Not to compete with the Bookcase thread (http://forums.yellowworld.org/showthread.php?t=8130), but what are you reading right now? I just finished "Shelters of Stone," (snore, don't bother with it) and am now slogging through "Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume 1."

So spill it! Let us (and by "us" I mean "me" because I'm curious) in on what you're reading and just for fun, let us know what you recommend. :smile:
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I last finished The BFG.. I now remember why I liked it so much as a kid.

Now reading Eastward to Tartary
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Just finished: Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini

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Currently Reading: Best American Erotica 2004, edited by Susie Bright (anthology)

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Leisurely Re-reading: Lone Wolf & Cub manga series (28 volumes)
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Yellow, by Frank Wu. finally, again.

i bought it last year, but had been setting it aside in hopes of studying for a damn test...that i still haven't really studied for or taken. i was reading a Different Mirror (Takaki), on and off for awhile too.
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i just started reading "the rule of four" today
at the laundromat.
i heard if you love "the da vinci code" you'll love
this book so my sister ordered it for me.
so far so good.
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east of eden
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The Vine of Desire: A Novel (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/038549730X/qid=1090037947/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-3827183-4986500) -- by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/3e/7d/1565115147-books-resized200.jpg
(http://www.epinions.com/Guns_Germs_and_Steel_The_Fates_of_Human_Societies_ by_Jared_Diamond_and_narrated_by_Grover_Gardner)
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IK, whats be more chill about? weird cover

still goign through da vinci code, good book but as i am a lazy ass who is addicted to the internet here i am typing, and not reading
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The Vine of Desire: A Novel (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/038549730X/qid=1090037947/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-3827183-4986500) -- by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Hey, she wrote Arranged Marriage, right?
She used to teach at Foothill College, i think. :)
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Bill Clinton's My Life, and A Series of Unfortunate Events.
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Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animation Leonard Maltin

Quicksilver Neal Stephenson, but seriously, I am not sure if I will make it. I like Stephenson, history, codebreaking, espionage and all that but his books are just so LOOONG.
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IK, whats be more chill about? weird cover
You might like it, it's a good downtime read.

It's about this this unpopular high school guy who takes a nanotechnology computer pill called a "squib" that manifests as a voice in his brain and tells him how to be "cool." What to say, how to dress, who to be friends with, etc...It's marketed for young adults, but there's a generous amount of the f-word, c-word, b-word and teenage sexuality. Very funny and the ending is surprisingly atypical. Miramax has already optioned it and I heard it's in pre-production.

As a graphic artist, I would've done the cover differently cuz it looks like the title character is playing a virtual reality game and the book has nothing to do with that. I guess it's supposed to look cool for teens...
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still goign through da vinci code, good book but as i am a lazy ass who is addicted to the internet here i am typing, and not reading

I just finished that book about a week ago. Toward the end, I kinda got bored reading it.
I think I might read LOTR again for kicks.
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Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
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just finished pattern recognition by william gibson and world on fire by amy chua. pattern was so-so, but world on fire was very interesting. currently reading the name of the rose by umberto eco, supposedly another book ppl might wanna check out if they like the da vinci code. but starting out at least, it's very slow. dunno if i'm gonna finish it.
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about to start reading one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
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The Epic of Guilgamesh. Well, one of the more recent translations of it, anyway, from the fragments of clay tablets in Akkadian and Sumerian.
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Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cuxin
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"Shadows Over Baker Street."

Here's a real treat for fans of Sherlock Holmes, H. P. Lovecraft, and everyone in between: 20 original stories by writers of horror and fantasy. Neil Gaiman is here, along with Barbara Hambly, Richard Lupoff, Brian Stableford, Poppy Z. Brite, and many more. The premise is engaging: What if the world of Holmes, the world's most logical and rational detective, intersected with the world of Lovecraft, where logic and rationality have little meaning? These are stories about strange beasts, men cursed to death, and the walking un-dead. Most feature a powerful narrative voice. One stars Irene Adler and takes place nearly a decade before the events recounted in the classic Conan Doyle story, "A Scandal in Bohemia." Another is narrated by H. G. Wells. Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's brother, appears in one tale; still another has Dr. Watson becoming Holmes' client. The stories, set between 1881 and 1915, are uniformly excellent, and the book, authorized by the Doyle estate, is a welcome addition to the Holmes canon. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0345455282/reviews/104-7727648-0560749#03454552825123

It's largly pretty fluffy, but a fun read.

