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Old 03-11-2006, 10:37 PM  
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Ok for the high brow crowd what books you are reading
I'm reading The New American Revolution by tammy bruce. She is a great thinker and funny.
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Old 05-12-2008, 11:26 PM   #571
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Old 05-23-2008, 04:53 PM   #572
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Read 3 of the Alvin Maker series from Orson Scott Card before deciding I didn't want to go any further.

I'm reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver at the moment.
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Old 05-23-2008, 05:03 PM   #573
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I'm re-reading two series simultaneously right now. On paper I'm going through A Song of Ice and Fire. When I walk or jog I'm listening to Audio Renaissance's new unabridged recordings of the Dune series. They've released up through Children of Dune, and I think the plan's to release the entire series through Chapterhouse Dune by year's end.
A month later, and I'm still reading A Song of Ice and Fire, on the last one now, but jesus they're long (and great...) books. Haven't had much time for audiobooks with work, so I'm only about halfway through Children of Dune.

Trying to figure out what I'm going to read after I finish A Feast for Crows.
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Old 05-23-2008, 05:59 PM   #574
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I just started reading The Rift by Walter Williams. It's about a modern New Madrid quake and what would happen in the aftermath. One review compared it to The Stand, and about 60 pages in it certainly has that vibe - introducing numerous unrelated characters before disaster strikes. Also like The Stand, it's needlessly wordy but interesting enough to overcome it. I'm liking it so far.
I'm about 2/3rds of the way through this, and it is fantastic. Extremely reminiscent of The Stand, obviously minus the supernatural stuff. Very well reasoned, and the horrible, horrible things depicted in this book seem very plausible.

We should all hope that we don't live to see the next Midwestern quake. It won't be pretty.
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Old 05-23-2008, 10:59 PM   #575
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I read Heat by Bill Buford last week. Good writing and subject, but not the most focused book overall.

Inspired by the Kansas City Literary Festival last weekend, I picked up some novels by Kansas City fiction writers.

I read Matthew Eck's (a creative writing teacher at UCM) buzz-generating novel[la], The Farther Shore, in one sitting. It was excellent, and increasingly relevant given the state of modern warfare where all sides are only loosely adhering to the rules of engagement.

I'm currently halfway through Whitney Terrell's (a creative writing teacher at UMKC) 2001 debut novel, The Hunstman. Damn, can this dude craft a sentence. Excellent writing. After I finish this, I'll move on to Terrell's second novel, The King of King's County.
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Old 05-24-2008, 12:11 AM   #576
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"A Scanner Darkly" - best (his best, most personal writing by far on a sentence to sentence level, but "Do Androids Dream..." is the best story)...best depiction of addicts I've read, I think, (although David Foster Wallace writes about addiction in amazing, wierd, moving ways in "Infinite Jest")...and the dedication to his lost friends at the end really hammers it home...this guy was so far beyond all the pieties, politics, and sloganeering...

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Old 07-06-2008, 07:46 PM   #581
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Read 3 of the Alvin Maker series from Orson Scott Card before deciding I didn't want to go any further.

I'm reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver at the moment.
I love barbara kingsolver's writings....

Right now I'm reading, Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.....so far, it's awesome
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Old 07-06-2008, 08:24 PM   #583
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Finished The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
Currently reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

I guess I'm in a dystopian mood.
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Old 07-06-2008, 08:25 PM   #584
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Yes, yes it is.
My wife tried to get me to read it, but it sounded a little girly for my tastes. I am a foodie, though, so I should probably give it a whirl for the Italy section if nothing else.
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My wife tried to get me to read it, but it sounded a little girly for my tastes. I am a foodie, though, so I should probably give it a whirl for the Italy section if nothing else.
It's excellent. The quality of the prose itself warrants a read, regardless of subject matter.

Yeah, it sounds girly and Oprah-y and all, but it's a memior of someone shattered by a divorce, and her subsequent journey to find herself. Gilbert reconnects first with pleasure, then spirituality, then finds balance. It's pretty universal.
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