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post #541 of 840
9/5/12 at 11:09am
i'm currently reading de ontdekking van de hemel (the discovery of heaven) by harry mulisch. it's generally valued as one of the great masterpieces of dutch literature, but i'm still on the fence whether i like it that much. i don't like his writing style a lot, but i can't deny that it has got some brilliance here and there. plus, when i keep reading something, that's usually a good sign. i don't have any patience with books that i don't like. i'm still interested to learn how the plot unfolds.

i'm considering to finally read dante, too, after i've finished this one.
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post #542 of 840
9/5/12 at 1:02pm
Just started American Assassin by Vince Flynn
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post #543 of 840
9/8/12 at 6:30am
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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post #544 of 840
9/9/12 at 9:10am
Just finished The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan and The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle. Now I'm reading The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.

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post #545 of 840
9/9/12 at 9:23am
48 laws of power
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post #546 of 840
9/10/12 at 2:42pm
Just started "The Excalibur Disaster" by Jack Bickham
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post #547 of 840
9/11/12 at 7:08am
I haven't read King in ages...so when I was at B&N over the weekend I thought, 'what the hell'...I'll see what all the fuss is about The Dark Tower Series and plunged into the first one on paperback:

The Gunslinger by Stephen King

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post #548 of 840
9/12/12 at 2:53am
One Shot (Jack Reacher Novel) by Lee Child.
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post #549 of 840
9/12/12 at 3:28am
on a classic tip: just started in the divine comedy, bought the aeneas, looking for a copy of the nicomachean ethics.
not to be (or act) 'interesting', i'm just at a point in life where reading these seems important, especially the first and the last.
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post #550 of 840
9/12/12 at 2:25pm
The History of Mr Polly by H.G. Wells. I also started reading Chi Running by Danny Dreyer today.
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post #551 of 840
9/14/12 at 11:27am
Queen, Empress, Concubine
50 Women Rulers from Cleopatra to Catherine the Great

by Claudia Gold

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post #552 of 840
9/14/12 at 12:01pm
Crowned Heads by Thomas Tryon
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post #553 of 840
9/14/12 at 12:11pm
Relentless - Dean Koontz
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post #554 of 840
9/14/12 at 12:27pm
The Tools by Phil Stutz & Barry Michels
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post #555 of 840
9/14/12 at 12:55pm
A Wanted Man by Lee Child.
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post #556 of 840
9/14/12 at 12:57pm
Game of Thrones and Les Miserables. The two couldn't be any more different.
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post #557 of 840
9/14/12 at 3:54pm
I'm taking a break from Les Misérables and various non-fiction books (I tend to have several books going at a time) since my reserved library copy of Odd Apocalyse by Dean Koontz came in.
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post #558 of 840
9/14/12 at 4:14pm
Margaret Atwood / Morning in the burned house

poetry
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post #559 of 840
9/14/12 at 4:52pm
The Spy- Clive Cussler
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post #560 of 840
9/17/12 at 2:27am
The Hard Way - (Jack Reacher Novel) by Lee Child.
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post #561 of 840
9/18/12 at 10:42am
Re-reading and loving Madame Bovary.
Thinking of changing my nickname in arsenic....
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post #562 of 840
9/20/12 at 7:45am
Just started A Time for Patriots by Dale Brown
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post #563 of 840
9/21/12 at 2:14am
20,000 Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton (1935).
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post #564 of 840
9/24/12 at 2:35am
Bad Luck and Touble (Jack Reacher Novel) by Lee Child.
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post #565 of 840
9/24/12 at 5:19am
Final Cut by Pamela Chais
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post #566 of 840
9/24/12 at 6:23am
Gifts of the Crow

Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain
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post #567 of 840
10/1/12 at 7:51am
Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis, what a life this guy has had!
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post #568 of 840
10/1/12 at 8:41am
Just started "Neanderthal" by John Darnton
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post #569 of 840
10/1/12 at 11:43am
Quote:
Originally Posted by IngaMi View Post

Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis, what a life this guy has had!


Haha, Anthony is a legend.
Imagine sharing a bed with Cher as a kid and being looked after by Keith Moon. You were never going to turn out normal.
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post #570 of 840
10/1/12 at 3:09pm
Nothing To Lose (Jack Reacher Novel) By Lee Child.
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post #571 of 840
10/7/12 at 7:31am
Just started The Trunk Music by Michael Connelly
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post #572 of 840
10/7/12 at 7:58am
THE BELL JAR / Sylvia Plath

Im crazy about her poetry but could never imagine being entertained by her novel, and have put off reading it for decades. Im halfway through and while I understand it descends into madness in due course, so far Im surprised by how readable it is. It has a breezy quality reminiscent of some of Salingers fiction. The deftness with striking imagery and psychological candor which is the hallmark of her poetry is all here too, and its something of a page-turner, quite accessible. Im bracing for act two.
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post #573 of 840
10/7/12 at 8:32am
Diablo 3: The Order / Nate Kenyon

I read it just because I play this game.