The Epic of Guilgamesh. Well, one of the more recent translations of it, anyway, from the fragments of clay tablets in Akkadian and Sumerian.

Can I borrow it when you're finished? :)
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White Niggers of America by Pierre Vallieres and War, Evil, and the End of History by Bernard-Henri Levy
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White Niggers of America by Pierre Vallieres and War, Evil, and the End of History by Bernard-Henri Levy
whats wiggers about?
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^French Canadians during the 60s-70s.
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^French Canadians during the 60s-70s.
Here I am thinking that it's some sort of book on Malibu's Most Wanted rejects.
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hepatobiliary & pancreatic surgery by leslie h. blumgart and graeme j poston

and

get fuzzy the dog is not a toy by darby conley
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i love get fuzzy!

i'm reading orientals: asian americans in popular culture by robert g. lee
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Here I am thinking that it's some sort of book on Malibu's Most Wanted rejects.
ahahahahaha
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The 9/11 commission report - it's like a Tom Clancy novel... but in someways it's a bit boring because they go through all the agencies involved in counterterrorism in a rather boring manner and the writing can be dry at times. But it's pretty interesting and engrossing because this is for real, not some made-up story.
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Life & Def: Sex, Drugs, Money & God by Russell Simmons. Real good book, not quite as good as Holler if you Hear Me - Searching for Tupac Shakur by Michael Eric Dyson but still good. He's got a lot of quotables in this book.
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White Niggers of America by Pierre Vallieres and War, Evil, and the End of History by Bernard-Henri LevyWhat is White Niggers of America about? WTF kind of book title is that?
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^again:
^French Canadians during the 60s-70s.
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Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories.

It's by Juliette Harris and Pamela Johnson.

I picked it up today for the pictures of different Afro-centric hairstyles, but I like the intro paragraphs of the book. I'll probably start reading it tonight.
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Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories.

It's by Juliette Harris and Pamela Johnson.

I picked it up today for the pictures of different Afro-centric hairstyles, but I like the intro paragraphs of the book. I'll probably start reading it tonight.

Do they show different hair styles and how to achieve them? Or stories about how they got burned by the hot iron? When I was little, seeing my mom with a curling iron was enough to make me break out in tears.

I'm reading The Forsyte Saga.
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Do they show different hair styles and how to achieve them? Or stories about how they got burned by the hot iron? When I was little, seeing my mom with a curling iron was enough to make me break out in tears.

It seems like a lotta love/hate hair stories and poetry mingled in with the history of hair related stuff.

They show different styles, but not much hair how-to. Although there is a segment with some hair voodoo-like stuff. How to make a man fall in love using two strands of hair or something or another. I didn't read that part, yet.

I enjoy the minimal art in the book. Someone should make a museum dedicated solely to Black hair.

I have some curling iron trauma, too. Evil mommies.

My sister did my hair with the curling iron last night. *teardrop falls*
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Country of Origin by Don Lee

I'm on a book roll! Just finished a good Dean Koontz book a couple days ago and one before that...I haven't been on this much of a roll since the summer of '02...after which, I solely dedicated my life to reading cereal boxes. Oh well, that only lasted for so long. :rolleyes:
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Life & Def: Sex, Drugs, Money & God by Russell Simmons. Real good book, not quite as good as Holler if you Hear Me - Searching for Tupac Shakur by Michael Eric Dyson but still good. He's got a lot of quotables in this book.
I wanna know more.

Is it a general rant about life or about the music industry? I love books that dish dirt!
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House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus. Enjoyed the movie so now reading the novel.
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I'm reading Common Sense, Rights of Man and other Essential Works of Thomas Pain for history class and Pity the Nation: the abduction of Lebanon by Robert Fisk.
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Sharpe's series by Robert Cornwell, moving onto Forester's Hornblowers
On Writing by Stephen King

this household is very into Napoleonic war fiction at the moment
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Everything About Me is Fake...and I'm Perfect! by Janice Dickenson

This book is kinda annoying cuz it's just about some old bitch who can't seem to let go that she ain't all that anymore. Dickenson, many more than times than a billion, brings up the fact that she was the world's "first supermodel" (she claims she coined the term). Gooood god, she looks hideous now! Some people just can't seem to say "NO" to surgery. Damn freak!

