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Little book, popular in areas of the world, you may have heard of it,

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As is obvious through my posts in this thread: yes, I read fast and I read things over and over again.

(Why does this picture say penultimate? Mine just says ultimate, I didn't notice till I previewed.)

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That is odd, considering the respective defintions of penultimate and ultimate. Penultimate to what, I wonder....
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Meadowland, by Thomas Holt.

Thomas Holt - usually goes by Tom Holt, tends to write crazy, funny, thoughtful books. This time he's gone for a sort of historical story, and its good. Nice to see that he can put his unique style into a different type of book and pull it off.
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a book with recipes for cookies, pastries and other goodies from the Romans until today

*yum* that´s a kind of history I like! :happy:

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I just finished Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose and am now moving on to Lies My Teacher Told Me. Its about everything the US history books lie about or get wrong. I had to read these books for AP US History.

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For the first time in as long as I can remember, I'm not reading anything right now.

I feel lost.

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I got the new Potter book this morning and I'm going to read five chapters every day, to strike a balance between making it last and driving myself insane.

I'm also reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susannah Clarke. I'm digging it quite a lot. Strange as it sounds, reading it feels like riding a really well-tuned bicycle; all the parts are in harmony and move smoothly.

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i´m reading a mumin book my brother gave me for my birthday. anybody know the mumins? (i´m sure our nordish memebers do)

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Who's the wise-guy who decided to bring this thread to the top just after I launched a similar one? :oops:

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But this thread's a classic!
Besides, this one deals with what book you're reading right now rather than your favorite book.

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What about a book I'm in the midst of writing?

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Only if properly bound.

I tried that but I couldn't turn the pages.

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I suppose it would count while you're proofreading ... or you could always start a What Book Are You Writing? - Right Now! thread.

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Even better than the first book.
Keen to start book 3 but have a surfeit of biographies to wade through.
Oh, choices, choices, choices...

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Since I've come to the recent realization that I enjoy biographies so much I feel compelled to ask whose biographies you'll be wading through.

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Since I've come to the recent realization that I enjoy biographies so much I feel compelled to ask whose biographies you'll be wading through.

Wade, here are my Top 3 Biographies!

- "Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi" by Bob Woodward
- "Timebends: A Life" by Arthur Miller
- "Still Me" by Christopher Reeve

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just bought three h.g. wells classics:
"war of the worlds", "the time machine" and "the invisible man". because i´m fond of reading the original when, say, a movie makes me curious.

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Since I've come to the recent realization that I enjoy biographies so much I feel compelled to ask whose biographies you'll be wading through.


Ooh, let me see now...a sample of my music bios yet to be read on:

Aaron Copland, Michael Tippett and Mahler...I have more, but these are the ones that are most appealing right now.

Then I either of these:
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"war of the worlds" now. quite good. originals rule.

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Nellodee wrote:
just bought three h.g. wells classics:
"war of the worlds", "the time machine" and "the invisible man". because i´m fond of reading the original when, say, a movie makes me curious.


Indeed that's why I'm reading George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Saw the movie (which was made in and screened in 1984), liked it and got curious. Because I know that the book is always better than the film!
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Wonderful book. Some characters may be familiar to depending on what order you have read his books. :mrgreen:

Anyway, over my vacation I read:

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
The Shining

And I got half-way through The Last of the Mohicans.

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