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what books are you reading

Posted by terraking • 2/26/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: authors, books, reading, writing

I'm reading "Wicked Games" by Lisa Jackson. A light read, good story. I am enjoying it.

What are you reading. Why do you like it.

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2/26/09

davetpcs

History of mathematics
Works of Flavius Josephus

Both interesting reads...

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2/26/09

AcornKing

I'm currently reading:

30 Rock, The Office, Mad Men, Trust Me, Entourage, Flight of The Conchords, The Soup, and It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.

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1. 2/26/09
  
  HalfCrazy
  
  Wrong thread. But I guess that's on purpose.
2. 2/26/09
  
  AcornKing
  
  Ha, yeah. I was just being a jackass.
3. 2/27/09
  
  HalfCrazy
  
  Btw, I love 30 Rock too. For some reason, I think The Office is so unfunny but that's just me!
2/26/09

HalfCrazy

I'm currently reading Thanks For The Memories by Cecelia Ahern.

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2/26/09

kasab

Jst completed Sidney Sheldon's THE NAKED FACE.
awesome book. A must read.

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1. 2/26/09
  
  Stillthinking
  
  I am a huge fan of Sidney Sheldon's early novels! I started reading them in grade school (stole them from my mom). I have to say I am most partial to Rage of Angels or Other Side of Midnight, but the Naked Face was darn good.
2. 2/26/09
  
  terraking
  
  I loved The Other Side of Midnight. I have read of few other of his books, but that is the one I really remember.
  
  Everyone is reading very cerebral books for the most part. Just goes to show, intelligent people read, be it books or blogs.
  
  keep posting.
3. 2/26/09
  
  Stillthinking
  
  I read pretty much everything I can get my hands on, be it literature, non-fiction, or trash lit. I don't love them all equally, but sometimes, a light read is so enjoyable!
2/26/09

dinsquared

I'm in the middle of two: Lies My Teacher Told Me, Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
and
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost

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1. 2/26/09
  
  Stillthinking
  
  Sex Lives of Cannibals, excellent book. It's funny, right after I read that book, NPR had a story on This American Life about Kiribati's neighbor Nauru.
2. 2/26/09
  
  dinsquared
  
  Very funny book. Kiribatu was part of a question on this tv game show "Cash Cab" and I was yelling at the tv, because the guy prounouced it phonetically "Keer-ih-ba-too".
2/26/09

Stillthinking

I am currently reading "Strong Motion" by Jonathan Franzen
and "Sepulchre" by Kate Mosse.

I just finished "Waiter Rant" a collection of blogs by the Waiter.

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2/26/09

jafabrit

Team of Rivals about Abe Lincoln and that era and it is fascinating.

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1. 2/26/09
  
  rmaxwell142
  
  That one is on my list of books to read!
2. 2/26/09
  
  jafabrit
  
  It isn't dry and helps give a really good view of the personalities and dynamics prior to the civil war.
2/26/09

aningeniousname

Millennium: The end of the world and the forging of Christendom by Tom Holland.

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2/26/09

matthewcoffee

How to win friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie

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2/26/09

rmaxwell142

I'm reading "Battle Cry of Freedom" by James McPherson. It's the most comprehensive book about the Civil War I've ever read.

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2/26/09

JaydenVasara

i just finished re-reading (for the 100th time) "mara, daughter of the nile" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw. one of my all time favorite books

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2/26/09

marktmarket

Greed, Inc.

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2/26/09

wehireu

I just finished reading Fundraising For Libraries 25 Proven Ways to Get More Money For Your Library by Andrew Swan. I have started reading The Caryatids by Bruce Sterling.

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2/26/09

radioflyer1980

Spook Country - William Gibson. A little more down-to-earth than his other books.

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2/26/09

libdrone

I am about 3/4 of the way through Joshua Clark's Heart Like Water and about half way through Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Vegetable Miracle.

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2/26/09

Jules66

Hi

I've just started 'Lovely Bones' by Alice Sebold.
www.amazon.com/Lovely-Bones-Novel-Alice-Sebold/dp/0316666343

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2/27/09

roseliabubakar

I'm reading problogger book now to enhance my blogging knowledge...:)

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2/27/09

idealpinkrose

I'm reading "Love" and I don't know who the author is because my book is at home.

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2/27/09

lordiwanttobewhole

Hells Angels...its a book about an undercover guy who infiltrated the Hells Angels.

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2/27/09

jadeflower

I'm reading Steets by Bella Spewack. It's about life in the Lower East Side during the 1900's where this was a melting pot filled with immigrants.

