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  1. 12-16-2010, 03:15 PM #31
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    I read Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky recently and it found it to be amazing.

    I'm currently reading The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ChrisL View Post
    I'm currently reading The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino.

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    That is a great book. If you like it, you should also read Cloven Viscount and Nonexistent Knight
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    Just started "The Prince" by Machiavelli
    what an awesome read
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    For you sci fans out there, the hands down best sci fi book I've ever read was Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. You won't be disappointed.
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    The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris. Wonderful biography of Roosevelts life before he became president.
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    I agree with Theseus. Morris's biography of T.R. is top notch. Read it many years ago.

    More recently, I just finished reading James Hornfischer's, Neptune's Inferno: The U. S. Navy at Guadalcanal. Excellent read...If you like reading WWII history.
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    I was given The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami while on vacation in Costa Rica after Christmas. I liked it so much I am now reading all of his novels in chronological order. It is definitely post modern. if you like Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, William Vollman or David Foster Wallace you might like Murakami.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mixmaster View Post
    Just started "The Prince" by Machiavelli
    what an awesome read
    When finished, read "Discourses on Livi." Just as awesome.

    I'm currently reading "L.A. Noir" by John Buntin. Next in line is "The Fourth Turning" by William Strauss, then "Under the Dome" by Stephen King. Also, just picked up the Barnes and Noble leather bound version of "The Complete Sherlock Holmes."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lazarus View Post
    I was given The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami while on vacation in Costa Rica after Christmas. I liked it so much I am now reading all of his novels in chronological order. It is definitely post modern. if you like Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, William Vollman or David Foster Wallace you might like Murakami.
    I really liked that book... I'll have to give the others a read.
    Haruki Murakami - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    I am currently reading:

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    Flowers of Edo
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    Biocentrism

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    Hamlet (Dramatised, Commentary Options)
    A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

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    A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe

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    personally just finished the bood "Dead or Alive" by tom clancy, its from the jack ryan series, but for a book series that i could reread again and again i would have to say "Dune" Frank Herbert will get my nod
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