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#808458 - 05/15/08 04:43 PM
Re: Whatcha Readin'?
[Re: LionQueen]
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LionQueen
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Registered: 12/13/05
Posts: 139
Loc: The Woods
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Bing Bong:
Did you like Diamond's Collapse?
I had assigned my book club Guns Germs and Steel a few years ago and we all loved it. Thought about assigning Collapse.
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#808520 - 05/15/08 06:43 PM
Re: Whatcha Readin'?
[Re: LionQueen]
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greenelf
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Registered: 06/02/06
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Quote: The last good book I read was Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. Good book and very different from the Broadway version. It is not the Oz from childhood
After seeing the B'way show and obsessing about the score on CD, I'm now reading Maguire's "Wicked." I'm fascinated, so far-about 100 pages in.
The last fiction I read was Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar." (As if I wasn't depressed enough already...)
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#809086 - 05/16/08 01:07 PM
Re: Whatcha Readin'?
[Re: Reinhart Faust]
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past tense
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Registered: 03/05/03
Posts: 29608
Loc: Houston, TX
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Adding it to my list!
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#811211 - 05/19/08 10:24 PM
Re: Whatcha Readin'?
[Re: Bing Bong]
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Red22
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Registered: 06/21/06
Posts: 728
Loc: ny
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Naked by David Sedaris,it's an autobiography, had me laughing so hard I was crying.
Another one that I read recently was Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain...again, pretty funny and a must read for anyone in the restaurant business.
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#816878 - 05/28/08 04:39 PM
Re: Whatcha Readin'?
[Re: Red22]
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past tense
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Registered: 03/05/03
Posts: 29608
Loc: Houston, TX
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I finished "The Northern Lights" - excellent! Right now I'm thumbing through various anthropology texts in preparation for an internship this summer, but I think I might start "Into the Wild" now - it looks like a quick read - maybe a couple of days worth.
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#816881 - 05/28/08 04:39 PM
Re: Whatcha Readin'?
[Re: past tense]
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past tense
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Registered: 03/05/03
Posts: 29608
Loc: Houston, TX
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Red22 - I love to hate Bourdaine! Josh watches him religiously - and I admit I'm hooked too. I'll see if the library has a copy!
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#818499 - 05/30/08 05:19 PM
Re: Whatcha Readin'?
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grouchy
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Registered: 04/06/08
Posts: 127
Loc: ny
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I like to read the readers digest condensed books, then pass them onto the hospital. Other than that I read my text books on medical coding. Dean Koontz is my favorite.
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#821820 - 06/05/08 04:57 PM
Re: Whatcha Readin'?
[Re: ~Ellie~]
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greenelf
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Registered: 06/02/06
Posts: 2956
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For anyone on a retro Oz kick like I'm on, check out a sci-fi novel by Phillip Jose Farmer--"The Barnstormer of Oz." The adventures of Dorothy's son who winds up there while flying his WWI plane. It's a droll companion piece for MacGuire's "Wicked."
( Glinda posses skills undreamed of by Baum--don't let all that pink tulle fool you...)
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#825002 - 06/12/08 09:39 AM
Re: Whatcha Readin'?
[Re: nymmamma]
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Tiger Lily
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Registered: 07/01/04
Posts: 4411
Loc: lost
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Anyone Stephen King fans out there I just finished his latest..Duma Key. Was really good.
I know this one is old but saw the movie but just read the book, you know sometimes the book is better, it's John Grisham's The Client. That was really, really good.
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#826568 - 06/15/08 06:13 PM
Re: Whatcha Readin'?
[Re: Della]
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past tense
Diamond Member
Registered: 03/05/03
Posts: 29608
Loc: Houston, TX
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Currently:
Big Russ and Me - Tim Russert
Indigenous Aesthetics: Native Art, Media, & Identity - Steven Leuthold
Doing Visual Ethnography - Sarah Pink
I'm about to start Freeze Frame: Alaska Eskimos in the Movies - Ann Fienup-Riordan and as soon as it's returned to the library, Darkly Dreaming Dexter.
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#827006 - 06/16/08 05:21 PM
Re: Whatcha Readin'?
[Re: countrygirl]
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Mumsy
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Registered: 07/28/00
Posts: 10682
Loc: Waterloo
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i just finished a book called the
Judas Strain by James Rollins- it's like the davinci code and the andromida strain rolled into one- very good reading right from the start
Herein lies a mystery:
In the year 1271, a young seventeen-year-old Venetian, named Marco Polo, left with his father and uncle on a voyage to the palaces of Kublai Khan in China. It was a journey that would last twenty-four years and bring forth stories of the exotic lands
that lay to the east of the known world: wondrous tales of endless deserts and jade-rich rivers, of teeming cities and vast sailing fleets, of black stones that burned and money made of paper, of impossible beasts and bizarre plants, of cannibals and mystic shamans.
After serving seventeen years in the courts of Kublai Khan, Marco returned to Venice in 1295, where his story was recorded by a French romanticist named Rustichello, in a book titled in Old French, Le Divisament dou Monde (or The Description of the World). The text swept Europe. Even Christopher Columbus carried a copy of Marco’s book on his journey to the New World.
But there is one story of this journey that Marco refused to ever tell, referring only obliquely to it in his text. When Marco Polo had left China, Kublai Khan had granted the Venetian fourteen immense ships and six hundred men. But when Marco finally reached port after two years at sea, there remained but two ships and only eighteen men.
The fate of the other ships and men remain a mystery to this day. Was it shipwreck, storms, piracy? He never told. In fact, on his deathbed, when asked to elaborate or recant his story, Marco answered cryptically:
“I have not told half of what I saw.”
now i'm reading
The Alantis Profecy by Thomas Greanias
The adventure begins with a mysterious military burial at arlington national cemetary and a shocking legacy that has explosive indications for america's existence. archaeologists, conrad yeats discovers in his father's tombstone a key to a centuries old warning built into the very design of washington d.c. major monuments along with the national mail are astronomically alighned and are about to lock with the stars at a date foreseen by the founding fathers. along with serena serghetti, a beautiful vatican linguist with secrets of her own, yeats explores the hidden world beneath the capital in a deadly race to save it. america has a date with destiny, and the fate of the world hangs on the balance
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Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
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