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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 07:13 PM
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What Book are you reading now?
I am reading....



"Curahee"

:hi: :patriot:
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Chan790 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 07:36 PM
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1. Day Watch.


If you like modern-setting horror/fantasy, think the genre could use some geo-political intrigue (detente between good and evil is a major theme), a lot of throw-back jokes referencing the Cold War from a Soviet perspective and wish that someone could write anything drawing attention and praise tat was not being written to appeal to the Potter-and-Twilight fan-boy crowd...I recommend this series.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 08:03 PM
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2. Snow Falling on Cedars. I read it a few years ago but forgot. It took me a few pages
Edited on Fri Sep-18-09 08:04 PM by applegrove
to realize I had read it before but I couldn't remember the ending so I decided to keep reading it again.
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 08:12 PM
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3. "Jack and Lem." it's about jfk and his best friend who happened
Edited on Fri Sep-18-09 08:12 PM by jonnyblitz
to be gay, Lem Billings. JFK new he was gay way back when they were at prep school (CHoate)in Connecticut together and he never gave a fuck. They were so close that Lem had his own room at the white house which apparently annoyed the crap out of jackie. I just started it...


the book is Jack and Lem: The Untold Story of An Extraordinary Friendship" by David Pitts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lem_Billings
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 08:15 PM
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4. I had no idea Private Bullshit wrote a book
I've already read Band of Brothers and Major Winters' book, I'll have to find Bullshit's book as well.
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 08:17 PM
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5. This is just a damn good story by a wonderful storyteller -
it's captivating, and I'm gonna hate when I finish it - the highest praise I can give a work of fiction:
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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 08:19 PM
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6. Olive Kitteridge (nt)
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Patiod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 10:22 PM
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67. I made our book club read it
I thought they all said they liked it b/c my mom had just died, and they were being kind.

But one girl gave it to her mom b/c she loved it, and then her mom introduced to to HER book club b/c she liked it so much, and then it won a Pulitzer, so maybe not.

I loved it.
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KatyaR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 08:20 PM
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7. Ted Kennedy's memoir--
started it yesterday, it's really good.
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beac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 08:37 PM
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8. My book club is reading that next month.
I'm hoping I'll make it up the library waiting list in time as I can't afford to buy a copy just now.
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whistler162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 08:42 PM
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9. Just finishing rereading A Soldier's Story by Omar Bradley
http://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Story-Modern-Library-War/dp/0375754210#reader
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 07:56 PM
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62. A lovely, gentle man.
My mother knew him.

Check out Jimmy Doolittle's autobiography. A different kind of book as he was not always in the military.
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beac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 08:42 PM
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10. People of the Book


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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 08:43 PM
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11. The Erotic Adventures of Hercules
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 08:45 PM
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12. And All Between


It's the second part of a three part series by Zilpha Keatley Snyder.
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 08:52 PM
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13. Three Cups of Tea
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seemunkee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 09:15 PM
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18. Same here
about half way through. What do you think of it. Do you know anything about Mortenson as a climber? I'm trying not to say anything to my wife to not prejudice her since she wants to read it when I'm done.
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 09:26 PM
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20. I like it. I'm reading the middle school version at work.
I heard there's more detail about Greg being kidnapped by Taliban in the other edition. Is that true? I think it's an inspiring story.

I started "A Thousand Spendid Suns" but I don't have much time to read. :(

I'm also in the middle of "Sufferings in Africa" about a ship's crew who were kidnapped on the north coast of Africa and spent several years in slavery. I guess I'm in my Arab/Muslim phase.
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seemunkee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 09:35 PM
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22. It's not too bad
but Mortenson has a bit of a reputation of being flacky and not exactly truthful about things. On the other hand he has done good for a lot of people so he can be excused for some of it. I think I'm coming up to his being kidnapped. Just started the chapter where he goes to Wazeristan.
Had a friend bayoneted and hit by an IED in that area, luckily he survived after an extended stay in a military hospital.
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 12:22 AM
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32. Very good book!
:thumbsup:
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 09:04 PM
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14. I'm STUCK. Does that ever happen to anybody else besides me?!1
"Citizen" about the French Rev. But halfway through, just when it was getting good, I just DEPARTED.

And I don't want to start something else until I finish the previous.
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 07:48 PM
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92. CITIZENS by Simon Schama.
He's a pretty interesting writer, and I think he has an unusual slant on the history he writes about.

