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  • lanners
    lanners Posts: 458
    rrivers wrote:
    Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. Ok, so far. My wife loved it so I gave it a shot.

    I didn't want to drink the Kool-Aid and hop on the Twilight bandwagon, but i needed something to read and aside from Harlequin Romances and outdated copies of Company's Coming cookbooks i found at the pharmacy, Twilight seemed like the best option.

    Well, that was Tuesday night. I'm now finishing up the third book and have watched about 10 minutes of television all week. I don't know if i've ever been so sucked into a book before that i've forsaken the tv for so long.

    Does it make me shallow and vapid to be so engrossed in a teen book? Frankly, I don't really care.
    i. am. mine.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    lanners wrote:
    I didn't want to drink the Kool-Aid and hop on the Twilight bandwagon, but i needed something to read and aside from Harlequin Romances and outdated copies of Company's Coming cookbooks i found at the pharmacy, Twilight seemed like the best option.

    Well, that was Tuesday night. I'm now finishing up the third book and have watched about 10 minutes of television all week. I don't know if i've ever been so sucked into a book before that i've forsaken the tv for so long.

    Does it make me shallow and vapid to be so engrossed in a teen book? Frankly, I don't really care.

    That's cool that you liked it. I thought the first book was ok from the beginning but I was dying for it to end by 3/4 of the way through. The writing was terrible and it was way too much "I love him but I can't be with him but I still love him". I will not be reading anything else by her.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • nfanel
    nfanel Posts: 2,558
    the book thief by markus zusak. just started it today but can't put it down. really different kind of book where the narrator is Death.
  • xavier mcdaniel
    xavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,434
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  • westsidepie
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  • Chazz
    Chazz Posts: 1,156
    The Two Towers......I've been telling myself I'm gonna read these books for years but I've only just got 'round to it :o
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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    3/4's of the way through 'The Clinton Wars'
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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    smarchee wrote:
    3/4's of the way through 'The Clinton Wars'

    finished it, good job smarchee

    now onto:

    Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
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  • blondieblue227
    blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    the kite runner

    same week we went to see Don't fight the Zohan

    one extreme to the other.

    ha!
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  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    easy reading here....Bill Bryson, Notes from a small Island.

    Started it ages back, got side tracked by one or two others, but that's the beauty of this type of book, you can put it down for a while and just pick back up.....coffee table book almost. It's an amusing account of Brysons journey around the UK by public transport, he makes some very wry observations :)
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    jamie uk wrote:
    easy reading here....Bill Bryson, Notes from a small Island.

    Started it ages back, got side tracked by one or two others, but that's the beauty of this type of book, you can put it down for a while and just pick back up.....coffee table book almost. It's an amusing account of Brysons journey around the UK by public transport, he makes some very wry observations :)
    oh cool jamie. bryson is a good read. have you read him before?

    anyhoo...

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    walden - thoreau

    for fun:
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  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    catefrances wrote:
    oh cool jamie. bryson is a good read. have you read him before?

    Yes I read '....thunderbolt kid' last year on my holidays, it was a wonderful read, I enjoyed every page :)
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    catefrances wrote:
    oh cool jamie. bryson is a good read. have you read him before?

    anyhoo...

    for uni:
    portrait of a lady - henry james
    walden - thoreau

    for fun:
    the god delusion - richard dawkins
    How do you feel about Dawkins?

    Myself, I'm reading Murakami's Norwegian Wood.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    How do you feel about Dawkins?

    Myself, I'm reading Murakami's Norwegian Wood.

    hes very opinionated. but thats ok, cause so am i. and hes an atheist which i am too. :D

    ive read norwegian wood. based purely on the fact that its one of my fave beatles songs. same reason i read coupland's eleanor rigby. also read murakami's wind up bird chronicles. next one of his ive got lined up is kafka on the shore
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    catefrances wrote:
    hes very opinionated. but thats ok, cause so am i. and hes an atheist which i am too. :D

    ive read norwegian wood. based purely on the fact that its one of my fave beatles songs. same reason i read coupland's eleanor rigby. also read murakami's wind up bird chronicles. next one of his ive got lined up is kafka on the shore
    Yeah, he is that :p I'm an atheist too, albeit a marginally less arrogant one than Dawkins, but something about him annoys me. Like he almost makes me want to defend believers... ALMOST :)

    I think it's the fact that, whilst he is absolutely capable of deeper study, and is obviously extremely intelligent, he seems to think that even recognising theological works as worthy of a second glance would be giving them some kind of weight so he doesn't even bother referencing them. The God Delusion seems a bit over-simplified to me and very light on scholarly interpretations of theology and religious philosophy, which is probably what he's going for really, like a "I genuinely couldn't give a shit what Aquinas has to say, he was a christian writer and therefore beneath me" kind of thing. It just makes his arguments seem petty and narrow-minded. What I want is for the guy to beat the theologians at their own game :p

    Anyway, I digress. Kafka on the shore is next on my list too :) I'm really enjoying Norwegian Wood.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Yeah, he is that :p I'm an atheist too, albeit a marginally less arrogant one than Dawkins, but something about him annoys me. Like he almost makes me want to defend believers... ALMOST :)

    I think it's the fact that, whilst he is absolutely capable of deeper study, and is obviously extremely intelligent, he seems to think that even recognising theological works as worthy of a second glance would be giving them some kind of weight so he doesn't even bother referencing them. The God Delusion seems a bit over-simplified to me and very light on scholarly interpretations of theology and religious philosophy, which is probably what he's going for really, like a "I genuinely couldn't give a shit what Aquinas has to say, he was a christian writer and therefore beneath me" kind of thing. It just makes his arguments seem petty and narrow-minded. What I want is for the guy to beat the theologians at their own game :p

    Anyway, I digress. Kafka on the shore is next on my list too :) I'm really enjoying Norwegian Wood.

    well you know it doesnt matter to me what religious folks and scholars have to say. for me their belief is built on a faulty premise and thats all there is to it. i could dissect the bible until the day i die, its not gonna make a difference.

    re:kafka.. let me know and we'll read it together. our own little book club. :)
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  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,998
    I just started Whose Monet: An Introduction to the American Legal System.
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  • ForestBrain
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    Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan
    House of Chains by Steven Erikson
    Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
    There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale by Sean Astin
    Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams

    I can't pick one, so I'm just reading them all. Not at once, because that's impossible.
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    blondieblue227 wrote:
    the kite runner

    same week we went to see Don't fight the Zohan

    one extreme to the other.

    ha!

    What do you think of "The Kite Runner"? I liked it but I talked to a couple of people who really hate it. I thought it was well written but insanely depressing!
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    ForestBrain wrote:
    Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan
    There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale by Sean Astin

    I read the first Wheel of Time book , but haven't gotten around to reading the other ones. Probably because it is such a big commitment.

    That Sean Astin book made me hate him!!! He is such a whiner in that book! It's a shame because I was a fan of his before that book. I remember especially he was whining about the way Ian McClelan (sp?) and Warren Beatty treated him, but at the same time kissing their asses.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."

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