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2/27/09

Epicharis

I'm reading "Byzantines in Crusade and Non-Greek Literature 830-1204" among other things...It's better than "Town-Planning in Ancient Sicily"...that was a real bore!

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2/27/09

volleypc

I am reading A Walk in the Woods again before I start my Thru Hike on the Appalachian Trail next week. Great book if you have not read it.

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1. 2/27/09
  
  terraking
  
  That sounds awesome, Have a good time. Post photos if you take some so we can live vicariously through you.
2/27/09

dsriharsha

Reading Q&A (The original awesome book behind the lousy Slumdog movie)

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2/27/09

fitaschuck

A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson

Excellent

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4/20/09

archiegottlieb

i just finished reading susan bauer's "well-educated mind." she's an acceptable writer (i'd say she's engaging at least), but the book itself is a bit on the boring side.

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4/20/09

Onchong

I'm enjoying Mysteries of the Unexplained and Strange Stories, Amazing Facts. Hope to finish both books soon, so I can start reading Quest for the Past. All are Reader's Digest books.

As Albert Einstein said, "the most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

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4/20/09

sensitivemuse

reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Not bad so far.

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4/20/09

aningeniousname

I'm reading the follow up to "I Claudius", "Claudius the god" at the moment and plan to read the Steinbeck novel "The winter of our discontent" next.
Really looking forward to reading the Steinbeck as I'm a big fan of his and haven't read this one yet.

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4/20/09

dsriharsha

Computer graphics - J.D. Foley.. bloody finals tomorrow.. and no mood to study

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4/20/09

Floormodel

I'm reading The Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver and Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill. I like Deaver's books quite a bit and am really enjoying this one.
The Plagues book is interesting, especially the portions about the psychological effects of the different plagues throughout history.

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4/20/09

Shuo

am reading "North and South".

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4/20/09

jafabrit

History of ugly in art by umberto eco.
www.amazon.com/Ugliness-Umberto-Eco/dp/0847829863

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4/20/09

xnapoleonx

Demian by hermann hesse atm

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5/13/09

calvy

City of Joy- Dominique Lapierre

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5/13/09

Megz1990

paula deans life story

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5/13/09

timethief

Advice from a Spiritual Friend
by Geshe Rabten and Geshe Dhargyey
and
The Avatar by Poul Anderson

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1. 5/13/09
  
  dsriharsha
  
  avatar.. is that the same story as the one James Cameron is making a movie on?
2. 5/13/09
  
  timethief
  
  I'm not sure because the availability of movies here is limited so I don't keep up with what movie makers are up to.
5/13/09

Stillthinking

The Soloist by Steven Lopez

Strong Motion by Jonathan Franzen

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies originally by Jane Austen and mercilessly skewered by Seth Graham Smith.

Kaplan GRE prep

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5/13/09

PussDaddy

Murder In Spokane by Mark Fuhrman. I like true crime. It is kind of a boring, narcissistic rambling of a read, though, and I am having a hard time getting through it.

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5/13/09

Floormodel

Cemetery Dance but Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

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5/13/09

Epicharis

'Making History' by Stephen Fry and 'Blood and Sand' by Frank Gardner

Enjoying them both very much, I love the way Stephen Fry writes...I wish he'd write more novels.

The Frank Gardner book is about his experiences and understanding of the Middle East from living with Bedouin and in Egypt to reporting on Iraq and Afghanistan to being shot 11 times by Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia and left paralysed from the waist down. He writes beautifully.

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5/13/09

xnapoleonx

Machiavelli, il principe and the last in the series of the golden compass

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6/27/09

celticmusicfan

Right now I am in the middle of Life Hacker by Gina Grippano. It's the best computer hack book

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6/27/09

Epicharis

I've just started Iris Murdoch's 'The Unicorn'...I can already tell it's going to depress me down to the core!

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6/27/09

celticmusicfan

Oh do tell later when you are done

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6/27/09

Rory

Just finishing Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. It's the 3rd in the Mars Trilogy.

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6/27/09

celticmusicfan

@Rory for some reason that cat looks martian to me

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1. 6/27/09
  
  Rory
  
  "You make me angry. VERY angry in-deeeeeeeed"
  
  (in your best Marvin the Martian voice)
6/27/09

cathy13

Re-reading The Immigrants by Howard Fast(1977). This was the first series I ever read and am enjoying it all over again.

I got the 3-book series for Christmas as a teenager and read them in the order they came in the box. I did not realize until I became very very confused reading the second book, that I had read them out of order.

