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Date: 7-1-08 05:26
From: Jack in Westborough, MA View user's profile Send e-mail
Subject: What are you reading?

I generally read histories and biographies, but on a whim picked up Norman Mailers, "The Naked and The Dead". It is outstanding. I suspect I'll have to read a lot of his books.



Date: 7-1-08 06:48
From: wegweiser View user's profile
Subject: Re: What are you reading? (nt)

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Date: 7-1-08 07:51
From: Otis View user's profile
Subject: Re: What are you reading? (nt)

http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?tab=1&pid=500428



Date: 7-1-08 08:16
From: dubois in Hollister, (near SJ) California View user's profile Send e-mail
Subject: Re: What are you reading?

I am reading Six days of War (1967) pretty good with a lot of recent declassified material.
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Date: 7-1-08 11:08
From: inkatouring in San Francisco, California View user's profile
Subject: Re: What are you reading?

A mystery set in Amsterdam by Janwillem Von Wettering called Death of a Hawker.

That, and a law review article on the use of rock-n-roll lyrics in judicial opinions and legal documents ([Insert song lyrics here]: The uses and misuses of popular music lyrics in legal writing., ALex Long, 2007, 64 Wash. & Lee Law Rev. 531.)

Oh, and at work I'm slowly getting through the DC gun rights case.
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Date: 7-1-08 11:33
From: ryanOC in Dana Point, California View user's profile Send e-mail
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Date: 7-2-08 09:44
From: jerry View user's profile
Subject: Re: What are you reading?

i got about halfway through Cervantes' Don Quixote this Spring before setting down on my nightstand indefinitely. i have an unfortunate habit of putting books down when i determine that i've gotten the gist of the story.

i forced my way through Salmon Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh, but it was too obtuse for me. Didn't help that it was one of those books that i only read while traveling on business. i had to reread too much to get back into it each time.



Date: 7-2-08 10:40
From: Armond in Marin County View user's profile Send e-mail
Subject: Re: What are you reading?

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
By Thomas Friedman
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Date: 7-2-08 01:45
From: Mike87 in San Jose, CA View user's profile Send e-mail
Subject: Re: What are you reading?

The Broker
by John Grisham



Date: 7-2-08 03:01
From: 742002 in Vermont View user's profile
Subject: Re: What are you reading?

Plum Island - Nelson Demille

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Date: 7-2-08 04:59
From: 2761377 View user's profile Send e-mail
Subject: Re: What are you reading?

right now re-reading 'guadalcanal' by richard b. frank for about the tenth time.

recently finished 'the life of captain james cook' by j.c. beaglehole. absolutely fascinating. as a surveyor, i really appreciate cooks' mapping rectitude and i never truly understood how much he discovered. but that is the thing about cook- not only did he find new places, but he pinned them down very well.

don't have time to waste on fiction. re-reading frank because cook mapped the new hebrides.



Date: 7-2-08 07:15
From: bobthomas in eastern NC View user's profile
Subject: Re: What are you reading?

Will finish The Boys' Crusade by Paul Fussell tonite.



Date: 7-2-08 09:16
From: Otis View user's profile
Subject: Re: What are you reading?

Right now, I'm on the Throne, reading the greatest magazine ever published. www.hustler.com

Warning, Ibejettin - DO NOT CLICK ON THAT LINK!!! NSFW!!!!!



Date: 7-2-08 09:17
From: Otis View user's profile
Subject: Re: What are you reading?

Right now, I'm on the Throne, reading the greatest magazine ever published. www.hustler.com



Date: 7-2-08 09:56
From: bmw1602.com in Los Angeles View user's profile Send e-mail
Subject: Re: What are you reading?

Blindness by Jose Saramago........

Pretty cool so far....

before that memoirs in a ant proof case.....I loved this one.

before that Happy Hooker.
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Date: 7-3-08 04:42
From: carrosene in Atlanta, Ga. View user's profile Send e-mail
Subject: Re: What are you reading?

I'm reading a bunch of graphic novels right now because I'm a dork like that. I just finished WANTED, what the new movie is based on, and I am moving onto LOBSTER JOHNSON and then I have BATMAN: BROKEN CITY to read after that. Maybe after this I will read an actual book like THE GOLDEN COMPASS or SHERLOCK HOLMES.

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Date: 7-3-08 02:38
From: wegweiser View user's profile
Subject: Re: What are you reading?

Hey Eric!

Let's see some photos of the Vespa!

The Vespa gang here in Baltimore always got a kick outta' my old bus. Someday I'll be a scootermodgeek....I want one so bad!

Paul Wegweiser


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Date: 7-3-08 08:03
From: carrosene in Atlanta, Ga. View user's profile Send e-mail
Subject: Re: What are you reading?

Hey Paul,

Here are a few shots of the scooter. It's a 1963 Vespa GL. I did a total restoration a few years back because it was a piece of crap when the place I got it from brought it over from Italy. It is a ton of fun and I hope to get another one one day but the 2002 comes first.

Enjoy

Eric
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Date: 7-3-08 08:26
From: dubois in Hollister, (near SJ) California View user's profile Send e-mail
Subject: Re: What are you reading?

jerry wrote:
i got about halfway through Cervantes' Don Quixote this Spring before setting down on my nightstand indefinitely. i have an unfortunate habit of putting books down when i determine that i've gotten the gist of the story.
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You are brave and persistent! The only way people read that book in Latin America (and I suspect Spain too) is because they force them! It was obligatory reading on 7th,8th and 9th grade. A chapter a day, 4 days a week! Everybody dreaded El Quijote, more than Algebra, mostly because it was written in old Spanish and it was very dull. We were supposed to "analyze" and interpret the story and there was not much we could come up with!. I don't think anybody reads it for fun. It is supposed to be one of the greatest works in Spanish Literature...not! Maybe the translation is better...
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Date: 7-7-08 08:10
From: robspeed in INDIANAHHH!!!! =D View user's profile Send e-mail
Subject: Re: What are you reading?

Jack wrote:
I generally read histories and biographies, but on a whim picked up Norman Mailers, "The Naked and The Dead". It is outstanding. I suspect I'll have to read a lot of his books.



Ive read that one, its a longer! Right now im making my way through the Koontz catalogue.... damn prolific prick, i dont think i'll ever catch up (although i can polish one of his 400 pagers in about 6 hours)....
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Date: 7-8-08 10:55
From: scottt in New Hampshire View user's profile
Subject: The Telephone Gambit

Compelling arguement alleging Alexander Graham Bell stole the key idea for the telephone from Elisha Gray. Considered the most valuable patent in history.



Date: 7-8-08 05:54
From: wegweiser View user's profile
Subject: Re: What are you reading?

Eric -

The Vespa is swu-heet!

someday....I keep telling myself....I'll find one I can afford.

They're getting huge around Baltimore these days.

Paul



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