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[Mr. Roboto]

And the, once I read 'em, what do I need them for?

I put mine on a shelf to show everybody how smart I am.

Actually I was thinking the same thing the other day...what am I going to start doing with these books once I read them?

[Timothy]

Sell them on Amazon

[Mr. Roboto]

ha, yea I should.

[Abaddon]

Borrowed some books off my dad as I feel I can't really afford to buy any right now. Currently reading The Girl on the Landing by Paul Torday. Not bad so far, but not a patch on his first book, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.

I don't know if this helps, but I buy used books off Amazon for insanely cheap prices. Often the shipping costs more than anything. I've been picking up books for 5 bucks a pop out the door.

Aye, I know I can get books off Amazon dirt cheap. But we're trying to scrimp wherever we can at the mo, and as my dad's got thousands of the things, it just makes sense to treat him like a library and get stuff for free! It's not bad really - he's got hundreds of books I'd quite happily give a read.

[michelle]

Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy

[MrsBrisby]

Reading "Till We Have Faces" by C.S. Lewis Very good so far.

[Abaddon]

Finished The Girl on the Landing last night. It got really good after about 100 pages or so, but then the ending was kind of rushed. Worth a read, but not worth going out of your way for. Next up, A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller.

[freedom78]

Just finished Toll the Hounds (Book 8 of 10 in Erikson's Malazan series). I had picked up Fight Club (book...not movie) to read, just to see how it compared, and it was short so I cranked through it in a day. Now I'm on to Dust of Dreams (book 9 of those 10 mentioned above).

[Hula]

Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy

I liked these quite a bit

[delusianne]

Hey, Commie elitists who think you're better than everybody else. Read this book. It's one of the best things I've ever, ever read.
Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of Modern American Reform, by Eric F. Goldman (1952)
http://www.amazon.co...n/dp/1566633699
http://en.wikipedia....Eric_F._Goldman
http://www.nytimes.c...ml?pagewanted=1
(Huh. From that Times obit, this book "became something of a standard text for high school and college students." !! Can't imagine in the present day. Could have influenced the JFK-era liberal sensibility.)

[cousin it]

I haven't been reading a lot lately, but I started " Arthropod Fossils and Phylogeny". It is a collection of papers that presents the two most accepted arguments for the evolution, and diversity, of arthropods, ie. whether or not the chelicerates are of the same clade as the crustaceans and atelocerates. Most would probably find it boring, but I thrive on that kind of shit.

[lynn]

uhhh.....Life, Keith Richards (that's about as deep as I get, with books)

[LISA]

just finished the Steve Adler auto I got for Christmas, never got around to it til now..complete fluff but a good read when you put yourself in his head..I also got the collectors editions of the GnR book of photos by Robert John