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What BOOK are you reading right now?

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Debacle
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jan, 2008 10:10 pm
msolga, Harlan Coben is a super successful author. The Atlantic Monthly magazine did a spread on him last summer. Seems he writes one book a year and nets between 2 & 3 million bucks a pop.

Clinton's hospital reading:

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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jan, 2008 10:14 pm
I'm in a rest phase. Just finished a Magdalen Nabb, Death of an Englishman, set in Florence. Nice taut crime writing. I hadn't read her before.

Next. for the Book Club, The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.
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msolga
 
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Reply Sun 27 Jan, 2008 10:24 pm
Debacle wrote:
msolga, Harlan Coben is a super successful author. The Atlantic Monthly magazine did a spread on him last summer. Seems he writes one book a year and nets between 2 & 3 million bucks a pop.

Clinton's hospital reading:

http://file043b.bebo.com/5/large/2008/01/28/04/14092128a6732889414l.jpg


Well, fancy that! I'd never have known if you hadn't told me, Debacle!

I picked up this particular talking book along with a few others (going super cheap!) at a bookshop sale, some time ago!

So Bill & I have something in common? Surprised
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Vietnamnurse
 
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Reply Mon 4 Feb, 2008 09:43 pm
"The Coldest Winter" by David Halberstam. His last book and one of his finest. As a veteran of Vietnam, here was lesson foretold...and none did heed it. Like today in Iraq. I was too young to have known about the Korean War as I was in grade school, but to learn about the egomaniac MacArthur who sent so many to their deaths because of his hubris reminds me all to well of another war. And another war.
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msolga
 
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Reply Mon 4 Feb, 2008 10:28 pm
Surprised

Hey, Vietnamnurse! Very Happy
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Clary
 
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Reply Tue 5 Feb, 2008 03:23 am
The slightly disappointing 'Thud' by Terry Pratchett who, apparently,has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's - in his fifties... such an inventive mind, you wouldn't believe it could hit him.

Just starting 'When we were grownups' by Anne Tyler, but it does seem quite like her others... not exactly riveting as yet.
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urs53
 
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Reply Tue 5 Feb, 2008 03:34 am
Since I am still at home, I have time to read lots and lots of books. And I am loving it! Today I started 'Mein Name ist Luz' by Elsa Osorio - the original title is 'A veinte anos, Luz'. It is a about a young woman from Argentina who is searching for her real parents. She was born during the military dictatorship while her mother was imprisoned. Something different after all the thrillers I have been reading now.
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Bohne
 
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Reply Tue 5 Feb, 2008 04:26 am
After a quick detour to part two of the inkworld trilogy (Cornelia Funke) I came back to Ulysses

Just thought I might let you know...
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urs53
 
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Reply Tue 5 Feb, 2008 11:21 am
Bohne, how are Cornelia Funke's books? I have been thinking of reading them. Would you recommend them? Danke!
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Vietnamnurse
 
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Reply Tue 5 Feb, 2008 12:22 pm
Hi Olga!!! Long time no see! I have been so busy with my grandkids and life in general but have had time to read a little and come back here. I also want to say I love Ian McEwan's writing...."Saturday" and "Atonement." I bought some of his earlier books in paperback because I like his style so much.
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MarySzy
 
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Reply Tue 5 Feb, 2008 02:13 pm
VietnamNurse describes General Douglas MacArthur as an "egomaniac".
The best biography of Douglas MacArthur is William Manchester"s "American Caesar". This book is no "puff piece" but it never would describe MacArthur as an "egomaniac". Manchester, an ex-Marine, who served his country flawlessly as MacArthur did, might describe Halberstam as a sniveling Anti-American coward who never served his country but sat on his posterior writing books!!!
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Tue 5 Feb, 2008 02:16 pm
I am reading The Scarlet Letter because it fell out of one of my bookcases when I was digging around for something else.

I figured it was trying to scold me for negligence.
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MarySzy
 
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Reply Tue 5 Feb, 2008 02:23 pm
I am reading a marvelous book called "Lone Survivor" about a Navy Seal who survived an attack in Afghanistan. All mealy mouth sunshine patriots should read this book to understand the sacrifices made by a few for many.
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blatham
 
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Reply Tue 5 Feb, 2008 03:02 pm
I'm reading Klein's "The Shock Doctrine". I recommend it for all sunshine patriots in the US of A who want to gain some historical perspective on how ugly their country has behaved in the past.
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patiodog
 
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Reply Tue 5 Feb, 2008 04:19 pm
Molecular gastronomy, by Herve This. Traditional cooking methods scrutinized through basic experimentation. Good stuff.

Probably not going to influence how I vote, though.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Tue 5 Feb, 2008 05:07 pm
Inheritance of Loss, for the a2k book club thread.

I may not be book club material. Have this tendency to put off assignments... but I like it so far, at page 45. We'll see.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Tue 5 Feb, 2008 05:08 pm
Molecular gastronomy... is that the Bulli pulpit?
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sozobe
 
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Reply Tue 5 Feb, 2008 05:17 pm
"The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz.

I'm about 3/4 of the way through. It has some omigod fantastic writing, but the whole thing doesn't hang together as well as I would like. There are set pieces that are INCREDIBLE but don't seem to contribute enough to the book as a whole. More like "that's too good, I can't cut it out." Maybe somehow everything will come together in the end though, I'm not finished yet.

Love the voice and the language and the characters.
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Tue 5 Feb, 2008 06:31 pm
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jennym
 
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Reply Tue 5 Feb, 2008 06:38 pm
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
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