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#551

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 1/28/09 at 7:00pm

I just finished Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet

I'm still not sure how I feel about it

I'm now currently rereading Streetcar named Desire for my acting class

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#552

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 1/28/09 at 7:25pm

labarynths. pages 177-185
i started reading it at 10 am

i still haven't finished it.
too bad i need to read it before class tomarrow

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#553

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 1/28/09 at 7:43pm

Alice in Wonderland

I've been told by a few to read And The Band Played On next...

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#554

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 1/29/09 at 5:08pm

I'm now currently rereading Streetcar named Desire for my acting class

Love that play.


Currently, I'm reading Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (for English Composition II).

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#555

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 1/31/09 at 12:03pm

the chocolate war by robert cormier (for the second time)

i love how people read over my shoulder and freak out when the read some of this book

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#556

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 1/31/09 at 11:44pm

Re-reading "Little Women." It's one of my favorites :)

My friend is going to loan me "The Reader." Suuuuper stoked about that! I want to read it before I see the movie!

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Updated On: 1/31/09 at 11:44 PM

#557

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/1/09 at 12:52am

Just finished "The Golden Notebook" by Doris Lessing ( and frankly, don't see what the fuss was all about)
Am about a quarter into "You Can't Go Home Again" by Thomas Wolfe ( enjoying much more!)

#558

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/1/09 at 3:10am

I just finished American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld. AMAZING, and I think it would be a good bet for film treatment.

I'm probably going to start A Mercy by Toni Morrison tomorrow (and probably finish it, since it's only 160 pages). After that, I'm planning on reading Things I've Been Silent About, the memoir of Azar Nafisi, who wrote Reading Lolita in Tehran (which I would also recommend).

#559

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/19/09 at 4:31pm

I'm almost done with The Little Giant of Aberdeen County. I thought I would jump on here and see if I can get some ideas what to read next. I'm actually considering reading The Host.

#560

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/19/09 at 4:34pm

I'm almost done with Honeymoon by James Patterson and some other dude I can't remember his name. Pretty good thriller.

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#561

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/19/09 at 4:36pm

Just starting The Screwtape Letters :)

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#562

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/19/09 at 4:37pm

Just finished The Soloist by Steve Lopez and didn't really love it.

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#563

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Posted: 2/19/09 at 4:39pm

Well now I know not to read that one!

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#564

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/19/09 at 4:40pm

Just started reading I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Slone Crosely. It's pretty funny so far.

#565

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/19/09 at 5:34pm

Making Money, by Terry Pratchett. Not as good as his stuff from a few years back, but still a decent read.

I also recently finished all 10 of the Dresden Files books in one go. Deep literature they are not, but they're tremendously fun urban fantasy with nice action sequences, a good narrative voice, and enough genuinely surprising and imaginative moments to keep things interesting. (The last book had a thing with a doughnut that left me goggling and giggling helplessly for about two minutes.) Jim Butcher's writing is getting better as the series moves along, and now I'm really looking forward to the next book coming out in a few months.

#566

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/19/09 at 6:05pm

The Virgin Suicides, which is so much better than I thought it would be. I carry it with me everywhere and usually read a chapter or two as I eat Motzah Ball Soup at Edison Diner. But seriously - as much as I loved James Woods, Kathleen Turner, and (yes even) Josh Hartnett and Kirsten Dunst, the book is light-years ahead of that pedestrian (by comparison) film.

#567

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/19/09 at 6:07pm

Have you read his other book "Middlesex"? It is one of my favorite books - if you haven't read it, you should definitely check it out!

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#568

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/19/09 at 6:18pm

loved Middlesex. I still think about it.

#569

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/19/09 at 7:19pm

*waits for an obnoxious comment from the peanut gallery*

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#570

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/19/09 at 7:51pm

Revolutionary Road. Exquisite writing, and though the film captures its essence, the book is a masterpiece.

I got the new Wally Lamb for Christmas, and haven't cracked it, surprisingly -- especially considering the speed with which I flew through SHE'S COME UNDONE and I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE.

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#571

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/19/09 at 7:54pm

I loved both those books, but I Know This Much Is True..man..I lost it. I mean LOST.IT.. reading that book.

too close to home.

#572

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/20/09 at 1:40am

Bertrand Russell's 'The Principles of Mathematics'

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#573

re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: 2/20/09 at 12:34pm

Rex Reed - People Are Crazy Here

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