[charleshudgen]

I am currently working on The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis. This might be worth a look if anybody knows or could recall the movie. It's a very good book and calm book. Many little details in the book found their way into the movie, but they are still quite different in some other things.

[idem]

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein

[Kricket]

Just about to sit down and start Pyramids. It's another Pratchett. I am nothing if not consistent.

[Merle]

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	I am currently working on The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis. This might be worth a look if anybody knows or could recall the movie. It's a very good book and calm book. Many little details in the book found their way into the movie, but they are still quite different in some other things.

I LOVE Walter Tevis. Mockingbird is another amazing SF book of his which I would recommend to anyone!

I like how you describe The Man Who Fell to Earth as calm
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his style is very un-intrusive and there is a real sense of a gentle and patient mind behind the writing.

[IngsocDisciple]

Final Justice-W.E.B. Griffin
Megiddo-Paul Crouch

[Dancingqueen]

Saul Bellow-More Die of Heartbreak

[Samoan Corleone]

Just started The Big Sleep, because I want to read it before I see the movie.

[idem]

On the Road, by Jack Kerouac

[Jill Hives]

Recently reread all of The Sandman graphic novels, and now I have finally started The Wheel Of Time series by Robert Jordan. Halfway through The Eye Of The World. It took me a while to get into it, but now I am enjoying it more.

[Merle]

Let the Great World Spin - Collum McCann

[admittedheretic]

Neil Fiore - The Now Habit

[ModernLit]

moonlight mile by dennis lehane

[warweasel]

Still reading House Divided by Ben Ames Williams. One of the characters seems to be very INTJ-ish...

[Andre20]

The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell

[Istalri]

His Dark Materials Series by Philip Pullman. One of my favorite series of books ever (and it has some darn good competition).

[jammi]

None. I don't like reading from paper and I use my e-books as technical reference guides, which is what they are.

[Doppelbock]

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	The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein

BEST. BOOK. EVER. I think it would make an awesome movie, too.

I'm currently reading "Penrod" by Booth Tarkington. A classic.

[idem]

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	BEST. BOOK. EVER. I think it would make an awesome movie, too.

I liked it! Although I found Mannie himself strangely ... uninspiring. I've also been meaning to get around to Stranger in a Strange Land.

[Nadette]

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Gosh, it is massive, but a friend wanted me to read it with her so that we could discuss. How could I refuse?

[dontmesswithme]

"Leonard Maltin's 2012 Movie Guide", by Rex Reed.

[teraczy]

Deadeye Dick

[peppersasen]

Revisiting the Somalia chapter of United Nations: The First Fifty Years by Stanley Meisler:
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it's my guilty pleasure. it's like reading a gossip column about old people/bureaucrats/politicians. the book can be quite comical if you're dark, especially the descriptions of all the "characters" and their actions, decisions, motivations. i mean, i know to take armed conflict seriously, it's no laughing matter, soldiers who can't choose their battles and civilians died.

but politicians/diplomats/warlords are funny characters, you can't even make that shit up. my favorite bits:

	Ambassador Albright insisted that the Somalia intervention had not been a failure. The UN, she said, had "saved thousands of lives... from starvation".

i don't know why i imagined this bit being said in a very matter-of-fact, business-as-usual tone:

	By then, Howe had left Somalia, and Aideed had long since returned to public life, holding news conferences, issuing threats, still plotting an ascent to power.

meh. i read that while waiting at a cafe. i hate cracking up in public places... i decided to also revisit the first chapter (which is also pretty comical).

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I think I should also add that I spent much of my childhood/teens in a former military dictatorship, where they would screen propaganda videos at school. So history books like this, which I asked my father to bring me from overseas, are such a treat...
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I know it sounds creepy, but it was a normal life.

[idem]

Lolita, by Nabokov. It is so, so good.

[Megalomania]

Munich 1938 by David Faber. It focuses on the diplomacy between England and Germany in 1938. It would have been nicer to have some insight into the diplomacy going on between the French, English and Germans. Neville Chamberlain definitely isn't portrayed in a positive light.

[Merle]

The Groom to Have Been - Saher Alam