What are you currently reading? — Page 13

#301

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Posted: 3/24/08 at 6:13pm

I'm almost finished with Fight Club, and just started Choke, both by Chuck Palahniuk. I'm also re-reading Angels in America and And the Band Played On. All of this for the same class. Awesome. At least it's all interesting.

#302

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Posted: 3/24/08 at 6:14pm

Yeah, I don't think either of the Harry Potter discussion threads got more than ten chapters in, so if someone does feel the initiative to start a book club, I wouldn't recommend doing it chapter-by-chapter. I'd love to see more in-depth discussion of certain books, though.

#303

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Posted: 3/24/08 at 8:14pm

Middlesex is one of the best books I have read in the past few years. Just gorgeous.

Right now I'm reading The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen. It's a fun bit of fluff that my friend bought for me. It's getting me really geared up to re-read the entire Austen cannon this summer!

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#304

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Posted: 3/24/08 at 8:20pm

Just finished Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld. It was recommended to me by someone because I love the book A Separate Peace, and they told me it was the female version of it. It disagree but I did really like Prep. The protagonist has a very strong and likable voice.

#305

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Posted: 3/24/08 at 8:27pm

tonight I start 'Immortal" by Traci L. Slatton

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#306

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Posted: 3/24/08 at 8:33pm

Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis.

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#307

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Posted: 3/24/08 at 9:16pm

Rereading The Time Traveler's Wife. Will probably read Love In The Time of Cholera next - I bought it a while ago and haven't had time to read it.

lildogs, The Handmaid's Tale is one of my absolute favorite books.

#308

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Posted: 3/24/08 at 9:18pm

The Ballad of Billy and George by Phil Pepe.

If you're a baseball fan, it's a fun one.

#309

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Posted: 3/24/08 at 9:57pm

Mississippi Sissy - by Kevin Sessums - lovely book - I grew up in that same 1960's Mississippi!

World Without End - Ken Follett - follow up to The Pillars of the Earth - one of my top 2 of all time

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows - becuase I read it too quickly the first time

#310

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Posted: 3/24/08 at 10:09pm

#311

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Posted: 3/24/08 at 10:15pm

Right now, I'm reading The Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King. I loved the LOTR movies, so my friend suggested that I read the books cause the films always cut things out. So far I'm enjoying it.

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#312

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Posted: 3/24/08 at 10:43pm

Just finished reading The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes. If you like detective novels with a touch of the supernatural set in Victorian London, check it out.

#313

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Posted: 3/24/08 at 11:29pm

We Need to Talk about Kevin by one of my favorite authors, Lionel Shriver. It's harrowing book a high school massacre, told through letters written by the mother of the killer. It's a very good book, but it's just so painful and sad.

#314

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Posted: 3/24/08 at 11:33pm

For my acting class; American Dreams: Lost & Found by Studs Terkel.

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#315

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Posted: 3/24/08 at 11:54pm

I hated LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA.

I loved MIDDLESEX.

I'm currently reading THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL.

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#316

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Posted: 3/25/08 at 12:07am

On The Road.

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#317

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Posted: 3/25/08 at 1:11am

Just finished Raisin in the Sun.

I'd like to read the Witch of Portabello(sp?) soon, but I'll probably wait until after my last midterm.

#318

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Posted: 3/25/08 at 6:00pm

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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#319

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Posted: 3/25/08 at 6:29pm

Another good one by Marquez is One Hundred Years of Solitude.

#320

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Posted: 3/25/08 at 6:47pm

Crap, I keep doing that. I'll fix it.

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#321

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Posted: 4/1/08 at 3:29am

I just finished The Kite Runner. I enjoyed the first half far more than the latter, but overall really liked it.

I'm not sure what to start next. Maybe I'll scan this thread for recommendations.

#322

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Posted: 4/1/08 at 3:57am

I'm about halfway through The Brothers Karamazov (which I never knew was actually pronounced care-uh-mah-zoff, not care-uh-mat-zoff, until now). I'm liking it a lot, even though it's for a class, but it's definitely slow going.

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#323

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Posted: 4/1/08 at 1:09pm

Just started BRUTAL by Kevin Weeks.

It's a first-hand account of life inside Whitey Bulger's Irish Mob in Boston (the author was one of Whitey's top associates). It's pretty good so far - very gritty.

#324

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Posted: 4/1/08 at 1:38pm

Just finished The Dead Zone, and now I've started Desperation by Stephen King.

#325

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Posted: 4/1/08 at 1:41pm

Technically still in the middle of Born Standing Up by Steve Martin...not as good as I thought it would be. So I started Middlesex instead. Only a couple of chapters in, but I can definitely say it is...different, lol!

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