But it was kinda juicy alll the details she spilled about hooking up with celebs like Mick Jagger, Sly Stallone, JFK, etc. :wink:
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I just finished The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon and I just started Between Existentialism and Marxism by Jean-Paul Sartre, Human Rights and Comparative Foreign Policy edited by David P. Forsythe, and Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger.
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Jews, God and History by Max Dimont - Very interesting. About how Jews became masters of the universe.
Leadership by Rudy Guiliani - Good book by a great leader.
Titan by Ron Chernow - Just started, biography of tycoon John D. Rockefellar.
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snow falling on cedars by david guterson
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An Introduction to Support Vector Machines and Other Kernel-based Learning Methods by Nello Cristianini and John Shawe-Taylor
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...Y No Se Lo Trago La Tierra by Tomas Rivera.

I'm only on the first chapter, but I like it.

I'm pleasantly surprised because I thought it was a children's book. Whether or not it is, it looks like a good book.
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Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East by Patrick Seale
Arab Nationalism: A History by Youssef M. Choueiri
Othello by William Shakespire
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I finished how to be good by Nick Horny a few days ago. Now I am rereading Wasted by Marya Hornbacher.
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nick hornby's books are laugh out loud.

i just finished reading dante's club by matthew pearl.
it was so well written, i felt like i was reading
a textbook and couldn't read more than a few
pages at a time before getting all drowsy.
good book nonetheless.
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I hated Snow Falling on Cedars, but was interested to learn that the author lived on Bainbridge Island. Wonder if he was there during the war?

One of my in-laws recommended a detective series by Leslie Glass that has an Asian American lead character, but I thought it played too much to Chinese stereotypes.
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in the name of the rose by umberto eco
just finished sophie's world by jostein gaarder
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I finished how to be good by Nick Horny a few days ago. Now I am rereading Wasted by Marya Hornbacher.

Ugh... I hated How To Be Good. I thought that book kinda tapered off in such a way that the ending sucked. And he can't write from a woman's perspective.

Finished not too long ago, Chasing Che by Patrick Symmes. Very nice book, it's one of those armchair travel books. Very nice story, and background information makes the book that much more enjoyable.
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Ugh... I hated How To Be Good. I thought that book kinda tapered off in such a way that the ending sucked. And he can't write from a woman's perspective.

he's the men's helen fielding.
or rather, helen fielding is the women's nick hornby.
kekekekee.
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Hmm yeah, How to Be Good doesn't surpass my other favourites from him. Although I couldn't personally relate to the protagonist, her being a upper-middle class middle aged women, I found it rather amusing reading the inner "debates" she had according to her own morals and how she viewed the situations that is put upon her. And her husband with his "spiritual enlightment" and his crusade for the betterment of the world, I found it ironic that he was still judgemental as ever. For me, at the start I found it tedious to get through but once it got rolling it was an interesting book to read.
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Soft Computing in Case Based Reasoning by Sankar K. Pal, Tharam S. Dillon, Daniel S. Yeung
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Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren

The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey by Fouad Ajami
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"Lies My Teacher Told Me."

By. James W. Loewen.

>:^| recommended this one.

It is one of most fascinating looks at what our public school textbooks have neglected to tell us about American history.

I'm still in the beginning of the book (although I've jumped around), and it is interesting what we little we have been tought about Hellen Keller or Woodrow Wilson.

Ol' Woody was given a Nobel Peace Prize, if I recall, from reading a DK Book on American history that is used at my kid's public school. Well, according to Loewen, and I'm inclined to believe, Woody was racist, amongst other things. Even hellen Keller didn't like him.
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That looks like an interesting book.

