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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    aoife wrote:
    Dracula by Bram Stoker

    My mother in law gave me a gift certificate to Barnes and Noble for Christmas and I bought that book yesterday.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,368
    Seeing in the Dark : How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering the Wonders of the Universe by Timothy Ferris
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    aoife wrote:
    Dracula by Bram Stoker

    I did that, for my first degree. I should re-read it, sometime.
  • mumi
    mumi Posts: 662
    "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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  • deadmosquito
    deadmosquito Posts: 729
    A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    mumi wrote:
    "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

    I bought that with my gift certificate also. I think counting all the books I got for Christmas or bought with a Christmas gift certificate, I ended up with about 20 new books. Nerd!!!
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • daystar143
    daystar143 Posts: 367
    Hannibal Rising

    Which surprizingly sad.
    The Daystar

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  • aoife
    aoife Posts: 126
    daystar143 wrote:
    Hannibal Rising

    Which surprizingly sad.
    Ya i work in a book shop and i read the back of that and it sounds really good but in order to read it i would probably have to read the other three
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  • daystar143
    daystar143 Posts: 367
    aoife wrote:
    Ya i work in a book shop and i read the back of that and it sounds really good but in order to read it i would probably have to read the other three


    Working in a bookstore would be my dream job! And I would love to visit your lovely country some day!

    If you've seen Silence of the Lambs, you've got enough background to understand the newest book. It might be fun to read them in order, starting with the newest one. Hannibal was a little gruesome for my tastes (yes...that is an intended bad pun given the subject matter) and didn't have the psychological thriller aspect that made Silence so good.
    The Daystar

    "But --you say that Dreams have no power here? Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar...Ask yourselves, all of you...What power would hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to Dream of Heaven?" Dream speaking to Lucifer as written by Neil Gaiman.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    daystar143 wrote:
    Working in a bookstore would be my dream job! And I would love to visit your lovely country some day!

    If you've seen Silence of the Lambs, you've got enough background to understand the newest book. It might be fun to read them in order, starting with the newest one. Hannibal was a little gruesome for my tastes (yes...that is an intended bad pun given the subject matter) and didn't have the psychological thriller aspect that made Silence so good.

    Well said. Silence of the Lambs is a masterpiece and Red Dragon is also very good. Hannibal falls way short. I enjoyed the chase aspect of the FBI agent trying to track Hannibal down in Italy and trying to get the reward but overall it is a far cry from the previous two Hannibal books. I think I will read the new one when it comes out in paperback.
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  • trappedinmyradio
    trappedinmyradio Posts: 1,189
    rrivers wrote:
    Well said. Silence of the Lambs is a masterpiece and Red Dragon is also very good. Hannibal falls way short. I enjoyed the chase aspect of the FBI agent trying to track Hannibal down in Italy and trying to get the reward but overall it is a far cry from the previous two Hannibal books. I think I will read the new one when it comes out in paperback.

    the big thing with the pigs in hannibal was terrible...if harris would have thought of something better for the revenge plot then it would have been good...but, pigs? what the hell was that about? now, there is the pre-prequel - about hannibal's childhood and growing up...
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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    Seeing in the Dark : How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering the Wonders of the Universe by Timothy Ferris

    that sounds like a really intriguing book Ms. Haiku. I am by far a "science geek", nor claiming anyone who reads such a book would be, but I like picking up Discover or Scientific America or Astronomy magazines once in a while just to read about all the crazy new things going on in these fields. I find the search for Earth-like planets in other star systems is fascinating. Let me know how the book is, I may search for it.
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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,368
    smarchee wrote:
    that sounds like a really intriguing book Ms. Haiku. I am by far a "science geek", nor claiming anyone who reads such a book would be, but I like picking up Discover or Scientific America or Astronomy magazines once in a while just to read about all the crazy new things going on in these fields. I find the search for Earth-like planets in other star systems is fascinating. Let me know how the book is, I may search for it.
    I'm not a scientist, but I like to watch the phases of the moon. In fact, there's a really beautiful full moon tonight. This book could please both of us because it is very interesting, which keeps my curiousity, but it also would satisfy those scientists like yourself. I'll let you know if my attitude changes when it's done :)
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  • dotheevolution1
    dotheevolution1 Posts: 104
    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?
    Scar Tissue is great.

    I'm reading De Niro's game by Rawi Hage.
    It's a really great novel taking place in the Beirut Civil War, I would greatly reccomend it
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  • vedderfan10
    vedderfan10 Posts: 2,497
    Stumbling on Happiness...it's quite good!! It seems to be all about retraining your brain to think more about being in the present moment, rather than imagining the future (which is unique to humans apparently, the ability to plan) good or bad...makes sense to me so far...I'd recommend it...

    I read Scar Tissue last year...kinda made me not like Kiedis so much. Shame.
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  • stopstop
    stopstop Posts: 12
    Whenever I decide to actually do it, "Conversations with Tom Petty".
    I'm lost, I'm no Guide
  • Blanche
    Blanche Posts: 247
    Philip Roth - "The Great American Novel"

    The prologue is a little thick, but the reading is easier afterwards.
  • brain of c
    brain of c Posts: 5,213
    lisey's story
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • Irish Al
    Irish Al Posts: 6,236
    Desparation by Steven King......woke up screaming last night :o
    I need a coffee!
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    brain of c wrote:
    lisey's story

    How do you like it? I really enjoyed it.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • surfanddestroy
    surfanddestroy Posts: 2,786
    Warlock by Wilbur Smith, couldn't get into it at first but have almost finished it now and am loving it.
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  • Buru
    Buru Posts: 8,473
    I've just finished The theatre and it's Double - Antonin Artaud
    so I am at that point between books, wondering what to pick up next...
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  • imspinnin
    imspinnin Posts: 933
    Singletini
    (it's a chick book)
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  • rearviewmiror
    rearviewmiror Posts: 894
    Along came a Spider-James Patterson
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  • xDanerrr16
    xDanerrr16 Posts: 10
    right now im reading
    Five Against One
    the Pearl Jam Story
    by Kim Neely

    im only on page 93, so im not fully into it yet. its pretty good for what i can tell so far..but i hope it gets better
  • Ghostmutt
    Ghostmutt Posts: 17
    A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

    it's the funniest book I've ever read
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  • 3sheets
    3sheets Posts: 290
    just finished The Good News by Ed Abbey. And the new book will either be the Miles Davis Autobiography or Hawking's The History of the Universe in a Nutshell (or whatever it's called. i got it as an Xmas gift).
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  • parel jam
    parel jam Posts: 7,223
    After all the serious books, now it's time for the 6th Potter book...the first 5 were pretty good
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  • Thumbing_My_Way
    Thumbing_My_Way Posts: 1,425
    Palet van de Psychologie ; Jakop Rigter
    Hold me, and make it the truth,...
    That when all is lost there will be you,...
    Cause to the universe I don't mean a thing
    And there's just one word I stil believe
    And it's Love

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  • Julien
    Julien Posts: 2,457
    I'm starting "daughter of the empire" by Raymond Feist...
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