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Read Any Good Books Lately?
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swetepete



Joined: 01 Nov 2006
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
"Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy.
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swetepete



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
"Scar Tissue" by Anthony Kiedis.
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daskalos



Joined: 19 May 2006
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Just finished two (translated from Spanish) by Arturo Perez-Reverte, and am about to finish a third. God I love him. Quasi-literary, high class suspense/mystery. A writer who remembers that plot and character are necessary to good fiction, who knows how to create for us the vivid and continuous dream that makes us forget that we are reading words on a page.

The Fencing Master
Captain Alatriste
The Queen of the South
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SuperFly



Joined: 09 Jul 2003
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



An Unquiet Mind - Kay R. Jamison

Driving over Lemons - Chris Stewart

Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri

House of Windows - Adina Hoffman
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dog_disco



Joined: 25 Apr 2006
PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
...Read The Aquariums of Pyongyang, Kang Chol-Hwan this weekend. It is a personal account of how a family 1) is lured to NK from Japan by false promises of a "worker's paradise on Earth" 2) growing up in NK 3) 10 years of internment suffered at the infamous Yodok concentration camp 4) the writer's subsequent escape to S Korea. Anything you need to know about NK is in this book. Devestating, well written + also very short.
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri


A terrific collection of short stories! (I didn't much care for her novel, though. I heard that a publisher will accept a short story collection only if there is a novel to follow. Not a good policy, in my opinion.)
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chotaerang



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 4:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
A Thousand Barrels a Day - about the supply and demand dynamic of oil.
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shetan



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well not as intellectual as the rest of you but I like....

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

The Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin .... Excellent writing and storyline plots... (Kind of fantasy-ish)

Just got round to Life of Pi by Yann Martel.. great book... Smile but Im sure you've all read it...
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hairy sue



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm reading NONZERO by Robert Wright. I don't get it exactly, but I think that's the point?
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Pa Jan Jo A Hamnida



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Pa Jan Jo A Hamnida



Joined: 27 Oct 2006
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 8:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I remember reading a blurb about the book in The Korea Herald before I left in 2005. Anyway, I read the book at my cottage in upstate New York and it was quite satisfying. Sadly, Kostova hasn't written a followup.

ajgeddes wrote:
Anybody wanting a good historical/fiction should try The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. It's about Dracula, but it isn't about him turning into a bat and flying around or anything like that. It's really, really good and I am sure somebody else on here has read it.

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Late one night in 1972, as a 16-year-old girl, she discovers a mysterious book and a sheaf of letters in her father's library -- a discovery that will have dreadful and far-reaching consequences, and will send her on a journey of mind-boggling danger. While seeking clues to the secrets of her father's past and her mother's puzzling disappearance, she follows a trail from London to Istanbul to Budapest and beyond, and learns that the letters in her possession provide a link to one of the world's darkest and most intoxicating figures. Generation after generation, the legend of Dracula has enticed and eluded both historians and opportunists alike. Now a young girl undertakes the same search that ended in the death and defilement of so many others -- in an attempt to save her father from an unspeakable fate.
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Ya-ta Boy



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