Thought it was time to start a new thread for this.

I've got two books to mention. Read Cerulean Sins by Laurell K. Hamilton on friday. Very good fantasy book. Part of a series she has. Right now reading Kushiel's Avatar by Jacqueline Carey. The third book in a trilogy. Great set of books. Highly recommend both of these. :)

Right now I'm reading 2 books at once: "Interview With The Vampire" by Anne Rice and "Bridget Jones' Diary: The Edge Of Reason" by Helen Fielding.

Reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix right now. Great book!!!!!! :D

What am I reading right now???

Principles of Microeconomics 6th Ed. By Case/Fair

And believe me, it isn't by choice either. :rolleyes:

CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE ROMANTIC SOUL :)

Originally posted by Christine
"Bridget Jones' Diary: The Edge Of Reason" by Helen Fielding.
Great book, read it a couple of years ago :) The Colin Firth thing is great, but you can easily tell that they've screwed up who to cast for the sequal movie! :D

I'm currently reading all of the Janet Evanovich, 'Stephanie Plum' books - even though I read them all last year! I think book 9 is out very soon in the UK, but may wait until it come sout on paperback. I'm also reading 'The Importance Of Being Ernest' beacuse I've really started to appreciate Oscar Wilde - such an interesting man with a way with words. Has anyone seen the new-ish movie? Worth renting? :)

I am re-reading Jean M. Auel's Shelters of Stone. I read it in hardcover when it was released last year, but I felt I should read it again now that I have to review it for the paper as it is now out in paperback. :)

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THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES..HOW TO EXPRESS HEARTFELT COMMITMENT TO YOUR MATE..by Gary Chapman. Just found it today while looking through my thousands of books and looks like it's going to be pretty good reading.

I just finished Brintannia Ruled by Harry Turtledove. I'm now reading A History of the Middle Ages by Joseph Dahmus.

Originally posted by Jazzmyn
Reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix right now. Great book!!!!!! :D

I just started reading that. Man, I love those books.

Originally posted by 80s&Indie_Obsessed

Great book, read it a couple of years ago :) The Colin Firth thing is great, but you can easily tell that they've screwed up who to cast for the sequal movie! :D

The first book had me dying laughing - I keep meaning to pick up the second one.

I recently read Diary of a Mad Mom-To-Be by Laura Wolf, I think... pretty hilarious stuff, though if you're on the fence about wanting to have kids, it might scare you away :D

I am in the middle of Ahab's Wife by Sena Naslund. I'm having a tough time getting into it, but it's good so far.

Also rereading The Mists of Avalon for the 4th or 5th time, while waiting for my friend to finish Harry Potter 5 so I can get my hands on it :lol:

Jusy finished reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, am currently reading the book adaptation of X-Men 2.

I just Finish The Da Vinci Code - Pretty awesome Read - Very interesting Subject Matter!!

Right now I'm reading the 3rd Harry Potter book (Prisoner of Azkaban) and "The Vampire Lestat" by Anne Rice.

I just finished reading Interview with the Vampire, and am now beginning The Vampire Lestat.

I am currently reading a biography, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson, to review for the local paper. Ben certainly was an amazingly gifted, multi-faceted man who helped shape the early days of this nation! :thumb:

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I am rereading the LOTR trilogy. I usually read it couple of times a year. :)

Just finished Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix.

PEOPLE CELEBRATES THE 70'S (Awesome book BTW..who rembembers Pet Rocks? )

Just got this in the mail yesterday. I am REALLY looking forward to reading it!

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I am currently reading "The Road to Stalingrad" by John Erickson. Any serious student of Military History and in particular, the Eastern Front should make a beeline for this!

The Silver Sword - So far it has been an awesome read!!

I just picked up Carolyn Parkhurst's debut novel, The Dogs of Babel. In the novel, a man is mourning the loss of his wife, who died under mysterious circumstances. The only witness to his wife's death is the couple's beloved dog. The husband, a linguist expert, begins to conduct an experiment to see if he can communicate with his dog... and find out just how she died. The first few chapters have been quite riveting! :thumb:

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I went to a book signing and saw the author.. WOW :naughty: good looking man :licky:
I am now reading

Dads Dames Demons and a Dwarf!!! :thumb: Good reading .. it is by Mancow Muller !!