Part of the novel in audio
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post #574 of 840
10/7/12 at 8:33am
Diablo 3: The Order / Nate Kenyon

I read it just because I play this game.

Part of the novel in audio
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post #575 of 840
10/7/12 at 10:46am
Gone Tommorow (Jack Reacher Novel) by Lee Child.
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post #576 of 840
10/9/12 at 5:36pm
Just finished "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl. Amazing, amazing book. A must read!
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post #577 of 840
10/9/12 at 6:23pm
Not sure if it counts as reading as I haven't had time to touch the books in months but...

Wheel of Time - Crossroads of Twilight (#10) and putting off finishing A Dance With Dragons because I'm not sure how long it's going to take Martin to finish the next book.
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post #578 of 840
10/9/12 at 6:36pm

Shantaram
L--O--N--G, but SOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOD!!!!
(Listening actually, to the audiobook. -- great reader, great book!!!)
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post #579 of 840
10/9/12 at 8:24pm
Just finished Girl Gone by Gillian Flynn. Very good, but I'm not sure the ending satisfied me.

Before that I read several other books...."On Folly Beach" by Karen White. Pretty good, but predictable.

One book I truly enjoyed was "Those Who Save Us" by Jenna Blum. Fantastic. I couldn't put it down!
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post #580 of 840
10/10/12 at 7:58am
The Smoke Tony Broadbent



LL
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post #581 of 840
10/10/12 at 11:13am


The Bad Girl
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post #582 of 840
10/10/12 at 11:53am
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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post #583 of 840
10/11/12 at 8:34am
Fall of Giants by Ken Follet
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post #584 of 840
10/12/12 at 5:55pm
A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin

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post #585 of 840
10/12/12 at 10:47pm
Lecture notes for class...oh joy
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post #586 of 840
10/12/12 at 11:10pm


You could call it homework.
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post #587 of 840
10/13/12 at 4:04am
61 Hours (Jack Reacher Novel) by Lee Child.
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post #588 of 840
10/13/12 at 6:46am
I put off reading The Bell Jar, too. Thought it would be too depressing or something, but also found it very a refreshing and colorful read. I see where you make to connection to Salinger.

I finished The Historian and loved it, will look for her next novel.

Am also reading The Little Book of Perfumes: The hundred classics by Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez. I went straight to the Ks and found that my signature scent, Knowing by Estee Lauder, is there. I must say they have very good taste, now I want to try all the ones I haven't heard of in this book.
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post #589 of 840
10/13/12 at 10:10am
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You could call it homework.

Now, if my lectures notes looked anything like this...I would have registered for more classes.
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post #590 of 840
10/15/12 at 5:45pm
In the last couple of weeks:

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
A Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Currently absorbed in Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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post #591 of 840
10/16/12 at 8:04am
Black Ops by W.E.B. Griffen
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post #592 of 840
10/16/12 at 11:44am
Born to Win, by Muriel James and Dorothy Jongeward. On Transactional Analysis
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post #593 of 840
10/16/12 at 4:05pm
art of war
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post #594 of 840
10/16/12 at 4:24pm
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Fall of Giants by Ken Follet

Hows was it? I love Ken Follett..
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post #595 of 840
10/20/12 at 3:14am
My name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok.
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post #596 of 840
10/20/12 at 2:01pm
Building Stories by Chris Ware



One part graphic novel, one part memorabilia - the sheer enormity of the graphic design, thick and rich paper and printing - I am amazed. I collect most of Ware's work, but this is a crowning achievement. NY Times article about it here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/bo...hris-ware.html
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post #597 of 840
10/20/12 at 3:16pm
Just started The Trunk Music by Michael Connelly
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post #598 of 840
10/20/12 at 4:00pm
Greenmantle by John Buchan
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post #599 of 840
10/20/12 at 8:23pm
Saturday by Ian McEwan...

my second book by this author. First was Atonement a few years ago.
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post #600 of 840
10/23/12 at 3:21am
Worth Dying For (Jack Reacher Novel) by Lee Child.
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