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RE: Read any good books lately ? - 4/12/2008 11:13:05 PM

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Books?!!!

What are you, a communist?!!!

Tsk tsk... and I had such a high opinion of you...

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RE: Read any good books lately ? - 4/12/2008 11:48:31 PM

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The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne
Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
Honeymoon wtih my Brother, by Franz Wisner (just got this one)

On the Horizon:
Ask and It Is Given, by Esther Hicks
The Law of Attraction, by Michael Losier

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RE: Read any good books lately ? - 4/13/2008 12:00:09 AM

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Read any good books lately ?

Yeah... just finished one a couple days ago. And if you're really interested in anarchy, this one is a freaking gem:

How to be a Successful Tyrant, a Megalomaniac Manifesto by Larken Rose

"Be warned, there is a down side to being able to see through the mask that tyranny wears: Your new-found skill may put you face-to-face with a very disturbing reality. What you do about it is up to you." ... [Larken Rose]

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RE: Read any good books lately ? - 4/13/2008 2:59:58 AM

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Who Killed Mr Drum...... By Sylvester Stein.

Stein was the editor of the South African magazine "Drum" which was printed in the 50s. Mr Drum was one of the best writers, Henry Nxumalo, who was murdered one new years day. The magazine staff were a mixture of black and white personel exposing apartheid and corruption.

The Big Breach...... Richard Tomlinson, an ex MI6 Agent jailed for breaking the official secrets act. For anyone wondering, MI6 is the equivelant of the CIA and works mainly outside the UK while MI5 works inside the UK

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RE: Read any good books lately ? - 4/13/2008 7:00:17 AM

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Who Killed Mr Drum...... By Sylvester Stein.

Stein was the editor of the South African magazine "Drum" which was printed in the 50s. Mr Drum was one of the best writers, Henry Nxumalo, who was murdered one new years day. The magazine staff were a mixture of black and white personel exposing apartheid and corruption.

Any good? Had this recommended to me... think Drum is still going, too...

The Lay of the Land, last part in The Sportswriter Trilogy by Richard Ford. Only about a quarter into it but it's great so far.

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RE: Read any good books lately ? - 4/13/2008 8:40:42 AM

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Books are needed for the mind through words to range, I see they teach the mind to run free, escape the world of the mundane and live somewhere else for a short time.

Books to read, picky I am,but often the best is the one I find whilst seeking another, and of such a book I do have ,I have read before, again and again do I read.

It is the book recounting tales in a foreign prison, a western man lost and coming to see the prison was his own mind.Stories of raw,primal power.

May I recommend it to read, the memoirs of Nicholas R Mann, the title, 'The Dark God'

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RE: Read any good books lately ? - 4/13/2008 9:28:19 AM

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Who Killed Mr Drum...... By Sylvester Stein.

Stein was the editor of the South African magazine "Drum" which was printed in the 50s. Mr Drum was one of the best writers, Henry Nxumalo, who was murdered one new years day. The magazine staff were a mixture of black and white personel exposing apartheid and corruption.

Any good? Had this recommended to me... think Drum is still going, too...

I have only just started it RL. Its intruging straight from the off though. There was also a flim called Drum based on the same story and a book by a different editor. The guy who was murdered, had done an expose of prison brutality by getting himself locked up ! Risky in the 50`s to say the least.

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RE: Read any good books lately ? - 4/13/2008 9:38:43 AM

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The Night Trilogy;
Snowflower and the Secret Fan;
Cavedweller;
The Rape of Nanking;
Little Chinese Seamstress;
The Wanderer;
Year of Wonders;
Little Altars Everywhere;
Falling Leaves;
The Beautiful Cigar Girl;
Sand and Foam.

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RE: Read any good books lately ? - 4/13/2008 9:46:00 AM

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Yes~ The entire Outlander series by Diane Gabaldon is crazy good. My latest is a New Earth by E. Tolle.
If anyone else is reading the book or following the pod casts on Oprah and would like to discuss it please feel free to mail me off board. It raises tons of questions re: Lifestyle.

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RE: Read any good books lately ? - 4/13/2008 1:39:29 PM

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Lately I've been on a young adult binge for the last 2 months.
Great books (Listed as young adult but great for All ages):
Twilight, New Moon, And Eclipse By Stephanie Meyers (Breaking Dawn to come Aug 2)
Glass Houses, Dead Girls Dance and Midnight Alley By Rachael Caine (Feast of Fools June 3)
A house of night novels by P.C Cast and Kristin Cast includes, Marked Betrayed and Chosen (Untamed comes out september 30th)
City of Ashes and City of Bones by Casandra Claire
Nobody's Princess by Esther Friesner
Vampire Academy and Frost Bite by Richelle Mead
Eragon and Eldest By Christopher Paolini (Finally Brisingr Comes out September 20th)
Tithe Valiant and Ironside by Holly Black
Touch the Dark, Claimed by Shadow and Embrace the Night by Karen Chance
Stray and Rogue by Rachael Vincent.

