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mistify · October 3rd, 2006, 02:48 PM

Danse Macabre (again) Laurell K Hamilton.........................

buttmunch · October 3rd, 2006, 02:49 PM

Still reading Stalin and recommend it more than ever. Absolutely fascinating and extremely well written. Run, don't walk, to your nearest bookshop and pick this one up.

NawdleZouss · October 3rd, 2006, 05:16 PM

Albert Speer's memoirs. I've been going on a third Reich kick lately...

**NoDayButToday** · October 3rd, 2006, 05:24 PM

Um, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. It's African literature for my fiction class, I read it in high school too and really liked it.

Handmaid's Tale is up next.

ohmygoodness · October 3rd, 2006, 05:45 PM

I loooooooooooove The Handmaid's Tale. I did for an independent novel study in Grade 11, class study in Grade 12, and last year in my Intro to English Lit class in uni. And I really didn't mind having to read it all 3 years. It's so complex and there are so many symbols and metaphors that I still don't think I have them all even so.

**NoDayButToday** · October 3rd, 2006, 09:08 PM

I've read it before too and I loved it! I'm excited to read it again.

buttmunch · October 4th, 2006, 03:30 AM

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Albert Speer's memoirs. I've been going on a third Reich kick lately...

That sounds interesting...Title? Also, absolutely LOVED The Handmaid's Tale, although it is scarily real at times. I might have to re-read that once I finish with old Koba.

sputnik · October 4th, 2006, 07:40 AM

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'Diary of a Madman' is great. It's that story plus several more, and is not only extremely funny but surprisingly modern. REally great stuff. I'll check out 'The Black Veil'....what makes it different?

thanks, i'll give that a try.
the black veil is different because for a memoir, he's not really all that caught up in himself or self-absorbed and he sort of alternates between telling us about his horrific descent into drugs, depression and middle class despair, and exploring his whole maine background and trying to find out if it's true what his father and grandfather always said that the moody family was related to the moody character in nathaniel hawthorne. that sounds weird i know but it's actually really, really interesting and he's such a great writer that he could be describing a used kleenex and it would be worth your while

**NoDayButToday** · October 4th, 2006, 10:05 AM

Just got another book added onto my pile... Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky. My Michael Moore professor decided we should read it because it heavily influenced a lot of activists, inluding Michael Moore.

ourmaninBusan · October 4th, 2006, 11:29 AM

Just finished Duras' The Ravishing of Lol Stein. It was better than
when I first read it, but I like some of her other books better.

Now I'm into the book that started a new craze in modern horror:

**NoDayButToday** · October 4th, 2006, 11:58 AM

^ I read the manga for that awhile back, and I like the original version of the movie, Ringu, a lot better than the American version. I thought it was far more suspenseful and had really great composition in a lot of the scenes.

buttmunch · October 4th, 2006, 02:21 PM

Rules for Radicals sounds great. As does the Moody book. Guess I'll be coughing up more cash down at the bookshop. And by the way, steadily plowing through the Stalin tome and it remains fabulous.

Laurent · November 10th, 2006, 12:49 PM

I just finished reading James Ellroy's The Black Dahlia. Love Ellory and enjoyed the book, but felt like I'd run a marathon after. I'm looking foward to renting the movie and seeing how they line up.

About to start reading Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. A friend left a copy at my house and I'm going to read it before returning it.

Palermo · November 11th, 2006, 12:10 AM

Just finished "What Came Before He Shot Her" by Elizabeth George and it was fantastic

Lani · November 11th, 2006, 03:23 PM

Just finished reading The Other Boyeln Girl by Phillipa Gregory and The Truth about Diamonds by Nicole Richie.

The Other Boyeln Girl had me hooked start to finish. I've never much liked Historical Fiction but this just sat really well for me. Its about King Henerys Reign in Tudor England, but the lead character is Mary who narrates the story and Anne, her older sister who finally captures he kings heart and in turn seals her own death. While I'm very sure that not all written in the book would be fact, it was a great way to learn some English history. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

The Truth About Diamonds was what I expected. Its feels like 'the grown up book for tweens'. All about celebrity and drugs, half a warning and half a 'hey in the end, its all fun!'. Nicole narrates the book, telling the story of Chloe who is - really -just her in disguise and not a very thinkly veild one at that. Some scathing insight to her thoughts about Hilton as well. I got through it easily but by the end I was glad it was over. SO glad.