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jep
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reading material
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Jan 30 16:09 UTC 2007 |
Have you read any good books lately?
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nharmon
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response 1 of 58:
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Jan 30 16:12 UTC 2007 |
Nope.
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mynxcat
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response 2 of 58:
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Jan 30 16:13 UTC 2007 |
The Josephine B Trilogy - Sandra Gulland. Fictional journal of Josephine
Bonaparte, faced on true facts.
Very interesting
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jep
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response 3 of 58:
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Jan 30 16:15 UTC 2007 |
I bought my wife a book for Christmas called "Marley & Me: Life and Love
with the World's Worst Dog" by John Grogan. My wife is not much of a
reader, but she loves dogs. She loved the book.
After she was done, I read it, too. It's a decent read, about the
author's 13 years with his incorrigible, hyperactive 100 lb yellow lab.
It's funny and pleasant. It's not greatly insightful or anything, but
it moves along.
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jep
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response 4 of 58:
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Jan 30 16:17 UTC 2007 |
I've just started Bill Cosby's "Fatherhood". I'm only 50-60 pages into
it. I was reading it in bed last night, and thought I was going to have
to go outside or something because I was having trouble controlling my
mirth. I think Cosby is the funniest man alive, and this book leaps
right into being hilarious. I have high expectations for the rest of it.
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mynxcat
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response 5 of 58:
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Jan 30 16:24 UTC 2007 |
Fatherhood is a great book! It kept me in splits. Especially the story of when
his mom told him to put his brains back in his head.
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rcurl
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response 6 of 58:
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Jan 30 16:26 UTC 2007 |
Join books. Help keep other conferences active. There are a couple of items
for recent reading.
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twenex
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response 7 of 58:
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Jan 30 16:46 UTC 2007 |
Perhaps we could link this item?
I am currently working my way through "The Winter War," by William Trotter,
a history of the 1939-40 Finnish-Soviet war. It sounds quite dry, but it's
actually rather amusing in most places - so far, anyway - mostly due to the
utter incompetence of the Soviet forces. You seriously wonder whether some
of the things in this book are just anti-Soviet propaganda, but it's funny
all the same.
I can't agree with Trotter's assessment of the Finnish language, though: I
think it's lovely.
Also took a sneak peak at ON THE EDGE: THE SPECTACULAR RISE AND FALL OF
COMMODORE, a birthday purchase.
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