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BOOK THREAD! PART DEUX

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I just finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince last night. Not sure what I'm going to read next. I have so many books to read.
 
Title: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Paperback)
Author: Erik Larson
Genre: Non-Fiction

Comments:
I personally found this book fascinating. I learned alot about the world's fair in chicago I didn't know. I actually want to make a trip to Chicago and see what the Jackson Park area looks like today. Excellent read! -NissanGurl

That was the book I just finished reading. I've moved on to:

Title: Cold Mountain
Author: Charles Frazier
Genre: Fiction

Comments:
I purposely have not watched the movie version of this novel yet. I am approaching halfway in the book and am enjoying it so far. -NissanGurl
 
The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson. I actually got this book when it first came out, but never have the time to read it. I should be able to finish it in a month or so. 😛
 
John Grisham - The Rainmaker, so far very entertaining. I picked it up because it was a book that was sitting on a table at the precise place and time I decided I needed something to read.
 
Crime and Punishment

Before that I finished Rainbow Six for about the third or fourth time. Any good book I have I usually read twice just because of their length and whatnot since I don't fully get everything the first time through.
 
Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis

My sister is trying to convert me. 😛

Normally I wouldn't read this stuff, but the fact that C.S. Lewis started out Agnostic and converted is intriguing.
 
I'm listening to the unabridged recording of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I'm about 2/3s of the way through. I think it might be more enjoyable as a movie, so I'm gonna rent that this week. EDIT: It's a fairly short book from what I can tell (6 hour audio file). I only mention that it's unabridged because recorded books often are abridged in my experience.
 
Just finishing reading "The Show" by Roland Lazenby. It's an inside history of the LA Lakers, I'm a huge Laker fan.

I need a new book though because I'm almost done. Can't decide what to read.
 
American Psycho
The Alchemist


I just read those in the last month. I'm not sure you could find 2 books that are more opposites. Pursuing dreams in life vs. torturing call girls....
 
The Android's Dream - John Scalzi
One Billion Customers - James McGregor

About halfway through both. Read one of them on one end of my commute, and the other on the way back.
 
The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson:

A roughly 600-page collection of Thompson's essays from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s, following the rise of the author's own gonzo journalism style as he moved from Air Force and sports beat-writing to straight-ahead political commentary. It is the first of four volumes in the Gonzo Papers series.

On The Road by Jack Keroauc:

A largely autobiographical work, written as a stream of consciousness and based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America, is often considered a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation that was inspired by jazz, poetry, and drug experiences. As the inspiration came from real life, hundreds of references in On the Road have real-world counterparts.
 
Why Darwin Matters by Michael Shermer (school-related for research)

Why We Want You To Be Rich by Donald Trump, Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon Lechter, Meredith McIver
 
I just finished Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk and I enjoyed it so much that I ordered another one of his books, Choke, off of Amazon to read next.
 
Allegiance by Timothy Zahn. It jumps around a bit more than his past books but still good, I'd prefer one with Thrawn in it though...
 
Originally posted by: NatePo717
Thud! by Terry Pratchett.
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AH, now we're talking 'bout the good stuff....

It was embarassing to sit on the commuter train and have everyone stare at you when you burst out laughing. Often happens reading Pratchett.
 
Same as the last one of these theads
Anne McCaffrey's Dragonrider's of Pern series
I'm up to Dragonseye so I think that only leaves 57 more books to go.
 
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