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  • Jnich2424
    Jnich2424 Posts: 608
    Just finished reading "The Kite Runner" Started it a couple days ago, then read the second half of it today since it's my one day off. It was a great book and I would definitely recommend it

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    Now I'm reading Terry Goodkinds "The Omen Machine"

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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Just finished "Fever" by Robin Cook and "World War Z".

    Two of the worst books I've read in my life.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • vant0037
    vant0037 Posts: 6,170
    rrivers wrote:
    Just finished "Fever" by Robin Cook and "World War Z".

    Two of the worst books I've read in my life.

    Really? What was so bad about them? I've never read the Cook one, but World War Z was, well, what I expected it to be: an easy, mindless read. I had pretty low expectations going in, and so I wasn't disappointed. A bunch of fake eyewitness accounts about a non-existent pandemic? How awful or good could it be? That's what made the book tolerable for me...I didn't expect much.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    vant0037 wrote:
    Just started this today...it's heavy as hell!

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    i read this a few years back.. september 2004 according to my scribble on the title page. i loved it.. it gave me an insight into neil young(perhaps)and fodder for my writing, which is always a good thing..
    hear my name
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    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    how to be an NFL ref 101
    81 is now off the air

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  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    81 wrote:
    how to be an NFL ref 101
    :lol:
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  • he.who.forgets
    he.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    Jnich2424 wrote:
    Just finished reading "The Kite Runner" Started it a couple days ago, then read the second half of it today since it's my one day off. It was a great book and I would definitely recommend it

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    Now I'm reading Terry Goodkinds "The Omen Machine"

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    i LOVED the Kite Runner! May just have to re-read it
    We were but stones your light made us stars
  • mydogmookieblaylock
    mydogmookieblaylock Posts: 2,996
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  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    mydogmookieblaylock wrote:
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    How is it?
  • Nastasja
    Nastasja Posts: 9,668
    The girl who kicked the hornets nest - Stieg Larsson
    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
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,390
    There But For The by Ali Smith
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  • Dissidentman
    Dissidentman Posts: 15,381
    Nastasja wrote:
    The girl who kicked the hornets nest - Stieg Larsson

    Loved it.
  • mydogmookieblaylock
    mydogmookieblaylock Posts: 2,996
    BinauralJam wrote:
    mydogmookieblaylock wrote:
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    How is it?

    i have read the first 6 chapters --- its really good -- gets a little slow when he goes back and talks about his early childhood but he is a good writer
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    vant0037 wrote:
    rrivers wrote:
    Just finished "Fever" by Robin Cook and "World War Z".

    Two of the worst books I've read in my life.

    Really? What was so bad about them? I've never read the Cook one, but World War Z was, well, what I expected it to be: an easy, mindless read. I had pretty low expectations going in, and so I wasn't disappointed. A bunch of fake eyewitness accounts about a non-existent pandemic? How awful or good could it be? That's what made the book tolerable for me...I didn't expect much.

    I had low expectations too and the book managed to go way under those expectations.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
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    In this gripping, brilliantly reported and sure to be newsmaking book, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Ron Suskind tells the complete story of America’s financial meltdown and an untested new president charged with commanding Washington, taming Wall Street, rescuing an economy on the verge of collapse and restoring the confidence of a shaken America. Suskind moves from the frenzied trading floors of lower Manhattan to the power corridors inside the Beltway and introduces a larger-than-life cast of politicians and advisors, titans of high finance, reformers, lobbyists and others who faced a crisis that threatened not only the United States but the entire world. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews and exhaustive research, filled with piercing insight and startling disclosures, Suskind’s eye-opening book goes beyond the headlines and previous accounts, bringing into focus the unprecedented struggle between Wall Street and Washington, between hope and fear—a struggle that continues to roil the United States of America.
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  • he.who.forgets
    he.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson
    We were but stones your light made us stars
  • he.who.forgets
    he.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    he.who.forgets wrote:
    I'm just starting Catcher in the Rye for the first time :oops:
    :? not sure why this book is as acclaimed as it is...
    We were but stones your light made us stars
  • Jnich2424
    Jnich2424 Posts: 608
    Started this one today, a few chapters in and it's a bit slow but I'm hoping it will pick up soon. Some of the reviews I've seen for it aren't that great though.

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  • iwasatpj20
    iwasatpj20 Rockford, IL Posts: 3,473
    The Art of War by Sun Tzu
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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    he.who.forgets wrote:
    he.who.forgets wrote:
    I'm just starting Catcher in the Rye for the first time :oops:
    :? not sure why this book is as acclaimed as it is...
    It was unique at the time it was published. Also, very easy for teenagers to identify with much of it.
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."

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