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What Are You Reading? January 2007

Happy New Year everyone!

I just finished:



I got a Barnes & Noble giftcard for christmas and picked up:



I plan to start this tonight as I've heard many great things about it.
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Corporate warfare.
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Originally Posted by PalmerJoss
I got a Barnes & Noble giftcard for christmas and picked up:



I plan to start this tonight as I've heard many great things about it.
I hope you enjoy it. I found it to be arguably the best book of 2006.

I'm about 2/3 through Lisey's Story.
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Had to work today so I read The Third Option by Vince Flynn. Started and finished it.
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have just started to read this

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I am starting David Mitchell's highly praised Cloud Atlas for a second time. This time I hope to finish.
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Just finished Mother Night by Vonnegut and and reading The Old Man and the Sea. Strange thing about old man and the sea. I made a book order from Indigo/Chapters (in canada) and I recieved that in the order even though it wasn't ordered. Didn't get billed for it so I don't know if it was a gift or something. Someone is telling me to read it and who am I to argue.
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Just started:


So far, loving it.
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Today, I began:

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Last book I read was Thomas Pynchon's 'Against The Day.' - Loved it. (not as good as 'Gravity's' of course, but better than 'Vineland')

Next one up is Karen Armstrong's 'The Great Transformation.'
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Trying to get through House of Leaves. Not the book I was expecting.
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I just discovered Richard Laymon (much to the delight of my inner horror-loving 16-year-old).

I'm finishing this up right now:

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[QUOTE=PalmerJoss]Happy New Year everyone!

I just finished:




What did you think of the Obama book? I got it for Christmas and hope to get to it soon.
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Just Finished:



Just started:




I also started a Rank them as you read them thread, it is a sticky in the book forum.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=488411
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Happy New Year everyone!

I just finished:




What did you think of the Obama book? I got it for Christmas and hope to get to it soon.
It was good, there was a lot of insight into the man himself. It's a great story of discovering one's heritage and finding a path in life. I hope to read his new book at some point soon.
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Originally Posted by Geofferson
I hope you enjoy it. I found it to be arguably the best book of 2006.

I'm about 2/3 through Lisey's Story.
I'm only maybe 1/3 of the way through The Road, but man is it a creepy book. The world that McCarthy describes can all too easily be imagined and I think that may be the creepiest thing about it. I can't wait to how the book ends.
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Just finished Wild Cards IX: Jokertown Shuffle. Started Foundation and Earth yesterday.
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Still Life With Crows by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

Just blazed through Cabinet of Curiosities (my first Preston/Child read), and decided to keep going with Pendergast.
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I finished The Road by McCarthy this weekend and I really enjoyed it, as much as you can enjoy such a tragic depressing novel. I loved the simple, continuous, barebones storytelling and the fact that McCarthy lets the reader imagine for himself how the world became so destroyed. Caught some biblical references but I'm sure there were many that I missed. A truly harrowing tale.

Now reading Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow.
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just finished Gorky Park early last week. started on Above Suspicion after that.
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