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Fri Jul-14-06 12:00 PM
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What are you reading? Read lately? |
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Just finished:
Typhoid Mary and Kitchen Confidential, both by Anthony Bourdain
Reading now:
La Peste, en Francais, by Camus The Coming of the Third Reich, by Richard Evans.
How about you?! :bounce:
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:01 PM
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1. Im in the middle of Sam Seders FUBAR |
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:02 PM
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:10 PM
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Sam is great! Franken's the Truth with Jokes is next for me. Did you know Randi is coming out with a book later this year too? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401352480/ref=sr_11_1/103-6602191-5833412?ie=UTF8
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Sat Jul-15-06 09:11 PM
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71. Me too, FUBAR so far is a great book! |
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:02 PM
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2. I'm reading The Mercy of Thin Air |
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:02 PM
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:04 PM
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7. yep. she was awards with this, her first novel |
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personally, i think it's a little weak. i intend to finish it, and it's interesting, but i keep getting tripped up with awkward wording. she needs a better editor.
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:06 PM
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I hate bad editing! It makes me sad... :P
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Fri Jul-14-06 02:46 PM
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Fri Jul-14-06 02:57 PM
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you and sundog's comment back-n-forth is highly amusing, i must say.... :rofl:
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:03 PM
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5. I'm reading "Eleanor of Aquitaine - a Life" by Alison Weir |
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Very engaging biography of one of the most fascinating women of history - Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of King Henry II of England.
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:04 PM
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I love good history books!
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:13 PM
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23. I read that, it's really good |
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Allison Weir writes good british historical biographies.
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Fri Jul-14-06 11:09 PM
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I named my first born after her. Eleanor, not Alison Weir........
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:03 PM
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6. Factories of Death (Japan's Biological Warfare Program and the |
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American Cover Up 1931-1945) by Sheldon Harris
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:05 PM
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:05 PM
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12. extremely graphic and disturbing |
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but a good research tome if you're writing a novel about Unit 731.
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:06 PM
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:07 PM
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17. yes, the sequel to Tears of Amaterasu |
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which was about The Rape of Nanking
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:04 PM
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9. maurice...e.m. forster |
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:11 PM
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20. Oooh, have you read that before or is this the first time? |
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It's such a beautiful book. Though, I think that about most of Forster's stuff. Are you liking it so far?
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:05 PM
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11. Reading now: Deception Point by Dan Brown |
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Next up: Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:14 PM
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24. how do you feel about Deception Point? |
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I found it to be very predictable. IMHO.
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Fri Jul-14-06 01:49 PM
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41. A very lightweight novel... at best. |
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I was looking for something easy to read and boy did I find it. I haven't read Brown's other books and doubt I will. He has a very amateurish style.
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:05 PM
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13. i'm rereading Gothic Politics in the Deep South, by Robert Sherrill |
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The book is a series of sketches of some of the more famous demagogues of the 50's and 60's southern political scene. It was written at the end of the sixties so some of the names won't be so familiar to people today (eg., Leander Perez, James Eastland). It's great stuff written by one of the great underrated Americans of his time.
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:06 PM
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14. I'm reading what I'm typing |
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And so are you. What's the big deal?
nyuk nyuk nyuk. I gotta million of 'em.
Anyway, I recently started reading Foucault's Pendulum again.
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:06 PM
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15. The Information by Martin Amis |
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I'm about halfway along and thoroughly enjoying, as I do with all Amis.
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:09 PM
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18. Still reading "Europe Central" by William Vollmann |
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I will finish this thing before summer is over. I will.
:D
It's taking forever, (though of course I haven't been putting as much time into it as I could either), because it's this big, fat, 700 page novel that's modeled after those big, fat, old Russian novels everybody loves. It's really good--I love a book where 200 pages in the author is still introducing characters. Also, I have a bet with a co-worker who says I won't finish it, (lots of people I work with have tried, few have done it), so I have to do it. I'll have both the satisfaction of having done it, and when I get through it everything else will seem like light, fluffy beach reading.
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:12 PM
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21. The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa |
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A novel recounting the last days of the dominican strongman, Generalissimo Trujillo. Very interesting...
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:12 PM
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22. "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan |
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:48 PM
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33. I want to read that one! |
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:14 PM
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25. "Dispatches from the Edge" |
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Anderson Cooper's book. I just finished it. It was quite good, actually.
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:15 PM
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26. Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey |
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It's kinky, fantasy fun.
