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06-10-2007, 07:09 PM
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Banned
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 102
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Taking (another) hiatus to let my brain re-grow from Pynchon, and so I'm reading Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace, which is an amazing book that I've read twice already and get something new out of everytime I read it. One of the only works of fiction that I've read that uses endnotes to such a fantastic degree.
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06-11-2007, 05:30 AM
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#1142
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Profound Writer
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Glasgow, UK
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,117
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The Road, Cormac McCarthy
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06-11-2007, 07:17 AM
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#1143
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: South-east UK
Gender: Male
Posts: 5,588
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Now reading JG Ballard's Kingdom Come (absolute genius).
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06-11-2007, 12:23 PM
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#1144
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Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Texas
Gender: Male
Posts: 17
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The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy - Adams
The Robot Novels - Asimov
House of Leaves - Danielewski
American Gods - Gaiman
Black House - King/Straub
Plus a few random short stories by Bradbury every now and again.
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06-11-2007, 12:38 PM
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#1145
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Adept Writer
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 880
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A Game of Thrones - George RR Martin (second read through, biding time till Dance of Dragons)
Dark Force Rising - Timothy Zahn (millionth read through, just because I'm bored)
That's about it, really.
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06-12-2007, 02:21 AM
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#1146
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Addict
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Mississippi@the moment.
Gender: Male
Posts: 132
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Just finished: Caretakers Tabitha King. Well constructed and observed, if a bit rushed in places and dragging in others. The intricate flashback structure is used as a device to reveal deeper layers of both depravity and heartbreak. Nice local color.
Hannibal Rising Thomas Harrison. Darkly enjoyable, like the rest of the series. Not quite up to the psychopera of Hannibal, but slyly energetic, funny and engrossing.
Up next: A Widow For One Year John Irving.
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06-13-2007, 06:26 PM
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#1147
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Scribe
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: My name must taste good cuz it's on all your tongues.
Gender: Female
Posts: 93
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Just finished Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark (some what dissapointing.)
Next up Dracula Bram Stoker
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06-13-2007, 08:52 PM
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#1148
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 8
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I just started Anil's Ghost which is my summer reading for school
I am also reading All the King's Men and On the Road just for a little light fun.
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06-13-2007, 08:56 PM
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#1149
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pliable
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Juneau, Alaska
Posts: 12,607
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Mexico - James Michener
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06-14-2007, 04:46 AM
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#1150
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne Australia
Gender: Female
Posts: 3,065
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Getting ready for the movie and latest book.
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06-14-2007, 07:06 AM
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#1151
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Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2003
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,501
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Reading
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
The Secret Fruit of Peter Paddington by Brian Francis
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06-14-2007, 07:52 AM
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#1152
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Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: England
Gender: Female
Posts: 7
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I've recently finished reading Street Kid by Judy Westwater.
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06-15-2007, 02:40 AM
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#1153
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Nowhere special...just...bird watching...yeah, sure...bird watching...
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,036
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Just finishing The Dark Half and will soon be starting The Stand
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06-15-2007, 01:41 PM
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#1154
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Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: The center of all boring, Colorado
Gender: Female
Posts: 19
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Right now I'm reading The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck), Of Human Bondage (Somerset Maugham), and Bluebeard (Kurt Vonnegut).
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06-15-2007, 01:59 PM
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#1155
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Adept Writer
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: MI, USA
Gender: Female
Posts: 865
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I'm reading Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky... again, and Candide - Voltaire.
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