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Gogirlgo
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 Posted: 08/26/04 - 14:24 Post subject:
I just read "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night" which I thought was great. I started "White Teeth" but didn't finish it before school and now it will be months until I can get at it again. I also read "The Big Rumpus," a truly funny book, better if you're a parent. I recommend them all.
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akern
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Posted: 08/26/04 - 14:28 Post subject:
The Keep by F. Paul Wilson
I love it!! I'll probably finish it tonight.
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thegman
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Posted: 08/26/04 - 14:31 Post subject:
Malcom Gladwell’s The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference.
Generally, he applies the principles of epidemiology to social interaction.
I discounted it out of hand when it first came out a while ago, but it's actually an interesting read.
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Running Brewer
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Posted: 08/26/04 - 14:31 Post subject:
I am currently reading:
The Commodore ( 17th in the Aubrey-Maturin Series)
Historias de Mexico (a bi-lingual book of mexican legends)
Easy Spanish reader - History of Mexico
Next up are some spanish books I don't remember the names of and Book 18 in the Aubrey-Maturin series.
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Pug
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Posted: 08/26/04 - 14:49 Post subject:
| Running Brewer wrote: | I am currently reading:
The Commodore ( 17th in the Aubrey-Maturin Series)
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A guy i work with has gotten the Aubrey-Maturin bug, so i've been reading through the series as he finishes the books. I've finished the first two, but he's on book 6 already.
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Cappy
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Posted: 08/26/04 - 16:33 Post subject:
I am about half way through American Soilder by General Tommy Franks.
Excellent book so far.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 08/26/04 - 16:38 Post subject:
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genie
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Posted: 08/26/04 - 16:41 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | The Gas We Pass: The Story of Farts - It's the much awaited follow-up to Everyone Poops.
Available at Amazon.com |
My smart ass roomie actually bought me both of them for Christmas one year because we were in Borders and I saw the fart book and must have laughed for 20 minutes.....he was so embarrassed he had to leave.
 to the mindless crap, although I am reading Anatomy of Yoga since I just started my program again, and I have a book on Insight Meditation on the way from Amazon. School starts Monday so that'll be backburnered again. 
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DCRunningDiva
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Posted: 08/26/04 - 17:03 Post subject:
| genie wrote: | | purple hayes wrote: | The Gas We Pass: The Story of Farts - It's the much awaited follow-up to Everyone Poops.
Available at Amazon.com |
My smart ass roomie actually bought me both of them for Christmas one year because we were in Borders and I saw the fart book and must have laughed for 20 minutes.....he was so embarrassed he had to leave.
to the mindless crap, although I am reading Anatomy of Yoga since I just started my program again, and I have a book on Insight Meditation on the way from Amazon. School starts Monday so that'll be backburnered again. |
That reminds me. When we went to the Freer (sp?) Art Gallery on Sunday we saw "Redneck Haikus." My husband WOULD.NOT.LEAVE the gallery store because he was laughing so dang hard. Funny book I tell you...funny book!
Edited to say: OH...I found a website with some of the haikus on it right here
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Floridaboiler
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Posted: 08/26/04 - 19:29 Post subject:
| elkid wrote: | | ....Mindless crap until school starts back up next week. |
Glad to see that at least someone isn't reading anything serious. I am working on Stephen King's Wolves of Calla (Dark Tower Installment)
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crazyfrog
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Posted: 08/26/04 - 23:01 Post subject:
im working on a paper for a class on mon. its about homosexual female japanese macaques.
no lie. when im done with the paper ill tell you what the deal is. its actually kind neat, even when given the choice, some females will choose another female over a male. and the ladies display all of the normal behaviors that a male would if he was, ahem, in that position. if anyone caught the national geographic special that i was on a few weeks ago, this is the first guy they featured. i get to meet and have lunch with him next week, he coming to give a seminar at my school!
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Sandy Cheeks
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Posted: 08/27/04 - 00:44 Post subject:
| thegman wrote: | Malcom Gladwell’s The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference.
Generally, he applies the principles of epidemiology to social interaction.
I discounted it out of hand when it first came out a while ago, but it's actually an interesting read. |
This is in my to-read pile! Why did you discount it, just out of curiosity?
He came and spoke at my university last year but I couldn't go.  Probably would have been an interesting talk.
Currently, I'm reading 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States and the September issue of Atlantic Monthly.
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mickeyvw98
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Posted: 08/27/04 - 09:09 Post subject:
I just finished two books by Mary Higgins Clark. I read while I do laundry at the laundrymat so I get about 2 hours of just reading. I usually read all the books in the library by a particular author before moving on to another. If I really enjoy that author, I keep looking for more books by them to appear at the library. Right now I'm waiting for the new James Patterson book ("3rd Degree") to be longer than a 3 day book. 
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gretriever
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Posted: 08/27/04 - 09:38 Post subject:
| mickeyvw98 wrote: | | Right now I'm waiting for the new James Patterson book ("3rd Degree") to be longer than a 3 day book. |
Will that one have pictures, too? 
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pokychick
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Posted: 08/27/04 - 09:52 Post subject:
I just finished The Madman's Tale by John Katzenbach.
I could not put it down.
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