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    Mel1979Mel1979 Posts: 17
    Now onto 'Choke' by Chuck Palahniuk
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    answers are fatalanswers are fatal Posts: 281
    Hiroshima
    By: John Heresy
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    rriversrrivers Posts: 3,693
    Now reading "Manhunt: the 12-day chase for Lincoln's killer". It's written like a novel and is really good so far.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
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    smithnicsmithnic Posts: 1,559
    Mel1979 wrote:
    Now onto 'Choke' by Chuck Palahniuk

    Palahniuk is one of my favorites! That's probably right of there with his best.
    Go Get 'Em Tigers!
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    catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    Atonement by Ian McEwan. I read it a few years ago, but the language is sinking into me more this time. I'm reading it again because the movie is coming out. I'm becoming a James McAvoy fan, and I would like to see the movie, but I want to refresh my memory with the book. A lot of moments, but somehow there are spaces between the moments. They are not spaces for breathing, and they add an edge. Maybe that's why I didn't get into the writing. More description than dialogue. Excellent description nonetheless.

    i hate when they make films of books i really enjoyed. :(

    re: your comment ms. haiku about its screenplay friendliness.
    i think considering the book was about Briony's misinterpretation of something seen and the consequences of that, the detail within the book was a deliberate device to show how sometimes, it really is ALL in the details. :)
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    xavier mcdanielxavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,135
    I just finished a book on the 1967 Toronto Maple Leafs, which discusses the team and what happened with the franchise in the years following.
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    catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    darkness visible - william styron
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    somebodyelsessky2020somebodyelsessky2020 Posts: 1,173
    101 sexual positions - max von dong
    Oh dear dad
    Can you see me now
    I am myself
    Like you somehow
    I'll ride the wave
    Where it takes me
    I'll hold the pain
    Release me
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    Ms. HaikuMs. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,258
    catefrances wrote:
    i hate when they make films of books i really enjoyed. :(

    re: your comment ms. haiku about its screenplay friendliness.
    i think considering the book was about Briony's misinterpretation of something seen and the consequences of that, the detail within the book was a deliberate device to show how sometimes, it really is ALL in the details. :)
    Well, just like last time, the beginning is bogging me down. I finished it the first time. However, this time I decided to go on to another book. I tried to reread it so I can see how it relates to the movie. I skipped around to the important parts, and remembered some stuff. The middle is really the meat of the passionate writing. The beginning is alright, and sets the story, but the middle is where I was actually interested in the book. Not this time, I have to go on to something because the beginning just doesn't interest me. I didn't like the ending. All these strings of stories and new strings created. It's like a new writer wrote the ending.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
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    soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    bee season- myla goldberg
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    MathMath Posts: 71
    somebodyelse'ssky wrote:
    101 sexual positions - max von dong

    I'm waiting on the movie for this one.

    The Brooklyn Follies - P. Auster
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    LindaLinda Posts: 1,656
    Marisha Pessl's debut novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics.
    i'm not happy yet.....
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    lgtlgt Posts: 720
    Finished Antonia Evans' biography of Mary Queen of Scots and started Brick Lane by Monica Ali... although not really getting into it.
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    rriversrrivers Posts: 3,693
    Linda wrote:
    Marisha Pessl's debut novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

    That is a novel? I saw it but thought it was about Physicis and passed on it. I have heard good things about it.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
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    LindaLinda Posts: 1,656
    rrivers wrote:
    That is a novel? I saw it but thought it was about Physicis and passed on it. I have heard good things about it.

    i thought so either, but its a nice novel, its a talented girl that Marisha Pessl.
    i'm not happy yet.....
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    Ms. HaikuMs. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,258
    Heat by Bill Buford. As a vegetarian I'm getting a little disheartened how affluence is associated with incredible amounts of meat at meals (not news, I know), and how superstar chefs are supporting the health problems in this country.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
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    chinobaezachinobaeza Santiago Posts: 2,489
    I'm reading the biography of Winston Churchill by Geoffrey Best
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    catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    touched with fire: manic depressive illness and the artistic temperament - kay redfield jamison.
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    AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    Yes, Your Teen is Crazy!

    Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind

    Michael J. Bradley
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    rriversrrivers Posts: 3,693
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    Heat by Bill Buford. As a vegetarian I'm getting a little disheartened how affluence is associated with incredible amounts of meat at meals (not news, I know), and how superstar chefs are supporting the health problems in this country.

    Superstar chefs support the health problems in this country? Ha!
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
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    Obi OnceObi Once Posts: 918
    Reading the Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide for the 2nd time, very amusing.
    your light's reflected now
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    nuffingmannuffingman Posts: 3,014
    Some book by Sam Bourne, can't remember the name.
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    surfanddestroysurfanddestroy Posts: 2,786
    Dean Koontz: Forever Odd.
    Astoria 20/04/06, Leeds 25/08/06, Prague 22/09/06, Wembley 18/06/07,
    Dusseldorf 21/06/07, Manchester 17/08/09, London 18/08/09, LA 06/10/09, LA 07/10/09.

    Ain't gonna be any middle anymore.
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    Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Call-Wild-Guy-Grieve/dp/0340898240

    Just finished that one... it's absolutely fantastic and everyone should read it. It's fucking hilarious in parts and very educational in others and just a very heart warming.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
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    nuffingmannuffingman Posts: 3,014
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Call-Wild-Guy-Grieve/dp/0340898240

    Just finished that one... it's absolutely fantastic and everyone should read it. It's fucking hilarious in parts and very educational in others and just a very heart warming.
    There have been a few good reviews of this. Think I'll have to look out for it.
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    Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    nuffingman wrote:
    There have been a few good reviews of this. Think I'll have to look out for it.
    seriously do... there were just so many 'awwww' points. Especially his gradual bonding with the dog :D
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
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    nuffingmannuffingman Posts: 3,014
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    seriously do... there were just so many 'awwww' points. Especially his gradual bonding with the dog :D
    Actually that sounds quite perverted :eek:
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    Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    nuffingman wrote:
    Actually that sounds quite perverted :eek:
    :D Yep, it does... but honestly, the dog was the funniest part of the book... quite a character.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
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    BinauralBinaural Posts: 1,046
    Anybody ever read any Bill Bryson? I read an extract out of The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and it had me in stitches. Whats his writing like?
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    catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Binaural wrote:
    Anybody ever read any Bill Bryson? I read an extract out of The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and it had me in stitches. Whats his writing like?

    yes. i read made in america. gave me a little more insight into the american language. :)
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