman's "Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero" for Christmas. Fantastically written, very in-depth biography of Bonds and a study of the environment he grew up in. Highly recommended for any baseball fans.
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12-28-2007, 11:30 AM | #1043 |
I hear them call the tide
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Saturnalia Lindsey Davis
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12-28-2007, 10:54 PM | #1045 |
i am myself
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01-10-2008, 04:31 PM | #1047 |
Glutton for Gluttony
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Recently finished:
Jerry Spinelli - Milkweed William Goldman - The Princess Bride Dashiell Hamett - The Maltese Falcon (As an aside, this book ended up inspiring a weird dream last night where I was working as a private detective with several other Dwellars and then got tased while I was following someone -- the iTaser thread was the last thing I looked at before bed, last night. I woke up from the dream unable to move or speak until my brain caught up and I realized I had not actually been tased.) In progress: F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby Sandra Cisneros - The House on Mango Street I'm taking a course on Adolescent Literature this semester that requires me to read about two novels a week, so I expect I'll be making frequent visits to this thread over the next few months. |
01-10-2008, 04:44 PM | #1048 |
still says videotape
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In progress: Darwin's Radio -Greg Bear and Living Budda Living Christ - that monk guy
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01-10-2008, 04:44 PM | #1049 | |
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oh, and I just finished reading I Am Legend. Not bad, but not great either.
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01-10-2008, 06:41 PM | #1050 |
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Fnished- Interworld. An interesting little pilot for a Saturday morning cartoon series in book form.
Reading- M is for Magic. Short stories, some of which I already had. Good stuff, though.
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