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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #90 on: November 03, 2010, 03:59:00 pm »
I am reading the Narnia series with the oldest daughter (if you couldn't guess by my previous post).  We finished "Dawn Treader" this weekend.  The last chapter of that book gives me CHILLS.  I remember it from when I read it as a kid, and again this time around.  One of the most masterful build-ups to an event that I think I've ever read.  I know the movie for this book is coming out soon, and I am debating whether to see it or not.  Can they pull that off, or will they freakin' butcher it?
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #91 on: November 20, 2010, 08:06:39 pm »
I'm currently about 40 pages into The Ghost Map, about the 1854 London cholera epidemic, on my wife's recommendation. It was the book for Multnomah County's Everybody Reads 2010. So far it is horrifying, but also interesting.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #92 on: January 13, 2011, 03:17:56 pm »
Not exactly a book, but thought a few TOUAMBers may appreciate this:

15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will

Sorry if this has already been posted.
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« Reply #93 on: January 13, 2011, 05:13:27 pm »
I just stumbled upon that yesterday and had it linked for my Friday linkdump.  In fact, I dropped a comment on it, suggesting that this should have been included:

"Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again."

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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #94 on: June 02, 2011, 01:40:50 am »
Quote from: Asherdan on June 01, 2011, 05:16:38 pm
The U of Chicago Press is still doing a monthly eBook for free.

This month is The Lavender Scare which combines history, perverts and shameful behaviour.

Right down my alley, in other words.

That practically makes it TOUAMB's official book.
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« Reply #95 on: September 01, 2011, 04:34:44 am »
Made a pretty good find at Borders over the weekend. Sure, I felt like a vulture, but I got Flannery O'Connor's Collected Works for under $15. I went immediately to Everything That Rises Must Converge. That story is so good, but so depressing. So, so depressing. The last two paragraphs are a sure way to kill any buzz I might have. But so good. I'm gonna read the other stories in that collection this week.

Other than that I've been reading crime fiction nearly exclusively for at least a couple months.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #96 on: September 01, 2011, 05:38:18 am »
Flattery O'Connor is my favorite author.
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« Reply #97 on: September 01, 2011, 01:18:44 pm »
What crime fiction? Anything you'd recommend?
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #98 on: September 01, 2011, 03:30:08 pm »
Quote from: Nabubrush on September 01, 2011, 05:38:18 am
Flattery O'Connor is my favorite author.

Flattery? I don't enough know how that could be made into a joke.

Flannery.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #99 on: September 01, 2011, 04:14:20 pm »
Quote from: Asherdan on September 01, 2011, 03:53:25 pm
Shit, and here I thought that was on purpose.

I wonder if that's where all those cans came from. I wish I was smart enough to make that joke.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #100 on: September 01, 2011, 04:50:03 pm »
Quote from: Nabubrush on September 01, 2011, 04:14:20 pm
I wonder if that's where all those cans came from. I wish I was smart enough to make that joke.

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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #101 on: September 01, 2011, 05:00:57 pm »
[insert joke about an irishman who only pays compliments to sheep]
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #102 on: September 02, 2011, 01:05:01 am »
Quote from: wombat on September 01, 2011, 01:18:44 pm
What crime fiction? Anything you'd recommend?

I've really been enjoying Wambaugh's Hollywood series. Read a couple Robert Crais books, those were pretty good. A couple of Walter Mosley's newer ones. Oh, and Charlie Huston, I really enjoyed Caught Stealing.

And Elmore Leonard. Always Elmore Leonard. Swag is the most recent one of his I read I think, it's an older one but one of his best.

Right now I'm reading Killing Floor by Lee Child, and it's been good so far. For some reason he's never interested me, but someone strongly recommended him and I haven't been disappointed yet.

I had a bunch of Amazon gift money and also spent some time at Borders, so I have a stack of books that I'll post about if they end up being any good.
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Re: Book Thread
« Reply #103 on: September 02, 2011, 03:44:51 pm »
Try Westlake, too, if you haven't. He's fantastic.
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« Reply #104 on: September 02, 2011, 05:58:54 pm »
Quote from: Nabubrush on September 02, 2011, 03:44:51 pm
Try Westlake, too, if you haven't. He's fantastic.

Seconded.  John Dortmunder is a classic character.  "Kahawa" was another favorite Westlake book of mine.

Little bit more old school, (of Westlake's generation), but I love Lawrence Sanders, especially the "Deadly Sin" books.
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