Scroll Saw Art by Spielman & Shirts :lol:

Trying to get some techniques understood before I actually try them.;)

I'm reading the 5th Harry Potter book. :)

Originally posted by 80sTrivia
I just picked up Carolyn Parkhurst's debut novel, The Dogs of Babel. In the novel, a man is mourning the loss of his wife, who died under mysterious circumstances. The only witness to his wife's death is the couple's beloved dog. The husband, a linguist expert, begins to conduct an experiment to see if he can communicate with his dog... and find out just how she died. The first few chapters have been quite riveting! :thumb:

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Michael, I read this last month. It's a riveting read to say the least. Very interesting subject matter.

Originally posted by jen*


Michael, I read this last month. It's a riveting read to say the least. Very interesting subject matter.


I'm glad you enjoyed the novel as well, jen*! I'm almost finished with it and it is a wonderful read! :thumb:

I just Finished the Silver Sword and now I am starting on the Golden Cross

Originally posted by PoisonGirl234
Just got this in the mail yesterday. I am REALLY looking forward to reading it!

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Hey Poison are you part of the Book of the Month Club?? - The reason I ask is because I am and this Book was on my book Selection.

I picked this one up the other day. I can hardly wait to dig in to it.

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I'm still reading Order Of The Pheonix but I just started "Nights In Rodanthe" by Nicholas Sparks. :)

I'm currently reviewing Jon Krakauer's riveting non-fiction best-seller Under the Banner of Heaven, which tells the story of two young brothers who claim they were "ordered by God" to murder a young woman and her infant daughter in cold blood. I really enjoyed Krakauer's previous books, Into Thin Air and Into the Wild and his current book is equally well written. :thumb:

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Now reading "Queen Of The Damned" by Anne Rice. :vampire:

My Secret Life: An Erotic Diary of Victorian London
by James R. Kincaid ... I'm a little perv :naughty: I'm usually reading about three books at a time.. I'm also reading House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski

Wow, my friend read House of Leaves. She said sometimes it got really technical on her, but that it was a riveting read. She told me about it. I'm not sure I could read that, but you never know. LOL

Your other book.....Whoa :naughty:

I've read (and enjoyed) a number of those "Victorian Erotica" books, Pammie*!!! Some of them are quite good! :lol:

Am currently reading John Grisham's Bleachers for review. It's a definite departure from his bestselling legal thrillers, and is a short novella about the game of football. If it has Grisham's name on the cover, however, it will still sell in the millions! :lol:

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I just picked up a copy of Patricia Cornwell's Blow Fly, the latest in her mega-bestselling Kay Scarpetta novels. Certain to be a blockbuster and to make her millions of fans happy.

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I've been to the library a lot lately. I just finished "The Last Vampire" and "Lillith's Dream" by Whitney Strieber. The one preceding these, "The Hunger", was out.

"The Last Vampire" was good. "Lillith's Dream" was way too disjointed. He went so far back and forth with weirdness that it was hard to make much sense of it.

Of course, I've been reading plenty of brain candy romance novels in between. :lol: I'm averaging 2 to 3 books a week.

I'm about to start "Silent Partner" by Stephen Frey.

I recently finished Douglas (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) Adam's final book "The Salmon of Doubt". ACtually it is the first 10 chapters of the book he was working on at the time of his death. It would have been a fantastic book. :( I loved what I read. It is also chocka block full of articles and unpublished bits and pieces which they found on his computer. Some real gems.

A great tribute to a master of sci fi comedy.

I was then inspired to reread his book "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, a book I last read back in the late 80s. Great stuff!

Started reading the new Anne Rice today, Blood Canticle. Really good so far. :D

"The Lost Boy" by David Pelzer

it's about the author going through foster care.
it's a sequel to "A Child called"it"

Just finished "Einstein"... a history of Albert Einstein

I'm reading "The Holographic Universe" by Maichael Talbot for the 4th time.... my favorite book ever! Highly recommended.

and currently scanning the lastest issues of Fangoria, and Bass Player magazines.

