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I just started reading Wicked by Gregory Maguire.
 

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I bought The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Have you ever seen the movie "Love Song for Bobby Long"? They reference The Heart is a Lonely Hunter throughout the movie, which made me want to read the book (haven't gotten around to it yet, though). Let me know if you liked it when you finished. I've never met anyone else who has read it.
 

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Have you ever seen the movie "Love Song for Bobby Long"? They reference The Heart is a Lonely Hunter throughout the movie, which made me want to read the book (haven't gotten around to it yet, though). Let me know if you liked it when you finished. I've never met anyone else who has read it.

I've read it and loved it. Also, her novel Ballad of the Sad Café.
 

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Am currently reading Saving fish from drowning by Amy Tan whose books I love, but I'm finding it hard to get into, partly coz it's tiny weeny print (I'm partially sighted) and partly coz too much shit is happening in my life for me to concentrate. Has anyone read it? Should I plow steadfastly on?
 

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i've sort of started a couple books right now. I started reading A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry and i've read a couple chapters so far and then my friend showed me this brilliant second hand book store so i bought a couple other books and i am also reading The Moviegoer by Walker Percy.
 

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The Fiction Writer's Handbook, by Hallie & Whit Burnett

This book, from 1975, is written without the jargon. It guides and inspires more than it prescribes or proscribes. That's the sweet spot I needed to find again.

Obviously, I recommend it pretty highly.
 

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Thomas Pynchon's latest, Inherent Vice. Druggy and dense and surprisingly full of plot.
 

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I'm waiting for Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog to come in :D

Currently: Gunter Grass' Cat and Mouse 'cos The Tin Drum was really good.
 

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The late Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Played With Fire.

This is the second book in the trilogy, and I didn't read the first one, but so far so good. Strong beginning, though it apparently has nothing to do with the rest of the story. Then slows down a bit when it goes into too much detail about all the characters' love/sex lives, but then again more suspense. I'm almost a third in.
 

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I'm slightly off topic here, but hoping someone might be able to answer this for me.

I read The Time Traveler's Wife a couple of years ago and loved it. Now, the movie is out and I've heard that "it's cute but it has no plot." I loved the book, but if the movie is mediocre (or worse) I don't want to see it because it will kill the whole story for me. Anyone both read the book AND seen the movie?
 

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Thomas Pynchon's latest, Inherent Vice. Druggy and dense and surprisingly full of plot.

My reaction whilst reading this:

Druggy, typical Pynchon... dense, typical pynchon... plot??? and what the hell?

Perhaps he's died and no one noticed.
 

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Finished Shiver this morning.
Now reading, Kiss and Tell by Sandy Lynn
 

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Murder in the Cove by Kathleen J. Farthing.
 

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Midway through Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro. The first book of hers I've read but it will not be the last.

Just finished The Fiction Class by Susan Breen. Loved it.