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Old 07-25-2008, 02:10 PM
Strangelet
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Re: currently reading?
Reading "The Dirt" - the motley crue story and I absolutely love it.
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Old 09-09-2008, 06:08 PM
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Re: currently reading?
im reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy and is HORRIBLE.
and i can't stop reading it..

will be done soon. hopefully.
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Old 10-12-2008, 05:24 PM
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Re: currently reading?
I don't know how you can get it. No author or ISBN sorry. Is not a geek internet rambling. It's a real book!. I wish the book would be on internet, but..supposedly... it has been distributed hand hand by hand. If you really super die for reading it, send me a pm and i send you a copy. is really small. But if you are not into "non-Bolshevik revolutionary milieus" (!) you might not even want to read it.
Is really beautiful and inspiring though.
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Old 10-25-2008, 03:03 PM
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Re: currently reading?
reading brisingr by christopher paolini, 3rd book of inheritance cycle
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Old 11-05-2008, 12:27 AM
Sardo
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Re: currently reading?
Thanks ppl re Banks. He is hard to find near me. I wanted to buy some for my dad first but couldnt get any so got Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey. He wrote A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard both of which I enjoyed a lot.

Anyway, dad liked this and he gave me one in return, Weapons Of Choice by John Birmingham. I was thinking that it might be the same guy who wrote He Died With A Falafel In His Hand, but it looked like a Clive Cussler cover... turns out to be the same guy after all. This is real different to HDWAFIHH but the same aussie slacker humour is apparent and it works so well.

Weapons is about a close future maritime war situation off the coast of Western Australia. We are at war with the Indos and Malaysians and the high tech gadgetry is headed by a research vessel commandeered by the navy which is still carrying out its research regardless. When they execute their experiment the fleet is moved to Midway circa 1942 as the yanks prepare to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The fleet lands right in the middle of the large US '42 fleet and in some cases fuses ships together as the suddenly take up the same space - this is really interesting in fact. Im currently here in the story. The mess is slowly being realised.

There are 3 books in the series it seems. Im hooked to reading an actual book again as opposed to those audiobooks.

Still want to get those Banks recommendations still and will try ordering them if no luck.

Onya Underworlders.

Croz

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Old 11-08-2008, 11:18 PM
grady
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Re: currently reading?
Tricked by Alex Robinson
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Old 11-16-2008, 06:39 PM
jOHN rODRIGUEZ
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Re: currently reading?
Widows of Eastwick, John Updike. What a let down. Felt like reading stories in Good Housekeeping.

Now,

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
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Old 11-16-2008, 11:14 PM
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Re: currently reading?
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Widows of Eastwick, John Updike. What a let down. Felt like reading stories in Good Housekeeping.
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Updike was on Charlie Rose last week. It was terribly compelling in swaying my interest towards the books.
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Old 11-16-2008, 11:19 PM
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Re: currently reading?
more graphic novels this week:

Summer Blonde by Adrian Tomine

El Borbah by Charles Burns
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Old 11-17-2008, 09:57 AM
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Updike was on Charlie Rose last week. It was terribly compelling in swaying my interest towards the books.

Don't get me wrong, it's a good read and the man know how to weave words keeping the reader in the moment. It could also be a self-help guide for women.
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