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post #61 of 852
The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson.
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Stripper Lessons by John O'Brien

post #63 of 852
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Just finished the audio version of Pillars of the Earth. Also finished and am up to date on the lengthy First North American Series by W. Michael Gear. I usually have 2 or 3 books going on at the same time. Since I do a 40 minute commute to work, audiobooks have been a sanity saver.

yep, love audio books on a road trip or even while knitting. Just listened to Tripwire by Lee Child to and from Las Vegas and an abridgement of The Web by Jonathan Kellerman. My local library is phasing out cassettes and that's what I have in my ancient car, so I may be in trouble soon on road trips.
post #64 of 852
Bob Dylan in America by Sean Wilentz, who approaches Dylan's music in historical terms.
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yep, love audio books on a road trip or even while knitting. Just listened to Tripwire by Lee Child to and from Las Vegas and an abridgement of The Web by Jonathan Kellerman. My local library is phasing out cassettes and that's what I have in my ancient car, so I may be in trouble soon on road trips.

I have to use a portable cd player right now, cuz the one in my car just doesn't work right. Makes it complicated to change a cd in the middle of driving down the road....
post #66 of 852


Today I bought the new 25th Anniversary edition of Suskind's Perfume based solely on the cool new cover art (I own the old Penguin classic also). I also bought The Odyssey and The Iliad, two of my favourite books by Homer, for my permanent collection.
post #67 of 852
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Can anyone recommend a good book for me to read. I recently finished American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and I'm one of the few that like it. I tend to favor obscure, modern, artsy, weird, controversial, dark novels. My favorite movie is Mulholland Drive by David Lynch to give you an idea...

N, check out Chuck Palahinuk's work ('Haunted', 'Choke', and well...the immensely popular 'Fight Club') - his work is pretty twisted. So is the new Thomas McCarthy novel, 'C' (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize). I'd call it an experimental, post-modern novel.



At the moment, I am reading:

Nightfall by Michael Cunningham

post #68 of 852
The Road was truely disturbing! Perfume by Patrick Suskind was quite unexpected. I expect everyone on Basenotes has read this.
post #69 of 852
I'm currently reading Hitch 22, C Hitchens.
post #70 of 852
Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones. I happened on the movie on TV and was intrigued enough to buy the book.
post #71 of 852
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes. Great fun. The Valley of Fear is my favourite so far - even though the super sleuth hardly appears in it.
post #72 of 852
A History of God by Karen Armstrong. An in-depth view of the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and the myths, ideas and those who began and those who defined the current views of monotheism
post #73 of 852
Taking a break from the adventures of Holmes, Watson and assorted baddies to dip into the latest book from Simon Armitage, Seeing Stars. I'm really enjoying it - a wonderful work from a great Yorkshire poet.
post #74 of 852
I'm reading "Manhattan transfer" by John Dos Passos
post #75 of 852
Another unabridged audiobook, The Help, by Kathryn Stockett. Excellent, can't wait to see the movie based on it.

Also finished The 19th Wife, by David Ebershoff. Polygamy with a homosexual twist. They made this into a LIFETIME movie, sanitizing the gay aspect of the main character. David Ebershoff's work deserved a much better treatment. Hate to see a great book turned into a "movie-of-the-week".
post #76 of 852
perfumes (2009 update) by luca turin and tania sanchez. i love it
post #77 of 852
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Full of a peculiar melancholia, even nostalgia. I like it.
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The Future Of Life by Edward O. Wilson.If you have ever wondered about the fate of the natural world.
post #81 of 852
Necessary as Blood by Deborah Crombie, I love her mysteries and have read every one of them.
post #82 of 852
Reading this:



It's wickedly funny, and I'm learning a bit about Mennonites!
post #83 of 852
Just finishing The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald haven't read that since I was about 11 or so, loved it then and love it now.
post #84 of 852
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The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Full of a peculiar melancholia, even nostalgia. I like it.

I am adding this to my "to read" list.
I finished re-reading "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov.
post #85 of 852
Metamorphosis and other short stories by Franz Kafka.
post #86 of 852
a Mythology book from the late 1800's.
post #87 of 852
Finished "Death with interruptions" by Saramago and...yesterday I read "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". And I plan to re-read "The Wizard of Oz" one day too.
post #88 of 852
Just finished the 'Kite Runner' Really makes you think and empathize with the Afganistan people and their country. It's a good read.
post #89 of 852
The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux. I loved his re-do of it - Ghost Train To The Eastern Star. This isn't nearly as good, but it's quite entertaining. Perfect reading material for long flights.
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Kafka, The Trial
post #91 of 852
I have read "The Leopard" which apparently I had read before and forgot.
Now I am reading possibly the most compeling book I have read in years: The Inquisitors' Manual by Antonio Lobo Antunes. It is amazing, I can't believe I need to wait until Monday to continue reading it. I highly recommend it.
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I finished Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" series. Now I'm starting Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories".
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I'm going to start A Tale of Two Cities again. Maybe I'll stick with it until I can get another Frederick Forsyth thriller. I also look forward to when the new William Gibson comes out in paperback, at last.
post #95 of 852
The Autobiography of Mark Twain--Vol 1. Just started reading it but so far Clemens is very candid about observations of politics and people.
post #96 of 852
I just finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The book didn't live up to my expectations.

