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Old 12-11-2007, 06:29 PM   #1036
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Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower - William Blum
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Old 12-11-2007, 06:33 PM   #1037
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ooh, another Darkover fan!
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Old 12-11-2007, 09:43 PM   #1038
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Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk

After coming off a long Orson Scott Card re-reading streak, Palahniuk's style of writing is very, very different, and I'm having a hard time settling into it. But I recognize that this is temporary; the book itself is very good so far.
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Old 12-21-2007, 03:55 AM   #1039
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The Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher
the Nightside books by Simon Green
and working my way slowly through "The Last of the Mohicans". I despise Fenimore Cooper's overblown writing, but at least it's better than "The Deerslayer"
I read a ton, so what I'm reading is ever-changing.
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Old 12-28-2007, 02:12 AM   #1040
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Books you're currently reading???

Dave Barry's "History Of The Millennium" (So Far)...Which actually starts January 1, 1000 (And the Y 1K Problem therein) and can only be described as a look at history as seen by the warped mind of Dave.

Read it in a public place and watch as people stare at you strangely as you randomly laugh out loud.
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Old 12-28-2007, 07:55 AM   #1041
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Just finished I Am America (And So Can You!) by Colbert Himself, and now i'm reading A.J. Jacobs' The Year Of Living Biblically. SO interesting! (if a little too pro-religion for me). Well, I guess it's not pro-religion at the beginning.... anyway it's still incredible.
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Old 12-28-2007, 09:51 AM   #1042
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Got Jeff Pearlman's "Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero" for Christmas. Fantastically written, very in-depth biography of Bonds and a study of the environment he grew up in. Highly recommended for any baseball fans.
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Old 12-28-2007, 10:30 AM   #1043
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Old 12-28-2007, 09:31 PM   #1044
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Old 12-28-2007, 09:54 PM   #1045
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Old 01-10-2008, 03:19 PM   #1046
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Just finished Slam, but the same guy, Nick Hornby, who wrote About A Boy and High Fidelity. Pretty good.
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Old 01-10-2008, 03:31 PM   #1047
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Recently finished:
Jerry Spinelli - Milkweed
William Goldman - The Princess Bride
Dashiell Hamett - The Maltese Falcon (As an aside, this book ended up inspiring a weird dream last night where I was working as a private detective with several other Dwellars and then got tased while I was following someone -- the iTaser thread was the last thing I looked at before bed, last night. I woke up from the dream unable to move or speak until my brain caught up and I realized I had not actually been tased.)

In progress:
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Sandra Cisneros - The House on Mango Street

I'm taking a course on Adolescent Literature this semester that requires me to read about two novels a week, so I expect I'll be making frequent visits to this thread over the next few months.
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Old 01-10-2008, 03:44 PM   #1048
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Old 01-10-2008, 03:44 PM   #1049
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Just finished Slam, but the same guy, Nick Hornby, who wrote About A Boy and High Fidelity. Pretty good.
*ahem* also Fever Pitch. But it wasn't about baseball when he wrote it, rather the mighty mighty Arsenal FC.

oh, and I just finished reading I Am Legend. Not bad, but not great either.
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Old 01-10-2008, 05:41 PM   #1050
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Fnished- Interworld. An interesting little pilot for a Saturday morning cartoon series in book form.

Reading- M is for Magic. Short stories, some of which I already had. Good stuff, though.
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