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07-01-2005, 01:16 PM
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The Bilson = Jayhawk Love
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What are you reading?
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"Mircale at Midway" by Gordon Prunge
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07-01-2005, 04:21 PM
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I just returned The Manchurian Candidate to the library. I've had a bad book summer thus far. This was the second dud that I couldn't get into. The first was Winston Churchill's biography about his youth. It was entitled, "The Early Years: A Roving Comission." Stay away unless you want to read about where Churchill rode his bike around as a kid.
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07-01-2005, 04:41 PM
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Only khal-khalash.
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Re: What are you reading?
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"   Dynamic Characters" by Nancy Kress
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07-04-2005, 09:31 AM
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The Bilson = Jayhawk Love
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I just returned The Manchurian Candidate to the library. I've had a bad book summer thus far. This was the second dud that I couldn't get into. The first was Winston Churchill's biography about his youth. It was entitled, "The Early Years: A Roving Comission." Stay away unless you want to read about where Churchill rode his bike around as a kid.
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my grandma has all of his stuff, and it's so boring.
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07-05-2005, 08:18 PM
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Re: What are you reading?
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Just finished the illustrated edition of   The Story of O. I'll probably move on to Umberto Ecco's   Baudolino.
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07-06-2005, 02:14 PM
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Re: What are you reading?
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Paddy Whacked (about Irish gangs/mob activity in America) and Deception Point, my last Dan Brown book =(
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07-06-2005, 03:51 PM
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Re: What are you reading?
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Dan Brown is a bad writer. He knows how to tell a story, but his success is sickening.
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07-06-2005, 06:02 PM
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Kwisatz Haderach
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Right now I'm reading..
"Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. DuBois
"Shadow of the Panther" by Hugh Pearson
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07-07-2005, 02:40 PM
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Re: What are you reading?
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If by bad writer you mean every one of his stories follows a formula (whether or not he realizes he is doing it) then yes, he is a bad writer, but he does a good job of incorporating real research into entertaining books - its funny, I haven't read fiction in years, and I read the DaVinci code more because I'm a history teacher than anything, and I actually liked it (ie was entertained) enough to read his other stuff...but a bad writer, yeah probably
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07-09-2005, 02:52 PM
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The Bilson = Jayhawk Love
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good I'll skip him.
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