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  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    I bought Under the Dome this weekend. Um, it weighs how much? Fifty pounds?
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Enkidu wrote:
    I bought Under the Dome this weekend. Um, it weighs how much? Fifty pounds?

    I always bench press it a little after I finish a reading session, just to keep my pecs up.
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  • dades
    dades Posts: 336
    Heartfelt by Aiden Smith, about a hibby pretending to be a jambo.Both wank teams but book is quite amusing.
    Will finish tonite then start Bill Bryson, Short History Of The World?? something like that anyway.
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  • decides2dream
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    just started yesterday...
    the almost moon ~ alice sebold.
    she wrote both the lovely bones and lucky, both great reads. this thus far, rather disturbing :? ...and yet at times, funny... :D . so yea, so far...so good!
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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,856
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    Stephen King "Cell" and so far I like it ;)


    that was a decent book. Very easy, quick read
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    agatha christie- murder on the orient express
  • theserialthrilla
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  • he still stands
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    Just finished Hocus Pocus by Vonnegut. I had heard it ranks up there with SL5 and Cats Cradle... meh not so much. Still a witty and fun book, just not his best work.

    Now I'm reading The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell... only about 50 pages in (after probably 5 hours of reading... its a tough read) and I love this stuff. Comparative mythology and the monomyth of the hero within all of us. It was written in 1949 but I've heard many people say it is the most important and most relevant book they've ever read and they continue to revisit it throughout their lives.
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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,856
    working my way through Under the Dome still. Trying to take my time, but I keep wanting to read. Great book and IMO so far ranks up there with Stephen King's best novels. Unlike his longer novels like It and The Stand (which I love).... there is no wasted space at all. It is very intense throughout (the first quarter at least). The characters are being developed on the fly.... unlike many other of his novels that you have to read dozens of pages of backstory to get back to the plot.

    this book will definitely translate into a mini-series and I would be shocked if we dont see one in the next few years.
  • rcs
    rcs Posts: 711
    Just finished:
    Ishmael - Daniel Quinn (3rd time and I get more out of it each time)
    Animal Farm - George Orwell
    (on a bit of an anthropomorphic animal kick there)

    And just started:
    The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    MayDay10 wrote:
    working my way through Under the Dome still. Trying to take my time, but I keep wanting to read. Great book and IMO so far ranks up there with Stephen King's best novels. Unlike his longer novels like It and The Stand (which I love).... there is no wasted space at all. It is very intense throughout (the first quarter at least). The characters are being developed on the fly.... unlike many other of his novels that you have to read dozens of pages of backstory to get back to the plot.

    this book will definitely translate into a mini-series and I would be shocked if we dont see one in the next few years.

    Very well said. I feel the exact same way. Just what you want a book to do: I can't wait to get back to it, but I don't want it to end.

    So far I would say that I think it ranks up there with his best as well. Characters have always been the strong point of King and he is in fine form here. You are right about there not being wasted space. I think King suffers sometimes from being as popular as he is that there is a lot of wasted rambling in his books sometimes. I was expecting that in this one (since it is so long), but so far it is very engaging. Good development of a lot of characters, making the town come alive, without dragging the story down.

    Someone may have already mentioned this but I think Spielberg is going to develop it into a mini-series, hopefully for HBO.
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  • 71step28
    71step28 Posts: 2,249
    Starting next: David Foster Wallace "Infinite Jest" (in german [since I am german]: Unendlicher Spass)
    (it took them many, many years to translate this book to any other language...)

    I'm a little "scared" because of the books size (more than 1500 pages in very small letters) and it's a hardcover, not very comfortable to handle, but I heard so many great things about it. And I was told this is a quite fantastic book and once started you can't let go ( ;) that's the problem :arrow: time)
  • Black Diamond
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    My name is red - Orhan Pamuk

    Interesting start...
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  • samjam
    samjam New York Posts: 9,283
    Just finished The Alienist by Caleb Carr for my History of NYC class---can you say looonng!!

    Been wanting to read The Time Traveler's Wife, but haven't gotten around to it-- now that I finally have time, I think I'm gonna give it a read!
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  • Corso
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    Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Corso wrote:
    Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

    i'm reading waiter rant, by steve dublanica... the front of the house side of that story ;)
  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
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    intodeep wrote:
    Neil Gaiman's Sandman Graphic Novel's

    Yes they are comic books, no i don't care if you tease me about it ;)


    some of the best books are graphic novels...v for vendetta 300 sin city watchmen..and those are the film ones everyone will know and not the best..killing joke is stunning ..plastic forks in my favourite

    I've actually read all of those except for plastic forks. i'll have to look for that one!
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  • rcs
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    Just picked up House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.

    Had to start it right away. I'm only about 100 pages in and it is already one of the most disquieting yet engrossing books I've ever read. I find it really messes with my head and takes over my thoughts and dreams. Not sure if that's a good thing or not. :shock:
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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
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  • the wolf
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    every 3rd or 4th book, I read something just for fun and not very challenging.

    so...

    right now I'm reading a Star Wars book. Dark Lord the rise of Darth Vader. :?


    so sue me, I'm a star wars geek. 8-)
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