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  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    smokeabud wrote:
    Naked Empire - by Terry Goodkind

    Another Goodkind fan, yay !!
    Naked Empire was the weakest I thnk, Chainfire and Phantom are much , much better, hope the last one will be oot soon.
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  • iamsampj
    iamsampj Posts: 784
    i just finished "god grew tired of us" a memoir by john bul dau...really good, now i want to see the documentary.

    i'm now reading "not on my watch" by don cheadle and john prendergast
    and "blink" by malcolm gladwell
    yes...i do feel like a human. i do not feel like a tree.
  • ForestBrain
    ForestBrain Posts: 460
    I'm reading "Prince of Demons" by Mickey Zucker Reichert.

    BTW, does anybody own a paper back copy of "The Blade of Fortrui" that they are willing to sell? I can't find that book anywhere...
    When life gives you lemons, throw them at somebody.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    tish wrote:
    The Name of the Rose

    and Transcending Anger: Heart Path (or some crap like that.)

    I loved the movie of 'The Name of the Rose' and have been meaning to read the book. How is it?
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    catefrances wrote:
    atm i am ploughing through stephen king's lisey's story

    I really enjoyed "Lisey's Story". King has a new book coming out next week. What do you think of "Lisey's Story"?
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • Binaural
    Binaural Posts: 1,046
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    rrivers wrote:
    I really enjoyed "Lisey's Story". King has a new book coming out next week. What do you think of "Lisey's Story"?

    i'm only 60 pages into it.
    the fact that scott is/was a writer is the reason i'm reading it. my nearly 10 year old son saw the thickness of the book and reckons that i won't finish before saturday(when it's due back at the library). i told him stephen king was an easy read generally so i'll have no problem with it taking me only a week to read.
    i dont read king often, but sometimes i just get in a mood for him. i'm more a fan of his non horror. dolores claiborne, misery, the girl who loved tom gordon. though i did quite enjoy the dark half.
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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    subterraneans - jack kerouac
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    Just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by Kahled Hosseini. It was wonderful.
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • gleemonex
    gleemonex Posts: 848
    Just about to start Everything is Illuminated by Johnathon Foer. Saw the movie and wanted to check out the book. I recommend the movie to everyone and especially to anyone who has Ukrainian and/or Jewish lineage.
    “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’” - Kurt Vonnegut
  • korby
    korby Posts: 298
    PLAYBOY

    and into INTERRED WITH THIER BONES . story of Bill Miner the train robber
    its ok
  • mdigenakis
    mdigenakis Posts: 1,337
    Whatever the professor tells me tomorrow night.
    "Don't let the darkness eat you up..."

    -Greg Dulli

  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    catefrances wrote:
    i'm only 60 pages into it.
    the fact that scott is/was a writer is the reason i'm reading it. my nearly 10 year old son saw the thickness of the book and reckons that i won't finish before saturday(when it's due back at the library). i told him stephen king was an easy read generally so i'll have no problem with it taking me only a week to read.
    i dont read king often, but sometimes i just get in a mood for him. i'm more a fan of his non horror. dolores claiborne, misery, the girl who loved tom gordon. though i did quite enjoy the dark half.

    Yeah it is an easy read but it is still really long! Lisey's is really good.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • PJ_Saluki
    PJ_Saluki Posts: 1,006
    "Absalom, Absalom" by Wm. Faulkner and "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton. Faulkner's incredibly long sentences kill me. Bouton does a good job of taking us into MLB.
    "Almost all those politicians took money from Enron, and there they are holding hearings. That's like O.J. Simpson getting in the Rae Carruth jury pool." -- Charles Barkley
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    I started A Thousand Splendid Suns (by the author of Kite Runner) over the weekend. I'm about a 100 pages into it and it's really good so far (not nearly as good as KR though).
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • Hartydog
    Hartydog Posts: 2,060
    I just wrapped up the Predator's Ball
    Boston 9-28-04, 5-24-06, 5-25-06, 5-17-10, 8-5-16, 8-7-16, 9-2-18, 9-4-18
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    Worcester 10-15-13, 10-16-13
  • daystar143
    daystar143 Posts: 367
    soulsinging wrote:
    this is my summer reading list... all books i have accumulated over the last few months and havent been able to read due to law school:

    julian barnes- arthur and george
    raymond chandler- complete works (ive read 3 of his novels, i wanna hit the rest)
    wilkie collins- woman in white
    fyodor dostoyevsky- brothers karamazov
    james ellroy- black dahlia
    jasper fforde- lost in a good book, well of lost plots, something rotten
    gabriel garcia marquez- love in the time of cholera, 100 years of solitude
    uzodinma iweala- beasts of no nation
    ken kalfus- a disorder peculiar to the nation
    chad klutgen- average american male
    adam langer- crossing california
    tim obrien- things they carried
    steven pressfield- gates of fire
    richard russo- straight man
    ian samson- case of the missing books
    dana spiotta- eat the document
    oscar wilde- picture of dorian gray
    howard zinn- people's history of the united state

    20 books, plus however many novels i havent read in the chandler collection. ive got my work cut out for me ;)

    i finished 'woman who walked into doors' by roddy doyle last night. he's an amazing writer and that was a pretty gut-wrenching book.

    Damn, that's impressive...I was two years out of law school before I wanted to read anything ever again! And I was an avid reader up until the time of the dreaded casebook.
    The Daystar

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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    I wasn't a big fan of The Kite Runner. The first part is good, and the last part is good, but the time in the US is like a desert of thought between two areas of actions. It just kindof goes bland. That may reflect how the author wanted us to view the life of the main character and his dad; that the excitement was in their home country. In the US they had to start anew, but all the action up to that point just drained them, and all of the challenges in the new country added to the depression.

    He wrote the events in the US as downtime, and that's what it read like.

    I finished The Kite Runner last night. I liked the whole thing. I thought the parts in the US were still good, seeing his dad adapt to the new place and then him meeting his wife. Plus the whole time, it was suspenseful wondering what Rhalid Kham (sp?) told him.

    Now I am reading "Positively Fifth St."
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    rrivers wrote:
    I finished The Kite Runner last night. I liked the whole thing. I thought the parts in the US were still good, seeing his dad adapt to the new place and then him meeting his wife. Plus the whole time, it was suspenseful wondering what Rhalid Kham (sp?) told him.

    Oh yeah, I LOOOOOVED Kite Runner!
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • THC
    THC Posts: 525
    I just started reading Bob Dylan's autobiography. So far...so good.
    “Kept in a small bowl, the goldfish will remain small. With more space, the fish can grow double, triple, or quadruple its size.”
    -Big Fish

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