What Are You Reading?
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Katja Marlowe
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10-18-2005 10:44
Well, I see ones for music, ones for writing from time to time. But what about books? What books are y'all reading? I'll start. I'm currently reading a bad end of the world type novel. I can't even remember the name and will have to edit after being at home and seeing the book. I keep slogging through as if somehow reading a few pages a day will make it get better 
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Leilany LaFollette
Not old, just older
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10-18-2005 10:47
I have been reading *The crimson petal and the white* for quite a while now, as I keep putting it down to read Diana Gabaldon's latest from the Outlander series *A breath of snow and ashes*. I really need to finish one so I can read the other *sigh*. Leilany 
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Taco Rubio
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10-18-2005 10:49
I finished Cinnamon Kiss last night, but I'm a total sucker for all Mosely's books. Yay
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Katja Marlowe
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10-18-2005 10:56
From: Leilany LaFollette I have been reading *The crimson petal and the white* for quite a while now, as I keep putting it down to read Diana Gabaldon's latest from the Outlander series *A breath of snow and ashes*. I really need to finish one so I can read the other *sigh*. Leilany  OMG, I saw the new Gabaldon book at B&N today while running in for coffee. And well...I only had 7 dollars with me *cries*. Is it good?
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Euterpe Roo
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10-18-2005 10:57
Can't seem to read just one:
Just finished Marrit Ingman's Inconsolable--it is one of the best books I have read in a good, long time!! If you are a parent (or thinking about becoming one), give this one a read!
In the middle of David Mitchell's Ghostwritten
Recently finished the newest Harry Potter book (shrug)
Plan to begin reading an annotated edition of Joyce's Ulysses (again)
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Katja Marlowe
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10-18-2005 10:57
From: Taco Rubio I finished Cinnamon Kiss last night, but I'm a total sucker for all Mosely's books. Yay I think I have one of his in my to read pile! I'll have to post after I read it 
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Chip Midnight
ate my baby!
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10-18-2005 11:01
I just finished Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. It was a bit tough to slog through but worth the effort. It's an epic hard science fiction story about settling and terraforming Mars. Before that, I read all of David Brin's Uplift novels back to back. I loved them and hope he writes more of them. Excellent space opera with wonderful characters in an incredibly inventive universe. I just started The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. It's a pop sci reformulation of evolutionary theory focusing on the gene as the engine of natural selection rather than whole organisms. I've wanted to read some Dawkins for a long time. When I saw a review at Amazon for this one in which someone wished they could unread it because it made it impossible for them to sustain relgious superstition afterwards I thought this would be a good place to start!
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Gabe Lippmann
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10-18-2005 11:16
I can't read one thing at a time  , depending on mood I'm reading: N. Hawthorne "Twice Told Tales" (almost done) HS Thompson "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72" (rereading) L. Niven "Destiny's Road" (on the last pages) H. Melville "Omoo" (just started) Robert K. Adair "The Physics of Baseball" (dead in the middle)
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Taco Rubio
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10-18-2005 11:18
RGB Mars is an excellent series, Chip!
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Chip Midnight
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10-18-2005 11:18
Gabe, what do you think of Destiny's Road? It's one of my favorite Niven books. It really captured my imagination. I was sorry to leave that world when the book was over.
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Gabe Lippmann
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10-18-2005 11:24
From: Chip Midnight Gabe, what do you think of Destiny's Road? In the first few pages, I didn't think I would like it. I was way wrong. I've been plowing through it and love it.
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Desmond Shang
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10-18-2005 11:33
From: Chip Midnight I just started The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. It's a pop sci reformulation of evolutionary theory focusing on the gene as the engine of natural selection rather than whole organisms. I've wanted to read some Dawkins for a long time. When I saw a review at Amazon for this one in which someone wished they could unread it because it made it impossible for them to sustain relgious superstition afterwards I thought this would be a good place to start! Arguably, we are all nothing more than the mechanism by which human gametes reproduce. Once in a while, one is singled out and transformed to suffer a multicellular fate, so that the rest may live out their lives in harmony and peace. Barring the occasional catastrophe, of course. Last book (finished it): "Baudolino" - Umberto Eco. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156029065/102-4847825-3000117?v=glanceI recommend it to anyone with an interest in religion, politics, or the meaning of truth.
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Memory Harker
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Or perhaps it's (better? even worse?) than that ...
10-18-2005 11:38
From: Desmond Shang Arguably, we are all nothing more than the mechanism by which human gametes reproduce.
ref: "A Momentary Taste of Being," James Tiptree, Jr. 
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Memory Harker
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Ah, and ...
