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This week, I are mostly reading....

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    #1592
    AJG
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    Just finished 'Victoria' by Knut Hamsun and started 'The End Of The Affair' by Graham Greene.


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    #1593
    Dudess
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    Haven't read The End of the Affair but saw the film. Fantastic. One of my fave films ever.


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    #1594
    John
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    ZorbaTehZ wrote: »
    Could you expand a little on that? :)

    It reads like treacle. Not in a bad way but it is so tiring to read, each sentence is heavy with meaning and flows like a river made of concrete. I think I like it but I'm not sure.


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    #1595
    Black Swan
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    Pandora's Legion by Harold Coyle. Good plot about bioterrorism up until the last 50 pps, where it looks like the author was in a hurry to make the publication deadlines (one too many fiery chariots to save the day, as if a Greek play with high tech).


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    #1596
    arbeitsscheuer
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    Blue_Lagoon wrote: »
    Pandora's Legion by Harold Coyle. Good plot about bioterrorism up until the last 50 pps, where it looks like the author was in a hurry to make the publication deadlines (one too many fiery chariots to save the day, as if a Greek play with high tech).
    Is that the same Harold Coyle who wrote The Ten Thousand?
    The Ten Thousand's not a bad book, a sort of modern-day adaptation of Xenophon's Anabasis for an American audience. Since it's for a US audience tho, it's a tad too pro-American, way too much faith in their training, technical and tactical superiority. But if you can suspend your disbelief it's a fairly compelling read.

    Harold Coyle is the new Tom Clancy.


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    #1597
    AJG
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    'The Cone Gatherers' by Robin Jenkins.


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    #1598
    Red Hand
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    The Science of Discworld 2-Terry Pratchett.


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    #1599
    John
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    HP Lovecraft Dagon and Other Macabre Tales


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    MooseJam
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    john lecarre - the little drummer girl


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    #1601
    stovelid
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    Revolutionaries - Eric Hobsbawm
    Twelve - Nick McDonnell


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    #1602
    Tar.Aldarion
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    Deadhouse Gates - A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen - Steven Erikson


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    #1603
    AJG
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    '1933 Was A Bad Year' by John Fante


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    #1604
    AJG
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    Just moved onto 'The stories of Paul Bowles'


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    #1605
    John
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    Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy


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    #1606
    kraggy
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    The Marching Powder by Rusty Young (with Thomas McFadden)

    http://www.marchingpowder.com/


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    Mr. Bones
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    Just finished "Into the Wild" (ok, nothing special) by Jon Krakuer, starting Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil by John Berendt....


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    John
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    Joyce, Family and Finnegans Wake by Patrick McCarthy.


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    #1609
    tHE vAGGABOND
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    World Without End, by Ken Follet [sequel to Pilllars of the Earth - if you have not read it, go and get it second hand on ebay or amazon :)]


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    EimearNíS
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    Just finished "the kite Runner"... READ IT!!! It's brill!!!


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    #1611
    Capt'n Midnight
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    The Korean Way , Max Hastings (Pan Books)

    Scary the way political stuff in the lead up to the war reads just like Iraq and the book was written in 1987.


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    GhostInTheRuins
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    Half way through 'From potter's field' by Patricia Cornwell. Great read so far.


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    #1613
    Latchy
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    Just finished reading Eisenhower, supreme allied commander by Carlo D'Este http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/MP-30046/Eisenhower.htm

    onto Jools Hollond's authobiography now ....


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    highlydebased
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    "The Southwest Airlines way" by a dude who's last name is Gittel. lol


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    #1615
    John
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    James Joyce Finnegans Wake (reading it in conjunction with the Kitcher book above)
    Yukio Mishima Spring Snow


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    #1616
    BossArky
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    "Making Money" - Terry Pratchett


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    #1617
    Tar.Aldarion
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    Memories of ice - Steven Erikson


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    Mrs. MacGyver
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    The secret lives of Mrs Simpson - Duchess of Windsor by Charles Higham
    Just finished 'the last king of Scotland' a great read, looking forward to seeing the DVD of it now!


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    highlight100
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    Co Longford and it's people - D Leahy


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    #1620
    Blush_01
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    stovelid wrote: »
    Twelve - Nick McDonnell

    I really enjoyed reading that ages ago. It's a very easy read, but there's something in it that really hits you.

    Shalimar the Clown - Salman Rushdie
    Mercy - Jodi Picoult


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    #1621
    MooseJam
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    I'm not reading anything this week, teacher would be very dissapointed


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