+ you get an original point of view (the main character and narrator is authistic)
- the story doesn't make too much sense; not realistic all the time
- I am usually one who laughs a lot with humour or jokes but in this book I only laughed once or twice.

I think it's just fine for children.
post #97 of 852
It's time to break open the Christmas reading. I'm starting with my very favourite Christmas story, which is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I've got four versions, including one in the original Middle English, but will go with the edition translated by Simon Armitage.
post #98 of 852
childhood fav....... Voyage of the Dawn Treader for the 100th time
post #99 of 852
The holiday season has left me sentimental, so I am reading, again, House Made Of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday.
post #100 of 852
I'm reading a book by Cesar Milan, the Dog Whisperer, How to be the Pack Leader (something like that). And a vintage book on crochet by Bella Scharf with wonderfully clear illustrations and classic granny square patterns.

I love seeing what everybody's reading. I love Basenoters. ♥ I do, I love you.
post #101 of 852
Good week for reading. Finished Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine a few days ago which was a bit or work in places but a gorgeous book. Finished Patti Smith's memoir, Just Kids, yesterday and I'm already missing the experience of being in her world. I've just started Leslie Silko's Ceremony but I'm not sure I'll be able to stick with it.
post #102 of 852
L´etranger (Albert Camus)
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I've just started reading 'FALL OF GIANTS' by Ken Follett. first book in a trilogy. A historical novel, (Quote) "It follows the fate of five interrelated families, American, German, Russian, English and Welsh as they move thru the world shaking dramas of WW1, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for womens suffrage." It's 984 pages so this one could take me awhile. Follett also wrote 'Pillars of The Earth' and 'World Without End', 'Whiteout', 'On Wings of Eagles', just to list a few. He's a master storyteller.
post #104 of 852
Just finished my other Christmas favourite, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I know constant film and TV adaptations can make one tire of a particular story, but it is still a tale that gives me a warm glow whenever I read it.
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Finished Patti Smith's memoir, Just Kids, yesterday and I'm already missing the experience of being in her world.

YES. I read it a couple of months ago and felt exactly the same way upon finishing it.

Just finished The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald and am about to start Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity In The Columbian Jungle, Ingrid Betancourt's personal account of her harrowing ordeal and her rescue.

Also on tap:Babylon Revisited and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen by Anna Whitelock
Im Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-up Comedys Golden Era by William Knoedelseder. It's about the 1970s Los Angeles comedy scene and the comics of the time who tried to change the system with regard to their unpaid performances at The Comedy Store in LA.
post #107 of 852
Pagan Babies by Elmore Leonard.
post #108 of 852
The Time Traveler's Wife-- I'm actually enjoying this more than I did the movie.
post #109 of 852
Finished The Leopard and rereading Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm during my Christmas vacation, started on The Portable Dorothy Parker and Pauline Réage's The Story of O, and I'm also reading Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night for the umpteenth time on the side - comfort reading. Can't believe I haven't read more Parker before, I love it.
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Oh, Saint-Exupéry is marvellous. How is this one?
post #112 of 852
Engineering Mathematics: I have quiz in next 4 days!!
post #113 of 852
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Originally Posted by Pimpinett View Post

Oh, Saint-Exupéry is marvellous. How is this one?

Letter to a Hostage is a short autobiographic novel that describes his stay in Portugal during WW2. It's not a masterpiece, but if you like Saint-Exupery it is worth reading.
post #114 of 852
Twilight - for the fourth time
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Artificial Intelligence by Stuart J,Russell & Peter Norvig
post #116 of 852
hamlet shakespeare
post #117 of 852
Death on the Nile........forgotten how much I love Agatha Christie
post #118 of 852
I just started Fall of Giants by Ken Follett. It is a big fat heavy book. When I fall asleep with it at night it wakes me back up with a thud! My falling asleep at night with a book is just normal, not a judgment of this particular one.
post #119 of 852
Just finished reading "Lunes de fiel" by Pascal Bruckner, No spoilers ahead, but I will only reveal that it's much more extreme than the 1992 film version by Roman Polanski
post #120 of 852
I began to read Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Markuez
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