Also pretty much anything on my amazon wishlist....

Search for the name La Kitten And its titled Best books around... click at the top to show all.. and... You have the amazing list of kitten consumption.

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RE: Read any good books lately ? - 4/13/2008 6:44:05 PM

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Robert McCammon - Swan Song - an oldy but a goody

I love Robert McCammon! I have "Swan Song" in my stack to re-read and I just re-read "Boy's Life." It and "Mystery Walk" are just great. McCammon has such a way of evoking what small-town Southern life was really like in decades past and interweaving supernatural happenings into the tales in ways that really seem half-believable. He and Joe R. Lansdale are just gifted that way.............luci

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RE: Read any good books lately ? - 4/14/2008 11:42:23 AM

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i recently finished Kim Harrison's series, i hadn't read it before and decided to start from the begining and i am glad i did, i really liked it...
i like paranormal romance and fantasy so i have read almost everything except the pop-vamp books that have been coming out lately...one series i am particularly eating up is Jacquelyn Frank's The Nightwalkers...Elijah, a new book just came out and it was gone in a day or two...so i had to scour the book store because there was nothing new from any of my usual 20 or so authors...and i picked up a book called Silk by Caitlyn R Kiernan and its more on the horror edge of fantasy and a bit confusing and hard to follow so it is taking me some time to get through it but i like it...reminds me of Poppy Z Brite's old style of writing...ala Lost Souls and Exquisite Corpse (the latter of which is one of my all time favorite books)

i had to empty my suitcase so i could use it on a trip a couple of weeks ago, of the books i have read in the past 6 months, and it was full...i guess it also had my one music text book in there too...but i probably read 10 to 20 books a month if i am not having an off time and i am not able to read...so i am sure there is lots more...but i can't think of anything...lol...

i don't really read non-fiction, oh wait yes i do, the NA Basic Text and other NA literature...but other than that...not really...i like by brain candy books...

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RE: Read any good books lately ? - 4/14/2008 12:04:05 PM

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i have an extensive collection of historical mysteries I re-read when out of new books but I did just finish Christopher Moore's "Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff; Jesus' Childhood Pal." Frickin' hillarious. And I found a set of comics called "Action Philosphers" (Fred Van Lente & Ryan Dunlavey) which although I know their works the classic comic book style is simply awesome.

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RE: Read any good books lately ? - 4/14/2008 12:44:41 PM

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"The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson ("Isaac's Storm"). Nonfiction.

Not long after Jack the Ripper haunted the ill-lit streets of 1888 London, H.H. Holmes (born Herman Webster Mudgett) dispatched somewhere between 27 and 200 people, mostly single young women, in the churning new metropolis of Chicago; many of the murders occurred during (and exploited) the city's finest moment, the World's Fair of 1893. Larson's breathtaking new history is a novelistic yet wholly factual account of the fair and the mass murderer who lurked within it.

The activities of the sinister Dr. Holmes, who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims. Combining the stories of an architect and a killer in one book, mostly in alternating chapters, seems like an odd choice but it works. The magical appeal and horrifying dark side of 19th-century Chicago are both revealed through Larson's skillful writing.
--from Amazon book review

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RE: Read any good books lately ? - 4/14/2008 4:09:24 PM

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I haven't read the "White City" book , but I loved Isaac's Storm.

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RE: Read any good books lately ? - 4/14/2008 5:04:38 PM

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Currently reading "Slavecraft" and "The Memoirs of Cleopatra"

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RE: Read any good books lately ? - 4/14/2008 5:12:04 PM

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i have an extensive collection of historical mysteries I re-read when out of new books but I did just finish Christopher Moore's "Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff; Jesus' Childhood Pal." Frickin' hillarious.

agreed - very funny!

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RE: Read any good books lately ? - 4/14/2008 5:13:33 PM

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i recently finished Kim Harrison's series, i hadn't read it before and decided to start from the begining and i am glad i did, i really liked it...

me too, me too.

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RE: Read any good books lately ? - 4/14/2008 7:57:03 PM

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Strangers In The Night by Linda Howard

Secret Smile by Nicci French

The Claming of Sleeping Beauty By A.N Roquerlaure

I am now reading Dancing In The Dark by Mary Higgins Clark

As you can see I loooove to read

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RE: Read any good books lately ? - 4/14/2008 8:23:44 PM

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I ran across a book by Joel C. Rosenberg a few weeks ago entitled The Ezekian Option. I really enjoyed it. It was the third book in a political fiction series that has the same main characters. So now I am reading the first book, The Last Jihad, and then I will move on to the second book, The Last Days. The fourth book, waiting also in the wings for Me is called The Copper Scroll.
They are very interesting and good reads for Me, but I have a feeling they would make more than a few of the regulars on these boards apoplectic!

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