Prior to that, I read:
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer The Burning of Rainbow Farm by Dean Kuipers
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:15 PM
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27. Bruce Campbell's autobiography "If Chins Could Kill: |
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Confessions of a B Movie Actor."
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:48 PM
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32. I have the autographed copy |
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Met him at a signing/talk at Mt. Holyoke..He smells good. :D
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Fri Jul-14-06 03:33 PM
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57. I'm incredibly jealous! |
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I'm struggling to contain the urge to watch one if not all the Evil Dead's for the gazillionth time. Happily Darkman is on TV tomorrow night which is a film I haven't seen in at least a decade & one I never knew Campbell was connected with (although it's Raimi so he's never that far behind!)
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:32 PM
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28. John Strasbaugh's "Black Like You"... |
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an examination of blackface, whiteface, insult and imitation in American popular culture. I snatched the book up as soon as I saw it because I am a student of the complex history of minstrelsy, its implications, and continuation. On the same subject, I also recommend "Love And Theft" and "Blacking Up"
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:44 PM
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29. Terrorist by John Updike |
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recently read The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat & Night by Elie Weisel.
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:46 PM
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30. Hey, this looks familiar! |
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:hi:
I am reading or have just finished:
The Power of Now by Eckart Tolle Dark Nights of the Soul by Thomas Moore Bird by Bird by Anne Lammott Poets Companion - Dorianne Laux & Kim Addonizio PoemCrazy - ???
RL
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:47 PM
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Yes, I have a penchant for the book threads...I'm a thread count whore, I know :blush:
Hi baby!! :loveya:
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:52 PM
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I loves me the book threads!
How are ya?
:loveya:
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Fri Jul-14-06 01:31 PM
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37. Yeah, it was just Paul-bait...hehe.... |
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:loveya:
I am excellent! I went to bed (i.e. passed out) early, got lots of sleep, and woke up feeling magnificent! I've done nothing all day, and posted many a silly MySpace bulletin. Check my latest, it's my own creation :D
I miss you!! How are you love?
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Fri Jul-14-06 01:39 PM
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38. Much better now that you are here! |
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Fri Jul-14-06 12:50 PM
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34. Varro: On Agriculture |
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and the Letters of Angelo Poliziano
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Fri Jul-14-06 01:24 PM
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Just finished: Nine Mile Bridge by Helen Hamlin. It's a narrative of her three years in the remote Maine woods during the 1930s.
and The Lobster Chronicles by Linda Greenlaw.
Now reading The Lobster Gangs of Maine by James Acheson.
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Fri Jul-14-06 01:40 PM
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40. Nothing--so I'm taking notes. Started "The Red Tent," but just can't |
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make myself read it. Don't know why, I like the writing, like the subject... it just doesn't work for me. Was considering re-reading my Tracy Chevalier collections, or my Raymond Chandler books... Yeah, I have varied tastes.
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Fri Jul-14-06 01:50 PM
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42. "Overthrow" with "Mayflower" coming up next. |
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Finished "Terrorist" by Updike. Sped read that one, not that impressed.
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Fri Jul-14-06 01:52 PM
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43. House of War by James Carroll |
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Very interesting book about the Pentagon and how it (or rather the leaders within it) have influenced US presidents/diplomacy/basically everything.
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Fri Jul-14-06 01:53 PM
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44. "The Upanishads" and "Ruling America--A History of Wealth and Power in |
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Fri Jul-14-06 01:55 PM
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45. The End of Faith by Sam Harris |
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I just started it, but it's very good.
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Fri Jul-14-06 02:06 PM
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46. Just finished Armed Madhouse-Palast. I may have to re-read that one, he |
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throws so much information at you that it gets a bit overwhelming and I fear losing important data.
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Fri Jul-14-06 02:50 PM
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48. The Disposable American |
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Layoffs and their consequences by Louis Uchitelle
--eh, I have time on my hands. sigh.
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Fri Jul-14-06 02:51 PM
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49. "French for Dummies" and re-reading all of Sig Olsen's stuff... |
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On the waiting list for the latest John Sanford "Prey" book at the library Also reading Jim Wallis (Sojourner's guy) "Why the Right gets it wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It." It's OK, but he unfortunately has bought into quite a bit of the media lies (hasn't done his fact-checking) but it's a pretty decent read.