That said, I am no historian.
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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 09:06 PM
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15. The Earth is Flat by Thomas Friedman
I've had it for awhile. Just getting around to reading it.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 09:29 PM
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21. I hope you didn't PAY Friedman!1 n/t
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 09:11 PM
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16. I never seem to read just one book at a time,
so here's the list:

"No More Rejections: 50 secrets to Writing A Manuscript that Sells"
by Alice Orr

"Past Lives, Present Miracles"
by Denise Linn

"The Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses"
by Judika Illes
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rrneck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 09:14 PM
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17. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human


Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in Catching Fire, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a startling alternative: our evolutionary success is the result of cooking. In a groundbreaking theory of our origins, Wrangham shows that the shift from raw to cooked foods was the key factor in human evolution. When our ancestors adapted to using fire, humanity began. Once our hominid ancestors began cooking their food, the human digestive tract shrank and the brain grew. Time once spent chewing tough raw food could be sued instead to hunt and to tend camp. Cooking became the basis for pair bonding and marriage, created the household, and even led to a sexual division of labor. Tracing the contemporary implications of our ancestors’ diets, Catching Fire sheds new light on how we came to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today. A pathbreaking new theory of human evolution, Catching Fire will provoke controversy and fascinate anyone interested in our ancient origins—or in our modern eating habits.[/i}
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Capn Sunshine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 09:26 PM
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19. Every Brilliant Eye


detective genre. I'm halfway through; no judgment yet.
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Lucy Goosey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 10:40 PM
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23. "Gulag" by Anne Applebaum
Pulitzer prize winning non-fiction about the Soviet gulag system, very readable.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 07:55 PM
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61. I've been meaning to read that one...nt
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 10:56 PM
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24. Skeleton Crew, by S. King nt
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 12:22 AM
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31. That's a good one!
My favorite stories were: The Mist, Cain Rose Up, The Raft, Beachworld, The Jaunt and Survivor Type.
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dogsmycopilot Donating Member (24 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 10:57 PM
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25. The Loved Dog by Tamar Gellar
It's pretty good. I've had it for a bit and stopped halfway through and read something else and now I am going back to it.
I am also working on Pinker's Blank Slate.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 11:28 PM
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26. Just started "Edgar Sawtelle."
Recently finished "Three Cups of Tea," "Prodigal Summer," "My Sister's Keeper," and, okay ... I'll admit it ... "Twilight." :hide:
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beac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 11:39 PM
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49. What do you think of "Edgar Sawtelle" so far?
I just finished it, so I won't give anything away.

I was a hard read for me b/c we lost our beloved dog very unexpectedly this summer. I definitely wouldn't have picked a book about dogs on my own, but the book club I just joined chose it for this month.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 11:44 AM
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52. I'm just in the very beginning, with the backstory on the farm and how the dog thing started
I'm interested to see what the prologue (the guy buying poison in Korea) will have to do with Wisconsin. I'm a little apprehensive about the whole dog angle (I like dogs, but I'm a cat person ... Don't know if my interest will hold up). My book club picked it out, too -- I'd never heard of it before that.

Sorry about the loss of your dog. :( It's awful when a beloved family member goes.
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beac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 01:11 PM
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54. I can't decide if I liked the book or not and I'm not sure how much
the death of my dog is coloring my ability to evaluate it.

One thing I didn't like at all was the name of one of the primary dogs-- made me think of a Thanksgiving side dish every time I read it. LOL.

I will tell you that even though it's almost 600 pages, it does read fast, so it wasn't too laborious getting through it and I finished well before our 10/1 deadline.

If you feel like it, PM me when you're done. I'd be interested to hear what you think. :hi:
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 11:34 PM
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27. "The Idea of Justice" by Amartya Sen
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Petrushka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 11:44 PM
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28. "Jesus Laughed: The Redemptive Power of Humor " by Robert Darden . . .
. . . Senior Editor for 20 years of The Wittenburg Door, a Christian satire magazine.


http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Laughed-Redemptive-Power-Humor/dp/0687644542/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253334988&sr=1-1



http://www.wittenburgdoor.com/
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 11:59 PM
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29. I just finished Mietek Pemper's "Road to Rescue," which was the true story of
the events portrayed in the film "Schindler's List."

