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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 12:39 PM
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What are you reading?
I am reading all of the Steinbeck I can this summer. I just finished The Winter of our Discontent.

I am also reading The Clinton Tapes by Taylor Branch and so far it is a page turner .
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 12:59 PM
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1. What I am reading
just finished "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett. http://www.amazon.com/Help-Kathryn-Stockett/dp/0399155341/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277661478&sr=8-1

Reading now "The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde, a little crazy mystery novel http://www.amazon.com/Eyre-Affair-Thursday-Novels-Penguin/dp/0142001805/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277661543&sr=1-3"
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 01:15 PM
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2. How did you like
The Help? I read it several months ago and loved it. :hi:
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 01:39 PM
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4. I liked it
it was a good read. It reminds us that the separation isn't that long ago and that there still is too much racism in this world. But it is also good to see how far we've come since then.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 02:17 PM
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12. What is it about?
I have never heard of the author but it sounds interesting
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 02:20 PM
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14. It plays in Jackson, Missisippi in the 60s
one young white lady and some black ladies write a book. The books talks about being a black maid in a white household. How the black helpers were treated. The books also shows the courage of people trying to change the status quo.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 02:43 PM
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15. I will put it on my list
I remember the upheavals of the 1960s well
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 01:18 PM
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3. A thread on a message board
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 02:16 PM
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11. I'm reading taterguy's response to a thread on a message board
;)
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 10:36 PM
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67. *Spoiler alert*
taterguy goes apeshit about being run over by a cigar-smoking unicyclist.
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SunnySong Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 01:40 PM
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5. The Daily Mail crying about England (not as much fun as the Fench papers last week) nt
Edited on Sun Jun-27-10 01:41 PM by SunnySong
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 01:41 PM
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6. A collection of sonnets by Jorge Luis Borges
And a book on the Betty and Barney Hill abduction case.
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Brother Buzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 01:41 PM
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7. I just finished a book by the other Steinbeck, his son, Thomas Steinbeck
In the Shadow of the Cypress, a good read. I hope he writes more.

I read every John Steinbeck book years ago, some of them I visit more than once: The Grapes of Wrath, Sweet Thursday.

A good companion book to read along with Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday is Renaissance Man of Cannery Row: The Life and Letters of Edward F. Ricketts. We learn the young Joseph Campbell borrowed heavily from Ricketts' writings, writings that might have been published if the manuscripts hadn't been destroyed in the cannery row fire.

Steinbeck's East of Eden is one book I have no intention of reading again. Dark.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 02:12 PM
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9.  have always been curious about
the man who inspired the Doc character . Thanks so much for this. I agree about East of Eden It is a dark dark book .
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suninvited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-10 03:44 PM
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82. I loved East of Eden
I read it every five or six years.
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miscsoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 01:56 PM
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8. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
Edited on Sun Jun-27-10 02:01 PM by miscsoc
It's pretty good

Set in some alternate 1960s where the Axis won the war and America is divided up between Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Hard to imagine that actually ever having happened even if we'd lost but it's a good setup for a speculative novel. Just fifty pages or so in.

Oh incidentally does anyone know the name of another novel like this, which I read about months ago but can't remember the title of, about a Nazi U.S.A, where souvenir shops sold like, lanterns made from the skin of death camp victims and such? 60s or 70s.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 02:15 PM
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10. I recently read The Man in the High Castle
PKD wrote some damn good SciFi. Have you read Ubik?It is one wild ride into un reality!!
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miscsoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 02:18 PM
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13. I've heard great things about it, it's one people always mention...
Edited on Sun Jun-27-10 02:20 PM by miscsoc
I've read about all of his short stories, and A Scanner Darkly, and...uh...oh yeah, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

I'll do Ubik next.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 02:46 PM
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16. I have The Three Stigmata of PalmerEldrich
on my list

