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sunnya
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 10 Jul 2008
Posts: 55
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 5:37 pm |
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I didn't even dare look back if such a thread already exists so here is my first new thread. I'm really curious what are the reading habits of the people here.
Please don't leave this thread empty, I'll get a newbie complex!
Just starting now The Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz. So far seems good... |
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Klaasvaak
Baiting Guru
Joined: 11 May 2004
Posts: 2163
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 5:43 pm |
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Tsnerd
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 14 Jul 2005
Posts: 41
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 5:43 pm |
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Re-reading bits and pieces of the Harry Potters, I just finished the latest Odd Thomas, and impatiently waiting for another Harry Dresden book.
Authors that need to get off their butts and put a new book out:
Nelson DeMille
John Sandford
Terry Pratchett
Robert Littell
King & Straub and the last Talisman book. |
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Klaasvaak
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Joined: 11 May 2004
Posts: 2163
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 5:47 pm |
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Tsnerd wrote: |
Authors that need to get off their butts and put a new book out:
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Eight
Retired Moderator
Joined: 11 Sep 2004
Posts: 8710
Location: UK
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:07 pm |
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I can't remember when we last had a book thread, but then they are an illiterate bunch here. Actually, I am kidding. Baiters are generally ferociously bright.
I've just finished an Agatha Christie, and I am halfway through a book called Complaint by Julian Baggini. It looks at why and how we complain, about what we complain and to what end; whether complaints are useful to society, and which types of complaints are effective. I recently lent all but one of my Josephine Teys to a friend, and merely digging them off my bookshelf sparked my interest, so I am about to start the one I did not lend her, The Daughter of Time. |
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sheboppe
The Sparkly Member
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
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Location: United States
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:14 pm |
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I'm currently reading "The Fifth Vial" by Michael Palmer. |
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Nanny Ogg
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Joined: 19 Mar 2007
Posts: 2628
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:14 pm |
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I believe Terry Pratchett has a book in the pipeline, he's no been weel.
I would like a new Christopher Brookmyre book. Loved "Attack of the unsinkable rubber ducks " and the way he extracted the urine out of fake psychics
Reading Neil Gaiman - Anansi Boys
Before that it was Faye Kellerman -Burnt House
Then I've got some Anne McCaffrey dragon books to read, bought them for 69p in the local Marie Curie shop |
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iMike
Elite Baiter
Joined: 21 Jan 2005
Posts: 1371
Location: Ministry of Serendipity
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:25 pm |
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'Mother Tongue' - Bill Bryson.
Recently finished 'Nipper' Read's autobiography. |
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Slightlyoutofit
Baiting Guru
Joined: 13 Feb 2007
Posts: 14310
Location: Foraging for Nuts.
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:48 pm |
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I'm a bit of a philosophy/theology junkie at the moment.
Just finished Plato's "Republic" (brilliant).
And am now reading Richard Dawkins "The God Delusion" (not as good as I'd hoped or as it claims to be).
After I'm done with that, I've got a choice of Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Judgement" or "Aristotle" by Sir David Ross. |
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Nanny Ogg
Baiting Guru
Joined: 19 Mar 2007
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:00 pm |
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A little light reading to lull you to sleep, Slightly?
I bought my dad the God Delusion for his birthday, will borrow it off him soon. I'd also got him the Bill Bryson book on Shakespeare which I also hope to borrow
( there's a pattern there, my dad tends to but me books HE'd like to borrow ) |
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Miss Behaving
Master Baiter
Joined: 20 Apr 2006
Posts: 190
Location: Down the bookies
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:15 pm |
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Nanny Ogg wrote: |
A little light reading to lull you to sleep, Slightly?
I bought my dad the God Delusion for his birthday, will borrow it off him soon. I'd also got him the Bill Bryson book on Shakespeare |
Some dickwad put all the copies of The God Delusion in the fiction section of my local book shop. I moved them back to Spiritual/Mind and Body
Both are excellent, I really loved the BB one on Shakespeare.
I've just finished Black Ajax by George McDonald Frasier (he of Flashman fame) -- superb look into Regency England and bare-knuckle boxing. One of my distant ancestors was a bare-knuckle boxer and funnily big hands and a mean punch run in the family... |
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iMike
Elite Baiter
Joined: 21 Jan 2005
Posts: 1371
Location: Ministry of Serendipity
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:37 pm |
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Tried 'The Blind Watchmaker' but couldn't finish it. Couldn't cope with the writing style. |
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Donato
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Joined: 07 Jan 2007
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:05 pm |
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Have just finished Moneyball and various (at least six) baseball related books mainly dealing with stats and sabrmetrics.
Have a pile of 6 Buddhism related books in front of me, one learning French book (Berlitz self Teacher) and have just got two Micheal Connelly's from the library.
Oh and in the library they have a donated books for sale section, so i've just picked up "One Hundred Years of Solitude" . |
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lotta
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 13613
Location: 2 Speckled Cct Springfield Lakes QLD 4300
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:06 pm |
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I'm on a Dalene Matthee kick at the moment. I've just finished "Circles in a Forest" which I had read years ago in Afrikaans. I loved it. It's historically very accurate and her knowledge of elephants amazing.
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Chibuike
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Joined: 07 Mar 2006
Posts: 693
Location: My corner of the world...
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:22 pm |
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You are asking a librarian what she reads?
Should I make a list? Right now I am reading three books -
1. Hell's Half Acre by Richard Selcer
2. Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
3. Samuel Pepys Diary by Samuel Pepys |
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kleindoofy
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Joined: 24 Oct 2004
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Location: Europe
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:43 pm |
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At the moment an essay by Henzensberger. |
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Doodle Bug
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Joined: 06 Feb 2008
Posts: 720
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:51 pm |
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ronco
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:10 pm |
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The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Goodbye_%28novel%29 )
Trying desperately to write a hard-boiled fiction novel, so I read the masters for inspiration |
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Sgt.Sanchez
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 24 May 2008
Posts: 49
Location: USA
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:12 pm |
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Just finished Confessor by Terry Goodkind.The last of the Sword of truth series.Next project will be to reread the Harry Potter series.(I do my reading during my lunch break at work since at home I have four kids and my lads I have to attend to.) |
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Fryer
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Joined: 15 Mar 2008
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:16 pm |
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Cryptonomicon By Neal Stephenson
Interesting fiction (with a lot of factual detail), especially if you're a geek! |
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:23 pm |
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As usual I've got at least 5 books open, and on the go at any one time,
Iain Banks - Raw spirit
Judith Binney - Redemption Song, Life of Te Kooti Arikirangi
Terry Pratchett - Hogfather, reading it to my grand daughter, after watching the dvd
Iain Banks - Complicity and Whit.
Tim Severin - In search of Robinson Crusoe |
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FrumpyBB
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Joined: 22 Nov 2006
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Location: Germany
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:29 pm |
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Schriften und Briefe Bd. 1 "Aphorismen" :
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The "waste books" (Lichtenberg rendered it roughly as Sudelbücher in German) are the notebooks he kept from his student days until the end of his life. Each volume was accorded a letter of the alphabet from A, which begun in 1765, to L, which broke off at Lichtenberg's death in 1799. |
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Pachanga
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:26 pm |
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The Last Lecture
I Remember Julia (from 2000) about the desaparecidos (disappeared ones) in Latin America. |
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tandenberg
Not quite a Newb
Joined: 05 May 2008
Posts: 45
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow...
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Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:00 am |
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I just ended my philosophy class, so the last thing I read was that "Metaphysic of Morals" thing by that Kant guy. I like the content but the text is so dense it's maddening. Any suggestions for a novel-type work for my next undertaking? |
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DrWho
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Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:02 am |
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I just read that ^^^^
Now I'm reading this. |
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