bobthedrummer
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Fri Jul-09-04 09:48 PM
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I just finished reading John Le Carre's "Absolute Friends" and am starting |
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in on Chalmers Johnson's "The Sorrows of Empire". I took them out from my local library, as per usual.
What book(s) are you currently reading? Did you buy them or get them from your library?
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Career Prole
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Fri Jul-09-04 09:55 PM
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1. Just finished "The Celestine Prophecy" and started |
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Edited on Fri Jul-09-04 09:56 PM by Career Prole
Paul O'Neill's "The Price of Loyalty". The paper I work for sells off the review copies we get about 4 times /year in big book sales. A buck for hardcover, half a buck for paperbacks. The selection isn't always great but ya can't beat the price! :)
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Fri Jul-09-04 10:01 PM
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4. Wow, those are great prices for new books! I usually buy books at |
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thrift shops or rummage sales.
I've read "The Celestine Prophecy" and will read "The Price of Loyalty" when it's available at the library.
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Career Prole
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Fri Jul-09-04 10:32 PM
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10. O'Neill's book is teaching me a lot about economics... |
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...a subject I know far too little about, I must confess. From what I've read so far I'd say Bush knows even less about the subject. :) As soon as the election's over I'm going to settle down with the new Ted Williams biography...I want to be able to concentrate!
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Fri Jul-09-04 09:58 PM
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2. I loved "Absolute Friends." |
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I just finished "Fields of Fire" by James Webb and am re-reading "Catch-22" for the third or fourth time. Funny stuff.
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bobthedrummer
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Fri Jul-09-04 10:10 PM
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7. I read the first 150 pages or so and gave it a rest. But after that I |
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couldn't put it down and finished it. I'm 54 and could relate to some of it, I liked how he jumped through the life cycles and times, he's spot on about the political message.
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Fri Jul-09-04 09:59 PM
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although i love used book stores, and thrift shops. also like the quality paperback bookclub. do the amazon thing, tho. i am a hoarder/packrat, and just too disorganized to keep track of library books. i try not to borrow from friends, either. i am so bad. i am reading big dawgs book, and have molly ivins "bushwacked" waiting here. but i like thrillers. patricia cornwell, david baldacci, ron brown.
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Fri Jul-09-04 10:03 PM
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5. How was "Absolute Friends" |
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I'm a big fan, and heard about the book on NPR a few months ago. Sounded really interesting. I'm also big into Ludlum, DeMille, Cussler, and now Dan Brown.
Reading the Big Dog's book at the moment.
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Fri Jul-09-04 10:14 PM
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9. Really a good read, the first part (of character development) will appeal |
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to anglophiles and then it really takes off. I'm also into Len Deighton's work.
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Lydia Leftcoast
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Fri Jul-09-04 10:05 PM
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6. A historical mystery called The Intelligencer |
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in which one of the main characters is Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. It's very good for a first novel, although the parts that take place in modern times are a bit Robert Ludlum-like.
The last non-fiction book I read was Karen Armstrong's The Spiral Staircase, which tells how she left the convent and struggled with readjustment to secular life, all the while dealing with undiagnosed epilepsy. I found it interesting for the conclusions she has come to after years of studying comparative religions.
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Fri Jul-09-04 10:13 PM
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8. I am switching between the Clark and the Wilson books. I just |
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finished the newest Jahn Sanford novel the prey series.)
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Fri Jul-09-04 10:37 PM
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11. just discovered Terry Pratchett |
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...even though I'm prejudiced against the whole fantasy genre for being hopelessly geeky with all the imitation Welsh names and all the 'faeries'... But this stuff's hilarious in a pythonesque way & always seems to have a great point at the end.
I started with "Jingo" and "Good Omens" (which is now one of my favorite books,) both of which I recommend without reservations to all DUers. Also enjoyed "Guards! Guards!"
Just borrowed "The Truth", published in 2000 & a parable about people with printing presses destroying political figures they don't like.
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