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Besides your own manuscripts. ;)

I'm currently reading a book my uncle gave me to read since he thinks I should read it. It's The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler. It talks about Peak Oil. I've gotten through 1/3 of it or so. It basically goes like this:

-Puts a commonly held belief-
-Says belief is false and this is why-
-PEAK OIL WILL KILL US ALL-
Rinse and Repeat




I'm looking forward to reading Slaughterhouse Five though after that :)
 

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The last book I read was "A Walk In The Woods" by Bill Bryson. Since then, I've started 2 other books, for a period of about 1 hour total between them, and not gone back to them for 2 days, so they don't count.
 

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The last book I read was "A Walk In The Woods" by Bill Bryson. Since then, I've started 2 other books, for a period of about 1 hour total between them, and not gone back to them for 2 days, so they don't count.

Ooh, I love Bryson's writing. :D I'm reading "A Short History of Private Life" right now. Haven't read "A Walk in the Woods" yet though. :)

~Amber~
 

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I'm trying to finish James Patterson's "Witch & Wizard". Wish I were reading a new Dresden novel by Butcher.

Wish I weren't waiting for a new book by at least 4-5 different authors....

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Ooh, I love Bryson's writing. :D I'm reading "A Short History of Private Life" right now. Haven't read "A Walk in the Woods" yet though. :)

~Amber~

I've read that one too. I love nearly all of his books. But I couldn't get into the ones about language... it was really heavy reading just to get 40 pages into one of those language books.

I really liked his one on Shakespeare, but my favourite one by Bryson is Neither Here Nor There, the one about Europe.

I'm a little sad though... my sister and I own nearly every one of his books together, but she's moving out tomorrow (which I'm not sad about). Anyway, she has more of his books than I do. I had 4, but currently have 3 because sis borrowed the 4th one and now we don't know which one it was, so I said to not bother figuring it out, and called it a housewarming gift.

So I only have 3 of his books, 2 of which I've read recently, and a real yearning to read the rest of them. But I can't, unless I come up with the money to buy the rest of them. *sigh*
 

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Currently reading:

Kushiel's Dart - Carey
Wizard's First Rule - Goodkind
Anne of the Island - Montgomery

And there's a stack of nonfiction books here.

Next in the line up:

A Game of Thrones
Death at Bishop's Keep
 

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Currently reading BLACK MAGIC SANCTION by Kim Harrison and SHADOWFEVER by Karen Marie Moning.

Have a zillion more waiting in the queue, but plan on taking a reading break after this so I can catch up with deadlines and everything else. :p
 

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Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain.

ETA: Slaughterhouse Five is excellent. If you don't like the sci-fi elements, try Mother Night or any of this short stories, especially Armageddon in Retrospect or Watch the Birdie. Vonnegut is one of 5 writers I'd take to another planet.
 
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Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
 

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Am I the only one thinking...

Well, right now I'm reading this forum thread!

Actually, I'm reading a very good book on the Korean war, but not right now. :)
 

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Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. I love it so far, although it's been a real challenge at times. Hugo writes very smoothly but the book is like...two million pages long. (Actually 1,260 pages, but that's close enough). And Hugo goes off on a lot of tangents -- I mean, do we really need to read 50 pages of details about the battle of Waterloo, or 40 pages about the origins of a certain Catholic convent? :tongue

Still, it's a really amazing novel, and I have the feeling that when I get to the end it will shoot to the top of my All-Time Favorite Books list.

Countdown: Only 400 more pages to go...
 

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I'm reading Kelley Armstrong's 'Waking the Witch'. It's the first book by her I've gotten the chance to read. Now I plan on finding and reading all her books.