I have read A Scanner Darkly and loved it
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miscsoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 02:53 PM
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18. You should read the collected short stories
Edited on Sun Jun-27-10 02:57 PM by miscsoc
They've been published in 5 or so volumes, I have the lot. (Cheesy cover art, though)

It's a form that PKD's sort of idiosyncratic style and worldview suits. The later ones are better, on the whole. Little nuggets of trippy philosophical speculation - if you like one you can see if he developed it into a full novel, which he often did.
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miscsoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 03:01 PM
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19. speaking of which
"the days of perky pat" iirc was the story dick spun out into palmer eldritch, so you could read that first. It's in volume 4 of his collected stories.

He wrote a huge amount of stuff, of uneven quality. When he's good he's mindblowing.
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 10:59 PM
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41. One of the great ones.
I love alternate history fiction.
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YankeyMCC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 02:49 PM
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17. Picked up "East of Eden" again a couple days ago
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 10:39 AM
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58. I'm reading it, too. It sat on my shelf for several years. After a
couple of false starts, I'm finally making good progress.
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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 03:19 PM
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20. I am finishing Ted Kennedy's autobiography, True Compass.
I started it in the winter (during the power outage actually)! It reads quickly. After that, I plan to go back to working my way through more of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.

I really need a good summer novel. Can't find the right one.
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 04:01 PM
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21. Have you browsed through
the weekly "What are you reading?" threads in the Fiction forum. Always something good there. :hi:
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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 07:49 PM
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27. Not for awhile. Thanks for the suggestion.
:hi:
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 10:45 PM
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38. That was perhaps THE BEST autobiography I have ever read!
Edited on Sun Jun-27-10 10:45 PM by UrbScotty
I started reading it soon after it came out - just a couple of months after he left us. I miss him!
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 10:01 AM
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49. True Compass is a book I really want to read
I am just SO far behind!

F Scott Fitzgerald is another author I would love spending some quality time with!
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rrneck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 05:06 PM
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22. Voltaire's Bastards -- John Ralston Saul nt
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Cleobulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 05:22 PM
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23. The articles, I always only read the articles, I swear!


:hide:
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auntAgonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 05:27 PM
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24. Janet Evanovich. Easy reading/listening while I'm at work.
The Stephanie Plum Numbers series and also the Between the Numbers series. Good for a laugh. I'm enjoying audio books these days.

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Common Sense Party Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 05:42 PM
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25. C.J. Box's "Nowhere to Run"
It's the most recent of his Joe Pickett novels.
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Ahpook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 07:46 PM
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26. I am right back in the middle of a Robert Wilson book.
The Illuminatus Trilogy.

I find myself going back to this book. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes...makes more sense:)

And it never makes a bit of it:)
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 07:51 PM
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28. I'm reading "The Philadelphia Campaign" by Thomas McGuire
I'm just about done with Volume 1. The Battle of Brandywine is over and the fall of Philadelphia is imminent.

I picked it up when I was at Valley Forge a couple of years ago. It's an excellent read if you're interested in that sort of thing.
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Bluzmann57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 08:04 PM
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29. The riot act
Some kids are blowing off fireworks over my house. They should go somewhere else and do that. Like at the tea partiers house down the street.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 08:06 PM
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30. The Tyranny of Email
John Freeman
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mokawanis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 08:26 PM
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31. Under the Banner of Heaven
Krakauer's book about 2 brothers who murdered their sister-in-law and her young child, acting on the delusiuon that God had instructed them to do it.
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JBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 08:37 PM
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32. Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential.
Just started. He's compared his first raw oyster to the first time he had sex. Oyster is more memorable.
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Mr. Blonde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 08:50 PM
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33. Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman
Like it quite a bit. So far this has been a productive summer reading wise.
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 01:36 PM
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61. That was a good read.
Edited on Mon Jun-28-10 01:36 PM by Ikonoklast
Dr. Feynman was one person I always wanted to meet...alas.
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 09:19 PM
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34. I'm currently reading Rabbit, Run by John Updike, Tell All by Palahniuk...
and re-reading To Kill a Mockingbird. I plan to start Portnoy's Complain by Philip Roth pretty soon.

