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Elizabeth
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I hope the two books aren't connected, somehow, Kat.
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*laugh* No, but it is interesting reading Dracula now. I get all the subtext! No wonder it was so boring the first time. I didn't get what was actually going on.
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The Historian
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kojabu
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johnson, that's a really good book (IMO). let me know what you think.
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Space Opera
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Right now I'm reading Three Short Novels by Wendell Berry. If you haven't read him, do. He's a Kentucky author who writes of the people in a fictional town called Port William. Hannah Coulter, his latest release, is excellant. Berry is also a poet, so his fiction is just beautiful.

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Gene Wolfe's newest collection of short stories, Innocents Aboard. I really like most of his writing, but a lot of these are on the more horrorish side of his work, which really freaks me out. About half of the stories I end up wishing I hadn't read.
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Dan Simmons - Olympos [Cool]
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David Gordon White (ed) - Tantra in Practice

(it's for class, I don't have much time to do any other reading nowadays)

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I just finished "A Storm of Swords" by George R. R. Martin. I need to find something new to start.
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"In Conquest Born" by C.S. Friedman. From the description I thought I would hate this book, but it's actually really amazing.
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Skin A collection of stories by Roald Dahl. They are fasinating like his children's books but these are NOT for children.
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"La petite fille et le doberman" by Serge Brussolo. He's a french SF autors who use lot of description from Monuments of Paris.

Next book : the french version of Harry Potter 6 on October, the first.

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rereading like mad:

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

Songmaster, which I've not read for years

Pride and Prejudice

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El JT de Spang
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Second Foundation (Asimov)

I'm slowly making my way through the Foundation Series.

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"Kite Runner" because I heard it was good, and I'm a bandwagon-jumper like that.
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Ender's Shadow...got SoG recently so I'm rereading the shadow series.
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Jonathan Howard
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I still have to read Foundation and Empire. But I read books in the middle (between Foundation and F&E), so it's excusable.

Right?

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Started The Garden Of Beasts a few months ago. Got sidetracked by another book (that I finished) and didn't finish the Beasts book. I also started Secret Lovers by Charles McCarry and haven't finished it either. I started OSC's Magic Street a few weeks ago. And I just started reading the The Red Book last night.
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I've hopped on the Prachett bandwagon and just began The Color of Magic. I'm enjoying it so far. Seems to be an entertaining story that doesn't require a whole lot of thought, which is exactly what I've been needing.

Just recently I finished Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner. Tante had recommended it, and I'm *really* glad she did.

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Magic Street by...OSC!
It's pretty good, I like it so far.

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El JT de Spang
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quote:
I still have to read Foundation and Empire. But I read books in the middle (between Foundation and F&E), so it's excusable.
I think F&E is the second book (in the original series). In other words, there isn't a book between Foundation and F&E. Maybe I'm wrong. Too lazy to go to Amazon and check.


Anyways, I'm on to something else - Creepers by David Morrell. Come on, the guy wrote "Rambo", what could go wrong?

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Choobak
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Harry Potter 6 in french. After reading it in english, i appreciate to look at some details i didn't notice. But some translations have not my approbation....
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Rhinegold by Stephan Grundy. Probably the best book of the re-telling of the Nibelung saga. You read it and you really can see how Tolkien pulled so much of LOTR from the story.
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Currently reading A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin.

After that I'll read The Model by Lars Saabye Christensen

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Magic Street [Big Grin]
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The Lady or the Tiger and Other Stories, by Frank Stockton.
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Just finished: Peter F. Hamilton - The Reality Dysfunction

If you thought Tolsoi took a long time to get us into the middle of things, well, think again. For around 2-300 pages he does almost nothing but introducing new characters and plot lines, and does this while also giving every little useless detail possible. Ugh... Oh, did I say characters? Forget it, for those pages they're more like bodies with a name! But, if you stick around long enough, you'll reach the point where things really start to happen! Everything goes from boring to near-hell in a few pages, and from there on you're hooked! Or at least that's what happened to me. [Smile] That's why I managed to go through all of 1200 pages, and also why sometimes in the near future I'll buy the other two books in the series, each of them - I hope - packed with around 1000 pages of thrilling action!

Currently reading: Ursula K. Le Guin - The Birthday of the World (a collection of stories)

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I'm reading Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop. The back cover says it's a msaterpiece. Maybe I haven't read enough of it yet.
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. After I finish that, I'm going to finish off Maps in a Mirror and then move on to A Game of Thrones and all of the other books in that series.
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If you believe all the blurbs on the back of books have I got a deal for you.....


[Wink]

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I'm reading Meine Welt in Bildern. A book for UFO nuts.
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The Stand By Stephen King.

I love how the Dark Tower just sort of ties all his different realities together. It all feels like it's part of a whole.

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Still working my way through Eye of the World. I'm about halfway done, but I only get about 10-15 minutes a day to read if I read any at all.
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David Bowles
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Hombre- Elmore Leonard
Walden- Henry David Thoreau
The First Man in Rome- Colleen McCullough

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finished It's Superman! by Tom DeHaven. 1930's America and Clark Kent. Like a 'year one.' very human, funny and thrilling.
now reading Our Cluture, What's Left of It by Theodore Dalrymple. doctor spent proportion of his career in Third World countries and the remainder "among the very extensive British underclass." the cover is quite striking.

recommend
Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold. 1920's America. magic and love and heartbreak.
Time On My Hands by Peter Delacorte. 1930's Hollywood, time-travel, love, heartbreak and Dutch Reagan.
Spilling Clarence by Anne Ursu. a chemical that pushes your memories to the fore spills into town. wonderful and real and human.

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Sheep in a Jeep.

god i wish, that book is the greatest. really dudes, pick up a copy.

Dude [Cool] peekaboo

Yeah.

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1984.

It's not very good. But if I learn about Orwell I should then be able to make other people feel stupid without actually saying anything worth saying, which could be useful if my life ever comes in danger.

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Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire

I love these books. They take an interesting perspective on fairy tales. Essentially Maguire takes the story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as historical fact, and writes another side of the tale. That said, he does tend to use strong language in his adult books so buyer beware.

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Just finished The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova, as well as First Meetings in the Enderverse.

Now just beginning Strange Itineraries, by Tim Powers.

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A World Treasury of Myths, Legends and Folktales - Stories from Six Continents
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