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RE: What are you reading?
March 27, 2014 at 10:44 am
I just read two Stephen King books.
Cell: it was okay, disliked the cliffhanger at the end.
Doctor Sleep: a followup of the young boy from The Shining. It was decent, though I cannot help but feel that King wrote better when he was under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
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RE: What are you reading?
March 27, 2014 at 10:55 am
Haven't finished Cell
Still reading Dresden Files
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RE: What are you reading?
March 30, 2014 at 12:50 pm
I have been catching up on Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta series.
Book of the Dead
Scarpetta
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RE: What are you reading?
March 30, 2014 at 12:57 pm
I went and dug out my old Calvin and Hobbes books so I could give them another look. I love those comics.
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RE: What are you reading?
March 30, 2014 at 1:04 pm
1177 BC by Eric Cline. Fascinating.
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RE: What are you reading?
March 31, 2014 at 11:36 am
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(March 30, 2014 at 1:04 pm)Minimalist Wrote: 1177 BC by Eric Cline. Fascinating.
Is that fiction or nonfiction?
Never mind, I'll look it up on Amazon...
EDIT: Wow! No kidding, it looks fascinating! Adding to my wishlist...
A friend just lent me
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and
The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley. Now I feel all pressured to finish the book I'm reading now so I can blast through those and return them. I guess my six other queued books just got pushed back...
again...
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RE: What are you reading?
March 31, 2014 at 11:40 am
Just finished "And the Mountains Echoed" by Khaled Hosseini. That man sure knows how to forcibly invoke empathy. Wow. All three of his books have made me sob. So deeply good.
I'm starting The Selfish Gene for like the 5th time. Every time I re-read it, I get something new. Genuinely good book, that.
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RE: What are you reading?
March 31, 2014 at 12:45 pm
I'm still reading The Dresden Files and I don't know what it is but I can't get a proper hold on Harry's personality. One minute he's a bironic hero, next minute he's an apathetic underachiever, the he's all anti hero wanting to blast someone with magic because they piss him off! And the world is a bit flat, he rambles about unimportant details, then throws giant handfuls of info at you at the last moment. My last complaint and I swear I'll stop, is the subtext between Harry and Tomas on purpose or just unconscious word choices?
