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    @Fauxhammer Can't you get anything on project Gutenberg free? I know I've read/am reading some Dumas and Shelly's Frankenstein off of the apple iBook app. So basically, anything who's copyright has expired should be fair game. That list is long and really would depend on your taste.
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    Currently wrapping up FIRST PERSON QUEER, a collection of personal essays that intriguingly captures the broad swath of the LGBT experience.

    Next up: MAUL by Tricia Sullivan, which begins with what sounds like the lead character removing a gun hidden up her vagina, and HARD TIMES, Studs Terkel's famed oral history of life during the Great Depression.
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    just finished Kim Newman's Anno Dracula. was very enjoyable indeed.

    am planning to hit some Moorcock books through the summer. in particular the jerry cornelius novels.

    also i'm finally going to finish the dark tower series - just the last volume to go.
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    Only a hundred pages left of No Present Like Time, ripped thru it in a couple of days. All about the clash between meritocracy and equality, I think. Also weird drug trips, sea voyages, man-eating insects, terse wit and beautiful language. Pity the author has decided to quit writing and become a chemistry teacher...
    • CommentAuthorStefanJ
    • CommentTimeJul 12th 2011
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    I'm almost finished reading A Wise Man's Fears, and I know I'm going to be totally bummed when I put it down.

    I have some "here, you'll like this" SF titles queued up behind it, but I'm not really enthused about them.

    Somewhere down the pike I've got The City and the City, but I'm saving that for vacation reading.
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      CommentAuthorscs
    • CommentTimeJul 12th 2011 edited
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    Sunday night I found the copy of Iain Banks' "Surface Detail" that my daughter gave me for Christmas. Read 130 pages the first night, the remaining 500 or so the next. Yeah, I liked it. There are a few things one could complain about, but it was pretty compulsively readable.

    Just arrived and calling my name: "A Dance With Dragons." So I'm outta here.
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      CommentAuthoroddbill
    • CommentTimeJul 12th 2011
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    God help me I started Song of Ice and Fire. Actually, its a 4 book "box set" ebook of Game of Thrones. This means, as I read, the page count listed by the nook is a total for all 4 books.

    I'm on page 97 of 3496.

    3496.

    And a 5th book just came out, right?

    And even that isn't the last one, right?
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      CommentAuthorRicochet
    • CommentTimeJul 14th 2011
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    I've been really bad at posting as I finish books so this is a couple of months bundled together and dumped in a pile :-P

    Novels Read

    The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi – In a future Thailand, in a world where fossil fuels are exhausted or prohibitively expensive and crops routinely fall to mutating blights, a gene-company employee bargains for access to foodstuff genetics and a bio-engineered companion fights to survive in a turbulent and dangerous city. I found this a lot faster paced and more ruthless in places than I’d expected but really enjoyed the world that Bacigalupi had put together and was letting fall apart.

    Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente – Dreamers find their way to an enchanting world but must pay a price to visit it, making sacrifices for a place that marks their minds and their flesh. This was another one that surprised me a bit. The beauty of the dream-world and dream language lulled me into thinking there would be no danger or ramifications but the consequences for the dreamers were refreshingly and engagingly real.

    Bones to Ashes
    Devil Bones     by Kathy Reichs – Still running my way through this series and enjoying it, crime investigation novels always snag me, though as always the fact that many of the details listed in Reichs’ novels are taken from real cases is a sobering one.

    Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte – After years of ‘I’ll get around to it later’, somewhat wary of the ‘young orphan governess finds herself drawn to mysterious older man’ plot, I finally did and I was not expecting the emphasis on personal responsibility, sticking to your personal standards and not sacrificing reverence for human life in the name of false piety. This book is a lot more complex than I was anticipating, the characters more stubborn and I wish I’d read it earlier.

    Drawing Conclusions by Donna Leon – An old woman is found dead in her apartment in Venice and as the police investigate they are faced with larger social and political issues. I haven’t read any of her other books yet but if they’re like this one they spend as much time contemplating modern Italian society as they do the crime in question which gives excellent context and is an interesting addition.

    The Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell – In a strange coincidence this was also a criminal investigation novel that devoted a decent amount of plot and prose to investigating social and political issues, this time in Sweden. An ex-policeman is found brutally murdered and as they dig backwards into his past in search of a possible motive they find certain ideas and ideals thought long dead are still alive and well in contemporary Sweden. The personal situation of the main character also gave the book a different and very interesting aspect.

