Book recommendations - what are you reading?

[Scotch78]

In their "Library of Essential Writers" (read: writers with no heirs to copywright their works), Barnes & Noble has a hardcover edition of The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Man in the Iron Mask for $13. It's a pretty big, unwieldy edition, but there's no beating the price.

I'm also reading Committed to Memory, but I'm guessing you want a novel.

Scott

[Actual God]

I'm reading "The Joke" by Milan Kundera. So far so good.

[george w]

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In their "Library of Essential Writers" (read: writers with no heirs to copywright their works), Barnes & Noble has a hardcover edition of The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Man in the Iron Mask for $13. It's a pretty big, unwieldy edition, but there's no beating the price.

I'm also reading Committed to Memory, but I'm guessing you want a novel.

Scott

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you can probably get these for way cheaper at half-priced books. i've gotten lots of classics there for $1. and they'll smell like books should too.

[Scotch78]

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you can probably get these for way cheaper at half-priced books. i've gotten lots of classics there for $1. and they'll smell like books should too.

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I've been wondering . . . how big of a chain is HFB? I know of one in Cleveland, and didn't even realize it was a chain until I saw another in Columbus, yet I've still only seen those two in my life.

Scott

[notfar]

reading a few books since i leave them places and forget them. all are excellent:

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street by William Poundstone

The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

[orange]

Rereading the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Great books.

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you can probably get these for way cheaper at half-priced books. i've gotten lots of classics there for $1. and they'll smell like books should too.

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I've been wondering . . . how big of a chain is HFB? I know of one in Cleveland, and didn't even realize it was a chain until I saw another in Columbus, yet I've still only seen those two in my life.

Scott

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I regularly visit the 4 in Cincinnati and one in South Dayton looking for bargains. They are all over the place.

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The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

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Please elaborate, this looks like an interesting book.

[Larry David]

Read Freakanomics and The Tipping Point earlier this month.

I am currently re-reading and reading most of the books we all had to read through English classes in Junior High and High School.

Finished:

The Giver
Lord Of The Flies

On the school list (please let me know if I left something good out):

Will only read maybe 3/4 of these:

Animal Farm
1984
Of Mice And Men
To Kill A Mockinbird
The Things They Carried (Awesome book)
The Catcher In The Rye
The Great Gatsby
Beowulf
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
The Scarlett Letter
A Lesson Before Dying
Maus I & II
Death Of A Salesman
Ethan Frome
The Miracle Worker
Great Expectations
Romeo & Juliet
Julius Caesar
Any more Shakespeare worth reading?
Sophocles I
Uncle Tom's Children
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Angela's Ashes

[Dementia]

Limitations - Scott Turow

Finished it in 2 days. Mystery suspense courtroom novel.