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  • Nastasja
    Nastasja Posts: 9,668
    Orientalism - Edward Said
    You can spend your time alone, re-digesting past regrets,
    Or you can come to terms and realize
    You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    PilateOfTheStorm wrote:
    Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

    I planned to read this. Have a copy at home, though didn't get around to it.
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    The Philosophy of Schopenhauer - Bryan Magee
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  • P-Jam
    P-Jam Posts: 807
    tybird wrote:
    P-Jam wrote:
    A Year In The Maine Woods by Bernd Heinrich
    Love some Bernd Heinrich!!!!
    Good read!
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,030
    Read "The Savage City" recently on vacation. Great book about the atmosphere and race relations in NYC in the 60's.

    Then read "Gang Leader For A Day" which was also great about a sociology grad student who spent the better part of a decade with a gang in Chicago. Another good one.

    Just started "The Lone Survivor" last night about the SEALS and a deadly mission in 2005. Good stuff so far, although the guy is about as far to the right politically as it gets.
  • vant0037
    vant0037 Posts: 6,170
    "A Feast For Crows" by George R. R. Martin. Book 4 in the "A Song of Fire & Ice." Amazing.

    An absolute masterpiece. I'm not even a big fantasy reader (closest I got was Stephen King's Dark Tower series and Lord Of The Rings trilogy), but this series is so good. I definitely recommend this book/series.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    beautiful exile: the life of martha gellhorn
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • Nastasja
    Nastasja Posts: 9,668
    invisible - Paul Auster
    You can spend your time alone, re-digesting past regrets,
    Or you can come to terms and realize
    You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
  • guitar59
    guitar59 Posts: 1,221
    Just completed two summer beach books Good in Bed and In her Shoes both by Jennifer Weiner. Before that was Little Bee by Chris Cleave...loved this one! Still have to get through To Kill a Mockingbird and The Book of Negros to complete my summer reading list.
  • Mamasan23
    Mamasan23 Posts: 16,390
    H.P. Lovecraft - the Necronomican. I have to space the stories out with other books though because reading that beast from start to finish would make me lose my mind. I've gotta get on the 2nd Song of Fire and Ice book!
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  • F Me In The Brain
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    vant0037 wrote:
    "A Feast For Crows" by George R. R. Martin. Book 4 in the "A Song of Fire & Ice." Amazing.

    An absolute masterpiece. I'm not even a big fantasy reader (closest I got was Stephen King's Dark Tower series and Lord Of The Rings trilogy), but this series is so good. I definitely recommend this book/series.

    "A Dance With Dragons" by George RR Martin -- the book that comes after A Feast For Crows. Pretty good!

    Next up is "The Baby Jesus Butt-Plug" by Carlton Mellick III. I make it a firm rule to jump genres with every book so that I dont get bogged down. Interesting to go from Historical Fiction - Mystery - Fantasy - Bizzaro Fiction as my last 3 and next 1 will go!
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  • catefrances
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    rat girl - kristin hersh
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    "The Pity of War....Explaining World War I" by Niall Ferguson
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    lights out in wonderland - dbc pierre
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  • Brainofdz
    Brainofdz Posts: 1,617
    This Wheel's On Fire (The Story Of The Band)- Levon Helm with Stephen Davis
    "Stunned by my own reflection, It's looking back, sees me too clearly and I swore I'd never go there again, Not unlike a friend that politely drags you down,down,down"

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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Brainofdz wrote:
    This Wheel's On Fire (The Story Of The Band)- Levon Helm with Stephen Davis



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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,381
    The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    Too Big To Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
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  • voidofman
    voidofman Posts: 4,009
    Just finished The Rapper's Handbook. Most of it I knew from trial and error but picked up a few tips on combating writer's block. And there were some funny passages too. One about saying your real experiences, "if you're a 12 year old suburbanite don't talk about busting caps, popping cops, drinking, doing drugs, etc. you're just lying, you might as well talk about how it feels to give birth."
  • Kraven
    Kraven Posts: 829
    Just finished Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton and before that I read Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and before that Congo, also by Michael Crichton.

    Now I am on Reliquary by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
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