Might be my next read.
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A Fascinating Country in the World of Computing: Your Guide to Automated Reasoning by Larry Wos and Gail W. Pieper
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Memorias De Mis Tristes Putas - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Fighting for Life - American Military Medicine in World War II - Albert E. Cowdrey
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Just finished the English translation of Dai Sijie's Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. If anyone wants to borrow this let me know (I'd like it back eventually; it was a gift).

I am starting Italo Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveller. I'm finally catching up to my reading list -- I tagged this one in 1999.
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Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
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The Rape of Nanking
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Confessions of an economic hitman-John Perkins

and starting Rape Of Nanking by Iris Chang
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"Lies My Teacher Told Me."

By. James W. Loewen.

>:^| recommended this one.

It is one of most fascinating looks at what our public school textbooks have neglected to tell us about American history.

I'm still in the beginning of the book (although I've jumped around), and it is interesting what we little we have been tought about Hellen Keller or Woodrow Wilson.

Ol' Woody was given a Nobel Peace Prize, if I recall, from reading a DK Book on American history that is used at my kid's public school. Well, according to Loewen, and I'm inclined to believe, Woody was racist, amongst other things. Even hellen Keller didn't like him.
I agree, good book. My own criticism would be that it reads like it was written for educators. A lot of the book is not about American history but criticism of specific history textbooks which I couldn't care less about.

Anyway, I'm currently reading The Godfather Returns. So far, so good. It fills in the all the gaps between the movies. Basically a background book. But it jumps around a bit since it assumes that you are familiar with the movie. If possible, I would suggest that you watch the first movie or read the original book, then read about 3/4 of this book (you'll know where because a timeline is included in the book), then watch the 2nd movie, then return to the book, and finally watch the 3rd movie.
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Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/1565848926/ref=dp_primary-product-display_0/102-8336877-1620107?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=507846&s=books

this is such a great book. bill moyers is my favorite journalist. a man with dignity and values, who doesn't shirk the problems in this country, and addresses the core issues. this is such a great read, probably the best book i've ever read. I cannot emphasize how good this book is, go read it!
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Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/1565848926/ref=dp_primary-product-display_0/102-8336877-1620107?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=507846&s=books

this is such a great book. bill moyers is my favorite journalist. a man with dignity and values, who doesn't shirk the problems in this country, and addresses the core issues. this is such a great read, probably the best book i've ever read. I cannot emphasize how good this book is, go read it!
A man who loves to attack the beliefs of others. In other words, a man who loves to attack conservatives and their beliefs including religious beliefs.

I actually love most of his work mostly because he gets to issues that most people don't give a crap about. But I disagree with most of his liberal spin and hate his attacks on the very religious.
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Carthage by B.H. Warmington
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The Naked Face: The Essential Guide to Reading Faces - Lailan Young.

I don't pay attention to physiognomy but seeing a lot of that stuff I've heard old people say about faces in here made me go hmmm.
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Memorias De Mis Tristes Putas - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

so lucky!!!!
i'm jealous. i totally forgot you can
read books in spanish.

i'm reading "feng shui for the soul"
it's a bunch of bull.
well, i kind of expected more stuff
like "put a picture of a body of water
in the southeast corner of your room"
(making that up)
blah blah blah.
but it's more.
"meditate and listen to your inner voice,
it will tell you where the perfect place
to put a picture of a body of water will be."
"when picking out frames close your eyes
and envision which frame would fit
in your room with perfect harmony."
my gaahhh.
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I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
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Um...my state and local governments textbook, haha
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Im balancing between 2 books and 2 articles right now, but never seem to have enough time to finish...

Books:

Race War: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire by Gerald Horne. New York University Press, 2004

Racism and Cultural Studies: Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of Difference. by E. San Juan Jr. Duke University Press, 2002

Articles:

"Essentialising Essentialism, Essentialising Silence: Ambivalence and Multiplicity in the Constructions of Racism and Ethnicity," by Pnina Werbner in Debating Cultural Hybridity: Multi-Cultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism. Zed Books, 1997

