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  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Once I finish this last paper of the semester tonight, starting this. Have never read it before.

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  • adropinthepark
    adropinthepark Posts: 475
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    13 Books of wasted time. I read most of this last book Tuesday night, but guessed where it's heading and have delayed reading the ending. Maybe I'll feel better about it once I've finished. However, I think I'll avoid series books from now on.
    I carried a watermelon
  • adropinthepark
    adropinthepark Posts: 475
    vant0037 wrote:
    Anyone else hate it when a friend recommends a book and then BRINGS THE BOOK for you? You can't refuse it, and you have to read it quickly because they're going to be asking you if you liked it soon and you can't NOT read it.

    It's nice and all, but it really fucks up my personal book-reading queue...hahahaha...

    Here's what has been recommended and given to me, which I'm starting today:

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    I LOVED this book, but tigers are my most favorite non-domesticated animal, so...

    I hope you enjoy it.
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  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    Newch91 wrote:
    Once I finish this last paper of the semester tonight, starting this. Have never read it before.

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    Of Mice and Men is awesome... I should pick this up too.
  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    peacefrompaul wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    Once I finish this last paper of the semester tonight, starting this. Have never read it before.

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    Of Mice and Men is awesome... I should pick this up too.
    Yes it is. I read that in one night when we read it junior year of high school. Once I started, I couldn't put it down.
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
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    "The Fall of Paris" tells the story of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870/1, the Prussian siege and conquest of Paris, the establishment of the Commune and the subsequent civil war and violent supression of it by the French government.
    In 1870, Paris was the center of Europe, the font of culture, fashion, and invention. Ten months later Paris had been broken by a long Prussian siege, its starving citizens reduced to eating dogs, cats, and rats, and France had been forced to accept the humiliating surrender terms dictated by the Iron Chancellor Bismarck. To many, the fall of Paris seemed to be the fall of civilization itself. Alistair Horne's history of the Siege and its aftermath is a tour de force of military and social history, rendered with the sweep and color of a great novel.
  • Nastasja
    Nastasja Posts: 9,668
    Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
    You can spend your time alone, re-digesting past regrets,
    Or you can come to terms and realize
    You're the only one who can't forgive yourself
  • afroannnie
    afroannnie Posts: 12,995
    finally found some reading time last night and finished this...

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    I think I'm going to start this next....


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    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • covered in bliss
    covered in bliss chi-caw-go Posts: 1,332
    hgpjam11 wrote:
    covered in bliss wrote:
    Just finished Gone Girl by Gillian-something. (Sorry-on my phone and cant look it up.)

    It held my attention, for sure, but I was a little annoyed when it was over. It ended in a strange place.

    I was annoyed by the ending. Have you read Sharp Objects (also Gillian Flynn)? It's one of the fastest and creepiest books I've ever read.

    Yes, read it right after Gone Girl. It was a fast read and had me guessing more than once. I'm almost finished with Dark Places and it is BY FAR my favorite of the 3. So far. It might have an ending that annoys me... I hope not!
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    afroannnie wrote:
    finally found some reading time last night and finished this...

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    I think I'm going to start this next....


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    Geek Love is a desert island book for me.
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  • afroannnie
    afroannnie Posts: 12,995
    dankind wrote:
    afroannnie wrote:
    finally found some reading time last night and finished this...

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    I think I'm going to start this next....


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    Geek Love is a desert island book for me.

    Cool! I'm only about 45 pages in, but I'm enjoying it so far... :D
    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • kw18
    kw18 Posts: 3,909
    kw18 wrote:

    Now I'm going to continue my "books I should have already read" series with:

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    I actually read about half of this in high school; I just never got around to finishing it. Here's hoping for a better result this time!

    Finally finished this up ... been too busy to read much recently. Pretty good ... f--ing haunting ending, though. :o

    Now I'm going to start reading this:

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    "Where's KW?"
    "Let's check Idaho."
  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    Just started Rick Atkinson's The Guns at Last Light, book three in his Liberation triolgy. If you like books about WWII, he's really really great. An Army at Dawn is the first one, The Day of Battle is number two.

    He does like to use big words. That you have to look up sometimes. Like "concupiscence." (Means strong sexual desire. Who knew?)

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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,852
    NOS4A2 by Joe Hill (Stephen King's son)
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Digital Twilight wrote:
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    one of my fave books.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • JBii
    JBii Lake Spivey Posts: 354
    The Paperboy
    That what you fear the most could meet you halfway
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,264
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    psycho-fucking-path :shock:
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    imalive wrote:
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    psycho-fucking-path :shock:
    Sounds like my kind of book. :P
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  • Digital Twilight
    Digital Twilight Posts: 5,642
    I've just finished 'All Quiet on the Western Front'. Fantastic book, a real 'must read'.
  • dottles
    dottles Posts: 9,206
    Digital Twilight wrote:
    I've just finished 'All Quiet on the Western Front'. Fantastic book, a real 'must read'.

    I've not read that book since uni, it was a mandatory text as part of war and its impact on culture and literature
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