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[BlackFire]

Because of school, homeworks and Gym I have not been able to read. However, just TODAY finished Devil May Care, it was awesome! I want a girlfriend like Scarlett

[sharpshooter]

By Royal Command.

[Kilroy6644]

Currently reading The Shooter, by Barry Sadler (he of Ballad of the Green Berets fame).

Dr. B, Heart of Darkness is probably Joseph Conrad's most famous work. It was published in 1902, and describes the journey of a man named Marlow up the Congo River to find Mr. Kurtz. It (and the Casement Report) are credited with being two of the main works which brought to the attention of the world the horror (the horror) of what was going on in the Congo Free State, ultimately resulting in King Leopold II turning the country over to the Belgian government to become Belgian Congo.

[Mister E]

RED DRAGON by Thomas Harris

Very good read and I can see why Manhunter and Red Dragon really has not done this book justice. Unlike the movie adaptions, this was truely about Francis Dollarhyde.

I love HANNIBAL. Great, atmospheric stuff with a wicked sense of humor, good sense of surrealism and fantasy. Shame it was so slammed on its initial release... it's Harris' best work to date.

I think people hate it because they expected it to be a crime thriller like RED DRAGON and LAMBS. I haven't read BLACK SUNDAY but I'd believe HANNIBAL is his best.

[BlackFire]

Hey guys I highly recommend 'Kane and Abel' from Jeffrey Archer, that's the best book I have read.

[Sbott]

Raymond Chandler's - The Big Sleep

[Agent 76]

Daniel Silva's THE SECRET SERVANT

[Kilroy6644]

First Blood - David Morrell

[AgentBentley]

The Ghost by Robert Harris.

I like the title character' sense of humor.
BTW Pierce Brosnan will play the prime minister in the movie version, Nicolas Cage the writer.
I don't know how that'll work, since the writer is supposed to be English, and Cage hasn't made a good movie in ages.

[Shadow Syndicate]

She-H.G Haggard

Great British Victorian adventure lit. Thats all I can say at the moment

[Sbott]

All Quiet on the Western Front

[chriso]

CIA - Die ganze Geschichte - Tim Weiner
(Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA)

Edited by chriso, 18 October 2008 - 12:03 PM.

[dodge]

Skinny Bitch. The smartest, sassiest and most hilarious book ever written on nutrition. If you don't mend your evil ways after reading this one, you'll rue becoming skewered lamb.

Sample quote:

"If your nose is running, your body is trying to rid itself of something through your snot. But you, drama queen, take cold medicine to stop your booger flow. Now you've gone and f----d up everything."

[Kilroy6644]

Just finished First Blood (great book), and am starting Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.

[dodge]

Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire by Deepak Chopra. About channeling the forces of synchronicity. Apparently, it works...for, as I started typing, a ravishing Eurasian girl winked as she passed by. Gotta go!

[Safari Suit]

Holly Johnson- A Bone In My Flute

Of all the autobiographies I have read, this is one of the most enjoyable. Johnson is brutally honest with his opinions on, among other things, Winston Churchill, people who stay in the closet and Transvision Vamp, and I welcome, although I would seeing as I generally agree with him.

[Sbott]

The 4-hour work week by Tim Ferriss - is it possible, probably not but its worth aiming for...
If your looking for some ideas to outsource parts of your life then this book may be useful if your not don't buy it otherwise you will be helping Tim fund his 4 hr work week

[DamnCoffee]

I'm planning to catch up on the Kenneth Williams diaries, since I abandoned it due to my studies. I'll read a few entries on the train tomorrow.

[Cruiserweight]

The Telltale Turtle: A Pet Psychic Mystery-Jim Lavene and Joyce Lavene

[MkB]

I started yesterday the last David Lodge, Deaf Sentence. Not his best, but enjoyable!
It's about a retired professor of linguistics, with an evolutive deafness since his mid-forties, who unexpectedly gets involved in an affair with a research student - or so I think, the affair hasn't really started yet (but, mainly, it's about deafness).