"Yellow Skin, White Masks: Race, Class and Identification in Japanese Colonial Discourse," by Leo Ching in Trajectories: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. Routledge, 1998
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Handwriting Analysis - Sheila Lowe
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Helmut Newton - Autobiography
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Minority Rules: The Miao And The Feminine In China's Cultural Politics by Louisa Schein
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bad blood (autobiography) by lorna sage

http://www.yoshimotobanana.com/en/books/europe/img/asleepitaly1.jpg

asleep by banana yoshimoto
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asleep by banana yoshimoto

i really enjoyed reading that book.
my copy has been circulating around
so much i don't even know who has it now.
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kafka on the shore, Haruki Murakami. Awesome book, if ur into what's deep.
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kafka on the shore, Haruki Murakami. Awesome book, if ur into what's deep.

oh i was totally planning to pick that
book up this weekend.
i'm a huge murakami fan.
my absolute favourite story is
"...100 percent perfect girl..."
i've read it so many times.
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kafka on the shore, Haruki Murakami. Awesome book, if ur into what's deep.
I'm a big fan of Murakami! But I have yet to read this one.
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I'm a big fan of Murakami! But I have yet to read this one.

it was just released last month!!
*rubbing hands*
let's pick it up and we'll discuss.
i'm such a geek.
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i just finished reading, a child called 'it'. it's by dave peltzer, an autobiography. his case was supposedly the third worst documented case of child abuse in california - took place in our own daly city. his alcoholic mother not only beat him, but played psychotic games with him, such as soaking him in cold water (when he was about ten years old) for hours at a time, locking him in the bathroom with a pail of ammonia mixed with chloride (she read in the newspaper that it was dangerous and wanted to try it on him), forcing him to throw up after school to make sure that he didn't have anything to eat - and if he did, making him eat his throw-up, starving him routinely for days at a time, forcing him to sleep in the garage nightly with no water, burning his arm on the gas stove & trying to place his entire naked body on it, and all this while treating his younger brothers as normal children should be treated, pampering them, and telling them that their brother is just bad. this all happened over the course of 2+ years, until the principal and his teachers finally called CPS.
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it was just released last month!!
*rubbing hands*
let's pick it up and we'll discuss.
i'm such a geek.
I think I'll go get it this weekend. I've been a fan of his ever since I read "On Meeting My 100 Percent Woman One Fine April Morning".
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i just finished reading, a child called 'it'. it's by dave peltzer, an autobiography. his case was supposedly the third worst documented case of child abuse in california - took place in our own daly city. his alcoholic mother not only beat him, but played psychotic games with him, such as soaking him in cold water (when he was about ten years old) for hours at a time, locking him in the bathroom with a pail of ammonia mixed with chloride (she read in the newspaper that it was dangerous and wanted to try it on him), forcing him to throw up after school to make sure that he didn't have anything to eat - and if he did, making him eat his throw-up, starving him routinely for days at a time, forcing him to sleep in the garage nightly with no water, burning his arm on the gas stove & trying to place his entire naked body on it, and all this while treating his younger brothers as normal children should be treated, pampering them, and telling them that their brother is just bad. this all happened over the course of 2+ years, until the principal and his teachers finally called CPS.

i'm surprised that it was the 3rd worst
documented case.
i've read all his books and it freakin seems
unbelievable, the things he went through.
i'm so surprised he's alive.

I think I'll go get it this weekend. I've been a fan of his ever since I read "On Meeting My 100 Percent Woman One Fine April Morning".

it's my favourite murakami piece!!!
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Any of you read any works by the other Murakami... Ryu Murakami? I've read Coin Locker Babies and Into The Miso Soup; miso was basically a short story but Coin Locker Babies... now that book was epic.
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Past Lives, Future Healing - Sylvia Browne

The ever always skeptic, I didn't expect to get past the first pages of the book, but since the first pages instruct readers to be skeptical, it's easier to read.
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Past Lives, Future Healing - Sylvia Browne

The ever always skeptic, I didn't expect to get past the first pages of the book, but since the first pages instruct readers to be skeptical, it's easier to read.
Uh, great choice. :confused: :tongue: Seriously, you'll have to let me/us know your opinion when you finish. Some friends and I talked to a spirit through Ouija once, no joke.