I am currently reading for review Scott Spencer's new novel, A Ship Made of Paper. Scott Spencer is the author of the bestselling novel Endless Love (yes, that Endless Love that was turned into a movie starring Brooke Shields.) I'm having a little trouble with the implausible plot at the moment, but I'm only three-thirds the way through the book, so I will reserve judgement until I've finished the novel! :)

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Michael.. You won't believe this but not too long ago..I ran across a hardback first edition of that book. :) (The ENDLESS LOVE book)


I just finished reading THE PATCHWORK PLANET by Anne Tyler.

Michael.. You won't believe this but not too long ago..I ran across a hardback first edition of that book. (The ENDLESS LOVE book).

I believe you, Jana! You find all the most interesting things on your excursions! :)

I've been doing a boat load of reading:

Buffy & Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale
LoTR & Philsophy:One Book to Rule Them All
Simpsons & Philosophy: D'Oh of Homer
Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show
Anne Rice: Blood Canticle
Jack Kerouac: Complete Poetry

Death Gate series by Weis & Hickman (SF)

I am re-reading Ayn Rand's towering classic novel, The Fountainhead. I first read the book in college and had to write a paper on it. For that reason, I don't think I enjoyed the book as I should have, so I felt I had to give the book another try, all these years later. It is indeed a classic; no wonder it is required college reading. :)

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Bill Bryson - A Sunburnt Country
Excellent read, great travel writer and very funny to boot. Just starting another one by him but can't recall the title, anyway if you like travel stories I reccommend him.

Bill Bryson - A Sunburnt Country
Excellent read, great travel writer and very funny to boot. Just starting another one by him but can't recall the title, anyway if you like travel stories I reccommend him.

By chance, are you reading Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything? I've read it, along with In a Sunburned Country, and he is an excellent author! :thumb:

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By chance, are you reading Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything? I've read it, along with In a Sunburned Country, and he is an excellent author! :thumb:

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Actually it's Notes From A Big Country, I'll probably read them all eventually as he is very entertaining...

I am currently reading two books, the first, SEE NO EVIL tells about how the CIA was basically castrated by political ambitions of people, and how it lead to 9/11.

The second is STEVEN KING ON WRITING, his memiors and how he started on his path of becoming an author.

I'm reading


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In 1972, after enduring years of embarrassing defeat at the hands of Soviet "amateurs," Canadian officials convinced their Moscow counterparts to allow a pre-season, eight-game series between the best hockey players from both nations. For Team Canada, this meant a chance to assemble a "dream team" of NHL professionals and show the world that they still owned ice hockey.
Cold War: The Amazing Canada-Soviet Hockey Series of 1972 takes you to the back rooms of the diplomats and apparatchiks who sanctioned this unlikely confrontation--and then puts you on the ice for the rest. The first four games were played on Canadian soil, in four different cities; the final four all took place at the Lenin Sports Complex in Moscow. Despite the absences of Bobby Orr and Bobby Hull, Team Canada's lineup was a memorable one: The Brothers Esposito, Phil and Tony; Paul Henderson; Serge Savard; Ken Dryden; and Frank Mahovlich. Canadians across the continent were confident of a complete blowout. "Eight-game sweep!" the leading sports columnists predicted.

But the Red Machine came prepared. The Soviets' fast-paced game of precision passing and surgical attack caught the cocky (and somewhat out-of-shape) Canadians off guard. By the time the series headed to Moscow, the Soviets had jolted Canada and insured that the remaining games would be remembered as perhaps the most fiercely fought hockey of all time

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It's basically the movie Wall Street on a book. Good insight as to some of the going-ons in Wall Street from 1980-1988 as seen through the eyes of a bonds salesman.

:laugh::lol::laugh:

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Funny as hell...ESPECIALLY if you're Italian! :laugh:

I'm currently reading The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice. I got this book, and Merrick for Christmas. :D

I'm currently reading The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice. I got this book, and Merrick for Christmas. :D
Good Stuff!!!!!!!!

