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[ComicChick]

i FINALLY finished The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

 

[Yodaman]

Plague of Spells by Bruce R. Cordell

 

[Wyrminarrd]

"Fool Moon" by Jim Butcher

 

[Dark Sentinel]

Hate to spam but would anybody like an advance copy of my book? Trying to build prerelease hype do if you're into fantasy let me know!

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerny

 

[Nemesis Prime]

I've just gotten couple of books from Amazon: The Girl Who Kicked Hornet's Nest and Steve Jobs biography. But right now I am trying to finish The Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin and Reader by Philip K. Dick.

I have a bunch of books in paperback that I want to get rid of. Is Ebay a good place to sell them?

 

[Marvolo]

I've just gotten couple of books from Amazon: The Girl Who Kicked Hornet's Nest and Steve Jobs biography. But right now I am trying to finish The Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin and Reader by Philip K. Dick.

I have a bunch of books in paperback that I want to get rid of. Is Ebay a good place to sell them?

Yeah, you could use ebay or have a yard sale or something of the sort. I would say donate them to a library, but you're not going to get money so may nto be what you want to do.

 

[actionavenue]

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells.
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[Yodaman]

Star Wars Imperial Commando: 501st by Karen Traviss

 

[bonoferox]

'The Summons' by Grisham

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

 

[Brain Damage]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

fantastic book.

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - John Le Carré

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

@Brain Damage; Yes, it's an excellent book, though it must be one of the most depressing books I have ever read. This is the first book of McCarthy's that I've read and I'm definitely eager to read more of his works.

 

[ComicChick]

started the subtle knife yesterday

 

[CaptainCanada]

Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel

Mantel returns with the second volume in what will now be a trilogy about Thomas Cromwell. Unusually for a sequel, it's markedly slimmer than the first book, but since this grew out of plans for a single successor volume that would account for it. It's damn hard to say anything new about this particular period in history, which has been fodder for writers pretty much since it happened (Shakespeare himself wrote one of his more minor, propagandistic works on the subject; it's fun to imagine what he might have done with the story if writing a more truthful account wouldn't have gotten him hung, drawn and quartered), but Mantel manages to make things somewhat fresh, the principal reason being the use of the uncommon perspective of Cromwell. He's wouldn't make the top ten most common POVs for these events, and after reading the book it's still clear why: most novels aren't interested in making their hero a ruthless apparatchik with no particular qualms about doing whatever the king tells him to do. At the same time, Mantel makes him relatable/likeable (though that's the thing with POV). She does a great job of evoking the atmosphere of the court, and how everyone is constantly dancing to the king's whims and changeable moods (Mantel's take on Henry himself, glimpsed through Cromwell, is also interesting; as with most portrayals he's a creature of appetite, but he comes across as basically unconscious of what he's doing, and how he's constantly rewriting events to suit whatever he wants now).

 

[ChickenScratch]

fantastic book.

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - John Le Carré

Great book. LeCarre is easily the author I read the most just for writing skill. Talk about plot and dialog ingenuity and talk about making it feel real.

 

[CaptainCanada]

That's still my favourite Le Carre novel (I think Tinker Tailor... is overrated).

 

[hammerhedd11]

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

 

[nite-owl]

A Storm Of Swords: Blood and Steel by George R.R. Martin

I hope Walder Frey burns for what he did.

 

[Max J Power]

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

It's fast-paced and entertaining, and a thoughtful, relevant dystopian novel that made me think about its themes in the same way as a good adult novel. I'm glad this is what the kids are into right now.

 

[mongoose-mania]

Danse Macabre: 25 Years of Danny Elfman & Tim Burton by Jeff Bond.

 

[ComicChick]

Young X-Men, Vol. 1: Final Genesis

read this in one sitting tonight

 

[Tanin]

Finished House of Leaves... Now I'm on American Gods.

 

[Yodaman]

Dune by Frank Herbert

 

[ComicChick]

power out from a tree falling on a transformer earlier today so i got through a third of The Subtle Knife. would like to finish it by the end of the weekend