The character in the movie played by Ben Kingsley is actually a composite of Pemper and Izak Stern.
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 12:19 AM
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30. Kill Bin Laden
By Dalton Fury. Pretty interesting so far.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 02:33 AM
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33. "Notes On Blood Meridian" - John Sepich
...reference work about Cormac McCarthy's novel
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Jetboy Donating Member (306 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 02:42 AM
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34. Rockabilly- A Forty Year Journey by Billy Poore
I have learned a lot about rockabilly music, especially the early days in the 50s. One act I had never heard of before called the Collins Kids just blew me away. Check 'em out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF5DvDucf7w
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velvet Donating Member (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 04:06 AM
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35. Clive James - "Cultural Amnesia - Notes From the Margin of My Time"
A fat book of thought-provoking essays on the words and deeds of a whole stack of people. Clive is not a joiner, he goes his own way.
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 06:53 AM
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36. The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, Lawrence James. n/t
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Sisaruus Donating Member (703 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 08:50 AM
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37. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
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Tobin S. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 08:55 AM
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38. The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
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RFKHumphreyObama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 09:49 AM
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39. Two at once


and


Both highly recommended
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 09:54 AM
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40. They Chrysalis Effect: The Metamorphosis of Global Culture
by Philip Slater

http://www.philipslater.com/

very brilliant
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Graybeard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 02:53 PM
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41. E.L. Doctorow's new book about the Collyer Bros.
In "Homer and Langley" Doctorow once again brings early 20th century New York City to vivid life. A good read.
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mzteris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 05:13 PM
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42. White Moon, Red Dragon
by David Wingrove. It's book six in a series called Chung Kuo - it consists of eight novels about a future in which the Chinese have dominated the world, rewritten history, and built enormous indoor continent-spanning cities three hundred levels in height.



The best thing about it is sometimes it's hard to tell the "good guys" from the "bad guys" because on any side of any of the issues, you have both.
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 06:05 PM
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43. "The Zombie Survival Guide"
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Patiod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 10:26 PM
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68. Which is why I voted "Zombie Apocolypse" vs
"Terminator Apocolypse".

Because I had the important information in the Zombie Survival Guide
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Soylent Brice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 08:46 AM
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83. excellent read. useful and informative. n/t
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 08:25 PM
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94. I've heard so much about the book here on DU I had to read it.
It's quirky. I like it.
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Adsos Letter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 10:49 PM
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44. I have a block of four I am working through...
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by bernard Bailyn

The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America by Gary Nash

The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 by Gordon S. Wood

Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution by Woody Holton

:crazy:


:D


.
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asdjrocky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 10:55 PM
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45. The Molly Maguires, Team of Rivals and Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream.
I just finished a book called Notorious Victoria, about Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for President of the United States.

Oh, and "Truck Stop Bimbos" can't seem to put that one down.
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bermudat Donating Member (985 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 11:01 PM
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46. Wicked by Gregory Maguire
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shugah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 11:27 PM
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47. Without A Map
http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1832

"Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether. After giving her baby up for adoption, Hall wanders recklessly through the Middle East, where she survives by selling her possessions and finally her blood. She returns to New England and stitches together a life that encircles her silenced and invisible grief. When he is twenty-one, her lost son finds her. Hall learns that he grew up in gritty poverty with an abusive father—in her own father's hometown. Their reunion is tender, turbulent, and ultimately redemptive. Hall's parents never ask for her forgiveness, yet as they age, she offers them her love. What sets Without a Map apart is the way in which loss and betrayal evolve into compassion, and compassion into wisdom."

about halfway thru, and don't know if i like it or not...
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chknltl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 11:39 PM
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48. The GOP-Haters Handbook by Jack Hunerman
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 01:05 AM
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50. I'm re-reading House of Leaves by Danielewski.
There's enough material here that it's worth a reread.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 01:19 AM
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51. The Family.
The girl at Borders said they're having a hard time keeping it in stock.
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-21-09 06:02 PM
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71. i had a hard time getting it a month ago as well for that reason. nt
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PRETZEL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 09:05 AM
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97. I honestly didn't think much of it,
overall that is.

Beginning and end of the book are pretty good but he spends way too much time tracing the roots of the group and not enough of it's inner workings.
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Mugu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 12:25 PM
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53. Light, science & magic.
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tishaLA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 01:20 PM
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55. Contingency, Hegemony, and Universality
by Judith Butler, Slavoj Zizek, and Ernesto Laclau
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 01:56 PM
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56. Illustrator CS3....snore.
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 02:07 PM
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57. I, Robot


