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Cygnusx2112 (214 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 11:18 AM Original message |
What's the name of the BOOK you're currently reading....and....? |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
1. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 12:05 AM Response to Reply #1 |
64. The Gnostic Gospels is a really good, easy yet in depth read |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 07:34 AM Response to Reply #64 |
76. Yes, it's a bit too easy. |
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miss_american_pie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
2. Just finished Garrison Keillor's |
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RetroLounge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 02:44 AM Response to Reply #2 |
72. Book Shopping? |
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RedStateShame (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
3. "A Long Way Down," by Nick Hornby |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 12:07 AM Response to Reply #3 |
65. It's a pretty good book but not as good High Fidelity... |
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BarenakedLady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
4. Still working on "A Confederacy of Dunces".... |
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bif (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 01:52 PM Response to Reply #4 |
36. I thought it started out great |
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azmouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
5. Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 11:34 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. It is dated, but pretty interesting, except for its twisted look at |
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azmouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 11:55 AM Response to Reply #9 |
16. Actually what's bugging me the most |
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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
6. "The Stranger Beside Me" by Ann Rule. |
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RetroLounge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 02:45 AM Response to Reply #6 |
73. The Higgins Clark women must fart completed books... |
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haf216 (911 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-08-06 12:40 PM Response to Reply #6 |
102. That is a great book. |
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datasuspect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
7. "bell system POTS line charge schematics" |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 03:36 PM Response to Reply #7 |
51. Damn, that's exciting. |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
8. Righteous : dispatches from the evangelical youth movement , and on deck |
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dread (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
10. Weekend In Munich |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
11. Saving Graces, by Elizabeth Edwards |
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wildhorses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
12. jane eyre~charlotte bronte... |
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toadzilla (814 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
13. 9/11 commission report. |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 01:13 PM Response to Reply #13 |
34. I found that not to be as dry as I expected |
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Liberalynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
14. Dance of the Gods |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
15. I am on the second book of the "His Dark Materials" trilogy |
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Cygnusx2112 (214 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 12:02 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Awesome books...! Glad you're enjoying them. |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 12:14 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I've never read them before and it's like finding a diamond |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 02:02 PM Response to Reply #15 |
39. You MUST read all of HDM. |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 02:42 PM Response to Reply #39 |
47. I am amazed and thrilled so far. |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 03:32 PM Response to Reply #47 |
48. THE AMBER SPYGLASS is better than THE SUBTLE KNIFE, even. |
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fizzgig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 02:41 AM Response to Reply #15 |
70. that is a fantastic series |
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RubyDuby in GA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 11:57 AM Response to Original message |
17. Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her |
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cmkramer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 10:26 AM Response to Reply #17 |
86. I read that over the summer |
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XNASA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
18. "All the KIng's Men" |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
20. "E=mc^2" and "The Sermon as Symphony" and "When Science Meets Religion" |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
22. Re-reading "The Charnal Prince" by Greg Keyes |
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Hangingon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
23. Boyd: The fighter pilot who changed theart of war by Coram |
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u4ic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
24. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse |
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malmapus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 12:26 PM Response to Original message |
25. Just finished Time of the Twins |
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BreweryYardRat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
26. I'm rereading George R.R. Martin's A Storm of Swords. |
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IdaBriggs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 07:51 AM Response to Reply #26 |
79. The first was definitely the best in that series. |
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hopein08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
27. "Gentlemen in England" by A.N. Wilson... |
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Cygnusx2112 (214 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 12:38 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. Hopein08 - do you consider Bryson accessable? |
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hopein08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-06-06 09:27 PM Response to Reply #30 |
52. I can't really say with any fairness... |
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Kutjara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-06-06 09:33 PM Response to Reply #30 |
54. "Perdido Street Station" by China Mieville |
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Giant Robot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
28. "House of Chains" |
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Rambis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
29. Fleshmarket Alley Ian Rankin |
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bif (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 12:40 PM Response to Original message |
31. "The History of Love" |
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GalleryGod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
32. State of Denial. |
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mark414 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
33. Capote's In Cold Blood |
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fizzgig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 02:43 AM Response to Reply #33 |
71. i was not too impressed by that book |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 03:22 PM Response to Reply #71 |
90. Definitely! I"m reading Truman Capote by Plimpton and |
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murielm99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 03:27 PM Response to Reply #33 |
91. I read that last summer. |
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Ariana Celeste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
35. I'm in between books at the moment... |
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Cygnusx2112 (214 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 01:59 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. Ariana... |