Im reading Audrey Hepburn. An Elegant Spirit... Got it 4 Lisa !

I just finished reading Exile's Honor by Mercedes Lackey. Very good book. :)

I read City of the Beasts (http://www.isabelallende.com/city_frame.htm) by Isabel Allende. I can really recommend it, its one of those books that keeps you excited from the first till the last page. My wife just finished reading the sequel, and she claims it's just as good. Can't wait for the third part of the trilogy. (Not written yet)

Flood Tide by Clive Cussler. As soon as I finish that, I am going to begin his newest Dirk Pitt novel "Trojan Odyssey".


I was then inspired to reread his book "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, a book I last read back in the late 80s. Great stuff!

That's a great book. I've read that several times since I first read it in the 80's.

"A Misfit's Manifesto" by Donna Gaines - it's a book about this woman's life and how rock 'n roll affected her. It's really powerful.

I'm currently reading for review Bruce Wagner's Hollywood parody Still Holding. I have read his other "Hollywierd" novels with the cell-phone-terminology titles: I'm Losing You and I'll Let You Go. Wagner has a true sense of the bizarre undercurrent that permeates the dream factory of L.A., and his characters are so outrageous that you know they must actually exist somewhere in the wasteland of So. California! :thumb:

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Sounds like what Copeland did for Gen-Xers in the 90s :)

I'm reading "Adventures in Wonderland - A Decade of Club Culture" a book which charts the history of house and club music in America and the U.K. from 86 - 96. It's excellent!

I'm currently reading East of Eden by John Steinbeck.

Just picked up the latest novel from one of my favorite authors, John le Carre. Absolute Friends is just like all of his other previous bestsellers: suspenseful, well-written and with lots of insider information only someone in the know could write about! :thumb:

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I just finished STEVEN KING "On Writing" a nice little biography type book, with a section in the middle about what makes a person a good writer.



I am now reading WHEN THE GAME IS ON THE LINE by Rick Horrow. Its an account of the high stakes world of sports deals.

Trojan Odyssey. The newest Dirk Pitt book by Clive Cussler.

Just picked up Blood and Gold by Anne Rice. :D

Lisa just bought me the final Vampire book. Blood Canticle, Anne Rice. Im gonna start tonight!! Im just sooo upset that it is the last one! I wanna savor it....

Chuck Zito's Street Justice

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Just picked up a copy of SO80S: A Photographic Diary of a Decade by photographer
Patrick McMullan. Lots of great pictures of the decadent NYC nightlife of the 80s. There's even a foreword by Jay McInerny, author of the 80s classic novel Bright Lights, Big City. I had to order this imported from the UK, so it might be a hard-to-find title...


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Right now I'm currently reading "Tears of Rage" by John Walsh. It's the true story of Adam Walsh, which is his son who was murdered in 1981. I'm only half way through the book, and believe me it's a tear jerker. As little as I was when this happened I can remember seeing stuff on the news about it. So sad.

Annette

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

Not sure why exactly. I read it every couple of years but can never decide if it is more useful than crude. Oh well. :)

I am currrently knee deep into the works of Joseph Campbell
Oriental Mythology :)

I'm currently reading for review Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, an Oprah Book-of-the-Month selection and Nobel Prize winner! :thumb:

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I just finished "Less Than Zero" by Bret Easton Ellis and now I'm reading another book by him called "The Informers".

I just finished reading "Seduced By Moonlight" by Laurell K Hamilton. It's the third book in a series of fantasy novels. Very good. :)

I just started SADDAM HUSSIEN A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY.


Pretty intense in its description of his actions!

Textbooks and novels for classes.

HIS 4661
Global History to the 21st Century
PHI 3403
Experincing Philosophy
Novels:
Ambigous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
ENG 1302
Progressions: Readings for Writers
Novel:
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
SPA 2217
Novel:
Las Historias Prohibidas De Marta Veneranda by Sonia Rivera-Valdes

So I won't be reading anything I want to read in a long bit! I have bags and stacks of books I got over the holidays that I haven't touched! :lol: By the looks of things, I'll spend all my summer indoors reading!

I've just begun reading Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice.

