| dfc4385
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A very interesting book - "Three Cups of Tea" - about an American mountain climber who decides to build schools in the mountains of Afganhistan.
Reply #681. Jan 02 10, 11:57 PM
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redwaldo 
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The People's Train by Tom Keneally
(he's the guy who wrote Schindler's Ark)
Reply #682. Jan 09 10, 7:37 PM
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tezza1551
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Just finished the new Di Morrissey - The Silent Country.. set in the Northern Territory. Great read.
Reply #683. Jan 09 10, 9:43 PM
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| C30
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just started "Unseen Academicals" the latest Terry Pratchett "Discworld" novel.
Reply #684. Jan 10 10, 2:36 PM
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cydonia325
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"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame Smith. I purchased the deluxe heirloom edition, wich contains "ultraviolent zombie mayhem" and truly dreadful illustrations. The book is a real hoot and a very quick read - if you like Regency Zombie novels.
Reply #685. Jan 10 10, 3:15 PM
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| adams627
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I started Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow", but after only about fifteen pages, I couldn't take any more. The book's almost impossible to understand: I understand that there's supposed to be some deeper meaning in it, but if I can't follow the plot, characters, setting, etc., then really what's the point? Definitely do not recommend the book.
Reply #686. Jan 10 10, 4:08 PM
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Schoonie101
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Finished up that new Stephen King book Under the Dome in about 5 days reading time. That book is on the gas pedal the whole time - hard NOT to crank through 200+ pages in one session.
Just starting The Curse of Lono by Hunter S. Thompson right now. Been looking forward to reading this one for a loooong time.
Reply #687. Jan 10 10, 10:11 PM
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| emeney3
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I am reading "The Gathering Storm" the latest in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan; well kind of, they got a ghost writer to use his notes to finish the series, looks like there will be three books. So far I am impressed, it reads well :)
Reply #688. Jan 10 10, 10:20 PM
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spambo5
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Finished Lovely Bones before I see the movie. Excellent. Started on Russell Brands - My Booky Wook.
Reply #689. Jan 11 10, 2:54 AM
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conundrum49
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I also have read The Lovely Bones before seeing the movie. I am just about done with Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book. These are both just wonderful reading.
Reply #690. Jan 12 10, 8:12 AM
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Pagiedamon
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I keep sinking lower and lower...I just finished "Gossip Girl" (and it only took me a few hours)!
Reply #691. Jan 12 10, 10:15 AM
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Heleena
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I am reading "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair and it is absolutely horrifying but makes you appreciate improvements in working conditions here in the USA over the years.
Reply #692. Jan 12 10, 10:36 AM
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tezza1551
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Just finished "The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society" - just gorgeous.
Haven't enjoyed a collection of letters so much since I first read "84 Charing Cross Road" twenty years ago.
Reply #693. Jan 13 10, 9:02 PM
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Cross36
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"It's Not About Me" by Max Lucado.
Reply #694. Jan 15 10, 9:21 AM
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Cross36
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Tezza,
I love, The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society.
I love the letters and the craft of the storyline and characters.
Reply #695. Jan 15 10, 9:22 AM
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tezza1551
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Cross, wasn't it just gorgeous... made me want to find out more about the history of the place...I don't think I even knew that Guernsey had been occupied during WW2.. the history I learned at school covered 18 - 19th century British & some European history and 20th Century Australian political history.. so I have a lot of gaps.
Reply #696. Jan 15 10, 10:13 PM
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| little lady
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I am reading Cleo. It is about a cat and her effect on a family who has been through a tragedy.
Reply #697. Jan 16 10, 3:45 AM
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| poneke
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1421: The year China discovered the World.
By Gavin Menzies
...just something light for the summer break:-)
Reply #698. Jan 16 10, 5:35 AM
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rayven80
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I'm reading "Dies the Fire". It was recommended and so far is good, I'm just hoping that I don't get too many ideas from it, and then share them.
Reply #699. Jan 16 10, 10:17 AM
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agony
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As I think I may have mentioned in the Mystery Books thread, I recently read the latest Robert B Parker "Spenser" novel. While thinking about how much worse his books in the last twenty-five years are than the first ten, I decided to reread the first few books in the series. They really are excellent, up until maybe 1984 or so. He was doing something that nobody else ever really did - seriously exploring feminism through the lens of tough-guy machismo, without making either of them ridiculous. Too bad all he's doing now is moving cardboard caricatures around.
Reply #700. Jan 16 10, 10:40 AM
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