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swetepete
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg
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| "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy. |
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swetepete
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| "Scar Tissue" by Anthony Kiedis. |
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daskalos
Joined: 19 May 2006
Location: The Road to Ithaca
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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
Location: In the doghouse
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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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
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| ...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
Location: Established in 1994
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Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
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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
Joined: 23 Mar 2004
Location: In the gym
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 4:42 am Post subject: |
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| A Thousand Barrels a Day - about the supply and demand dynamic of oil. |
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shetan
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
Location: In front of my PC.
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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...  but Im sure you've all read it... |
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hairy sue
Joined: 18 May 2006
Location: weewee heaven
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| 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
Joined: 27 Oct 2006
Location: Not Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:55 am Post subject: |
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Pa Jan Jo A Hamnida
Joined: 27 Oct 2006
Location: Not Korea
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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.
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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
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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The Library of America's "Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays (1891-1910).
Check out the "What do you REALLY think about learning Korean" thread for an extended excerpt from "Italian Without a Master".  |
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faster
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
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Recently reread _Mason & Dixon_ (third reading), and I'm now convinced it's better than _Gravity's Rainbow_.
I recently read _The Diary of Nat Turner_ by William Styron, which was (is?) controversial, but is a terrific and harrowing read. |
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tumbleweed_marijane
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: anyang
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| Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:41 am Post subject: |
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I recently read _The Diary of Nat Turner_ by William Styron, which was (is?) controversial, but is a terrific and harrowing read. |
i've had that on my bookshelf for the past three years, never got round to reading it. and i think it was controversial.
that said, i recently finished reading Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro. it's a book that leaves you feeling disillusioned with mankind but at the same time, it's filled with hope albeit sad |
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movybuf
Joined: 01 Jan 2007
Location: Mokdong
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| Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 7:13 am Post subject: |
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Currently reading:
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey - good so far
Recently finished:
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes - excellent
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - Interesting, but too short. Not enough character and detail.
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe - Some stories were good, some were not great. Overall interesing read.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Persig - interesting and good read
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe - Excellent
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson - Good if you like politics.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - Interesting. Not what I expected, but still enjoyable.
Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins - Excellent! I need to check out more of his books!
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut - Not his best work but good. Very easy read, only took me two days.
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson - Interesting. Early in his writing career so he hadn't developed the his voice I am familiar with.
My job affords me a lot of reading time. I read all of these in the last few months. If any of you have an suggestions, based on the books I posted, let me know! I'm always looking for something new! |
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