I just started the trilogy book "The Sword Of Shannara" by Terry Brooks. It's a fantasy novel in the same vein as LOTR. Hopefully better than that, though, because after these three I have eight more to read to complete the series so far. :lol:

I am in the middle of the book, The Right Hand of Evil, by John Saul.

I'm on the last pages of Vittorio the Vampire, Anne Rice
And have been rereading Henry And June by Anais Nin

Phil Esposito's memoirs

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i'm ashamed to say it but i rarely read anything other than sci journals... but i picked up:

Remaking Eden: cloning and beyond in a brave new world
by Lee M. Silver

i'm only reading this for my term paper on cloning. sigh, i was educated by tv mostly.

I'm currently reading Cold Case by Stephen White.

I'm reading The Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O'Shea. A book that mixes Irish mythology with modern times (definite fantasy). :)

I finished the third book in my trilogy a few days ago. It had The Sword Of Shannara, The Elfstones Of Shannara, and The Wishsong Of Shannara. It was good, but the first story dragged in parts. The second was the best of the three. It was 1191 pages, so I needed a break for a few days...

Probably tonight or tomorrow I'll be starting The Heritage Of Shannara, which has these four stories in it:
The Scions Of Shannara, The Druid Of Shannara, The Elf Queen Of Shannara, and The Talismans Of Shannara. It's 1238 pages of reading, so wish me luck. :lol:

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Incredible book....can't wait to put it into practice. :)

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Incredible book....can't wait to put it into practice. :)
lol Not surprised to see you mention a book like this Pagan. ;) Sure your wife will enjoy it too. :D

I'm reading for review Sarah Dunant's debut historical novel of 15th Century Florence, Italy, the well-received The Birth of Venus. If you enjoy historical page turners with great attention to detail, you will enjoy this dazzling novel! :clap:


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I just finished reading this:

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Here's a review...it should give you an idea of why I think everyone should read this book!!!

Klosterman's highly touted debut has as much to do with Fargo, N.D., as the Coen brothers' slice of Americabre, Fargo. That is, nothing at all, really. Misleadingly titled to cash in on Fargo's cinematic mystique, Klosterman's memoir about growing up a sexually repressed metalhead, with a humiliating (mom-dictated) Richie Cunningham haircut is actually set in Wyndmere, N.D. Klosterman starts up with a bang ("You know, I've never had long hair"), shifts gears often (from memoir to music criticism, somewhat jarringly at times), and rarely idles. Ultimately, though, Klosterman, ironic throughout the book, does not write with enough sincerity to prove his thesis "that all that poofy, sexist, shallow glam rock was important." Granted, it's a daunting task to write a hymn of praise to the genre that spawned David Lee Roth so the author wisely stretches his pop-culture references like taffy. In the final chapter Klosterman, now an arts critic for Ohio's Akron Beacon Journal, quotes a friend's definition of a "guilty pleasure" "something I pretend to like ironically, but in truth is something I really just like" to explain how he really feels about glam metal. His closing summation of what metal means to isolated kids in the heartland will strike a power chord for many readers. (May)Forecast: Klosterman has tapped a gold mine. Fans of 1980s Motley Crue, Poison and Ratt are pushing 30 and 40 and seeking a nostalgia trip. Also, Gear magazine will run an excerpt of the book along with a conversation between Klosterman and Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler.

The Crow..... A Murder of Crows. Lisa's Valintine present to me...

comic book novels. spiderman/X-men /JLA now Conan

This week, I'm reading Jack & Jill by James Patterson.

I just bought Lynn Truss' runaway bestseller about punctuation (!), Eats, Shoots and Leaves. It really is an adorable (and spot-on) book about how atrocious our spelling and punctuation usage has become.
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And for my trip to Mexico, I thought I'd take along some trashy novel, so I opted for an old fave, Jackie Collins' Lucky, which is set during the late-70s and 80s! :clap:

Rich dad poor dad by Robert Kiyosaki and The Avengers (comic book) and Real Life decorating. The Purpose driven Life by Rick warren and Napoleon Hill's Keys to success.

