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What Book Are You Currently Reading?

16,901 1,298 February 18, 2005 at 01:23 AM
Just want to know what the peeps on here read. I am reading

UFO GUIDEBOOK by: Simon Mennick


should be done sometime next week Big Grin
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12-10-2011 at 02:54 AM.
12-10-2011 at 02:54 AM.
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Now reading The Glass Palace [wikipedia.org] by Amitav Ghosh
That was a very good novel.

Now starting on The Hunger Games [wikipedia.org] trilogy.
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12-10-2011 at 02:43 PM.
12-10-2011 at 02:43 PM.
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Finished Slaughterhouse-Five and started Guns, Germs and Steel [amazon.com] which I thought would be semi-boring but it's actually already grabbed my attention. I hope the author can keep it! laugh out loud
I read that last year, it was good! Get's a bit repetitive towards the end, but its still a good read.

Reading Catch-22 now Whee
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12-10-2011 at 02:54 PM.
12-10-2011 at 02:54 PM.
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Reading Catch-22 now Whee
For the first time?

I'm so jealous if you are. That's on my annual list too! I heart that book so much. I couldn't get into Heller's second novel Something Happened but I love the hell out of Catch-22.

SNOWDEN! Whee
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12-10-2011 at 03:22 PM.
12-10-2011 at 03:22 PM.
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For the first time?

I'm so jealous if you are. That's on my annual list too! I heart that book so much. I couldn't get into Heller's second novel Something Happened but I love the hell out of Catch-22.

SNOWDEN! Whee
It is! I knew I should read it, but sometimes when I feel like I should do something then I can't make myself do it! laugh out loud My husband just re-read it and told me to give it a try.

Have you read Amy Hempel? I just finished her collection of short stories.....she is insanely amazing.
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12-10-2011 at 03:56 PM.
12-10-2011 at 03:56 PM.
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It is! I knew I should read it, but sometimes when I feel like I should do something then I can't make myself do it! laugh out loud My husband just re-read it and told me to give it a try.

Have you read Amy Hempel? I just finished her collection of short stories.....she is insanely amazing.
Haven't read Hempel, maybe I'll check her out. Thanks! Enjoy Heller - the dark humor of that book is wicked.
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Haven't read Hempel, maybe I'll check her out. Thanks! Enjoy Heller - the dark humor of that book is wicked.
She is a minimalist writer....a crazy awesome writer.
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12-10-2011 at 05:33 PM.
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She is a minimalist writer....a crazy awesome writer.
Oooh, sounds like one of my top 3, Raymond Carver.

Try Cathedral for starters. He only wrote short stories & one screenplay that got made into a movie ("Four Rooms"). One of his stories ("Popular Mechanics") is only like a page long. LOVE him so much.

Okay I'm definitely trying Hempel then. Thanks! Whee hug
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Oooh, sounds like one of my top 3, Raymond Carver.

Try Cathedral for starters. He only wrote short stories & one screenplay that got made into a movie ("Four Rooms"). One of his stories ("Popular Mechanics") is only like a page long. LOVE him so much.

Okay I'm definitely trying Hempel then. Thanks! Whee hug

Ooh...will do!!
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Now starting on The Hunger Games [wikipedia.org] trilogy.
A very good set of three novels. Survival, love, compassion, war/peace. The story has it all. Must read.

Next on my list The Immortals of Meluha [wikipedia.org]
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01-07-2012 at 09:54 AM.
01-07-2012 at 09:54 AM.
I'm about 80% through with McCullough's "John Adams," which is absolutely phenomenal.
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02-14-2012 at 08:42 PM.
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A very good set of three novels. Survival, love, compassion, war/peace. The story has it all. Must read.

Next on my list The Immortals of Meluha [wikipedia.org]
A nice fictional story inspired by the Hindu God Shiva...

Now reading the second book The Secret of the Nagas [wikipedia.org]
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02-14-2012 at 10:30 PM.
02-14-2012 at 10:30 PM.
Finally finished Catch-22.....the holidays and health problems really got in the way of my reading. Of course as soon as I finished it I wanted to re-read it!


I started Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter last night.
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03-12-2012 at 02:05 AM.
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Tibet: Culture on the Edge by Phil Borges

Mostly a picture book about people living in remote areas, what elevation they live at, how global warming and development is affecting their environment and way of life, and what they do for a living.
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03-14-2012 at 01:48 PM.
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A nice fictional story inspired by the Hindu God Shiva...

Now reading the second book The Secret of the Nagas [wikipedia.org]
That was a good novel too. Can't wait for the third and final novel to be released...

Now I have three novels in hand...not sure which one to pick
Catch-22 [wikipedia.org]

Stranger in a Strange Land [wikipedia.org]

Snow Crash [wikipedia.org]
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6 posts this year so far? Loungers don't read.
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