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What book are you currently reading, or recommend?

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Pray for my wife's quick recovery. She has contracted serious stomach and abdominal cramps from laughing.

The most hilarious satire I've read ever. I thought "Our Dumb Century" by The Onion was funny till I read (excerpts from) this. Trying to read it in one session would be very hazardous to one's health.
 
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When you finish the book, watch the movie. I liked the movie better.
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too late for that. :biggrin:

I am actually looking forward to the americanization of the movie if for no other reason than the fact that David Fincher is doing it.

I bought the trilogy for the mrs for her birthday. she loved them. I am just getting around to them.
 
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FWIW, the movie is available to watch on line at Netflix. I will probably watch it after reading the book.

So far so good, but it is falling into what I would call the Caleb Carr trap. The case where everything the protagonists do is good whether that be the best sweet and sour chicken dish he ever ate, etc...

That and **** maybe this is a spoiler or not****** that they are making the lead character out to be some kind of super genius. (i.e. she starts reading math and by the end of the book she will come up (independently of Andrew Wiles solution) a solution to Fermat's last theory (although the book presents the problem incompletely -Fermats last theorem states for n>2 x^n + y^n = z^n has no integer solutions. TGWPWF looks at the solution only for n=3.)

Still a very good book. I would put this trilogy on par with the Caleb Carr books, and even the first two Thomas Harris Hannibal Lecter books (Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs)
 
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