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       Jun 28 10 09:20 pm Link  It's amazing - and difficult - not a hammock summer read. But, really amazing Jun 28 10 09:27 pm Link ShivaKitty wrote: This book was awesome. Jun 28 10 09:33 pm Link GK photo wrote: well, the cover is beautiful. Jun 28 10 09:35 pm Link The Sword of Truth series is one of the best series I have ever written. The 4rth book made me weep. Its fantasy, and certainly not anything super deep, but I love them.  An AWESOME book. Set in the future, kind of post-apocolyptic, steampunkish setting with all manner of beings thrown together in a grotesque fashion, traveling together & running from people who are out to get them. The main characters are a scientist of ill repute and his half-human half-beetle girlfriend. Its dark fantasy and it's awesome. China Mievilles description make everything so real, they're amazing. I fell in love with the first few sentences. "Isaac and Lin sat naked on either side of the bare wooden table. Isaac was conscious of their pose, seeing them as a third person might. It would make a beautiful, strange print, he thought. An attic room, dust-motes in the light from the small window, books and paper and paints neatly stacked by cheap wooden furniture. A dark-skinned man, big and nude and detumescing, gripping a knife and fork, unnaturally still, sitting opposite a khepri, her slight womanâs body in shadow, her chitinous head in silhouette... She was an artist. Her circle were the libertines, the patrons and the hangers-on, bohemians and parasites, poets and pamphleteers and fashionable junkies. They delighted in the scandalous and the outré. In the tea-houses and bars of Salacus Fields, Linâs escapadesâbroadly hinted at, never denied, never made explicitâwould be the subject of louche discussion and innuendo. Her love-life was an avant-garde transgression, an art-happening, like Concrete Music had been last season, or âSnot Art! the year before that." Not the first paragraph but it's what I could find. The follow-up "Iron Curtain" is also incredible so far but I havent finished it yet. This is an awesome thread! Jun 28 10 10:02 pm Link Farenell Photography wrote: Edward the Encircler! Jun 28 10 10:07 pm Link GK photo wrote: This will book will leave you depressed almost beyond description. This book tells us what our world would be like if Mother Nature died through whatever event. And the day after you finish reading it you will have never been happier to see the frickn sun in the sky. Jun 28 10 10:10 pm Link   Jun 28 10 10:11 pm Link FootNote Fotography wrote: AWESOME book! Jun 28 10 10:16 pm Link Who Got Einstein's Office, by Ed Regis - eccentricity at the IAS The Whole Shebang, Michael Ferris Cosomology: for everybody! Jun 28 10 10:38 pm Link DIE BLECHTROMMEL aka THE TIN DRUM  If you saw and enjoyed this weird crazy movie, you'll love the book.  It's about life in the city of Danzig which was a "free city", both Polish and German, before, during and after the war as told by a 7 year old boy who decides that people are horrible and the world is horrible and so he chooses to never age. And he doesn't. He lives his life as a 7 year old from then on, and describes his thoughts and experiences living through the rise of the street thugs, Nazis, Polish resistance, and much more up through the final end when the Red Army invades his city. One of the best books ever written if you ask me. I've never read it in the original German, but my Mom is German and she read the English and agreed with me that the translation was very good. Jun 28 10 11:08 pm Link WHY PEOPLE BELIEVE WEIRD THINGS: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time Great non-fiction, Michael Shermer who is involved in SKEPTIC magazine, basically drills through and completely destroys the (il)logic behind Holocaust Deniers, Creationists, UFO "abductees", the '80s Satanism scare, Afrocentrism (he explains how it can be just as debilitating through it's irrelevance as Eurocentrism, things like "Black Jesus"), near-death "experiences", "Randian positivism" (Objectivists and other idealists haha), and "psychics". This should be required reading in every high school.  