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Re: JD Book Club: What Are You Reading Now?
« Reply #270 on: July 5, 2007, 05:27 PM »
2.  Did you say the boys got it for their birthday?  I can't believe they are a year old already!?!  Please post 1st b-day pics in the appropriate thread :)

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I heard about this on NPR when it launched in the UK and loved the excerpts.  It wasn't launched in the US yet when they did the story, and the release date was months later.  I forgot about it until I saw your post - I definitely want to pick up a copy!

I had heard about it as well, but had forgotten about it too until my brother gave it to us.  It's a great read and filled full of many many cool things - war, animals, sports, and of course - danger.  :)
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Re: JD Book Club: What Are You Reading Now?
« Reply #271 on: July 5, 2007, 06:46 PM »
Picked up a free ST:TNG novel at the Library called A Rock and a Hard place. Reading it to pass the time until July 21st.

My neigbor is reading the Golden Compass series. After seeing the trailer, I may pick those up after I'm done with HP.
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Re: JD Book Club: What Are You Reading Now?
« Reply #272 on: July 5, 2007, 11:17 PM »
I saw that there book at Target...looked f'n great!

I finally finished David f'n Copperfield.  What a long ass book, I just couldn't give up though.  In general I liked it, like most "classic" literature it was full of memorable characters and scenes.  I also really like the casual nature of Dickens writing and while long, it didn't ever bore me enough to quit. 

Right now I'm about 1/3 of the way through Hyperion (which I think I looked in to thanks to efranks a few pages back) I'm so enthralled with this book its not even funny.  Sort of like how much I f'n loved Ice and Fire the first few pages in to it that I was a maniac there for a while...I've already got the 4 Hyperion books and look forward to that over the next few weeks as a great time filler while I wait for HP7

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Re: JD Book Club: What Are You Reading Now?
« Reply #273 on: July 12, 2007, 04:27 PM »

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Re: JD Book Club: What Are You Reading Now?
« Reply #274 on: July 12, 2007, 06:53 PM »
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Re: JD Book Club: What Are You Reading Now?
« Reply #275 on: July 12, 2007, 09:33 PM »
I've been alternating of late. Finished Niall Furgeson's brilliant "The War of the World: Twientieth Century Conflict and the descent of the West" a few weeks ago, am now reading Huxley's "Brave New World" (I've thus far been disappointed), Remnick's "Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire", and re-reading (for simple enjoyment) Peter Hopkirk's "The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia".

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Re: JD Book Club: What Are You Reading Now?
« Reply #276 on: July 13, 2007, 08:12 AM »
About 100 pages into this



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Re: JD Book Club: What Are You Reading Now?
« Reply #277 on: July 13, 2007, 08:44 AM »
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Re: JD Book Club: What Are You Reading Now?
« Reply #278 on: July 13, 2007, 07:47 PM »
I preordered the new Harry Potter just becuase i read the last one and am curious as to how its going to end. Never read any of the earlier ones just saw the movies.
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Re: JD Book Club: What Are You Reading Now?
« Reply #279 on: July 16, 2007, 08:04 PM »
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Re: JD Book Club: What Are You Reading Now?
« Reply #280 on: July 16, 2007, 08:40 PM »


Great book! :) if you havent watched the movie and the mini series you should do so right after.
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Re: JD Book Club: What Are You Reading Now?
« Reply #281 on: July 16, 2007, 11:12 PM »

Agreed...one of my favorite books, it is wonderful science fiction

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Re: JD Book Club: What Are You Reading Now?
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Re: JD Book Club: What Are You Reading Now?
« Reply #283 on: August 7, 2007, 10:33 AM »
I'm currently reading: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. It's really interesting to learn the history of what happens to the human body after death and what really happens when a body is donated to science...


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Re: JD Book Club: What Are You Reading Now?
« Reply #284 on: August 7, 2007, 11:54 AM »
I'm currently reading: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. It's really interesting to learn the history of what happens to the human body after death and what really happens when a body is donated to science...



Fantastic book.   One of my fave nonfics.
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