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Cherbear
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
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 Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 5:27 pm Post subject: What are you reading? |
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| I'm a big reader and I'm always curious what other people are reading. I just finished Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton. You? |
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AmericanExile
Joined: 04 May 2009
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Sharpe's Fury - I love historical fiction. |
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agoodmouse
Joined: 20 Dec 2007
Location: Anyang
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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| A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. |
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Thiuda
Joined: 14 Mar 2006
Location: Religion ist f�r Sklaven geschaffen, f�r Wesen ohne Geist.
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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| I've just finished Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead and started on Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes by Frans de Waal. I really liked The Fountainhead and look forward to Atlas Shrugged. |
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Cherbear
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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| A Thousand Splendid Suns was too traumatizing for me to have enjoyed it. What those women went through, and what women continue to go through in Afghanistan is horrifying. But I loved The Kite Runner. |
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prideofidaho
Joined: 19 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Loving it....sad to see it finished. |
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harlowethrombey
Joined: 17 Mar 2009
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.
Recently finished:
Gates of Fire
Endymion
Lord of the Silver Bow
Whitechapel Gods
The Kite Runner
Things Fall Apart
I bought Moby Dick (6th time I'm attempting to read it and not lose interest 40 pages in) and Gone With The Wind. Also, bought the most recent Odd Thomas books, Empire of the Ants and lots more Dan Simmons.
My family is sending me a cheaper copy of Atlas Shrugged (its way too expensive to buy in Korea). |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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John Dinges, The Condor Years;
P.M. Holt, Egypt and the Fertile Crescent 1516-1922; and
Walter LaFeber, The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations throughout History. |
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meangradin
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Sharpe's Fury - I love historical fiction. |
I also have been on a Bernard Cornwell kick as of late. I just read Sharpe's Fury, The Sword Song, and I am currently reading Azincourt. I really like the series that The Sword Song is part of, and Cornwell's newest release, "The Burning Land" (?) will be book 5 in the series.
You have probably already familar with them, but I was floored by the Captain Alatriste novels by Arturo Vincente-Perez. |
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asams
Joined: 17 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Cherbear wrote: |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns was too traumatizing for me to have enjoyed it. What those women went through, and what women continue to go through in Afghanistan is horrifying. But I loved The Kite Runner. |
Husseini is a great author. Anyone know if he has other books?
I just finished 3 John Grisham books last week. This week I'm reading
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam |
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Rusty Shackleford
Joined: 08 May 2008
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| asams wrote: |
| Cherbear wrote: |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns was too traumatizing for me to have enjoyed it. What those women went through, and what women continue to go through in Afghanistan is horrifying. But I loved The Kite Runner. |
Husseini is a great author. Anyone know if he has other books?
I just finished 3 John Grisham books last week. This week I'm reading
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam |
I couldn't finish this one. Far too upsetting. The author committed suicide. I'm not surprised. |
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009
Location: UK
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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Why I'm not a Muslim by Ibn Warraq
(20 more pages to go) |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Rusty Shackleford wrote: |
| asams wrote: |
| Cherbear wrote: |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns was too traumatizing for me to have enjoyed it. What those women went through, and what women continue to go through in Afghanistan is horrifying. But I loved The Kite Runner. |
Husseini is a great author. Anyone know if he has other books?
I just finished 3 John Grisham books last week. This week I'm reading
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam |
I couldn't finish this one. Far too upsetting. The author committed suicide. I'm not surprised. |
It's a good book to start arguments with creepy japanophiles (redundancy?). |
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roadwork
Joined: 24 Nov 2008
Location: Goin' up the country
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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| I've been living here so long and being so isolated, I've lost touch with what is happening in the literary world. Usually when I go to Hong Kong, I'll pick up something by David Sedaris or anything new by Chuck Palahniuk. |
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009
Location: UK
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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| roadwork wrote: |
| I've been living here so long and being so isolated, I've lost touch with what is happening in the literary world. |
I know exactly what you mean. I was like that for a while. Just gotta order books from Amazon or Whatthebook.
Way too many folks do TEFL in Korea and wind up utterly braindead layabouts. |
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