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So what's everyone reading these days? I am one book away from reading all the Dresden File series currently out. Great series for fantasy/horror/detective noir fans and on the non fiction front I am just about to start The Progress Paradox by Gregg Easterbrook.

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Heroin Diaries By Nikki Sixx

Had since Christmas, but just getting started reading it.


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The Innocent Man by John Grisham is sitting on my desk right now. Just waiting to get it started. Finishing up a Dirk Pitt novel atm.


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Dont forget the pharmacological warnings and instructions on bottles of Gas-X GM!

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No need to read those, I had them memorized years ago


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this is the 3rd thread in the past week on what people are reading...


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Just finished "Real Change" by Newt Gingrich....good read.

I was picking through my wifes library and picked out a oldie by Gay Talese..."The Kingdom and the Power". I will probably start on that tonight or tomorrow.


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geeze wojo....sorry....I come here when I can and am not always up on what the topics have been covered....although I would point out that today is monday....are you telling me that 3 "what are you reading" threads were started yesterday? I find it telling that you felt the need to point this out....what would your shrink say?

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just saying in case you wanted to go back and read the other threads for posters picks...i really don't care about how many threads are started on a topic like others on this board


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Seems like the only thing I have time to read anymore is the Textbook for Analysis and Design of Information Systems and Cultural Diversity. The Cultural Diversity one is actually pretty interesting but the Analysis and Design one puts me to sleep.

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I was sick last week so I re-read the Harry Potter series, again. I recently read the Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson and the book's sequel The Ghost War. Two of the best books I have ever read. (Note that these are adult books). I also read Mike Lupica's latest book, The Big Field. Right now I am re-reading more Mike Lupica books and writing my own book.

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"Run" by Anne Patchett

Just finished: "Slapstick" Kurt Vonnegut and "The Remains of the Day" Kazuo Ishiguro

Next up: "American Gods" Neil Gaiman and "Selected Works of Jorge Luis Borges"


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There are actually a few characters based off of people on here... But you're not one of them.

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Just got finished reading "The Road" by Cormack McCarthy. Very haunting book. I highly recommend it. It got the Pulitzer and I couldn't help being bummed when it also popped up on Oprah's list.

I recently decided to get back into fantasy and am now reading George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. It's pretty complex w/ a bazillion names and families to remember. Pretty good though. Don't know why the author didn't just go all the way and call himself G.R.R. Martin.

Next up, I'm finally going to read "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury.

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Over The Edge. Jonathan Kellerman.
I'm one of those cult fans of his. He has me spoiled to the point I won't read anyone else.


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Just finished "Stone Cold" by David Baldacci and just started "Up Country" by Nelson DeMille.


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Whats it all say!?! I can't read!?!



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Currently, The Other End of Time by Frederik Pohl

Just finished Very Bad Deaths by Spider Robinson


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Let's see, I just read Gypsy.

Currently reading Coyote on a Fence and Medea.

What do they have in common, yup, they are all plays. Gypsy is in production right now, Coyote on a Fence goes into production next fall, and Medea is next spring. Common factor = lighting designs aka my life :-D.

Oh yeah, and I just read Carmina Burana for a class project in Graduate Lighting Design II. Only we are doing it how it was intended, as a spectacle incorporating dance, and visual design...not as how it is usually performed in a concert hall.

I'd be surprised if someone doesn't know something from this piece actually. It is set into motion and ended with perhaps one of the most famous musical pieces in history, O Fortuna. Which is used in TONS of commercials, shows, movies, ect ect.


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Let's see, it is exam time so I am reading property, constitutional law, civil procedure, and criminal law books and outlines. Oh how I miss leisure reading.

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Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer
The Knight by Gene Wolfe
Flint by Paul Eddy

Not really into any of them, they're just okay.

Recently finished a couple Clive Cusslers and read Lisey's Story by Stephen King... enjoyed those.


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Good book . I just finished a book called Alas Babylon and it also deals with post nuclear war/apocolypse America . Currently reading The Shooters by WEB Griffin , one of the best military writters I've read , and Duma Key by Stephen King .

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Let's see, it is exam time so I am reading property, constitutional law, civil procedure, and criminal law books and outlines. Oh how I miss leisure reading.




lol, believe me, I remember the days.

After I took the bar exam, I felt like I didn't know what to do with myself with the spare time, so I ended up reading something like 14 novels in a matter of about 2 months.


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Let's see, it is exam time so I am reading property, constitutional law, civil procedure, and criminal law books and outlines. Oh how I miss leisure reading.




lol, believe me, I remember the days.

After I took the bar exam, I felt like I didn't know what to do with myself with the spare time, so I ended up reading something like 14 novels in a matter of about 2 months.




Playboy, and Hustler are not novel's

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I bet. I have two weeks between the end of my semester and the start of my summer employment so I plan on reading some good books in that time.

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I just finished Innocent Man by John Grisam and now stsrted Duma Key by Steven King. Hope Duma key picks up. Its stsrting a little slow.

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Oh yeah... just read Duma Key too. I enjoyed it a lot though purist King horror fans may not. Definitely a kinder, wiser Stephen King with a lot of purging going on from his near fatal accident.


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"Desolation" by Tim Lebbon. Kinda horror-ish stuff.

My favorite authors are Bentley Little and John Saul. If anyone digs supernatural horror that's the way to go!


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I'm normally into easy reads (I read to escape, sometimes to learn).

Last read: Judge and Jury by James Patterson
Most Prior read: Children Learn What They Live by Dorothy Law Nolte
Before those: Lots of books about pregnancy. LOL


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Blue like Jazz by Donald Miller It's a book one of the roommates recommended.

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I mostly just read everything that Michael Crichton and Stephen King write.


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79, I have read the entire collection on the Camel Club....good reads all.

Duty, I just finished up Duma Keys before reading Stone Cold and it does pick up. Pretty good overall, IMO. Not quite up to King's usual books, but I have been disappointed with the last couple (The Cell and I can't remember the other but it was a very short read that had no ending).

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I just might hit that one up now that I have a pretty easy quarter for a change. I hear it's huge though.

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I just might hit that one up now that I have a pretty easy quarter for a change. I hear it's huge though.




It's pretty good, I have about 75 pages left.

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Unfortunately "Organizational Behavior" and "IT Project Management" tonight,, blah. I wish I had time to read a book I actually wanted to. Well, I do have to read selections by Sylvia Plath this week for a American Lit class I took as an elective. Lots of good writers/poets to read for that class.


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I'm about 4 weeks into an 8 week management class for work... it takes up whatever free time I didn't have to begin with...


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