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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    "Showdown at Gucci Gulch" by Birnbaum and Murray.

    It's the "inside" story about the passage of the tax reform act of 1986.

    It's required text for the Public Policy class that I am currently taking....
    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.
  • toaster
    toaster Posts: 152
    aNiMaL wrote:
    That's a great book! Very entertaining and very well put together.

    So I've heard a lot of people say. Can't wait to read it! Guess that biography is just have to hold on for a little longer. Man, the guys in Mötley Crue have done some weird shit over the years..
  • armyreserve
    armyreserve Posts: 209
    I'm currently reading the Da Vinci Code!
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  • pineapplesandwaves
    pineapplesandwaves Posts: 584
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
    No time to be void or save up on life. You got to spend it all.
  • EddiesGurl
    EddiesGurl Posts: 166
    im reading "What to expect when expecting"....a really good book for us first time mamas :)
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  • Brain of J.Lo
    Brain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    I've just finished two really good books, both by Dan Savage. (He's the advice columnist that writes Savage Love.) One was "The Commitment" and the other was "The Kid (What happened when my boyfriend and I decided to get pregnant)." They're both funny, poignant and well-written memoirs, and I read them each in about a day because I couldn't put them down. Not sure where to go from here, but I've got nothing but time to read since I'm not working and my baby isn't here yet. :)
  • DopeyBoy
    DopeyBoy Posts: 170
    I'm reading "Cell" by Stephen King. Its pretty good so far, very "The Stand"ish, although not nearly as long. I don't have a cell phone now, and am sure as hell not getting one after reading this!

    Next on the list is the Chronicles of Narnia, I'll read those on the beach while I'm in Hawaii!!! Nice easy read, never read any of them before, but thought the movie was cool, so we'll see...

    I recently read the Davinci Code too, and was sorely dissapointed. Read Angels and Demons a while back, and it was amazing! I was expecting great things from the sequel, but I didn't think it was nearly as good. I'd recomend Angels & Demons over Davinci Code any day.

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  • Hunger Strike
    Hunger Strike Scottsdale, AZ Posts: 229
    civ_eng_girl wrote:
    I'm reading the Chronicals of Narnia right now...

    I've had a box-set of all 7 stories since i was a little kid...
    It was funny to pull it off the shelf, and find that the only one that was ever opened was The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe!! :)
    (I guess the thought of reading 7 books back to back was a little daunting when I was 8 years old! )

    I'm glad I picked them up... The Magician's Nephew is my favorite so far!


    I'm reading this now too!! I just bought the one book with all the books inside. Not sure why I never read it before?? I finished the first book which basically tells you how Narnia became, and where the wardrobe came from. Now I'm on the Lion The Witch and Wardrobe, all the kids just entered Narnia and have met up with the beaver.
    Anyway, I'm really liking it a lot! Love fantasy stuff like this.
  • sigh eternally
    sigh eternally Chicago Posts: 421
    The Making Of A Radical
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  • genevieve
    genevieve Posts: 1,203
    I am reading a book called: I hate you, dont leave me.

    Its about personality disorders.

    Ooh and my monthly National Geographic.
    the person below me smells like cat pee and raisins...
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    DopeyBoy wrote:
    I recently read the Davinci Code too, and was sorely dissapointed. Read Angels and Demons a while back, and it was amazing! I was expecting great things from the sequel, but I didn't think it was nearly as good. I'd recomend Angels & Demons over Davinci Code any day.

    i've noticed that for most people, whichever of those two they read first is their favorite. i think it's becos in many ways, they're almost identical. i prefer the da vinci code, but mainly becos the ending of the other seemed a little too farfetched to me.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Game of Shadows- Barry Bonds steroid book.
    A Million Little Pieces- James Frey
    A Separate Peace- John Knowles

    All three are pretty good.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • genevieve
    genevieve Posts: 1,203
    I loved them both.
    I cant wait to see the movie.

