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  • Titanuim
    Titanuim Posts: 337 Member
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    Flipping between Deadline by Mira Grant (2nd in series politcal thriller set in zombie environment - not as good as first book but plodding on) and Ulitmate Leadership by Russell Palmer (very good considering it was a free kindle book and is textbooky read).

    When those are finished I will move onto On the Beach by Neville Shute.

    Recommendations for good dystopian fiction will be gratefully recieved.
  • DLKeeble
    DLKeeble Posts: 200 Member
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    I actually just took up the habit of reading books at 42 yrs of age!..LOL I am currently reading Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet. Sure wish I had have done this years ago!

    Awesome book. Read the next one too. "World without End" I am listening to Ken Follets "Fall of the Giants" it is taking me awhile, since I found MFP. I need music to work out to. The book just isn't working.
  • DLKeeble
    DLKeeble Posts: 200 Member
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    The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. I LOVE IT!! (I'm on Good Reads, Courtney Wachob)

    One of my most favorite books ever. It stayed with me for quite awhile. That and a "Tree Grows in Brooklyn"
  • Bridget0927
    Bridget0927 Posts: 438 Member
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    This post :-)
  • DLKeeble
    DLKeeble Posts: 200 Member
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    Last book was about 2 months ago. "The Cold Dish" by Craig Johnson. I realized they started a series called "Longmire" it is about the main character Walt Longmire. The author has the most dry sense of humor it literally had me laughing out loud. I want to continue with the series.
    I've read several of the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. Really enjoyed them.
    My reading taste are all over the place.
  • nbhobbes
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    I'm reading "What Money Can't Buy" The Moral Effects of Markets by Michael J Sandel.

    Good read on how commercialisim and marketing are erroding things in society.
  • ntlpeterson
    ntlpeterson Posts: 16 Member
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    The Princess Bride. Second time reading it.
  • chocl8girl
    chocl8girl Posts: 1,968 Member
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    I'm now reading Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson. So far it's a very interesting blend of Middle Eastern culture and technology...
  • JamCubeChi
    JamCubeChi Posts: 378 Member
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    Nothing of a recnt best seller but currently reading "Chili Con Corpses" a supper club mystery by J.B. Stanley. It was a withdrawn item from my local library-picked it up for 25 or 50 cents. Nice thing about it is that it as actual recepies in there! :smile:
  • LilRock25
    LilRock25 Posts: 63 Member
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    I just started the Nora Robert's Boonesboro Inn Triology. First book is called "The Next Always" I think.

    And tonight I'll be starting my school book. Bleh. I guess I can say goodbye to reading for fun for a while.
  • ccarre81
    ccarre81 Posts: 134 Member
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    MFP message boards.
  • Ninalinda2012
    Ninalinda2012 Posts: 12
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    Just started Fifty Shades of Gray
  • gmukris
    gmukris Posts: 539
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    This is a great thread! I'm getting some new books to add to my to-read list. (I'm definitely going to be checking out the Passage!)

    I'm a big fan of trilogies or series that I can invest a good deal of time getting to know the characters.

    I loved the Hunger Games and 50 Shades trilogies.

    I'm currently reading A Clash of Kings, which is the second book in the series A Song of Fire and Ice by George R.R. Martin.
  • Shelli_78
    Shelli_78 Posts: 17 Member
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    Book 2 of the Hunger Games series..Catching Fire

    Some books by Geneen Roth on emotional eating

    In the Garden of Breast

    And listening to Where ever you go there you are by Jon Kabot Zen....does listening to an audio book count?

    And I agree with others I still have Wicked at home but just can't seem to get through it
  • tennisbabe94
    tennisbabe94 Posts: 444 Member
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    A book about Serena Williams called On The Line
  • Edwiner
    Edwiner Posts: 17
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    Spartan Gold by Clive Cussler pretty damn good very intriguing and adventurous.
  • gwenm4
    gwenm4 Posts: 127 Member
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    I'm reading the most hysterical memoir ever: "Let's Pretend This Never Happened" by Jenny Lawson. Warning: much profanity!
  • tkaawa
    tkaawa Posts: 302
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    Black Dagger Brotherhood Series
    Book #5-Love Unbound
    J.R Ward
  • Bess_Emerfoll
    Bess_Emerfoll Posts: 6
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    I'm reading the 3rd book to the Fifty Shades of Grey series.
  • jillianlovesyarn
    jillianlovesyarn Posts: 44 Member
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    I'm reading Hide Me Among the Graves by Tim Powers, The Difference Engine by William Gibson and The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco (still . . . library has a great Kindle section but it really sucks when all the books you've put on hold become available at once and they can only be checked out for 14 days . . .).

    In the past 1-2 weeks I've finished:
    * Embassytown by China Mievelle: Sort of a hot mess but I still enjoyed huge parts
    * Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo: A reviewer on Amazon who had not actually read the book rightly tagged "poverty porn." I thought it was OK but I have problems with it.
    * The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes: liked quite a bit
    * History of a Pleasure Seeker by Richard Mason: knew nothing about this one going into it but really liked it.
    * A Song of Fire and Ice, Pt 1: I have problems with Martin as a writer but he does weave a pretty good tale. Who knows when I'll be reading the second volume, though, because my library has approximately six copies and a thousand people on the waiting list.
    * Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood: I love Margaret Atwood so much. This was a great book. It was nice to get the world in Oryx and Crake from an entirely different perspective.
    * Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn: This easily one of the WORST books I have read in the past decade and would probably make my top ten worst books of all time. It wasn't even the ending. It wasn't the . . . SPOILER, MAYBE . . . plot "twist" (does no one watch film noir anymore because when the writer erects a flag with FILM NOIR painted all over it multiple times in the book before her "twist" I kind of expect her readers to know that she is thinking of duplicitous women since that is a critical part of film noir ergo the "revelation" re Amy shouldn't have been one at all. Granted, Amy's diary was some of the worst writing I've seen in a long time so it's not like any of it would have rang true IMO even if Flynn didn't keep trying to announce how clever she was . . .). Sigh. I needed to get that out of my system. Before I die I really need to learn how to stop reading books I dislike. Life is too short and there are too many books to read.

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