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Old 11-01-06 | 11:44 AM
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What Are You Reading? November 2006

Another month, another thread.

I just put down Lisey's Story because I just could not get into it at all. I may pick it up at a later date, but for now I'll pass it on to my wife and see if she enjoys it better than I.

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Old 11-01-06 | 12:10 PM
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Old 11-01-06 | 02:20 PM
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I just finished reading the six Harry Potter books that took me all of October
I am currently reading: I shouldn't even be doing this! and other things that strike me as funny by Bob Newhart
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Old 11-01-06 | 08:31 PM
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Just finished World War Z: An Oral History Of The Zombie War by Max Brooks.

Up next is The Burning by Bentley Little.
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Just finished the excellent God Delusion

Currently reading Echo Park

And also reading through The Areas of My Expertise


I'm really enjoying the new John Hodgman and Michael Connelly books.
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Old 11-01-06 | 10:25 PM
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I just finished Mapping the Edge (Dunant) and am now on The Good German (Canon). I recently ordered Lisey's Story (King), The Black Dahlia (Ellroy), The Road (McCarthy), Guests of the Ayatollah (Bowden), Freakonomics (Levitt), Sharp Objects (Flynn), Oh What a Slaughter (McMurtry), The Colorado Kid (King) and World War Z (Brooks). Not sure which one I'll be starting on next, but I'll probably get through all of them by the end of the year.
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Old 11-03-06 | 05:26 PM
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I'm currently re-reading James Blaylock's fantastical "The Last Coin".
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Old 11-04-06 | 12:34 AM
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Just finished the excellent God Delusion
I just ordered that the other day, looking forward to reading it.
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Old 11-04-06 | 01:00 AM
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Just finishing up Larry Niven's Ringworld, about to start Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles.
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Old 11-04-06 | 07:22 PM
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Flyboys, by James Bradley... talks about the navy pilots in ww2, and the overall behavior of Japanese soldiers against U.S. POWs.

Good book so far...
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Old 11-04-06 | 09:29 PM
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I just ordered that the other day, looking forward to reading it.
I will say there were a few parts that irritated me. I realize he was trying to be aggressive about his points on atheism, but at times he got a little too self-richeous for my tastes. Still a great book though and does give you a lot to think about.
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Old 11-06-06 | 08:54 AM
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Still reading The Foundation Trilogy (Asimov).
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The Prince. Eh.. To really understand the book you need to understand Renaissance Italy in the 1500's and I don't. It would also help if you knew your Roman emperors as well, which again I don't.

I do have a 15 hour lecture on the subject on audio book and I am learning a lot from that, however I'm not sure if it is worth all the hassle.
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Old 11-06-06 | 07:16 PM
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Going between The Art of War (probably my 100th reading of it), Palahniuk's Survivor (again), and finishing World War Z
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. Fantastic so far.
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just finished World War Z

am almost finished with Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
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Contest by Matthew Reilly



about to start:
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero by William Kalush and Larry Sloman
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I'm a big Eric Larson fan and I could not wait to jump in to this one!
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Old 11-09-06 | 04:38 PM
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Been reading some of the old Parker books by Richard Stark - currently on The Seventh.
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The Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged) by Alexandre Dumas.

Slow reader + 1500 pages = it'll be a while before I get to another book
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Just finished The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Started The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
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