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hlen5 -> RE: What are you reading? (4/23/2009 12:07:36 AM)

(the author of A Thousand Splendid Suns is Khaled Hosseini, the same author of the Kite Runner. I got out my copy of "A Thousand...' for the author's name).

I've been watching a lot of Masterpiece Theatre lately so I'm currently reading David Copperfield -Dickens. Next up will be Sense and Sensibility -Jane Austen.



amoryblane -> RE: What are you reading? (4/23/2009 12:56:59 AM)

I always love these topics.  I'm currently reading:

Coldness and Cruelty by Deleuze
re-reading Kafka's The Trial
the poetry of Stephen Hart Crane
WS Burroughs The Soft Machine

All of these are excellent.  Coldness and Cruelty is an especially good study in sadism and masochism, and it dovetails nicely with reading Kafka's relentlessly masochistic gestalt.



CarrieO -> RE: What are you reading? (4/23/2009 4:59:15 AM)

I just finished "Everything I Want to do is Illegal" by Joel Salatin.  Its about the struggles of Polyface Farm, the author's family farm, and the conflict between the "industrial food system and the local artisanal neighbor-friendly farmer-entrepreneur."  Great read for anyone curious/involved in the local food movement.

I'm now starting "First They Killed My Father"  by Loung Ung.  A memoir of a child's life during the reign of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge and how it personally affected the author.



MsFlutter -> RE: What are you reading? (4/23/2009 5:11:19 AM)

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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

Once the Dirk Pitt books sort of petered out...I lost interest in Cussler .He has his formula....and after awhile it just got old,as did Dirk and good old Al.


I LOVED the Dirk Pitt books and you're right about the formula. I started a Dan Brown habit right after that.



Whisperria -> RE: What are you reading? (4/23/2009 5:28:17 AM)

Im on book 8 (The Pillars or Creation) of the Sword of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind.. Been reading them a little over a month now. Not a bad series. [:D]



Kaiel -> RE: What are you reading? (4/23/2009 5:40:44 AM)

Venus on Top by Barbara Abernathy and A Wolf At The Table by Augusten Burroughs



Gemma0909 -> RE: What are you reading? (4/23/2009 6:03:47 AM)

I am currently reading Submission by Marthe Blau, for the second time.



GreedyTop -> RE: What are you reading? (4/23/2009 6:11:34 AM)

tonight I'll be starting a book called Ecstasy by an author I havent read before.  Jacquelyn Frank.



Gemma0909 -> RE: What are you reading? (4/23/2009 6:15:39 AM)

She has another two novels I believe called Rapure and the other called Pleasure.



sirsholly -> RE: What are you reading? (4/23/2009 6:17:47 AM)

Church of Lies by Flora Jessop...



Gemma0909 -> RE: What are you reading? (4/23/2009 6:19:19 AM)

Oops I meant being released later this year.



GreedyTop -> RE: What are you reading? (4/23/2009 6:39:45 AM)

Thanks, Gemma :) 



gman992 -> RE: What are you reading? (4/23/2009 12:02:18 PM)

I'm re-reading my Tom Clancy novels 'cause there is nothing good out there. Any recommendations?



sirsholly -> RE: What are you reading? (4/23/2009 12:07:15 PM)

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ORIGINAL: gman992

I'm re-reading my Tom Clancy novels 'cause there is nothing good out there. Any recommendations?
yep...something i have done that has yet to fail

Go to Amazon.com and bring up the title of the Tom Clancy book you are reading. It will bring up the book info but will also give a list of recommendations ("Customers who bought this book also bought...").

I have actually bought a few additional books that way and have yet to be disappointed.



TreasureKY -> RE: What are you reading? (4/23/2009 1:29:52 PM)

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ORIGINAL: demetriusar

Other than these lovely boards, what books or blogs are you reading currently that you want to share?


*sighs*  I miss reading.  It's been so long since I've had time, I'm not sure I remember how to sit back and enjoy it.  [&:]



LookieNoNookie -> RE: What are you reading? (4/23/2009 7:41:58 PM)



Books.



GreedyTop -> RE: What are you reading? (4/23/2009 10:17:16 PM)

ok, just finished the Jacquelyn Frank book.. I'm hooked :)



curiousINct -> RE: What are you reading? (4/24/2009 6:54:08 AM)

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ORIGINAL: sirsholly

Church of Lies by Flora Jessop...


Just added this to my list. Is it good?

My Horizontal Life, by Chelsea Handler. It's funny so far.  :)



Wolverinegal -> RE: What are you reading? (4/24/2009 8:23:21 AM)

I am being completely nerdy and reading The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America. By James Harvey Young. 



Antheia -> RE: What are you reading? (4/24/2009 7:21:34 PM)

Dangerous Lady by Martina Cole
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