For the Bond geeks, I found a James Bond reference, when the main character describes his hearing aids:

The first in-the-ear one I bought had a fiddly volume control like a tiny studded wheel which you twisted with the tip of your forefinger, as if trying to insert a screw into your head, but they got more and more sophisticated over the years, and my latest one is digital, has three programs (for quiet conditions, noisy conditions and loop), adjusts itself automatically on the first two, or can be manually adjusted with a remote control concealed in my watch (very James Bond).

Funnily enough, I started this book on a rather long train journey yesterday, during which I had earplugs (earplugs are the solo traveller's best friends, really), so I was in a way experiencing the feelings described in the book, this semi-deafness being both a quiet island where you can retire from the crazy hubbub of modern life, and on the other hand makes ou feel rather cut from others.

[Kilroy6644]

Eaters Of The Dead - Michael Crichton

[dodge]

Eaters Of The Dead - Michael Crichton

When you finish reading it, could you post a mini-review? Am a Crichton fan but missed this one. Wait a minute...I did see the movie called The 13th Warrior, which I loved. Wasn't the film based on the book?

[Kilroy6644]

Eaters Of The Dead - Michael Crichton

When you finish reading it, could you post a mini-review? Am a Crichton fan but missed this one. Wait a minute...I did see the movie called The 13th Warrior, which I loved. Wasn't the film based on the book?

Indeed it was, but I've never seen the entire thing, and the portion I did see was several years ago, so I don't know how the film compares to the book.

I'm only about halfway though it now, but I can give you a mini-review now. Keep in mind, my reviews generally consist of little more than whether or not I liked the book. Which I do, very much. It's an interesting take on the Beowulf story. I like how the basic elements of the story are there, but with the details changed. There are characters that are easily recognizable (such as Buliwyf and Rothgar), and there are others with recognizable names, but in different roles than in the epic, as if the epic was the result of centuries of retelling, with the resulting distortion that accompanies. By framing it as an eye-witness account by Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Crichton makes it very believable. And of course, it's not just a translation. It's got an introduction, and footnotes, and a bibliography, as if it's a real scholarly work. The first three chapters are actually based on ibn Fadlan's account of his journey north, with the remainder being Crichton's story. He does a very good job of presenting it.

[mrsbonds_ppk]

The Adventures of Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark by Campbell Black. Based off the movies. This one is pretty good so far. More backstory of the events in the movie.

This book had adaptations from the first 3 movies so I thought I'd buy it since I've never read them before.

[dodge]

I'm reading--well, speed-reading WATCHMEN a third time...looking for the squid that Loomis has gone on about because it's missing in the film. How memorable could the squid have been if I-- a faithful reader with my eyelids taped open so I could stay awake--missed it on both previous readings? These and other mysteries plague me two days after the birthday that nobody remembered here.

[Harmsway]

How memorable could the squid have been if I-- a faithful reader with my eyelids taped open so I could stay awake--missed it on both previous readings?

I don't know how you could miss it. It's a pretty big element of the climax.

These and other mysteries plague me two days after the birthday that nobody remembered here.

Aww. Belated Happy Birthday, Dodgemeister.

[mccartney007]

I just read AMERICAN PRINCE: A MEMOIR by Tony Curtis on Thursday and it was quite good.

I am about to start reading PLANET INDIA by Mire Kamdar.

[dodge]

How memorable could the squid have been if I-- a faithful reader with my eyelids taped open so I could stay awake--missed it on both previous readings?

I don't know how you could miss it. It's a pretty big element of the climax.

These and other mysteries plague me two days after the birthday that nobody remembered here.

Aww. Belated Happy Birthday, Dodgemeister.

Yayyyyyyyy, you really like me...even though I missed the squid!

[Qwerty]

Sir Roger's My Word is My Bond. Charming, laid-back and fun so far.

[Kilroy6644]

I'm about halfway through Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter.