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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 04:45 PM
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Whatcha readin'?




Me? I'm reading

Collapse, by Jared Diamond

Headlong, by Michale Frayn

Pol Pot, by Philip Short

Bog People, by PV Glob

The Conquest of New Spain, by Bernal Diaz

and assorted other things I've haven't picked up in too long.
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ashmanonar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 04:46 PM
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1. i was reading the unfinished tales
by tolkien. excellent information to go along with the lotr and silmarillion.

what to read now...hmm...
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 04:47 PM
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2. Your thread
done

see ya!
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 04:47 PM
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3. Holy shit that photo is a gas
reminds me of my cat when I pick up a book. I am reading "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 04:52 PM
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6. I loved "Ball Four"
Read it about 25 years ago. :thumbsup:
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 04:54 PM
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8. what is it about cats when we are reading?
My Clancy who ignores me routinely is a whore for attention when I pick up a newspaper or book; it's like he's jealous for having the nerve to pay attention to said inanimate object.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 04:59 PM
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10. Clancy: "Aren't *I* inanimate enough for ya?..."
Edited on Wed Feb-23-05 04:59 PM by Richardo
:)
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 05:04 PM
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11. oh yes
sometimes he sleeps so long I poke him just to see if he is breathing :o
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Patiod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 02:12 PM
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63. I've actually had mine wrap a paw around the book and pull
Even though she ignores me if I WANT her up on the bed when I'm NOT reading
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 04:52 PM
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4. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
as well as...

-The Society of Others (allegory of post-911 political suppression)
-The Third Translation (thinking person's DaVinci Code)
-California Girl (murder mystery)
-Shaping the Story (a writing book)

I really want to read the Jared Diamond books...Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 05:11 PM
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14. So you finished Moby Dick?
:thumbsup:

To tell you the truth, I liked Guns, Germs and Steel right away and it took me a while to warm up to Collapse. It doesn't seem as well written--in fact, it's a bit awkwardly written in parts. Unlike GGnS, which was brilliant all the way through. But he really gets going after the first chapter (which deals with modern Montana, of all societies). His chapters on Greenland and Iceland are surprisingly fascinating and well done.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 05:16 PM
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16. Moby Dick is in suspended animation, I'm afraid.
Edited on Wed Feb-23-05 05:17 PM by Richardo
I got distracted and bedazzled by all these new books, most of which I get for free.

I'll get back to it soon, I swear.

'Pol Pot' looks interesting too. I'd like to hear what you think of that one.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 05:17 PM
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18. You get books for free from working P/T at Barnes & Noble!?
:wow:
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 05:19 PM
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19. Remainders and advance reading copies. Yep.
Plus we can 'check out' any and all new hardcovers for two weeks, just like a library.

For a P/T job, the perks are excellent :)
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 05:22 PM
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20. That explains why some pages were stuck together in the Jenna Jameson book
I just bought. :o
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 05:23 PM
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22. *snarf*
We find that one stashed all over the store.

Lousy horndogs. :)
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gardenista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 11:02 PM
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88. Try reading "Ahab's Wife" after you finish Moby Dick.
Moves very slowly, but I enjoyed it. By Sena Jeter Naslund (sp?). From the perspective of a woman married to Ahab.
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McKenzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 04:52 PM
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5. "Portraits of America" - biography of Edward Hopper
I love Hopper's work. I'm also reading Wallace Wang's "Steal This Computer Book 3" but then I'm a tad geeky.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 04:53 PM
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7. AC/DC: The Definitive History
I needed something a bit lighter than my usual fare. :D
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MissMarple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 04:58 PM
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9. Eric by Terry Pratchett.
It's OK. :-)
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 05:04 PM
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12. Kitty Kelley's book "The Family", among others.
I'm also reading "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren. I've always wanted to read it.
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 10:24 PM
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41. are you liking "All the King's Men"?
Penn Warren wrote one magnificent book there.

He was born about 8 miles from where I grew up in Kentucky
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all.of.me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 02:07 PM
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60. i went to middle school with his kids
they were brilliant. his daughter's biggest wish was to visit russia. she was 15 and it was 1968. amazing woman.
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 08:20 PM
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83. this does not surprise me. I knew one of his nieces, who was
very pretty, very nice and amazingly double jointed. She was a cheerleader, and could do a standing backbend, and then crawl forward through her legs until her chest was on the floor and come up in an elbow stand. She was also an excellent student, and I think she became a teacher.



There was a legend (?) that anyone who came to his office or home at Yale and claimed to be from Todd Co Kentucky was welcome, unfortunately I never got down to New Haven all the times I visited in Connecticut.

But his brother did get him to autograph a book for my mom. Wish I had gotten to meet him.



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Bonhomme Richard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 05:05 PM
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13. Biography of John Adams n/t
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 05:11 PM
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15. A Devil's Chaplain - Richard Dawkins
And a bunch of gardening books
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 05:16 PM
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17. A biography of John C. Fremont n/t
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 05:22 PM
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21. Othello
The least-screwed-up of my Palm-compatible Shakespeare plays... Also, Tolkein's Farmer Giles of Ham, which I am trying to memorize to read aloud for my child; several potty training books; and that recent Bob E. Howard Conan stories 2-volume collection (can't recall the exact title).
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 05:26 PM
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23. Steel Beach by John Varley
Yet again. It's brilliant.

Here's the first line:

"In five years, the penis will be obsolete," said the salesman.


Other things I'm reading now:

Gibbon's Decline And Fall by Sheri Tepper
Letters To Alice On First Reading Jane Austen by Fay Weldon
The Best of H. P. Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft
Mortal Love by Elizabeth Hand


Khash.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 06:00 PM
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24. Bram Stokers Dracula
Notes From The Cistern--Tom Bridwell

and Just finishing Bob Dylans Cromicles
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 06:05 PM
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25. The Twentieth Train
by Marion Schreiber

The True Story of the Ambush of the Death Train to Auschwitz
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Maestro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 06:06 PM
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26. "Del amor y otros demonios"
by Gabriel García Márquez.
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DrZeeLit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 06:09 PM
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27. It's my Winter Recess and I'm slugging through... Metro Girl by
Evanovich.

HEY... it's light, it's fluffy, it's easy to read while eating popcorn and drinking a diet cherry coke, and watching Spiderman 2.

Remember... it's va - ca - tion time.


and I'm stuck in the snow.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 01:57 PM
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54. Not feeling TOO guilty there, are ya?
;)
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DrZeeLit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:01 PM
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68. Ooooh, feelin' soooo guilty. But... what's a girl to do?
Edited on Thu Feb-24-05 05:02 PM by DrZeeLit
I do have a few books in the wings.
But... I need a break. And I can't get to a beach.

Don't report me to the intelligencia... eh?
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 06:13 PM
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28. Believe it or not., the National Enquirer. For real.
Bought it for a relative who is in the hospital, and I haven't had time to get it to her yet. So, I read it. Here is the real news:

It seems that Matthew Perry is having a drug collapse, Angelina and Jen are going to fight it out over Brad, and Jessica Simpson met up with Nick's stripper. Oh, and Prince Harry is refusing to go to Chuck and Camilla's wedding.

There. You now know everything you need to know.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:16 PM
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45. What's new on the crash diet front?
:crazy:
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 01:39 PM
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46. Well, they didn't reference any specific crash diet, but
apparently they will sell (or give) you what they call a Blue Dot. This is a circular piece of blue paper. If you obtain this, you will be able to do the following:

1. Win the lottery
2. Lose a bunch of weight
3. Get a man (or woman, as the case may be)

I'm thinking of sending in for one. I could use all three of these things! Once I get my Blue Dot, I'll keep you posted about all the upturns I'm surely going to experience. :)
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 01:49 PM
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49. Wasn't the blue dot a witness in the OJ trial?
:wtf:
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 01:53 PM
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51. I'm pretty sure this is a different blue dot.
But, who knows? It seems to have brought good luck to OJ, so maybe he did have one at his trial? :shrug:



;)
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 02:09 PM
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61. Excellent point.
:think:
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Illinois_Dem Donating Member (67 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 06:15 PM
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29. "The First Man in Rome" , by Colleen McCullough
Great book!
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 06:16 PM
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30. The Happy Isles of Oceania, by Paul Theroux
A great book.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:15 PM
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44. I'm crazy about that part of the world.
Never been there, but I've been reading about it in Collase. Diamond examines the downfalls of Easter Island and the Pitcairn Group.
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 01:39 PM
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47. I am too
But I've only been to Hawaii. I would really love to visit Easter Island some day. And the Pitcairns, while I'm at it. :hi:

