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03-24-2010, 07:39 PM
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Location: Just west of the Missouri River
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Just finished "Starting out in the Evening", now will go with Penelope Liveley's "Cleopatra's Eye" or Peter Mathiessen's "Shadow Country."
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03-24-2010, 07:41 PM
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Deeper Than the Dead by Tami Hoag was a quick read, pretty good. Rainwater by Sandra Brown was even quicker and also good. Not My Daughter also pretty good.
(I'm in my "reading phase" right now...then I won't p/u a book for a couple of months! Anyone else go through these phases??!)
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03-24-2010, 10:31 PM
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Does anybody here read Henry Miller and Hunter S. Thompson? I love them both. 
These are the stuff I read so far in the past 6 months:
1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey) *loved every word of it
2. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry) *well written and damn sad
3. Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon) *wanted to read it again right after I finished it, awesome read! You won't notice that it's a damn fiction .. the characters are so alive
4. Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk) *unstoppable
5. Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller) *drives me nuts with awe with the kind of genius this man has
6. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) *it's amazing how this woman ever got around to making up her characters, great plot and writing. Dangerously influential, too.
7. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson) *I read this almost every month lol, can't stop loving it |
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03-24-2010, 11:51 PM
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Location: Utah
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I just finished Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell, for book club. Very interesting, looking forward to discussing it.
I've started Lipstick Jihad. Written by a young Iranian woman who grew up during the Revolution in California, and returns to the 'homeland' as a young adult. Only about 20-30 pages in, but is good so far.
And after the other thread, I've checked out Les Miserables (book and tape!).
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03-25-2010, 02:00 PM
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Location: Not tied down... maybe later! *rawr*
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Eat, Pray, Love.
The Eat part was funny... the Pray part put me to sleep... hoping the Love part redeems this book.
I wanted to read it before Hollywood makes a movie out of it (aka: ruins it).
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03-25-2010, 02:07 PM
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Location: South Carolina - The Palmetto State
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Atlas Shrugged
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03-25-2010, 02:09 PM
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Incendiary by Chris Cleave.........graphic, and not quite half way through it right now.
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03-25-2010, 02:12 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cougfan
Atlas Shrugged
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Me too, having trouble getting into it..... is getting better, ...I am convincing myself.... |
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03-26-2010, 09:01 AM
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I'm really enjoying A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore. It takes place in San Francisco and it's the story of a man who finds out he's been selected to be a Merchant of Death who retrieves people's souls after they die and passes them on. If he messes up, demons from the underworld will take over the human world. It sounds grim, but it's very funny and irreverent. Moore has written many books and I'm happy to have "discovered" him.
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03-26-2010, 09:11 AM
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Location: Kirkwood, DE and beautiful SXM!
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PJ Parrish, The Little Death
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