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  • Green Circle
    Green Circle Posts: 5,192
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    I swore to Dissidentman I was gonna finish this one!! :lol:
    "...And I fight back in my mind. Never lets me be right.
    I got memories. I got shit so much it don't show."
  • Dissidentman
    Dissidentman Posts: 15,378
    Green Circle wrote:
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    I swore to Dissidentman I was gonna finish this one!! :lol:

    If you actually read the entire back cover, I will be impressed.
  • Mamasan23
    Mamasan23 Posts: 16,390
    peacefrompaul wrote:

    The Green Mile is one of the best books I have ever read.

    Agreed!!! Wow I'm gonna have to read that again. SK is incredible!
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  • JK_Livin
    JK_Livin South Jersey Posts: 7,365
    Mamasan23 wrote:
    peacefrompaul wrote:

    The Green Mile is one of the best books I have ever read.

    Agreed!!! Wow I'm gonna have to read that again. SK is incredible!

    It was a lot of fun to read it in the 6 installments the summer it was released.
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  • Dissidentman
    Dissidentman Posts: 15,378
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    The Chinese customs appear to have been sezing all the books I've ordered over the past few months. Including a few replacements, which also haven't arrived. I've now had nine books seized by those fucking bastards. Including two books of poetry by classical chinese writers! Go figure!

    Rant over.
  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    Byrnzie wrote:
    The Chinese customs appear to have been sezing all the books I've ordered over the past few months. Including a few replacements, which also haven't arrived. I've now had nine books seized by those fucking bastards. Including two books of poetry by classical chinese writers! Go figure!

    Rant over.
    That sucks!
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Mamasan23 wrote:
    peacefrompaul wrote:

    The Green Mile is one of the best books I have ever read.

    Agreed!!! Wow I'm gonna have to read that again. SK is incredible!

    He really is.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • gunter1976
    gunter1976 Posts: 587
    Among other things, I am reading the Autumn series, by David Moody. Reading these is a bit of an on and off thing for me it seems. The story develops kind of slow (maybe because these books have been intended to be read as a series from the start), but there is something that keeps pulling me in.. .
    "...bring it back someway bring it back, back, back... to the clean form, to the pure form..."

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  • Jeff Murray
    Jeff Murray Posts: 1,259
    gunter1976 wrote:
    Among other things, I am reading the Autumn series, by David Moody. Reading these is a bit of an on and off thing for me it seems. The story develops kind of slow (maybe because these books have been intended to be read as a series from the start), but there is something that keeps pulling me in.. .

    I have yet to get the second book of his Hater series, Dog Blood... I don't want people at work thinking I'm a Michael Vick disciple! :nono:

    I finished Abraham Lincoln The Vampire Hunter the other day... not bad, I liked how he linked the historical facts with the vampire fiction. One thing that bugged me was that the introduction story was never finished! I'm not a big vampire book fan, but I enjoyed The Strain series over this book by far.

    Currently reading Michael Connelly's 9 Dragons... after that I need to figure out if I want to head across the pond to Ken Bruen's London, George Pelancos' D.C., John Connolly's Maine, or Louise Penny's Three Pines village outside of Quebec. Decisions, decisions!
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  • Jnich2424
    Jnich2424 Posts: 608
    I'm about halfway through George R.R. Martin's "A Storm of Swords" Read the previous one in a couple days and am now flying through this one. After I finish the whole series, I plan on reading "The First Confessor" by Terry Goodkind. Huge fan of the Sword of Truth series, so I'm really excited to read this book. Also got to throw in "My Cross to Bear" by Greg Allman.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    Started "Jaws" Thursday night and finished it this am.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • gunter1976
    gunter1976 Posts: 587
    Dance of Days. Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital by Mark Andersen & Mark Jenkins

    The nation's capital gave birth to the most influential punk underground of the '80s and '90s. Dance of Days recounts the rise of trailblazing artists such as Bad Brains, Henry Rollins, Minor Threat, Rites of Spring, Fugazi, and Bikini Kill.
    "...bring it back someway bring it back, back, back... to the clean form, to the pure form..."

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  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,724
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  • Mamasan23
    Mamasan23 Posts: 16,390
    Jnich2424 wrote:
    I'm about halfway through George R.R. Martin's "A Storm of Swords" Read the previous one in a couple days and am now flying through this one. After I finish the whole series, I plan on reading "The First Confessor" by Terry Goodkind. Huge fan of the Sword of Truth series, so I'm really excited to read this book. Also got to throw in "My Cross to Bear" by Greg Allman.

    OOOOH!!!!! :thumbup: Storm of Swords - best book ever!!! Enjoy!
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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    Mamasan23 wrote:
    Jnich2424 wrote:
    I'm about halfway through George R.R. Martin's "A Storm of Swords" Read the previous one in a couple days and am now flying through this one. After I finish the whole series, I plan on reading "The First Confessor" by Terry Goodkind. Huge fan of the Sword of Truth series, so I'm really excited to read this book. Also got to throw in "My Cross to Bear" by Greg Allman.

    OOOOH!!!!! :thumbup: Storm of Swords - best book ever!!! Enjoy!
    I am jealous as well as I loved SoS so much.

    I'm reading Carey's Kushiel's Dart.
    I gave it a shot because it has a lot of court intruige like the Song of Ice and fire series. So far its pretty good. I'm not used to reading a book with a female protagonist but so far its been interesting.
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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
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    Canada’s legendary ambassador to the United States reveals his personal diaries from his time in Washington, from 1981 to 1989.

    Allan Gotlieb was ambassador to the United States during a high point in U.S.-Canada relations, the Reagan and Mulroney eras. One of our country’s most effective diplomats, he was renowned for forging inside connections to the capital’s key decision-makers, and as he has said, “In Washington, gossip is not gossip — gossip is intelligence.”

    Gotlieb kept a diary almost daily during his time in Washington, and its entries are filled with anecdotes about meetings and parties with the capital’s social, media, and political elite. Katharine Graham, Jesse Helms, and Sandra Day O’Connor are just a few who appear in its pages, as are such Canadian visitors as Jean Chrétien, Joe Clark, and even Wayne Gretzky.

    With frankness and self-deprecating wit, Gotlieb recounts the absurdities and pretensions of life in Washington and his fight to make Canada’s voice heard. His diaries chronicle not only the major international issues of the time — such as the forging of the Free Trade Agreement — but also his own growth from Washington outsider to sophisticated power-broker.
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Du Fu: A Life in Poetry

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    Du Fu (712–770) is one of the undisputed geniuses of Chinese poetry—still universally admired and read thirteen centuries after his death. Now David Young, author of Black Lab, and well known as a translator of Chinese poets, gives us a sparkling new translation of Du Fu’s verse, arranged to give us a tour of the life, each “chapter” of poems preceded by an introductory paragraph that situates us in place, time, and circumstance. What emerges is a portrait of a modest yet great artist, an ordinary man moving and adjusting as he must in troubled times, while creating a startling, timeless body of work.
  • EmBleve
    EmBleve Posts: 3,019
    Just started 'Life', Keith Richards. Huge book, will take awhile.
  • Mamasan23
    Mamasan23 Posts: 16,390
    Finally finished ADWD so back to finishing up King's 11/22/63.
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