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[rumdiary]

I just finished Bright Lights, Big City by Jay Mc Inerney and Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut and I liked them both. I just started The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin and will read Life Is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera and Black Hole by Charles Burns next.

[Nierlisse]

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[Faunaki]

Kafka on the shore - I admit I don't fully understand it but I do like it a lot.

[wanderingbear]

i am currently reading "Ender in Exile" and also the 4th Dune book

[Donald Frost]

The Coming Collapse of China

[akiakiaki]

I'm a fan of Patricia Briggs and her "Mercy Thompson" series. Lately, I've been reading her earlier works. They're short and entertaining reads.

[mole]

The Revolution: A Manifesto
Dr. Ron Paul

[MikeGrey]

Just started reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Pretty good so far. I've been bored/doing nothing at work so I'm about halfway through. It's a quick read, and a bit overly simplistic at times but I'm enjoying it for the most part.

Apparently this book suffers the taint of being an Oprah book club selection, but at least my copy doesn't have the ugly sticker on it. And she has picked some good books in the past.

[semi-fly]

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Tiger Beer]

The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls

[McLovin]

The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux. This book, unlike "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star", actually makes me want to visit India.

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[Ya-ta Boy]

2 really highly recommended books this past weekend:

Tony Horwitz's 'Blue Latitudes': He travels around the Pacific visiting sites that Captain Cook went to. Excellent travel book, plus quite funny because his travelling companion is Roger, an Englishman living in Australia, who is a hoot.

'For Roger, my travel companion in Tahiti, Australia Day heralds an annual yacht race from Sydney Harbor to Botany Bay. I asked to come along so I could see the coast from Cook's perspective. "We'll finish dead last," Roger assured me, motoring his thirty-foot boat, Aquadisiac, toward a yacht club where his fellow sailors waited. "I only get the dregs as crew. Guttersnipes and barflies, mostly. Not to mention you." '

Aravind Adiga's 'The White Tiger', this year's Booker Man Prize winner. Life in India's underclass until the main character gets corrupted and moves up in society.

'There was always enough food in the house for the servants. On Sundays you even got a special dish, rice mixed with small red chunks of boneless chicken. I had never had a regular chicken dish in my life until then; it made you feel like a kin, eating chicken Sunday after Sunday and then licking your fingers. I had a covered room to sleep in. True, I had to share it with the other driver, a grim-looking fellow named Ram Persad, and he had the nice big bed, while I had to sleep on the floor--still a covered room's a covered room, and much nicer than sleeping on the road, as Kishan and I had been doing all the time we were in Dhanbad. Above all, I got the thing that we who grow up in the Darkness value most of all. A uniform. A khaki uniform!'

[Arthur Dent]