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I like to read and am always looking for good books that others recommend. So I decided to start this topic because I have the feeling there are some well read folks that frequent this forum.
The last book I read was the memior "A heart breaking work of staggering genius" by Dave Eggers. I give it an A
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I seem to always have a book or two on the go...but here lately it seems like I'm slacking in finishing any of them.
The last book I actually finished, and this was a little while back, is Clive Barker's In the Flesh. I'm sorry if anybody here is a Clive Barker fan, but this guy is entirely too over-rated in my opinion. These short stories would start off with all kinds of potential, and then they'd just fall apart and fizzle out in the end.
Before that I read a book called The Funhouse by Owen West, and that one had the same problems. Started with all sorts of potential, had cool characters (though some were a little too stereotypical), but the end read like somebody was standing over Mr. West's shoulder, clearing their throat, and saying they needed the book to be finished yesterday.
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I'm really terrible at finishing most anything I start. The last thing I was reading was "Hitler's Henchmen" by Guido Knopp.
My wife is my opposite. She usually reads a book a week and a variety of genres and authors. History, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, classic literature, etc. She's currently reading "Stalingrad" by Anthony Beevore.
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I just finished reading Excavation by James Rollins, and before that, I had read Map of Bones and Subterranean by the same guy. Currently reading Deep Fathom by Rollins. I dunno, I just like the way the dude writes for some reason, and this is funny considering the first book of his I owned, Map of Bones, I had found it on the ground at a parking garage at work. And if it counts, I've been reading the Rurouni Kenshin manga series by Nobuhiro Watsuki.
At the same time, I'm busy writing my own book, but I'm taking a little break just so I can refresh myself a bit. I'd been writing at breakneck speed for about a month after I'd been suffering from writer's block for years, but now, I know where I want to go and I'll keep plowing forward until I finish. Then I'll do the necessary editing and revising. Often times before, I'd find myself completely starting over after a certain spot and that's what kept me in such a creative impasse. Not this time. I think ultimately I'm actually writing for myself, but maybe if I get lucky and find someone willing to publish, who knows what may happen. That's my ultimate dream there, is to get this book (and hopefully, series) published at some point of my life.
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Margery Kempe and Her World (for my history class)
Last book I enjoyed: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - I'm not ashamed to admit it.
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Hahahahahaha This is funny to me coz I don't read and I won't be participating in this thread except for this post here... It's hard enough for me to try to finish an entire news article let alone a book... I have no problem with reading in general, it's just my attention span is as wide as a shoe lace
Hmmmmm now let me think ... "WEST SIDE STORY" way back for school/english studies
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Footlong! Fellow non-reader *high-five* I had a feeling you would be with the attention span that doesn't let you get thru the long long posts!
Books are impossible for me to read, I feel like they're no longer relevant in the fast-paced world we live in.
Now that's to say that I think we still need to grasp knowledge out of books, but we need a way to do it that is still relevent with today's society,, and no, I'm not talking about ebooks!
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I am going to finish today a leadership book called "It's called work for a reason" by Larry Winget.
Pretty good straightfoward outlook at work. Here is a quote that I like from it.
"It's not the hours you put into wotk, but the work you put into the hours"
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Over half way through "The Pelican Brief" by John Grisham...great book so far..aside from having Julia Roberts in the movie I think it wont be that bad of a movie.
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Recently finished reading "Mr. Untouchable" by Leroy 'Nicky' Barnes, "Burning Down My Masters House" by Jayson Blair, and "Confessions of a Video Vixen" by Karrine Steffans. You may laugh at the last one but Karrine has some nasty but true stories like the time she sucked Irv Gotti's dick so she would not get kicked off a video shoot.
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This is funny to me coz I don't read and I won't be participating in this thread except for this post here... It's hard enough for me to try to finish an entire news article let alone a book... I have no problem with reading in general, it's just my attention span is as wide as a shoe lace ![[Tongue]](tongue.gif)
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... "WEST SIDE STORY" way back for school/english studies ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