    No Logo by Naomi Klein – It took me a while to get into this one given the sheer amount of information it contains but once I did I started chewing through it and I think it has probably wrecked me for carefree consumerism the same way Flat Earth News by Nick Davies wrecked me for trusting modern news media.
    The practices of corporations across the globe and the way advertising is used to influence and manipulate people are shocking topics and Naomi Klein didn’t seem to back away from laying out the specifics of what this means and what we are complicit in as consumers.
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      CommentAuthornigredo
    • CommentTimeJul 15th 2011
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    Finished Mark Hodder's very good BURTON AND SWINBURNE AND THE CASE OF THE CLOCKWORK MAN and moved on to Lawrence Block's THE BURGLAR IN THE RYE. Loving it.
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    Rereading Jonathan Carrol's White Apples, so I can read the sequel Glass Soup.

    As much of a fan of Gene Wolfe as I am, I was really underwhelmed by An Evil Guest.

    Still on my shelf and waiting for me... Pynchon Inherent Vice, Stephenson Anathem, John Crowley's Aegypt series (I have to reread two and read two anew), Iain M Banks Surface Detail, R. Scott Bakker The Judging Eye (and that's just the unread fiction).

    Meanwhile, Christopher Moore has a graphic novel that will probably distract me from most of those.
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    Brent -- What would be the main book(s) by Jonathan Carroll that you would suggest to someone? I've only read his first one and haven't gotten around to reading any more of his, but I'd like to.
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      CommentAuthorravnos
    • CommentTimeJul 19th 2011 edited
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    Girlfriend is "making" me read The Witching Hour by Anne Rice right now. I severely dislike Anne Rice, but this book is... acceptable. I like her descriptions of places. Not so much people or objects, but when she starts rambling about new Orleans it's actually entertaining. About 1/3rd of the way through that so far, then I'm picking up my copy of A Dance With Dragons and devouring that properly. After that I'll probably read the rest of The Hunger Games series and go back to light reading while I'm working... been working on Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels. Oh, and the newest Barry Eisler book when that hits shelves...
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      CommentAuthorFauxhammer
    • CommentTimeJul 19th 2011
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    @ravnos The Witching Hour was pretty good (bear in mind, I read in twenty years ago). Lasher, however, is not good, and were I you I'd avoid that discussion with the GF entirely.
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      CommentAuthorravnos
    • CommentTimeJul 19th 2011
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    Yeah she's reading Lasher right now and she likes Julien, whom it seems 90% of the book centers around, so she's happy with that, but otherwise she's said numerous times that it's not as good.
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      CommentAuthorinfomancer
    • CommentTimeJul 19th 2011
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    God help me, I have begun the new 1000 page John Sayles novel Moment in the Sun. Luckily it reads very quickly so far, which I credit to his being a filmmaker.

    Also picking through Lin Yutang's The Importance of Living.
    • CommentAuthor256
    • CommentTimeJul 19th 2011
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    Read Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison. Perhaps better known as the book that inspired the movie Soylent Green (somehow). Brilliant - I was really surprised at just how good it was. I'd go so far as to call it required reading for anyone who wants to see the point of science fiction.

    Reading: War by Sebastian Junger. Non-fiction. A year at Firebase Phoenix in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan. Quite possibly the worst place to be in the entire war. Intense, brutal, unflinching, compelling. More on this when I've finished it, but it's already worth picking up.
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    @Warped Savant - I'd say The Marriage of Sticks or Bones of The Moon.

    I've enjoyed all of his that I've read, but I tend to somehow forget which ones those are. I have a used paperback of Outside The Dog Museum that I found recently. I read and really enjoyed that many years ago, forgot all about it, forgot the author's name, and didn't realize it was one of his until I stumbled over the book again.
    • CommentAuthorStefanJ
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2011
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    Read the first pages of Boneshaker.

    @256: I read Make Room! Make Room! a few months after watching Soylent Green in the theater. I guess I was 13 or so. I was disappointed that the book didn't have the People Crackers, but it was still pretty brutal and memorable.

    Harrison got to hang around the Soylent Green set. At one point Edward G. Robinson asked him who the hell his character, Sol, was. He answered (paraphrasing) "You're me, someone who got to travel and see the unspoiled natural world, and now it's all gone to shit and no one understands what you're talking about."

    I got a kind of a chill a few years back when I started seeing tilapia fillets in stores. There's a scene in the book where the refugee kid is wandering through an outdoor market, and hears a woman pitching "Tilapia, fresh from Lake Ronkonkoma!"
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      CommentAuthorallana
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2011
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    i haven't read anything in aaaaaages, so i borrowed Memories of Ice yesterday. it's such a weird feeling, being so busy you don't remember to read....
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    Today I ran through John Berger's Ways of Seeing. I absolutely love John Berger. I'm also reading Walter Tevis' Mockingbird, fantastic precise dystopian science-fiction from the writer of The Hustler, and Carlo Emilio Gadda's That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana, Italian crime classic admired by the likes of Calvino

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