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wexy

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 6/25/12 at 01:39pm

Just started 'Netherland' by Joseph O'Neill.

'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 6/25/12 at 03:35pm

tazber - I LOVE Gillian Flynn's books! I am about a quarter of the way through and I like it so far. I love how her books always start out pretty simple and just a typical mystery novel, but as you keep reading it just gets creepier and creepier. Gillian Flynn knows how to write suspense.

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 6/25/12 at 09:10pm

The Gone-Away World - Nick Harkaway

Very dense and crunchy so far - Harkaway really does get verbose, and it's extra noticeable when he's writing in the first person. We'll see how the plot holds up compared to Angelmaker.

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 6/25/12 at 11:03pm

"Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger" by Christopher Andersen

I started it this weekend. Riveting.

"Two drifters off to see the world... there's such a lot of world to see"

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 6/25/12 at 11:47pm

I haven't posted in this thread in a while...

I've also recently read:

GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn (Agree with Taz - fantastic!)

THE HAMMERSTEINS: A MUSICAL THEATRE FAMILY by Oscar Andrew Hammerstein (Interesting, and enjoyed!)

THE MASTER's MUSE: A NOVEL by Varley O'Connor
The story of Balanchine and his fifth and final wife, star ballerina Tanaquil LeClercq.
Beyond fabulous!

And have CAN I GET AN AMEN by Sarah Healy on my nightstand, to read next. I have it on good authority that I'll love it!

"Two drifters off to see the world... there's such a lot of world to see"

Updated On: 6/25/12 at 11:47 PM

JbaraFan1

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 6/28/12 at 04:07pm

Finished THE POWDER OF LIFE a day or two ago. Loved it!! What a ride!

About five or six chapters into the Dick Van Dyke autobiography and am really enjoying it too.

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 6/28/12 at 04:20pm

I decided that since they were free I would give the Moon Trilogy books a shot again. No more sex so far. I am on book 2. They are ok. Very lite reading and not long.

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 6/28/12 at 05:03pm

I'm almost done with Gone Girl and it is a fantastic book!

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 6/30/12 at 01:40am

Wow- I finished Gone Girl and the ending really shocked me! For those who read it what did you think? (I don't want to give any spoilers, but I will say it was not what I thought would happen!)

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 6/30/12 at 02:53pm

Had been reading the Wallander series being promoted as "if u liked The Girl w the Dragon Tattoo.." but other that taking place in Sweden, its SO not. It's a basic police procedural ( hey I liked the 87Th Precinct novels in their time) but much of the series is reissues from the 90's and feels dated.

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/6/12 at 05:59pm

I am almost done with House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III, and I love it - very suspenseful.

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/8/12 at 01:24am

I finally read the Hunger Games. I really didn't think I wanted to read it, but it was on sale, so I bought it for the beach. It was a total page turner, and when I came home tonight I downloaded the 2nd and 3rd books from Amazon. If anyone is interested, Amazon has them for Kindle on sale for $5.99 each right now.

KFTC!!!!!

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/8/12 at 02:08am

I finished House of Sand and Fog. I can easily say that it is the best book I have ever read. Riveting, intriguing, dark, suspenseful, and absolutely impossible to put down. It is one of those books that I was legitimately sad when I finished it because I did not want it to end. I am now reading White Oleander by Janet Fitch - just started it!

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/8/12 at 01:42pm

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/8/12 at 06:49pm

Finished Dear Cary: My Life With Cary Grant by Dyan Cannon the other day. I really liked it. Grant is one of my all-time favorite actors. (Wouldn't want to have ever been married to him though!) Came away with a lot of respect for Ms. Cannon too.

Just finished Gone Girl earlier today. I had to find out what all the fuss was about, and once I started it, I could barely put it down these past two days. So now I get what all the fuss is about. Really really good book. Right now I'm hovering between really liking the ending a lot and not being sure exactly what I think about it! Not sure if I'll ever decide, and that's fine too. Makes me want to check out some of Flynn's other books.

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/8/12 at 06:51pm

^ Gone Girl was something else. I loved it. Her other books are just as intriguing.

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NYadgal

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/13/12 at 12:43pm

CAN I GET AN AMEN? by Sarah Healy was thoroughly enjoyable. I loved the characters, and the storyline kept me turning the pages.

I almost wish she'd write a sequel... but, I have my own fantasies about the next chapter in Ellen's life

Thanks for the recommendation! Loved it.

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/13/12 at 05:14pm

bwayphreak234 - I loved House of Sand and Fog! I was a bit surprised the film lightened the ending, but at least the film did a great job at capturing the tone of the novel.

Reading In the Woods by Tana French. Curious to see where it's leading because the murder mystery keeps getting derailed by the personal lives of the detectives in a way that really slows down the pace of the story. Feels like I'm reading a BBC series.

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/13/12 at 08:38pm

I finished "Ulysses" few years ago as part of my ongoing/lifetime project of reading all ( well as many!) of the great classics of literature. It has portions that are a hard slog- esp when he goes into the "slang " had to re read stuff in order to fully undrstand what was happening. On the other hand some of the sections were just beautiful and flew by I re read those just to reexperience them. On the whole a satisfying experience.

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/13/12 at 09:01pm

The Time in Between by Maria Duenas. Enjoyable, kind of like a Spanish WWII Gone With the Wind, but sooooooo fncking slow.

Edit: sabrelady, my theoretical hat is off to you. I'm a creative writing major and I just don't think I'll ever be up to it.

A little more bum ba bum bum ba da bum.

Updated On: 7/13/12 at 09:01 PM

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/13/12 at 09:20pm

I listened to the audiobook of Gone Girl at work, since I "read" things quicker that way. I actually said out loud, "Holy Sh!t" when the big twist comes. The narrator they had for one of the characters was just freaking me out. How someone could be that twisted and that okay with it...

How is Dark Places? Or Sharp Objects? Are they just as good?

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/13/12 at 09:43pm

How is Dark Places? Or Sharp Objects? Are they just as good?

Ohhh yes!! Just as good for sure. They are also just as dark/thrilling/suspenseful and messed up! If you liked Gone Girl, you will like those as well!

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/13/12 at 10:13pm

Good. Gone Girl was so good. I was convinced of something until the big twist in the middle. And then, knock knock. Another big thing. I mean, it is gripping.

The audiobook is good. I love when Nick's narrator did his Nancy Grace-style impression.

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/13/12 at 10:22pm

Biography of Chubby Broccoli :The Man Who Bought James Bond 007 To The Screen

Never knew that Clint Eastwood turned them down. The real reason George Lazenby did only one was a surprise as well. Thought he was quite good and much better than Moore.

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Updated On: 7/13/12 at 10:22 PM

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/13/12 at 10:32pm

All His Jazz, the biography of Bob Fosse - got off to a shaky start when the author (name escapes me...) basically trash-talked both Ann Reinking and Gwen Verdon in the introduction, but I'm enjoying it.

Regarding Ulysses, I have long since abandoned it.

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re: Currently Reading (Take 2)
Posted: 7/14/12 at 05:52pm

Addy, I downloaded Can I Get an Amen, but haven't read it yet. I've got 3 or 4 library books on my Kindle I need to read first, and then the second 2 Hunger Games books. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it! Right now I'm reading T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton. It's and easy summer "by the pool" read.

KFTC!!!!!