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I'm on books 43 and 44 of the year. I'm reading
"Carl Sagan - Cosmos" and
"Upton Sinclair - Oil!"

Here is what I've read so far this year:

Lewis Black - Me of Little Faith
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Bruce Campbell - If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
Mark Childress - Tender
Peter Corris - Saving Billie
Peter Corris - The Undertow
Lionel Dahmer - A Father's Story
Don Everts - Jesus with Dirty Feet
Cathy Hapka - Lost; Secret Identity
Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
Kenneth Kamler - Surviving the Extremes; A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance
Stephen King - The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born
Stephen King - Just After Sunset
Stephen King - Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Stephen King - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Dean Koontz - Forever Odd
Jon Krakauer - Eiger Dreams
Jon Krakauer - Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Michael Lang - The Road to Woodstock
Steve Lopez - The Soloist
Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses
Chuck Palahniuk - Haunted
George Pelecanos (Edited By) - D.C. Noir 2: The Classics
George Pelecanos - The Way Home
Laura Pritchett - Hell's Bottom, Colorado
Daniel Stashower - The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Mark Sundeen - The Making of Toro: Bullfights, Broken Hearts, and One Author's Quest for the Acclaim He Deserves
Hunter S. Thompson - Better Than Sex; Confessions of a Political Junkie
Scott Turow - Limitations
Barry Unsworth - After Hannibal
Kurt Vonnegut - Slapstick
Scott Wolven - Controlled Burn
Stuart Woods - Capital Crimes
Stuart Woods - Dirty Work
Stuart Woods - Iron Orchid
Stuart Woods - Reckless Abandon
Stuart Woods - The Short Forever
Stuart Woods - Shoot Him if He Runs
Stuart Woods - Short Straw
Stuart Woods - Two Dollar Bill
Various Authors - Amplified; Fiction from Leading Alt-Country, Indie Rock, Blues and Folk Musicians


Wow. Voracious reader. What is your top five from that list?
 
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Stone's Fall by Iain Pears
 
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'Going Postal' by Terry Pratchett
 
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I'm almost halfway through Stephen King's 'It'. Also, I've read 'Sirens Titan' and 'Mother Night' by Kurt Vonnegut recently.
 
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I guess I should add that 'It' is awesome so far. I hope I like the second half as good as the first. If I do, I'll like it more than the movie.

Kurt Vonnegut is a favorite of mine. I liked 'Sirens' better than 'Mother', but I REALLY liked the end of 'Mother'.
 
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oh man, the book is leaps and bounds better than the movie. that's one of my favorite books. scared the shit out of me when i was 15.
 
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Outliers: The Story of Sucess


verrrry slowwwwly
 
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Outliers: The Story of Sucess


verrrry slowwwwly


I love that book. I think that author is my favorite nonfiction writer, as far as I know. His other books are awesome, if you're into that sort of thing...
 
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Kurt Vonnegut is a favorite of mine. I liked 'Sirens' better than 'Mother', but I REALLY liked the end of 'Mother'.


they were the last two kurt i read, i think.
i have a few more of his on my xmas list.

my brother recently came to me for a book to read so i gave him 'Slaughterhouse 5' - hopefully that will convert him - i dont actually own my favourite of his ive read so far - Breakfast of Champions - or id have given him that.
 
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Read about half of Chuck Klosterman's latest, Eating the Dinosaur, at work yesterday - still the same laugh-out-loud moments for which I love him so well, but the closest he's gotten to extended philosophizing in any of his work (save, perhaps, Downtown Owl, but that's a whole other kettle of fish) - not sure yet if it's entirely successful, but I am enjoying it!
 
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Finishing up David Finkel's The Good Soldiers, detailing the experiences of the 2-16 battalion who were part of the Iraq "surge" in 2007 and he was embedded with. Hauntingly written, and absolutely no bias. He's not pushing some pro or anti war agenda, instead simply detailing in painful honesty the "abnormal normal" that these soldiers deal with. A super depressing and graphic read, but couldnt recommend it more highly. Undoubtedly the best book written on the Iraq war.

I also just finished Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Im kicking myself it took me this long to finally read it.
 
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I’m continuing to read through my brothers books and have got to ‘The Ex-Boyfriend's Handbook’ by Matt Dunn. Not enjoying it much - it seems to be Chick-Lit for guys
 
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The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave - good enough but a bit too Chuck Palahniuk shocktastic at the moment. Looks like it's going to get better now the roadtrip has started though . . .
 
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my brother recently came to me for a book to read so i gave him 'Slaughterhouse 5' - hopefully that will convert him - i dont actually own my favourite of his ive read so far - Breakfast of Champions - or id have given him that.


Those are my favorites. Slaughterhouse is the only book I have read twice.
 
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The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave - good enough but a bit too Chuck Palahniuk shocktastic at the moment. Looks like it's going to get better now the roadtrip has started though . . .
I have it but im going through a real Irving Welsh phase at the minute.Im saving it up for a rainy day.
 
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I just completed The Brothers Karamazov. All 974 pages. It took me one day short of a month.

An overwhelming piece of literature. Maybe I even see its themes and sense of truth, or search for meaning, as a foil to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
 
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Slaughterhouse is the only book I have read twice.


ever?!?!
 
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