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vinylbandit
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The Miracle of Castel di Sangro - Joe McGinniss
I Am One of You Forever - Fred Chappell

1/4/2007 5:01:15 PM

Crooden
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just finished Falling Room - Eli Hastings

awesome book of creative nonfiction. he attended unc-w.

^ i've yet to read any fred chappell, but i've heard good things

1/4/2007 9:02:15 PM

BDubLS1
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anyone read The Ruins by Scott Smith?

I heard this book was awesome. I bought it not too long ago but haven't read it yet.

Also, for the guy who posted the Crichton book, Next... How is it? I've been wanting to pick that one up.

I still need to read his last one, I believe it is called State of Fear

1/4/2007 9:09:52 PM

ncsuchris07
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Prison Nation....it's about the prison-industrial complex

1/5/2007 12:30:19 AM

brownie27
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7 habits of highly effective people, my life (clintons bio), catcher in the rye, LSAT prep, cure for the common life by lucado, i think thats it.....

im about to focus on lsat though

1/5/2007 1:47:48 AM

tartsquid
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Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare by Claire Asquith. Very interesting, I've been meaning to read this for a while and finally picked it up in paper back. I just finished The Joy Luck Club, which I can't believe I waited so long to read. I also have The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston lying around half read. I'll probably finish that up before classes start.

1/5/2007 1:59:15 AM

StillFuchsia
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[Edited on March 9, 2007 at 8:17 PM. Reason : which is fucking awesome]

3/9/2007 8:16:46 PM

Duncan
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Eldest

^pretty good, even if it is Empire Strikes Back

3/9/2007 9:17:59 PM

StillFuchsia
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Weird, I don't see that at all.

Unless you're trying to make a weak father/son parallel.

3/10/2007 12:15:36 AM

spöokyjon

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God, I've been fucking LAZY lately. I haven't read a goddamn thing.

3/10/2007 12:16:43 AM

StillFuchsia
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Not even Pale Fire?

3/10/2007 12:18:35 AM

Duncan
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^^^ mostly just because Eragon is Star Wars

but as for Eldest:
- old master that you didn't know about in the first one (yoda/oromis)
- the Empire is chasing the loved ones of the main character in hopes of using them as bait, and then turning the main character to the dark side
- young apprentice seeing a vision of his friends in trouble, and leaves before his training is done
- revelation as to who the main character's father is
- main character thinks he's a badass, and then gets owned in a duel and loses his weapon

3/10/2007 9:31:00 AM

StillFuchsia
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Oh, I thought you were talking about my book!

3/10/2007 11:21:00 AM

screentest
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Youth in Revolt - CD Payne

3/10/2007 11:25:38 AM

Vulcan91
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They Don't Play Hockey in Heaven

3/10/2007 1:46:03 PM

DaveOT
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Another Roadside Attraction, Tom Robbins

3/10/2007 1:51:31 PM

wilso
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struggling through The Poisonwood Bible.

3/10/2007 1:58:53 PM

DjGohan
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since I'm actually reading something other than a magazine or a manual:


and

3/11/2007 6:46:10 AM

BobbyDigital
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3/11/2007 9:48:31 AM

srvora
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Pale Fire is the one of the more stranger books I've read. Really enjoyed it though...something completely different than anything else I've seen.

3/11/2007 10:17:19 AM

Budiss
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3/11/2007 12:55:42 PM

rjrumfel
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The Simarillion

3/11/2007 3:47:15 PM

redburn
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For school: Image, Music, Text - Roland Barthes, A Rhetoric of Motives - Kenneth Burke

For me: A Man Without a Country - Kurt Vonnegut

3/11/2007 3:59:31 PM

partial
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guns, germs and steel
the fairtax book

3/11/2007 4:00:40 PM

NeedForReed
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I finally finished reading catch 22 today.

felt like it would never end. ugh. thank goodness it is over.

3/11/2007 4:41:23 PM

spöokyjon

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Just started Nabokov's Pale Fire and I fucking love it. I'm into the poem/commentary now, and it's great.

3/15/2007 9:36:16 AM

screentest
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A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

3/15/2007 9:42:34 AM

scm011
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dune and eisenhower: a soldier's life

3/15/2007 9:53:54 AM

StillFuchsia
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"Just started Nabokov's Pale Fire and I fucking love it. I'm into the poem/commentary now, and it's great."