I dig Steinbeck. You read Travels With Charley? Probably his last really great work (With the possible exception of Winter of Our Discontent.), and nonfiction at that.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 10:39 PM
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36. I have Travels With Charley
but I haven't read it yet
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 10:33 PM
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35. Neurodiversity, by Thomas Armstrong.
Neurodiversity: Discovering the Extraordinary Gifts of Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Brain Differences

Great rebuttal to the pro-"cure" Autism Speaks idiots.
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 10:44 PM
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37. I'm reading a post on DU about what people are readong. Oh, and...
The Scratch of a Pen - about how the year 1763 was a major turning point in world history.
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 10:46 PM
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39. "Little Green Men" by Christopher Buckley.
Really good so far, just like the rest of his work.
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 10:57 PM
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40. D-Day by Beevor. It's very good so far.
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 11:51 PM
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42. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barabara Kingsolver. n/t
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 10:05 AM
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50. have you read Poisonwood Bible?I think it's her best.
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 08:53 PM
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65. Have it but haven't read it
the book I'm reading now is about her family moving from Tuscon to a small farm her husband owned in Appalachia. They've spent a year eating only what they can buy, grow or forage locally. So far, the statistics about our food are scary.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-10 03:49 AM
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72. I'll back up the rec for Poisonwood Bible
One of my favorites. :)
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Seneca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-10 11:53 PM
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43. The warning on this bottle of Aleve
Fucking shit is probably clogging my kidneys.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 10:06 AM
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51. now that is some scary sh$$
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Lucian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 12:08 AM
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44. Greywalker by Kat Richardson
So far, the protagonist, Harper Blaine, sorta reminds me of a female version of Harry Dresden, but without the wizard powers.
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 12:30 AM
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45. 10 year old edition of Merck Manual
(humans - my vet manual is newer:rofl: )
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 09:56 AM
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47. years ago when I was involved in medical stuff
I loved my Merck Manual . I probably still have it here someplace but it is from the 1970s LOL
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Sisaruus Donating Member (703 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 06:06 AM
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46. The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine
A light summer read for a change.

http://www.librarything.com/profile/sisaruus
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 10:00 AM
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48. The Age of Wonder, about late 18th century science and romanticism
Just read about James Banks, botanist on the Cook South Seas expedition, who was one of the pioneers of anthropology.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 10:08 AM
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52. that sounds interesting
That was an exciting time
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 10:38 AM
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57. It is (interesting) and it was (an exciting time).
It was the moment when the rational, lucid Enlightment yielded to the darker romantic era, when science inspired wonder and terror at the same time. It's the kind of book that stays with you all day.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 10:00 PM
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66. That's a great book!
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 10:09 AM
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53. The Cigarette Century. Long, but interesting. nt
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velvet Donating Member (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 10:20 AM
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54. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
A novel about two guys who start a hugely successful comic book in the late 1930s, and a lot else besides. Not a masterpiece, but much to enjoy.

"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" is next in line.
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burrfoot Donating Member (801 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 10:28 AM
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55. I give two
enthusiastic thumbs up to the whole Millennium trilogy. Good move!
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burrfoot Donating Member (801 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 10:30 AM
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56. Just finished
The Passage, by Nick Cronin. Chock full of awesome. Highly recommended, if semi-post-apocalyptic fiction is your thing :)

