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Old 09-05-2010, 10:33 AM   #6181
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Guess what book I'm reading next with these words-"No-one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own...."
War of the Worlds!
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Old 09-05-2010, 11:31 AM   #6182
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I'm reading Brooklyn by Colm Toibin at the moment. It's beautifully written - very light and gentle - and, unusually for me, it made me cry a bit.
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Old 09-05-2010, 11:45 AM   #6183
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War of the Worlds!
The one and only (My first Wells read, apart from the short story The Land Ironclads and the juvenile novel The First Men in the Moon)
Fess up time, I'm reading it in a real book, made of paper
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Old 09-05-2010, 12:20 PM   #6184
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I'm reading "The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development" a quite gripping tale of software development....

EPUB version of course.
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Old 09-05-2010, 12:38 PM   #6185
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I'm reading "The Bush Coder's Guide to Android Development" a quite gripping tale of software development....

EPUB version of course.
Did my use of the word "mis-underestimating" in this post inspire you to read that particular book?
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Old 09-05-2010, 12:42 PM   #6186
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Did my use of the word "mis-underestimating" in this post inspire you to read that particular book?
No but I'll blame you for the typo.
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Old 09-05-2010, 12:53 PM   #6187
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No but I'll blame you for the typo.
What typo? That's a perfectly legitimate usage of the term.
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Old 09-05-2010, 01:04 PM   #6188
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Old 09-05-2010, 08:18 PM   #6189
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Continuing on my art history spree, I'm reading Edward Dolnick's "The Forger's Spell" on my Sony. It's about Vermeer forgeries, very interesting.
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Old 09-06-2010, 09:18 AM   #6190
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Still on Green Mars. Bits of it are great, but the overall structure irritates me, and seems to be very slow and lumbering. I'm not sure I'll manage to finish it.
Whew! Got to the end. The last few chapters were rather good. But Robinson really does like the slow build-up and explanation of how things slowly change between big events.

Rather than sticking with one main character, we get long stretches that follow on character, before we move on to another. This works OK, but it's hard adjusting to each switch.

I think I will move on to Blue Mars eventually, but not for a while. On the whole, I enjoyed Green Mars, but it did drag mightily in places.

And what next? Hmm... I think the latest Analog (Nov. 2010) and Asimov's (Oct/Nov 2010).
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Old 09-06-2010, 09:26 AM   #6191
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I just finished reading Infinite Jest in paperback. Wow! I just sent for a reader's guide so I can derive the most benefit from it; one of the ten-page footnotes did me in. It's so sad to read such brilliant writing by someone who was just too depressed to go on. What made it even more engrossing was that much of the book takes place in the EXACT part of Boston where I grew up in the 60's and early 70's (He even mentioned a street I lived on until I turned eleven!) and part of Cambridge, where I went to school in the mid-late 70's. His narrative of a tennis-cum-international-strategy game called Eschaton is just breathtaking!

I feel presumptuous mentioning my own humble offering in the same post as a book by David Foster Wallace, but War on the Margins has just been nominated for the autumn 2010 People's Book Prize. It takes just a minute to register and vote for it, or any other book on the list that you like.
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Old 09-06-2010, 06:13 PM   #6192
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I just finished The Alchemyst last night. It was a good enough story but I'm very annoyed it ended in a cliffhanger and Micheal Scott didn't end any of the important story lines.

I started reading The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. I read The Woman in White a couple of years ago for a literature course and liked it, even if it was a tad bit slow, hopefully this'll be as good or better.
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Old 09-06-2010, 06:47 PM   #6193
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I'm still reading on "The Lacuna," by Barbara Kingsolver. It's a long, thoughtful read, and I've stopped and read other books along the way. That doesn't mean I'm not enjoying it, though -- I am, a lot. It's just one of those books to savor, I guess.

One of the main characters in it is the artist Frida Kahlo, who was married to Diego Rivera. I just saw on wikipedia that there was a movie in 2002, entitled "Frida," and starring Salma Hayek. It sounds pretty good and won a couple of Academy Awards. I'm downloading it on iTunes right now.
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Old 09-06-2010, 08:01 PM   #6194
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Recently finished "The Bucolic Plague" (memoir, not thriller) by Josh Kilmer-Purcell, which I highly recommend. I got into the story early on, liking it so much I was hesitant to keep going back to it, as that meant it'd end all the sooner. I got it from the library as an Overdrive Epub download.
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I'm trying to read unrated books on Goodreads right now, so I'm reading "The Great K&A Train Robbery" on my PC right now (through google books) by Paul Leicester Ford. I've read another one of his books ("Wanted - A Chaperon", available on MR) and enjoyed it, so I thought I'd give this one a shot.
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