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Old 01-16-2006, 10:01 AM   #501
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I received the entire boxed set of hardcover Harry Potter books for Christmas from my husband. I'm about 1/3 of the way through "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", and I've enjoyed them all tremendously.

After that, I'll start "Eragon", followed by "Eldest" (see T-Stone's post); then I'll read "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova.

Winter is my reading season.
Wow, Legend Girl, I admire you, I dont know how can you poll it off like that, reading all those humongous books without getting a huge headache...I couldn't do it.
I like the movies though!!!. Harry is hot.

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Old 01-25-2006, 11:02 PM   #502
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Trying to read three books at once:

1. The Meaning of Wife - Anne Kingston
2. Body Wars: Making Peace With Women's Bodies in the new Millennium - Margo Maine
3. Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues - Susan Griffin
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Old 01-26-2006, 01:45 AM   #503
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Right now I'm reading Don't Know Much About Mythology by Kenneth C. Davis. It's the best book I've bought in a while. I highly recommend it to those interested in mythology, religion, history, and social studies. It also explains about the societies that fostered the different myths.
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Old 01-26-2006, 01:57 AM   #504
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I am currently reading Bill Clinton's book for the third time.

He is extremely smart.
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Old 01-27-2006, 11:11 AM   #505
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Old 01-27-2006, 11:15 AM   #506
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Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice. I have to say I feel slightly let down - I've never been a huge fan of Austen, but I've been told it's 'cause I've never read this one, which is the masterpiece. So now I'm readin' it, and... it's okay. That is all.
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Old 01-27-2006, 04:22 PM   #507
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Stephen Hodkinson: Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta
Paul Cartledge: Spartan Reflections
Very good books, both of them. I admit I am into that subject more than quite a bit
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Old 01-27-2006, 04:45 PM   #508
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Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice. I have to say I feel slightly let down - I've never been a huge fan of Austen, but I've been told it's 'cause I've never read this one, which is the masterpiece. So now I'm readin' it, and... it's okay. That is all.
You're not alone- I've always thought Austen was mediocre at best. I don't see what the big hub-bub is about her writing- I found all of them *quite* boring, and not particularly well-written.
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Old 01-27-2006, 04:53 PM   #509
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It just doesn't seem anything special.
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Old 01-27-2006, 05:33 PM   #510
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Old 01-27-2006, 08:35 PM   #511
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Recently I've begun reading a bit of realism and surrealism based books. Mostly I've been reading the works of Julio Cortazar because I like his style which kind of reminds me of Poe in some particular way. Any of you have authors that you all like and recommend to me under these categories?

Very much appreciated, thanks in advance!
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Old 01-27-2006, 09:48 PM   #512
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At the moment I am reading Forever odd, a sequel to the book Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz.
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Old 01-28-2006, 04:41 AM   #513
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I wasn't crazy about Odd Thomas. After I read it, I thought it was the worst Dean Koontz I'd ever read. But apparently I'm alone there, because I read on a Dean Koontz website that it's generally thought by fans to be the best - which I found weird. It wasn't finished, in my opnion - you never find out for certain what he saw in the cupboard. And Stormy pissed me off; her dying was probably the high point! ^_^
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Old 01-28-2006, 08:57 AM   #514
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I liked Odd Thomas, I don't know if I would say it was the best, but I did like it.
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Old 01-28-2006, 09:13 AM   #515
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It said on the site that that's why DK did a sequel - 'cause the fans went crazy over it and were clamouring for more!
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Old 01-28-2006, 10:57 AM   #516
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Recently I've begun reading a bit of realism and surrealism based books. Mostly I've been reading the works of Julio Cortazar because I like his style which kind of reminds me of Poe in some particular way. Any of you have authors that you all like and recommend to me under these categories?

