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  • KosmicJelli
    KosmicJelli Posts: 1,855
    All Of Them
  • Dissidentman
    Dissidentman Posts: 15,378
    "Set In Darkness", by some guy
  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    catefrances wrote:
    $17? lightweight!! :p:D you come book shopping with me and i hope you like 2 minute noodles, cause you wont be eating anything else for a month. :D

    i just joined the folio society. pretty pretty books.


    I have put myself on a budget :o so it was hard for me to leave with just four :p

    I am reading the other Ken Follett book that I got. "Jackdaws" I think it is called. Quite good, so far.
  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    Chime wrote:
    I enjoyed book I and am now racing through book II (really enjoying this one :)) ... I have all seven books but wasn't sure how many I'd want to read before breaking it up with some of the other books I have waiting for me but I went straight from I to II and think I'll have started III before the end of the week :o

    So since I last posted less than two weeks ago I'm now half way through IV - Wizard & Glass :eek: ... best so far
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  • Left Porch
    Left Porch Posts: 846
    About to start The Beach by Alex Garland. Just finished Beautiful Boy (David Sheff) and Tweak (Nic Sheff.) True stories from both a Father and son's perspective on Meth addiction. I wasn't really impressed by either, to be honest the addiction topic is getting a little dry IMO.
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  • angie76
    angie76 Posts: 646
    I just started Marley and Me.
    Dig a ditch deep enough
    To keep you clear of the sun
    You've been burned more than once
    You don't think much of trust
  • PJSerf
    PJSerf Posts: 637
    angie76 wrote:
    I just started Marley and Me.

    I am 2/3 of the way through this. Finding it to be a great read. Very entertaining.
    "If you love someone, set them free... if someone loves you, don't fuck up" - EV
  • angie76
    angie76 Posts: 646
    PJSerf wrote:
    I am 2/3 of the way through this. Finding it to be a great read. Very entertaining.

    Im just starting chapter 2. So far it's very cute :). I actually had the book for a while, forgot i had it and was reading other stuff.
    Dig a ditch deep enough
    To keep you clear of the sun
    You've been burned more than once
    You don't think much of trust
  • KosmicJelli
    KosmicJelli Posts: 1,855
    World Religions by Huston SMith... gotta get id!:D
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    No Country For Old Me

    thought I'd read it before I watch the flick
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  • EquallyWorthless
    EquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    smarchee wrote:
    No Country For Old Me

    thought I'd read it before I watch the flick


    good idea, you will get more out of the movie and wont be sitting there when the credits are rolling feeling utterly disgusted and unsettled saying what the fuck.

    Speaking of Cormac McCarthy i Just finished reading his newest one "The Road", it was also very sparse and unsettling. I am now reading "Brisinger" the 3rd book in the Inheritance Series by Christopher Paolini
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  • azwyldcats
    azwyldcats Posts: 711
    New Stephen Hunter...excellent as usual
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    "Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea" by Robert K. Massie
    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.
  • ForestBrain
    ForestBrain Posts: 460
    rrivers wrote:
    My wife and I have a contest every year to see who can read the most books. Last year I read 30 and she read 31. Right now this year I'm at 16 and I know she's one or two ahead of me, but she just read the "Twilight" series which I think should count for one book.

    That is so cool. If I ever get married, he's going to have to be a guy that loves reading.

    heehee, "Twilight"? I agree with you about all four counting as one book :P I tried reading a couple of pages because my sister is reading it and I just couldn't get far. No offense to the teens, but it was just too youth oriented.
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  • catch22
    catch22 Posts: 1,081
    rrivers wrote:
    Yeah, "The Name of the Wind" is a fairly new book. I'll let you know how it is.

    Yeah, from what I've read, I would agree that Martin is really liked. I will give that series a chance one day.

    The guy I was talking to yesterday told me Jordan just had no control over the plot and he kept introducing new plotlines, a lot of which were never resolved or took too long to resolve. He also said he introduced a new major character in book ten that just added to the mess.

    I really liked the first book though so I think I will give the series a shot. Unfortunately, it sounds like if I read a couple of more it will just suck me into when reading where it starts to get lame.

    Is your signature from "The Usual Suspects"?

    how is 'the name of the wind'? i've been doing some reading on it and it sounds pretty great. almost bought it last night actually.

    i finished the first george martin book over the weekend. honestly, i was kind of disappointed. it started VERY slow. the ending was strong, but some of his choices as an author were a bit puzzling. it's certainly not as spell-binding as 'eye of the world.' and since i hear he's starting to struggle to write the books and the last book apparently opened things up a lot, i fear he's losing control the same way robert jordan did. so you're maybe better off just carrying on with jordan.

    now i'm reading:
    songs of innocence- richard aleas. back to my love of hard-boiled detectives ;)
    and like that... he's gone.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    catch22 wrote:
    how is 'the name of the wind'? i've been doing some reading on it and it sounds pretty great. almost bought it last night actually.

    I just started it yesterday and am only 4 pages in so it's too soon to tell. I'll let you know when I get more into it.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    watch you bleed:the saga of guns'n'roses - stephen davis


    man o man what a bunch of fucked up guys. i knew they were, but not how much. :D
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • pushmepullme
    pushmepullme Posts: 255
    Unforgivable Blackness - a biography of Jack Johnson.

    I'm really into boxing biographies for some reason lol.
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  • It_Wasnt_My_Surface
    It_Wasnt_My_Surface Posts: 851
    Jonathan Lethem's "Gun, With Occasional Music" If you've never heard of him look him up. He's gonna be a big up and comer. Already two of his books are going to be movies by 2011
  • mert
    mert Posts: 167
    The Sorceror: The Fort At River's Bend by Jack Whyte.

    It's book #5 of 6 in the A Dream of Eagles series (known as The Camolud Chronicles in the US). It basically takes the Arthurian legend and tells the story as it would have happened, stripping away all the myth and magic. I'm enjoying them immensely. It starts before the Romans leave, with Arthur's Great Grandfather narrating for the first two books and setting up Camolud; then Merlyn takes over narration for the rest.

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