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  • dissidentbehindthec
    dissidentbehindthec Posts: 100
    Hey Buru, it's me, FEH :)
    Speaking as a child of the 90's....I never thought you'd habit.

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  • Tek Money
    Tek Money Posts: 642
    dissidentbehindthec wrote:
    Hey Buru, it's me, FEH :)

    FEH!!! It's me TeK!
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  • Cree Nations
    Cree Nations Posts: 2,247
    Last night I finished reading Black Elk Speaks, it was really good.
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  • dissidentbehindthec
    dissidentbehindthec Posts: 100
    Tek Money wrote:
    FEH!!! It's me TeK!

    AHAHAH - Hey there!
    Speaking as a child of the 90's....I never thought you'd habit.

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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. It's about a comet hitting the earth and destroying everything. Really fun.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • eddies grrl
    eddies grrl Posts: 509
    i recently read 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers, and it was fantastic. it was a National Book Award finalist, so it's not some fluffy, sensationalized rag, it's really well-written and detailed, yet very accessible to the average reader. it tells not only about the struggle to escape the towers, but explains HOW and WHY they ultimately collapsed, which has been the topic of a good amount of debate and heresay. an excellent, fast-paced read.
    Life is the riddle
    Of which we're caught in the middle.
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    i was going to read brothers karamazov, but talked myself out of it on the grounds that 1) im too busy with my move to focus on such a weighty book and 2) if/when i read it im gonna read that award-winning translation instead of the crappy one i have.

    so now im planning to knock off the complete novels of dahiell hammett before i go. i loved the maltese falcon so im looking forward to it.
  • smithnic
    smithnic Posts: 1,565
    Currently reading a sweet book "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen. It's about a family with grown up kids and the myriad of situations that involves. I highly recommend it. Plus it was on Oprah's book list and the guy got pissed about it and wanted it taken off. :)
    Go Get 'Em Tigers!
  • righteousbabe
    righteousbabe Posts: 662
    Currently reading Until I Find You by John Irving. It is his latest book. At times it reminds me a little of A Prayer For Owen Meany. If you like John Irving books you will like this one.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    smithnic wrote:
    Currently reading a sweet book "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen. It's about a family with grown up kids and the myriad of situations that involves. I highly recommend it. Plus it was on Oprah's book list and the guy got pissed about it and wanted it taken off. :)

    that book is absolutely phenomenal. one of the best books ive read in the past 3-4 years.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    smithnic wrote:
    Currently reading a sweet book "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen. It's about a family with grown up kids and the myriad of situations that involves. I highly recommend it. Plus it was on Oprah's book list and the guy got pissed about it and wanted it taken off. :)

    Yeah I really liked it. The characters were very real.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    soulsinging wrote:
    i was going to read brothers karamazov, but talked myself out of it on the grounds that 1) im too busy with my move to focus on such a weighty book and 2) if/when i read it im gonna read that award-winning translation instead of the crappy one i have.

    so now im planning to knock off the complete novels of dahiell hammett before i go. i loved the maltese falcon so im looking forward to it.
    ........I read ....Karamazov last year and it does need some time, Im quite compulsive once into a book but there were times when I found the going tiresome. iIt took me until 250pages or so to really get into. However, the second half it all really ties together.........finished The Idiot recently and thought it not nearly as good as any other dostoyevsky
    edit::::::read some dashiell hammett last year (a collection of short storys:NighTmare Town) and wasnt overly impressed but none were his recognised works
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    elmer wrote:
    ........I read ....Karamazov last year and it does need some time, Im quite compulsive once into a book but there were times when I found the going tiresome. iIt took me until 250pages or so to really get into. However, the second half it all really ties together.........finished The Idiot recently and thought it not nearly as good as any other dostoyevsky
    edit::::::read some dashiell hammett last year (a collection of short storys:NighTmare Town) and wasnt overly impressed but none were his recognised works

    yeah, karamazov might be a project for spring break or next summer.

    i read 'maltese falcon' in college and really liked it. im kind of a sucker for those hardboiled detective novels. LOVE raymond chandler. so im excited.
  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    Just finished The Night Buffalo by Guillermo Arriaga (script writer of Amores Perros and 21 Grams) and loved it. It is only 200 pages long (too short!) and I became engrossed. Didn't want it to finish and am still left with unanswered questions ...
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  • jaygreen12
    jaygreen12 Posts: 166
    American Psycho and Layer Cake.
    6/03/06-East Rutherford II

    The One and Only
  • aoife
    aoife Posts: 126
    tom barry's guerrillas days in Ireland
    "If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin castle, unless you set about the organisation of the socialist republic then all of your efforts would have been in vain. England will still rule you through her capitalists ,landlords and commercial institutions"
  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    currently onto Maupassant's Bel Ami......
  • mole1985
    mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    Dune Messiah
    Dublin 2006
    Katowice 2007
    London 2007
  • dissidentbehindthec
    dissidentbehindthec Posts: 100
    Just finished Slaughterhouse-Five.
    Speaking as a child of the 90's....I never thought you'd habit.

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  • esther1977
    esther1977 Posts: 540
    JUst started reading in Labyrinth by Kate Mosse.
    And loving it so far
    When all your dreams turn to dust, vacuum
    When all else fails, read the instruction

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