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Lil, I really believe we find connections; if they're not there, we don't see them. But that's just me.
I'm reading What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Daniel Mark Epstein |
the kushiels stories are good but they do take a lot to get into
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I'm reading the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. However, I can't wait for the third book from Eragon to come out and then the next book in the Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin comes out this fall. I'm a huge fantasy geek.
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I just finished Short Bus. I've just started Paul Coehlo's, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept. I bought Eat, Pray, Love because it's never available at the library and this way I can pass it along to peeps who need to read it.
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i would have mailed you my copy.^^ i wish i'd thought of it. :(
the devil in the white city by eric larson. historical, interesting, creepy, macabre and i'm likin it. |
I finished Piedra in one sitting almost. Shit I love his stuff.
Started Eat, Pray, Love and really love the symbolism of the set up. |
I really liked Eat, Love, Pray. It got me thinking, and that's a good thing. I've got a pile of new books waiting to be read. The Bhagavad Gita just arrived the other day.
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A Princess of Mars, the Edgar Rice Burroughs classic, from the Gutenberg Project.
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I am in the process of reading "whale road". Not sure I'm going to finish it. Lots of slow going. Authors first effort I think. I don't quit many books, but I think I will here.
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Another Spider Robinson book, "Callaghan's Key"
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I've read Nancy Fridays, collection of men's fantasies called, Men in Love. Which I believe she had compiled and written after the first three. If found it fascinating. The spousal unit read it too, but yet, he didn't want to discuss any of it. What I like is the divine amount of detail the men have in their fantasies. |
I just started Prisoners in Paradise by Akmal Shebl, a supernatural mystery in Egypt. I'd never found a book with a trailer ... until now. I am hoping it delivers.
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The latest edition of Blue and Gold Illustrated. It's the weekly newspaper that covers Notre Dame football.
Haven't started any new books recently. :( |
i've read too many to list recenly, some research some fiction some non - the new blue media was interesting but dry and a bit "insider". the view from the seventh layer - a collection of short stories - i loved. those are the only two that stand out right now.
still waiting for bonk (too lazy to put it on hold, too cheap to buy it:p) |
Just started rereading The Fellowship Of The Rings. After watch the movies last week I realized it had been almost 20 years since I had read the book and figured it was high time I did again.
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Bully for you! A powerful beginning of a modern classic.
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The Fat Jesus: Christianity and Body Image, by Lisa Isherwood.
The premise is fascinating, and rings true to me. However, the writing is really dense academese...I'm giving her one more chapter to hook me. |
I've finally made it to the 6th book in the Wheel of Time. It's taken me a year to get here.
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I'm reading Stephen King's new short story compilation and Dewey the Library Cat.
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I just started rereading The Servants of Twilight by Dean Koontz. I've read, but it was years ago. I've just barely started it, and already it's sucking me in, lol.
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Well, I just bought two books: "The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder" by Vincent Bugliosi and "Shadowfires" by Dean Koontz, and I plan on starting them both this weekend.
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"Why We Suck"---Dr. Denis Leary
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I'm going through a world war 2 phase right now - reading "Ghost Soldiers" about a prison rescue in Bataan. And I just finished Pacifc War Diary.
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Antony and Cleopatra: A Novel, by Colleen McCullough. I've read her entire Rome series, which was supposed to end with October Horse, so I was excited to find this new one.
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The Ghost Brigade, the sequel to Old Man's War.
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well i read so fast that i finish books within a couple days of them startign so i read three books in the last week and a half =]
so they were all ken follet books world with out end (sequal to pillars of the earth) the third twin and one other i cant remember |
Seth, I think you're supposed to read them so you can enjoy them. If you don't remember them what good does it do you? LOL. I was like that in high school. Reading three 800 page novels in a week. Believe it or not, I actually had a teacher try and tell my parents I had A.D.D. All I did was read my book for 1 1/2 hours (I was in block scheduling). Not quite halfway through Lord of Chaos (sixth book in Wheel of Time).
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only one of the three had more than 800 pages the other two had like 400 i think
ps i have read the first eleven wheel of time books and an interestign tid bit of information there are thigns in those books that come from a certain real pagan culture to be specific a certain word is used to describe a certain groups of "magic using" women that word is actually part of a sacred pagan language and was never supposed to be known by anyone outside the religion anyways just thought id mention that cuz its a very interestign fact =) |
The Black Swan - Nassim Taleb
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See, all I noticed was the Artur Paendrag reference. A lot of this series aligns quite nicely with the Arthur Pendragon legend.
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Currently, I'm about halfway through Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_files). THe books were the basis for the (unfortunately) short lived series on Sci Fi Channel. Surprisingly, I never read the books when they first came out (surprising because the series fits right in with the genres I normally read) and I watched the show until ong after it was cancelled (mainly because I have a hard time keeping up with TV series and remembering when they are on). Most definitely, this series has been a good read for me so far. (I even have the newest novel on pre-order, due out in a month or so.)
And plans are, once I finish reading the Dresden Files, I'll start in on another series that I should have read long before now, the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton. Another long series that should hopefully be an entertaining read. |
Finally got to the seventh book in the Wheel of Time. Only thing I'm not quite fond of is each book ends in the standard type of cliffhanger that finishes the book, but leaves it open for more, and yet the next book starts some place completely different. Not that big a deal and I doubt the author will ever change them (isn't he dead?), but an opinion can be helpful.
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Yeah, unfortunately Robert Jordan did die before he was able to complete the novel. But it is my understanding that he left enough notes behind that the (supposedly) final novel will be able to be finished by another author (according to Wikipedia, it's due out this fall) This was another series I didn't get into right away, and got daunted by the size of the novels when I finally did take a look at them in the book store (I think the 6th novel had just gotten released). If it wasn't for a friend of mine giving me the 6th book (he gave up trying to read it, because he couldn't follow the plot, having started with the 6th book :roflmao:), I probably would never have gotten and read them all. |
I just read the first of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony. Very different from what I imagined, but good.
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One of my long time favorites, ever since I "borrowed" the first 3 or 4 books from my brother years ago (hmmm, I wonder if he's realized that he's still missing them yet :roflmao:). I've kind of lost track of the series since it isn't as readily available in my area anymore (the local bookstore's fantasy/sci-fi section has been dwindling for years, and my only other choice is Wal-Mart, and I've yet to see a single Anthony book there yet). |
I just LOVE the way Anthony plays with words. His fantasy books are excellent!!!!!!!!
At the moment I am reading Irving's Cider House Rules which I must admit I found rather gruesome at the beginning. I also just got lent Meyer's Twilight, so I'll be starting that probably tomorrow. |
I loved the movie Cider House Rules and am going to hit Twilight this summer.
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I started The Sexual Life of Catherine M. last night; so far, I'm not grabbed, but I'm only 35 pages in.
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I would have liked to start the sexual life of Catherine M (or Catherine D or Samantha T or....) :p
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