I Know This Much Is True Wally Lamb
The Door To December Dean Koontz

and about 3 other books that i am halfway through and haven't gotten back to... i'm horrible!!!

and next on my list My Sister's Keeper can't remember the author..

Stephen King's 'The Long Walk' and may i add some of his finest work!!


Lord Jay :knight:

The complete headbanging history of heavy metal. Ian Christie. Awesome book.

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Pre Da Vinci Code, it's pretty good so far. :)

Currently reading:
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage by James Bradley (The guy who wrote Flag of Our Fathers, another winner! :thumb: )

Just finished:
Benjamin Franklin : An American Life by Walter Isaacson (an excellent read about a fascinating man!)

Nothing!!! I need some suggestions. Anyone got a good true crime book they can recommend?

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I'm currently reading Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice.

"Citizen Soldiers" by Stephen Ambrose.

Cold and rainy Victoria Day weekend made for interesting reading:
Heart Full of Lies ~ Ann Rule
The Beach House ~ James Patterson and Peter de Jonge
The Lake House ~ James Patterson

NewsMax Magazine

Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert *sniffle*

I am currently reading the riveting bestseller The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason. Will be of definite interest to all that enjoyed Dan Brown's runaway international bestsellerThe da Vinci Code...

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Venus in Furs
by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

From the Corner of His Eye ~ Dean Koontz

From the Corner of His Eye ~ Dean Koontz

I just picked up Koontz's latest book in hardcover, The Taking. It's about an alien invasion of Earth and the first few chapters are riveting! :clap:

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I just picked up Koontz's latest book in hardcover, The Taking. It's about an alien invasion of Earth and the first few chapters are riveting! :clap:
Kewl! I'll have to check that out. :yesnod: I love Dean Koontz's books. :D

I've been celebrating "Banned Book Week (http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/100mostfrequently.htm)" a couple of months early by reading:

The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell

The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney

The French Betrayal of America by Kenneth Timmerman.

I'm reading 2 books right now. Cellar of Horror by Ken Englade and Peachtree 8 for Dummies <this book is so boring.

I'm reading "You Shall Know Our Velocity" by Dave Eggers. He's the editor of McSweeney's, a quarterly journal "created by nervous people in relative obscurity".

He also wrote, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" which I haven't read yet, but heard is oustanding.

"Fingerprints" by Barbara Delinsky

I am not a fan of romance novels AT ALL, but I love Delinsky's style of writing so much that I've bought 8 of her books & I'm now on the 6th one. :thumb: She is fabulous!

I am currently reading....

Let Freedom Ring by Sean Hannity

Pretty good book too

Just received a copy of Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror by Anonymous for review. I'm sure this book is going to create quite a bit of controversy...

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I am actually reading two different books. Dean Koontz's "From the Corner of His Eye" and "Shadowfire." I have one on my nightstand here and another on the nightstand at my parents house.

Dean Koontz's "From the Corner of His Eye"...
Good book! :thumb:

I'm reading 4 books by Iris Johansen:
The Search
Final Target
Body of Lies
and
No One to Trust

The Corrections by Jonathon Franzen

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I was a little bored yesterday thought i'd re-read it.

Just finished re-reading "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Siddartha, Steppenwolf, and Peter Camenzid by Herman Hesse.

Finished The Bone People by Keri Hulme, Cannery Row (again) by Steinbeck, and am currently working on "Guts" by Chuck Palahniuk author of "Fight Club"....

re-reading The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer. Harrowing but insightful :thumb:

I'm reading "The Book of Lost Tales, Part One" by J.R.R. Tolkien.

The book is the 1st of the series: The History of Middle-earth the books are really, really flucking hard to find.

I. The Book of Lost Tales, Part One
II. The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two
III. The Lays of Beleriand
IV. The Shaping of Middle-earth
V. The Lost Road and Other Writings
VI. The Return of the Shadows
VII. The Treason of Isengard
VIII. The War of the Ring
IX. Sauron Defected
X. Morgoth's Ring
XI. The War of the Jewels
XII. The Peoples of Middle-earth

Just picked up the hardcover of Janet Evanovich's latest Stephanie Plum novel, Ten Big Ones. :)

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I've been re-reading one of my favorite books, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

Angels & Demons ~ Dan Brown

Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose (one of my favorite historians)

For anyone interested in American history, I just finished Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer, I highly recommend this one!

Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose (one of my favorite historians)

For anyone interested in American history, I just finished Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer, I highly recommend this one!
That is a very good book Nolan. Ambrose is one of my favorite authors. He will be missed.

I am reading Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson. This is a great non-fiction book!

Just picked up Prey by Michael Crichton at the library yesterday, upon recommendation from a friend. :)

Hef's Little Black Book by Hugh Hefner

Just went back and started reading "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving. The adapted to that movie was called "Simon Birch". Basically did the movie about the first 5 chapters and disregarded the rest which was unfortunate.

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Excellent book about going over and coming back in the culinary world:thumb: !

Just received a copy of Erica Kennedy's debut novel for review, Bling. It's a sizzling hot roman a clef/parody of the entire hip/hop culture. So far, it's been fun reading and I think I've figured out which celebrities some of the characters in the novel are based upon. :thumb:

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Just finished "The five people you meet in heaven" by Mitch Albom

Just starting "The summerhouse" by Jude Deveraux

Halfway through "The maze in the heart of the castle" by Dorothy Gilman

Next up: "1,000 Places to See Before You Die" by Patricia Schultz

I am reading for review (and my own personal enjoyment) the latest Kinsey Millhone detective mystery by Sue Grafton, R Is for Ricochet.

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Yesterday I was bored so I started reading Number The Stars by Lois Lowry. It was my favorite book in elementary school. :)

The Chamber by John Grisham - I love his books, they are always very interesting to read. :)

A Midsummer Night's Dream - W. Shakespeare

Ive been having to read loads of boring German translated books over the last few months and i was given a plastic bag full of English books last week.. Super.. At the moment..John Sandford Night Prey. I love a good thriller. Any suggestions?

I'm reading Faeries and Demons by Edouard Brasey. Very interesting!

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It's been pretty good so far.

That is a wonderful book, *jen. Made me cry like a baby at the end! :bigcry:

Currently I am reading "An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life" by The Dalai Lama

In the past three weeks:

A Clockwork Orange

Back To The Batcave

The Nick-At-Night Classic TV Companion

The Physics Of Star Trek

Catwoman -- The Visual Guide To The Feline Fatale

The Peanuts Treasury

How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way

That is a wonderful book, *jen. Made me cry like a baby at the end! :bigcry:

Oh God!! It's one of those?!

I guess I won't be taking it to work to read during my lunch hour. :lol:

Thanks for the warning. :)

Dunwich's Guide to Gemstone Sorcery: Using Stones for Spells, Amulets, Rituals, and Divination, by Gerina Dunwich

People of the Fire by Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Re-reading The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix right now. Great book!!!!!! :D

Jus started reading it too (for the 3rd time)

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It's been pretty good so far.


Oh that is a good one. I'm about a quarter way through that one myself. Although I keep putting it down to do something else and can't seem to get back to reading it.

American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin Phillips

A Pretext for War : 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies
by James Bamford

This just arrived on my desk today for review:

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So, Pamela Anderson has decided to be a writer! I'm sure it's a Jane Austen-esque, comedy of errors and will receive a raving review! ;)

Oh gods! Traci Lord's book was a disappointment, I'm thinking Pam's book will follow suit.

I haven't read Traci's book, Ty. I've been reading the first few chapters of Pam's novel and I am guessing that it was ghostwritten for her, as it's not all that bad, just entertaining in a trashy sort of way! :clap:

I'm going to skip it most likely. I'm going to wait for Jenna's book.

I'm going to skip it most likely. I'm going to wait for Jenna's book.

Jenna Jameson's How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale will be officially released on September 1, Ty!

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Maybe I'll suggest this to my editor at the newspaper for review... ;)

I'm getting an advance copy on the 16th of Aug. :thumb:

After that, I'm waiting for
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The Other Hollywood : The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry
by Legs McNeil which comes out Oct. 1st.

