What book are you reading now?

[bobjuice]

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"Derailed in Uncle Ho's Victory Garden" by Tim Page



After just finishing this one which i thought was very, very good

[Shpira]

Re: What book are you reading now?

"Derailed in Uncle Ho's Victory Garden" by Tim Page



After just finishing this one which i thought was very, very good

Dispatches is an excellent book... probably the best one about Vietnam and the basis for many a film dialogue.

I am reading

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[bobjuice]

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Dispatches is an excellent book... probably the best one about Vietnam and the basis for many a film dialogue.

Yeah I was hooked into it for sure. The Tim Page one i started about a year ago but never really got into. After reading Dispatches though i kind of got into the Tim Page one more easily.

[JonQPublik]

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Recently read:

Little Hands Clapping by Dan Rhodes.
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^^^Fantastic. Entertaining, a bit of a quick read, but the characters are wonderfully detailed. Lovely stories behind all faces.


Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan
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^^^Really good... Funny and realistic. The main character seems to be a basic sketch of a 21st century Holden Caulfield, but caring even less.

Currently reading:

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
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Not sure how I feel about this one. Only 60 pages in, and I've started reading instead...

The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
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Too early to tell.

Future reading:

Replay by Ken Grimwood
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...based on a recommendation. Premise seems like it might be repetitive, but I'll give it a shot.

The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
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A whim, basically. I remember reading a couple of her books when I was a kid, so I thought perhaps I could start at the beginning and see if it's good enough to commit myself to reading the entire series.

[Hambrecht]

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[Kat]

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have to read this book for my class

i like this quote

Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.
- Deepak Chopra

[veselic]

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The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern

[Hydrosonic]

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Currently reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Sumptuous. Need to resume Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, too.

[res0nat0r]

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Reading right now:



Full of 80s references, atari and old video games, and movie quotes.

Also reading:





Snagged this one off of Amazon today for only $5.50 total, supposed to be one of the best non-fiction books published last year:




Checking this one out next.

[nick007]

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[feather]

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I'm looking forward to these:

I'm 70% into this. It's very slow and not too exciting. I remember Murakami being a bit more surreal, this is tedious. And the language is just so plain, not sure if it's due to translation. I might quit Murakami after this.

[Jenks]

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[res0nat0r]

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I'm 70% into this. It's very slow and not too exciting. I remember Murakami being a bit more surreal, this is tedious. And the language is just so plain, not sure if it's due to translation. I might quit Murakami after this.

That sucks, that was voted one of the best last year and I was thinking about checking it out. Too bad...

[GregWhelan]

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Started The Hobbit 2 days ago - it was on the bookshelf (my girlfriends side) and I was bored. Cant say I'm overly impressed so far, but it will be nice to say I've read it.

[floridaorange]

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This book should be in the mail any day now: