Books

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knelson — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 12:43:17 GMT

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series is great. If you've seen the movie Master and Commander with Russell Crowe it was based on parts of two of these novels. There are around 20 in the series.

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mattson — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 05:48:31 GMT

Ursula K LeGuin, any of her books. Specifically "Lathe of Heaven" and "A Wizard of Earthsea". (If you saw the SciFi mini-series, flush that nonsense out of your brain, it was almost nothing like the book.) Also "Swimming Made Easy" by Laughlin (the four strokes book).

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Former Member — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:35:08 GMT

I've recently finished reading Ender's Game by Orsen Scott Card and A Time to Kill byJohn Grisham. I would reccomend these books to anyone

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Former Member — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:56:22 GMT

For laughs: Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - (the late) Hunter Thompson Riotous Assembly - Tom Sharpe Indecent Exposure - Tom Sharpe (read after Riotous Assembly) Confederacy Of Dunces - John O'Toole For chills: The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King Damnation Game - Clive Barker Summer of Night - Dan Simmons For Fear of the Night - Charles Grant Misc: The Complete Sherlock Holmes ... and about 10,000 others... -LBJ

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Former Member — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:44:01 GMT

I would like to thank you all for giving these suggestions for the books, it is greatly appreciated.

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Former Member — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:45:56 GMT

The Kite Runner is a pretty good book that I just finished. It is a novel that gives a very interesting picture of life in Afghanistan from the early 70's on.

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Former Member — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 13:52:56 GMT

Fiction: She's Come Undone - by Wally Lamb I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb The Devil Wears Prada - (forgot author's name) Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides Non-Fiction: Middle East Illusions - Chomsky Appetites - Caroline Knapp The Day the Voices Stopped - Ken Steele The Soul of a Butterfly - Muhammad Ali It's Not About the Bike - Lance Armstrong Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs Dry - Augusten Burroughs Magical Thinking - Augusten Burroughs Hope this helps! Kari

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Former Member — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 07:57:00 GMT

I just read a different one, "Skeletons on the Zaharaa". It's a true story about a group of sailors who shipwrecked and were taken into slavery. Really different stuff. I also just read, "They Marched Into Sunlight" about the Vietnam war. It had a lot of discussion on the political scene of the time, as well as the point of view of several soldiers fighting in the war. Both very different books.

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swimmieAvsFan — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 03:14:54 GMT

if you've got the least little bit of parrohead in you, pick up a salty piece of land by jimmy buffett. or if you're in the need of a winter time pick me up! timeline by michael crichton is also a stellar book if you're into sci-fi.

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swimpastor — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 02:17:14 GMT

I'm reading Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America." It started slow, but has gotten much better. I'm also a big Harry Potter fan, and have just reread most of that series. Finally, I have a trilogy by Brock and Bodie Thoene (a fictional account of the first century Christian church) on my desk to get to as well.