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RE: So, what's everyone currently reading? - 8/1/2008 10:27:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		Just finished 'Choke' by Palahniuk.  Great premise about a failed medical student who cruises 'Sexaholics Anonymous' meetings for, uh, sex, and lives off strangers who rescue him from choking in fine restaurants.  However, major plot hole halfway through suspends belief, so can't completely recommend.
Now re-reading 'Of Human Bondage' ;-)  by Maugham, then 'Late Nights on Air' by Elizabeth Hay.

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RE: So, what's everyone currently reading? - 8/1/2008 10:30:43 PM   
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Just finished 'Choke' by Palahniuk.  Great premise about a failed medical student who cruises 'Sexaholics Anonymous' meetings for, uh, sex, and lives off strangers who rescue him from choking in fine restaurants.  However, major plot hole halfway through suspends belief, so can't completely recommend.
Now re-reading 'Of Human Bondage' ;-)  by Maugham, then 'Late Nights on Air' by Elizabeth Hay.


There was a movie planned for choke last I heard, I'm not sure if it's still going through.


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RE: So, what's everyone currently reading? - 8/1/2008 10:31:25 PM   
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RE: So, what's everyone currently reading? - 8/2/2008 3:44:10 AM   
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The Times gave away a book by Derrida?!


I wish. No, that one was just already in my reading pile when their book giveaway started.

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RE: So, what's everyone currently reading? - 8/2/2008 3:47:34 AM   
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I'll get to page one as soon as I've finised the title later this week.

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RE: So, what's everyone currently reading? - 8/2/2008 4:34:33 AM   
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I am currently awaiting delivery of the new Jerome Corsi book "The Obama Nation Leftists Politics and The Cult of Personality".  It has over 600 footnotes and traces Obama's life from time in Hawaii through his run for President.  It should make for an interesting read.

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RE: So, what's everyone currently reading? - 8/2/2008 5:40:27 AM   
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RE: So, what's everyone currently reading? - 8/2/2008 5:44:32 AM   
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RE: So, what's everyone currently reading? - 8/2/2008 6:12:20 AM   
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I just recently finished Carl Hiaasen's Sick Puppy (for the 3rd time).... I love his books :)


Have you read anything by Tim Dorsey or S. V. Date? They're also pretty entertaining, in the same genre of "bunch of loonies running amok in Florida" (for some reason it's always Florida... Dave Barry has a novel or two as well).

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RE: So, what's everyone currently reading? - 8/2/2008 7:32:37 AM   
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The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
Victor Pelevin

Unfortunately most of the high brow discussions on Tao, Zen and Existentialism were too much for my feeble intellect on the first quick read. However his writing is witty and I love his storytelling ability.
Ill be revisiting this book for a longer more leisurely ingestion.
Anyone else read anything of his?

Just started

The Lucifer Effect by Phillip Zimbardo (The guy who ran the Stanford Prison Experiment)

Next on the list.

Gift of Fear

Gavin de Becker

(I think Oprah recommended it but I'm still going to read it anyway.)



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RE: So, what's everyone currently reading? - 8/2/2008 7:42:17 AM   
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RE: So, what's everyone currently reading? - 8/2/2008 8:24:25 AM   
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Status: offline 		Greedy! I frigging love Hiassen! Have you read Skinny Dipping?  Sick Puppy was one of my favorites, that dog was so awesome, and I loved the developer's sleazy character...he is such a great writer.


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I just recently finished Carl Hiaasen's Sick Puppy (for the 3rd time).... I love his books :)


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RE: So, what's everyone currently reading? - 8/2/2008 8:28:07 AM   
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Gift of Fear

Gavin de Becker

(I think Oprah recommended it but I'm still going to read it anyway.)





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RE: So, what's everyone currently reading? - 8/2/2008 9:03:54 AM   
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Status: offline 		I've been reading Joseph O'Connor.  Star of the Sea and I'm about halfway through Redemption Falls.  They take place in the 19th Century. 

From Amazon,  "Joseph O'Connor's impressive historical novel, Star of the Sea, examines the unsettled personal tragedies among a group of interrelated characters and their difficulties in disregarding the past." 

He's a marvelous writer. 

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RE: So, what's everyone currently reading? - 8/2/2008 10:04:56 AM   
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I love the show Bones but didn't realize there were books. I will have to look into those.

Thanks for the list. I have more reading to do :)

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RE: So, what's everyone currently reading? - 8/2/2008 10:21:37 AM   
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RE: So, what's everyone currently reading? - 8/2/2008 12:27:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm finishing up The New Topping Book by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy. It's a wondrful and informative book.

I'm also working my way through Neuromancer by William Gibson. It's a futuristic sci-fi, which I'm not used to, so I'm gettign through it slowly but surely. The character are all very intriguing and interesting, but it's not as personal as I'm used to since I ususally read fantasy, not sci-fi.


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RE: So, what's everyone currently reading? - 8/2/2008 1:01:44 PM   
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RE: So, what's everyone currently reading? - 8/2/2008 6:49:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Anya Seton's books have recently been rereleased, so have been reading what has been released.

Also reading The Boleyn Inheritence by Phillipa Gregory. She isnt always accurate, but the again look at the Tudors on Showtime, what a crock

Any with british history in it I like.

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RE: So, what's everyone currently reading? - 8/2/2008 7:18:34 PM   
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