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  • iamica
    iamica Chicago Posts: 2,628
    "Silence" by Shusaku Endo
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  • BLACK35
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    To Kill a Mockingbird
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  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    rrivers wrote:
    To Kill a Mockingbird


    All time favourite, love that book.


    Just started Tolstoy's War & Peace ....but really just started. I am like 13 pages in.
  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    Light of Stars wrote:
    I just started reading The Devil in the White City about the serial killer during the Chicago World's Fair. Very interesting as I just moved to the city a few months ago.



    I read a review of that book and I really want to read it. Please update us :)

    oh and I think Gibson mentioned Fleury's book. I want to read that too... so many books.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    small town beck wrote:
    rrivers wrote:
    To Kill a Mockingbird


    All time favourite, love that book.


    Just started Tolstoy's War & Peace ....but really just started. I am like 13 pages in.

    Yeah it's really good. I'm making myself only read it at night in bed so it will last longer. I read it in high school a million years ago and just remembered very small bits of the story so a lot of it is new to me.
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  • MayDay10
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    The Shining
  • mfc2006
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  • Kraven
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    Just finished Sphere by Michael Crichton, not his best work but still very good.

    Now I am reading Dexter by Design, the 4th book in that series.

    After that it is going to be American Gods by Neil Gaiman

    And going to re-read God Hates Us All by Hank Moody. This is a tie in book to the Showtime show Californication, not the best piece of literature but I read it and enjoyed the hell out of it.

    Does anyone else keep a list of the books they read in a year? Started doing it last year. I read 35 I think last year, hoping to top that this year. I've read 7 so far.
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Kraven wrote:
    Just finished Sphere by Michael Crichton, not his best work but still very good.

    Now I am reading Dexter by Design, the 4th book in that series.

    After that it is going to be American Gods by Neil Gaiman

    And going to re-read God Hates Us All by Hank Moody. This is a tie in book to the Showtime show Californication, not the best piece of literature but I read it and enjoyed the hell out of it.

    Does anyone else keep a list of the books they read in a year? Started doing it last year. I read 35 I think last year, hoping to top that this year. I've read 7 so far.

    Yeah I started doing this maybe 2005 or 2006. I read Stephen King's column in EW where he ranked the best books of the year and he mentioned he reads 80 or so a year. I wanted to see how many I read so I started doing it. A couple of years into it my wife got into doing it and now we have a pretty heated competition to see who can read more! I think the most I've ever read is about 30. Last year was 26, about my average.

    I'm at 9 so far this year.
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  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,444
    I started Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace some weeks ago. And it's really good :)
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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Kraven wrote:
    Does anyone else keep a list of the books they read in a year? Started doing it last year. I read 35 I think last year, hoping to top that this year. I've read 7 so far.
    I never thought about doing that but I like the idea. Do you count ones that you re-read?

    I keep a long list of books that I want to read and update it whenever I finish one, so it would be pretty easy. I'll have to check to see how many I've read so far this year.
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  • Kraven
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    rrivers wrote:
    Kraven wrote:
    Just finished Sphere by Michael Crichton, not his best work but still very good.

    Now I am reading Dexter by Design, the 4th book in that series.

    After that it is going to be American Gods by Neil Gaiman

    And going to re-read God Hates Us All by Hank Moody. This is a tie in book to the Showtime show Californication, not the best piece of literature but I read it and enjoyed the hell out of it.

    Does anyone else keep a list of the books they read in a year? Started doing it last year. I read 35 I think last year, hoping to top that this year. I've read 7 so far.

    A couple of years into it my wife got into doing it and now we have a pretty heated competition to see who can read more


    Yeah, thats what started me, my girlfriend kept a list, and I was like hmm I want to start one and see if I can beat her. She's kicking my ass this year so far, she has like 15 read I think.
    whoprincess wrote:
    I never thought about doing that but I like the idea. Do you count ones that you re-read?

    Yeah as long as its not in the same year I suppose. I have a stable of books that I love to re-read.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    i think re-reads should be identified with a gold star. 8-)
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Kraven wrote:
    Kraven wrote:
    Just finished Sphere by Michael Crichton, not his best work but still very good.

    Now I am reading Dexter by Design, the 4th book in that series.

    After that it is going to be American Gods by Neil Gaiman

    And going to re-read God Hates Us All by Hank Moody. This is a tie in book to the Showtime show Californication, not the best piece of literature but I read it and enjoyed the hell out of it.

    Does anyone else keep a list of the books they read in a year? Started doing it last year. I read 35 I think last year, hoping to top that this year. I've read 7 so far.

    A couple of years into it my wife got into doing it and now we have a pretty heated competition to see who can read more


    Yeah, thats what started me, my girlfriend kept a list, and I was like hmm I want to start one and see if I can beat her. She's kicking my ass this year so far, she has like 15 read I think.
    whoprincess wrote:
    I never thought about doing that but I like the idea. Do you count ones that you re-read?

    Yeah as long as its not in the same year I suppose. I have a stable of books that I love to re-read.[/quote]

    I count books even if I have reread them. Last year my wife called it the year of the reread because she reread the Twilight and Harry Potter series.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    whoprincess wrote:
    Kraven wrote:
    Does anyone else keep a list of the books they read in a year? Started doing it last year. I read 35 I think last year, hoping to top that this year. I've read 7 so far.
    I never thought about doing that but I like the idea. Do you count ones that you re-read?

    I keep a long list of books that I want to read and update it whenever I finish one, so it would be pretty easy. I'll have to check to see how many I've read so far this year.

    I started doing keeping a list a couple years ago. I write RR for the ones I re-read. Original, hunh?

    I've read 6 this year, just finished Cutting for Stone. Really really lovely.
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Enkidu wrote:
    I started doing keeping a list a couple years ago. I write RR for the ones I re-read. Original, hunh?

    I've read 6 this year, just finished Cutting for Stone. Really really lovely.
    Well, I checked and I've read 5. Somehow I thought it was more.

    I've posted this link before but this is a handy way to keep track of books: http://www.librarything.com/
    I can keep track of several lists of books this way: To read, Favorites, Currently reading, Read but unowned. There's also places to put notes about different books. There's a message board too but I'm not really interested in that. Posters look like a bunch of snobby librarians. :ugeek: :roll:

    No offense to any librarians on the pit! :lol:
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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    Stephen King - Full Dark, No Stars

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  • vant0037
    vant0037 Posts: 6,170
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    The Shining

    WAAAAAAY better than the movie. There's a bit of a split between Kubrick and King over the treatment of the novel by Kubrick. The book is soooooo much scarier...
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    "By Night In Chile" by Roberto Bolano

    If you've never read Roberto Bolano, do so now. He died a few years ago and we lost a true genius. Start with "The Savage Detectives" and then read "2666." Awesome, awesome books...
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