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Reading Bill Clinton's "Back To Work" so far...it's great!

Got Indian Nations of North America for Xmas. Well done! Written by the native peoples themselves; it's a myth-buster. Very large tome, but will probably get to Zuni by the end of the week.

i have now completed the hunger games and am half way thru catching fire

if you are reading for entertainment and to transport to another place via the written word then read this trilogy

it's awesome so far

best storytelling author of all time ~ harold robbins (a stone for danny fisher and i'm not sure, never love a stranger)

Just finished Michael Moore's "Here Comes trouble" very good read currently reading Patti Smith's "Just Kids"

I finished the trilogy in about two days' time. Was before the movie. Liked the first and second novels, but the third seemed to be written in a hurry to satisfy a publisher's deadline. Could have been better. That second book, Catching Fire, was on a very adult level and I REALLY liked it. Did anyone catch the metaphor for President Snow couched in symbols of Richard III-- the White Rose and the Scent of Blood? IMO, the author is cunning and casts some sarcastic references to the current political scene. With just a tad more subversion, Susan Collins could be the YA equivalent of of the wonderful Margaret Atwood.

THG TRILOGY IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

There is a re-release of all of Kurt Vonnegut's stuff in one volume that just came out (small print/thin pages) but SO COOL! 'Bout halfway through.

Also HIGHLY RECOMMEND Umberto Eco's The Prague Cemetery. Snarky, impish account of a 19th Century schizophrenic who changes history by starting all the conspiracy theories about secret societies via forged documents. Sort of like Zelig, but featuring a psychopath rather than an ingenue. Hi-fricking-intellectualarious! Umberto is up for a prestigious award for this work.

ya know ~ the hunger games was written for kids altho very gory in parts.

like any great storyteller, i miss katniss

i want the adult trilogy next

starting again ~ the girl with the tattoo trilogy

in my defense, i've been busy learning tons lately so free reading hasn't really been a luxury i have time for but somehow i did manage to read the hunger games trilogy. i am having a hard time with the girl with the dragon tattoo but i'm off next, next week and am hoping for nice weather to do a lot of reading and tennis and bike riding and swimming. so i'll give it another go.

just curious if anyone wants to admit to reading:

50 shades of grey.

i bought the trilogy (50 shades of grey, 50 shades darker and 50 shades freed)

as a huge harold robbins fan, i suspect these books by e l james may be great by my standards.

hardly wait to read them but curious if anyone else read and enjoyed them?

It may well be sacrilege in this forum, but I feel prompted to simply reiterate my exceptionally unpopular view (around here) that the US/English film version of this (Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara and directed by Fincher) was a remarkably faithful and respectful rendition. Indeed, the casting of Mara was SO against Hollywood type, but true to the character, that I still think of it with admiration.

From the Blomkvist writing space, as well as his apartment, to the Vanger house and the bridge and the village, over and again the scenes kept meshing perfectly with what I'd imagined - right down to the weather and the light.

I CONSUMED and loved the books, and I adored the film. (Yes, I saw the Swedish version, too. Meh.)

Have been taking my time with The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. Great work on how we create habits; how some find it easier to start good habits than others, etc. He moves on to how companies can change their habits for the better, and how societies do as well. It's a even balance of analysis and self help. Under 300 pages.

i saw the movie ~ girl with the dragon tattoo. it was good imo but still haven't read the trilogy. but i will.

just started 50 shades darker. enjoyed 50 shades of fucked up. (or 50 shades of grey) but i think he's playing her.

Just finished an absolute mind-blower of a book, fiction under the category of "suspense/mystery." Pretty lame category for this firecracker of a book, though.

Written by Gillian Flynn, it's called "Gone Girl."

Very hard to do justice to the book without spoilers, so it will just have to suffice to say it revolves around a seemingly happily married couple, and on the day of their 5th wedding anniversary the wife vanishes.

Here's an excerpt from the Amazon summary:

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior.

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If anyone tries telling you a word, phrase or sentence more than that, they're not your friend - run away from them until you've read it.

Some truly brilliant twists and turns. Take your Grisham, Connelly, Kellerman and the like, and turn them all up to "11." So if this genre or any of those authors are among your faves, this book will stun you.

(Hey, I could write back cover blurbs!)

Ha! You're good. I just bought the Kindle version.

meh (re 50 shades of fucked up trilogy)

she's more jackie collins then harold robbins

go, no go ~ no go but all three as a movie might work if you know a christen

(angelina jolie wants the part of mrs robinson)

Sounds very close to a Dean Koontz novel I once read.

Recommendation:

The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder

By J.W. Ironmonger

One of the most unique books I've ever read.