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10-08-2005, 06:08 PM
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good reading
I want to take a break from playing [insert gambling card game here], I'm looking for some good fiction reccomendations (contemporary or "old"). I don't like fantasy and I don't like mass produced writers like that Dan Brown fellow. Come on OOT, let's hear it. TY in advance.
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#3
10-08-2005, 06:14 PM
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Re: good reading
i am in the middle of Pillars of the Earth. it is excellent so far.
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#4
10-08-2005, 06:15 PM
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Re: good reading
A book I got for Christmas last year was Kite Runner. Very good read, especially since it educated me - in part - about a culture of which I was pretty ignorant.
I know you asked for fiction recommendations, but in any reading suggestions thread I'll throw this one in: Sperm Wars by Dr. Robin Baker. Evolutionary biology for the layman.
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#6
10-08-2005, 06:18 PM
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Re: good reading
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A book I got for Christmas last year was Kite Runner. Very good read, especially since it educated me - in part - about a culture of which I was pretty ignorant. I know you asked for fiction recommendations, but in any reading suggestions thread I'll throw this one in: Sperm Wars by Dr. Robin Baker. Evolutionary biology for the layman. [/ QUOTE ] FWIW, Kite Runner is my favorite book of all time if any of you have read this and can think of similar suggestions. Absolutely amazing. ZZzzZZzzZZzz.
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#7
10-08-2005, 06:26 PM
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Re: good reading
This just occurred to me, and I haven't thought about it much, but if you enjoyed Kite Runner, I think you'd like Cormac McCarthy's stuff, specifically The Crossing, although all of his stuff is very good.
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#8
10-08-2005, 06:29 PM
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Re: good reading
Whenever I take a break from pinochle I like to read Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Love in the Time of Cholera is his best IMO.
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#9
10-08-2005, 06:31 PM
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Re: good reading
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Whenever I take a break from pinochle I like to read Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Love in the Time of Cholera is his best IMO. [/ QUOTE ] read it in high school. writing = too flowery, not enough action for MM. ty for the reccomendation though. ZZzzZZzzZZzz
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#10
10-08-2005, 06:32 PM
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Re: good reading
Hmmm...well about some Thomas Pynchon or Don Delillo then?
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