10-18-2005 11:48
... currently I, who also tend to juggle several books at once, am ... long paused near the end of the first third of Pynchon's MASON & DIXON, one-fourth of the way through Anthony Burgess's EARTHLY POWERS, and just last night I reached Chapter, um, Four? Of Monique Truong's THE BOOK OF SALT. Yesterday I finished the new NARUTO collection (vol. 7) and the first three stories in David Foster Wallace's brilliant collection OBLIVION. Lucky me: working for an altweekly newspaper, I get a lot of free stuff; and the most recent gift to land on my desk is Chris Ware's new hardcover ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY from Pantheon! AND, for dessert? Charles Burns' ginormous BLACK HOLE compilation ... Also? And in many ways best of all? Euterpe Roo, that maven of all things good & literary, is reading DAVID COPPERFIELD aloud to me... 
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Rose Karuna
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10-18-2005 11:54
"The Secret Life of Bee's" by Sue Monk Kidd
I'm about 3/4 of the way through and that's saying a lot lately as I'm on some anti-seizure medication that has really screwed with my ability to focus so it has to be a pretty darn good book to hold it for that long.
Awesome characters with a good solid story.
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Chance Abattoir
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10-18-2005 12:03
Currently: Olympos, Dan Simmons... which I HAD to buy in hardback because Ilium turned out to be a farking cliffhanger just like Hyperion. A great crisscrossing tapestry of a story (far flung future sci fi/history/Shakespeare/Proust/Iliad) but I really didn't want to spend $26 on a book (but I had to since it's not in paperback).
Before Ilium was Choke, by Palahniuk.
Before that was The Girl with Curious Hair, by D.F. Wallace, at Pandastrong's recommendation, but the second (very short) story made me so ANGRY that I put the book down in disgust and haven't touched it since.
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Katja Marlowe
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10-18-2005 14:57
From: Euterpe Roo Can't seem to read just one:
Just finished Marrit Ingman's Inconsolable--it is one of the best books I have read in a good, long time!! If you are a parent (or thinking about becoming one), give this one a read!
In the middle of David Mitchell's Ghostwritten
Recently finished the newest Harry Potter book (shrug)
Plan to begin reading an annotated edition of Joyce's Ulysses (again)  I often read more than one too. If my sleeping/SL patterns would ever even out, I'd probably read more than one again!
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Katja Marlowe
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10-18-2005 14:59
From: Memory Harker ... currently I, who also tend to juggle several books at once, am ... long paused near the end of the first third of Pynchon's MASON & DIXON, one-fourth of the way through Anthony Burgess's EARTHLY POWERS, and just last night I reached Chapter, um, Four? Of Monique Truong's THE BOOK OF SALT. Yesterday I finished the new NARUTO collection (vol. 7) and the first three stories in David Foster Wallace's brilliant collection OBLIVION. Lucky me: working for an altweekly newspaper, I get a lot of free stuff; and the most recent gift to land on my desk is Chris Ware's new hardcover ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY from Pantheon! AND, for dessert? Charles Burns' ginormous BLACK HOLE compilation ... Also? And in many ways best of all? Euterpe Roo, that maven of all things good & literary, is reading DAVID COPPERFIELD aloud to me...  ooooo. I love read alouds! yay 
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JackBurton Faulkland
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10-18-2005 14:59
I am reading "How to learn how to read". I cant get past the first page.
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Chance Abattoir
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10-18-2005 15:00
From: JackBurton Faulkland I am reading "How to learn how to read". I cant get past the first page. o..o -..- o..o
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10-18-2005 15:01
I'm currently reading...this thread 
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Taco Rubio
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10-18-2005 15:02
From: JackBurton Faulkland I am reading "How to learn how to read". I cant get past the first page. maybe the guy at the book store sold you a $20 empty notebook.
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Garoad Kuroda
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10-18-2005 15:20
"Outlaws of the Marsh" Meh, I'm tired, look it up yerself.. 
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WTF is C3PO supposed to be USEFUL for anyway, besides whining? Stupid piece of scrap metal would be more useful recycled as a toaster. But even that would suck, because who would want to listen to a whining wussy toaster? Is he gold plated? If that's the case he should just be melted down into gold ingots. Help the economy some, and stop being so damn useless you stupid bucket of bolts! R2 is 1,000 times more useful than your tin man ass, and he's shaped like a salt and pepper shaker FFS!
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Katja Marlowe
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10-18-2005 15:50
From: Rose Karuna "The Secret Life of Bee's" by Sue Monk Kidd
I'm about 3/4 of the way through and that's saying a lot lately as I'm on some anti-seizure medication that has really screwed with my ability to focus so it has to be a pretty darn good book to hold it for that long.
Awesome characters with a good solid story. Rose, I loved this one so much I both read it once and listened to it on audio, which oddly lets you catch some stuff you miss during reading it.
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Fairge Kinsella
Gravity isn't so serious!
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10-18-2005 18:25
Oddly, given my tastes, I reached 30 without having read any Darkover books (Marion Zimmer Bradley)! So I've started. I'm on Star of Danger. And I've started, (and still plan to finish <grin>  : The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Big Bang by Simon Singh Chance, do please tell if Olympos actually ends - I was so cross to be left hanging by Hyperion. I won't start reading this series again until it ends <grin>. This is a fun thread! Cheers, Fairge
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