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reading material - 12/11/2008 8:29:43 PM   
CatdeMedici


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Status: offline 		What are you currently reading? Im reading "The Queen of Bedlam" the second in a series by Robert Mc Cammen
 
What's your favorite genre?

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RE: reading material - 12/11/2008 9:02:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		"The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book On Value Investing", by Benjamin Graham. I want to give myself every advantage I can find as I buy back into this crazy market. I'm also browsing a lot of travel books about California, because I'm taking about a 3-week vacation out there in a couple of months. And, at bedtime, I'm re-reading Wallace Stegner's "Crossing To Safety", for about the 74th time. It's quite possibly my favorite book. Crusty, cantankerous old curmudgeon that he was, Stegner had a unique gift for making you like the human race better while you're reading one of his books. I've never read another author who could pull that off as effortlessly and as consistently as he. "Crossing to Safety" was his last, and (to my "ear") his most affecting novel, even more so than his Pulitzer-winning masterpice "Angle of Repose."

My favorite genre? Contemporary fiction, I suppose. But I read almost anything that can't outrun me. Growing up an only child 10 miles from the nearest town and a mile from the nearest neighbor, books were my first and best friends throughout most of my childhood.


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RE: reading material - 12/11/2008 9:04:22 PM   
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RE: reading material - 12/11/2008 9:14:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		Since I am a one book gal, and I don't like bouncing back and forth between books, my reading for the next month or so will be short stories, fiction stories and finally play writes, asI  finish the course work nessisary to make up the missing credits in english.

My favorite genere would have to be fantasy and fiction, though I am by far not limited to just them.
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What are you currently reading? Im reading "The Queen of Bedlam" the second in a series by Robert Mc Cammen
 
What's your favorite genre?

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RE: reading material - 12/11/2008 9:20:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have a pile of books I am working my way through.  Right now I am on page 150 of the last of the Twilight series...can't get into it, really.  I'm a fan of Robert Ludlum, Ken Follett, trashy romance novels...

Basically I'm a fiction whore.

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RE: reading material - 12/11/2008 9:30:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm reading Ansel Adams "Basic Technique of Photography" 

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RE: reading material - 12/11/2008 9:34:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		"The Mission of Art" by Alex Grey    http://www.alexgrey.com/  (click on writings, left side, essays, top, Mission of Art excerpt on right.)


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RE: reading material - 12/11/2008 9:55:30 PM   
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RE: reading material - 12/12/2008 3:33:52 AM   
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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

Lee's Lieutenants,Volume1....Douglas Southall Freeman.



A Civil War buff?

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RE: reading material - 12/12/2008 5:42:54 AM   
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ORIGINAL: CatdeMedici
What are you currently reading? Im reading "The Queen of Bedlam" the second in a series by Robert Mc Cammen

I love Robert McCammon.  "Mystery Walk" and "Boy's Life" are two of my favorite books.
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What's your favorite genre?

I love current nonfiction and always have 5-6 books going at once.  They're always so different you can't get them confused.  Currently, on my nightstand, are:

1.  "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017922/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229089063&sr=1-1

2.  "Mrs. Astor Regrets" by Meryl Gordon
http://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Astor-Regrets-Betrayals-Reproach/dp/0618893733/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229089106&sr=1-1

3.  "Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us" by Tom Vanderbilt
http://www.amazon.com/Traffic-Drive-What-Says-About/dp/0307264785/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229089170&sr=1-1

4.  "Scarface Nation: The Ultimate Gangster Movie and How It Changed America" by  Ken Tucker
http://www.amazon.com/Scarface-Nation-Ultimate-Gangster-Changed/dp/0312330596/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229089237&sr=1-1

5.  "Just After Sunset" - Stephen King.  The only fiction in the stack. 
http://www.amazon.com/Just-After-Sunset-Stephen-King/dp/1416584080/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229089281&sr=1-1

I could list a hundred more but these are what I'm currently enjoying or getting ready to dig into!

luci

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RE: reading material - 12/12/2008 6:00:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		For pleasure, rereading Prince of Fire, by Daniel Silva.  Haven't got to the library lately.  For info, The Medical Mafia, don't make me go look for the author.  For school, Carlos Castaneda - Teachings of Don Jaun and Michael Harners Way of the Shaman.  And a book i am editing.  I don't have as much time to read as i used to, or would like.  My library (over 1k books) is in storage where i will be going for Christmas.  I will bring back a few crates ;;-)) of old faves.

Genre - Sci-fi and fantasy, crime/detective, contemporary fiction,  not in any particular order.

manxy

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RE: reading material - 12/12/2008 6:32:16 AM   
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Status: offline 		I just read "The Chase" by Clive Cussler.  A good read, set around the early 1900's, trains, a nasty bank robber, a handsome detective and the San Francisco earthquake.  Antique car buffs (as Cussler is) will like it.

So, I'm on a Clive Cussler kick at the moment, I just bought a few more at the wonderful local used book store that we have here.

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RE: reading material - 12/12/2008 6:59:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		I read anything by these authors: Amy Tam, Charlane Harris, Robert B. Parker, Laurel K. Hamilton, Dominick Dunne, Carl Hiasson, and Lawrence Sanders.

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RE: reading material - 12/12/2008 7:06:09 AM   
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ORIGINAL: windchymes

I just read "The Chase" by Clive Cussler.  A good read, set around the early 1900's, trains, a nasty bank robber, a handsome detective and the San Francisco earthquake.  Antique car buffs (as Cussler is) will like it.

So, I'm on a Clive Cussler kick at the moment, I just bought a few more at the wonderful local used book store that we have here.


ooh.. I'm reading that right now..

I love fiction, scifi, fantasy.

BIG fan of James Patterson (love the MAximum Ride books, and Alex Cross goes without saying), JOnathon Kellerman, NOra Roberts, Diana Gabaldon..

god, the list is endless....


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RE: reading material - 12/12/2008 7:43:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm rereading the Vampire Chronicles. I know, how low-brow of me. You can say what you want about Anne Rice (and I'm not a fan of the beauty series) but she evokes emotion incredibly well and her writing flows and is sensual. I'm also reading the .. it's called something like... the true account of the infamous lady rochford. It's about Jane Boleyn and so far it's wildly opinionated in the guise of being historically accurate. still entertaining, though. Yupyup

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RE: reading material - 12/12/2008 8:05:34 AM   
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I read anything by these authors: Amy Tam, Charlane Harris, Robert B. Parker, Laurel K. Hamilton, Dominick Dunne, Carl Hiasson, and Lawrence Sanders.


Blushy.. since you like Carl, may I suggest Tom Dorsey? 

I love Laurel as well.. Christine Feehan, Sherilyn Kenyon too


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RE: reading material - 12/12/2008 9:49:54 AM   
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Status: offline 		A History of Warfare by John Keegan.
I am working my way through a whole shitload of books I have been dragging around for years, but never got around to reading.

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RE: reading material - 12/12/2008 10:10:19 AM   
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Status: offline 		Right now I am reading Bitter Sweets by GA McKevett. A couple of my favorites are Joan Hess, Susan Grafton and Janet Evanovich.

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RE: reading material - 12/12/2008 11:25:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		I am currently reading Fear and Other Uninvited Guests

I have no favorite genre; I will read just about anything...fiction, non-fiction, self-help, technical....if it's readable, I will read it.

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RE: reading material - 12/12/2008 11:44:52 AM   
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Status: offline 		I also, will read almost anything that is well written. However, I've been going through a bit of a dry spell lately and haven't got even one book going. Which is really very odd....

The last few years I've mostly read non fiction. Various writings on different religiouns, philosophical stuff, etc.


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