Current Reading

Started by Gopher, Apr 16 06 11:15

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Gopher

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (at last, I've been meaning to get around to this one for several years).  
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Lil Me

Gopher wrote:
Oh, I read this very recently. It's brilliant. How are you liking it so far? One of the three best books I've read this year.

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 Loving it.  Wish I had more reading time in my life.

 Working sucks!


 
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

Gopher

Lil Me wrote:
 <P>Working sucks!<BR></P> <DIV></DIV>


You don't know the full truth of this until you retire!
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Russ

Currently reading louis lamour.. the quick and the dead.

  I found a whole bunch at my parents so I stole them.
Mercy to the Guilty is Torture to the Victims

Sportsdude

 Gopher wrote:
Lil Me wrote:
 &lt;P&gt;Working sucks!&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/P&gt; &lt;DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;


You don't know the full truth of this until you retire!



Yes, but my brain fully develops at 25, which means I only have a few more years.

 
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Gopher

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Giorgio Bassani  
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Gopher

The Front -Patricia Cornwell  
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Gopher

Tomte Tummetott - Astrid Lindgren (A children's book, but nevertheless one to be relished).
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Gopher

The English Assassin - Daniel Silva  
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Gopher

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers (excellent)  
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Sportsdude

I've given up on Tom Wolfe, I just don't like it.

Going to start reading my favourite genre, travel writing.  Steinbeck's travels with Charlie. I want to find Steinbeck's Russian Journal, but I've been unsuccessful so far (without resorting to amazon)


 
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Gopher

If you're talking about The Bonfire of the Vanities, SD then I didn 't like it either - also gave up on it pretty quickly.

The Keeper of Secrets - Judith Cutler
 
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Russ

The last gospel.. david gibbons
Mercy to the Guilty is Torture to the Victims

Lil Me

No Country for old men- Cormac McCarthy
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

Sportsdude

 Gopher wrote:
If you're talking about The Bonfire of the Vanities, SD then I didn 't like it either - also gave up on it pretty quickly.


Nope. I was talking about Electric Kool-Aid Acid test.


The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson

 
 
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

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