I made sure not to do that this time.

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1. 6/27/09
  
  celticmusicfan
  
  I like re-reading old books. They carry with them still, the kind of feeling one gets the first time one turns the page.
2. 6/27/09
  
  Rory
  
  I've read Anne McCaffrey's Pern novels - Anne's, not her son's - at least 5 times now. WEB Griffin's multiple series, about the same.
  
  It's hard to stay away from the ones that you really, really enjoy, eh!?
6/27/09

rlc257

Mercier & Camier - Samuel Beckett
Southern Masculinity: Perspectives on Manhood In the South Since the Reconstruction - Craig Thompson Friend
Infinity & the Mind: the science and philosophy of the infinite - Rudy v. B. Rucker

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1. 6/27/09
  
  celticmusicfan
  
  I noticed in your blog you are also into Dostoevsky. He's one of my faves too.
6/27/09

comfychair

Rereading the Emperor series by Conn Iggulden and I just finished The Dark Planet by Patrick Carman :]

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1. 6/28/09
  
  JaneTurley
  
  Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. (Fiction) It deals with the concept of cloning and organ donation - an interesting read.
2. 6/29/09
  
  comfychair
  
  Awesome. I'll check that out, thanks
3. 8/07/09
  
  jazzy2103
  
  Patrick Carman ROCKS! Is the Dark Planet good? I haven't heard of it
4. 9/01/09
  
  comfychair
  
  Dark Planet is the third of the series Atherton. It's pretty good if you like the fact that it's set on a planet /very/ near to the Earth and it's a little bit set in our future.
6/28/09

Frosty78

I'm going back through Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs from Writers Famous and Obscure.

Really makes me curious about people - and about how my own six-word memoir would look.

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6/29/09

viyoma

Fermat's Last Theorem By Simon Singh!

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6/29/09

trailofpen

"Simply Javascript"

boring stuff

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6/29/09

thetravellerreturns

A travel book on Scandinavia by Insight Guides, brilliant book.

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8/07/09

jazzy2103

I finished Heir to Sevenwaters - Juliet Marillier. A historical fantasy.Related to the sevenwaters Trilogy but a stand alone novel.

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9/02/09

volleypc

House of Leaves. It is kind of a story inside of a story inside of a story type of books. Never heard of it? Pick it up at the book store and just flip through the pages. Pretty weird book, but fascinating.

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9/02/09

ezhuthukari

I am reading 'Labyrinth'now...

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9/02/09

anthony9910

Current reading "Os Maias" from Eça De Queirós

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9/02/09

Hayseed

Re-reading 'Something More' by Sarah BanBreathnach

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9/02/09

Funkkeejooce

Taltos by Anne Rice.

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9/02/09

jafabrit

Bill Bryson's Shakespeare

I like his humour, his writing style, and I like how he mentions all the theories about Shakespeare's life and why they are questionable.

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9/02/09

HollytheHousewife

90 minutes in heaven

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1. 9/02/09
  
  anthony9910
  
  What could we expect from you? Don't take it as an offence, but everthing with you as heaven, god, or religious stuff xD
2. 9/02/09
  
  Hayseed
  
  @Anthony .. You're speaking to a lady ..be nice.
  
  Mustering up my best stern granny voice: To the corner, young man! |:"
3. 9/02/09
  
  anthony9910
  
  don't worry, I kinda know her xD We had this discussion, I don't believe in god, heaven, and she believes it, so we disagree in that!
  
  I'm extremely nice, and friendly!
9/02/09

amybyrd21

A bunch of diffrent kind of cookbooks and homesteading books. Just depends on what I am into at the moment. Right now Bees and Pigs.

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10 days ago

kcrisman

The Complete Kafka. I'm quite surprised that a college quarterback could write such deep, existential stuff.

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10 days ago

LGramlich

"The Fractal Geometry of Nature" by Benoit Mandelbrot. Makes Euclidian geometry look like preschool.

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1. 9 days ago
  
  Agit8r
  
  that's cool stuff. That nature is fractal should speak to our understaning of "Natural Law"
10 days ago

roentarre

The Boat - Nam Le

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9 days ago

AnastasiaFB

I usually have several on the go at any one time, picking up and puting down as the mood takes me. At the moment I'm reading The Great Terror by Robert Conquest, Satan: a Biography by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart, the Complete Poems of John Keats, Knut Hamsun: Dreamer and Dissenter by Sletten Kollen, and The Day of the Scorpion, book two of the Raj Quartet by Paul Scott.

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