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I've been wanting to buy the book "Orange Rain: A Revenge Novel" by Jan Smitowicz.
"Think and Grow Rich" I've been reading here and there again.![]()
"Dancing tables, making deals with devils like a drunk beauty queen"





'Forbidden Archaeology' by Cremo and Thompson




Bunny Tales by Isabella St James. It's about life in the Playboy Mansion. It's good!!




Dirty Rocker Boys by Bobbie Brown, Think like a stripper by Erika Lyremark, Shoestrology by the Astro Twins.



The parrot's theorem by david guedj.
It's really interesting book, it's set in Paris and has lots of maths which brought me back (sometimes fearfully) to my final year of high school maths haha.
Also a plethora of philosophy texts but they're not so fun to read unless you dig that sorta stuff.
- The World as Will and Representation by Schopenhauer;
- Tractatus logico philosophic us by Wittgenstein
- Elements of the philosophy of the right- Hegel.



An older book I found very good is Rock Roll and Remember. It the autobiography of Dick Clark. It has some great stories of the days when he was doing American Bandstand one day a week and flying out to tour with the Cavalcade of Stars the rest of the week.
I one recount, Life magazine did and at-home interview, and asked to see his record collection...he didn't own any records or even have a record player. Life set up a fake collection just to take pictures.





"Blood Beneath My Feet" by Joseph Morgan- it's a memoir by a medico-legal investigator who worked in the South (United States.) He breaks up the tales of un-natural violent death with stories about his family tree. I enjoyed it because IMO the South is a really misunderstood region of North America, and people like Joseph are un-sung heroes of society. BTW the book is really graphic so if you don't like gross photos, violent death stories and depressing things....don't read it. It's not for squeamish people..




Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy Mcginnis. It takes place 20 years after a national water crisis, and is about a teen and her water witching neighbor.
Not going to lie, a drought of epic proportions sounds like the worst kind of apocalypse.



No Country For Old Men by Cormack McCarthy.


I burned through the Outlander series recently by Diana Gabaldon, they were good but really long and there are 8 books.
Recently re-read The Color Purple-Alice Walker
The Good Earth- Pearl S Buck
Gone Girl-Gillian Flynn
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^Both the movie and the book are very good. The book is better, of course, but I thoroughly enjoy a good Cohen movie.
I just started The Road, I'm on a McCarthy binge, I guess. FML.
My tastes vary based on mood but, if you want recommendations based on what you like to read go to goodreads.com. You rate books you have read in various categories and it will suggest other books you may like.. Sort of what Netflix does with movies.
I bought a nook and it is great because I can check out books electronically from my library, buy a book anytime I want. Also, lots of classics for free or cheap out of copyright.
Once you have the Nook with a Barnes and Noble account, you can read the books on your ipad/iphone/computer with the app. Also, newspaper subs are cheaper. You can also share any book you buy with other B/N users.
I like thrillers and just downloaded all the Scott Harvath series of books.
But, a really good non-fiction is Empty Mansions .. amazing story
http://www.emptymansionsbook.com/
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The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas under Red Skies, and Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch.
The Name of the Wind, and Wise Man's Fool by Patrick Rothfuss.
Both good fantasy series if you like that stuff and want to move beyond LOTR, Ice and Fire, or Wheel of Time. (Hell, 30 pages in to Lies and you're in the middle of a friggin' fantasy themed HEIST!)![]()


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It's not my last read, but it it the only book that I have bought and given to friends and family.
The Power of One by Brice Courtenay http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-One-.../dp/034541005X
Great character development and it takes place in apartheid africa.
If you like something different for a setting and Pharaoh Egypt times, This series is really really good.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss...ripbooks%2C356
If you would like some romantic colonial Africa by same author Wilbur Smith.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss...ourtney+series
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss...lantyne+series
I last read the last Jackie collins book but I dont even recall the title





Right now I'm working on Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice. Part of her vampire series, but it can stand alone. Interesting how she's mixing science and religion in it.
"People jack off with the left hand and point with the right."
"You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."
I'm glad I got into this thread because I finally found the ambition to dig out all the boxes of books in the basement and start ebaying them.
I will second all the Anne Rice books as a good read. But some like Violin really suck. The first Vampire series, The witches series are worth reading. Someone borrowed my Mummy so that series is incomplete. So off to ebay.
One author I like is Stephen Donaldson. Pretty dark sci-fi fantasy.
He has 3 series but the one I like best is the Gap Series. http://www.reviewsbygavrielle.com/gap.shtml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gap_Cycle
I wish I had time to reread all the books.
Also wrote The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. This is a tough read because of the style but once you get into it worth it. Sometimes he will set up a situation and then trigger it 2 novels later and you go ... OH, SHIT.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ch...homas_Covenant
I'm reading the 3rd book of the Dune series by Frank Herbert and would recommend it to anyone who's a Sci-Fi addict like myself. It has the interesting balance between deep throughs, adventures and interesting ideas.
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I just started reading Trigger Warning: Short Fiction and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman. I love Neil Gaiman, but it seems like he hasn't written a real novel since The Graveyard Book.
I'm such a slow reader. It takes me days to read a book. One of my best friends form high school can read a book in one night and completely understand it, talked about it. She has amazing concentration skills.
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