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I'm reading I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President.

Yes, it's a YA book which I normally don't read, but it's hilarious.

That is a very fun book :) I heard he's working on a sequel.
 

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I'm a big fan of the Dexter TV series on Showtime so I checked out the books and love them as well. I just finished his latest...Dexter Is Delicious.

I also recently discovered Christopher Moore. I read his It's A Dirty Job book recently. (I really enjoy that type of humor in a book...morbid, with a bit of snark and silly thrown in for good measure)

I like dark humor and these books have been perfect reads.

OH! Moore is at the very top of my list. You have to read "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal." It's one of my favorite books ever.
 

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Enjoying Laura Levine's cozies about a mystery-solving copywriter. Started with Killer Cruise (read that in mass-market paperback while ON a cruise). Downloaded several more onto my Kindle.

Also just started reading Robin Lane Fox's Pagans and Christians, and Robert Reich's latest, Aftershock. I'm getting spoiled by my Kindle -- Pagans and Christians is a big, heavy hardback, and uncomfortable to hold for reading. The Reich book is on my Kindle.

--Ken
 

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The Book of Night Women by Marlon James. It's about a slave rebellion and the book is a massacre from beginning to end. The kill count is something like in The Odyssey.
 

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

ETA:Great Book!
 
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I just finished Hollywood by Charles Bukowski (recommended to me by people on this site). I LOVED it, it is possibly my favorite book to date. Thank you AW!
 

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Just finished Summer Knight by Jim Butcher (4th of the Dresden Files), and will start Death Masks (5th) tonight. Woop! :D
 

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Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (again). She's the perfect antidote to Tess Durbeyfield... (ugh).
 

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OH! Moore is at the very top of my list. You have to read "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal." It's one of my favorite books ever.

I plan on getting more by him soon. Thanks for the recommendations
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

ETA:Great Book!

Still one of my favs from school years ago.


Stephen King's The Stand. I haven't read it since freshman year in high school which was longer ago than I'll admit to.

My soon to be 7 year old is convinced it is the biggest book ever.

:D

Yay! I just bought that book yesterday. I'm becoming quite a King fan after his wonderful Dark Tower series. Just bought his book On Writing as well.




I just finished Neil Gaiman's, The Graveyard Book. It was a terrific fun read! :)


I keep meaning to check out his novels. Being a comic fan I only know of his comic writing but I've heard his "regular" books are quite good too.
 

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Just started reading The Queen of Palmyra, which one testimonial compares with To Kill a Mockingbird. We'll see if it lives up to that claim.
 

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Just finished The Half Blood Prince. Starting reading Dearly Devoted Dexter while waiting for the last Harry Potter from the library. Which I just picked up today.
 

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The Flock by James Robert Smith. Reminds me a lot of Michael Crichton and in fact it references Jurassic Park several times. The writing's not as technical/science-based but it's a very Crichton-esque plot. Only with near-sentient terror birds instead of raptors.