I'm in a bios/memoirs kick these. Just finished and enjoyed this one...

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And will pick this up...

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A friend bought me this one and said I really should read it:

I can be quite sceptical about what's popular at the moment, but this one's quite good.

Oh, and this, whenever I feel ready:

i just finished a slew of preston-child books. (Brimstone, Cabinet of Curiosities, Book of the Dead, Dance with Death) excellent thrill ride reads.

next up will be these:

and

XxAxX said:

next up will be these:

Let me know what you think once you're finished He's one of my fave writers.

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Harlepolis said:

XxAxX said:

next up will be these:

Let me know what you think once you're finished He's one of my fave writers.

truly, i don't need to read this book to know it will rock.

therefore, i will give you my book preport right now:

five stars

I'm not reading anything at the moment, but i did just get finished reading Open by Andre Agassi.

I'm currently enjoying:

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And

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I got this for Christmas.

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Haven't read for some time now. But I'm gonna start reading "Walden" which I bought last year sometime. This is some good weather for reading.

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XxAxX said:

truly, i don't need to read this book to know it will rock.

therefore, i will give you my book preport right now:

five stars

and you want to know why i get you gift cards...you're so hard to shop for!

BlackAdder7 said:

XxAxX said:

truly, i don't need to read this book to know it will rock.

therefore, i will give you my book preport right now:

five stars

i got you something for christmas

thanks. i'm touched

Ordering this tomorrow via Amazon. Looks cool.

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

chocolate1 said:

both next on my list

^^

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I finished it about two minutes ago.

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JDInteractive said:

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I finished it about two minutes ago.

Next on my list.

The last book I read

Finishing up a couple of Trek books from a long series of books that tied in to each other. Then I'm going to read my Christmas present books. I got these, and I'm pretty excited to read all of them...

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and ‘30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It makes available for the first time Tolkien’s extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigurd the Völsung and The Fall of the Niflungs. It includes an introduction by J.R.R. Tolkien, drawn from one of his own lectures on Norse literature, with commentary and notes on the poems by Christopher Tolkien.

A beautiful boxed set: the definitive examination of how Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece, including the complete unpublished draft and little-known illustrations and unpublished maps, along with a new edition of the classic work itself.

First published in 1938, The Hobbit is a story that “grew in the telling,” and many characters and events in the published book are completely different from what Tolkien first wrote to read aloud to his young sons as part of their “fireside reads.” For the first time, The History of the Hobbit reproduces the original version of one of literature’s most famous stories, and includes many little-known illustrations and previously unpublished maps for The Hobbit created by Tolkien himself. Also featured are extensive annotations and commentaries on the date of composition, how Tolkien’s professional and early mythological writings influenced the story, the imaginary geography he created, and how he came to revise the book in the years after publication to accommodate events in The Lord of the Rings.

These two volumes are boxed together with a new edition of The Hobbit with a short introduction by Christopher Tolkien, a reset text incorporating the most up-to-date corrections, and all of Tolkien’s own drawings and color illustrations, including the rare “Mirkwood” piece.