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[lilacwoman]

That's in my to-read pile, any good?

Eye opening in places...annoyingly bland in other sections.   Get it from Amazon for one penny,  er, one p.

[Nathan.]

A Game Of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

[Pica Pica]

Eye opening in places...annoyingly bland in other sections.   Get it from Amazon for one penny,  er, one p.

Got it already. Amazon seem to be having a lot of good stuff for a penny at the moment.

[MariaMx]

Just started reading The Art of Reasoning by David Kelley

[justmeinoz]

I have just finished Michel Foucalt's "History of Sexuality", and am working my way through "Origins of the Modern World" by Robert Marks, and "After Tamerlaine" by John Darwin.  History texts, so
have to plough through them in a rush. 

Also Kate Bornstein's "My Gender Workbook" and Gary Cox "How to be an Existentialist" for a change of pace.  Both a big help at the moment.

[Maya Zimmerman]

Got it already. Amazon seem to be having a lot of good stuff for a penny at the moment.

I got a ton of Koji Suzuki 1st edition hardcovers for $1 each, after they went out of print, at Amazon.

[Constance]

Fins are Forever by Tera Lynn Childs

[dalebert]

I just read Infinity Squad. It's very similar to Starship Troopers in style in terms of an Earth army with really advanced tech in a war on another planet with highly evolved but low-tech enemies. It's from the POV of the squad leader of Infinity Squad, named such because they wear helmets that, if they die in battle, transmit the contents of their brain into a cloned body so they can get back to fighting.

I really enjoyed it. I recommend it for anyone who likes sort of old-school hardcore sci-fi.

In the interest of full disclosure, it was written by someone in my writer's group and he's releasing it through Smashwords sometime tonight.

[Sara Thomas]

Finished my G. Washington book - it was a good read, but the notes were a mess.

Just started "The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future", by Joseph E. Stiglitz - it's an interesting subject, and the author is a Nobel Prize winning economist... but that certainly doesn't make him a writer.

I'm barely out of the Introduction, and not sure I can stand to keep going: this book sorely missed having a competent editor.

[justbeinggreene]

Transparent. About transgender youth in LA.

[Edge]

Red Glove by Holly Black. Magical mafia yeah!
I will be reading YA books for as long as I want. Good thing because Holly Black is one of my favourite authors.

[justbeinggreene]

has anyone read anything by Ellen Hopkins? She is a great author.

[desperatelyseeking-grace]

Horns by Joe Hill..

Its going to be a movie starring Daniel Radcliffe

[Felix]

You're always reading such interesting stuff.  Be careful about reading anything I mention.  I started reading Investigation of the Laws of Thought and it's pretty intense.  O_O

So I picked up The Time Traveler's Wife off the holdshelf at the library the other day, and I thought ohmahgolly this is Oprah book club crap, no way. As I was grimacing my daughter says "daddy you put that on hold now you have to read it!" and I laughed but decided to give it a chance. Turns out it is great fun, and I think more ppl would probably pick it up if it played up the science fiction elements on the back cover instead of describing it like it's all romance. So yeah. Most of the way through that.

We got a complimentary newspaper subscription so I read that every day now too.

[Padma]

Yes, I recently read The Time Traveler's Wife and was really unexpectedly blown away by it. And determined I'm never, ever going to watch the film, I can imagine exactly how crap and romanticised Hollywood would make it.

right now I'm reading Circle of Change, by Laney Cairo - which is a delightful (and raunchy) young adult novel set in a gentle pagan/Wicca background, about a young cis gay man getting together with a young trans gay man. It's very funny and very, very sweet.

[Maya Zimmerman]

So I picked up The Time Traveler's Wife off the holdshelf at the library the other day, and I thought ohmahgolly this is Oprah book club crap, no way. As I was grimacing my daughter says "daddy you put that on hold now you have to read it!" and I laughed but decided to give it a chance. Turns out it is great fun, and I think more ppl would probably pick it up if it played up the science fiction elements on the back cover instead of describing it like it's all romance. So yeah. Most of the way through that.

It's funny.  I stayed away from it because my ex complained about its excessive use of descriptions of Chicago, but I ended up loving it because of the way it tells such a touching love story in such an interesting way.  It's also the single most consistent time travel fiction I've come across that uses the cyclical time travel model.  I should have known excessive description wouldn't bother me, considering how much I loved Dangerous Angels when I was younger.

Yes, I recently read The Time Traveler's Wife and was really unexpectedly blown away by it. And determined I'm never, ever going to watch the film, I can imagine exactly how crap and romanticised Hollywood would make it.

I haven't seen it, but I imagine it's really bogged down by time restraints, not to mention losing the journal-based style of the novel.  The double first-person perspective allows the reader to fall in love with these characters the way that they fell in love with each other, over the span of their lifetimes, in different orders.  It focuses on their feelings about situations instead of just portraying them.  I mean, that's generally something that movies can't accomplish in the same way as books no matter what, but this seems like an extreme case.

[Felix]

Yes, I recently read The Time Traveler's Wife and was really unexpectedly blown away by it. And determined I'm never, ever going to watch the film, I can imagine exactly how crap and romanticised Hollywood would make it.

I didn't know there was a movie. I think yeah I'll avoid it too.

I'm mostly done with the book but taking breaks for Tee Time in Berzerkistan, which is funny-pages political stuff. Recentish and fun.

[jesse]

White Truffles in Winter by N M Kelby a wonderful historicle fiction recounting the tale of a premier french chef who revolutionized the restraunt industry and his wife who supported him threw it all.

[muffinpants]

I just finished Bloodraven by P.L. Nunn. It was absolutely wonderful!! Right now though I'm reading Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb. Love that lady! The farseer trilogy was superb.

[Constance]

Following Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci