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The Spirit of Shaolin by David Carradine for the 3rd time!
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Re: What are you reading these days?
Aug 7, 2008 9:23 AM
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read "God's Daughter" the author of this book sued Dan Brown fpr plagerism (?) he lost but I don't understand why??
since posting last I read "American Shaolin" by Matthew Polly; American guy goes to the actual Shaolin temple to study kungfu. . . it's a riot!
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Re: What are you reading these days?
Aug 6, 2008 11:35 AM
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The Last Cato - Matilde Asensi, translated from Spanish, 2001
If you liked The DaVinci Code, you will like this novel. I won't give away the plot, just say the main character is a Sicilian nun who works at the Vatican. Check it out!
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Aug 5, 2008 9:55 PM
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Got side tracked with "The Heart Shaped Box"-By Joe Hill. I'm in the middle and it's a scary, good read. Just found out Joe Hill's real last name is King, as in Stephen King-his dad.
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Re: What are you reading these days?
Jul 23, 2008 9:19 PM
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There were two sets of trilogies that I read about twenty, er, really???? years ago.
About a month ago I was in a book store and lo and behold, the author has picked up the story knowing when he wrote the second trilogy that he was going to write four more books.
Two are written and I just finished both of them. The name of the last one is Fatal Revenant. Wow wow wow is all I can say? I went on ebay and found a lot of the six first books and bought them and am going to read them again.
How amazing to continue a story so many years later and fall in love with it completely again. And it's a continuation.
I don't know if any of you have ever read Stephen Donaldson, but the story is about Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.
The first three are The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, then The Second Chronicles and now The Last Chronicles.
I read the two books of the last series in less than a month. I couldn't put them down. Now I will have to wait for the third book to be finished.
However, so many years later, it will give me time to read them all again and then these two. ahhhhh.. I don't know how to describe it.
So, the book I am reading now is Lord Foul's Bane.
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Jul 15, 2008 7:24 PM
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> > Just finished Water For Elephants by Sara
> Gruen.
> > Really loved it ! Circus train, Great
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> > , elephants, love, mayhem, villians, hookers
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> Birds are good
I'm ordering some Kemm Nunn today-missing IB-need a fix.
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Jul 15, 2008 12:34 AM
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> Just finished Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen.
> Really loved it ! Circus train, Great Depression,
> , elephants, love, mayhem, villians, hookers -Whew.
I loved it too, really a good, good story.
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Jul 14, 2008 12:45 PM
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Just finished Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen. Really loved it ! Circus train, Great Depression, elephants, love, mayhem, villians, hookers -Whew.
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Jul 11, 2008 9:43 PM
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I've finally finished first finding, buying and then reading all of Kem Nunn's books. My favorites are his two most recent books, The Dogs of Winter & Tijuana Straights. TS especially because there is so much of Imperial Beach, and surfing -- you really see the the germination of many of the themes and even similar characters to JFC. And it's just so beautifully written....
Right now re-reading The Years of Rice & Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson until the library informs me that my books on hold are finally in. I used to have the library to myself, lol, or so it seemed until recently - with escalating costs of everything it seems more people are reading, which is good, but man are they bad about returning books on time!
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Jul 10, 2008 6:34 PM
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Today was a day of waiting, I used the time for reading. I finished Annie Dillard's "The Writing Life", her description of the process of creating with words. Beautifully written, with many memorable passages, filled with wise advise for the would-be writer, it left me in awe of Dillard's talents. About writing:
"Push it. Examine all things intensely and relentlessly. Probe and search each object in a piece of art. Do not leave it , do not course over it as if it were understood, but instead follow it down until you it in the mystery of its own specificity and strength."
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"...the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes."
WOW. Things to think about.
I also got about half way through Mark Kurlansky's "The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell". Love those oysters! I'll finish the book before commenting.
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Jul 6, 2008 11:08 AM
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Walking away from a fight is ones greatest strength..
If some people would walk away from their EGO's
it would be a much better world
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Jul 6, 2008 9:34 AM
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i guess i am crazy but i'm now reading 3 books at once!
Legends of the Fall Jim Harrison
The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas Davy Rothbart
American Shaolin Matthew Polley
Legends is all about revenge
Lone Surfer is short stories
American Shaolin is the true story of a guy who goes to the actual Shaolin monastery in China to study kungfu. . . its pretty funny actually. . . as you might've guessed besides surfing I dabble in the martial arts but only as a form of training, discipline, meditation. . . I'm not out to kick anyone's ass. . . as Bruce Lee once said, You want to kill somebody? You use a gun not a flying roundhouse kick to the head! A true fighter never fights but always practices! Altho it is nice to know that if necessary you can lay somebody out with your thumb like if some asshole grabs your girlfriend's breast at the bar! LOL! After being nearly beaten to death twice, shot at, stabbed in the back and thrown from a moving car (alright it was only going 30 mph but man that pavement was hard!), plus my experiences as a correctional officer where I was literally surrounded by thousands of killers murderers & rapists everyday who had no bones about threatening an officer, (I've had many other jobs since & like I always say, any day at work where I'm not taken hostage, tied up blindfolded thrown in a closet have my manhood violated and my fingers cut off one by one is a good day at work!) I've found that walking away from a fight is your greatest strength. . . notice I said "fight" not a challenge. . . that's something altogether different! whew! what a blowhard, eh?
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Jul 4, 2008 1:06 PM
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TV Guide
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Live free or die trying.....
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Jul 4, 2008 10:51 AM
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Swann's Way - Proust
I tried to read this when I was younger; am finding it easier going now. What a mind, sentences that go on forever, stunning imagery...
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Jul 3, 2008 11:23 AM
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Reinventing the Sacred , Stuart Kauffman
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Jun 29, 2008 5:13 PM
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Self Developement Dr. Wayne Dyer
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