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Ariana Celeste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 02:16 PM Response to Reply #38 |
46. It certainly kept my interest... |
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BornagainDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
37. I'm reading "How Wall Street created a nation". |
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cspanlovr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
40. I'm reading Seduced by Hitler. I want to know how a whole |
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SeattleGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
41. Flags of our Fathers |
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Cygnusx2112 (214 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 02:06 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. Just got that for my birthday! :) |
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SeattleGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 03:35 PM Response to Reply #42 |
50. Cool! |
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huskerlaw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
43. Tears of the Giraffe ~ Alexander McCall Smith |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
44. Blue Shoe, by Anne Lamott and Herbs and the Earth, by Henry Beston |
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seemunkee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
45. The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
49. Right now for school it's "1984." |
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jus_the_facts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-06-06 09:32 PM Response to Original message |
53. Just finished Richard Matheson's I Am Legend and Hell House..... |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-06-06 09:36 PM Response to Original message |
55. Well-read bunch, aren't we? |
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TOhioLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-06-06 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
56. What I'm reading... |
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reyd reid reed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-06-06 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
57. I'm reading "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" |
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RevolutionaryActs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-06-06 09:42 PM Response to Original message |
58. Eragon by Christopher Paolini |
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femmocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-06-06 09:43 PM Response to Original message |
59. State of Denial by Bob Woodward |
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qnr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-06-06 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
60. The Little Book of Scientific Principles, Theories & Things - Surendara |
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Mojambo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-06-06 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
61. The End of Faith by Sam Harris |
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Mutley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-06-06 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
62. I'm readin' two |
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ncrainbowgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-06-06 11:57 PM Response to Original message |
63. My Pet Goat- I thought I'd see what all the hype was about. |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 12:08 AM Response to Original message |
66. Right Now... A Team of Rivals.... and a novelization of the |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 12:11 AM Response to Original message |
67. Just (like 10 minutes ago) finished "Royal Flash." |
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NMMNG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 02:37 AM Response to Original message |
68. Currently I'm reading |
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LSK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 02:39 AM Response to Original message |
69. 1776 - then State of Denial |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 09:31 AM Response to Reply #69 |
84. I really enjoyed 1776... |
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Drum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 10:54 AM Response to Reply #84 |
87. I like the sound of that... |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 03:37 PM Response to Reply #87 |
92. David McCullough... |
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Drum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-08-06 10:16 AM Response to Reply #92 |
99. Thanks WCGreen! |
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fizzgig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 02:47 AM Response to Original message |
74. i'm still journeying through the great book of amber |
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RetroLounge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 02:53 AM Response to Original message |
75. I have about 1/2 dozen books started |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 07:37 AM Response to Original message |
77. COBRA II |
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IdaBriggs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 07:53 AM Response to Reply #77 |
80. The Timothy Zahn book? |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 11:16 AM Response to Reply #80 |
88. By Michael R. Gordon & Gen. Bernard E. Trainor |
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IdaBriggs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 07:49 AM Response to Original message |
78. Been re-reading Zenna Henderson's "People" books. |
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elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 08:27 AM Response to Original message |
81. The West Indies and the Spanish Main, by Anthony Trollope |
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Ekirh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 08:37 AM Response to Original message |
82. Well I just finished All the King's Men .. . |
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terrya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 08:55 AM Response to Original message |
83. "State of Denial" |
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Gatchaman (944 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 09:36 AM Response to Original message |
85. Jupiter by Ben Bova |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
89. I cannot confirm or deny rumors... |
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greendog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
93. "Hooked"... |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
94. "Winkie" by Clifford Chase--difficult to explain, Powell's blurb follows: |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
95. I just bought "Hubris" by Corn and Isikoff |
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KayLaw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
96. Peg Bracken |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
97. 'The Keep it Simple Series Guide to the Kama Sutra' |
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khashka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-07-06 05:35 PM Response to Reply #97 |
98. Stupid boy! Try "Our Bodies Our Selves" |
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querelle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-08-06 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
100. The Black Death by Phillip Ziegler |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-08-06 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
101. The Shape of Things to Come by H.G. Wells |
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yellowdogintexas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-08-06 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
103. Currently: "Lost in a Good Book" hilarious!!!! Jeffrey Fforde... |
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Fox Mulder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-08-06 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
104. I'm reading The Worst Person in the World: And 202 Strong Contenders |
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TimeChaser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-08-06 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
105. "Son of a Witch" the sequal to "Wicked" |
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