Currently Reading (Take 2) — Page 17

#401

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/24/10 at 9:49am

I'm about 2/3 of the way through Steve Martin's new book- An Object of Beauty. If you're at all interested in the art gallery culture or contemporary art, I would give it a read.

#402

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/24/10 at 11:48am

I'm taking a break frome the Hunger Games series and reading this:

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#403

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/24/10 at 11:52am

I'm reading HRH by Danielle Steel.

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#404

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/24/10 at 12:50pm

I'm getting ready to start House Rules by Jodi Picoult. Did I say that already?

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#405

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/24/10 at 12:57pm

frogs, I read Shopgirl and enjoyed it. Is it written in that style? (Does that make sense?)

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#406

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/24/10 at 1:36pm

I liked Shopgirl too.

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#407

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/24/10 at 1:42pm

Shanghai Girls by Lisa See. Pretty good if you like Amy Tan's stuff.

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#408

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/24/10 at 7:03pm

I loved Steve Martin's Shopgirl, The Pleasure of My Company, and Born Standing Up. I think he's a really sensitive writer.

Coincidentally, Michael Cunningham's new novel, By Nightfall, is also set in the world of galleries. And brilliant.

I am struggling through Frantzen's Freedom. There was a shift in narrators that was fine for a chapter but it seems to be going on an on. I pray for another shift soon.

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#409

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/24/10 at 8:41pm

I gave up on Freedom. I tried the audiobook and when that didn't "take", I thought I just needed the printed word and tried reading the book, you know, myself. I wanted to like it, but I just never cared about the characters enough. Or the story.

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#410

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/25/10 at 9:59am

I was that way with the Corrections. Now that y'all have said that about Freedom, I don't think I will even attempt it.

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#411

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/25/10 at 10:29am

I just started Stephen King's new Full Dark, No Stars.



The first of the stories was quite good, exploring the psychological effects of murder.

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"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable." -F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise

#412

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/25/10 at 10:59am

'The Ask" by Sam Lipsyte. Liking it so far.

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#413

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/25/10 at 11:16am

Stock, if I make it to the end there's a chance my opinion will switch.

I'm just longing to go back to the verbal economy of Michael Cunningham, in which every single word moves things forward.

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#414

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 11/25/10 at 11:48am

Let me know how it goes. If you change your mind, maybe I'll give it a try.

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#415

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 2/4/11 at 1:00pm

Star Wars: Heir to The Empire

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Updated On: 2/4/11 at 01:00 PM

#416

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 2/4/11 at 1:21pm

I just finished a book called The Opposite of Love (by Julie Buxbaum). It was really good. Not sure if a lot of guys would like it though.

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#417

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 2/4/11 at 1:29pm

I just finished Think Twice, by Lisa Scottoline, and I was very disappointed. I've read many of her books based on the Philly lady lawyers, and this was my least favorite, by far.

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"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

#418

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 2/4/11 at 2:34pm

After finishing the Jacqueline Susann trifecta plus a biography of her, I've moved on to "The Bell Jar." Damn, I seem to be re-reading everything I did in high school and college.

#419

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 2/4/11 at 3:28pm

"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett


LOVE it.

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"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

#420

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 2/4/11 at 3:45pm

Was Think Twice the one about Bernie's twin sister?

Addy, I loved The Help too!

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#421

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 2/4/11 at 3:47pm

I'm about 3/4 the way through Freedom, and find it (mostly) intruiging thus far.

Namo and Stockard - the switching of the narrators things only happens that one time for about 70 pages, because the character Patty is writing her autobiography to her therapist. After we read her whole book, it goes back to Franzen as narrator, and that diary plays a part later on in the book.

I suggest giving it another chance. I'm really enjoying Franzen's writing style.

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#422

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 2/4/11 at 4:42pm

I also really loved Martin's Shopgirl and Pleasure of My Own Company.

I still have not read his autobiography. I think I'm gonna add that to my queue, which is about four books deep.

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"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."

#423

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 2/4/11 at 5:20pm

Just started Patti LuPone's autobiography! YAY!

#424

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 2/4/11 at 10:32pm

I am going nuts with nothing to read. I should have packed a few books to re-read while here. I really want to read "Some Sing, Some Cry" by Ntozake Shange & Ifa Bayeza. I was going to get it with my ex's library card but he hasn't used it in so long it is no good! (He WILL be getting another one on Monday!) Ineed something new to read between now and March when I move up to NYC.

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#425

re: Currently Reading (Take 2)

Posted: 2/4/11 at 11:00pm

Hell yes! And Arcadia. love it