What's Everyone Reading?

taxslave

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Current reading material: Operating and maintenance manual for the crane I am running.
When I get finished with that it will be time for a Hazmat manual and then on to the first aid books for renewal.

I'm reading a novel by T.C. Boyle titled "The Women". It's an odd sort of a book, fiction based on the biography of Frank Lloyd Wright, probably one of the most prominent architects of all times. Some rather unsavoury characterists of Wright are brought out, such as parsimony, skipping out on debt and using unsuspect "students" to perform manual labour for little or no pay, beyond room board. At least that is what is depicted in the first half of the book. I'm just wondering if the author hasn't overstepped certain ethical limits in doing this. Or is it a perfectly legal way to bad mouth someone? I'm interested in other opinions.

Probably if he can prove it.
 

gopher

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This is my third novel by this very popular writer.
 

taxslave

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Ravens Coin by Carmen Schott. Available at Amazon.com Modern day Indiana Jones romp up the West coast. A mixture of history, native lore , love and fast paced adventure.
 

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Currently, The Picture of Dorian Gray, from Oscar Wilde. I've heard a great deal about it, and so far, it's pretty interesting. Also try on The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell if you like a detective novel which sidetracks into Chinese affairs. I absolutely loved the book.
 

Johnnny

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"The Arabs" by Eugene Rogan

Not a bad book, and it brings perspective to this whole terrible cultural misunderstanding between the West and the Arab World. A good read, and it could show the haters out there that not all Arabs are rag heads but normal people like you and i looking for their place in the world :)
 
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Nuggler

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Still John Steinbeck

The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights


If you like Steinbeck, you might like Cormac McCarthy; not to assume you haven't already read him:

No Country for Old Men, The Road, A Child of God, All the Pretty Little Horses,

Another Southern Author: Larry Brown.......RIP at a young age:
Big Bad Love, Fay.

Jist ta name a few.

McCarthy will grab you right by the guts
 

Nuggler

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:study: "The Tiger's Revenge", by Claude Balles.

"Trail to the Outhouse", by Willie Makit.

"Open Kimono" by Seymour Hare.

All good summertime novels.

:read2:
 

eh1eh

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne. Got a 36 novels and short story collection on my Kindle for $2.99. I know this is in public domain but it would have taken me a week to compile these with the Gutenberg project`s slow download speed.
 

Colpy

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If you like Steinbeck, you might like Cormac McCarthy; not to assume you haven't already read him:

No Country for Old Men, The Road, A Child of God, All the Pretty Little Horses,

Another Southern Author: Larry Brown.......RIP at a young age:
Big Bad Love, Fay.

Jist ta name a few.

McCarthy will grab you right by the guts

Yeah, thanks.

I read The Road and it was a gripper,

I'm currently into Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls, in a continuing return to the writers and the novels of my youth.

My second childhood, perhaps. :)
 

EagleSmack

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"The Road to Jerusalem"- Jan Guilou... some Sweedish guy.

More Medieval stuff. I love that sh*t.
 

Bar Sinister

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I'm a book collector and have 3-4 by Card. This sounds good. How many books are in the series? I might just have the first one. Are these books similiar to Jean Auel's work?

Never read any of Aurel's books, but I doubt it. I actually got tired of the series and skipped to the end. If you are interested there are five books in the series. The theme of the series is that an almost god-like supercomputer directs the members of a family on a planet called Harmony to return to Earth and colonize the planet. Earth has long been abandoned to to a civilization-destroying civil war.

Right now I am reading two SF series and enjoying them both. Mike Shepherd's Kris Longknife series is fast paced and full of action. I am also reading Elizabeth Moon's Serrano series, which is a little slower paced, but has great characters. You can check them both out here by just typing n the author's name at this site. Fantastic Fiction

I have found the site very useful for finding new authors of both SF and Fantasy, especially for checking out which series are complete, so I don't have to keep waiting for that still to come novel for a series to finish.

This is also a great site for checking out works of SF and Fantasy. Some great fan discussions there. Science Fiction Fantasy Chronicles: forums - Powered by vBulletin

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