That doesn't really do it justice as a description, but it's a great read and beautifully written.
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bikebloke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 10:52 AM
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59. The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron
His writing style reminds me a bit of James Lee Burke, though not quite as prosaic. So far, so good.
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Demoiselle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 12:18 PM
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60. I just roared through all three Stieg Larsson novels..
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" et al. I think it took me 5 days, total. But I wasn't doing much else...staying at home and tending to a sick dog, mostly.
The novels are a really great read. My husband noticed that every once in a while I'd muttered something like "Oh, no!" ..or.."Don't go IN there!" and the like while reading.
Yes, I was thoroughly hooked. If you like good mystery/thrillers, I think these should do the trick for you.
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WinterParkDonkey Donating Member (103 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 07:01 PM
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62. I'm reading two...
Bones on the Beach - a true crime book about a Miami undercover police woman who has an affair with a Mafiosos that is killed

and

The Survivor - a book about Bill Clinton

both a big thumbs up!!!
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IcyPeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 07:27 PM
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63. A Canticle for Leibowitz - by Walter Miller
(it's sci-fi even though the sound of the title doesn't sound like it)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 08:24 PM
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64. that is one of my all time favorite books
I have read it several times over the years
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Petrushka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-10 01:31 AM
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68. The Satires of Horace --- translated by A. M Juster (a.k.a. Michael J. Astrue)
http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14518.html



Also: The Notebooks of Robert Frost --- edited by Robert Faggen

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674034662
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-10 03:03 AM
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69. a JBP DU thread
:D
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Tabasco_Dave Donating Member (744 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-10 03:41 AM
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70. The Men Who Stair At Goats
The movie only scratched the surface.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-10 03:47 AM
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71. I just finished "Pagan Time: A Memoir of an American Childhood"
written by a woman who grew up on a commune for troubled adolescents in the Adirondacks.
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clyrc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-10 11:18 AM
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73. I'm not reading anything at the moment
I've already read 8 books this month, and I'm trying to read less, because it ends up being mostly the only thing I do. So I'm trying to get down to 6 books a month. I have a whole stack of books from the library I can start reading on the first of July.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-10 11:20 AM
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74. Working my way through ALL of the Discworld books this summer
In an appreciation of one Terry Pratchett. Reading Eric right now. I've noticed I'm finding a lot of the books I've read before FUNNIER and more entertaining the second time through...:)
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Pied Piper Donating Member (363 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-10 03:07 PM
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80. I read the first four of those this spring.
Loved them and can't wait to continue through the series. Right now I'm reading Cryptonomican by Neal Stephenson.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-10 12:20 PM
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75. Sex, Drugs, Rock N Roll by Eric Bogosian.
I've read it before (it's a quick read) but I just started it again this morning. It's his one man show in book form.

You might remember Bogosian from the great movie Talk Radio.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-10 01:27 PM
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76. Suetonius, De vita Caesarum
The Twelve Caesars, in Latin

I'm also reading "A Confederacy of Dunces" for the third time....inspired by watching "Treme" on HBO.....
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-10 01:41 PM
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77. "Great Expectations," "On Writing" (Stephen King), and "The Lion" (Nelson DeMille)
Just started The Lion, barely into "On Writing," and I'm somewhere in the thirdway mark of "Great Expectations," I expect. "The Lion" will probably wait until I finish Dickens, but I had to get a taste of it.
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Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-10 02:15 PM
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78. Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood. (Steinbeck is my favorite author-
Grapes of Wrath my favorite all time novel)
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bikebloke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-10 02:31 PM
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79. The Lost Cyclist by David Herlihy
:The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance

circa 1890's
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ismnotwasm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-10 03:24 PM
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81. Sandman; Book of Dreams
It's a group of stories based on the graphic novels by Neil Gaiman which I have NOT read, but I intend to remedy that very soon.
Also (I'm always reading several books at a time, sometimes just re-reads)"Beachhead" by Jack Williamson, I just reread "It" by Stephen King, "Fledgling" by Octavia E. Butler (A wonderful African American science fiction author, here she addresses bigotry using vampires before it was cool to do so and she does it way better than most)

I'm also going through the "Foreigner" series by CJ Cherryh again since the new one has come out.
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