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  • CreedDisease
    CreedDisease Posts: 241
    Choke. Same guy that wrote fight club. I can't put it down!
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,344
    The Hour I First Believed - Wally Lamb

    I don't know if "reading" is the right term. Sometimes, I feel more like I'm "slogging through." :roll:
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    The 10 Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How it changed America
    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.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Just finished "Let the Right One In". Now am reading "Adventures in the Screen Trade" by William Goldman.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • NCBRI
    NCBRI Posts: 1,902
    CreedDisease wrote:
    Choke. Same guy that wrote fight club. I can't put it down!


    I just finished "Choke". Good stuff! I'm beginning to really like Palahniuk's stuff.

    Currently reading "The Road" by Cormac Mccarthy. Different than I expected. This guy really has a way with words.
    Brian
  • DeLukin
    DeLukin Posts: 2,757
    edited February 2009
    Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
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    I smile, but who am I kidding...
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    decides2dream wrote:
    i just finished up eat pray love - elizabeth glibert? i think is the author's name - over the weekend, a fantastic read!
    i'll be starting in about an hour, over lunch, eleven minutes - paulo coelho.


    thus far, this seems a big year for books for me. :)
    lovin' it!
    8-)


    finished up eleven minutes on wednesday and started the zahir ~ paulo coelho yesterday. bout half-way thru and really, really enjoying it.
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Finished "The Name of the Wind' last night... if you like Harry Potter at all, but want something a bit more grown up, this book is it. I thought it was awesome... plus it's more college than high school. Lot of fun to read. The only problem is it's 1st in a trilogy and the other 2 aren't out yet so now I'll have to wait years to see how it ends!

    Now I'm reading:
    A Simple Plan- Scott Smith
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Finished Ishamel a couple days ago.

    Just about done with The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan (the dude who wrote Marley & Me).
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    AmentsChick wrote:

    Just about done with The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan (the dude who wrote Marley & Me).


    i read that about a month ago (and that at the end of december).
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    soulsinging wrote:
    Finished "The Name of the Wind' last night... if you like Harry Potter at all, but want something a bit more grown up, this book is it. I thought it was awesome... plus it's more college than high school. Lot of fun to read. The only problem is it's 1st in a trilogy and the other 2 aren't out yet so now I'll have to wait years to see how it ends!

    Now I'm reading:
    A Simple Plan- Scott Smith

    I enjoyed "The Name of the Wind" too.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    decides2dream wrote:
    AmentsChick wrote:

    Just about done with The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan (the dude who wrote Marley & Me).


    i read that about a month ago (and that at the end of december).

    hahahaha. I really am liking TLTH...I think more than I liked M & M.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    AmentsChick wrote:
    decides2dream wrote:
    AmentsChick wrote:

    Just about done with The Longest Trip Home by John Grogan (the dude who wrote Marley & Me).


    i read that about a month ago (and that at the end of december).

    hahahaha. I really am liking TLTH...I think more than I liked M & M.


    i liked them both...but i think my feelings are the reverse of yours. :D
    perhaps b/c marley was read, and written, first...i was already introduced to his 'style'...and sure, i am a total sucker for dogs. the other was really just as good, just not as much to discover for me...and yes, a bit more nostalgic. oh, idk,,,neither were truly 'surprising' stories, and both were very 'familiar' to me......but i guess marley just won me over more.
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    rrivers wrote:
    soulsinging wrote:
    Finished "The Name of the Wind' last night... if you like Harry Potter at all, but want something a bit more grown up, this book is it. I thought it was awesome... plus it's more college than high school. Lot of fun to read. The only problem is it's 1st in a trilogy and the other 2 aren't out yet so now I'll have to wait years to see how it ends!

    Now I'm reading:
    A Simple Plan- Scott Smith

    I enjoyed "The Name of the Wind" too.

    I was a bit nervous going in as I figured there was no way it could live up to the hype it's gotten, but this was the rare instance where the work exceeds the hype I thought.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    soulsinging wrote:
    rrivers wrote:
    soulsinging wrote:
    Finished "The Name of the Wind' last night... if you like Harry Potter at all, but want something a bit more grown up, this book is it. I thought it was awesome... plus it's more college than high school. Lot of fun to read. The only problem is it's 1st in a trilogy and the other 2 aren't out yet so now I'll have to wait years to see how it ends!

    Now I'm reading:
    A Simple Plan- Scott Smith

    I enjoyed "The Name of the Wind" too.

    I was a bit nervous going in as I figured there was no way it could live up to the hype it's gotten, but this was the rare instance where the work exceeds the hype I thought.

    I was at a bookstore and someone working there told me he was known as a fantasy expert so if I had any questions to ask him. I asked him what his favorite series was and he said "The Name of the Wind", but it's frustrating because the other books aren't out yet. I took his advice and enjoyed it. I haven't read a lot of fantasy (just the first "Wheel of Time" book). I will read the rest of this series when it comes out.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • RazzyLane
    RazzyLane Posts: 146
    Has anyone here read Little Bee by Chris Cleave (originally published as The Other Hand in the UK)? I admittedly skimmed sections since I came across it at work (though I 'skimmed' from beginning to end...) but I thought it was phenomenal. Can't wait to pick up a copy and re-read it.
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    "Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd" by Nick Mason
    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.
  • Grateful Jam
    Grateful Jam Posts: 81
    i am halfway through "the dharma bums" by jack kerouak. pretty good so far. trying to finish it fast so i can finally read "the hells angles" by hunter s thompson.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    rrivers wrote:
    I was at a bookstore and someone working there told me he was known as a fantasy expert so if I had any questions to ask him. I asked him what his favorite series was and he said "The Name of the Wind", but it's frustrating because the other books aren't out yet. I took his advice and enjoyed it. I haven't read a lot of fantasy (just the first "Wheel of Time" book). I will read the rest of this series when it comes out.

    I read about 5-6 of the Wheel of Time books before I realized he was never going to finish it. After I gave up I swore I'd never start another unfinished series like that again. Part of the appeal of Name of the Wind was I had been told the series was done and they were just releasing the 3 books a year apart... now the second book has been pushed back. Figures. I also got sucked into George RR Martin's series, which is amazing but also unfinished. It's unlike anything I ever read... very gritty realism and some truly shocking plot developments. It sent me on a bit of a fantasy kick (which lead to Name of the Wind, among others).

    However, I'm kinda burning out on it again. I'm on book 2 of a 3000 page juggernaut fantasy series (Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn) and I'm about to give up. I don't have the time or patience for this kind of reading anymore :)

    So now I'm reading "Caught Stealing" by Charlie Huston. A nice brutal noir mystery... my favorite!
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    I have 2 sitting waiting

    Gomorrah - Roberto Saviano
    &
    The Damned United - David Peace
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.

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