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Old 06-11-2010, 12:06 PM   #16
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An Incomplete Education (picked it up at a funky used book store) Not a straight through sort of read, but one to enjoy in bits and pieces

Get Real, the last Dortmunder novel by Donald E. Westlake

The Battle of the Labyrinth, my daughter introduced me to these terrific Percy Jackson and the Olympians books and I've enjoyed each one so far.
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Old 06-11-2010, 01:28 PM   #17
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What are the best three books (any medium) you've read this year so far (written by someone else)?
Well, since I've been keeping track and rating my books read this year, I can tell you!

1. Heaven by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
3. Nation by Terry Pratchett

Close runners up:
Darkship Thieves by Sarah A. Hoyt
The Dragon Man by Brian Stableford
The Eternity Brigade by Stephen Goldin
Tea-time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Overthrowing Heaven by Mark L. Van Name
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Old 08-24-2010, 01:17 PM   #18
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American Fuji by Sara Backer - two Americans in Japan are thrown together to solve a mystery.

Heaven by Lisa Miller - Newsweek magazine's religion editor examines the western preoccupation with the afterlife, and its possibilities (according to one's belief system).

Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick - stories of six North Korean escapees.
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Old 08-24-2010, 06:11 PM   #19
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I can't differentiate between the three books in the millenium trilogy so I'll have them as one pick

1. The millenium Trilogy- Stieg Larsson
2. A thousand Splendid suns- Khaled Hosseni
3. Shanghai girls- Lisa See
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Old 08-25-2010, 06:40 AM   #20
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Skippy Dies - Paul Murrey (One of the best books I've ever read)

Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon (I know, that's from the last year, but I read it this summer. No ebooks for Pynchon )

The Night Angel Trilogy - Brent Weeks
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Old 08-25-2010, 08:19 AM   #21
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Read a lot of good books this year... off the top of my head, my favorites are:

The Road by Cormack McCarthy - didn't need to think for very long on that one, easily the most impressive book I've read in a while

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was also a beauty

For #3 I'll have to check my LibraryThing... ah, yes!

The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society

(Btw, I agree that Robin Hobb's Dragon Keeper was a big disappointment.)
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Old 08-25-2010, 08:24 AM   #22
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1.The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
2.The Weight of Blood: The Half Orcs, Book 1 - David Dalglish
3.The Concrete Blonde - Michael Connelly
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Old 08-25-2010, 08:29 AM   #23
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Runemarks by Joanne Harris
Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster
Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron by Jasper Fforde
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The only outstanding novels I've read this year have been Waiting by Ha Jin and Everyman by Philp Roth.
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My three are all ex aequo:

The Greatest Show on Earth - Richard Dawkins
Absolution Gap - Alastair Reynolds
Flood + Ark - Stephen Baxter [two books, actually, but one story]

Close enough, I enjoyed also
Burning Wire by Jeffery Deaver
Under the Dome by Stephen King
The last Jack Reacher by Lee Child [don't remember the title]
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Not to sound like a pretentious jerk, BUT:

<pretentious>The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky</pretentious>
The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe (not really one book, but it would be pointless to read only one)
Titus Groan/Gormenghast (again, not one book, but they belong together)
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Not to sound like a pretentious jerk, BUT:

<pretentious>The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky</pretentious>
The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe (not really one book, but it would be pointless to read only one)
Titus Groan/Gormenghast (again, not one book, but they belong together)
Why would loving a book make you a pretentious jerk? Despising someone because they love books you hate, or hate books you love, that would be pretentious. Or pretending to love a book because everybody says intelligent people are supposed to love that particular book, that would be stupid.
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Old 08-26-2010, 04:11 AM   #28
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Not to sound like a pretentious jerk, BUT:

<pretentious>The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky</pretentious>
The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe (not really one book, but it would be pointless to read only one)
Titus Groan/Gormenghast (again, not one book, but they belong together)
Have you found ebooks of Gormenghast? Also, where did you get the ebooks of Gene Wolfe from (if they were ebooks)? I've been looking for both of those.
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Why would loving a book make you a pretentious jerk? Despising someone because they love books you hate, or hate books you love, that would be pretentious. Or pretending to love a book because everybody says intelligent people are supposed to love that particular book, that would be stupid.
Thanks for the perspective. I just thought it might sound pretentious to say that I really loved The Brothers Karamazov, but you're right - I loved it because I loved it, not because someone made me feel like I'd be stupid for not loving it.
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My top 3 books this year are (in no particular order):

1. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
2. Columbine by Dave Cullen
3. Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger

Yes, I am surprised myself to find 2 of my top 3 fave books are nonfiction. Huh.
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