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One of my favorite topics(after all, I am a librarian)

Right now I am reading Exit Music, by Ian Rankin. The last John Rebus novel.

I am listening to A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helpren.

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Right now i am reading the Bible and America Alone. I just finished Watchmen. It was a great book.

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Just Finished 1984, again
Just Started Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice

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I read part of Watchmen-need to finish it. Great story.

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I started (and finished) Jar City by Arnaldur Indriðason this past Sunday. If you like crime thrillers, this one is indeed good. It had been quite a long time since I started and finished a book in one day, but I just couldn't put this one down.

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It really is. I cannot wait for the movie!

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Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things, Scott Fischman's Online Ace (Poker) and the Tanakh (Old Testament)...

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besides school stuff, dabbling in complete works of Edgar Allan Poe

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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

Have not read a book of this size in 10+ yrs - so I'll be at it awhile!

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How is Fragile Things. I absolutley love American Gods, and Neverwhere is the next on my list?

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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot

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Working through the Vince Flynn novels right now :tu

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I'm trying to finish up a Jack Reacher thriller I started while on vacation and I just got a pile of new books for my birthday. I plan to tackle "The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington" next.

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Switching between Edith Hamilton's "Mythology" and Gus Hansen's "Every Hand Revealed"

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I just ordered this book-wow, a detective story from Iceland-too cool!

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Promises of the Witch King by R.A. Salvatore.

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The House of Mondavi. Obviously about the rise and fall of the Robert Mondavi Winery.

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Just finished reading The Bali 9. 9 Aussies caught smuggling heroin out of Bali a few years back, A bunch of idiots if you ask me, as Bali has the death penalty for drugs.

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Matt.. reminds me of that show "Locked Up Abroad".... people do such moronic things to get caught... usually boils down to greed...

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It never rains in Tiger Stadium by John Ed Bradley. Of course it's about a bio of a former LSU football player and his adjustment after college FB.

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You are right, it is very much like that show. My wife loves that show BTW.

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Hamlet Act I

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Right now I am reading Brisingr

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Do you think you might move on to Act 2 if the story grabs you?

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Horrible AP Essays,

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Right now I have been reading Hardtack and Coffee and am in the process of writing my own book about a Civil War surgeon. Hopefully it will get accepted by one of the publishers I sent my manuscript to.

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I love the Vampire Chronicles and 1984.

Just finished The Godfather.

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Just finished reading "playing for pizza"..A John Grisham's book..very unlike his other books as it is not about lawyer stuff which I like. Great book in my opinion as I'm a huge football fan. I'm also a JG fan..I started reading "the brethren"...so far so good.. great concept for this website too..
Annie

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"The New Kings of Nonfiction" - a collection put together and introduced by Ira Glass.

and

"Post Office" by Charles Bukowski

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I admire those that can read mulitple books at one time. I stuggle focusing on one at time.

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I'm reading "Fire in the Belly" it's pretty good, but really hard to explain

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Just finished J-Pod by Douglas Copeland the other day. Not sure what's next. Probably the Theory of Poker again.

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The Surrogates - for the third or fourth time. I can hardly wait until next year when the movie comes out. :dr Also reading a proof copy of what was originally titled 'Homeland'. Both graphic novels written by Rob Venditti. :tu

Did I mention that Rob is my nephew?

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I'll be reading whether it grabs me or not. It has grabbed me btw, the first time I read it. (long ago)




Right now I am reading poems from Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein.:tu

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Hannibal crosses the Alps. Decent read so far.

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In the book I am reading about an Italian soldier in WWI it is mentioned that Hannibal swam his elephants to Spain-is this true?

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Just finished Crichton's State Of Fear. I really liked it.

I'm in between books right now, although I'm looking to pick up Chuck Paliunik's Choke before the movie comes out.

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I'm reading Asylum posts. DUH!!!!

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I read one of his books-haunted, I think, about the writers locked up in an old theatre. It was twisted. Are all his books like that?

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No, most historians believe he crossed them in specially constructed rafts. There are a lot of theories on the subject, but most agree with some form of boat. Although there are a fair amount of folks who think the elephant part of the story is myth. No elephant remains have ever been found in the alps.

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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That is true....and I doubt he went to the trouble to return them to Africa...so there would be elephants in Italy.

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Finished Exit Music-one of the best Rebus stories ever. Now I am reading Don't Know Much about History, by Kenneth C. Davis. Wonderful book so far...interesting to see some of our myths debunked. I still want to know if Washington stood up in the boat as they crossed the Delaware.

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That's just it. There are so many theories about how, where, and if. Nobody is sure exactly where Hannibal crossed into Italy and it was only just recently that archaeologists found a camp in southern Campania that they believe is Carthaginian in nature.

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Finishing up the Twilight series that I stole from my wife when she was done reading them. Although I shouldn't admit I've read these in front of men. :D

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Meyers? Are they any good? I read The Host this summer-best book I read this year.

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Cryptonomicon. My second time through, I really enjoy this one. Next up is the 2nd half of T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

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I am sure glad I stumbled onto the is thread!

I read alot and am happy to find a spot here where I can get some ideas for new books and share some of what I have read.

For our annual Convention for work I just finished the 360 Leader - it is a rehashing of the other 20+ business books about the same subject.

If you have not read any other business books it is a good read but extremely basic if you have :2.

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Yep. It's an amazing series, one of the most engrossing books I've read in a while. Waiting for the movie to come out in November now. I haven't read The Host yet but I'll definitely have to tell the wife and pick it up.

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He writes some intense stuff, yeah, I guess you could call some of it twisted.

If you've seen Fight Club, read the book it's really good too. :bx

It's interesting how it adapted to film.