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03-17-2006, 11:34 AM
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#691
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Mentor
Join Date: Jun 2003
Gender: Male
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Just Finished
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Reading
The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia
Tales from the Quarter by Lawrence Garber
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (school related, but still pleasurable)
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
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His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
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03-17-2006, 07:35 PM
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#692
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Writer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Cary, North Carolina
Gender: Male
Posts: 37
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Recently Completed
Fledgling ~ Octavia E. Butler
Currently Reading
Chronicles of Tao ~ Deng Ming-Dao
The Dark Tower I - The Gunslinger ~ Stephen King ~ First Read
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I might not have the greatest words, or the most graceful phrases, or the top poems, stories, scripts, etc etc...but you still smell bad.
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03-17-2006, 10:01 PM
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#693
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Jul 2004
Gender: Private
Posts: 369
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I just can't find a book a want to stick to these days. I tried The Outsider, but I've just come off a long line of 'heavy' books, so I wanted something a bit more disposable. So I ripped through Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency in two days, tried Thud! (the new Discworld novel) for the third time in as many months, idly flipped through some of The Battle of Evernight (Cecilia Dart-Thornton) and wasted a bit of time trying The Silmarillion (which didn't really follow the 'disposable' criteria).
So I'm just languishing in the painfil limbo of the unbooked.
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03-19-2006, 03:58 PM
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#694
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Wordsmith
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Belgium
Gender: Female
Posts: 6,021
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I'm currently reading "An evil spirit out of the West" by Paul Doherty. Crime set in Ancient Egypt - fascinating read!
Nickie
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03-19-2006, 04:21 PM
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#695
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Writer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Between the 1st and 40th drink
Gender: Male
Posts: 33
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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. It's terrible. The prose is entirely vapid, rather pedestrian.
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03-19-2006, 04:40 PM
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#696
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 29
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current reading .....
currently iam reading The Bourne Ultimatum which i find a good deal of fun and also Killing Ground by Barry Eisler, about a mixed heritage assasin. Both are fun reads .....
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03-20-2006, 03:48 PM
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#697
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 346
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Just finished:
A Voice Crying In The Desert by Ed Abbey
Currently reading:
Black Alley by Micky Spillane
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03-20-2006, 09:30 PM
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#698
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: new york
Gender: Male
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currently reading The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
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03-20-2006, 09:32 PM
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#699
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: South Australia
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,238
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Roald Dahl - Kiss Kiss. It's a collection of short stories.
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03-21-2006, 01:47 PM
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Profound Writer
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Glasgow, UK
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,117
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About to finish Roddy Doyle's The Snapper and move on to something by Ernest Hemingway.
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03-21-2006, 11:09 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Austin/Texas
Gender: Male
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I just finished Nabokov's Bend Sinister, and my book club finished up D.H. Lawrence's The Man Who Died. Also, I substituted in a second-grade class today and read Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods while the kids worked on an assignment. I'll probably pick up Pynchon's V. until my book club settles on a new book.
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03-22-2006, 12:19 AM
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#702
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: South-east UK
Gender: Male
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Originally Posted by Connor Wolf
About to finish Roddy Doyle's The Snapper and move on to something by Ernest Hemingway.
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heh. Half way through Farewell to Arms. |
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03-22-2006, 01:15 AM
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Profound Writer
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Glasgow, UK
Gender: Male
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Let me know what you think. I have that too. I bought ten Hemingways last week; a mix of essay and fiction.
I'm starting Gilead by Marilynne Robinson now.
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03-22-2006, 04:36 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: South-east UK
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Half-way through, I'm loving it. I think a lot of people don't 'get' Hemingway or dismiss his style as oversimplistic, but he's a joy to read.
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03-22-2006, 12:30 PM
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#705
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Addict
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Minnesota
Gender: Male
Posts: 187
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I'm on The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin.
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