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  1. July 10, 2009, 10:35 PM #561
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    Roma - Steven Saylor

    excellent read =)

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    Quote Originally Posted by IndianPrince View Post
    Roma - Steven Saylor

    excellent read =)

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    Read that last year, in Roma as it happens. Great read indeed.


    I am reading 'We need to talk about Kevin'. Very good, other than the rather offputting fact that it is American. No offense, but there is something about Americans that makes them incapable of writing a book that is both well written and absorbing. WNTTAK is the latter - thought provoking (highly harrowing in fact) but rather heavy going.
    A new mobile phone tower went up in a town in the USA, and the local newspaper asked a number of people what they thought of it. Some said they noticed their cellphone reception was better. Some said they noticed the tower was affecting their health.

    A local administrator was asked to comment. He nodded sagely, and said simply: "Wow. And think about how much more pronounced these effects will be once the tower is actually operational."
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    A Diamond as big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald...

    just love his books
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    La invención de Morel(Morel's invention) by Adolfo Bioy Casares.

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    Quote Originally Posted by danzig View Post
    Really excellent isnt it? Really hope the upcoming movie does justice to it.
    Absolutely. I've read it twice now...once didn't do all the nuances justice. Even more powerful if you have kids.

    I have a feeling the movie will be decent - but nowhere near the quality of the book. There's just something about the written word that's close to impossible to translate to film.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anachronist View Post
    Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front

    I needed to read something sobering on war.
    Follow that with Guy Sajer's The Forgotten Soldier...WWII instead of I, but equally depressing.
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    I'm currently reading "With the Old Breed - At Peleliu and Okinawa" by E.B. Sledge. One of the best, if not the best, first hand accounts of combat in the pacific theater in WW2.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trajan View Post
    I'm currently reading "With the Old Breed - At Peleliu and Okinawa" by E.B. Sledge. One of the best, if not the best, first hand accounts of combat in the pacific theater in WW2.
    Agreed.

    A more literary take on the Pac theatre is Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead. Very good book IMO - I've worn my copy out from reading it so often.
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    Stephen Hawking - The Universe in a Nutshell
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    ''Cross of Iron'' 1st pub 1956 trans.

    great, gritty.
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    The Lost Fleet: Dauntless by Jack Campbell
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    T.C. Boyle - World's End
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    Quote Originally Posted by OTZ View Post
    Agreed.

    A more literary take on the Pac theatre is Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead. Very good book IMO - I've worn my copy out from reading it so often.
    Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check that book out. I'm also going to receive "Helmet for my Pillow" by Robert Leckie.
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  18. July 16, 2009, 07:23 PM #578
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trajan View Post
    Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check that book out.
    Mailer has written quite a few books (he died a couple of years ago) that are worth reading.

    Anyway, here's his wiki bio
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    Thanks for the link.
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