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What are you reading? (September 2008)
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Half way through this fantastic book, highly recommended . . .
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Finished:
Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich Also finished: Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook... by Bill Buford |
In the middle of yet another Clive Cussler. Good action as usual.
Aside from that, I can't recommend highly enough a book i just finished. It's terrific! http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...A240_SH20_.jpg |
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Just started:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...DL._SS500_.jpg My Custom Van: And 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays that Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face by Michael Ian Black |
Finished:
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore Books 1 and 2 Starting: Omnivore's Dilemna |
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I finally got this because I loved World War Z. I'm about half way through and I've gotta say I'm pretty disapointed. I'm just now getting to the survival stories so I'm sure it will get better. |
Just finished "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins
Started "Can I Keep My Jersey?" by Paul Shirley |
Just Finished
http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodre...0l/1528101.jpg Probably the most emotionally draining book I've ever read. |
I finished two books so far this month, and both were very disappointing.
Loved his first book (The Last Templar), but Khoury struck out with this one: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...YL._SS500_.jpg And now for You've Been Warned by James Patterson (can't find a good pic to post). This is probably the worst book I've ever read. Only for it is an extremely fast read and I was on a plane, I wouldn't have finished it. If you have a half finished novel somewhere in the back drawer, pick it up and finish it, because if this crap can get published, anything can. With any luck, Patterson will put his name on your work too! http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/B001...pt#reader-link |
GatorDeb, can you tell me if Critcal by Robin Cook is any good. The last book I read by him, Marker, was horrible IMO.
I'm reading Candy Freak by Steve Almond and have eaten more candy in the past few weeks than I have in years. Subliminal messages are a mess. |
Sure I'll let you know :D I LOVE Robin Cook, but his books can be corny sometimes. I'm still on the first page. It goes something like this: "Jack never really thought about his knee. How it held his weight as he worked. He never appreciated his knee as it absorbed the pounding from moving from the left side of the room to the right side of the room." I.e. he writes like a four-year-old sometimes. If I can get through that, maybe the story will be good :)
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finished Legends by Robert Littell today and will be starting on Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano next.
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Originally Posted by GatorDeb
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Sure I'll let you know :D I LOVE Robin Cook, but his books can be corny sometimes. I'm still on the first page. It goes something like this: "Jack never really thought about his knee. How it held his weight as he worked. He never appreciated his knee as it absorbed the pounding from moving from the left side of the room to the right side of the room." I.e. he writes like a four-year-old sometimes. If I can get through that, maybe the story will be good :)
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Originally Posted by iggystar
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Don't get me wrong, I'm a HUGE Cook fan. I've read 17 of his books. The writing is simplistic, but the intrigue and stories are always interesting and fun, with that medical slant to them. "Marker" was my first real disappointment from him, I just couldn't get into it for some reason. But I'll never quit him completely. :)
I have a problem: I start 10X the amount of books I finish... sigh :) |
'Tis by Frank McCourt
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Originally Posted by GatorDeb
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I love medical fiction and he's my favorite author. My favorite was the fertility clinic one and the one that starts with the eye in the refrigerator. The food poisoning one was my most hated because it was a non-ending... the narrative just stopped, but the story didn't. Man, was I pissed :D I've read quite a few of his books. I read Marker and actually liked it quite a bit :D The food poisoning one was the only one I haven't really liked. I haven't read 18, I'd say more like 10. The cloning one was chilly -eek-
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Originally Posted by iggystar
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Have you ever read Michael Palmer? I like his medical thrillers too. I haven't read the food poisoning one, I think it's Toxin, but the one about fertility clinic was excellent. I think one of my favorites is Mutation, one of his older works.
Mutation was the one I referred to about the "cloning one" ... I guess not really cloning but manipulating. That one was indeed excellent and chilling. My third favorite author is Tess Gerritsen :) I've only read about three of hers, though. I really need to buckle down and start reading :( It takes a lot of hold down my interest. I used to think that I just have trouble concentrating but if it's a good book, I finish it. I read every single Harry Potter book but couldn't get through The Hobbit. So I start I think it's even about 20 books for every one I actually read. |
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Just started The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski.
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Finished Paul Shirley "Can I Keep My Jersey?"
Started Alan Weisman "World Without Us" |
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Anansi Boys was great. Right now I'm reading Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Firebrand.
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Finished:
"Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls Still reading: "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan |
I start so many books and never finish them....
so I'm sticking with Amazon/Kindle for book purchases, and will make myself read every book I purchase. Starting with: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...vL._SS500_.jpg I'll probably get Tess Gerritsen's new book next. I like Amazon saving the book for eternity without me having to worry about it. And I plan to stick with the Kindle and Kindle successors as my reader of choice. I'm not that far in (location 200 of 9000) but I found a sentence I really liked (and it doesn't happen often that I go "that was a really cool sentence.") Spoiler:
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