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#501

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 12/12/08 at 4:49pm

I'm reading "500," a steamy, erotic novel about a gorgeous guy who posted the 500th reply in an internet discussion thread.

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#502

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 12/12/08 at 4:56pm

My third attempt at Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. I've never read it all the way through. First attempt was back in the 80s.

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#503

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 12/12/08 at 5:56pm

I have East of Eden by Steinbeck, and I've had a hell of a time trying to get through it.

danmag, you'll be pleased to know that I checked A Prayer for Owen Meany out at the library today!

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#504

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 12/12/08 at 6:12pm

Let me know if you like it! It's one of those books that I found myself laughing out loud to!

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#505

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 12/12/08 at 6:26pm

I started a Jayne Anne Krentz mystery type book today. I'll read the Irving next and tell you!

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#506

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Posted: 12/12/08 at 6:29pm

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. It's kicking my butt.

I've been reading this off and on for awhile. I've read it a few times before, but currently the only time I have to read is during my lunch break and commute. It's hard to get into in half-hour spurts.

I'm also reading Catcher in the Rye. Next is To Kill a Mockingbird, then Catch-22. All those books that were on every high school's English curriculum except mine.

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#507

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Posted: 12/12/08 at 6:33pm

I don't know how you do that! I can only read one book at a time!

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#508

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Posted: 12/12/08 at 7:24pm

I just finished To Kill a Mockingbird because I never read it. It was okay.

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#509

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 12/12/08 at 11:26pm

I'm reading The Yacoubian Building, by Alaa Al Aswany, and god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher Hutchens.

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#510

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 12/13/08 at 9:05am

I recently read Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates - a great book (I know it's a movie now as well). I love books about 50's suburban craziness. Another good book is The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe (it's about 5 women working in advertising in nyc in the fifties - very Mad Men-esque).

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#511

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 12/15/08 at 2:05am

I finished "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" Wednesday in my english class. Now I'm on "Wuthering Heights".

#512

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 12/15/08 at 3:12am

orangeskittles, "Catch-22" is great, I think you will really enjoy it :) I'm about to start "Musicophilia" by Oliver Sacks, which I bought because I'm really excited about my class schedule next semester (2 "real" classes and about 5 music classes/private lessons, yay!). I'm hoping next semester will leave more time for fun reading, I've got a big book of several Jane Austen works I'd really love to get all the way through without being committed to such heavy class reading at the same time.

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#513

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 12/15/08 at 3:31am

It's amazing how many people are reading Catch 22 at the moment. I know quite a few. How random.

I just finished 'Finlater' by Shawn Stewart Ruff. I'd recommend it.

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#514

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 12/15/08 at 4:10am

My third attempt at Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. I've never read it all the way through. First attempt was back in the 80s.

Ugh, i had to read Grapes my Jr year of High School, what a snore. On the other hand, i adored Cannery Row and of Mice... which i read voluntarily.

#515

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 12/15/08 at 8:00am

Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm. It's a very interesting and insightful critical biography of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.

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#516

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Posted: 1/26/09 at 11:31am

I just finished The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. It was fantastic. I really wish I understood the Spanish, though.

I actually loved The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. Maybe it's a hard read because it was always forced on us in high school.

..and I'm with you, Stockard. I can only read one book at a time. I get lost in one world and can't switch moods with another book!

#517

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 1/26/09 at 2:40pm

My third attempt at Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. I've never read it all the way through. First attempt was back in the 80s.
I'm reading it for the first time right now. I kind of like it so far, but they haven't even gotten to California yet, so I can't really say. But I'm still kind of surprised that in an uptight county like mine where we have to get a permission slip signed to read "Huck Finn," they let us read Grapes of Wrath. It's a bit dirtier than what I've read for school before.

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#518

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 1/26/09 at 2:42pm

Just started The Soloist by Steve Lopez - so far, so good!

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#519

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 1/26/09 at 4:08pm

A Lion Among Men

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#520

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 1/26/09 at 4:30pm

danmag, is that the book that the RDJ/Jamie Foxx movie is being based on? Sounds like an interesting story.

I'm reading "I'm With the Band" by Pamela Des Barres right now, all about the groupies of the 60s and 70s...I read it years ago and just recently picked it up again. It's fun, juicy reading for classic rock fans, not to mention she's a really charming writer.

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#521

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 1/26/09 at 4:33pm

I'm about to start 1984, on request from a friend...

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#522

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 1/26/09 at 4:58pm

It is, jag! It's also Philadelphia's One Book, One City book. It's like a giant book club for the whole city!

I just started it, but I'm enjoying it so far!

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"This show had the WORST magnets on Broadway!"

#523

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 1/26/09 at 5:31pm

The Actor's Script: Script Analysis for Performers by Charles S. Waxberg

Towards a Poor Theatre by Jerzy Grotowski

And I'm re-reading Letters to a Young Artist by Anna Deveare Smith for another class.

#524

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 1/26/09 at 5:39pm

I just finished a J.D. Robb, and now I'm getting ready to read a book called The Beachcomber.

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#525

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 1/26/09 at 5:48pm

'The Mayor of Castro Street' by Randy Shilts

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