Next up:
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 05:20 PM
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58. The Family, Jeff Shalet.
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mopinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 06:00 PM
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59. horse soldiers by doug stanton.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5129-pKoqAL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg


it's about my nephew. it is :puke:
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 07:54 PM
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60. The Somme by Martin Gilbert
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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 08:09 PM
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63. The Savage Detectives
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 08:23 PM
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64. Helter Skelter
The recent 40th anniversary of the Tate/LaBianca murders piqued my curiosity.
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 08:24 PM
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65. The Year's Best Science Fiction #17 (nt)
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 08:33 PM
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66. How We Decide
A bit breezy but I have an interest in the subject.
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deoxyribonuclease Donating Member (206 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-21-09 05:41 PM
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69. Cellular Computing
http://www.amazon.com/Cellular-Computing-Genomics-Bioinformatics-Hanawalt/dp/0195155394/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253572868&sr=8-1-spell
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-21-09 05:50 PM
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70. Parche could you tell me what you think of that Easy Company book
Edited on Mon Sep-21-09 05:50 PM by Skittles
wondering if it would make a nice gift for a coworker who is a WWII buff
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-21-09 06:04 PM
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72. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
:D
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-21-09 06:15 PM
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73. ~

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theophilus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-21-09 10:14 PM
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74. Notes of a Pianist
Edited on Mon Sep-21-09 10:15 PM by theophilus
This is a diary of Louis Moreau Gottschalk 1829-1869. If you don't know about Gottschalk and his music you are really missing something. Fascinating.
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 05:41 PM
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89. I LOVE Gottschalk's music, especially the "Grand Tarantelle" nt
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carlyhippy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-21-09 10:39 PM
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75. Wonderful Tonight-Pattie Boyd Harrison
Edited on Mon Sep-21-09 10:41 PM by carlyhippy
one of the luckiest women on this planet to be muse to George Harrison and Eric Clapton
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:01 AM
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76. Deleted message
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:32 AM
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77. Living Dead In Dallas
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Lucian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 07:59 PM
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93. I'm reading that one too right now.
:hi:
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 09:35 PM
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95. gmta
:hi:
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:57 AM
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78. Daughter of Earth, by Agnes Smedley
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 05:23 AM
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79. just finished reading the turner diaries WTF
apart from being crap writing, totally nuts....
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 05:39 AM
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80. Life Inc.
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schmuls Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 08:11 AM
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81. Voyage of the Vizcaina - the mystery of Columbus's last ship
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Soylent Brice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 08:45 AM
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82. The Age of Spiritual Machines


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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:27 PM
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84. When Brocken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
by Chanrithy Him

This was a book my child was doing a school report on and I wanted to read it also.
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 01:30 PM
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85. I'm reading Water Music, Best American Essays 2008, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. n/t
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 04:37 PM
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86. Oh Pure and Radiant Heart - Lydia Millet
Premise - Oppenheimer, Szilard and Fermi are teleported to modern times at the moment of the Trinity blast (but also continue their lives and eventual deaths in the original time track).

Chaos ensues.
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 04:47 PM
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87. Just finishing "'Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age'
Recommended to me by a good friend, and I in turn recommend to you all. Really good!
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 05:38 PM
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88. "Friends, Lovers, Chocolate" #2 in the Isabel Dalhousie series
by Alexander McCall Smith


better known for "The #1 Ladies Detective Agency" series.
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ismnotwasm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 05:44 PM
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90. Regenesis
By CJ Cherryh

And painfully, a few pages at a time "The Varieties of Religious Experience" By William James (I've read it before maybe 20-30 years ago. It's far more irritating this time around. Why am I reading it? Practice.)
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Spacemom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-22-09 05:58 PM
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91. Prodigal Summer
by Barbara Kingsolver. I love her stuff.
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Sheltiemama Donating Member (892 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 01:30 AM
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96. "The Year of Living Biblically"
It's great. The author has a very understanding wife.
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 10:11 AM
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98. An old John LeCarre spy book, Tailor of Panama....very amusing.
Haven't read it in about 10 years or so,just found a 1st ed for $2.

mark
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 10:15 AM
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99. Fool
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mentalsolstice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 12:18 PM
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101. I loved that book
I want to read "Lamb" soon!
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:23 PM
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102. Haven't read Lamb.
But I want to read that one too. Loves me some Christopher Moore.
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 10:26 AM
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100. three. "Bicycle Diaries" by David Byrne, "Surfacing" by Margaret Atwood
Edited on Wed Sep-23-09 10:26 AM by unpossibles
and "Topping" by Dossie Easton.



And no, that last one is not about stuff you put on your baked potato or pizza....
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:24 PM
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103. The Bostonians by Henry James..
it was made into an Merchant/Ivory movie...before their big success with A Room With a View and others...might be interesting to see how this sucker could have been adapted!
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:54 PM
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104. "Our Lady of the Forest" by Gutterson
Actually i finished it yesterday. Pretty good but not as good as his two others.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 09:15 PM
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105. Cold Mountain
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