Jun 28 10 11:16 pm Link I just finished reading Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs  and it takes me at least a month to finish reading almost any book Nov 30 10 08:22 am Link Finished Bernanrd Cornwell's Saxon Series not too long ago,not a hard read,but interesting.I loved it. Just finished Sarah Dunant's The Birth Of Venus the other day,if I didn't have a child it probably would've taken me less than the two days it took to read it. I could barely put it down. I Nov 30 10 08:37 am Link I have read so many good books/authors, it's impossible to pick just a few. Jacqueline Carey's "Kushiel" series. Her other books are shite from what I've seen. Neil Gainman with or without Pratchett, is great. Dick Francis. Nov 30 10 08:39 am Link Model Sarah wrote: Because of this post, I found a PDF of the book and read it. Thanks so much for recommending it! I'm gonna go through the rest of the books people suggested. Nov 30 10 12:48 pm Link I'm currently reading Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller and enjoying it immensely Dec 25 10 08:20 am Link I just got done reading this book. Wonderful story of an Indian doctor growing up and working in Ethiopia  Dec 25 10 08:24 am Link stylist man wrote: I have that! Dec 25 10 08:32 am Link nathan combs wrote: wow. I had the option on that book for 3 years and I have the honor of having been the only time he had lunch with anyone who optioned anything. He gave me a signed hardcopy..love that book.He is a brilliant mind (funny thing, we never got it set up because stupid Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman made a deal on Cold Mountain and its very hard to get Civil War anything made) Dec 25 10 09:14 am Link My all time favorite....too hard to explain, at least this early  Dec 25 10 09:27 am Link I have this historical book.  Dec 25 10 09:31 am Link Everything by Philippa Gregory (The White Queen, The Other Bolyen Girl, The Constant Princess, etc) also   And many, many more. I Dec 25 10 09:41 am Link I love all of Dan Brown's books. About to start on his Lost Symbol. Also, the Acorna series by Anne McCarffrey for an easier read Dec 25 10 05:13 pm Link I've been on a Raymond Chandler binge for a while now. The first Phillip Marlowe novel, "The Big Sleep" is a must read for detective fiction fans.  The other Marlowe novels are: "Farewell, My Lovely", "The High Window", "The Lady in the Lake", "The Little Sister", "The Long Goodbye" and "Playback". The only weak novel in the series is "Playback" which was apparently an unsold screenplay that Chandler reworked into a novel. Read it last, as it is somewhat disapointing. Raymond Chandler died in 1959 and left behind the unfinished manuscript for another Marlowe novel, "Poodle Springs" which was completed by Robert B. Parker in 1989. Dec 25 10 05:53 pm Link I just started reading A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle I discovered Eckhart through Kat Von D's tweets Mar 11 11 02:47 pm Link Reminds me why I don't still have a "little place" in da islands . . .  SOS Mar 11 11 02:50 pm Link Collin J. Rae wrote: Great read. His visual depictions alone are worth it. Mar 11 11 02:52 pm Link Good thread to bump. http://www.amazon.com/Library-at-Night- … 036&sr=1-1 The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. “Libraries,” he says, “have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their labyrinthine logic.” In this personal, deliberately unsystematic, and wide-ranging book, he offers a captivating meditation on the meaning of libraries. Mar 11 11 04:09 pm Link Haven't seen if anyone has rec'd this but even so regardless:  I cannot possibly recommend this book enough. Set in Germany during the Holocaust it's not your typical Holocaust fiction book (is fiction by the way). CHECK IT OUT. Mar 11 11 04:16 pm Link Solacium wrote: A friend gave me that to read and even though it's a young adult book, it was quite compelling. Mar 11 11 04:21 pm Link The Divine Emily Fine wrote: NOOO! So sad!!! Mar 11 11 04:51 pm Link  Mar 11 11 10:00 pm Link Just started reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Mar 18 11 12:31 am Link Just finished reading this:  Mar 18 11 12:36 am Link  a very beautiful light story about a girl and her school. I love it. I wish all children were raised this way.  it's been made into a movie, but i do recommend the book. its heartbreaking and genuine and gentle and about growing up and love and loss and acceptance about something that just made me cry. Mar 18 11 12:37 am Link DP Apr 14 11 10:39 am Link Today just dived into Haruki Murakami's book of shorts Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Apr 14 11 10:40 am Link Miss Anthrope 1007 wrote: ...and I'm loving it Jun 27 11 08:52 am Link  Girlvert: A Porno Memoir Well-written and interesting. 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