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« Reply #625 on: December 06, 2012, 09:31:19 AM »

Does nobody else ever read for pleasure? I reckon about 80% of the books in here are academic, intellectual, or technical.

Ah, but those are the books I read for pleasure.
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« Reply #626 on: December 15, 2012, 02:46:37 PM »

Infinite Jest
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« Reply #627 on: December 15, 2012, 02:49:13 PM »
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois

Does nobody else ever read for pleasure? I reckon about 80% of the books in here are academic, intellectual, or technical. What's so bad about sayng you're reading Twilight?

Well, OK, bad example. But maybe some Tom Clancy? Bridget Jones' Diary? Jeffrey Archer?

Well I read Wolverine #5, #6-9: Wolverine vs. the X-Men last night.
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« Reply #628 on: December 15, 2012, 02:57:44 PM »

The Odyssey for college. I had all summer to read it and with six days left I've read about 60 pages.

Little did I know what I was about to experience. What a naive little twat I was.
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« Reply #629 on: December 17, 2012, 11:10:17 AM »



Birthday gift! Cheesy
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« Reply #630 on: December 17, 2012, 04:45:56 PM »

In the week and half prior to last Tuesday, I read two books:

Taking Heat: The President, The Press and My Years in the White House by Ari Fleischer
The New American Story by Bill Bradley

Since then I have picked up the pace because I want to be free to read what I get for Christmas.

Since Tuesday I have read:
Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned the Political Establishment Upside Down by Kaylene Johnson
Legerdemain: The President's Secret Plan, The Bomb, and What the French Never Knew by James J. Heaphey - a great book about some US Cold War medling in the Arab World.
A Night of Long Knives: A Hannah Vogel Story by Rebecca Cantrell
Biography of the Dollar: How the Mighty Buck Conquered the World and Why It's Under Siege by Craig Karmin

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« Reply #631 on: December 17, 2012, 06:27:25 PM »

None right now; I'm a skimmer and don't usually read books from cover to cover.  But if I do read one, I'll have to let you know.
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« Reply #632 on: December 17, 2012, 06:46:10 PM »

Finally finished "Thomas Jefferson: A Life" by Willard Sterne Randall! Wonder what my next reading project will be.
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« Reply #633 on: December 17, 2012, 08:12:12 PM »

Does nobody else ever read for pleasure? I reckon about 80% of the books in here are academic, intellectual, or technical. What's so bad about sayng you're reading Twilight?

Well, OK, bad example. But maybe some Tom Clancy? Bridget Jones' Diary? Jeffrey Archer?

I stopped reading those type of books when I turned...16? Something like that. I honestly don't enjoy poor literature all that much. I get a lot more out of good books so I mostly read those.

Last book I read was The Satanic Verses. Brilliant. Now I'm reading Dead Souls by Gogol.
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« Reply #634 on: December 17, 2012, 08:19:26 PM »

Now I'm reading Dead Souls by Gogol.

took you long enough
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« Reply #635 on: December 20, 2012, 04:47:33 PM »

Yesterday I completed All the Tea In China: How to Buy, Sell and Make Money on the Mainland by Jeremy Haft

Today, I read Imperial Cities and the Reformation: Three Essays by Bernd Moeller. Translated into English of course.
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« Reply #636 on: December 20, 2012, 05:18:05 PM »

Finished The Fountainhead the other day, now I am reading Fear and Loathing on the Trail of '72.
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« Reply #637 on: December 20, 2012, 05:24:51 PM »

The Chosen, by Chaim Potok.
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« Reply #638 on: December 31, 2012, 08:28:48 PM »

Humpty Dumpty in Oakland by Philip K. Dick. NEver read any of his non scifi stuff before, so here's hoping.
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« Reply #639 on: January 01, 2013, 09:34:34 AM »

I just read Meta Maus.
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« Reply #640 on: January 01, 2013, 10:09:36 AM »

The Unmaking of Israel, Gershom Gorenberg.
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« Reply #641 on: January 01, 2013, 03:18:34 PM »

I've started writing my novel again, so I usually read fiction books during the process just to get my writing in the correct rhythm.  Recently, I started A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and The Bridges of Madison County again by Robert James Waller.  Throw in the Kissing Fish book, and I'm working on reading three books at once right now.
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« Reply #642 on: January 01, 2013, 05:32:45 PM »

don't usually read books from cover to cover.

I wish I could say I was surprised.
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« Reply #643 on: January 06, 2013, 01:39:15 AM »

The Prague Cemetery, Umberto Eco
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« Reply #644 on: January 06, 2013, 11:48:25 AM »

Infinite Jest
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« Reply #645 on: January 06, 2013, 11:54:47 AM »


*terrorist fist-bump*

I'm about 200 pages deep and only have two weeks to finish it before the next semester begins. Challenge accepted.
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« Reply #646 on: January 06, 2013, 12:02:10 PM »

How did you know I was interested in Byzantine erotica?
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« Reply #647 on: January 06, 2013, 01:58:25 PM »


Good luck.
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« Reply #648 on: January 06, 2013, 02:17:39 PM »


I've read probably a dozen other books of Eco's already- he's probably my single favorite author.  I can't imagine it being difficult to get through in any way, except possibly in the way the subject matter shines a light on some of the darkest aspects of our history and human nature.

But I knew that going in.
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« Reply #649 on: January 06, 2013, 02:21:05 PM »


*terrorist fist-bump*

I'm about 200 pages deep and only have two weeks to finish it before the next semester begins. Challenge accepted.

I spent four months reading this last year- could have finished it faster if I was really dedicated, but I can't imagine reading 80% of it in two weeks.  Yikes.

I fully expect to reread it again someday, to catch everything I missed the first time around.
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