Just started 'The Rainmaker' by John Grisham today - I'm sure I'll love it, because I tend to like all his books. :)

Regina's Song by David and Leigh Eddings

The newspaper has been sending me some interesting book choices for review lately. Received a copy of Joan Collin's latest foray into the literary world, Misfortune's Daughters. This is an advanced copy as the book is not scheduled for publication until March of next year. Seems interesting that a publisher would risk buying one of Joan's novels after Random House sued her to try and reclaim a $4 million dollar book advance they lost on the actress. I've read some of her stuff before and she's a pale shadow in the writing department, even compared with her bestselling, glamourpuss sister Jackie Collins (Hollywood Wives)...

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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

&

Why America Slept : The Failure to Prevent 9/11 -- by Gerald L. Posner

Just finished writing a review of Edward Ball's new biography Peninsula of Lies. It's the fascinating true story of former British aristocrat Gordon Langley Hall who emigrated to the United States after WWII and befriended American high society before having a controverisal sex change operation in 1968. The newly christened Dawn Langley Hall scandalized Charleston, South Carolina, society by marrying a young, African-American mechanic and "having" a young daughter with him. Comparisons are being made to John Berendt's wonderful Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which told an equally scandalous tale about Southern Gothic madness in Savannah, Georgia. And I agree with the comparisons! :thumb:

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I actually just finished a local author Rick Riordans book called Big Red Tequila.

This past weekend my mother lent me a book called, The Ocean Between Us by Susan Wiggs. She swears it's the best book she's read in a long time...so I am looking forward to it. From the reviews it got on Amazon, it sounds amazing!

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The cat person I am i'm reading 3 stories in one...."the cat who tailed a thief" the cat who sang for the birds" and "the cat who saw stars" by Lilian Jackson Braun. I only read this at work. ^..^

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I just finished SURVIVOR OF THE HOLOCAUST (sp?) by Jack Eisner...very good book.

He was only 13 when the war broke out and he was part of a smuggling ring. These children would smuggle food back into the ghettos.

I just picked up Mr. X and Mystery by Peter Straub from the library yesterday.

I've been reading Ghosts: Investigating the Other Side of Life by Gary S. Hawkins. Not a bad read, really. He's been around both my home town of Colchester and Macomb. I've also been reading The Bootlegger , which is also about my hometown.

Well a while ago I finished two 80's books: Tom Clancy's "Patriot Games" and Frank Miller's "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns"

Now I'm reading William Gibson's "Mona Lisa Overdrive" (1988)- its less confusing than his earlier cyber punk future urban decay sci-fi, "Neuromancer", which is one book I'm gonna have to start again from the beginning.

I'm also reading the controversial 80's novel "The Wasp Factory" (pretty gross, but funny nonetheless), and I'm re-reading "They Shoot Horses Don't They" (to date my favourite book ever)

Yesterday, I was lucky enough to have found (and bought) two Transformers books!

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Transformers: The Ultimate Guide
Written by Simon Furman

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War and Peace (a Transformers: Generation One graphic novel)
Written by Brad Mick
Art by Pat Lee

Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand.

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I am now reading for review the final novel by the troubled and talented author Heather Lewis, Notice. (The author committed suicide in 2002.) It is a stark and gripping story of a young girl's harrowing descent into a nightmare world of drug abuse, sexual exploitation and prostitution. Riveting reading, but not for the faint of heart...

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Just started reading: PATRICIA CORNWELL'S: PORTRAIT OF A KILLER, JACK THE RIPPER, CASE CLOSED.

Just finished a really sweet, feel good book that was at time hysterically funny - called P.S. I Love You - It was written by the Irish Prime Minister's daughter, Cecilia Ahren.
I highly recommend it to the gals! :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

I've also begun reading a book called Small Island by Andrea Levy, about a couple of Jamaican immigrants in England, following WWII - also really good, great writing, and extremely vivid characters. :clap: :clap: :clap:

Just received a copy of Gish Jen's new novel, The Love Wife, about a meddlesome Chinese-American mother who bequeaths a Chinese nanny to her ambivalent son and his big blonde wife in this darkly comic fairy tale about cultural assimilation, biological destiny and domestic warfare.

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