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What BOOK are you reading right now?

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martybarker
 
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Reply Wed 3 Oct, 2007 09:27 pm
My daughter is reading To Kill a Mocking Bird. I can't believe I hadn't read it until now, couldn't put it down and finished last night.
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urs53
 
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Reply Thu 4 Oct, 2007 10:18 am
I absolutely love To Kill a Mockingbird! I bought the paperback many years ago and some pages were missing!!!! It turned out the whole lot had been printed with this mistake. I did get a complete one and still hold on to it.

The book I am reading at the moment:

Der rote Wolf by Liza Marklund.
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McTag
 
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Reply Thu 4 Oct, 2007 12:57 pm
McTag wrote:
Hey has anyone read anything by Gary Shteyngart?

I'm reading "Absurdistan" right now. Blooming brilliant.


Well?

He's a current prizewinning American author.

Today I ordered his "other" book from Google. Top man.
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Gargamel
 
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Reply Thu 4 Oct, 2007 01:26 pm
Yes, he is quite popular, and made a big splash, as far as authors go, a couple years ago.

But he's actually Russian. And from what I've read about him, his writing reflects that.

I intend to read Absurdistan in the near future; few Russian novelists have ever let me down.
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McTag
 
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Reply Thu 4 Oct, 2007 01:33 pm
He's the most un-Russian "Russian" author I've ever read; but he won't let you down.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?z=y&cid=1543143
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Gargamel
 
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Reply Thu 4 Oct, 2007 03:16 pm
Thanks for the article.

It's interesting--I've kind of been mining Gogol and Chekhov, and the former definitely flirts with the absurd. He's so funny. I might be a rare case who values Russian humor over their dark existentialism. I think I'll like Shteyngart.
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Slappy Doo Hoo
 
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Reply Fri 5 Oct, 2007 07:34 am
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by Robert Cialdini.

Even though I've had it for almost a month and am only on chapter 2, and there are other books I want to read too. I haven't had much time lately.
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yitwail
 
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Reply Fri 5 Oct, 2007 03:50 pm
dropping in briefly when i can. read <the big over easy> and <the fourth bear> by Jasper FForde. never read his Thursday Next books, but i liked these.
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bigdice67
 
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Reply Sat 6 Oct, 2007 09:13 am
One More Sunday-- John D. MacDonald

Just started it... bought it as a used book on amazon.
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McTag
 
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Reply Sat 6 Oct, 2007 12:10 pm
Anyone read any James Lee Burke?

He's been recommended to me.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 6 Oct, 2007 01:12 pm
I've read a couple of books from the Dave Robicheaux' serie.
It's quite some time ago since I bought his latest (translated in German) ... there's a lot worse published (= I enjoyed reading them
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hamburger
 
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Reply Sat 6 Oct, 2007 08:00 pm
almost finished reading : DISHWASHER by pete jordan .
one man's quest to wash dishes in all fifty states .

quite an entertaining story . gives a good portrait of a certain section of american life . his best paying job was in the cafeteria of an alaskan cannery . he made about $1,000 plus free room and board - but he kept moving on .

from a review : "as compelling as jack kerouac's ON THE ROAD " .

he moved to amsterdam with his wife in 2002 to become a bicycle mechanic and writer !
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Vonda1941
 
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Reply Sun 7 Oct, 2007 11:21 pm
I just finished "Virus" by Sarah Langan. Wish I hadn't started it, and was compelled to get to the end out of sheer curiosity.
Why did I pick it up in the first place? Because I thought it might be a bit like that movie "Breakout" with Dustin Hoffman.
I should be so lucky.
It (Virus) started off rather 'normal' so that by the time I'd got hooked, it was too late for me to go back, much like the ruddy 'Virus' I guess.
Better luck next time.. Twisted Evil
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hingehead
 
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Reply Mon 8 Oct, 2007 07:14 pm
Da Capo's best music writing 2002. So much good stuff so little crap. Makes me wanna get the whole series....
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McTag
 
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Reply Tue 9 Oct, 2007 12:52 am
Who was it who said, "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture"?
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redpickle
 
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Reply Tue 9 Oct, 2007 10:49 pm
Jodi Picoult lately - omg she's good... The Tenth Circle, Nineteeen Seconds, etc ec.

Some Russian stuff, too - Pelevin, Kurkov.
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Lorna
 
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Reply Thu 11 Oct, 2007 07:42 am
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
The Book of Air and Shadows
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
The Godfather
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Thu 11 Oct, 2007 07:53 am
Doris Lessing's autobiographies.
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sozobe
 
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Reply Thu 11 Oct, 2007 09:14 am
Hey Lorna, what do you think of "Dreams..."?

I just finished "Wicked." It wasn't what I expected, though I'm not sure what I expected. More Elphaba/ Glinda interactions, I guess, based on what I've read about the musical. Pretty impressive. Not completely satisfying. Not sure what I think about it yet.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Thu 11 Oct, 2007 09:50 am
re Lessing: I had to read 'The Golden Notebook' in school .... and that was all I actually read (more or less) completely.


And I didn't like her books from the 'Sufi period' at all.

Got her biographies out of the bookshelve, paging through them now ...
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