Hahahaha, I told you.

3/15/2007 10:00:25 AM

tl
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Chapterhouse: Dune

3/15/2007 2:03:52 PM

jcgolden
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digital camera manual
the cover of 1984, my GF is reading it. I told her she wouldn't enjoy it. She said I'd say that. I said why did you think I'd say that? I think she thinks I criticize her too much. I think I criticize her too much too. I just want to wear the pants but I run around in my underwear all the time so when I try to say how it is, it comes off like I'm all hot air. Gotta put some pants on if you want authority: but then she complains.

3/16/2007 1:02:53 AM

Jere
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"guns, germs and steel"


is this good? I've read about the book and it seems interesting

3/16/2007 8:47:31 AM

super ben
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^ I thought it was a waste of time. It's very little science and a lot of speculation and outright inaccuracies. If you're interested in the ideas about culture that should have been explored, maybe try something like http://www.amazon.com/Red-Queen-Evolution-Human-Nature/dp/0140245480, which I hear is fantastic.

3/16/2007 9:04:27 AM

Charybdisjim
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Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

3/16/2007 9:14:36 AM

rjrumfel
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Will be starting Don Quixote soon

3/16/2007 9:27:58 AM

Gamecat
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War and Anti-War: Survival at the Dawn of the 21st Century

3/16/2007 9:36:30 AM

therooster
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Don't Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk

3/16/2007 9:48:41 AM

StillFuchsia
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"is this good? I've read about the book and it seems interesting"


It's very good. Assuming the point should've been a scientific proof is ludcrious. It's more about the progression of humans in history (based on their resources) and more importantly, where we could be headed (which he also covers more in his most recent book, Collapse).

3/16/2007 11:34:54 AM

wilso
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i read Red Queen, and it was fairly interesting, but a shit-ton of science to keep up with. i got lost in it, but some of the bigger concepts are pretty cool.

3/16/2007 1:57:06 PM

jaZon
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Nightwatch - Sergei Lukyanenko

Daywatch - Sergei Lukyanenko & Vladimir Vasiliev

[Edited on March 16, 2007 at 3:35 PM. Reason : ]

3/16/2007 3:30:39 PM

RawWulf
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About 30 pages left in Rob Sheffield's Love is a Mix Tape

Then I have to finish Chuck Klosterman's IV. I haven't had a chance to pick it back up (fucking Wii)

3/16/2007 4:51:12 PM

DaveOT
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Picture This, Joseph Heller

3/27/2007 7:42:05 PM

tartsquid
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Lolita, which is amazing and I could read it again and again and never get tired of it (this is the fourth reading I think). Also Sister Carrie which is not amazing, but rather required for class.

3/27/2007 9:09:25 PM

PackBacker
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I'm behind the times, I know

3/27/2007 9:22:58 PM

StillFuchsia
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"Lolita, which is amazing and I could read it again and again and never get tired of it (this is the fourth reading I think)"


#3 for me.

I'm also still crunching through Against the Day, though at this rate I'll likely be done with it in July.

3/27/2007 9:31:47 PM

RawWulf
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I stopped reading IV again. Now I'm reading Perfect From Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life by John Sellers.

[Edited on March 27, 2007 at 9:33 PM. Reason : ]

3/27/2007 9:31:53 PM

saps852
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tale of two cities

3/27/2007 11:18:35 PM

wilso
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"Perfect From Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life"

ha! that's also my favorite built to spill album.

3/28/2007 12:57:56 AM

keefus
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The Bourne Ultimatum Robert Ludlum

To Engineer is Human Henry Petroski

Parting the Waters Taylor Branch

All for personal reading.



[Edited on March 28, 2007 at 1:33 AM. Reason : ]

3/28/2007 1:32:57 AM

spöokyjon

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I finally finished Mao II. I lost momentum about halfway through because it felt like nothing was going to happen...and then it didn't. Oh well. I loved the first half.

If I don't finish Pale Fire this week, Stillfuchsia's gonna whoop my ass, so I guess I'll do that.

3/28/2007 8:10:15 AM

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