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Okie Medicvet
06-11-2009, 11:54 AM
I'm talking about everything from bestsellers that everyone says you just HAVE to read but just haven't gotten around to it, to books that make every English major's list at sometime.

For instance, I have never read Moby Dick, but if you lie to me and tell me it is about some fat cock instead of a whale I might give it a shot. Then again, if it's a sperm whale, maybe I would read it then.

And I was given "Bonfire of the Vanities" as a Christmas gift the year it first came out and made the bestseller lists, but just couldn't get into it and said fuckit and gave it to someone else to read. The gift giver must have thought that since I read, any book would do, which can be the case if I have no other book and am bored, but for the most part, I am a little more particular about what I read.

Oh and I have never gotten around to actually reading the DaVinci code, either.

moe_blunts
06-11-2009, 12:46 PM
The Great Gatsby

Limp
06-11-2009, 01:20 PM
How to post interesting threads for dummies.

shimian
06-30-2009, 08:37 AM
I'd like to read the most recent story in the Douglass Preston / Lincoln Child Series about FBI agent Pendergast. The first few were pretty good. Combination of Mystery, Action, and "possible" paranormal.

Morfin
06-30-2009, 08:49 AM
I'd like to read the most recent story in the Douglass Preston / Lincoln Child Series about FBI agent Pendergast. The first few were pretty good. Combination of Mystery, Action, and "possible" paranormal.

I have read them all. Cabinet of Curiosities was my favorite. I just finished Cemetary Dance and that was pretty good.

Edit: If you want the audio book of Cemetary Dance, I will post it.

shimian
06-30-2009, 09:35 AM
Yes, I think Cemetary Dance was wthe one I was looking for. I still have a couple of other books to work through first though, so there's time. Thanks for the offer.

Hulud
07-02-2009, 07:01 PM
Gravity's Rainbow. been sitting on my bookshelf for four years.

VG1506
07-10-2009, 02:31 PM
All my co-workers keep saying I should check out "Guns, Germs, and Steel". I have heard some good things about the book but it seems a little dry.

}{arlequin
07-10-2009, 02:42 PM
"foucault's pendulum" and "salt"



also, sarah palin's memoirs