Very much appreciated, thanks in advance!
Regarding surrealism I can recommand Paul Celan, if you're into poetry. You can check out some of his poems translated into English language there: http://www.artofeurope.com/celan/
His best known work is the "Fugue of Death". An excellent author, really.
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Old 01-30-2006, 03:53 PM   #517
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I just love this book, it`s one of those books you can read over and over, and its really funny in places.
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Old 01-30-2006, 06:30 PM   #518
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The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead - Max Brooks

Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack

1. Organize before they rise!
2. They feel no fear, why should you?
3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
4. Blades don’t need reloading.
5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.
8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
9. No place is safe, only safer.
10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.
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Old 01-31-2006, 09:35 PM   #519
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Right now I'm reading The Remarkable Miss Frankenstein by Minda Webber. I'm only on the first chapter but it looks pretty funny. To be followed by The Reluctant Miss Van Helsing.
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Old 02-02-2006, 05:37 PM   #520
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Im currently reading the Book Of Spirits about a hemarphodite witch who escapes France and is living in Virginia during the Poe era and even meet Edgar Allan Poe. She can psss either as a man or woman. depending on how shes dressed. Its book two, the first book was about her life in France and was entitled The Book Of Shadows by James Reese.
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Old 02-03-2006, 10:09 PM   #521
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I am currently going back and forth between two seperate books. Once I get towards the end of one book that I really enjoy, I often find myself picking up another to keep it from ending so quickly.

The first is Dark Is The Moon, by Ian Irving. It is volume three of The View Through The Mirror series.

The second is Vampire Hunter D: Raiser of Gales, by Hideyuki Kikuchi.
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Old 02-04-2006, 03:44 AM   #522
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Invisible Monsters, by Chuck Palahniuk. Oh how I love his work - man's a fuckin' genius. In an, er, unique kinda way...
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Old 02-04-2006, 01:07 PM   #523
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On The Road by Jack Kerouac, I'm enjoying it. I hit a horribly depressing quote. "...and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines", I read as the love of my life rotted away there. I should call her....
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Old 02-04-2006, 01:25 PM   #524
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Aside from Palahniuk, I also read the entire Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton, at the request of a co-worker.

I genuninely enjoyed the first five or so in the series, and i really liked the protagonist alot. But then, at some point the books just got sleazier and sleazier. I lost some respect for Anita, and the series became almost laughably sexual. It started as a tough, competent protagonist in a clever little world where vampires live amongst us as legal citizens. But it devolved into, for lack of a better description, a series of tawdry romace novels with a preternatural twist. Vampire Porn. Anyone else as disappointed in the change in Anita Blake as me?
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Old 02-04-2006, 08:47 PM   #525
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I have to quote this for you all right now...because I just read it and it made me say (out loud) "ouchies"

" 'welcome to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The local time is 2:00 A.M., the outside temperature is 63 degrees, there is a semiconscious hooker gurgling at your feet.'

The cabin fills with black smoke from fried wires and vaporized hydraulic fluid. One breath burns down his windpipe liked drain cleaner, telling Tucker that a second breath may kill him. He unfastens the harness and reaches into the dark for Meadow, connecting with her lace camisole, whic comes away in shreds in his hands. He stands, bends over, wraps an arm around her waist, and picks her up. She's light, maybe a hundred pounds, but Tucker has forgotten to pull up his pants and Jockey shorts, which cuff his ankles. He teeters and falls backward onto the control console between the pilot seats. Jutting from the console is the flap actuator lever, a foot long strip of steel topped by a plastic arrowheadlike tip. The tip catches Tuck in the rear of the scrotum. His and Meadow's compined weight drive him down on the lever, which tears through his scrotum, runs up inside the length of his penis, and emerges in a spray of blood.

There are no words for the pain. No breath, no thought. Just deafening white and red noise. Tucker feels himself passing out and welcomes it. He drops Meadow, but she is conscious enough to hold on to his neck, and as she falls she pulls him off the lever, which reams its way back through him again.

Without realizing it, he is standing, breathing. His lungs are on fire. He has to get out. He throws an arm around Meadow and drags her three feet to the hatch. He releases the hatch and it swings down, half open. It's designed for a plane that is standing on landing gear. Gloved hands reach into the opening and start pulling at it. 'We're going to get you out of there,' says a fireman.

The hatch comes open with a shriek. Tuck sees blue and red flashing lights illuminating raindrops against a black sky, making it appear as if it is raining fire. He takes a single breath of fresh air, says, 'I've torn off my dick,' and falls forward."

It was a long quote...but damn. I like this book so far!
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