book thread!!

Started by Ally, Dec 11 06 01:11

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Ally

Dec 11 06 01:11
I thought that I would start a new thread.

  I love to read and I am always looking for a new book to devour.  I typically go by recommendations because I hate picking up a book and getting half way through just waiting to "get into it" and then realizing that the book bites.  

  So I thought that we could post some of our favorite books here and say a bit about them.

  My most recent book I read: A million little pieces by James Frey.  I really enjoyed it.  It's an addicts account of his 6 weeks in rehab.  Very interesting.  Good read.  It got some heat on Oprah because apparently there was a smoking gun report that poked some holes in his story.  The book now has an opener written by James Frey admitting a couple of exaggerations but still a really good read.
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

purelife

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Dec 11 06 01:16
Oh, I saw that book up for recommendations on Oprah.  My friend told me to read A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, also recommended by Oprah.  I got like 1/4 way into the book and stopped because it was just too depressing for me.  I was crying in the beginning and my friend said that it was most sad in the end.  Gosh, I would be balling my eyes out.      

Orik

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Dec 11 06 01:33
chasing the dragon...
read it a few years ago i forget who its by but i found it a good read about life in chinas roughest and most dangerous city from a chirstian missionary...

 
Never give up Never surrender Fight with ur last breath Fight 2 live & Fight 2 survive. Never say never & never say die. There comes a time when all will die A time we transcend & attain our place afterlife. My Fight is not yet done, I'm tired & I'd like to go home, But I'm not ready to go just yet.

Lise

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Dec 11 06 01:39
There's already a thread on this subject. Can't remember the name of the title though.
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Bill Cosby.

Russ

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Dec 11 06 02:40
Theres actually two lise, I was posting in one and then another and confused myself. I thought I was deleting my posts. Ill look and link em.
Mercy to the Guilty is Torture to the Victims

Russ

#5
Dec 11 06 02:44
Current Reading:

[A href="http://discoverseattle.net/forums/index.php/topic,990.0.html"]http://discoverseattle.net/forums/index.php/topic,990.0.html[/A]

Read Any Good Books:

[A href="http://discoverseattle.net/forums/index.php/topic,94.0.html"]http://discoverseattle.net/forums/index.php/topic,94.0.html[/A]

    Not your fault Ally, I missed the beginning of both of these threads but only know about them cause I think it was PC who TTT'd them.
Mercy to the Guilty is Torture to the Victims

Russ

#6
Dec 13 06 10:20
Uh, I didn't mean to kill this thread.

  <tap, TAP> Is this thing on?

  Im reading an author I recently got super hooked on. Michael Connely. Im reading 'The Closers' right now.

Theres another author from the UK about a DS Reebus that Im hooked on as well.
Mercy to the Guilty is Torture to the Victims

purelife

#7
Dec 13 06 10:25
I heard that Michael Connelly is good.  Have you ever read any of S.M. Stirling's books?

Russ

#8
Dec 13 06 10:35
I had to google some of this, but actually I can say yes I have. I recognized three or more books of his. I thought the name was fam.

  Is this whom you are currently reading?
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