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Fri Jul-14-06 02:57 PM
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50. How's "French for Dummies"? |
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Fri Jul-14-06 03:05 PM
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52. Pretty good; it's mostly conversational, but they do get into conjugations |
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and all, and there is a good CD with it, so you can hear the phrases pronounced properly. I'd recommend it as a good starter. I do speak some Spanish, so I can read a lot of French, but need to work on pronunciation (which is MUCH more straightforward in Spanish!)
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Fri Jul-14-06 03:18 PM
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I'm going into my 3rd/4th year of French. (Took 2nd and 3rd year courses simultaneously). I like the Dummies books, for some things, they really are the best. I'll have to give it a look. :)
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Fri Jul-14-06 03:26 PM
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54. My youngest is taking French in college, so I am going to get her to help |
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me practice. She's really good at it...very gifted at languages.
She writes all of her cards to me (b-day, Mother's Day, etc.) in French now, and I love it!
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Fri Jul-14-06 03:28 PM
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55. Just finished "American Pastoral" by Philip Roth |
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Before that, Don DeLillo's "Libra".
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Fri Jul-14-06 03:31 PM
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56. The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy |
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I read it was a big inspiration for MLK and Gandhi so I wanted to read it for myself. Pretty amazing.
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Fri Jul-14-06 03:40 PM
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By Asra Nomani Next: Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
My before sleep books are a reread of the "Otherland" Series by Tad Williams and the "Deathstalker" Series by Simon Green.
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Fri Jul-14-06 10:05 PM
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59. Just finished "The Kite Runner" an extraordinary book |
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I encourage all to read this amazing novel.
Current read is 'Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" by the author of 'Wicked'
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Fri Jul-14-06 10:56 PM
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60. Currently into "The History of Love" - |
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just finished "The Devil in the White City".
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Fri Jul-14-06 11:07 PM
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61. The Origins of the Bill of Rights |
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Fri Jul-14-06 11:12 PM
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"Orientalism", by Edward Said. This book is amazing, if a tad dry and long.
"Aizu Boshin Senshi" and "Hoshu Aizu Byakkotai Jukyushi-den", both by Yamakawa Kenjiro. For a pair of incredibly detailed texts on northern Japan's political/military situation in 1868-9, they sure hit the spot for my curiosity!
-H.
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Fri Jul-14-06 11:14 PM
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But yes, you have to be in the mood for it. :)
welcome to DU hiro!! :hi:
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Fri Jul-14-06 11:18 PM
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Fri Jul-14-06 11:13 PM
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64. Just finished "A Widow for One Year" by John Irving |
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He always writes such INTERESTING books.... he tends to bog down a few times along the way, but he ALWAYS wraps up expertly and memorably.
"Don't cry, honey, it's just me and Eddie".
:cry:
Also reading a history of medieval europe and re-reading Candide in my car between appointments!
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Rednecks and Bluenecks: The Politics of Country Music by Chris Willman. It's a good read; I'm about half-way through. Willman lets the country personalities speak for much of the book, which is a good idea. It flows nicely. Willman gets zingers in to both sides (though I think he's a Democrat.) I knew about who is conservative and liberal in country, with a couple exceptions. It seems like most of the conservatives talked to are the terribly ignorant/misinformed types instead of bad people. I wished I could have shouted corrections at them. Lee Ann Womack was very frustrating: she calls her views mixed, but believes in Bush and his "war on terror." Those are the type of blind followers they preyed on.
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Sat Jul-15-06 08:43 PM
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68. Linger by Viggo Mortensen |
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Sat Jul-15-06 08:58 PM
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69. I read too much perhaps. |
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Read recently(I mean in the last week)
Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth An American Dream by Norman Mailer Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 1984 by George Orwell (for the 30th time) Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
Reading currently
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
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Sat Jul-15-06 09:06 PM
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70. "American Theocracy" by Kevin Phillips n/t |
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Sat Jul-15-06 09:27 PM
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72. Pickwick Papers. Dickens. |
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I just started it and it's very funny. Of course.
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Sat Jul-15-06 09:50 PM
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73. Great topic! I am almost done with "The Family" by Kitty Kelly. |
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I bought it last year... it's ok for summer reading. I bought two books today: The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind and John Dean's Conservatives without Conscience. I hope to get them both in before school starts in August. Then I won't have time to read again until next summer! LOL
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Sat Jul-15-06 10:27 PM
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by Sue Harrison
also Ordinary People, Unspeakable Acts by John Conroy
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