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Post by Bloodhound on Mar 25, 2007 2:41:00 GMT -5
Know any good books?
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Post by ScarlettP on Mar 25, 2007 6:37:00 GMT -5
I just picked up Steven Donaldson's 1st 'Gap' book. I've had it for years, but never got around to reading it.
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Post by Gary on Mar 25, 2007 9:42:50 GMT -5
Currently reading "Inherit The Stars" by James P. Hogan. Good book.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2007 11:37:28 GMT -5
Brad Thor's "The Lions of Lucerne". Kidnapped POTUS, sole surviving Secret Service dude discredited but hot on the trail in Switzerland despite being sanctioned.
It's a YES!
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Post by Jay on Mar 25, 2007 13:42:58 GMT -5
I don't read no stinkin' books........I get enough reading from web sites ~J
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Post by Babs on Mar 25, 2007 16:20:54 GMT -5
I'm reading a collection of short stories by Lee Smith. Marvel and I are going to the Southern Literary Conference this week.
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Post by RuneDeer on Mar 25, 2007 20:05:32 GMT -5
The Canterbury Tales. I'm determined to get all the way through it, finally...I've only had the book since 11th grade and there are all manner of ugly stains on it. I read the Preface and was very disappointed to learn that Chaucer never completed it. Same for Robinson Crusoe, which I got around to a few months back.
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Post by Felix on Mar 25, 2007 21:08:44 GMT -5
Juggling two books; Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy, and Hollywood Station by Joseph Wambaugh. The latter recommended and shared by tcrashfx. Good stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2007 8:24:27 GMT -5
Brief synopsis of Hollywood station?
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Post by Copperhead on Mar 26, 2007 13:19:22 GMT -5
The Borrowers. Seems I missed it in my childhood.
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Post by squirrelfever on Mar 27, 2007 17:44:30 GMT -5
"Scratch of the Pen" I found my knowledge of colonial American history lacking, so I found this book on the end and aftermath of the French and Indian War and its relation to the Revolution. Easy and enjoyable read, plus it covers a period of American history I was sadly too ignorant of.
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Post by Thorne on Mar 27, 2007 18:23:04 GMT -5
Now that sounds like an interesting book!! I'll have to find a copy.
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Post by Felix on Mar 27, 2007 20:56:01 GMT -5
yawdaw crisply requested: Brief synopsis of Hollywood station? I have barely gotten into HS yet, the Bicentennial library due date on Cities of the Plain is fast approaching. I don't think tcrash charges late fees; CHCBl does. He might give a more intelligible synopsis than I could at this point.
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Post by Milk on Mar 27, 2007 21:05:27 GMT -5
At work, in an attempt to stave off smoking, I am reading book 10 in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series. The Title escapes me at the moment, but I'm pretty sure it's The [Something] of [Something Else].
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Post by DarkestDreams77 on Mar 28, 2007 11:33:10 GMT -5
I started reading "Cell" by Stephen King. Its typical of him, gory to a point, but I think its good so far. Its making me afraid to use my cell phone...lol!
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Post by daworm on Mar 28, 2007 15:48:47 GMT -5
Re-reading "A Game of Thrones" and occasionally pick up "American Sucker". The former is in anticipation of "A Dance with Dragons" and the latter is something I picked up cheap in hardcover, and is kind of dry reading.
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Post by RuneDeer on Mar 28, 2007 20:00:07 GMT -5
I started reading "Cell" by Stephen King. Very much "classic" King. After reading Bag of Bones, I recognize this as one of the novels he took out of the safe deposit box! Perhaps the original concept was a Walkman rather than a cell phone, but it really has that late-1970s flavor.
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Post by Babs on Mar 28, 2007 20:39:00 GMT -5
I saw Cell the other day and started to get it. I'll wait and find it at Grumpies.
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Post by xterragirl on Mar 30, 2007 13:51:50 GMT -5
Just started James Patterson's Judge and Jury.
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Post by one on Mar 31, 2007 21:54:22 GMT -5
This thread.
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Post by rebelgrunt on Apr 2, 2007 0:39:27 GMT -5
"Variable Star" outlined by Rober A. Heinlein written by Spider Robinson
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Post by Homebrew Dave on Apr 4, 2007 10:38:10 GMT -5
I've been on a serious John Ringo jag the past month or so and have thus far read six of his books: A Hymn Before Battle, Gust Front, Dance with the Devil, and, Hell's Faire from the "Legacy of the Aldenata" series; and There Will Be Dragons and The Emerald Sea from the "Council Wars" series.
Next on my plate is the third book from the "Council War" series, Against the Tide.
Ringo spins a good yarn that will grab your attention and not let go but he has a sometimes annoying tendency to go off on wild tangents of weirdness and/or silliness.
Dave
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Post by Gary on Apr 4, 2007 10:51:59 GMT -5
He can't help it - he IS weird and silly. I'm reading Emerald Sea right now, as a matter of fact.
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Post by Babs on Apr 5, 2007 21:28:23 GMT -5
Now I'm reading Hollywood Station by Wambough. Can't put it down!
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Post by bushcheney08 on Apr 6, 2007 14:43:00 GMT -5
Sound and the Fury. There's no limit to how many times you can read that book.
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Post by Felix on Apr 7, 2007 14:25:58 GMT -5
Ah, BC08, good choice.
The Sound and the Fury, my favorite Faulkner, closely followed by Absalom, Absalom! and As I Lay Dying.
S&F gets the edge just because of Dilsey.
They endured.
I am right now reading In Country, by Bobbie Ann Mason, reissued in 2005, the twentieth anniversary of its original publication. The reissue partly due to increased interest in veterans coming home from an unpopular war.
First time for me with this book and author, and the woman can write. She was at the recent Conference on Southern Literature here locally.
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Post by bushcheney08 on Apr 7, 2007 17:01:48 GMT -5
Ah, BC08, good choice. The Sound and the Fury, my favorite Faulkner, closely followed by Absalom, Absalom! and As I Lay Dying. S&F gets the edge just because of Dilsey. They endured.I am right now reading In Country, by Bobbie Ann Mason, reissued in 2005, the twentieth anniversary of its original publication. The reissue partly due to increased interest in veterans coming home from an unpopular war. First time for me with this book and author, and the woman can write. She was at the recent Conference on Southern Literature here locally. I haven't read all of his. I really loved As I Lay Dying. I've read S&F before, but there's a lot to get. I like to come back to it again every so often. I've checked out Mosquitoes and Sanctuary, but apart from some really lovely language and a few cool scenes, I didn't really connect with the stories or the characters that much. I do want to check out Absalom though. That seems like a cool one. That Southern Writers conference seemed like a fun event, but I don't live in Chattanooga anymore so I couldn't go.
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Post by el Gusano on Apr 9, 2007 12:18:40 GMT -5
I'm actually reading an etymology dictionary right now.
Quite interesting, but no plot.
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Post by whimdriven on Apr 11, 2007 12:25:51 GMT -5
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
I am getting two pleasure books in the mail soon: Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody and Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion.
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Post by osrb on Apr 13, 2007 12:02:55 GMT -5
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Rober A. Heinlein Choosers of the Slain - John Ringo Star Voyager Academy - William R. Forstchen
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