If you haven't read this Theroux book, you might want to check it out. It's great. :hi:
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 01:51 PM
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50. Sounds very appetizing!
:9 Thanks for the recommendation!
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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 06:17 PM
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31. Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671743058/qid=1109200586/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/104-1280005-2029502?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 06:34 PM
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32. What ever children's book
that my daughter throws at me.
Today it was Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain twelve times in a row.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 09:52 AM
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42. Love that book.
Maybe not twelve times in a row, though. ;)
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:20 PM
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72. Today it has been six.
She wanted to watch Shrek 2.
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DrZeeLit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:03 PM
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69. Does it count that I'm listening to INKHEART? love it! n/t
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:25 PM
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75. Yes, that counts.
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phusion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 06:42 PM
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33. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins

The Thomas Paine Reader

countless books for school...

How is "Collapse"?
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 07:37 PM
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38. Eric Alterman is looking for a review of that
To perhaps "publish" on his blog. I just looked for it at the library. They have it, but it is out. Estimated wait time is 38 days.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 01:55 PM
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53. Collapse is pretty damn good.
Not as great as GGnS--not quite as well written (in patches) or organized. GGnS kind of organized itself. Collapse is more arbitrary, picking and choosing among several collapses of societies. But the ones he does pick are very interesting: Easter Island, the Pitcairn group, Anasazi society, classical Maya civilization, and now I'm reading about Iceland and Greenland.
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welshTerrier2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 02:07 PM
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59. confessions of an EHM ..
me too ...

this should be required reading for DU ... unbelievable !!!
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GregW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 06:51 PM
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34. "Built to Last" by Collins and Poras
also ... "The Poet" by Michael Connelly (for the second time)
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biscodawg Donating Member (913 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 07:26 PM
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35. I'm reading...
Xenocide by the most popular science fiction writer on DU... Orson Scott Card ;)
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Worst Username Ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 07:28 PM
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36. Angel of Darkness
The sequel to The Alienist, written by Caleb Carr. He is an American History historian, and writes mystery novels that take place in the late 1800's in New York. Very good, IMO.
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MissMarple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 10:58 PM
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86. Dark stuff. Have you read any Douglas Preston&Lincoln Child?
Their Pendergast character is...quite good.
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Worst Username Ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 05:40 PM
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89. I have not, but will add them to the list. Thx!
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 07:29 PM
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37. Nothing heavy.
"Weep No More My Lady" by Mary Higgins Clark.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 08:22 PM
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39. Karen Armstrong's BUDDHA and also --
-- Andrew Holleran's NIGHTS IN ARUBA.
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 10:22 PM
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40. "Stalker" by Faye Kellerman
pretty good so far

mystery
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Feathered Fish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 09:54 AM
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43. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
and Early Modern England 1485-1714
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all.of.me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 02:10 PM
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62. i've read most of toni morrison's work
i read song of solomon about six times. of course, that was before i had kids. reading time is precious now!
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CatBoreal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 01:48 PM
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48. The Spiral Dance - Starhawk
Needed a good dose of Thealogy. It's my primer for Deepening Witchcraft by Grey Cat.
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Beer Snob-50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 01:55 PM
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52. stephen kings diary of the red sox season
i cannot remember the name of it.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 01:58 PM
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55. How is it?
What ever it's called.
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Beer Snob-50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 02:03 PM
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58. i am enjoying it
the reviews sucked in that he missed entire games due to other committments or got bored in the middle of a blowout, but i find that to be like most real baseball fans. we love it, but it doesn't take over our lives totally (until the sox are in the world series again).
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fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:50 PM
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80. Its called Faithful
by King and O'Nan

I put it down halfway shagging flyballs with a net was a bit childish IMO
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amandae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 01:58 PM
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56. The Disappearance of Childhood - Neil Postman
Thesis reading. Interesting book though.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 02:01 PM
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57. I'm reading
Edited on Thu Feb-24-05 02:03 PM by Bouncy Ball
some shmaltzy (but good) fiction novel I picked up at Target (chick lit).

