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    Books What are you reading?

    I just finished Mass Effect: Revelation, the prequel to the video game Mass Effect. It's written by Drew Karpyshyn, the guy who did the excellent Darth Bane trilogy. I really envy this guy - he worked on Baldur's Gate, Jade Empire, SW: KOTOR and even the new Old Republic MMORPG.
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    I just started The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, only a few chapters in and I love it.

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    I have that on my shelf and I tried to get into it a couple of times, but it felt like it was dragging it's heels a lot. I should probably have another go.

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    I'm reading the badly titled Atheist Delusions by David Bentley Hart, which was actually cheaper than the book it supposedly is supposed to answer (but doesn't) Dawkins's God Delusion. I'll be reading that when I have the money for it.

    I pretty much have almost every book written by G. K. Chesterton, and am reading the excellent What I Saw in America. I love Project Gutenberg and I really love this Kindle.

    One of my favourite books at the moment is Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking, which I've nearly finished. She is hilarious, and lot of her humour comes from being able to laugh at horrible situations, where one can either laugh or cry; she chooses to laugh, largely because she can't remember a lot of what happened in her life before having electroshock therapy done (the part on that is short but also very funny in a 'I know this is horrible' sort of way).

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    I knew there was a book I wanted to read but was forgetting - Wishful Drinking! Carrie Fisher's tweets infrequently but when she does it always seems to give me a chuckle. Now, to see if it's available in the Kindle store...

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    Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer is currently about halfway finished on my desk at work. It's a fantastic study of a sort where a journalist follows RV fans at college games to try and understand what drives sports fans. It's a very fun book.

    I figure that after I finish that one, I'll probably start on Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, since Christin got me a treasure trove of Rushdie novels.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ben Merasska View Post
    I pretty much have almost every book written by G. K. Chesterton, and am reading the excellent What I Saw in America.
    I'm reading Chesterton right now myself. "Orthodoxy." English is a little stilted (since it was written in 1908) but I'm enjoying it.

    I still need to read The Girl Who Kicked Over a Hornet's Nest and finish Chronicles of Narnia but fiction books aren't interesting me right now.

    That said...I have been reading Judge Dredd a lot recently. Good stuff.

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    Currently I'm reading Cleopatra's Daughter.

    I need to finish a book of Tolstoy and Misquoting Jesus, then move on to the bulk of Steinbeck I have waiting for me.

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    My problem now is that with having a Kindle, I don't have to go to the book shop or wait for books to arrive in the post.. so I am fighting a largely losing battle with my urge to impulse buy a loooottt of books.

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    I just finished Born To Run by Christopher McDougall and cannot recommend it highly enough. Much like Charley's read, even if you're not a runner (or hell, athletic) it's fantastically engaging; a twisting chronicle of lost tribes, a crazy gringo, the evolutionary footpath and naked, drinking people.

    I started Too Close To The Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton by Sara Wheeler this morning and am about halfway through. Also a great book - I'm loving all the historical/literary connections that the Finch-Hatton family have! For instance, their house was the inspiration for Dickens' Bleak House!

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    I read Atonement latelyand I think this book was really good. This is one of those books that start really slow but then hook you after the first 100 pages and once it is over you want to cry.
    I can only recommend this book to you since I haven't seen the movie yet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aurelias Kazaar View Post
    I'm reading Chesterton right now myself. "Orthodoxy." English is a little stilted (since it was written in 1908) but I'm enjoying it.

    I still need to read The Girl Who Kicked Over a Hornet's Nest and finish Chronicles of Narnia but fiction books aren't interesting me right now.

    That said...I have been reading Judge Dredd a lot recently. Good stuff.
    Orthodoxy is the book that got me started on Chesterton. He and C. S. Lewis are perhaps the authors I've spent the longest reading due to the way they phrase their sentences and their English.

    Are you reading Narnia in the order that they were published (Lion, Witch, Wardrobe) or along the chronological order of the action, The Magician's Nephew being the first?

    The next one I'm starting is The Man Who Was Thursday by Chesterton. I've been looking for a online version of Silence by Shusaku Endo but I can't find it anywhere, which makes me sad.

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    I'm currently re-reading Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks since it's been ages since I last read it all the way through. AFter that I'll either start the next Culture novel or read one of my most recent purchases - The Wind-up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, For The Win by Cory Doctorow and The Temporal Void by Peter F Hamilton. But I just learned the latter is part 2 of a trilogy - damn!

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    Any Lovecraft fans on here? He hasn't released anything new in a while, I'm just wondering if he has anything new coming out!?!?!?!?!?

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    Reading A Game of Thrones aaaagain in anticipation of the TV series starting..

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    Just got This Is WHy You`re Fat (And How To Stay Thin Forever) by Jackie Warner.

    After that it`ll be Tony Horton`s new book and then maybe I`ll see what The Hunger Games series is all about.

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