    They are very similar but both well written and not boring
    in parts like some similar books that drag in parts.
    the person below me smells like cat pee and raisins...
  • MotorCityMike
    MotorCityMike Posts: 73
    I only read fantasy. The more dragons and wizards and knights the better, i may never grow out of this!

    I'm currently rereading the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind and am on Stone of Tears.

    Looks like a lot of people are discovering the Chronicles of Narnia. These were my faves when i was young and i still read the series in it's entirety once a year. Those of you reading em now/soon that haven't before, I think you're in for a treat with Voyage of the Dawntreader, hands down my favorite (and probably most epic) in the series.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    MotorCityMike wrote:
    I only read fantasy. The more dragons and wizards and knights the better, i may never grow out of this!

    I'm currently rereading the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind and am on Stone of Tears.

    Looks like a lot of people are discovering the Chronicles of Narnia. These were my faves when i was young and i still read the series in it's entirety once a year. Those of you reading em now/soon that haven't before, I think you're in for a treat with Voyage of the Dawntreader, hands down my favorite (and probably most epic) in the series.

    What do you think about The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan? I read the first one at the end of last year and really enjoyed it. But I needed a break before I start the next one. Those fuckers are long!!!!
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  • MotorCityMike
    MotorCityMike Posts: 73
    rrivers wrote:
    What do you think about The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan? I read the first one at the end of last year and really enjoyed it. But I needed a break before I start the next one. Those fuckers are long!!!!


    Haha, Wheel of Time might be my all time favorite series. I've read the majority of the series 6-7 times each. The first three books are flat out amazing. While reading the fifth book, i became so incensed at the actions of one of the Aes Sedai, that i threw the book at my bedroom wall(that's a really really thick book, too!). The last 150 pages of Lord Chaos (book 6) i read standing up, pacing in my room. In fact, that ending still gives me goosebumps when i think about it.

    Here are my problems with WoT. It's almost going on for too long. It doesn't seem that a lot happens in each book anymore. There are too many characters spread out in too many different directions of the world. You get 2-3 chapters for each hero/heroine, and then it's onto the next, almost never revisiting that character in the same novel. Hell, my favorite (Mat) was basically left out of one book, altogether.

    We learn in the first book how the story 'ends'. It's been 17 years of real life(with new books only every 2-3 years now)...take us there, already, Mr. Jordan!

    Conversely(if i may)...As the WoT seems to slow it's pace, The Sword of Truth picks up more and more steam as it progresses. I didn't think the first book was anything super special(still good, though), and it seemed to steal a lot of ideas from WoT and LOTR(almost blatently). But dammit, these novels get more and more gripping as they go and i think Terry Goodkind has been off his ass with this series. I put down the last 300 pages(!) of Faith of the Fallen in one sitting on a New Years Eve a few years ago. Hands down the most inspirational and moving work of fiction i have ever come across.

    These two series are the only novels i'll buy in hardcover...no way i can wait 8-12 months for their paperback versions anymore.
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    aNiMaL wrote:
    I am mid way through a Michael Crichton book called "Airframe." Its pretty good. It's about an quality assurance investigation over an airplane after a suspicious mid air flight incident which killed a few people, and injured a bunch more. Meanwhile, this airplane company is trying to seal a deal with China for some airplanes. It's getting pretty suspenseful.

    Anyhow, I want to finish it so I can start reading my next book; "Scar Tissue" by Anthony Kiedis.

    What book are you reading?


    I read both those books. Scar Tissue was a HELL of a lot better.
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  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    I just finished Into the Wild a few nights ago. I found out yesterday they are making it into a movie...Sean Penn to direct.

    P.S. Into the Wild was written by Jon Krakauer, the guy who wrote Under the Banner of Heaven and Into Thin Air. I highly recommend ANYTHING by this guy.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    EddiesGurl wrote:
    im reading "What to expect when expecting"....a really good book for us first time mamas :)


    AWWWWWW...that's the cutest thing!! :D That totally made my day!
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  • brhf9
    brhf9 Posts: 1,475
    just bought 'lullaby' by Chuck Palahniuk today. hope it's good as 'survivor'.

    any fans?
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