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| Books & Authors Recommended and not so recommended reading. |
03-05-2008, 04:43 PM
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Currently reading Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants. Started out as a duty read - we're in the same writers' group - but I'm really impressed, it's gripping. Sara Gruen - Water for Elephants |
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03-07-2008, 02:32 AM
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East of the Mountains by David Guterson
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03-07-2008, 08:50 PM
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Just finished some lame piece of shit I snatched from the library entitled The Boy in the Lake. Now I'm reading Then We Came to the End, and I enjoy it's witty and original style of a collective whole (I'm sure it's been done before, but this is the first time I've come across it, and I'm a young reader, so cut me some slack) narrating a company's downfall. After this I got some debut novel titled You're Not You, that looks promising. I'll post my thoughts on it once I finished the sticky-note covered book.
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03-07-2008, 09:33 PM
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Just read "The Love of My Life," a short story by TC Boyle. One of the best stories I've ever read.
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03-08-2008, 02:29 AM
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Reading Stephen King's 'Bag of Bones' is like mowing the lawn with one of those old-fashioned non-motorized cutters. It's boring, tedious work, and it's also awkward. I'm so used to King thrilling me with something that damn near borders on miraculous.
'The Dead Zone' bowled me over, 'The Long Walk' still lingers in the crevices of my mind like a brain cockroach. Hell, even that doorstop 'Insomnia' was a page turner to some degree.
But this. Bag. Of. Bones. Yeah, I'm beginning to suspect there's more implied in that title than first thought. King wrote this one with half his brain tied behind his back.
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03-08-2008, 06:37 PM
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Reading anything of Stephen King's requires time, patience, and the ability to weave through pages of absolute crap that have nothing to do with anything.
Currently reading Tom Clancy's Executive Orders.
Sam.
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03-09-2008, 03:37 AM
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Careful Sam - comments like that drive Truth Teller into a frenzied, foaming-at-the-mouth rage!
Finished Water for Elephants - sensational read.
Now reading On Chesil Beach.
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03-09-2008, 06:17 AM
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Finding Insomnia to not be an easy read at the moment. I just passed the prologue, so hopefully it gets better.
And yeah, sorry if I set TT off.
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03-09-2008, 09:15 AM
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I'm readng The Playwright's Guidebook by Stuart Spencer and Summerland by Michael Chabon. Thinking of rereading one of the Bronte's books too.
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03-09-2008, 04:21 PM
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A Sound of Horse.
It's a history of horse racing...really great.
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03-09-2008, 04:22 PM
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whoops. sound of horseS
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03-09-2008, 09:32 PM
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Drown by Junot Diaz
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03-10-2008, 01:41 AM
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The Sword by Deborah Chester
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03-11-2008, 03:28 PM
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The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams. It's about 900 pages. If you don't like descriptive paragraphs much, you wouldn't like the first couple hundred pages.
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03-13-2008, 06:03 AM
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Trying to read one
I am trying to juggle a lot of books, but for the most part it is just Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.
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