Crime and Punishment---that Raskolnikov, he's such a crazy guy!

A deadly boring statistics text.

A book about knitting (Stitch N Bitch!).

A book on Process Theology.

On edit, also the latest Mother Jones, The Nation, and Rolling Stone.
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 02:12 PM
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64. out with it - name names
Who is the chick lit author?
I used to have a bookstore so I know most of those authors and still have thousands of the books.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 02:29 PM
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67. Oh God, I can't even think of it
Elisabeth Richardson?

Something like that. The True and Amazing Adventures of the Hunt Sisters is the title.

It's ok.
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all.of.me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 02:15 PM
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65. I just finished...
The Pearl by Steinbeck
Bridges of Madison County

I'm waiting on a copy of The Master & Margarita by Bulgakov.
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Bzzzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 06:01 PM
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92. Read the Sequel...
to 'Bridges' called 'A Thousand Country Roads'. It wraps up the story and I found it quite intriguing.
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all.of.me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 06:13 PM
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94. oh great!
i didn't know there was a sequel!

i saw the movie about 7 years ago. i loved it.

last year i found the book at the flea market. i loved it more than the movie! so i'll be sure to pick up the sequel.

thanks for the info!
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DontBlameMe Donating Member (889 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 02:27 PM
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66. Sight of Proteus by Charles Sheffield
nt
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Bonhomme Richard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:04 PM
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70. The Hammond Organ by Dr. John Hammond...............
LOL, I just thought of this porn novel I remembered seeing about 30 years ago.
Just thought it was a funny title.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:09 PM
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71. Was this cat pic taken with a fisheye lens?
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:49 PM
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79. Probably.
I didn't take it. I just Googled "nosy" and voila!
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:22 PM
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73. 'Hannibal'
Thomas Harris--- great read.

:)
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AlFrankenFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:50 PM
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81. One of my absolute favorites :)
n/t
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gardenista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 11:00 PM
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87. Hmmm... not one of mine.
I think that one jumped the shark. Loved the rest, Red Dragon, and Silence of the Lambs.
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last_texas_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:22 PM
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74. "Elmer Gantry" by Sinclair Lewis
I'm a little over a third of the way through it and I'm loving it. It's basically the story of a turn-of-the-century preacher who is a creep but hides his hypocrisy because he's so charismatic that he's able to pull the wool over pretty much everyone's eyes. It's a little hard to stomach what a jerk the guy is, but very enjoyable because I've no doubt it's reflective of a lot of the "good ol' boy" type preachers out there.

I've discovered how much I enjoy Sinclair Lewis after reading Arrowsmith a couple months ago. After this one, it's on to either Babbitt or It Can't Happen Here.
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:27 PM
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76. I just finished 'The Moneychangers' by Upton Sinclair.
Aren't classics great?

:D
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last_texas_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:31 PM
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77. Yeah
I have The Jungle by Upton Sinclair lined up to read sometime soon. I have about thirty or so books lined up to read that I wasn't able to read while I was doing all the required reading in college, and I'm finally getting a chance to get going on some of them!
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huskerlaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:48 PM
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78. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and
Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate -- The Essential Guide for Progressives by George Lakoff.

Next up: Moral Politics by George Lakoff.

I highly recommend both of them.
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AlFrankenFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:51 PM
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82. Prodigal Summer
and Fried Green Tomatoes

both great books!
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DrZeeLit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 09:43 PM
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85. Prodigal Summer -- on my top five list! It's soooo good! n/t
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mwb970 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 08:24 PM
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84. "The Hollow" by Agatha Christie
I am working my way through my shelf of Christie books in alphabetical order.
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jswordy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 05:43 PM
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90. PENTHOUSE
I buy it for the articles, which are so much better than HUSTLER.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 05:47 PM
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91. But the pitchers ain't as good.
:hi:
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Frogtutor Donating Member (739 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 06:10 PM
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93. Mother of Pearl
I went to Half-Price Books the other day and spent about $50, but I got 10 hardcover books in excellent condition!

I admit it, I'm working through Oprah's list...

Wow, I don't know how some of you read more than one book at a time!
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 06:19 PM
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95. Broca's Brain (Carl Sagan) & From C to Modula-2 and Back, bridging the
language gap
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