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What book are you currently reading, or recommend?

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Clarity;1188752; said:
Recently re-re-re-re-read The Long Walk by Stephen King as Richard Bachman. This is not a typical King book, and this stands as one of his better works (in my opinion). It's a one or two-sitting read, really, so if anyone's looking for a quickie, give it a go.
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Good pick. I'll have to get that out of the library again sometime, it's been a while.
 
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I'm currently reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. He makes interesting points if a bit pompously. He takes complex scientific theories and explains them in a way most laypeople can understand. It's a must-read for those of you interested in religion and its effects on society, regardless of the side of the fence you happen to occupy.

I just finished In the Shadow of Papillon by Frank Kane. I knocked this baby out in about 36 hours - a great and quick read. I highly enjoyed it.

Next up...Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.
 
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Currently reading The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice. I started it a few months ago and forgot about it. Now it goes back into the rotation.

Just finished Duma Key by Stephen King. Easily the weakest King book that I've read. Very predictable. Didn't live up to the normal creepiness of his horror stories, and based on what happened in the book I can only assume that it was supposed to be a horror story. I can usually get over his occasional weak endings because the story telling and the journey are so great. Not so with this book. It actually seemed like it was written to be a SciFi Channel original movie instead of a Stephen King book.

If you love Stephen King ( like I do) then you'll probably have to read this. Otherwise. Don't bother.

IronBuckI;1187359; said:
Just finished Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card. The final book in the Ender's series (until the next one).

Now onto something completely mindless and much less wordy . Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling.
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Finished the Harry Potter series too. Wow. Great ending...great final book.

The Ender's Series should've stopped after Ender's Game or at least after Speaker for the Dead. The final two books, and another in the works, completely fucked up the series. Ender's Game is still one of the top 5 all-time scifi books that I've ever read though.
 
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White people loooove David Sedaris. He's funny, he lives in Paris, AND he's gay. :biggrin:
 
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The Judas Strain by James Rollins

From the depths of the Indian Ocean, a horrific plague has arisen to devastate humankind?a disease that's unknown, unstoppable . . . and deadly. But it is merely a harbinger of the doom that is to follow.....
 
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I just read How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill. Great read, reasonably short length.

I am now reading a novella collection entitled Different Seasons by Stephen King. The four novellas in this book are: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, The Body, and The Breathing Method. The first three were made into movies (The Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, and Stand by Me).

The Shawshank Redemption follows the novella pretty closely -- apparently it's easier to translate a 90-page story than one of typical length by Mr. King.

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The Winners Manual for the Game of Life

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The forward is by John Maxwell, who has probably written more "success books" than any other human alive. In the forward he says that he's read the version of the manual given to one of the teams and that a page in it inspired one of his books.

Having read just the Forward, the Prologue and the first chapter; three things are already obvious.
  1. Parents who read this book will stop thinking about where they want their son to play football and will start thinking who they want mentoring their son.
  2. They will want Jim Tressel for that job.
  3. Jim Tressel was not thinking about that when he wrote it.
 
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