I just finished "The Year of the Flood" by Margaret Atwood. It was very good if you like dystopian fiction.
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Posts: 1164 (11/13/09 10:22 PM) Registered User |
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TC |
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Posts: 97 (11/13/09 10:35 PM) Spaulding |
I just picked up Augustin Burrough's Christmas book. And Wally Lamb's Christmas book. I dunno why. I meant to re-buy David Sedaris's Christmas
book, but I fucked up.
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Machine2473 |
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Posts: 747 (11/13/09 11:24 PM) Registered User |
"The Hot Shoe Diaries", by Joe McNally.
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maadx |
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Posts: 5543 (11/13/09 11:29 PM) Registered user |
Just finished "True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" by Avi for my LIT class.
good book fo sho |
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Jewel |
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Posts: 490 (11/14/09 11:53 AM) |
Did you like "The White Queen"? So far, none of the subsequent books in the Tudor series comes close to measuring up to "The Other Boleyn Girl" although the last one "The Other Queen" about Mary Queen of Scots is pretty good.I liked it, it kept me reading. I haven't read any of her other books yet, but it made me want to try more of hers. |
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StarrEise |
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Posts: 9858 (11/14/09 12:27 PM) |
Just finished "After" by Amy Efaw. It was meh.
I'm waiting for the new Stephen King book - damn postal service. |
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CBRetriever |
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Posts: 29837 (11/14/09 12:28 PM) MESS member |
just bought Neal Stephenson's Anathem
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Posts: 1985 (11/14/09 1:02 PM) Registered user |
"Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis. Very well-written, passionate, and easy to read, but so full of logical holes it could have been written on swiss
cheese. I can't imagine anyone with half a brain being converted by these shitty arguments.
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superguppie |
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Posts: 27642 (11/15/09 10:19 AM) Registered user |
Are there ever really any solid logical arguments for conversion?
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Posts: 27823 (11/15/09 10:29 AM) Registered user |
harshaw66 wrote: How do you apply logic to faith? |
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Posts: 1992 (11/15/09 11:16 AM) Registered user |
The book is Lewis' attempt to persuade non-believers of the "rightness" of christianity. He knew he couldn't just say "ya gotta have
faith," and that he actually had to use something resembling cohesive and rational argument if he was going to bring doubtful folks into the fold. So
that is what he tries to do.
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Posts: 794 (11/15/09 11:40 AM) Registered user |
Just started The Dome by Stephen King. What can I say, I'm a masochist.
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RoMa |
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Posts: 39142 (11/15/09 11:41 AM) |
I just finished the Girl that played with Fire, and I AM VERY UPSET AT THE ENDING
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Posts: 27649 (11/15/09 3:27 PM) Registered user |
I just got the last book in that series when I was in Belgium, RoMa. I'm saving it for Thanksgiving break. My husband's reading the second one now.
I still think it's hilarious how every woman Blomqvist encounters wants to fuck his socks off. |
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Posts: 228 (11/15/09 4:16 PM) |
Just read Dennis Lehane's Shutter Island. I liked it so much I started Gone,
Baby, Gone. (on the advice of the clerk)
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StarrEise |
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Posts: 9861 (11/15/09 4:20 PM) |
Shutter Island was crap.
Gone Baby Gone was very good. The Kenzie/Genaro series is much better than either Shutter Island or Mystic River. |
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Posts: 229 (11/15/09 4:21 PM) |
Thanks, I'll add it/them to my list.
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Posts: 1167 (11/15/09 4:32 PM) |
StarrEise wrote: Lehane announced that he's writing a new Kenzie/Gennaro novel that is a sequel to Gone Baby Gone. It should be out next year. |
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Posts: 1986 (11/15/09 4:41 PM) Registered user |
I just started Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by one of my favorite authors Haruki Murakami. So far, so good.
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Posts: 6998 (11/15/09 6:42 PM) Registered user |
mountaineer20 wrote:Neil Stephenson is one of my favorite authors.... If you haven't already, get Snow Crash...it's great book, there is also a very well done audio book of it. |
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- Survivor Sucks
- Lions, Tigers, Survivors - Oh My!
- Survivor Spoilers
- MESS Hall Tribal Council
- MESS Hall Archive
- Survivor Speculation
- Survivor 21+
- The Amazing Race
- Big Brother
- Big Brother - PAST SEASONS
- The Apprentice
- American Idol
- American Idol PAST SEASONS
- The Mole
- Lost
- Other Shows That Suck
- Off Topic
- Clubs That Suck. No, Really.
- The Dump
- Monster Island
- Purgatory
- FAQ
- In Memory, 9/11/01
