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2009 Book Thread
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ZippyDoDa |
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Posts: 9115 (01/09/09 1:07 PM) Such a naughty monkey |
superguppieIt sounds like you read a lot, you need to get the Kindle! I love the Kindle, that is where I am reading the Dexter books. They are on back order again this year, supposed to be getting more of them sometime in late February or so. They have gone down in price since I bought mine also. Check it out at Amazon.com, I think you would appreciate one. I love mine. |
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 Mister Yuck |
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Posts: 4363 (01/09/09 1:08 PM) Registered User |
I liked the Wordy Shipmates, which is her only book since Assassination Vacation. But I did wonder if she picked a topic close to New York so that she
wouldn't have to travel so much.
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SurvivorArctic |
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Posts: 13582 (01/09/09 1:09 PM) Not a team player
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Just got:
The Turnaround by George Pelecanos (anything he writes is fucking brilliant) Cutting Edge by John Harvey (one of my favourite Brit writers of all time) The Ritual by Mo Hayden (another Brit. She is seriously disturbed <333) ::excited:: |
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ZippyDoDa |
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Posts: 9116 (01/09/09 1:09 PM) Such a naughty monkey |
Kym wrote: Did I get it right about Dexter? |
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Kym |
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Posts: 2300 (01/09/09 1:11 PM) |
Yes Mammy <3
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superguppie |
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Posts: 25128 (01/09/09 1:12 PM) Registered user |
Zippy, I completely agree--I need to get a Kindle. I saw someone at a hotel pool with the Sony one as well, it's awesome!
JeFa: You are right. I thought the Partly Cloudy Patriot came after AV, but it was before. You don't think the quality of Sarah Vowell's writing seems to be very shaky? |
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Mister Yuck |
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Posts: 4364 (01/09/09 1:19 PM) Registered User |
Well, it's considerably more entertaining than most historians' writing. And I'm actually pinching one of her Roger Williams quotations for
something I'm writing.
One thing that irritated me was her patriotism, however guilt-ridden. It's a problem most American historians have. |
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Cleofuss |
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Posts: 2544 (01/09/09 1:23 PM) |
Currently reading "Loving Frank" by Nancy Horan (about Frank Lloyd Wright's long-term affair)
On deck: "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski and "In defense of food: An eater's manifesto" by Michael Pollan |
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GlamsSlam |
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Posts: 3524 (01/09/09 1:33 PM) Registered User |
Clearly this is SG's attemp to usurp the Goddess Oprah's book club status..... I predict FAILURE.
I am READING too.. Sex and The City; Sex and The Single Girl, the Great Book of Sex, The Complete Idiots Guide to Amazing Sex; The Low Down on Going Down and one for Guppie.. The Sex Starved Marriage. Smootches... buy my new cosmetics from MAC.... |
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superguppie |
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Posts: 25129 (01/09/09 1:34 PM) Registered user |
Well, it's considerably more entertaining than most historians' writing.  True. I think part of the problem was I read Tony Horwitz's "A Voyage Long and Strange" right before "Wordy
Shipmates". The former was a far better book, IMO.
Cleo: What do you think of "Loving Frank"? I didn't like it all that much. I think that may be because I ended up disliking both FLW and Mamah by the middle of the book. I just wasn't rooting for them at all. Pfft. She's an amateur. I'd have put out a hit on James Frey and that would've been the END of that. |
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Mister Yuck |
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Posts: 4366 (01/09/09 1:37 PM) Registered User |
Well Tony did have a writing class with Jill Lepore, after all lol
They're obviously competitors in a tiny market niche, but I guess I liked both books equally. |
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kamikaze156 |
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Posts: 218 (01/09/09 1:37 PM) Registered User |
Ted Dibiase's autobiography..well I guess not a true autobiography since it is a ghostwriter
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Eurytol |
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Posts: 4945 (01/09/09 1:48 PM) Badass motherfucker-er
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jayeffers, did you read that Horace Greeley book, yet??
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Mister Yuck |
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Posts: 4369 (01/09/09 2:00 PM) Registered User |
No, I put it on my amazon wishlist though!
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Eurytol |
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Posts: 4948 (01/09/09 2:04 PM) Badass motherfucker-er
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Lemme know when you're done reading it, slacker. >D
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Cleofuss |
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Posts: 2545 (01/09/09 2:09 PM) |
superguppie wrote: Guppie: I finally finished. Man - the last 30 pages of this book were batshit CRAZY! Who knew this is how she would end up? I guess karma is a bitch.
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McWolcott |
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Posts: 10077 (01/09/09 2:16 PM) The Real American Psycho |
The third Dexter book sucked ass, I hope the 4th is better.
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superguppie |
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Posts: 25130 (01/09/09 3:01 PM) Registered user |
He may have been an architectural genius but he wasn't much of a man.Total agreeance. Their self-absorption is staggering. |
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factoryhurl |
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Posts: 5329 (01/09/09 3:07 PM) Registered user |
just finished the hurdy gurdy man, donovan's autobio and now reading urban castles in new york city 1890-1943 by jared n. day.
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