What are you reading? (November 2008)
 

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Still reading:

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"Rebel Fay", Barb and J.C. Hendee

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Snap, I'm reading the same book from October. Better get a move on.

Finished:
Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox

Reading:
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Currently Reading If Chins Could Kill by Bruce Campbell

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When I finish this, I get to join the group of people waiting until roughly 2011 for book five, 2020 for book six, and 2039 for book seven.

Just read:
Persecution and the Art of Writing - Leo Strauss
Poems and Plays of Robert Browning (not the whole thing--those plays wore on me)

Reading:
Guide for the Perplexed - Maimonides
Natural Right and History - Leo Strauss
From Sea to Sea - Rudyard Kipling

Just started

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Right now I'm reading something like eight books, but the one I started yesterday (and will possibly finish today), is Nelson Polsby's <i>How Congress Evolves: Social Bases of Institutional Change</i>, which is this fascinating account of the development of the House of Representatives from 1947-present.

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Unfinished:
Through The Storm - Lynn Spears (halfway)
The Education of a Bodybuilder - Arnold Schwarzenegger (Over halfway)
Night - Elie Wiesel (20-30 pages away from the end)

Currently reading:
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This is the sequel to The Chosen, which I read some time back (and loved).

I started Wednesday and read some at night while on a trip and I'm on page 90-something, which is huge for me to read so much in so short a time. Today it's busy at work so I'm looking to maybe finish it on Sunday/Monday/Tuesday at work (it's 368 pages long).

It's an AWESOME book, and deals with Judaism and therapy, two of my favorite subjects. Just getting to the therapy part.

How do you read a book in two days? -eek-

It's possible. Blew through Ray Garton's "Live Girls" in an 8 hour shift at work once.

The Road- I finished No Country For Old Men (excellent btw), and picked this up to read before the movie came out (though I suppose I have more time to do that now). I'm abot 50 pages in and loving it. Magnificently bleak and haunting, and nothing has even happened yet.

When I went on sick call once in AIT I read "Congo" in one day. It was a great read.

Right now, "The Korsun Pocket: The Encirclement and Breakout of a German Army in the East, 1944".

Also the last of the Rigante books by Gemmell, "Stormrider" and the "Full Metal Panic" manga.

About halfway through this, & it's probably going to end up being my favorite book of the year.

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I'm extremely intelligent. ;)

(With thanks to Jose Mourinho)

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My record was for "Eaters of the Dead" aka "The 13th Warrior" by Michael Crichton. I read about half on a flight from LA to Jamaica, and I finished it on the flight back.

It's possible... There are the books that are just too good to put down, and some authors who write in such quick, simple sentences, it doesn't take much to read them. James Patterson is the obvious example, Harlan Coben is another whose last book I finished in one day.

Currently reading Poe's Shadow, edited by Peter Straub.

Next is Just After Sunset, by Stephen King.

"José Mário dos Santos Félix Mourinho, GOIH (pronounced [ʒuˈzɛ moˈɾiɲu]) (born 26 January 1963 in Setúbal) is a Portuguese football manager. He is the current manager of Italian club Inter."

:hscratch:

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I usually only read one at a time, but I am reading two right now because I couldn't decide which one I wanted to start first. I'm sure one will become the dominant one and I'll end of finishing the other one up after.

He learned Italian (fluently) in about three months, including idiomatic expressions. When asked at his press conference how he did this, he replied (in fluent Italian) "I'm extremely intelligent."

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Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization by Iain Gately

Finished:
Fight Club by Chuck Pahluniuk

Reading:
Stardust by Neil Gaiman

That was also a very good book.

"Clandestine" by James Ellroy.

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Just finished:

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