I'm reading Bangkok 8 by John Burdett. The main character is a cop in Bangkok trying to solve the murder of a U.S. Marine w/ Bangkok's prostitution scene as the story's backdrop. His mom is a former prostitute and I think his dad is an ex-marine (the story hasn't said who/what his dad is yet). I'm thinking his dad is "White" which would make him Hapa. The way the book is written is interesting, it switches back and forth from first-person to third-person. This style is good for mystery books!

:smile:
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gonna go pick up jenna jameson's "how to have sex like a porn star."
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Uh, great choice. :confused: :tongue: Seriously, you'll have to let me/us know your opinion when you finish. Some friends and I talked to a spirit through Ouija once, no joke.

Ha! This one isn't about that, but I believe Browne is anti-Ouija.

This book is about her belief that people live in cycles. Earth, somewhere else (light or dark), and back to Earth. That the spirit is eternal.

Because of this, when issues go unresolved in past lives, they sometimes the reveal themselves in this one. Because, while you might not consciously remember the issues, the spirit is still sometimes tramatized and unable to let go.

So when doctors are unable to treat people with unexplained pains, phobias, and reocurring dreams, she wants them to be open to letting the patients have their "cell memory" read.

A lot of the book are stories about people she says she's treated this way.

It's a light and short read and you are encouraged to question everything, so it isn't rammed down your throat and preachy.

I find it interesting because her theories on the spirit aren't too unlike the theories I've heard from old folks in my family.
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Anti-Ouija? F**k her then. Nah. Interesting ideas. Sounds plausible to me. Perhaps that could explain why people are born w/ personalities. I doubt I'll read the book but thanks for sharing. However, this convo might make a good thread.
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Black Chicago (1890-1920) - The Making of a Ghetto
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kafka on the shore, Haruki Murakami. Awesome book, if ur into what's deep.

I finished reading it too. It's not my favorite by him, but even Murakami is such a good writer that the prose is still wonderful, even though the plot didn't really grab me this time around. Lately, sometimes his stuff is too pretension, as if he is not longer writing for an audience by writing for literary critics.

I really like Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World or
South of the Border, West of the Sun.
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the tin man by michael frayn and asleep by banana yoshimoto
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just finished reading The Jump, about Sebastian Telfair and the jump from high school to the NBA. a bit meh.
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Any of you read any works by the other Murakami... Ryu Murakami? I've read Coin Locker Babies and Into The Miso Soup; miso was basically a short story but Coin Locker Babies... now that book was epic.

I really didn't get Miso Soup. That ending ...

I'm currently reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
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A book about Buddhism, a collection of post-WWII stories, and Edward Said's Orientalism.
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The Female Eunuch - Germaine Greer

It was impossible to pass a book with such an intriguing title.
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Perfect Match. It's like Law and Order SVU!
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Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis 2. ~Do graphic novels count?

Geisha: A Life by Mineko Iwasaki (the real-life geisha Arthur Golden based his book on, Memoirs of A Geisha). ~It's a little dry so far...
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This thread.
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1984 by Orwell, technically, because Im too hooked to the internet to actually read it
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love wife - this book by an asian am author. have to say it sucks but i'm going to finish it. yet another book about an asian american who's white-washed, has no real sense of identity, self-loathes, has no asian pride, marries a white chick, hates his asian mom.
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love wife - this book by an asian am author. have to say it sucks but i'm going to finish it. yet another book about an asian american who's white-washed, has no real sense of identity, self-loathes, has no asian pride, marries a white chick, hates his asian mom.
But at least its a guy getting white action! :rolleyes: :redface: :frown:
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i'm reading the memoirs of a geisha....

surprinsgly a good book.
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i'm reading the memoirs of a geisha....

surprinsgly a good book.
Does she want a life of her own?
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i was trying to force myself to read a classic,
jude the obscure but i was bored out of my mind.
i couldn't bear it.

i'm reading my lovely kim sam soon because
i love the drama so much.
the book is much better.
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I wish I could read a book right now. :frown:

I'm too distracted with all them video games.
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Does she want a life of her own?

not there yet.....

it's all about her blue eyes....for now.

:wink:
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recently began re-reading the complete illustrated sherlock holmes short stories. i know that's not the title but i don't have it with me.

if only my ability to observe and reason were as good as his....
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